(03-23-2023, 02:26 PM)Chiefsmom Wrote: Most of the time, when something was "unusual" and he reported it, he was told "you didn't see that, nobody did, forget it"
I got to tag-along once with a four star and a three star. This is a story well over 30 years old.
We're invited up into a control tower for a VIP show. Everything's pretty much blacked out on the airfield. They've got a call running over the PA system. A pilot says, "We're two minutes inbound." The guy on the scope says, "There's nothing on my radar."
Two minutes later a bird was on the ground. Taxied right into a hanger. Lights came back up and normal operations resumed. I'm intentionally leaving out a lot of details, but I'll leave you with this takeaway: We've got stuff flying through the sky hardly anyone knows anything about.
That story might not have left its impression on me had I not seen the look on the face of the radar guy first-hand.