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Project Palladium

1960-01-01year known, day not recorded

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.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 3 September 2026 by reading this entity's record, after the automated screen proposed "neither" for it. The screen's "neither" only means that no term from its vocabulary fired; the deciding phrase here is this entity's own: "made phantom aircraft appear on Soviet radar". An editorial classification of which thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to.

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4 connections

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  • ← TD Barnes names a source we do not hold
    claims Palladium-style radar spoofing is the likely conventional explanation for the Tic Tac events
    The War Zone, Area 51 Veteran & CIA EW Pioneer on Navy UFO Encounters (2019); CIA reading-room, Stealth/Countermeasures/ELINT 1960-75
  • ← Gene Poteat names a source we do not hold
    the CIA electronic-warfare officer who ran the program
    The War Zone, Area 51 Veteran & CIA EW Pioneer on Navy UFO Encounters (2019); CIA reading-room, Stealth/Countermeasures/ELINT 1960-75
  • → David Fravor names a source we do not hold
    referenced by insiders as a conventional-explanation precedent for the 2004 Tic Tac encounter Fravor reported
    The War Zone, Area 51 Veteran & CIA EW Pioneer on Navy UFO Encounters (2019); CIA reading-room, Stealth/Countermeasures/ELINT 1960-75
  • → Ryan Graves names a source we do not hold
    referenced as a precedent for the sphere-in-cube radar returns Graves described after a radar upgrade
    The War Zone, Area 51 Veteran & CIA EW Pioneer on Navy UFO Encounters (2019); CIA reading-room, Stealth/Countermeasures/ELINT 1960-75

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The category

Recategorised from "incident" to "gov" on 26 August 2026. It is a program, not an incident: cat "incident" had become the destination for anything with no affiliation, and 18 of the 29 nodes in it were documents, programmes, concepts or patterns whose own `form` field already said so. The destination is read from this node's own role text, which says "CIA/NSA electronic-deception program".