Hellow fellow Skywatchers

I am writing about a clip I saw today from the upcoming documentary Skyscratch.

The clip shows a weatherman from Florida showing a radar screen displaying chemical spraying results covering wide areas over the city and county he works in.

The weatherman explains the radar image is caused by "Chaff" as part of a militay exercise. He goes on to tell us this image can be cleared off the screen by software which is correct.

Point is this chaff story is a lie and here is the proof.

I worked in the AADCP (Army Air Defense Command Post) for the New York air defense command in the late 1960's. I was a crew chief overseeing the entire air defense network. I had a top secret crypto. My crew and I controlled seventeen missile sites.Chaff was technology from the 1950's made up of mostly aluminum foil strips. It would reflect radar and enemy planes could fly in behind a chaff screen.

Today the military does not use chaff as it is easily defeated by computer software that scrubs the chaff out. Just as the weather man's radar did. If chaff were effective the local airport radar would be blinded to incoming and outgoing aircraft but they can scrub it out as easily as the weather man or the Russians or any other enemy of the USA.

Today the military uses electronic jamming countermeasures. Even better, if the USA sends an airstrike your way and you power up your radar set a fighter plane immediatly locks on to that signal and within seconds launches a guided missile that flys right into your radar set and blows it all to hell right now. Chaff is old useless technology long ago abandon by the military.

This chaff cover story worked on the weatherman because he has no idea what chaff is or if the military still uses it. It amazes me that they would fabricate such a fairytale and hope no one ever heard of chaff.