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Interestingly, I just got through watching one and it is bright daylight. I was out in the yard and heard one approaching. I got my binoculars and sat in the yard watching for some time.

He was not making cirles, although I guess that is what he eventually did because the plane kept coming back from roughly the same spot and repeated the same maneuvers.

All it was doing was banking slightly left then slightly right, then eventually cirled left and disappeared. Maybe ten minutes later he would reappear and do the same thing.

The USMC LCpl. Andrew Williams September 4, 2003 photo gallery, starting with with 030904-M-7837W-001.jpg. Images 030904-M-7837W-001.jpg (#1, page 1 of 2) and 030904-M-7837W-013.jpg (#13, page 2 of 2) aren't KC-130 photos, so they excluded from the KC-130 image list below.

Gallery with descriptions and thumbnails, page 1 of 2
http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Sept_03-4.htm

Gallery with descriptions and thumbnails, page 2 of 2
http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Sept_03-5.htm

List of the gallery's KC-130 "Hercules" aircraft photos (they're large). Photos *10, *11, *14 are flare shots, and include the one under discussion.

2. http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Images/030904-M-7837W-002.jpg

3. http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Images/030904-M-7837W-003.jpg

4. http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Images/030904-M-7837W-004.jpg

5. http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Images/030904-M-7837W-005.jpg

6. http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Images/030904-M-7837W-006.jpg

7. http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Images/030904-M-7837W-007.jpg

8. http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Images/030904-M-7837W-008.jpg

9. http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Images/030904-M-7837W-009.jpg

*10. http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Images/030904-M-7837W-010.jpg

*11. http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Images/030904-M-7837W-011.jpg

12. http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Images/030904-M-7837W-012.jpg

*14. http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/ccm/IMU/galleries/MarForRes/03%20Submissions/Sept/Images/030904-M-7837W-014.jpg