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<blockquote data-quote="Thresher" data-source="post: 1104283" data-attributes="member: 9983"><p>Reminds me of a story a friend told me, he was in the army for about 6 years and like me sort of ended up at uni doing of all things 'Visual Arts' for some reason.</p><p>(Beats shooting at people I guess <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />)</p><p></p><p>He ended up doing guard duty at an air base one night when a C130 came back in after doing some terrain mapping work, at first he didnt think much about it except for a whole heap of 4wds pulled up full of MP's and brass and waited for it to taxi in. </p><p>The crew gets off, somewhat pallid and worried as the MP's and brass move in for some questioning and everyone gets carted off for a debriefing a few minutes later. Then groundcrew end up crawling all over it for a few more hours while his patrol finishes.</p><p></p><p>About 3 days later off duty he catches up with one of the guys he knows pretty well that was an airbourne techie on the Herc and asks him what happened. Seeing theres no one else around the guy tells him what happened.</p><p>For about the first hour they where just doing their business with the precision mapping laser, its an infra red one from memory that basically sends a beam down over a large area and records how far the plane is from the ground while it maintains a steady altitude. Theres also a whole heap of other specialised radar, of which I know quite a bit, but I'll shut my hole on what that does.</p><p>Then things got pretty weird.</p><p>The lasers and radar are mapping away and everyones recording it when they pick up something 150 metres underneath the plane about 20-30 metres across which is blocking the laser. They extend the laser out and its mapping ok except for that round 30m pit underneath the plane that sitting at a constant 150m and moving around down there when they adjust their altitude.</p><p></p><p>The radar is picking up absolutely nothing. So they do everything with the visual recording devices on the plane to check out what the hell it is with starlight enhancers and even to the point of banking hard and looking out the side.</p><p>Cant see anything.</p><p>But the laser can.</p><p>So for the next 4 hours they try to put up with this thing moving around underneath the plane, check everything with the onboard diagnostics, check it again a few more times and its working A-ok. </p><p>The laser goes down about 150m and can see the blot 30m across, focus the laser around the object and its working fine reading those areas and they can even see the object bank with the plane whenever they move.</p><p>Fed up they head home and the object heads off somewhere else.</p><p></p><p>Now, it wouldnt have been that much more than an anomaly with the laser except that its happened 3 times this bloke can remember while he's been doing mapping that particuar area and it always drew in a lot of high level brass, MP's who gave them clear instruction that "it did not happen" and it did not happen because of the equipment being faulty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thresher, post: 1104283, member: 9983"] Reminds me of a story a friend told me, he was in the army for about 6 years and like me sort of ended up at uni doing of all things 'Visual Arts' for some reason. (Beats shooting at people I guess :D) He ended up doing guard duty at an air base one night when a C130 came back in after doing some terrain mapping work, at first he didnt think much about it except for a whole heap of 4wds pulled up full of MP's and brass and waited for it to taxi in. The crew gets off, somewhat pallid and worried as the MP's and brass move in for some questioning and everyone gets carted off for a debriefing a few minutes later. Then groundcrew end up crawling all over it for a few more hours while his patrol finishes. About 3 days later off duty he catches up with one of the guys he knows pretty well that was an airbourne techie on the Herc and asks him what happened. Seeing theres no one else around the guy tells him what happened. For about the first hour they where just doing their business with the precision mapping laser, its an infra red one from memory that basically sends a beam down over a large area and records how far the plane is from the ground while it maintains a steady altitude. Theres also a whole heap of other specialised radar, of which I know quite a bit, but I'll shut my hole on what that does. Then things got pretty weird. The lasers and radar are mapping away and everyones recording it when they pick up something 150 metres underneath the plane about 20-30 metres across which is blocking the laser. They extend the laser out and its mapping ok except for that round 30m pit underneath the plane that sitting at a constant 150m and moving around down there when they adjust their altitude. The radar is picking up absolutely nothing. So they do everything with the visual recording devices on the plane to check out what the hell it is with starlight enhancers and even to the point of banking hard and looking out the side. Cant see anything. But the laser can. So for the next 4 hours they try to put up with this thing moving around underneath the plane, check everything with the onboard diagnostics, check it again a few more times and its working A-ok. The laser goes down about 150m and can see the blot 30m across, focus the laser around the object and its working fine reading those areas and they can even see the object bank with the plane whenever they move. Fed up they head home and the object heads off somewhere else. Now, it wouldnt have been that much more than an anomaly with the laser except that its happened 3 times this bloke can remember while he's been doing mapping that particuar area and it always drew in a lot of high level brass, MP's who gave them clear instruction that "it did not happen" and it did not happen because of the equipment being faulty. [/QUOTE]
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