Originally Posted by
SpeedFanatic
Hi! What parts of the UK the man saw that radar blimps? Was it regular route or unspecified or random one?
forty years gives it back to the 80's... was it just happening at the time or later as well?
It was "blips", not blimps.
I assumed it occurred in W.Germany, at least that is where the controller told the story. It would have been somewhere between early 1981 to late 1983. I don't have any more detail because I didn't ask for any and in those days most things military were on a "need to know" basis.
But it does make me realise that certain unusual, very high performance aerial objects that might be otherwise described as "UFOs" were actually known about, at least by part of the military.