Radar

How does science explain away the mysterious blips on the radar screen? Doesn't radar echo only against solid objects?

     Experts know nature can trick the radar eye as readily as the human eye.

     They point out the beam directed skyward can pick up natural objects on the ground.

     This week the radar screen operated by the State Water Survey in Urbana, Ill., showed a "river" in the sky. It was a reflection of the Illinois river 80 miles away.

- Oakland Tribune Aug. 10, 1952

"At least some [UFO] radar reports were due to anomalous propagation - radio waves traveling curved paths due to atmospheric temperature inversions. Traditionally, they were also called radar angels: something that seems to be there but isn't. You could have simultaneous visual and radar sightings without there being any there there." - Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World, 1996

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Reflections

REFLECTIONS

Norfolk, England, 1936. The Raynham Hall ghost: a lens flare reflecting a bright spot on the bannister (upper right), plus pareidolia.

Polermo, CA, 1951. George Adamski's first saucer fakes, published in Fate magazine. The "mothership" appears to be something (construction paper?) taped to a window, obstructing the full moon and scattering the moonlight. The "saucers" are the resulting lens flares.

Salem MA, July 1952. Sunlight reflecting on a window.

“It was an extremely hot day and I think that perhaps some sort of reflection of ground reflections could possibly have accounted for the lights, but in my estimation this is an improbable explanation. The lens was quite dirty and so was the window screen. I cannot in all honesty say that I saw the objects or aircraft, merely some manner of lights.” - Shell Albert, photographer

New York City, August 1952. Amateur photographer capturing the full moon discovers "objects" in the developed film. It's obviously lens flare, yet, in Project Blue Book, these photos remain "unexplained."

Monument Valley UT, 1963. Headlights from opposite traffic reflecting on window.

Hillsdale County MI, 1965. Lens flare.

Oldfield, 1966. Temperature inversion causing airplane's tail to reflect on a passenger's window.

Colorado, 1966. Lens flare or photo processing anomaly.

Costa Rica, 1971. Lens flare or photo processing anomaly.

Concorde, 1976. Lens reflection. In the video, you can see a reflection of the sun crossing the Concorde windshield, causing the "object" to move along with it. Both the window reflection & the "object" disappear at the same instant.

Fyffe, AL, February 1989. Lens flares.

Space Shuttle Atlantis, 1991. Lens flare.

Steven Greer CE5 "light beings," 2011. Lens flares.

NASA 2016. The white dot in the first picture & the light beam in the second picture have the same source: a bright sunlight reflection on the space station itself, which can be easily located: it's that flash of light directly beneath the light beam in the second photo. This video was #10 on Mojo Magazine's list of Top Ten UFOs Caught On Tape.

Lens flare. Mr. Edtl has run for state office in Oregon (twice) and intends to run again.

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