- The word "stealth", for most people, usually
conjures the image of Lockheed Martin's F-117A. But stealth covers a much
wider range of techniques and technologies commonly known as concealment,
camouflage and deception or CC&D. "The use of camouflage, concealment,
and deception (CCD) is characterized by hiding a target to conceal its
presence, blending it into the background, disguising its identity, or
using false targets as decoys" (Jane's International Defense Review,
April, 1997).
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- Spotting an aircraft visually is just as effective as
detecting it on radar. Military engineers are directing intense focus
to technologies which may not only reduce radar signature but also render
aircraft virtually invisible to the naked eye - also known as Visual Stealth.
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- Visual stealth experiments actually began as far back
as the early 40's with a project code-named Yehudi. This 1943 U.S. Navy
project was designed to give Navy patrol aircraft a better chance of sinking
enemy submarines by lowering the visual acquisition range to about 2 miles
allowing Navy aircraft to get within striking distance of enemy submarines
before they submerged. Using 10 sealed-beam lights along the wing's leading
edges and the rim of the engine cowling, adjusting the intensity of the
lights to match the sky allowed the aircraft to blend into the background.
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- Similar light apertures derived from Yehudi were planned
for Lockheed's Have Blue (later renamed the F-117A) which were to be installed
on the sides and undersurfaces of the airplane. The apertures would be
connected by fiber-optic lines and controlled by sensors on the upper portion
of the aircraft. These sensors would "read" the background light
and adjust the skin's luminance to mirror the sky above. This system never
flew with Have Blue perhaps because the first prototype crashed.
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- More recently designed aircraft utilize more conventional
camouflage of varied painted colors and patterns rather than using light
apertures because this renders the aircraft basically invisible at higher
altitudes and functions adequately under most circumstances. The F-117
which was originally painted black has recently been seen painted gray
and even white (perhaps to blend in with white cloud cover). And the Raptor
is painted various shades of grays and blues to blend in with the skies
above and below thus reducing visual detection.
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- Perhaps one project which employs some of the more exotic
camouflage techniques derived from project Yehudi is the use of electrochromatic
panels. This type of technology utilizes panels comprised of thousands
of tiny sensors that operate like video cameras taking images of the background
transferring these images to panels on the opposite side of the aircraft.
The aircraft appears "transparent" to observers on the ground
by transposing background images from behind and above to the observer's
side of the aircraft. One type of "proposed" aircraft which
is said to employ such electrochromatic panels is called the "Stealth
Blimp." It is rumored that one can see the stars from above the blimp
projected on to panels covering the underside of the blimp, giving the
illusion of being transparent to ground observers. There has been much
speculation that one of the "UFO's" seen by residents of Phoenix,
Arizona on the night of March 13, 1997 was actually a Stealth Blimp during
psyops maneuvers.
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- These are just some of the camouflage technologies known
and rumored to be employed by various military agencies. But there are
other technologies being observed in the skies above us. Eye witnesses
report seeing Unidentified Flying Objects pretending to be everything from
airplanes and helicopters to stars and fireballs.
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- One such sighting occurred on the night of August 25,
2000 in Loveland, Colorado. A man and his 14 year old son observed what
appeared to be a disk-shaped craft that suddenly turned off it's strobing
light on top and an orange rotating light around it's circumference and
then appeared to turn on a pattern of lights resembling the conventional
aviation lights of a small plane. (Filer's Files, #36-2000)
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- In her book, Silent Invasion, Ellen Crystall describes
many types of lighting systems used by UFO's observed in the Hudson Valley
area, "It changed its lighting system again to other types of lights
all large and at places all over the craft. In fact the entire ship seemed
to have all colors of lights in various combinations on every part of it.
The aliens could change the lights in any manner, and we could see why
people could mistake their shapes if the lights defined only portions of
the vehicle. Even more important, the aliens could imitate aircraft lights."
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- In Alien Contact, Timothy Good indicates one witness
who volunteered his opinion that the mystery helicopters seen near sites
of cattle mutilations could be spacecraft "camouflaged as helicopters".
Good states, "The idea is not as absurd as it seems. Mysterious
unmarked aircraft have long been associated with the UFO phenomenon, and
it seems to me to be entirely feasible that aliens might disguise their
vehicles or even produce facsimile aircraft (sometimes of preposterously
unaerodynamic design), as well as render their craft and themselves invisible,
in order to keep us in a perpetual state of confusion. A clue to this
deception is provided by a number of reports from New Mexico describing
UFOs that imitate helicopter sounds.
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- During 1978, Howard Burgess reports, a Taos city policeman
heard what he thought was a helicopter hovering over his police car. Stepping
out of the car, he observed a large wingless cigar-shaped vehicle hovering
motionless above him. It then took off and disappeared over the mountains.
In another incident, a witness reported seeing a large round object near
Dulce which made a noise like that of an old two-cylinder tractor!"
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- One report from the United Kingdom UFO Network describes
a police officer who observed what appeared to be a "stationary white
star" that suddenly "shot up and out of sight extremely quickly".
And a report from UFO Roundup, Volume 2, Number 3, edited by Joseph Trainor,
quotes a witness in Northern California who described a UFO that imitated
an airplane AND a star.
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- "A bright object similar to an airplane traveling
suddenly stopped and hovered silently. It only moved a small amount back
and forth in the place it stopped. Where it had been flashing and moving
like an airplane, it was now like a VERY bright star. If you didn't see
it moving across the sky, you would've thought it was just another star.
It stayed that way all the time we watched it."
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- Could these "UFO's" be merely tests of secret
man-made CC&D technologies in our skies? Or are these genuine UFO's
and beings from other planets using their own forms of CC&D to avoid
detection and perhaps confuse eye-witnesses and military intelligence agencies?
WHO are the Pretenders and what do they want?
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- This is only a brief summary of the introduction to my
book, The Pretenders: UFO's And Camouflage, to be released in Spring, 2001.
My book is based on three years of intense research sparked by my own
sighting of a huge camouflaged UFO I saw hovering over a field behind my
house in June, 1997. What I have learned, and continue to learn, over the
past three years has changed my perceptions of everything from UFO's to
crop circles. The Pretenders influence our perceptions in ways most people
cannot even imagine let alone recognize.
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- The first volume of The Pretenders will present information
and concepts that will astound readers and cause researchers to rethink
even their most cherished theories. The second volume, already in progress,
will present further information related to the concepts presented in the
first book.
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