Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

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Perhaps there’s a new sidebar to looking for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP)?

That topic keeps me up and night, armed with my telescopes, binoculars and other “all seeing” instruments.

UAP, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), crashed or still in the air flying saucers, alien visits…on and on!

This morning, in my daytime off-hours of sky patrolling, I’ve taken a read of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024.

Something caught my eye in the NDAA called “Moving Target Indicator Programs” of the Department of Defense.

I haven’t paid much attention to this topic, but maybe I should.

UAP have been reported by Navy pilots unlike anything they have ever witnessed.
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Working group grope

Words of tactical intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, along with tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination of data collected by moving target indicator systems – lots of lingo attached to whatever moving targets the Act is embracing.

The Act calls for the Secretary of Defense to establish a working group, to be known as the ‘‘Moving Target Indicator Working Group.” Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force members are to be assigned to the working group.

“Not less frequently than biannually, the working group shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on the status of any moving target indicator programs being developed,” the Act notes.

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Bottom line

Being the obsessive “Googleier,” I revved up the search engine for Moving Target Indicator Programs – lots of chat about radar techniques to find moving objects, like an aircraft, and filter out unmoving ones.

There are also advocates calling for a space-based, ground moving target indicator capability.

Whatever all this adds up to, the need for day/night, all-weather detection and tracking of ground and maritime targets for the warfighter is one bottom line, maybe a bottomless pit of uses.

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Synchronize efforts

Back in July 2022, the U.S. Department of Defense announced the establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, longhand for AARO.

“The mission of the AARO will be to synchronize efforts across the Department of Defense, and with other U.S. federal departments and agencies, to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest in, on or near military installations, operating areas, training areas, special use airspace and other areas of interest, and, as necessary, to mitigate any associated threats to safety of operations and national security. This includes anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects.”

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One wonders whether there’s some prospect for synchronizing UAP study with the call for moving target indicator programs?

As George Harrison of the Fab Four wrote: “Something in the way she moves” most certainly not noting the wheels of government bureaucracy. But on the other hand, “You stick around now it may show…I don’t know, I don’t know.”

And if you have read this far…blame the coffee.

This morning I accidentally mixed Colombian and French Roast.