A relative was once part of a small minority construction company that applied for small business set-asides (about 5%) who had a contract near Atlantic City, NJ for chain link fence at the FAA field. He related he was digging holes and without warning the FAA crashed a plane while he was nearby for testing. Another contract where he was to spray some new cinder block wall which took all day as he couldn't get near the West Point Academy mint/large quantity evidence (drugs) area without proper authorization, which could have taken a few minutes to do. That was before 9/11.
For "counter-measures" aren't those F-16 flares used for? To confuse a heat-seeking air-to-air or ground-to-air missile fired at it? I doubt it was a parachute flare to light an area used by ground troops, which, spent, I have found occasionally while working in archaeological survey required by law on and off bases, one off the Iwo Jima trail at Quantico, Virginia last month. Sounds odd, were they dog-fighting? 
Or just an accidental discharge? Dropped during the day it would be that type it seems, dropped at night another type.
NJ has 1 million acres of Pine Barrens (I once wrote a proposal to test it along powerlines that arrived 10 minutes late and the only offer, rejected) and Long Island about 30,000 acres. Near Southampton, NY it too was used for bombing practice, at least that is what I surmise from the USGS map and some GoogleEarth investigators. There white rocks outlined true to size outlines of an aircraft carrier and other ships probably in the 1930s or 40s. The pines are adapted to fire, and discharge seed after it. Early reports said native Long Islanders started the fire to create browse for deer. Not true. Lightning did it. Close bombing range after latest incident?
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