I wish we had a plane fag list.
Something really weird happened yesterday. A daughter ran in to get me, “Come see this weird plane!”
By the time I got outside I couldnt read the writing but the aircraft was quite close and far too low. A jet of some size, not the little puddle jumper things that would land on the grass runways around here. Too big to land at the little city air fields where small jets land. I dont know the model, the smallest you would see at a big city airport used by the major carriers. The nearest airport of any significance is 46(?) miles away. We see large aircraft all the time way up there heading off to some distant city, nothing close or slow showing that its approaching/taking off like when I lived near a bit city airport years ago or an air base.
It was low and kind of slow. It kind of swung side to side as it flew. The path was headed just north of east and it would seem to stabilize in the swing and go slightly north then swing side to side and align a couple more degrees to the north repetitively. It was still quite low, a couple hundred feet?, as it headed out over Lake Michigan.
Everything about it was really weird. Never heard anything in the news about a passenger craft flopping into the drink. Im just glad I wasnt on it.
Could it have came out of the military base in Grayling? Don’t know from description if they were civilian or miltary? Or if they were flying generally east to west?
I wish we had a plane fag list.
Something really weird happened yesterday. A daughter ran in to get me, “Come see this weird plane!”
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Me, too. It got interesting a while back and there were frequent posts of unusual activity.
A few years ago, I was able to search historical flight data. The night before, I watched a blue light fly soundlessly over Middlebury, Vermont. This thing had none of the usual white, red, and green aircraft lights.
The interesting thing is the flight tracker showed NO aircraft in the sky anywhere over Vermont during the 30 minutes I watched this thing approach and then depart.
I wish I could remember what website that was. It might have your mystery aircraft tracked.