Palladium – Electronic Warfare Technology
Project Palladium was a Cold War CIA electronic warfare and deception program that used radar spoofing and calibrated metalized spheres released from submarines to project “ghost” aircraft, providing a historical precedent for explaining modern military UFO/UAP sightings as advanced electronic spoofing or signature management exercises. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]- The System: Project Palladium was designed to fool enemy radar operators (such as those tracking airspace near Cuba) into seeing phantom aircraft by coordinating real flights, radar cross-sections, and floating metallic spheres. [1]
- Radar and Sensor Spoofing: Analysts have suggested that some inexplicable movements or “defying physics” characteristics recorded by military pilots (like the Tic Tac encounter) could stem from advanced electronic warfare, radar-spoofing technologies, or hologram generators rather than physical craft. [1]
- Concealing Classified Tests: Investigations by bodies like the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) have shown that the U.S. military historically used false narratives, localized disinformation, and unrecognized technological signatures as camouflage to protect secret aerospace development projects. [1, 2]
ELINT – In 1958, the OSI made the first significant attempt to measure the power of a radar for intelligence gathering, known as the Quality ELINT program. It consisted of installing electronic measuring equipment into a C-119 aircraft, and flying missions, disguised as supply-runs, through the air corridors of Germany.[2] This led to the MELODY and PALLADIUM programs, which attempted to gauge the power and sensitivity of Soviet ground-based tracking radars using “ghost aircraft”.[18][19] These programs were integrated into the DDR upon its formation, under the Office of ELINT.[2][3]
- Engineering in the CIA: ELINT, Stealth, and Beginnings of Information Warfare by S. Eugene Poteat, South Carolina Gamma ’57 [PDF @ Tau Beta Pi] (LOCAL PDF COPY)
- Some Beginnings of Information Warfare – Stealth, Countermeasures, and ELINT, 1960-1975 (U) Gene Poteat (PDF) via CIA.gov / NSA archive (PDF)
- High Standards More Than Justified for UFO Investigation – Jack Brewer at UFO Trail – text below via Anomalist.com circa May 14, 2015
“Given the brouhaha surrounding the recent “Roswell Slides” reveal, this piece by Jack Brewer is rather timely. He reflects on many UFO hoax cases and points out that some enthusiasts believe a story to be true simply because it is repeated so often, without regard to real evidence. He suggests checking out Project Palladium, a 1960s CIA (and others) project to create false radar targets, which may account for many pilot UFO reports of the time.”- Area 51, the CIA and Cold War UFOs: TD Barnes TD Barnes on Area 51, the CIA and Cold War UFOs – Curt Collins interviews T.D. Barnes about Project Palladium
- Project Palladium: Testing Soviet Radars – Aviation Trivia, 03 January 2011
- Mirage Men: UFO researcher Mark Pilkington on deception and psychological warfare By David Hambling | 06 October 2010 – Wired.com (via archive.org)
- Weapons of Mass Deception Washington, 1952: How the CIA created the flying saucer craze By Mark Pilkington July 2010 – Fortean Times magazine (via archive.org)
- UFOs and Radar Spoofing – Greg / Daily Grail (2008)
- Odd, intriguing and alarming UFO files released – The Guardian, Ian Sample, science correspondent, Sun 19 Oct 2008
- US pilot was ordered to fire missiles at blip on screen
- MoD makes papers public after enthusiasts’ pleas
“On a cloudy night in Kent, Milton Torres, a US air force fighter pilot based at RAF Manston, was scrambled to intercept a UFO. Ordered to go full throttle towards East Anglia, within minutes he was 15 miles from a mysterious blip that looked as big as a B-52 bomber on his screen. He was ordered to fire a full salvo of 24 missiles, but before he could, the object vanished.
Details about the incident, on May 20, 1957, appear among 19 files released by the Ministry of Defence and newly revealed by the National Archives. It is the second tranche of UFO files to be made public since a handful were released in May.”
- List of reported UFO sightings > Torres 1957 – Wikipedia entry
| 1957- |
Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter | United Kingdom; East Anglia | U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Milton Torres reports that he was ordered to intercept and fire on a UFO displaying “very unusual flight patterns” over East Anglia. Ground radar operators tracked what was believed to be an unidentified aircraft for some time before Torres’ plane was scrambled to intercept.[109][110][111][112] |
- Itazuke Air Base, Japan, Dec 17 1956 (a/c location near Tsushima) Martin Shough – NICAP.org (PDF)
- Area 51 Veteran And CIA Electronic Warfare Pioneer Weigh In On Navy UFO Encounters Having worked on some of the most highly-classified aerospace programs in the world, all this new UFO talk sounds very familiar to these two men. Tim McMillan Published Nov 25, 2019 TWZ.com TheWarZone
- Project Palladium: An Animated Reconstruction – Fat Earther (2026)
- Ex CIA and Ex FBI agents claim multiple countries have holographic tech that allows both visual and radar spoofing of conventional and unconventional aircraft – reddit – fat_earther_
- “There Were 23 of Us” Area 51 Officer Finally Comes Clean | TD Barnes – Danny Jones (2026)
- Area 51 Operator Discloses the Truth Behind ‘Tic Tac’ UFO Sightings | TD Barnes – Danny Jones Clips (2026)
From: Kathy Kasten
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:44:20 +0000
Archived: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:28:43 -0500
Subject: Manipulated Radar Images
http://ufoupdateslist.com/2012/feb/m18-002.shtml
From: The New Conspiracy Reader; complied by Al Hidell & Joan
D’Arc
Chapter: Cruisin’ with the Spooks, page 161, by Kathy Kasten
“Gene Poteat’s
http://www.iwp.edu/faculty/detail/eugene-poteat
Wednesday afternoon lecture, “The Science and Technical Wizardry
of Intelligence: America’s Crown Jewels of Espionage,” had come
and gone with minimal disclosure by Poteat on the CIA’s part in
covert testing. Poteat (president of the Association of Former
Intelligence Officers and ex-CIA agent who had worked in the
Science and Technology Directorate, as a scientific intelligence
officer) was the manager for the development and operation of
special reconnaissance systems for the U-2, SR-71, and various
other space and naval reconnaissance vehicles. He developed and
implemented new intelligence methods to detect low observable
(stealth) aircraft by foreign air defense radars.
It was a remarkable lecture because Poteat stated he was able
to electronically create a “phantom blip” on radar. By turning a
few dials, he could make the phantom radar blip do extraordinary
things – go very fast, slow to a stop, move up or down, or
disappear, simply by manipulating the dials. One story involved
a military airbase that sent a jet fighter out to intercept “the
blip.” The pilot had the blip on his on-board screen, but had no
visual, even though he should have been on top of the “craft.”
Even though he did not have a visual, he claimed he had the
target in sight and fired a missile claiming to have “taken it
out.” (I later read in Body of Secrets, by James Bramford, that
the jet was Cuban and involved ferret craft flights.) This
information suggests that some of the so-called radar evidence
for “UFOs” will need to be discounted, as they can be explained
away by the CIA’s experimental technology.
Lunch With A Grumman Engineer (page 161 – 162)
During lunch in the Regal Dining Room with a man and his wife,
whose company I enjoyed (they are not public figures and these
were private conversations), this man volunteered that he had
been an engineer for Grumman’s experimental craft operations on
Long Island. He stated that the EA6B had the capability of
“disappearing” from radar after a certain switch was turned on.
He was the contact person for the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)
in Long Island because of a sighting he had had many years years
earlier, and because he wanted to bring a more scientific
process to the investigation of UFOs. ”
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I found cruising and vacationing with spooks, as an American
taxpayer, truly enlightening and educational. BTW, I found most
people who serve their country as intelligence personnel to be
very patriotic, highly intelligent with a sense of humor. KK
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For precedence of radar spoofing, here’s my post about project Palladium. This was a 1960s operation spoofing radar with a concert of jamming techniques, submarines, and balloons.