(Fox News) – The origin of mysterious blips that appeared across radar in southern Illinois and western Kentucky Monday night may have come from military aircraft, but nearby military bases say they had nothing to do with it. The storm-like blips left the National Weather Service in a state of confusion since it wasn’t raining in the region, the Courier and Press newspaper in Evansville, Ind., reported.
Social media users theorized that the culprit could have been debris from passing meteors or even a flock of birds, the report said. A local TV meteorologist tweeted out that an unnamed pilot at the Evansville Regional Airport in Indiana said the fog was chaff – radar-jamming material sometimes released during training exercises – from a military C-130 aircraft. READ MORE
