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 ...

With not a drop of rain falling in Northwest Florida on Thursday from this signature, many may have been wondering what exactly this anomaly was. The National Weather Service in Mobile identified this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The radar signature meandered over southern Illinois for 10 hours on Monday. It definitely wasn’t precipitation, the National Weather Service said. But that seemed for days to be the only sure thing ...

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 ...