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I love how certain details are always omitted when stories like this come out with information that supposedly explains why people reported seeing UFOs.

The idea that pilots would mistake the OXCART plane as a UFO probably has some truth to it - but they arrogantly imply that that is the end of it. While it may explain some sightings, it doesnt do anything for the reports that deal with circular craft zipping around in a non-linear fashion... making 90 degree turns, and stopping on a dime. That sort of stuff.

The way article implies that OXCART is the reason for the association on Area 51 and UFOs and thats the end of it, really gets under my skin. Because a shit load of Joe Public will read it and accept it without doing any research into the subject.
 
a 90 degree turn doesnt seem too efficient to me. why not a graceful arc, i am sure they can do that too.
 
i would disagree. a saucer shape is very artistically designed. i am not sure why the streamlined saucer appearance when a square would fly thru space just as well.
 
Gareth said:
I love how certain details are always omitted when stories like this come out with information that supposedly explains why people reported seeing UFOs.

The idea that pilots would mistake the OXCART plane as a UFO probably has some truth to it - but they arrogantly imply that that is the end of it. While it may explain some sightings, it doesnt do anything for the reports that deal with circular craft zipping around in a non-linear fashion... making 90 degree turns, and stopping on a dime. That sort of stuff.

The way article implies that OXCART is the reason for the association on Area 51 and UFOs and thats the end of it, really gets under my skin. Because a shit load of Joe Public will read it and accept it without doing any research into the subject.
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Me too!

"The shape of OXCART was unprece-dented, with its wide, disk-like fuselage designed to carry vast quantities of fuel.".... really?
Have hey seen a picture of the SR-71? How can it remotely look like a damn disc? Seriously, what a complete hack! How does this "Annie Jacobsen" think that she is going to make a statement like that and not be seen as a complete moron?
 
I think if you were to take a model of it, put it against different backgrounds, altering the lighting, shadows, etc., then it would be easier to figure out if it could be mistaken for a disc-shaped craft. perhaps from a tilted side view it might be considered a disc shape but then you would also need to have it skewed slightly away from you to get the back tail lozenges (fuselage? nacelles?) to blend into the main body of the craft.
hard to explain and even harder to envision with only 2-d, but I think it would be possible.
Still doesn't explain all the many, many other sightings pre 'oxcart' or in other countries, unless they had thousands of those puppies literally peppering the global sky... and they were in production pre 1945 ;)
 
CapnG said:
More debunking by dissection.

Can it hover? Is it SILENT? NO? Didn't think so.
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It was fast, black, flew mostly at high altitude at night over other countries. Yeah, sounds like all the UFO reports I have ever heard.

There isn't but MAYBE a handful of reports that can be attributed to this over the entire body of reports ever collected.
 
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