A clump of chaff fibers landed at Zierdt Road near Highway 20 on Tuesday. (Bob Gathany/[email protected]) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Military chaff that distort weather radar, similar to the phenomenon that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – There’s a new ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - UAH confirmed chaff was the cause of high radar reflectivity, or the "blob" over West Huntsville Tuesday. They released a photo of what they said is fiberglass chaff found on ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. – It is a hot and ...

You learn something new everyday. And for today, this is likely no exception. Here’s something for dinner table discussion. You may have been looking at your favorite radar app around 9:15 last night ...

In his review of Anthony Cave Brown’s “Bodyguard of Lies,” (Books—Five Best, June 27), Damien Lewis misunderstands the use of chaff, thin strips of aluminum dropped from Allied aircraft during World ...

The radar over Cannon Air Force Base looked … weird. The New Mexico skies were clear, but a neon globule appeared on meteorologists’ screens. According to The Drive, the disturbance shot across at the ...

An incident that confused Evansville-area residents in December has now gone worldwide. Two weeks before Christmas, what looked lines of storms appeared on weather radar above Western Kentucky and ...

Strange radar sightings in Maine on Wednesday were likely caused by clouds of metallic “chaff” that are released from military planes to fool radar, the National Weather Service said Thursday. The ...

Fort Campbell and Scott Air Force Base denied that the C-130 came from there. Meteorologists may have discovered what caused a mysterious blip in the weather radar in Illinois and Kentucky earlier ...