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 ...

How chaff was invented in World War II. Roger Connor Whipple donated this packet of chaff, a cardboard envelope filled with hundreds of strands of aluminum. Center: A Boeing B-17 airman pushes chaff ...

Radar technology is useful for detecting meteorological changes and patterns, but earlier this month, weather equipment picked up a more baffling phenomenon in North Texas. On Jan. 20, the National ...