My Dad related an incident way back during the Vietnam war, where he was out working in the garden at our old farmhouse, and was suddenly overcome by an intensely creepy sensation. He looked up just in time to see a B52 ghosting overhead at maybe no more than 200-300 ft on a low glidepath into an airfield a ways away. The engines had been throttled all the way down, so the aircraft made virtually no noise, and he never heard it coming. He said it looked black, though my guess is it was dark green and poorly-lit.
Should add that this event happened in Central Mass *during* Vietnam, not *in* Vietnam. :p
I think they might have been heading for Westover AFB, which was maybe 15-20 miles away.
>My Dad related an incident way back during the Vietnam war,
the thunder of distant impacts.. haunting.
The B52 on display at the Air Force Academy has a black underbelly, IIRC.