Well, let's start with this one. I dislike UFO videos but it sort of shows how UFOlogists like to portray cases and how the OP would have promoted it here:
Ah, I think this must be the OP of this event, and I have some...questions...about how this case is being portrayed!
At 1:50 in the
video the lady says something about accelerating at 130 (!) Gs to an altitude of what
sounds like ninety miles. None of that makes any sense to me at all, and I couldn't find any reference to those numbers in the official papers, (though I could barely read them, some not at all) or the write up at the site.
130 Gs is...ummm...
a lot. It would be a good way to turn a person into a puddle of warm goo in little time, one tenth of that, 13 Gs, could easily kill a person. If they're aliens I suppose they could have adamantium skeletons or even carapaces, but how come those figures aren't featured prominently in the report? Someone like Kelly Johnson would know that instantly and made mention of it, and if he did it was in the illegible (with this monitor at least) portions.
An altitude of
ninety miles? Huh? I got to thinking they might have meant
nineteen miles, as that would basically be the edge of the atmosphere, ~100k ft, but I've listened specifically three times now and either my ears are failing or she made a mistake, but it sure sounds to me like "an altitude of ninety miles." What the hell does that mean? Why isn't any of this data showcased in the reports? Did they just take the line where it said something about disappearing from site in ten seconds and took that at maximum values by figuring the horizon or something?
The plane that was flying was a radar plane, basically not much more than an airborne transmitter, receiver and antenna. What showed up on radar and why didn't he mention it in his
report? He could supposedly
see it. It 'seemed to be moving' he says, well for crissakes that's what his radar is for when you
can't see the object, it still works when it's in visual range! I cannot understand why he doesn't even mention whether he got a hit on radar, was the system turned off after the test and they were under orders not to fire it back up, perhaps because of some parameters of the test? Did they not think of it because they could see it and airborne radar was a fairly new concept in those days? It doesn't make sense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwgqFd5ApZM
A UFOlogist, who I respect is Joel Carpenter, and he wrote the following about the case:
http://www.nicap.org/reports/lockufoinc.htm
The actual reports can be found here:
http://www.nicap.org/docs/lockufo3.pdf
I think the video goes over the top. There are claims of "precise measurements" by visual observations and triangulation. I wonder what the margin for error there is for these observations? To be honest, I only have glanced at the case materials very briefly and I noticed that Bluebook classified it as a lenticular cloud.
I checked, and according to
this VX-4 was assigned there in '52 so it would have been active when this incident occurred. Finding a (possible) experimental aircraft over a facility that
tests experimental aircraft is not an especially unusual finding, and the fact that nothing in the reports I've seen mention anything about someone from Pt. Mugu regarding this issue makes me wonder if they didn't 'see' this object which was described as being right over the facility because they
knew what it was. They also have radar, and they like finding out what strange things in the sky are doing there, you might say they can get in trouble if they don't!
Incidentally, you can spend years at NAS Pt Mugu and they'll tell you that the Camarillo State Mental Institution is the building on the cover of the Eagle's
'Hotel California;' (it's not--it's the Beverly Hills Hotel) they'll tell you the part of the
El Camino Real that now goes to the inside of Mugu rock was
'Dead Man's Curve' from the Jan and Dean song before they eliminated the hairpin turn going outside it, (it's not--that was the end of Sunset Blvd or somesuch) but they don't tell you, or at least I don't recall ever hearing, that they saw a UFO--or that one was sighted in the area.
