Salut,
Dans l'enquête Shough et collaborateurs (pas encore tout lu), concernant un contact visuel par un ou des pilotes ou non.
1) Pour l'épisode T-33 :
Nevertheless 1st Lieutenants Charles Metz and Andrew Rowe visually searched the area at a few thousand feet, without seeing anything to explain the targets. The Lockheed jet then headed to the E and SE sectors, where a star-like amber light had been observed low on the horizon by Control Tower Shift Chief Sgt. Lawrence S. Wright since about 2120. They reported what was evidently the same "bright star", and noted the flashing beacon of Orford Ness lighthouse visible in coastal haze to the E, but still found nothing unusual.
2) Pour l'épisode Venom :
Je ne lis toujours pas de contact visuel (?) excepté ce pas très clair et discutable "Roger Lakenheath I've got my guns locked on him". Discutable car je pense qu'il ne l'a
aucunement en visuel et qu'il s'agit d'un verrouillage électronique lié au radar. En effet, les points et extraits suivants semblent le confirmer.
The Venom NF.3's AI radar did not have a tracking antenna, but its radar controlled gunsight did provide an electronic 'lock on'.
His opinion was that the range 'gating' used in controlling a radar gunsight would have been described as a 'range lock'. This turned out to be the case.
In other words, the gunsight locks on to the radar.
the gunsight is now slaved to the radar
This sort of fleeting range lock without visual cues would be well described by what Perkins remembers hearing on the radio as the incident ended
http://martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Lakenheath/GGS-5.htm & http://martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Lakenheath/lock-on.htm
Extrait du Teletype BOI-485 déclassifié :
Lakenheath RATCC vectored him to a target 10 miles east of Lakenheath and pilot advised target was on radar and he was "locking on." Pilot reported he had lost target on his radar.
ou encore :
Pilot advised he was unable to "shake" the target off his tail and requested assistance. One additional Venom was scrambled from the RAF station.
Original pilot stated: "Clearest target I have ever seen on radar!"
mais aussi :
We tried, obviously, to get behind it as you would with an aircraft contact, but that didn't work out. In effect we were unable to intercept it. We did not get a visual but we had a radar contact.
L'histoire de la mention "bright white light" est discutée longuement dans le second lien suivant des sources sur lesquelles je me suis appuyé pour le moment. Au total, je ne trouve pas de contact visuel de pilote(s) "extraordinaires".
Sources : http://martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Lakenheath/reconstruction.htm & http://martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Lakenheath/Lak-visual-analysis.htm
In 1956 a total of six unidentified flying objects were received. Of this total three were radar sightings. One was made by the navigator of a Vulcan aircraft but the captain was unable to make a visual sighting although the object approached the aircraft. The duration of the sighting was 1 minute 15 seconds.
"Another was a report of an unusual object on Lakenheath Radar which at first moved at a speed of between two and four thousand knots and then remained stationary at an high altitude. No visual contact was made with this object by the Venom sent to intercept it and other radars failed to pick it up.
"The third radar report was of an object on the screen at Wethersfield. One of the two aircraft sent to intercept made a momentary contact* the other made no contact at all. No other ground radars who scanned the area were able to find a trace of any object."
* visual n'est pas présent dans la phrasehttp://martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Lakenheath/PRO-DDItech.htm
Letter from Air Commodore A. N. Davis to Charles F. Lockwood, 17 March 1972, I was chasing a star :
Cordialement,
Gilles