The Interior Department said in a statement that the pause will give the federal government time to “work with leaseholders and state partners to assess the possibility of mitigating the national security risks posed by these projects.”

Interior said the U.S. government found that turbine blades and “highly reflective towers” create radar interference risk.

“The clutter caused by offshore wind projects obscures legitimate moving targets and generates false targets in the vicinity of the wind projects,” Interior said.

I could totally see how a country that spends near a trillion dollar on its defense (or is it “war” now?) wouldn’t have the capability to filter stationary targets from radar output. That’s exactly why every four years, all the trees in the D.C. region have to be trimmed at the top, so they don’t confuse radar operators!