Radar Mystery Hasn't Been Solved Yet

Courier & Press ^ | 12/11/18 | Jon Webb

[WKUHilltopper]

Everybody running their stills on the same day.

[wally_bert]

Calling the Radar Secret Service.

[BenLurkin]

Already there and on the job....

[PGR88]

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.

[GOPJ]

Al Gore - and the men who will destroy the world - dumping killer flakes to stop sunlight from warming the earth?

[refreshed]

Yes. We have them all around us too. What a blight.

[dljordan]

“Now its a canyon of hideous, blinking 250 ft. windmills.”

Driven from Denver to Kansas City lately?

[SkyDancer]

If it was chaff, wouldn't the signature be all one color not red in the center, yellow in the middle and green on the outside? Looks like a weather pattern to me.

[blueunicorn6]

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?

[Bratch]

[BenLurkin]

Stealin that!

[Buckeye McFrog]

It was once a beautiful, scenic ridge with farms and forest. Now its a canyon of hideous, blinking 250 ft. windmills.

Which will one day turn into rusting, decrepit hulks because once the subsidies run out their owners quit maintaining them.

[AlaskaErik]

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.

[SkyDancer]

Different frequencies and all that. There’s electronic jamming now not mechanical like chaff.

[jjotto]

Likely some kind of military electronic jammimg, not mechanical jamming.

[sean327]

Depends on how much chaff was dispensed. That stuff can hang in the air for a very long time depending on wind speeds.

[Jim Noble]

Swamp gas

[FrankR]

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.

[sean327]

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.