The SF Bay Area. North of San Jose, 5 miles south of Moffett Field. I grew up watching airplanes on approach to Moffett (their landing pattern was right over our house). I still look at anything in the sky. I know aircraft. If what I saw as an aircraft, it was not like any I'd seen before. I don't know what it was, but it didn't change my life. I just consider it an interesting object I noticed one night.
>> grew up watching airplanes on approach to Moffett (their landing pattern was right over our house).
I hear those transport planes all the time. I'm right under the final approach. Sometimes I sit on my little porch, smoking a cigar, sippin a Whisky and watch them lined up on approach.
The F-16s rattle my windows (they are fairly rare though) worse than the 5.0 I felt at my present apartment.
If a storm changes the wind pattern I get kind freaked out because then the San Jose air traffic often flies over head (much more frequently than the Moffett traffic).