"Winked Out": UFOs or High Tech Camouflage?

Brenda Livingston
Living-Tracer Enterprises
http://tracers.8m.com

Camouflage of aircraft has been the ongoing focus of the military since
the discovery of human flight. ‘Hiding from the enemy’ protects pilot
lives, military secrets and provides the ability for sudden and highly
effective strikes on targets. As the number of sightings of
"disappearing" aircraft and objects increase, lines are becoming blurred
as we attempt to delineate between our true technological capabilities
and what may be a common capability of the UFO (unidentified aerial
device/vehicle). Star-field and cloud/haze camouflage are now frequently
reported in addition to ‘blending into the sky’ using various techniques
and devices.

Increasingly, UFO Researchers are witnessing what appear to be aircraft
at various altitudes suddenly and inexplicably vanishing from sight.
George Filer in Filers Files relayed a report of MUFON members returning
from the MUFON Symposium 2000 watching an apparent aircraft "winking
out" before them. George Filer also told of having such an experience
along the Eastern seaboard. Other researchers and the public continue to
relate similar sightings to Living-Tracer Enterprises.

These sightings are so unusual that they have provoked the consideration
of two possible explanations: the common use of ultra high tech military
and civilian aircraft camouflage or UFOs camouflaging as aircraft.

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Human Made High Technology Explanation

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One must consider both prosaic explanations and exotic Defense R&D
before concluding what some report seeing is taken as conclusive
evidence of alien technology. Electrochromatic panels (tiny video
sensors) on the skin of aircraft is one such exotic technology which
could explain as least some of the sightings reported.

It might be enlightening to visit the Project Chameleo/Richard N.
Schowengerdt's website which presents papers, videos and drawings
explaining some of the more recent research projects conducted by
research scientist and the Air Force...

http://members.aol.com/rschowe173/chameleo.html

While the following patent does not prove the current use of this
technology, it does show interest and research into the development of
it:

Cloaking Using Electro-Optical Camouflage Patent No.
5,307,162 issued 26 April 1994 Patent Renewed in 1997
- Next Maintenance Fee Due 26 April 2001

An interesting report from Australia from Harry Mason points to yet
another possible high tech explanation for disappearing or "limited
sight" aircraft (though it is not clear whether the "object" seen by
observers was indeed an aircraft):

Harry Mason writes, "I have some input for you on the disappearing
aircraft technology?" I have a friend in a foreign country who is their
top English language translator. I will not name the country for her
safety. In the early 1980s, she went with a foreign military delegation
from her country to the USA to meet with top US Military. She translated
for both sides. One aspect of their visit was to observe film and hard
technology of the operation of a "cloaking device." This made ships,
aircraft, or airfields totally invisible in reflected light and radar
wavebands. It was being offered to her country as an inducement to back
US policy.The device was capable of retrofitting to any aircraft etc.
There is "eyewitness" evidence of such a device in operation at an
RAF-NATO airbase on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland.

One day a bunch of golfers noticed a 'V' shape wave rushing across the
calm sea surface with a vague shimmering space in the air above it --
similar to that seen in the movie "Predator."

The 'V' wave of unsettled water and the shimmering air shot towards them
at a fair speed and the shimmering went over their heads accompanied by
a loud roaring noise -- exactly in line with the airstrip. They
concluded that a high powered invisible aircraft had approached low over
the water and landed at the airfield. Thanks to Harry Mason
orbitx@iinet.net.au

Living-Tracers has received reports from reliable witnesses sighting
similar V-shaped "airwave" streams with no accompanying sound or
color-- with one astounding difference. These "objects" were only a few
hundred feet away and much smaller -- having a basketball-sized rounded
"shape" in front of the stream.

These reports indicate that experience of sensing the "airwaves" was
similar to seeing a small wake in a lake moving quickly by...only in the
air. Might these be the small spherical objects reported by so many all
over the world entering another state or dimension?

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Who Are ‘They’ And Who Are They Hiding From?

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While it is possible that many experimental missions and varying
atmospheric conditions are occurring in our atmosphere and that stealth
tech/camouflage undoubtedly is being developed, one must ask the
following question:

What would be the purpose of using such stealth tech (if economically
and technologically feasible) in non-combat situations in the skies
above populated areas? If it is feasible, why would it be necessary? Who
are they hiding from?

Perhaps one explanation for my sighting of a blinking out "craft" is the
experimentation of 'emissions cloaking' along with aircraft camouflage.
Much R&D is taking place in radar jamming and emissions control...but
why would our military be testing or using such cloaking devices over a
populated area in mid day?

Who are they hiding from?

The sudden and inexplicable ‘disappearance’ I personally witnessed in
December of 1999 was in a clear blue sky and was stunning. While I was
intently watching an oblong pinkish object (which I at first assumed
to be an aircraft) with a long "dashing" persistent contrail move at an
angle toward me – the object along with the miles long persistent
contrail "winked out". I searched the clear blue sky for a possible
reappearance of the strange object or aircraft and saw nothing but blue
skies…

While I have seen various "camouflaging" effects of aircraft -- white
aircraft becoming darker in different lighting conditions, aircraft
moving through a thin haze becoming white then blue and back again, even
shadows bouncing in front of aircraft…this sighting seemed to defy
plausible common explanations.

What purpose would it serve for a military aircraft flying over a
populated area to be visible then suddenly become invisible (in
supposedly non-combat, non-experimental situations)? From whom are they
hiding?

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Disappearances And Contrails

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An interesting sighting report by George A. Filer (Eastern Director of
MUFON) in Filers Files #31, August 7, 2000 asks the same probing
question:

"…The last few months the search for Unidentified Flying Objects has
taken on a new phase with dozens of reports of aircraft disappearing in
front of numerous eye witnesses. Sometimes the craft appear to change
color prior to disappearing, we have reports of white, gray, red, and
patchy blue or white aircraft. In World War II, camouflage techniques
lit up allied anti-sub aircraft using soft lights to conceal them from
Nazi submariners….

I personally have 5000 flying hours…. On July 3, I saw an aircraft
making heavy dark looking contrails that appeared quite different from
standard. They may have powder or impurities in them that may come from
the new jet fuels. The most amazing thing that occurred is that when the
spraying stopped the aircraft disappeared. I searched the clear blue sky
with binoculars but no craft could be observed. An aircraft simply does
not vanish from a clear blue sky unless it has active camouflage or
crashes.

One possible way for an aircraft to vanish would be to use a liquid
screen similar to one used on a typical lap tap computer. If hundreds of
liquid screens were mounted on the underside of aircraft it could be
made to seem to vanish by videotaping the sky above the aircraft and
applying this same color to the liquid screens covering the aircraft. To
the naked eye the craft would disappear….[but] why would these aircraft
want to vanish?…"

Report Of Disappearing Aircraft By MUFON Members—Excerpted From Filers
Files #30 July 31, 2000:

Driving home from the MUFON conference the Georgia State MUFON director
[Tom Sheets] who is a retired Chief of Police and other witnesses
observed a aircraft "wink out" suddenly. George Filer: " These are high
quality witnesses, they are not mistaken. I've learned from other
contrails experts this has happened before. To my knowledge humans do
not possess aircraft that can disappear. The spraying is real, therefore
I suspect that UFOs are involved. I want to know what they are spraying
and why…" (see http://tracers.8m.com/filer31.htm for similar reports)

Consider also the following reports:

Mark Cashmere MUFON CT. State Director reports that, "On December 13,
1999, four witnesses observed two anomalous phenomena at 3:30 PM." The
observations lasted for a total of 40 minutes. The witnesses were two
adult business owners 49 (Y) and 51 (F), and his son 12, and a woman
business associate (W), 80. The observations are broken into two phases.

Observation of an estimated five contrails in sequence descending toward
a ridge to the west. These contrails became visible in each case after a
bright star-like light appeared and were the width of the light, and
once reaching a specific length retained that length without change.
Each contrail displayed a "puff" about halfway to the hill that acted as
the horizon. The witnesses also thought there was an orange flash as
each light passed below the tree-line. One contrail split into two. The
witnesses believed it was possible that the lights crashed on the hill,
though they heard no sound. The contrails dissolved, including the
puffs.

They observed two solid objects, gray in color, one "bullet-shaped" with
smoothly faired fins, and one spherical with no seams or protrusions.
One witness observed an apparent seam on the bullet-shaped object. The
objects, of large angular size (3 inches at two feet), passed the
witnesses at a relatively close distance, and as they moved to the north
vanished in full view. The location of the second phase was about thirty
feet to the east of the first at 41.81120 (Lat.), -72.92348 (Long).

A third "phase" was the observation of a number of aircraft identified
as commercial Short Skyvans believed looking or what they had just
observed. The two adult men seemed credible and articulate but perplexed
by the event. The child offered a reasonable level of corroboration. A
more detailed analysis can be found at mcashman@temporaldoorway.com:
Thanks to: Mark Cashman.

Very visible -- then very invisible. What were the possible explanations
of this activity if these were experimental aircraft? Were these
missiles gone astray? If so--what is a plausible explanation for their
location and the bright light in front of the trails?

Consider a report with some similarities from Texas. Could a
light-producing propulsion system account for the appearing and
disappearing of this apparent UFO?:

"On January 10, 1999 near Lewisville Texas -- I witnessed the
unexplainable... I was back out at my sighting post on the lake just at
sunset scanning the western skies when I suddenly caught sight of a very
strange orange trail on the horizon..zig-zagging very low to the ground.
Whatever was creating this trail was moving toward the southeast --
moving toward me at an angle. I kept my eyes on it as it proceeded
closer and I still could not make out a definitive shape in front of it
-- though I thought I saw something small and dark there a couple of
times.

As it reached past I-35 (which is a major thoroughfare running north and
south through the Dallas area) -- I could see that something was
creating short bursts of contrail in a zig-zag fashion. It was
low-flying -- seeming to be between 500-700 feet above ground.

Suddenly a bright light appeared several hundred feet in front of a
burst of orange trail. Then both the light and the trail would
disappear. The light would appear again and then the short trail -- and
both would disappear again. This pattern continued for a few minutes
until the light appeared without a contrail and disappeared. The light
repeated this behavior a few more times before disappearing for the
final time." (Living-Tracer Enterprises)

If one takes into consideration that some rather odd-shaped "aircraft"
(eg. oval, teardrop, spherical, oblong) and unusual fireballs and
projectile-appearing objects (see NUFORC report of two pilots sightings
of an missile shaped object flying between them) are reportedly flying
through our atmosphere in proximity to aircraft – some creating
persistent contrails themselves– this may provide a very good
explanation for the sudden necessity for both aircraft and UFOs to make
a sudden "disappearance" for stealth or protection. (see
http://tracers.8m.com/aircraft.htm)

What researchers and the public may be witnessing is aircraft, UFOs and
their ‘projectiles’ using a high and higher tech camouflage in the open
skies.

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