Major hat tip to Freeper PIF who found these articles.
Because aliens would never expect humans to improve their radar systems after 40 years...
I find it interesting that now the Dems are on the ropes:
“MLK was a man whore..!!”
“UFO’s are all over the place..!”
Man, oh man, are they desperate.
We live in interesting times.
AESA radar is even more susceptible because it is a vast array of tiny TR (Transmitter-Receiver) blocks that are individually steerable, and the individual signals have to be stitched together by a computer to present a composite image to the pilot.
AESA radar is also designed to detect targets with very small radar cross sections, such as cruise missiles, so the sensitivity and signal processing errs on the side of displaying an iffy return rather than suppress it.
I also find it interesting that most of these recent reports of UFOs are from the F/A-18 community, not the F-16 community.
Perhaps flying out at sea, where you don't expect to have any air-to-air returns, you tend to focus attention on these anomalies that might not be noticed by an aircraft operating over land with normal air traffic.
This makes me a bit suspicious of the data. Radar is susceptible to a lot of "clutter". It can see water droplets, waves, clouds, dust, and a lot more. Ever since radar was invented, efforts to separate the target from the chaff have been necessary. Just take a look at a single weather radar sweep (not the composite maps you see on TV, or on weather.com). All will show ground clutter as you look around the radar tower. Until more information is known and experience is gained with this "major sensor upgrade" , I wouldn't rule out radar data processing errors.
If you've ever spent some time in a private airplane on a cloudless day, you can sometimes see a shiny spot on the ground right in the center of where the shadow of your airplane should be. Depending on the terrain and the direction of travel this shiny spot can seem to be moving much faster than the airplane is moving. This is just one example of seeing something that really isn't there.
...or maybe it’s just radar artifacts.
When are we gonna shoot one down? That’s the only way to prove what they are!