«Experts do not dismiss the possibility that the probe could have accidentally come under the impact of emissions [from
a U.S. radar stationed on the Marshall Islands], whose megawatt impulse triggered the malfunctioning of on - board electronics,» the source said.
John Westbrook, a research meteorologist at the
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in College
Station, Texas, has been using weather
radar to follow insect flyways in the south - central United States.