Project RAINBOW
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This article is about the CIA project to reduce the radar cross section of the Lockheed U-2. For the rumored teleportation of a US Navy ship, see Philadelphia Experiment.
Project RAINBOW was the name given by the CIA to a research project aimed at reducing the radar cross-section of the Lockheed U-2 and lowering the chance that it would be detected and tracked by Soviet radars during its overflights of the USSR. However, the Soviets continued to track the U-2 flights in spite of experimentation with various technological fixes.