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 ...
Sure looks like a smear of Mayo, Mustard and Avocados
Or I could just be Hungry.,,?p
And a bit of ketchup.
Dang it I knew that I left something off the list.
Thank You
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