They are in pods of ten and 3 sections of 5 pods. My wife grew up a few miles from a couple of them. There have always been sightings of weird shit near and around the field since they were installed. Also to the northeast is Concrete ND and Cavalier AFS with the insane detector.
Thank DARPA and everyone willing to develop for them. They seem to be the prime driver of future tech and the pipeline to the military.
I will say that I have all the seasons of What On Earth and they have had numerous doppler anomalies they have gone over and I really want to say there was one very similar to this. I will have to go back through and see if I can find it.
The weirdest part is that I generally don't even look at the doppler data and just focus on the planes ADS-B signals.. Catching it was either fluke or something beyond my control. XD
I love you got the screencap of it. I'm quite curious myself and will do a bit of digging over the next days. I've seen this shit before on doppler but never really keyed into it. I just thought it was radar aberrations, I watch the doppler regularly and ads-b pretty often.
As a guy who is into weird shit and often monitors multiple different frequencies and whatnot this is the sort of phenomenon I live for. I'm just glad I managed to figure out how to show folks the same animation I saw... Took me a while to realize about the back lobe and whatnot.. it was throwing off my origin point of minot AFB as it looked for a moment it had come from far lower in ND.
Weird shit. Gonna try and do some digging myself to see if it's a normal thing or if I caught something weird accidently.