I wish I could post all the screenshots I have but I think it easier to just tell you what I saw. I encourage everyone to watch these aircraft on their desktop. Link is below. Be sure to click the U icon in the upper part of the screen to isolate aircraft.
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
I know we are jokingly referred to as plane fags but if I hear another “I am a high ranking official, can only post this once” I’m going to vomit. I like tangible hard proof that things are progressing and I feel like being able to watch military operations happening in the air in real time provides that.
Yesterday was big. To anyone who knows what all of these different aircraft do (I’ve been in commercial aviation for 20 years now) it was a beautifully executed ballet of the skies not just domestically, but internationally. I’d say around 1-2 o’clock things got REALLY busy and they didn’t wind down until I stopped watching around midnight. Of course I’m not able to watch every single bird, but I can tell you patterns I noticed. Many of the callsigns I saw last night were SAM or Special Air Mission. In addition to the small private G-5 military jets, I was astounded at how many C-40s I saw up as a coordinated effort. A C-40 is essentially the military version of your basic Southwest Airlines 737. The majority of the ones I saw (I counted at least 8) either departed or landed at Andrews AFB (home of Air Force One) The planes I witnessed going towards the west coast landed in bases in the Seattle/Whidbey area. Why is this significant? They’re either bringing in active military troops (which seems inefficient to me because they’ve got much bigger options in cargo planes at their disposal) or the number of civilian bad actors they are rounding up is significant and they’re essentially using these to transport them. Mc Guire AFB seems to be playing a significant role in operations as well with many C5s coming in last night from Ramstein AFB in Germany. I witnessed more than one airplane head south from Andrews towards Cuba, turning off the transponder as soon as clearing Key West. Loads of activity in Hawaii and a non stop SAM flight from Anchorage to Andrews. All the while Blackhawks over some major cities,sub hunters patrolling, radar surveillance off the coast, you name it. I’m not military. I don’t have any insider info, but I can tell you what I witnessed last night seemed to be a grab n go style mission that seemed to wrap up almost simultaneously. Can’t wait to see what’s in store for today...
Someone said that the entire USA went dark last night. Is that normal? Someone said it was because pilots go to sleep. It seemed suspect because tons of commercial flights go in and out. Why would the military take a snooze around this time? All military transponders went dark last night. Have you observed this trend at all?
I saw that too, and checked the site OP references. When filtered to just military aircraft, I can confirm that at one point the site showed a single C17 in the air--nothing else. This was about 01:30 est. It was a little spooky.
How often do you check yourself?
Sorry, wrong thread! I check that site when news pops up.
No seriously do you check nightly? Did last night really stick out to you?
I'm no planefag, but been wathing Monkeywerx since the election because--as OP says, the clickporn and "breaking" crap is just noise, I want some data to chew on. It seem to me that, with normal national defense postures, a sky devoid of military aircraft is a rather unusual thing, and I've personally never seen the site that quiet. Ive probably checked it at least 2x per day in be last few weeks, but I'm a piker-- I defer to real planefags.
A simple exercise. Last night only 1 plane was showing at 1am right? If at the same time the night before there were 50 or 100 planes tell, that is significant. Have you seen that?
As i said above, not a planefag. Site is available to everyone (hint, hint)
I can say things seemed to “wrap up” around 11 o’clock. Meaning when I went to bed magically all operations seemed to cease. This was of course just the planes that were transponding that all returned to base or their target at roughly the same time. Keep in mind nearly all active fighters were dark all day. I’m confident everyone didn’t just go to bed and stop scanning our borders for threats. These are just the operations they’re “allowing” us to see.
Is the trend that it's dark at night on a daily basis?
While things certainly ramp down significantly during normal “nights” there’s almost always still planes to look at.
Do you have an estimate?
I think it’d actually be easier in 2021. There are “celebrities” that only exist online. Like they are not real, only AI.
I’m just reporting what I’ve seen. Do with it what you like. But anyone that says this is normal clearly doesn’t track military aircraft on a regular basis. Strykers rolling thru truck stops in Texas with armed soldiers? Probably just got the munchies and went for a Mt Dew and Slim Jim. 7k troops and counting in DC for a virtual inauguration? Seems legit. Mass censoring of right leaning media to dissuade the spread of information. C’mon man. That’s a normal occurrence. You remember when they did that in Germany in the 30s. Worked out great for those people.
Could be positioning of troops I suppose. You being ex-mil would know better than I would. Just seems curious we are seeing C-40s as opposed to C-130s/C-5s if that was for troop transport. Super inefficient. I guess we will know soon enough. The DOD C-37s have been doing some odd missions as well. Also, thank you for your service. Without you guys we’d already be speaking mandarin.
Maybe not. How do people communicate these days? Electronically. Electronic communications are experiencing... technical difficulties, shall we say. If all cell data is monitored and stored by the NSA, can they zap cell phones and make them inop too?
The msm has an interest in being quiet about stuff not going their way if it can't be spun.
The media report what they are told.
"The media report what they are told."
By the Democrats. Remember the screeching from the media when Trump's "Secret Gestapo Nazi Police" arrested 2 Antifags in Portland? Everyone on Twitter said that they were arrested and put into unmarked vans by police with no markings, though that was not remotely true.
That was just a couple of loser protesters. If anyone does get snatched rest assured we will know.
You would think that, but when messenger can block you sending links, what can the NSA do?
If bad actors are being rounded up I'm certain we'd hear\see SOMETHING... especially with all the shit that gets posted anymore. People would be on that like flies on shit, no?
Would we though? I actually think that if we know anything we're off the trail. SPECOPS wouldn't let this stuff leak.
I think we would. If these people are all of a sudden not seen in public anymore then that would get gossip starting. It's different when you have the type of people who are never seen in public (like RGB), but if they're going after low-level traitors first then a lot of them have neighbors/etc who would notice their absence.
As of what I can tell HRC hasn’t been seen in public since Dec 18...
The likely difference between HRC and people supposedly being arrested now (supposedly now, definitely soon) is that HRC is likely keeping a low profile as her own decision. People being arrested, unwillingly taken suddenly, makes a big stir that we'd likely see.
Maybe this activity is what we're meant to see. This whole time anons have been watching tea leaves blown in the wind and making sense of it. Bread crumbs, but not the whole picture, unless someone can get eyes on to see what these aircraft are doing on the ground.
I suggest someone monitor all of this nonstop. More patterns will emerge, but over time.
MonkeyWerx has been doing exactly that; he's dedicated prob the last year or longer analyzing military flight patterns and how it fits in with Q Drops / Plan.
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We are seeing armed military convoys moving through truck stops among other places. Coincidence?
Thanks for sharing mate....
Is it possible to tell how long these aircraft were on the ground?
Thanks again
WWG1WGA
What this should tell everyone reading: this was planned to top bottom some time ago, and put in motion yesterday. We can argue whether it's Q stuff, but the timing and today's flight behavior overlayed on the timeline makes a strong case that it is. And it's a huge op.
Couldn’t agree more. Looked perfectly orchestrated. I slept well last night for the first time since Wednesday.
This is a good read, thanks for that. So am I correct in understanding that your observation is most probably military rounding up a massive number of folks?
Any ideas which areas were the "hottest" ?
Also in the night the skies were very very clear. I saw only 2 planes - both RCH something for a while. I have never seen this before, even in the night time. Whats your opinion on this?
Maybe it's promises kept. How many planes would it take to bring home all the trooos in Afghanistan and Iraq? https://www.thedefensepost.com/2020/11/18/us-slash-troops-iraq-afghanistan/ Because if SHTF in Iran they might be in trouble.
Wouldn't call myself a planefag, but I am a lifelong military, aviation, and esp. military aviation buff.
I'm certainly no expert at tracking aircraft, esp. not Military aircraft, but I did also see a ton of interesting stuff yesterday.
At one point in the day, I saw I believe it was a total of FOUR C-17's en route to the US from Europe.
That struck me as odd. I have no idea what an average day or week looks like for comparison sake, but 3-4 C17s coming from Europe to the US on a Sunday seems weird.
I agree with OP, that based on my very amateur opinion; there was "interesting" activity in military aviation yesterday in particular.
Will be interesting to compare yesterday's activity to today.
Completely agree. I don’t pretend to have all the answers but I’ve been in commercial aviation a long time and routinely fly with ex mil pilots. The few I’ve reached out to have heard rumblings and refuse to comment beyond that.
Thanks for the info.
I've been keeping one of my laptops up and dedicated to monitoring since yesterday. Things are very interesting indeed. I've been watching 2 DC10s flying mostly in parallel that took off from Travis this morning. Interesting flight paths for 2 DC10s
Did you note the aircraft blackout from last night? What did you make of it?
I've seen it several times over the past week. They got things going on that they need to keep quiet.
Usually don't "see" much traffic at night
I did. I thought it odd. Seemed like a wave of an operation returned to base/went to target base and then it all just kinda wound down. Was interesting!
Agreed. He’s got more insider knowledge than I do having been in the military. I’ll be curious what his take on last nights movements is.
Also tracked a C-5 from Panama to Andrews. I’d love to have beers with some of the guys from McGuire in Jersey. Saw a couple heavies also go into Dover. 3rd Airlift perhaps? They are responsible for Special Forces.
So many questions. That’s what I love about tracking these flights though. It’s a rare glimpse into what’s going on. We may not know the why but we know something is happening...
thank you for that excellent anaysis! I'm sure many of us have lttle understanding of military ops, so this is jus the type of info we want