Historical Incidents & Events
Project Palladium
1960
A declassified CIA/NSA electronic-deception program (from 1960) that made phantom aircraft appear on Soviet radar. Against the Soviet Tall King radar near Cuba, operators injected false returns while a submarine released balloons carrying radar-reflective spheres of varying sizes to gauge the radar sensitivity - producing water disturbances in the process. Cited by insiders (Barnes, Poteat) as a conventional-explanation precedent for the Tic Tac radar behavior, water disturbance, and sphere-in-cube shape.
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the CIA electronic-warfare officer who ran the program
Source: The War Zone, Area 51 Veteran & CIA EW Pioneer on Navy UFO Encounters (2019); CIA reading-room, Stealth/Countermeasures/ELINT 1960-75
claims Palladium-style radar spoofing is the likely conventional explanation for the Tic Tac events
Source: The War Zone, Area 51 Veteran & CIA EW Pioneer on Navy UFO Encounters (2019); CIA reading-room, Stealth/Countermeasures/ELINT 1960-75
referenced by insiders as a conventional-explanation precedent for the 2004 Tic Tac encounter Fravor reported
Source: The War Zone, Area 51 Veteran & CIA EW Pioneer on Navy UFO Encounters (2019); CIA reading-room, Stealth/Countermeasures/ELINT 1960-75
referenced as a precedent for the sphere-in-cube radar returns Graves described after a radar upgrade
Source: The War Zone, Area 51 Veteran & CIA EW Pioneer on Navy UFO Encounters (2019); CIA reading-room, Stealth/Countermeasures/ELINT 1960-75