"Tony Meloche" wrote in message
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That said, here's a possible other side of the coin: I DO remember
reading, about five years ago, a journal article about "unexplained
phenomena". I apologize for the sketchiness of the details, but it
has
been years, as I said.
Supposedly it was cross-verified by several sources: A TV station in
England received about 22 minutes of very snowy transmission of an
old,
American broadcast out of nowhere. It was traced to a local TV show
from the 1950's in some American city. The show had not been filmed
or
vieotaped (this was before videotape) and it had not been kinescoped,
either. Old program logs traced it to the actual day it had aired.
It
lasted about 22 minutes and quickly faded
This was in 1976 or thereabouts - more than two decades after the
broadcast. It has never been explained. I wish I could remember where
I
read that, but it was NOT a "National Enquirer" or "Weekly World News"
story - it was an article about such things (and there are plenty of
them). It doesn't mean "aliens", it doesn't
mean "spooks", it just means we don't understand some things yet.

Tony


I also have a dim memory of the same or a similar story. It's worth
mentioning that there were two standards for English TV back then, one
for monochrome and one for color. If I recall, the mono standard was on
VHF and the color standard was on UHF. Both standards had different
sweep frequencies, and both differed from the US standard. The mono
standard had the opposite video modulation and the sound was AM. So I
don't know how well either type of TV set would sync to a US TV signal
and a mono set would show a negative picture and distorted or no sound.

However, I think a determined hoaxter could pull it off.

Frank Dresser