UFO's and Defense What Should we Prepare For

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I dimensional radar) ofall moving objects via the reflection of radar waves offof the body
of the moving object.
Conversely, secondary radar permits the detection and display on the screen only of
I moving objects equipped with a "transponder" that is able to respond to the coded signals
that it emits. Thus any moving object not equipped with a "transponder~' will not be
detected by secondary radar.
I This detail is extremely important in the case in question, because on]y the primary
radars installed at military Control and Detection Centers (CDC) and radar detection
aircraft, the Air Force AW ACS and soon the Navy Hawkeyes, may detect a UFO,
I provided that the latter is not a "stealth" craft.
Finally, it is necessary to know that all radar information detected by the totality of
radar stations in the territory, airborne warning aircraft, and the radar stations of
neighboring countries are being collected and processed in the STRIDA (Systeme de
Traitement des Informations de Defense Aerienne [Air Defense Information Processing
Center]) network, thus permitting detection coverage over a square more than 4500 km
per side.
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I Appendix 2 - Astronomers' Sightings
by Jean-Claude Ribes
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I astronomical object. But we can expect them to be extremely reticent to relate such a
sighting out of fear of ridicule, because amateurs are generally desirous of"professional"
recognition. At any rate, no specific investigation has been conducted, to my knowledge,
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The results of two independent studies conducted by professional astronomers with
their colleagues are quite different: in the 50s, Hynek informally questioned some forty
I astronomers, a little more than I0% of whom had actually sighted unexplained
phenomena. Among the latter, Josef Allen Hynek cites Professor Lincoln La Paz,
Director of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University ofNew Mexico, and Clyde
I Tombaugh, the discoverer of the planet Pluto, who died in 1997. In the 70s , Peter A.
Sturrock sent a detailed questionnaire to 26 11 members of the American Astronomical
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Association, guaranteeing them anonymity. Half responded, and sixty sightings were
encountered.
No systematic study of this type has been conducted in France, but a sighting by
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Marseilles astronomers Georges Courtes and Maurice Viton is frequently cited. One of
my colleagues also related to me a sighting that he had made in his youth of an object with
an apparent diameter of the moon (which, moreover, was visible), moving slowly from
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north to south. He was not yet a professional at the time but rather a well-informed
amateur, and he does not see any explanation for his sighting, which he has never
mentioned publicly.
Thus it appears that the percentage of sightings by astronomers is comparable to that
noted in the overall population, although there is a definite reticence among a vast
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