Submitting Radar reports now is a complete waste of time, they go straight to the trash. Maybe if you're a recognizable name you'd get an engineer involved, but I doubt it.
I agree. Unfortunately military radars are classified systems, and civil radars do not currently publish any such information systematically either. So we are left with anecdotes.
If people started demanding such data to be collected systematically and published, then it could be researched. But for the most part the stigma around the subject makes people not bother asking for these sort of things.
If you were a foreign power running things in military ranges that gave odd sensor readings (say, balloons with radar characterization gear), wouldn't it be convenient if your adversary dismissed reports as fanciful?
The fact is that any contact in a military range, where militarily valuable radar and signal emissions abound, is a threat to national security.
Gear is going to malfunction and throw off a non-zero number of false positives. But any contact is important enough that it at least deserves to have a report taken and logged on it.
This particular issue is not really worthy of being reported in the media. Yes, there are radar problems that require it to be rebooted. But the issues have been identified and a fix is in work and will be rolled out soon. This story is a non-starter.
It's about as effective to write the report on paper and light it on fire - the chance of it getting actually addressed is about the same.
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