Multiple reports by users on here from texas, Indiana, and Ohio, godspeed brothers
Update: just saw three more jets flying at 1800 ft they are all private aircraft custom paint job refurbished Warfighter Jets one was from Germany. It's either airshow Jets or UN/CIA contractor Jets in this specific case. The one I saw earlier today was a fighter jet escorting a mid size executive jet within 15 feet or so that came from Fayetteville Arkansas. Guess where the Clinton's are from.. Fayetteville. The jet escorting had its transponder turned off. Never seen that before
9 x KC135 tankers up currently, all over: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae014a,ae05a0,ae013d,ae014c,ae04d0,ae085b,ae04ff,ae0472,ae068f
Update: just saw three more jets flying at 1800 ft they are all private aircraft custom paint job refurbished Warfighter Jets one was from Germany. It's either airshow Jets or UN/CIA contractor Jets in this specific case. The one I saw earlier today was a fighter jet escorting a mid size executive jet within 15 feet or so that came from Fayetteville Arkansas. Guess where the Clinton's are from.. Fayetteville. The jet escorting had its transponder turned off. Never seen that before
Upon further research the three recently seen jets are part of a company called jdi Holdings which has trademarked the black Diamond jet team which is an airshow civilian jet group. The other jet I'm currently tracking westbound via ground with three Telecom nav sat communicators to determine the Landing destination. From there I've designed a long-range magnetic GPS module with lidar and sonar technology that is deployable by drone that can detect any interior object... Lol just kidding guys don't get too excited
Appreciate your work. I'm a novice planefag addicted to my Flightradar24 app, mainly for the local sheriff choppers (which are so busy in my small county taking apparent "pleasure" flights on top of obvious surveillance ops that one wonders how taxpayers can afford the cost of multiple helos airborne daily [yeah I know, Fed funded]
Try SkyGlass.
Thanks for that.
I appreciate the heads up, but let me say that this is probably nothing...
It's summer Nat Air Guard training season. There's a large Nat Air Guard base in mid-north Indiana. They come from all over the US to train around here (flying over IN, IL, OH, MI, etc.)
It's air show season. The Chicago Air show is a BIGGIE. Also WI, et. Al.
AND LASTLY - this is VERY IMPORTANT:
**Any "REAL" Military operation will NOT show on the publicly available flight trackers. They will turn off transponders - especially on fighters - simply for operational secrecy. What you see on public flight trackers is just enough to create a bit of FUD and keep certain parties wondering. Training exercises are almost always made public because that's sometimes the point of a training exercise to create certain optics by flexing publicly. **
That's what they would do to hide themselves in plain sight.
Yes think you are right.
Some of this might be airshow practice. It is airshow season. But there is so much.
The propagation of sound depends on air conditions. Humidity can make a difference. Temperature profiles can make a lot of difference. If your ground air is warmer than the air above, more sound can refract downward.
Yeah. Low altitude can mean a lot. I was walking in from my athletic club parking lot one day when a pair of F-106 interceptors flew over. Very impressive! They were probably returning to McChord AFB. Haven't seen anything like that since.
I got bounced by two CF-101s one summer at the Abbotsford, BC airshow when I was walking back from the latrines. Maybe 50 foot altitude? I felt like a maple leaf.
Yes I can confirm they were flying over Chicago today for the air show, saw four fighter jets flying in formation.
Was fortunate to have attended it a couple times 20-30 years ago. The 4-5 hour show was one of the biggest in the country with old and new aircraft including mock in-air refueling, (Seals?) parachuting to target, old by-planes, fighters with the large earth-rumbling after burners that could shoot straight up 'til the couldn't be seen then do a 180 and dive back down, Harriers, helicopters, both Stealth models, and both military performance teams (e.g., Blue Angels - they'd alternate years). IIRC estimated ~1 mil watching all along Lake MI lakefront.
It was truly a spectacle to behold AND it was FREE.
Last week there were 2 B52 Stratofortress up around the Great Lakes . I've never seen 2 up at the same time. Let alone in the same area..something is definitely funky.
You can tell where they are on ADSB by looking at the KC35s (refuelers)...all over the midwest.
There's an F35 squawking 7700 emergency NE Las Vegas https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=af351f
Is that the one with the call-sign 'VAX'D-PILOT'?
Joke.
LOL
kek.
That came right out of Area 51 right?
Yes it seemed so, or at least that area. It ended up froze just of the runway at Nellis, saying 1800'
Wow!
Yeah at Nellis now, still squawking 7700 and flying! https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=af351f
Some say it's still flying looking for MH370 where the documents are stored. It will land when the time is nigh.
Obviously none of that's true and I'd also like to know what happened to this fighter. But I didn't know and I couldn't think of anything funny.
Looks like it's happened before ...
If you tickle 7700 Nellis into the googs it'll spit out a link to a Redditor who found a low alt F35 squeaking a cool 7700 about a year before this hooligan decided to try it also.
I hope the pilot was okay. I don't care about the F35. They were designed to waste money. A crashed F35 is tax payer savings. But a crashed/ejection seat injured F35 pilot is just a tragedy.
And not really flying the usual refuelling routes either.
Yeah an anon just said one flew over him, Indiana area, North. Can't see them on adsb, but seeing tankers.
Planefags Unite!
Heard from friends dad that his son (Navy) is shipping to AUS in prep for So China Sea going hot.
thanks
just had a couple over me southeast Houston burbs
Flying into Ellington.
Yes always but was more than usual yesterday
Let me tell y’all. About a month and a half ago. I was driving between VA and WV. Highway 64. 77mph cruisin. Moderate traffic. Suddenly I hear something grinding, growling, WHAT THE HELL. I hit the brakes thinking something was broken. Before I could drop 10mph the sound was extremely loud. Immediately over the highway shit you not maybe 500 feet off the ground was a grey fighter jet. Solo. Scared the dogpiss out of me like I was weaving all over the road I had no idea it was coming.
Gotta say jets flying super low especially over roadways, dick move.
16 x KC135's currently up. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae014a,ae05a0,ae013d,ae04ff,ae0594,ae024d,ae0384,ae04ca,ae0472,ae04d0,ae04cd,ae068f,ae0143,ae04cc,ae025f,ae014c
At first I thought this was training/readiness preparation for support actions in Taiwan. But the activity stays over the US. It's not headed out for a long flight across the Pacific or to ships at sea.
I'm looking now but I think the ones that may spot it faster are the ones actually seeing them because they know right where to look.
I see them pretty much daily.
Little Oh Seven!! o7
I am pretty sure I heard some go over St. Louis, MO this morning around 09:00... By the time i was able to get out and see what flew over it was long gone
Same here (West Co). I was outside and a massive gust of wind came down then heard the sounds of engines. Never saw the plane though. Too many trees.
Glad I am not going crazy… I thought I was just hearing a regular plane then the loud wind. I’d like to think something special is going on, but come on… this is STL kek
I don’t remember where I heard this but someone mentioned a while back that MILAT planes from around the country drop into KSUS to refuel. Vs Lambert. So that might explain the activity I get around my house.
Yes. I was in my outdoor office with headphones on and windows open. There was tons of wind out of nowhere. I thought it was a gust front from a storm. I know what it sounds like when it hits the trees from watching plans land at lambert. It’s sounds similar to what dragging a large knife over a granite countertop when the wake disturbance hits the tops of the trees. Like a shearing and whooshing. Then I heard the engines. It was like they were doing maneuvers. Didn’t get the normal straight line Doppler effect sound.
Simma down now, murica has jets!
We had two b-52s up today. One was above me here and n Kansas and one flew across Texas. 👀
Wow, the helicopter didn't look military, but I was sitting on my balcony and saw one fly right overhead. I even remarked "man that thing was flying low." It was in AL
A lot of Med flights fly low easiest way to check is get on that site and it should tell you if it's a med-flight or some type of Hospital owned helicopter etc
That's what I assumed too, but the timing of it being lined up with all these reports is crazy. Obviously just a coincidence considering my area (medical helicopter was what I assumed when I saw it too), this post just made my heart skip for a moment
Saw a tandem rotor helicopter in ohio today
Saw an army chopper flying seemed pretty low, lower than usual it seemed to me. See them every now and again so can’t say if it anything special
Same thing happening here where I live. I live close to a couple of bases and a helicopter flew over my house so low earlier that I was worried it was about to crash. My entire house was shaking. I'm also noticing a lot more fighter jets than normal. Just seems like a big uptick in activity lately, but I realize I am ignorant about normal military operations. I just know what I'm used to seeing.
We saw 4 circling over yellowstone national park.
Tuesday evening saw 3 C130’s flying low west of downtown Minneapolis…two were literally a couple hundred yards from each other. Could of been landing at MSP…but super low
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what are these guys doing?
Neat! I found an Osprey.
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Texas?
Barksdale AFB LA is about 1:30 from me and I live in East Texas. B-52s are stationed there so there is no surprise if we see them over Texas.
Why over Kansas? He was doing laps over Great bend. And having two up is odd.
oic, yes, I'm in SA near Randolph.
Yeah left Louisiana same as the one over Kansas.
Ok so I love seeing military jets but dont know very much at all about them. Im in Tuttle Oklahoma probably about an hour west of Tinker AFB. Last week I went out to feed my dog and saw something that looked similar to a Tupolev Tu-22M, a Russian variable-wing supersonic jet bomber ( I had to look that up) Ive never seen anything like it, but this is as similar image as I can get to what it was https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Tupolev%20Tu-22M%2C%20a%20Russian%20variable-wing%20supersonic%20jet%20bomber%20&t=brave . It was flying to the Southeast. Usually all military that fly over out here anyway are usually between Tinker and Lawton. Idk it was a crazy neat jet but weird at the same time.
Just had two giant military tankers flying very, very low along the front range of Colorado, happened before sunset.
I've sat outside every 4 days or so for the past 8 years or so. Never saw anything at night. I've been seeming planes and helicopters a lot this past year(more noticeable the last 2 months) and some shortly after the puppet was installed.
Just thought I'd share that I've seen helicopters flying over (NY) nearly daily and mostly not showing on flight trackers. Typically I'd see them about 1x week and about 50/50 trackable. Been like this all summer. Ps. Mostly chinook/king stallion cargo type
Was working from home today and heard a few very low flying planes, but wasn't able to see anything. KCMO area.
9:25 PM CT over 30 H60's are airborne spread out nationally right now. That ain't normal.
It sounds like our entire military is flying under their own radar.... woah.