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1 posted on 12/12/2018 8:18:03 AM PST by BenLurkin
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Everybody running their stills on the same day.


2 posted on 12/12/2018 8:20:02 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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Calling the Radar Secret Service.


3 posted on 12/12/2018 8:21:22 AM PST by wally_bert (We're low on dimes in fun city.)
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We have a wind farm about 30 miles to the east of us. There are hundreds of windmills all grouped together.

On the weather radar, it will always show the signature of wind or snow in that one spot.

I drive by them regularly. It was once a beautiful, scenic ridge with farms and forest. Now its a canyon of hideous, blinking 250 ft. windmills.


5 posted on 12/12/2018 8:29:48 AM PST by PGR88
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Al Gore - and the men who will destroy the world - dumping killer flakes to stop sunlight from warming the earth?


6 posted on 12/12/2018 8:33:26 AM PST by GOPJ (Term limit DC SWAMP bureaucrats - a permanent unelected ruling class is a threat to our democracy.)
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If it was chaff, wouldn't the signature be all one color not red in the center, yellow in the middle and green on the outside? Looks like a weather pattern to me.

CIA

9 posted on 12/12/2018 8:40:49 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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My sixth grade science fair project was on radar, so I’m something of an expert on this.

The word “radar” stands for:

Raisins
Are
Dry
And
Something, I forget what the last r is

I would say, from thoroughly examining all of the available evidence, that this was caused by cow farts.

Where’s my Nobel Prize?


10 posted on 12/12/2018 8:41:26 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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11 posted on 12/12/2018 8:42:13 AM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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Swamp gas


18 posted on 12/12/2018 9:14:36 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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All “chaff” is, is aluminum foil.

I was a missile guidance tech in the Air Force, and “chaff” was one deterrent used against guided missiles.


19 posted on 12/12/2018 9:14:54 AM PST by FrankR (Make America Great Again, and Keep It That Way.)
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I wouldn't rule out a simple screw up, they happen even with the best trained crews and most sophisticated equipment.

Several years ago I personally saw a fighter-sized aircraft drop a pair of flairs over a western city while entering the pattern to an airport. I asked my buddy, the former AF Fighter pilot about that and he said it was almost certainly an accident or mistake on "switchology" while configuring for landing. He said it wouldn't have been intentional, they aren't supposed to drop flares over populated areas or when they are low enough that the flares will hit the ground and potentially start a fire - unless they are actually being engaged of course. Not likely in the instance I witnessed since the pilot continued downwind/base/final as if nothing had happened. The "who, me? Nah, nothing happening here..." approach.

The upshot is, mistakes happen. So maybe the chaff dispensers get reloaded, inventories quietly adjusted, the CO chews out the crew, and no-one outside the unit is ever the wiser.

21 posted on 12/12/2018 9:16:53 AM PST by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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Over the last couple of years there has been a explosion of new military Radars on the HF frequencies across all bands...so much so its becoming a big problem as they create so much interference.


22 posted on 12/12/2018 9:26:33 AM PST by dpetty121263
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“It looks like a giant.....”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpiP_jN1Pv4


27 posted on 12/12/2018 10:15:47 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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But if this was a case of military chaff,

There was a maintenance supervisor at the plant I used to work in who would purchase old surplus military junk. One day he gave me a metal box with a a spring timer on it that was filled with aluminum chaff.

It sat on the stereo cabinet in my apartment for a long time until one night I had a party.

Somebody picked it up to examine it and inadvertently set it off. The top flew open and that chaff was ejected all over my living room.........LOL!

28 posted on 12/12/2018 10:35:50 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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'Mystery' solved: A West Virginia Air Guard C-130H Was Responsible For Massive Chaff Cloud Over Midwest
The crew released all of the chaff cartridges on board as they returned to base from a training exercise on the West Coast as a safety precaution.

"... as it passed over the Red Hills Military Operations Area (MOA), the crew requested and received permission from air traffic controllers at Indianapolis Center to drop the chaff. MOAs are specially designated pieces of airspace across the United States that U.S. military units can activate in order to conduct training and other activities."

37 posted on 12/12/2018 2:03:29 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Assuming they’re keeping tabs on those Russian Blackjacks in Venezuela eh ?


40 posted on 12/12/2018 4:39:36 PM PST by redcatcherb412
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