[Non-Sequitur]

Since you place a lot of faith in what other people post then would it shake your theory if I pointed out that in my entire naval career, which goes back to 1977, I have never heard of a P-3 being used to tow an aerial target? That, in fact, the Navy has not used towed aerial targets for decades? During my career I was assigned to guided-missile destroyers and frigates so I've witnessed quite a few missile shoots and not a single one of them was against a towed target because the Navy didn't use towed targets. Why? Because it was too dangerous. Your claim that there was a P-3 towing a target a mile behind it is impossible.

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Towed sleds can be two miles back and this object was only one mile back. I've read that they may even be more than two miles back. I admit that I assume that it is a sled. It may be something else but I can't figure what else it could be. Something is definitely showing up on the radar one mile back. It is repeated for each radar sweep and is not just a freak return. It is in the inverted blue triangle form from BOSCTR radar. The report exhibit is in acrobat format and can be magnified to suit your eyesight. Check it out and tell me if I am mistaken. I think that it is on page 42 of exhibit 13A in the P3 track. I can't pull it up from my CD while writing this.