According to this story FAA radar tracked a large object at 700 mph without a transponder during the UFO flap in January.
The MUFON report’s closest approximation of a smoking gun was buried in the tenth graph of the AP piece. MUFON’s Freedom of Information Act queries produced Federal Aviation Administration documents indicating its radar tracked a large object zipping along at 700 mph at 6:35 p.m. on January 8. More ominously in this post-9/11 era, the blip had no transponder.
“Apparently, there was a phenomenon of some sort going on,” says Cherry. “There have always been significant military bases in this area, so the folks who live out there are used to seeing military aircraft. They’re not suddently going to start misidentifying military jets as UFOs.
“The timing (of the radar hit) is important because it comes within 10 minutes of when (freight company operator/pilot Steve Allen) said he first saw it,” Cherry says. Allen described an object of nearly mile long and half a mile wide.
Sadly, this information will soon be consigned to the memory hole that only a few researchers will dwell upon sometime in the future. The American people are already moving on to Sex and the City and Indiana Jones at the cinema.
Eventually someone will theorize that an Air Force jet simply forgot to turn on its transponder and almost everyone else will have moved on to more enlightening pursuits. Onward to the New World Order! Kumbaya, anyone?
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