Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Well if it was, it wouldn’t be the first time. And then of course there is the Boeing connection, who seem to be fouling up by the numbers recently:
https://www.boeing.com/features/2016...ery-06-16.page
An excerpt:
Yeah, these are the guys who leave their McDonalds wrappers in the fuel tank of brand new KC-46s.
Or that a nuclear submarine would run into a long ago charted undersea mountain, or a Ticonderoga class cruiser would run aground in Tokyo harbor which we’ve had pretty good charts of since the 1940s and now GPS navigation for as well.
And I never would have guessed that someone would ACCIDENTALLY have transported 6 nukes from Minot to Barkesdale either, in violation of the SALT treaty and just about every standing order regarding nuclear surety either, but all those things happened.
And most of their LASERS really aren’t all that dangerous - they just provide a way of adjusting the adaptive optics of their telescope to offset atmospheric effects. The problem generally comes when they try using them quasi horizontally rather than directly overhead.
Stuff happens sometimes.
But somebody reporting a green laser on V66 in and of itself is not damning evidence that a military facility is recklessly disregarding flight and public safety
Occam's razor says an amateur astronomy rig... green laser boresighted on a telescope to aim with.
The fact that it happened twice hints that it's intentional, odds of randomly flying through an un-aimed beam in the FL's is rather low to begin with. Twice is getting improbable.