[extropy-chat] Mexican UFOs--adding insolit to injury

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> At 08:17 PM 5/11/2004 -0700, Adrian wrote:
> > > Really? Technology that makes drug courier jets
> > > invisible to the naked eye...
> >
> >I've heard of something that could fit the
> bill...if
> >viewed from below.  "Air Force Blue" paint. 
> Perfect
> >chroma match for the open sky.
> 
> Erm:
> 
> <At the middle of a complete confusion and
> disconcert among the
> C26A crew the unknown objects suddenly made a
> maneuver
> surrounding the mexican Air Force airplane in a
> circle at close
> range. The RADAR and FLIR presented an insolit image
> of an
> eleven objects near by in a circle formation around
> the Merlin
> C26A. The situation turned out of control.>

[etc.]

<shrugs>  So combine with known ECM techniques, like
painted decoys and chaff or just spoofing electronics,
to create the extra false radar and IR images.  The
maneuvers sound like a test pilot having entirely too
much fun with his new toys (or, officially,
"strenuously verifying the capabilities of the stealth
capabilities of [insert project name]").