Slightly amusing story ..... re reflective paint.

A USAF base in another country had a supply of reflective paint which
was used in a limited manner for runway markers etc. to make them more
visible at night and in fog etc.

Since the paint was very expensive it was specially stored in locked
storage and to be obtained needed a special requisition for use by US
personnel.

One night an USAF officer was driving privately along a local
peninsula, and, so the story goes, his headlights picked up the
outline of rural shed/barn near the coastline.

The paint trim on it lit up in the headlights like nothing ever seen
before!

An investigation followed, finding that someone had had unauthorized
access to the reflective paint; some had 'disappeared' and locally had
been found useful to paint the trim on the fisherman's barn.

After all "Paint is paint isn't it?' especially if 'free' off the US
base?. Very revealing anyway!