I suspect the reason this movie had such an accurate depiction of the radar that was used, was that in the opening credits of the movie we see Maj. Donald Keyhoe was a consultant to the movie who still had active duty officers who were old friends who gave him inside info on many cases.
Re: radar
I have 2 reports in my 1947 database stating that "it was noted that their new radar (monopulse) appeared to cause one of the craft in the formation to slightly deviate from its flight path."
The 2nd document which is an FBI file says basically the same thing.
Imagine the reaction in the Pentagon when they heard this news. I'm sure they were like "oh REALLY!"and immediately ordered a batch of monopulse radar systems to be upgraded to highest power possible and were deployed around sensitive sites.
I even have a sighting report on the same day of the crash stating the witness saw 2 craft come flying out of formation like a "pop o wheel" (popular roller skating rink activity) and headed SE from there at a downward angle.
My guess is one craft was targeted with the radar which caused a big deviation in its flight path and it made contact with another craft in the formation.
Ask any Blue Angel pilot what happens if you deviate from your flight path.
Disaster.
Any craft that can fly as fast as these did, HAS to have some sort of forward looking system much like radar since at those speeds you could easily slam into a mountain before you could even blink your eye.
Radar before this time was a wide band transmission system which resulted in a fairly weak signal.
Monopulse however was a beam narrowed down to a pencil sized beam that was much more powerful.
Re: radar
I have 2 reports in my 1947 database stating that "it was noted that their new radar (monopulse) appeared to cause one of the craft in the formation to slightly deviate from its flight path."
The 2nd document which is an FBI file says basically the same thing.
Imagine the reaction in the Pentagon when they heard this news. I'm sure they were like "oh REALLY!"and immediately ordered a batch of monopulse radar systems to be upgraded to highest power possible and were deployed around sensitive sites.
I even have a sighting report on the same day of the crash stating the witness saw 2 craft come flying out of formation like a "pop o wheel" (popular roller skating rink activity) and headed SE from there at a downward angle.
My guess is one craft was targeted with the radar which caused a big deviation in its flight path and it made contact with another craft in the formation.
Ask any Blue Angel pilot what happens if you deviate from your flight path.
Disaster.
Any craft that can fly as fast as these did, HAS to have some sort of forward looking system much like radar since at those speeds you could easily slam into a mountain before you could even blink your eye.
Radar before this time was a wide band transmission system which resulted in a fairly weak signal.
Monopulse however was a beam narrowed down to a pencil sized beam that was much more powerful.