From: Ian Goddard (Ian@goddard.net)
Date: Mon Sep 13 1999 - 05:22:07 MDT
At 08:48 PM 9/11/99 -0700, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>The FLIR isn't going to pick up reflections off of the body
>of water because the emission spectrum of a body of water
>that has been heated by the sun is *dominated* by the
>black body radiation curve determined by the temperature
>of the water. Warm water will have a uniform "image"
>to the FLIR, *unless* the power of the reflected energy
>substantially exceeds the power of its natural emission
>due to its temperature.
IAN: The water is significantly cooler
than the ground that the imagined shards
of glass would be sitting on, the IR from
which would be radiating through the glass,
and thus your point would tend to contradict
the claim that the flashes are IR reflections
from the sun. It seems foolhardy for you to
expound on evidence that you can't even see.
An IR expert spent a year researching exactly
the question of the Waco FLIR flashes being
sunlight. He painstakingly determined the
position of sun and aircraft at the exact
moments of the flashes. The resulting analysis
rules out the sunlight theory on that basis
alone (aside from other major problems with
the sunlight reflection theory). Read this here:
http://www.rolandresearch.com/SRGv1/B9-Report.htm
His analysis takes into account various angles any
glass might be at. Please read it before commenting.
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