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Osprey in rural WV
me | eyewitness observation by me

Posted on 04/02/2021 2:02:57 PM PDT by chrisser

What's an Osprey doing in the middle of nowhere WV?


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: notthebird; yesthebird
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We're in Roane Cty WV. Leaving work today, I saw an Osprey flying low over the town. Caught it again apparently landing on my way home. Went behind a ridge as I was fishing my phone out of my pocket to take a pic. Direction corresponds with a location of a local private airport.

If you're curious, it's Boggs Field outside Spencer WV.

Seems really odd. We have a hospital with a helipad for medical flights, and we see the occasional private plane flyover, but an Osprey...?

Is this a normal type of training op for maybe the WV ANG? On Good Friday?

Wife saw it earlier and got a closer look and said it was definitely grey, although I don't know if color gives any indication.

1 posted on 04/02/2021 2:02:57 PM PDT by chrisser
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Is this a normal type of training op for maybe the WV ANG? On Good Friday?

I thought the Osprey was exclusively a Marine Corps aircraft.

2 posted on 04/02/2021 2:05:07 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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They gotta move those cages full of migrant children somewhere, and somehow. Using a train would be bad optics.


3 posted on 04/02/2021 2:05:09 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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I should note we did see another Osprey flyover about six months ago flying with (I kid you not) a black helicopter.


4 posted on 04/02/2021 2:05:15 PM PDT by chrisser
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The bird or the V-22 (MV-22 for USMC)?

Asking cause, well, I just don’t.

https://www.boeing.com/defense/v-22-osprey/

https://www.military.com/equipment/mv-22-osprey


5 posted on 04/02/2021 2:06:34 PM PDT by ro_dreaming ("XX = female; XY = male. Who's the science deniers now?" - Me)
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At first I thought you were asking about birds. The aircraft was probably just passing through. We had one fly over our town; at first it looked like some old War War II airplane, but then it got closer and it was an Osprey. Probably going to the airport for fuel. Fighter jets from the Air National Guard do the same occasionally.


6 posted on 04/02/2021 2:08:15 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: ro_dreaming

Yes, the aircraft. I actually wouldn’t recognize the bird if I saw it...

Apparently it’s used by both the USMC and the USAF with plans for the USN according to Wikipedia.


7 posted on 04/02/2021 2:08:46 PM PDT by chrisser
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It was the Qanon team rescuing little kids from underground torture tunnels.


8 posted on 04/02/2021 2:09:23 PM PDT by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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Heading from/to depot work or testing at Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio or Patuxent River NAS in Maryland?


9 posted on 04/02/2021 2:09:47 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Saw a couple yesterday heading to Marine Corps Air Station... in Yuma, AZ.


10 posted on 04/02/2021 2:10:08 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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I can find videos of them flying into a small airport in WV from 2019, it could be some kind of biannual exercise.


11 posted on 04/02/2021 2:10:20 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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Amazing this. is the first you've seen!


12 posted on 04/02/2021 2:11:18 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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My wife saw one earlier in the afternoon. Could be the same one, or it could be two on similar paths.

I guess a fuel stop is a possibility.

I looked it up on adsb but either it’s not squawking or it’s down and the transponder’s off.

How long do these take to fuel up? I may monitor ADSB and see if it shows up on the way out.


13 posted on 04/02/2021 2:11:23 PM PDT by chrisser
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I thought the Osprey was exclusively a Marine Corps aircraft.

Also in service for Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC).

14 posted on 04/02/2021 2:11:28 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Watch out for those wily birds. They’ll steel your trout.


15 posted on 04/02/2021 2:12:21 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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I thought the Osprey was exclusively a Marine Corps aircraft.

The USAF has a CV-22 variant in inventory. It can be used for SAR or special ops.

16 posted on 04/02/2021 2:12:49 PM PDT by pfflier
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I didn’t want to ASSUME the aircraft, but was leaning heavily that direction of course.


17 posted on 04/02/2021 2:14:00 PM PDT by ro_dreaming ("XX = female; XY = male. Who's the science deniers now?" - Me)
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Had one try to attack a helicopter once.


18 posted on 04/02/2021 2:15:14 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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It’s unlikely I’d post on FR because I saw a bird, but not completely impossible I guess.


19 posted on 04/02/2021 2:15:30 PM PDT by chrisser
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Is there a no name CIA airport in that area?


20 posted on 04/02/2021 2:16:05 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Starstruck tagline: (Since I'm old, I don't whether I'm senile or brilliant. Or happily both!))
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