-=> Quoting MATTHEW SCRUGGS to MICHAEL HOLT <=-
 MS> Re:Radar signature.
 MS> It was a combination of things I am led to believe. It was its
 MS> speed, its maneuvars, its size (?), and most importantly, its areas of
 MS> apparent interest. Namely, the most high-tech & sensitive areas
 MS> existant in the world at that time period.
 MS> Plus, post WWII nerves certainly played a part.
I'd guess it was more that it was over someplace "special" and apparently
out of reach of P-80s that made everyone frantic.
World War 2 was still bubbling away in the minds and hearts of the AAF
generals in '47.  And the worry about the Godless Russian Menace was 
appearing to be quite serious.
Think of this: there's something zipping around a secret place, and the
military has no way to stop it, or even to indentify it.  Then, suddenly,
fortune hands them one of the mystery craft...and that artifact takes 
nothing from the mystery, but compounds it be not being comprehensible.
I think that I, were I to encounter such a situation, might want to keep
it all secret simply because I couldn't explain it.
Comment?
Michael
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