Yeah, I can predict the common herd reaction to the subject, but these
things were impossible to deny if you were in their path.
Three military rigs -travelling in tandem toward the NW at about 8pm.
They were flying at LOW altitude with NO lights on and you could feel
the rumble of their approach from miles away.
I know when local copters are passing by (or spying on neighborhoods),
but this involved an unusually rude vibration that lured me right
outside like a magnet.
I stood there listening and looking for a couple of minutes with
equally curious neighbors until they finally became visible.
They were menacingly LOUD and appeared eerily like surrealistic
silhouettes crossing over a ground-illuminated sky.
I checked the web first thing this morning to get some sort of ID on
the aircraft, and these are accurate representations of the ones we
saw:
This one was in back -and was ARMED:
http://www.rotorhead.org/military/mh53j.asp
These two HUGE transports were up-front:
http://www.rotorhead.org/military/ch47.asp
They were all unmarked, but the question is what birds of war were
doing maneuvering like that over residential air space in the first
place?
This is the fourth occasion in the last 12 months I've witnessed such
an event (the first time with neighbors), and since deliberate actions
come with a purpose, I know it won't be the last.
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