Re: Interesting Sighting Tonight


Message posted by Steve Douglass on July 25, 2005 at 22:00:35 PST:

Just as I predicted.. "Trucker Tom" alias Hooligan .. alias .. well the list goes on and on just couldn't wait to pounce on my sighting report. I don't know what this guy is smoking but he's obessed with with anything I post anywhere and I don't understand why.

FYI: The "Darkstar" comment is in reference to my "Donuts on A Rope" contrail sighting quite a few years ago. Trucker Tom just loves to quote this one as an example that Steve Douglass does not know what he is talking about. Truth is, Trucker Tom is the one misinformed. To set the matter straight in the article that was published in AVWK I stated that I heard on my UHF receiver traffic from an aircraft using a DARKSTAR call sign which we know is (was) an E-3 AWACS callsign. I did not at anytime say that the aircraft leaving the contrail was connected in anyway to the DARKSTAR transmission> Tom is connecting the two when no connection exists.

All I did was report what transmissions I monitored at the time of the sighting (and photographs) were taken. The photos were not faked or the report sensationalizedt to draw any attention to myself asTom wil insist, No fame or monies was sought nor was it a con job in an attempt to net subscribers and free advertisement for my Intercepts Newsletter which didn't even exist at the time.

In fact when AVWK's Bill Scott wanted to run the article I asked him to leave my name out of it, but he said anonymous reports don't carry any weight and convinced me to put my name on the report.

It's funny that Tom thinks it strange that I didn't have any recording (camera?) equipment with me at the time of the sighting. I'm not about to leave my new digital camera in un-patroled parking lot at cinemaplex and it's doubtful I could have captured a useable image anyway. Shows how much Tom knows about photography. Plus even if I did have some kind of super-duper spy cam like Tom thinks I should have on me at all times and captured an image, me thinks that Tom would say it was a fake.

Problem is there are many Internet Trolls like Tom out there that have no real life and just live to pounce on what they perceive are their enemies. You'd think he'd pounce on some of the more idiotic alien posts that have been on the forum from time to time but no.. he's just waiting for yours truly to speak up so he can boost his own ego by trampling on others.

As for why the need for beacons and strobe lights? As I said it looked as if the aircraft was climbing to a high altitude and most likely passed through civil avaiation space and flight levels. I also noted bright anti-collision light was turned off before craft pased directly overhead.

So in closing as I brace myself for another very predictable and boring onslaught of idiotic "I hate Steve Douglass" and here's why." Whn reading his postd just consider the source. Expect Tom to bring up other perceived inconsistancies concerning other reports.

I appreciate those hwo have come to my defense in the past and I thank you. But be forewarned: Tom has the tendency to become very frustrated when he doesn't get the results he expects and will pull sophmoric tricks like sign up the targets of his hatred on pornographic web sites, or fill out magazine subscriptions and even credit card applications in one's name.

That's identity theft Tom and is a federal crime.


In Reply to: Re: Interesting Sighting Tonight posted by truckertom on July 25, 2005 at 20:57:03 PST:

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