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Mystery flight circles over Denver; officials have few answers
denverchannel.com ^

Posted on 11/16/2016 7:18:02 PM PST by bryan999

DENVER -- Thousands saw a plane circling the Denver metro area late Wednesday morning, questioning where it may have come from and what it may be doing. Officials at a host of federal organizations had few answers.

Denver7 began tracking a flight named IRON99 as it traversed from California over the pacific. It traveled over the Rocky Mountains and eventually over the Denver metro area.

Its arrival over the Denver metro is what prompted questions from a host of locals who saw it circling, questioning what it might have been doing.

Visually, the plane circled in a racetrack-style oval shape over the City of Denver at roughly 32,000 feet several times.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 201611; 20161116; aerospace; aviation; colorado; denver; doomsdayplane; iron99; tinkerafb; usn
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21 posted on 11/16/2016 7:49:20 PM PST by skimbell
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To: RightGeek

LOL


22 posted on 11/16/2016 8:15:57 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: bryan999

Probably a [Russian?] treaty verification aircraft, though it doesn’t look like one they manufacture.


23 posted on 11/16/2016 8:26:38 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Parley Baer

Boeing E6 Mercury.


24 posted on 11/16/2016 8:27:11 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: bryan999
If it has a callsign, it is known to the controllers. It is a typical military callsign. If a TV station can track it, from source to destination, it ain't classified.

It looks like a KC-135. The orbit suggests a refuelling track but the dimensions of the orbit are not specific, only the shape. It could also be a holding pattern or simply part of a training aspect of the mission.

Flying to Oklahoma is not unusual either. They train KC-135 crews at Altus AFB and they do heavy depot maintenance for them and E-3A AWACS at Tinker AFB.

25 posted on 11/16/2016 8:32:25 PM PST by pfflier
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“Boeing E6 Mercury.”

I bet you are correct. In the link it says it flew off towards Oklahoma. That would probably be Tinker AFB. That also fits for it to be a E6.


26 posted on 11/16/2016 8:37:35 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

I’m figuring an E6 that took off from Travis AFB, had some sort of training mission related to silo C&C - hence the time over CO, and landed at Tinker. Travis and Tinker are both E6 homes.


27 posted on 11/16/2016 8:48:29 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: bryan999

Looking for a new quarterback...


28 posted on 11/16/2016 8:55:36 PM PST by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
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Racetrack pattern and four engine jet says tanker on a refueling gig.

Watched one orbit over Ventura county years ago, and now and then you could pick out the faint contrails of fighters joining up.

29 posted on 11/16/2016 9:14:35 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: ameribbean expat

Yep,Boeing E6 Mercury is precisely what that is. Looking Glass and USAF is not going to publicly tell anyone what that flight was. Strategic Recon and Nuclear Response communication.


30 posted on 11/16/2016 9:35:28 PM PST by Mat_Helm
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To: ameribbean expat

Bingo


31 posted on 11/16/2016 9:42:01 PM PST by Osage Orange (Cover up after cover up...OUR GOVERNMENT is OUT OF CONTROL)
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"FlightRadar24 is an app and website which tracks the flight path of every plane currently in the air. On March 12, 2015, someone using it noticed an interesting path being carved into the skies over Lakeland, Florida."

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-people-who-put-massive-effort-into-drawing-dicks/

32 posted on 11/17/2016 2:53:31 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jiggyboy

Well, that was the first and last time I go to Cracked.com!


33 posted on 11/17/2016 7:13:58 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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“Visually, the plane circled in a racetrack-style oval shape over the City of Denver at roughly 32,000 feet several times.”

Sounds like enroute holding.


34 posted on 11/17/2016 9:29:05 AM PST by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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