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Gonna share a few email responses I’ve made recently... 1) The Hawkeye crew, multiple flights, did track the same objects as the Princeton with its internal APS-145 RADAR and these same tracks were correlated with Princeton’s own tracks via the CEC system.
2) It wasn’t just SPY-1 that held tracks. SPY-1 was running much newer software then our Hawkeyes which is why they tracked the objects more often and with higher quality. Without getting into details, how the two RADARs operate and track targets is drastically different.
3) The only people who signed NDAs were the 5 members of the Hawkeye crew airborne during Fravors intercept. I know the reason that happened and aside from the extremely close view that crew got of the object, I cannot elaborate. But they saw one of the objects at close range.
Our systems, as was the rest of the battle group, were tied into shore based systems in So Cal. Between that and the amount of time Princeton was tracking and reporting these object, there as a lot of time for folks on shore to react and fly to the ship
4a) Also, just to give you a bit of background to the systems in use around this time, they were all developed in the 80’s and 90’s with newer software updates. Those systems were already in the process of being replaced when these events happened...
4b) The newer systems have a 2 and 3 generation leap in capabilities over what we had in use that week. These newer systems were in use during the 2015 intercepts on the east coast.
None of this is new information. I’ve said it all before. But so many people seem to not have heard it, so I’m saying it again.
