Well, I tip my hat to your background, no irony. My SCI experience was different. Also Classified Nuclear Weapon Design Information clearance. There is a problem, though, with the idea that the Navy would have been developing classified technology that it was patenting, since patenting is a deliberate measure to put something in the public domain. I once had an invention disclosure squelched because it was deemed to have intruded on classified activity. As you are doubtless aware, the Navy is exceedingly jealous of its privacy and is much less likely than the Air Force (for example) to allow depictions of combat vessel schematics. I will allow they have gotten more relaxed over the past 40 years, having seen cutaway models of the Standard 3 kinetic kill vehicle on display. (That was of interest to me personally, because it was the descendant of a Boeing kkv that derived from a patent I had produced.) In other words, developing in secret what one is making public is a parlor trick that doesn't pass muster.
Coincidences are what they are. Otherwise people would not be struck dead by lightning. I agree that sightings have been going on for a long time (about 70 years) by visual and radar means. Radar sightings have gone on since before phased array technology.
Strobing is not unique to that event. That has been seen in other videos, in circumstances where no one is able to say it is IFF (since they don't seem to know what it is---pretty pathetic IFF if it doesn't work). I'll be content to wait and see. But this is not alien technology; the patent description is loaded down with classic electromagnetism theory (so much so, that the whole point of the derivation was lost in the arm-waving). The NASA EmDrive was attended with similar arm-waving, but didn't produce any result that could be extracted from the noise level. The Russian results are far more robust---and they are making no secret of it. This is why I dismiss any idea that technology this significant would be conducted in secret. You can't do it without the right people, and sometimes the right people are not cleared. Take your pick: accomplish something and let it be known, or keep a secret what you don't accomplish.
Nobody knows what NASA will be selling. Their search for life program is looking for microbes, not Klaatu. I suspect JPL is simply interested in keeping their space probe business line in demand.
Well, I tip my hat to your background, no irony. My SCI experience was different. Also Classified Nuclear Weapon Design Information clearance. There is a problem, though, with the idea that the Navy would have been developing classified technology that it was patenting, since patenting is a deliberate measure to put something in the public domain. I once had an invention disclosure squelched because it was deemed to have intruded on classified activity. As you are doubtless aware, the Navy is exceedingly jealous of its privacy and is much less likely than the Air Force (for example) to allow depictions of combat vessel schematics. I will allow they have gotten more relaxed over the past 40 years, having seen cutaway models of the Standard 3 kinetic kill vehicle on display. (That was of interest to me personally, because it was the descendant of a Boeing kkv that derived from a patent I had produced.) In other words, developing in secret what one is making public is a parlor trick that doesn't pass muster.
Coincidences are what they are. Otherwise people would not be struck dead by lightning. I agree that sightings have been going on for a long time (about 70 years) by visual and radar means. Radar sightings have gone on since before phased array technology.
Strobing is not unique to that event. That has been seen in other videos, in circumstances where no one is able to say it is IFF (since they don't seem to know what it is---pretty pathetic IFF if it doesn't work). I'll be content to wait and see. But this is not alien technology; the patent description is loaded down with classic electromagnetism theory (so much so, that the whole point of the derivation was lost in the arm-waving). The NASA EmDrive was attended with similar arm-waving, but didn't produce any result that could be extracted from the noise level. The Russian results are far more robust---and they are making no secret of it. This is why I dismiss any idea that technology this significant would be conducted in secret. You can't do it without the right people, and sometimes the right people are not cleared. Take your pick: accomplish something and let it be known, or keep a secret what you don't accomplish.
Nobody knows what NASA will be selling. Their search for life program is looking for microbes, not Klaatu. I suspect JPL is simply interested in keeping their space probe business line in demand.