Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOPLIN, Mo. — It’s hard to shoot down an enemy plane you can’t find. That was the whole idea behind a surprisingly low tech means ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – There’s a new theory about what caused a mysterious ‘blob’ on radar images over west Huntsville on Tuesday. This one may stick. Some of the chaff found along Zierdt Road in ...

Chaff - the shreds of aluminum, fiberglass and plastic used by the military to help trick radars - is considered safe, even though government officials concede research on the effect it has on humans ...

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

What looked liked rain on an Aussie weather radar this week turned out to be masking something a lot more powerful. What appeared to be an ominous storm cloud rolling across the weather radar was ...

The mystery was solved. Then it wasn’t. Then it was. Now, well, who knows? Back on Dec. 10, the Evansville area was embroiled in intrigue when mysterious radar blips appeared over Southern Illinois ...