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Raytheon Is Marketing Its Alien UFO Trackers

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
December 21, 2017
Raytheon Is Marketing Its Alien UFO Trackers

The UFO spotter: Navy pilots used Raytheon tech to track a strange UFO, Raytheon
“We might be the system that caught the first evidence of E.T. out there,” said Aaron Maestas, director of engineering and chief engineer for Surveillance and Targeting Systems at Raytheon’s Space and Airborne Systems business. “But I’m not surprised we were able to see it.” … So how best to track an alien spaceship in our skies? “Wide-area search of some form or another,” said Cummings. “I would want want at least two sensors, like radar and [electro-optical/infrared], to search the skies…One way to actually verify these and be absolutely certain that this is not an anomaly is to get the same target, behaving the same way on multiple sensors.”

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8 responses to “Raytheon Is Marketing Its Alien UFO Trackers”

  1. Paul451 says:
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    Wow, I wouldn’t be bragging. Given that the best (non-UFO) explanation for that video is either sensor burn-in on the FLIR (ie, black is off) or something frozen on the cover (ie, black is cold).

    “Shows things that aren’t there” is not exactly a great selling point for your system.

    • ThomasLMatula says:
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      What? You mean there is a more logical explanation? It’s not ET coming to rescue humanity 🙁 (LOL)

      BTW KGTV in San Diego is reporting the Video is from 2004, which means that Raytheon is trying to sell some outdated electronics equipment.

      https://www.10news.com/news

    • Daniel Woodard says:
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      I agree; the image seems rigidly fixed on the display, except at the end of the video when it appears to be “rotating”, but even then the location on the display remains precisely fixed, which seems unlikely if it were actually a spacecraft. The video ends before the position of the anamalous target on the HUD changes so its possible the pilots eventually figured it out, but that part was left out.

      • hikingmike says:
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        This is the first thing I noticed too. But I don’t know how that system works. Maybe it keeps the highlighted object centered on the screen and that’s what it does with airplanes or anything else. Does anyone know if that is the case?

  2. Robert Jones says:
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    It doesn’t look like an “object”. In the old days I would say it’s a film defect. http://Www.robert-w-jones.com

  3. spacegaucho says:
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    Yeah, the Raytheon add is bizarre especially if it is most likely a glitch in the optical system. I wonder though if Raytheon has done any work with nonlinear materials, stealth, and drone formations to make the people we want to take a peek at to think it is ET.

  4. Spaceronin says:
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    I am loving the traffic on this. Any pilots out there? 20kft, 20 degree bank at mach 0.5? Hardly yankin ‘n bankin. Looks like something like an rq 170 to me. Flying s&l to minimize observability until the pursuer gets in its 6. It then looks to start evasive manoeuvres as the video cuts. Was the air force yanking the navy’s chain here? The tech in the raytheon pod has gotta be in excess of 20 years old given the dev cycles for that stuff.

    • Daniel Woodard says:
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      To me the image seems rigidly fixed on the display, except at the end of the video when it appears to be “rotating”, but even then the location on the display remains precisely fixed, which seems unlikely if it were actually an aircraft ot spacecraft. The video seems to end with the object still there so maybe the pilots eventually figured it out but that part of the tape was not included.