[topcat54]

Care to explain how both military and civilian air traffic controllers were able to pick up the planet Jupiter on their RADAR, genius?

What the radar purposted to have shown was inconclusive. The radar reflections, whetever they were, were not even in the area where the pilot claimed he saw the "mothership". They were behind the 747 in an area where the folks on the flightdeck could not see.

They didn't.

That was becuase there was nothing to debunk.

[Quix]

RADAR WAS NOT

INCONCLUSIVE

as the head of the area FAA asserted quite knowledgeably and confidently.

SPIN-MEISTERS from government disinformation offices may have

LABELED

such inconclusive

but only ignorant naysayers believe such tripe.

[mkjessup]

What the radar purposted to have shown was inconclusive.

You think that civilian air traffic controllers are in the habit of suggesting a military air intercept when faced with 'inconclusive' radar signals?

Tell us you're not THAT stupid.

The radar reflections, whetever they were, were not even in the area where the pilot claimed he saw the "mothership". They were behind the 747 in an area where the folks on the flightdeck could not see.

So what you're saying is that a veteran team of professional pilots (talking about the JAL plane) just suddenly either took leave of their senses, lost all of their combined experience, and went into a panic like student pilots in a one engine Cessna, eh?

Note that those pilots were in no way penalized for their report, nor were they prohibited from continuing to fly as was their profession. If there was the slightest doubt as to their competency, they would never have seen the inside of a cockpit again.

there was nothing to debunk.

So you say. You must be channeling Klass.