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7/3/2016 10:56 AM
 

I run IFly on a Samsung Tablet using a Dual GPS-170 antenna. 9:45am, I'm cruising at 4500' 15 miles south of Keystone Airport(42J). I see a target moving rapidly across the screen. I highlight it and it indicates it's 500' below me traveling at 3742kts. I never saw it and it went off the sreen so quickly I could'nt even get a screen capture. I'm now a believer in extraterrestial life!

 
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7/4/2016 3:20 PM
 

The restricted areas northeast of 42J are firing ranges used for, well, whatever the military wants to lob downrange. If the UFO was within those bounds, that might be what you saw. But at Mach 5.5/4,000MSL, it'd have to be extremely heat resistant and pretty small to avoid busting every window in the county. A very good reason to steer clear of restricted areas!

Many many years ago a Cessna Caravan cargo plane disappeared one night near Mobile, AL. When the wreckage was eventually discovered, there was no obvious reason found for the crash but a large paint smudge was on the skin as if there had been a midair impact with... something.


Jeff Nokomis Clark, Mooney M20G, iFly app on ASUS ZenPad Z8s, ASUS ZenFone AR, ASUS Windows 10 tablet, Stratux ADS-B w AHRS
 
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7/4/2016 8:30 PM
 

Yea, but a UFO with a transponder?

 
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7/5/2016 1:44 PM
 
Transponder "on" ---- They wanted to "blend in" ----- did not think anyone would notice!

 
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7/5/2016 5:29 PM
 
It's possible to see non-transponder traffic with ADSB-in. ATC can pick up a primary target via radar (i.e., a dumb object with no transponder), and then package that target in the ADSB uplink to your plane.

 
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