From: Stephen MILES Lewis <elfis@austin.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:51:05 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:10:16 -0400
Subject: Re: Gore UFO?


>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 11:22:47 -0300
>From: Donald Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: Re: Gore UFO?

>>Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 23:55:37 -0400
>>From: Nathan Ranger <netrangr@ufo.net>
>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>Subject: Re: Gore UFO?

>>>Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:26:42 +0000
>>>Subject: Gore UFO?
>>>From: Stephen MILES Lewis <elfis@austin.rr.com>
>>>To: UFO UpDates <updates@globalserve.net>

>>>Hiya UpDates listers,

>>>Have been waiting to see something on this list about this
>>>but haven't so...

<snip>

>I wouldn't get too excited about some target showing up on ATC's
>screens then disappearing, it happens all of the time. Light
>aircraft out in the areas not regarded as control zones might
>show up briefly when they get above the "grass" so that radar
>can see them. Primary radar doesn't know the height, just the
>direction. The "target" could look like it's right in the path
>of Gore's aircraft but actually several thousands of feet below
>it.
>
>AF 2 would have received a radio call from Flight Following
>telling him that an aircraft, type and altitude unknown, was in
>its line of flight. It was prudent for the pilot to avoid the
>area.
>
>Prudency counts for a lot in safe flying.

>Probably the only reason that we even heard about this was because
>Gore's aircraft was involved.

>Don Ledger

Thank you all for the continuing info.

I may not have made clear that I didn't see any of the actual
press coverage. The fellow ufolk who passed on the message
placed the unidentified radar contact in the "ufo" context.

Jenny Randles' recent Sheffield 2 'non-incident' report comes to
mind as an excellent analogy for the help another perspective
can quickly bestow upon us less aeronauticly initiated. I am
actually the first son in four generations not bitten by that
bug.

    Thanks again.

SMiles
http://www.elfis.net