Night Vision UFO Wars

[Dnold7X]

Don can you get Ed Grimsley on as a guest on your Radio show sometime soon?>

 

[ascended_master]

Mmm.. before Mr Grimsley starts expounding on UFO space wars & cosmic alliances I think it may be prudent to positively eliminate some of the more prosaic (i.e. sane) explanations. Startracker auto azimuth scope mounts are commonplace these days & sold by Celestron or Meade for a few hundred dollars. Why not mount the night vision on one & log the data properly. Mount two in parallel & you could also calculate the distance and speed of any observed phenomena.

The fact that the UFO Wars DVD is already for sale speaks volumes. I would certainly like to know more about Mr Grimsley's methods where his observations & data gathering are concerned in light of his "Space Wars" hypothesis! Ask the hard questions...

 

[Anaximander]

The fact that the UFO Wars DVD is already for sale speaks volumes. I would certainly like to know more about Mr Grimsley's methods where his observations & data gathering are concerned in light of his "Space Wars" hypothesis! Ask the hard questions...

Oberg tried that 'out to make money' crap on Don Ecker. It was a crap tactic then and it is a crap tactic now.

If you can't bother to rebut the man's interpretation of the data, might as well just slag the guy, right? That's usually easy enough.

*You might be able to rebut the data perfectly well, but when you start out with the low-blows like you just did, your ability to do so comes into question - as does your credibility.

 

[Anaximander]

Dnold,

One possible way to account for some of the UFOs would be that they are our aircraft. Now in that video some of them are flying in close formation and at night - something that it would be dangerous for pilots to do.

But with what we know about aircraft today, there is always the possibility that some of these UFOs in formation could be unmanned drones. Currently, our military industrial complex is developing the technology to control drones in formation, it is sometimes referred to as Swarm Control Technology. It does make sense that the technology would be tested over friendly skies, and there is also the possibility that the light we see associated with some of the craft viewed with the night-vision goggles is not originating with the engine, but is an light-source possibly an infra-red light source (similiar to the ones our soldiers wear) which allows the craft to coordinate the swarm, and for other things.

Here is some info on Swarm Control Technology:



'Model-based Swarm Control of Unmanned Ground Vehicles' (but it also covers Air Vehicles...)
Lookahead Decisions Inc.






Get doc here:

Page not found | The Society for Modeling & Simulation International

Another interesting paper on swarm control and coordination is this one:

SWARMING COORDINATION OF MULTIPLE UAV’S FOR COLLABORATIVE SENSING
http://www.newvectors.net/staff/parunakv/AIAA03.pdf

Abstract:

Some imaging tasks and modalities (e.g., interferomet-ric SAR) require managing a dynamic spatio-temporal configuration of sensors (whether electro-optic or RF) over a wide area. One promising approach is to mount each sensor on a separate unpiloted vehicle, and endow the population of such vehicles with the ability to con-figure themselves and coordinate their actions to create and maintain the required sensor configuration. This paper describes some scenarios where such a capability would be useful, identifies technical issues that need to be addressed, suggests general principles and techniques that we have found useful in dealing with such scenarios, and describes a specific example that we have constructed and tested in a simulation environment.

Issues:
Coordinating multiple UAV’s for such sensing scenar-ios requires spatial and temporal coordination and the alignment of distinct roles within the team. Spatial co-ordination distributes units over the area being ob-served, and includes such tasks as determining the maximum spread between vehicles and the minimum acceptable number of revisits per unit area, assigning sectors to each unit, causing a team to converge in a specific location, or stationing UAV’s in a particular formation. Temporal coordination ensures that all UAV’s act at the right time or with the right frequency, provide their input at the right moment, and assume their designated locations and operating roles at the right time for the constellation to work as a whole. Team co-ordination seeks to optimize the assignment of individual vehicles to roles in terms of their preferences or constraints (e.g., the configuration of individual vehicles), managing the formation, coordination, maintenance, and dispersion of groups of vehicles.

Conventional (non-autonomous) approaches require humans to fly each UAV. This approach is costly both in terms of manpower and (since all communications must go through the control center) bandwidth, and in addition can be a difficult cognitive task. Autonomous coordination among the aircraft permits the use of local nearest-neighbor communications (reducing band-width), and our experiments show that simple local algorithms can yield robust self-organization sufficient to satisfy these missions.

*Just something to think about the next time you see a Swarm of UFOs through the night vision goggles. . .