Message posted by Roadeye on March 11, 2011 at 4:37:27 PST:
Back in "the day" a very close friend of my Father was a radar operator on one of Canada's Distant Early Warning or "DEW" Line stations in the northern part of our country.
I forget which one now...but no matter.
It was his job to watch a certain sector of sky and record the aircraft passing through it.
Should something irregular show up it was also his job to call his superiors and request interceptor confirmation of the target.
Well...
One night he did have to make that call when he saw a target at an incredible altitude traveling at what was at the time incredible speed.
So he made it...
And what followed was a sequence of events neither he nor his family would ever have expected.
No fighters were scrambled...no return phone calls were made, but when it came time to file the papers at the end of his shift he was hauled into an office full of brass and the door was shut behind him.
The paper documenting the radar encounter was sorted out from the other reports...airliners, private planes, etc. and removed from the pile.
He protested...saying it was his duty to report what he saw.
He was told he saw nothing of the kind.
Once again he said he was trying to do his job, etc.
Only to be informed that it was not his job any longer because of the phone call he had made when the incident had taken place (the phone call was as per the standard ops procedures of his job and manditory in such cases).
Shortly after that, having never manned a radar screen again, he found himself at a desk in a small air station in New Brunswick. And there he stayed until he retired years later.
What did he see?
Was he trying to report a flying saucer?
No.
He happened to be visited by one of the early versions of what we all know now as the SR-71, probably on a mission over the Soviet Union, although I can't say that for sure.
But at the time... he was told by the people who trained him to do his job, and who would have punished him had he not done it, that he had seen nothing.
They questioned his health and the level of stress he may have been experiencing and finally his sanity.
And they did it in ways that his family have never forgiven "our Country" for.
At the time...he had no idea that such a plane even existed, not many people did, but he lost his career and reputation for seeing it on a radar screen and trying to report what he'd seen to his bosses.
What a price to pay.
And how do you think he must have felt when he'd walk down department store aisles in later life seeing toys and plastic models of the "top secret" aircraft that destroyed his career in the "Canadian" military?
That happened a very long time ago.
But that kind of thing still happens now.
Governments around the world will use misinformation at the drop of a hat...and will stoop very low in doing so.
They cannot be trusted, for they will stop at nothing to protect their interests.
Even if it means taking out one of their own for simply doing what he was trained to do.
So...
Is it a stretch to think there may be debunkers planted on sites like this?
Not in the least.
It should be expected.
Just my two cents.
In Reply to: Re: Some extra airspace was needed last night posted by Gimbal on March 11, 2011 at 2:16:51 PST:
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