Word: interceptions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential plane, O'Donnell urged the crew to take off quickly because "all of us were under the assumption or apprehension that at some moment we either might not be granted clearance to take off, or that the hospital may have in some way gotten the police to intercept us-the difficulty of that to Mrs. Kennedy was incalculable...
Here are the facts. Many reliable persons, notably military and commercial pilots, have reported seeing "objects" moving at fantastic speeds, avoiding all attempts to intercept them. The Air Force files at Wright Field bulge with such reports. No one questions the integrity of the persons who have made such sightings. But I do question the conclusion that many have drawn from the reports, that the "objects" are extra-terrestrial, manned machines...
...birds. Meteorological optics, such as mirages and sundogs account for many other sightings. Bright meteors, stars or planets are also responsible. Under special conditions, as studies clearly demonstrate, the observed "objects" can appear to move at fantastic speeds and display an ability to elude attempts of the observer to intercept it. Radar sightings are fully as subject to such vagaries as the optical sightings. There are also many hoaxes to confuse the issue further...
...that small silicon diodes, working much like the cat's-whisker crystals of early radio sets, can pick microwave energy out of the air and turn it into direct current with reasonable efficiency. Thousands of diodes, strung like glass beads on a network of wires, are needed to intercept Raytheon's beam. In the model helicopter demonstrated last week, they feed direct current at about 100 volts to a small motor taken from an electric drill. The beam of 2,450-megacycle microwaves starts out with three kilowatts of power; the diode antenna turns it into electricity with...
...even more to the point, the A-11's role as a fighter plane was obvious to those who inspected it on the ground. There were bomb-bay doors in the craft's belly that hid a covey of four-vaned air-to-air AIM (Air Intercept Missile) missiles...