Plasma Laser Hologram as a possible UFO sighting Explanation
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Mendel
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They patented one. Excerpted article (this was linked in the OP):
Article: The U.S. Navy has patented technology to create mid-air images to fool infrared and other sensors. This builds on many years of laser-plasma research and offers a game-changing method of protecting aircraft from heat-seeking missiles.
The Navy declined to discuss the project, but the work is described in a 2018 patent: “wherein a laser source is mounted on the back of the air vehicle, and wherein the laser source is configured to create a laser-induced plasma, and wherein the laser-induced plasma acts as a decoy for an incoming threat to the air vehicle.”
Unlike flares, the LIPF decoy can be created instantly at any desired distance from the aircraft, and can be moved around at will. Equally importantly, moves with the aircraft, rather than dropping away rapidly like a flare, providing protection for as long as needed.
The lead researcher in the patent is Alexandru Hening. A 2017 piece in the Navy’s own IT magazine says that Dr. Hening has been working on laser-induced plasma at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific since 2012.
From the patent:
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I am curious why this and the earlier video show light effects that flash and move around rapidly, and don't show solid appearing stationary light figures. Does the production of a flash render that spot of air temporarily "un-flashable" for some period of time? That would explain flashes rather than constant light production from a single point, and the rapidly moving/rotating/gyrating figures displayed, so new, as yet undisturbed volumes of air are constantly being fired at for each new flash.
From a distance of course such flashes if closely spaced might appear to be a constant light source.
Also, for demonstration purposes, instead of gyrating objects in the air a steady non-moving figure, with the camera moving around showing the 3D nature of figure might be more convincing.
mc10s
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So what was the consensus here? Is it possible they’re using holograms to create plasma UFOs? I read thru every comment in this thread and it bounced from cynical to skeptical to plausible and then back. Do the questionable sources necessarily disqualify their hypotheses? I don’t think this was adequately debunked but maybe I overlooked something.
NorCal Dave
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Sometimes we say, "I don't know". Mick's term the LIZ (Low Information Zone) applies to more than photos. It seems there is evidence that the DoD is and was working on various devices to create targets and/or deceive people and sensors. Did something like that cause the TIC TAC? Impossible to say.
Personally, the DoD working on stuff like this seems reasonable to me. As for creating the TIC TAC, it makes more sense than a trans-medium alien from Zeta Reticule or even a super-duper Russian drone, but that's all I can safely say with the giving information.
Some of the discussion seemed to expand on the idea quite a bit crediting such devices with UFO encounters involving the general public back in the '90s. That's a bit more suspect as was the somewhat dubious source Amrie's The Military Unmasked.
Science fiction author / scientist David Brin -- who's worked in optics and astronomy -- calls these "overgrown cat lasers," (also on his blog). The idea being that if you can excite matter at a distance and simply swivel your beam, the perceived object will move faster than a physical craft would. He notes the potential classified status of such technology, but notes the reports around military bases and links to some videos like the ones already provided above. Doesn't go into great detail about how it might work, but at least he has some background to make his arguments.
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