[JRios1968]

For several years there would be two fighters fly what was apparently a recurring circle. One was an F-100 and the other was an F-104. I don’t recall which one was following or leading.

They would fly by the house literally within a few hundred yards then maybe 20 minutes later would repeat the same thing and keep doing so for an hour or so. I never did know what they were actually doing.

Sounds like you were watching unmanned target drone ops. Either the QF-100 or QF-104

QF-100 at Tyndall

QF-106 at Eglin

[yarddog]

Thanks for the pictures and that was a good guess but I don’t think they were drones. For one thing they did not have the orange paint.

There was a huge radar station built at Eglin during that time and I was just wondering if they might have been testing/adjusting/checking it out? They were always flying low.