Here's is why!
NORAD Flight Exercise Planned for National Capital Region North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and its geographical component, the Continental United States NORAD Region (CONR), will conduct an exercise, Falcon Virgo 11-07, beginning midnight Tuesday into early Wednesday morning in the National Capital Region, Washington, D.C. and Frederick County, Md. Flights in the National Capital Region are scheduled to take place between midnight Tuesday and 2 a.m. Wednesday morning. Flights in the Frederick County, Md., area are scheduled to take place between 4:10 a.m.and 5 a.m. Wednesday morning. In the event of inclement weather, the exercise will take place the next day until all training requirements are met. For more information on Falcon Virgo exercises, please contact CONR Public Affairs at 850-283-8080, or the NORAD Public Affairs Office at 719-554-6889.
Then there was the plane with the Rolls Royce carbon fiber filled engines rotating overhead for about 5 minutes yesterday afternoon ~ sometimes they come over and land in Fairfax County.
NOTE TO EVERYONE: Andrews isn't the only airfield with military capability within the WARSHDC METRO REGION.
We usually know when the end of the world stuff is happening just by listening for the jets taking off UNDER the power lines. Always a sign.