This is a great read. If I were closer to the area I'd definitely have spent some time trying to recreate the investigation and check out the site.
Also, got to plug the story of the search for the lost German tourists in Death Valley[1]. I feel like his writing in that series really gets you in the head of the lost, and is morbidly fascinating.
> For a while prior to this, I had been poking into the field of remote viewing, which hadn’t yet quite burst into the public’s perception ... I had contact with a couple of remote viewers and thought this might be a useful test of this rather strange skill. The data back seemed to indicate a spot not southeast of Leith, but southwest.
Wait - what?
This threw me off because my impression of the author was somebody who was very technical and critical.
He also seems to have at least a basic interest in hunting for UFOs, even if he's rational enough to expect that most of the reports are probably false. But he seems basically open to the idea, if only to recognize the incredible difficulty of being successful. And, as he notes, the remote viewing wasn't accurate or useful.
You should not confuse people who are technically capable as being unable to believe something that isn't definitively proven.
Funny to see something like this here. I went with my dad on some airplane wreck hunts when I was younger, though none quite as epic as this one. You'd really be surprised how complete some of these plane wrecks are if they are hard to get to. One I recall was a F-104 thunderchief. It was just amazing to me that they didn't try to remove any of this stuff: https://imgur.com/a/5uToG
A old friend of mine and I visited a corn field in Nebraska ten years ago in search of some wreckage left behind from a crash in 1966. With the help of a metal detector we located metal identification plates, various small pieces of metal, and an ash tray (smoking on planes was once a thing). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braniff_Flight_250
Reading this reminded me of one interceptor variant that was canceled. Same specs as the A-12, but armed ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12 ). The second seat was added to operate the fire control system (radar/weapons).
Also, got to plug the story of the search for the lost German tourists in Death Valley[1]. I feel like his writing in that series really gets you in the head of the lost, and is morbidly fascinating.
[1] http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun...