Eli5- WW84: Wouldn’t radar still be able to detect an invisible jet

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Spoiler for WW84! In the movie, WW turns a jet invisible which causes the radar to lose its signal. I’m no scientist, but I would think radar would still pick up an invisible aircraft. Since the aircraft is only invisible to the naked eye, radar would still bounce off the aircraft revealing its position. I’m perfectly fine accepting the explanation that this was done just for a good scene. I just want to make sure I’m not an idiot.

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I will take a more scientific approach. Light is a electromagnetic wave like radio waves. If one was somehow able to make light pass right through a object rendering it invisible. There is no reason to think that they could not make all em waves pass through that same object rendering it invisible to not just the visible spectrum but the entire spectrum of em waves.

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