Given the close proximity to Wright Patterson AFB, I would imagine this is likely.
Reminds me of the first time I saw a stealth fighter. My son was playing soccer in a tournament near there, in Englewood. You couldn’t hear one sound of an approaching jet, and then, out of nowhere, there it was right on top of us! Gave me goose bumps and sense of pride in my country.
“Given the close proximity to Wright Patterson AFB, I would imagine this is likely.”
Correction, I meant, unlikely to be a weather balloon.
Attended the Dayton Airshow in 1994. The B-2 was scheduled for a flyover. I was walking among the static displays when I happened to look up and it was doing a low pass right over me. Barely heard it. Yup, felt that swelling in my chest.
That was back when they were still showing current military tech. The last one we attended, during 2016, the last year of the Obama Debacle, was all Vietnam Era or older ... extremely disappointing. They have a B-2 and an F-22 on display in the Air Force Museum just down the road in Dayton, so it's not exactly hard to get up close to one. Must not have wanted to cause any Democrats attending to get the vapors.
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I was in the USAF from '87-'94. My first actual viewing of one was at Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson. We were hosting an Air Show over the weekend, and one was due in for the show. Prior to this, I'd never seen one live, just in video. We were listening to air traffic control in anticipation of its arrival. When it was on approach, we ran outside and the same thing happened; No noise, then it was there. Same sense of pride. Same goosebumps.
A year prior, my unit was invited to Mountain Home AFB in Idaho, for another air show. There was a "Static Display" of the F-117 with stanchions/rope all around, and a shadow of an F-117 painted on the ground. Even a couple of "armed" guards (no mags in rifles) to complete the illusion. My dad came to visit me at the air show (I'm originally from Idaho), and we both had a good laugh at that one.