Posted on 12/12/2018 8:18:03 AM PST by BenLurkin
When large, storm-like blips flashed across radar in Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky, the National Weather Service was stunned – because it wasn’t raining a drop.
All kinds of guesses flared up on social media: a flock of birds; aliens; residue the government uses to control the weather, etc.
But a tweet from Eyewitness News meteorologist Wayne Hart on Tuesday morning seemingly cleared the fog. Citing an unnamed pilot, he said Evansville air traffic control claimed a military C-130 released a stream of chaff – radar-jamming material sometimes used during training exercises – a few miles northwest of Evansville.
A story from the Courier & Press pointed out that military bases sat near the areas where the blips appeared: Fort Campbell in Kentucky and Scott Air Force Base in Western Illinois.
But if this was a case of military chaff, and it did come from a C-130, that plane didn’t come from either of those bases.
“Whatever aircraft it was, it was not a Scott Air Force Base craft,” Master Sgt. Thomas Doscher said Tuesday morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at courierpress.com ...
Everybody running their stills on the same day.
Calling the Radar Secret Service.
We have a wind farm about 30 miles to the east of us. There are hundreds of windmills all grouped together.
On the weather radar, it will always show the signature of wind or snow in that one spot.
I drive by them regularly. It was once a beautiful, scenic ridge with farms and forest. Now its a canyon of hideous, blinking 250 ft. windmills.
Al Gore - and the men who will destroy the world - dumping killer flakes to stop sunlight from warming the earth?
Yes. We have them all around us too. What a blight.
“Now its a canyon of hideous, blinking 250 ft. windmills.”
Driven from Denver to Kansas City lately?
My sixth grade science fair project was on radar, so I’m something of an expert on this.
The word “radar” stands for:
Raisins
Are
Dry
And
Something, I forget what the last r is
I would say, from thoroughly examining all of the available evidence, that this was caused by cow farts.
Where’s my Nobel Prize?
Stealin that!
Chaff is not going to present a huge signature like that. Its only purpose is to confuse radar-guided missiles. I seriously doubt that weather radar would even pick it up.
Different frequencies and all that. There’s electronic jamming now not mechanical like chaff.
Likely some kind of military electronic jammimg, not mechanical jamming.
Depends on how much chaff was dispensed. That stuff can hang in the air for a very long time depending on wind speeds.
Swamp gas
All “chaff” is, is aluminum foil.
I was a missile guidance tech in the Air Force, and “chaff” was one deterrent used against guided missiles.
Radar is radar. If the target has enough of a cross section it’s going to show up. C-130’s can dump butt loads of chaff and that stuff hangs out there forever. I’ve seen chaff clouds that look huge on the screen.
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