Radar-Reflector Balloons and Submarine-Delivered Devices: A Cold War–Era Explanation for Navy Encounters off the East Coast (2014–2015)
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High‑altitude balloons carrying radar reflectors, potentially deployed from submarines, could explain several Navy radar sightings by yielding balloon‑like radar returns, a possibility supported by Cold War precedents and patent history and worth serious, open‑minded investigation alongside other explanations.