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Originally posted by Tribble
reply to post by Connman
WOW a Triangle in the Moonlight!!!
I hope you are out there with your camera and tripod right now. If it slowed to turn there was a reason. Maybe the Jet was the reason.
I barely understand the sighting with three things going on. So I have these questions for you.
Did this have anything to do with the "slow flashers?"
Originally posted by Tribble
It is almost a full moon here. Did the Moon's light play a part in defining the Triangle?
Originally posted by Tribble
How high up was it? Could you tell the size or the color of the lights?
Originally posted by Tribble
You mentioned the back and front lights going from dim to bright. So you didn't see a third light?
Originally posted by Tribble
Where are you in Florida? What direction was it? Which direction is NASA from you?
Originally posted by earthdude
I saw what looked like an F-4 flying in the canyons north of Kingman Arizona. It changed direction so fast that a human pilot would have been killed by the G forces. It also accelerated faster than any aircraft I have ever seen.
Originally posted by FoxMulder91
Yesterday at work, I saw something in the sky, that looked shiny. I was looking into the sun when I saw this so it this might have been why it appeared shiny.
I couldnt tell if it was a plane or not. When I drove a bit closer, which was not that much closer, since it was far away, I could no longer see it in the sky. Im not sure if it disappeared, flew away, just lost sight of it, etc.
Im not exactly sure what it was, it probably was just a plane or something like that, but I could not identify it from what I saw.
Cheers
Modern follow-ons to Yehudi are both more effective and easier to install. Instead of individual lights, the Pentagon has tested thin fluorescent panels of the type already used on military aircraft for nighttime formation flying. A civilian technician working at the isolated Tonopah Test Range airstrip in Nevada says he witnessed a test of an F-15 Eagle with a prototype system. According to the technician, the fighter virtually disappeared as it lifted off the runway.
"We had no problem acquiring the aircraft from about a mile away," the technician recalls, "but at distances over two miles it became harder and harder to spot. Although it was a crude system, it was pretty impressive. Trying to pick out the aircraft against a clear, blue sky was next to impossible. The only time we could easily spot the aircraft was when it produced an unexpected contrail." (Contrails form when the water vapor in aircraft exhaust freezes. On the B-2 and F-117, anti-contrail systems inject chemicals into the exhaust stream to break water into droplets too small to be seen.)
An even more experimental active-camouflage system uses thin sheets of light-emitting polymer that glow and change color when charged. Different voltages cause the sheets to glow blue, gray, white, or whatever shade is needed to match the sky. As an added advantage, the thin sheets are easy to apply to existing aircraft.
One such "electrochromic" polymer has been developed at the University of Florida, and the Air Force is studying it as a way of applying a variable tint to the cockpit canopy of a fighter aircraft. In theory, such a coating could also be used over a white-painted skin to vary its color.
But what about concealing an aircraft from an enemy flying above it? Defense contractors have told Popular Science that an even more exotic invisibility system is being tested on two new stealth aircraft at the high-security Groom Lake air base in Nevada. The skin is derived from an electromagnetically conductive polyaniline-based radar-absorbent composite material. It is optically transparent except when electrically charged, much like the LCD panels used in laptop computers.
What makes this new material attractive is that it can change brightness and color instantaneously. Photosensitive receptors, mounted on all sides of the plane, read the ambient light and color of the sky and ground. An onboard computer adjusts the brightness, hue, and texture of the skin to match the sky above the plane or the terrain below it.
The system is also claimed to make the aircraft even stealthier. The electrically charged skin dissipates radar waves, reducing the range at which an air defense radar can track the aircraft by as much as 50 percent.
Such systems do not have to be perfect. The goal is not to build an invisible airplane, but to delay the visual acquisition of an aircraft for as long as possible. In fact, the most effective way of fooling either the eye or a missile may be to present it with an image that is difficult to interpret.
Using fast-changing electrochromic panels, the military is experimenting with "flickering skins" that could prevent missiles from locking onto their targets. In demonstrations at Groom Lake, engineers have turned the entire skin of an aircraft into a missile jammer by applying a special coating that flickers in intensity in both the visible and infrared spectrum.