What's flying in Alaska?

a reply to: Barnalby

It's not even close to that loud.

a reply to: bryan2006

Probably either a hush kit, a result of the above & behind the wing mount, or it's a vehicle with the wings integrated into the wing body with IR-suppressing exhaust ducts.

originally posted by: bryan2006
a reply to: Barnalby

It's not even close to that loud.

You don't get it do you, Bryan? You DID NOT SEE something so exotic that it can be discussed at length anywhere.
Hell, they don't even have anything close to what has been offered as an explanation for your sighting. Oh, yeah, throw a set of mufflers on a jet, that explains your sighting, and, well, it wasn't really a triangle was it but something with typical wings that made you think that it was.

a reply to: Aliensun

I'm kind of confused on that? It's a regular plane not any spaceship or something like that. It just had a triangular shape like a b2 but with a tail. It flys with regular running lights, just only at night when it's dark. Pretty soon it doesn't get dark here. The days are getting longer all the time and it has pushed the times that I see this plane later and later. The plane that Barnalby posted is very very close. The main thing that makes this plane different is how quiet it is. I live on a very active military flight path, so I see alot. This is just different.

a reply to: Barnalby

Maybe,

As an aside I did see Starship many times Addison Airport, North Dallas. Had apartment right under west approach - sound I heard last year had the pronounced low heavy hum but not the throb like a Starship. Having Cavanaugh Flight Museum next door was a pleasure as most A/C flyable.

Ooush Hummmmm, might better describe but enough to permiate ground objects as A/C was very low, maybe 500' at most.

a reply to: bryan2006

Bryan, you are being played by those that maybe have jobs to keep secrets secret or perhaps are so tied to conventional designs of jets and wings that they cannot even dream that things move in the sky without either of those rudimentary means. You may not want to think about mysterious objects in the sky being anything but maybe just the next design for our airliners or military equipment. But if you were to read my article that I mentioned back in my first post, you will come across a sighting and about twenty others and I had of a huge, low, slow and silent triangle that flew over Laramie on one summer of 1998. Plus, I give data I took first hand in 1985 from an ex-paratrooper of a sighting of two huge, slow and low massive objects moving nose to tail over them one rainy night in southern Oklahoma.

Whatever these things are, alien craft, our re-engineering of alien craft or of our own doing, these thing exist. Even it what you saw was some new prototype for whatever reason coming and going on a seemingly schedule, wouldn't that not be strange in itself, a fairly large, and quiet triangular craft, not even in production on a regular milk run?

a reply to: Aliensun

We will see. I'm socked in with clouds and snow right now, hopefully it clears up this weekend when I can stay up late and try to get some video or pics. This is something that probably is flying every night and it could have been for a while this winter. I just didn't notice it because they are sneaky and fly it on the same flight plan as the cargo planes. The only reason I noticed is because I was outside with my dog and I teach her to watch airplanes. I saw it coming and focused on it, but it was odd and was super quiet then when it went over I saw the outline wasn't a c17, but it was just as large.

Subscribing.

I think I may have a lead, as last year at work, I was the designer of a door system used on a new alert hangar for a C-17 size aircraft, up at JBER. Will get more details later today.

I think you stumbled upon a black project aircraft.

Normally we have regular commenters in the forum.

That they are not commenting should tell you something.

a reply to: grey580

And sometimes those that know things just don't comment, because other things are going on.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Fair enough.

More exciting things I hope.

ATS is everytime exciting

a reply to: Zaphod58

What, you mean we're supposed to have real lives away from this place or something?

a reply to: Barnalby

Some days I don't think we are.

a reply to: Zaphod58

If there's anything to this thread though, it does make all of those recent KC-Z comments seem a LOT more interesting. It's almost like that general was going off of real-world data when he disclosed those capabilities.

How do you guys get so much detail from planes flying overhead.

I live in between Norfolk intl airport , Newport News airport, Langley air force base, and Oceania NAS.
These planes free fly high and don't get close enough to see detail until they are landing .
Langley jets get up very very high very very quickly. You can't even see them, just a tiny dot and the exhaust. But you can sure hear them. I only spot them when they are coming in for a landing because the base is only a few miles from me. And when I hear the jets roar I still look for them even after living under them for twenty five years.

a reply to: Sillyolme

I use my DSLR. I can get a surprising level of detail, even with my 300mm lens. With the two I'm planning on getting, I'll practically be able to see the pilots on a plane at cruising altitude.

a reply to: Sillyolme

People who have worked flight lines as mechanics or have been pilots etc have so much experience they can distinguish engine sounds, and recognize planforms pretty quickly.

One of the guys I went to OCS with ended up flying F18s (he got selected for the JSF) and other friends who fly for commercial airliners all have an uncanny ability to recognize planes from a distance.

Heck - military pilots need to be able to identify aircraft from a distance (granted with radar and the skynet mega hacking killer computers in things like the F35) they have a lot of help these days...

You DID NOT SEE something so exotic that it can be discussed at length anywhere.

Unless its spotted by a truck driver with a long lensed camera hey Zaph

a reply to: SonOfThor

I have an obnoxious habit of identifying types, and on commercial aircraft the airline, at a distance most people can barely see them at. A buddy of mine bet me about it once because he thought I was either guessing or BSing.

I gladly took his money.