Strange Flight — Prestwick flightradar/planefinder guys

Is there anybody who can pull up the flight for Prestwick Scotland around 12:50 - 01:05am this morning, Saturday 21st November

The flight was listed as unknown with no information at all

What stuck me as odd or wow’ed me was it’s almost sudden drop from around 20,000ft to literally sea level or below 1,000ft then accelerate from around 300kts — above 400kts to 16,000 feet within 15km it was pretty impressive to watch as I’ve never seen this type of hight and speed acceleration before

As the unknown aircraft dropped I thought to grab a video recording of screen just as it was accelerating and rapid altitude climb I’ll post a video shortly, some SS I grabbed prior to the video showed 1,000ft decent per second and min faster on the climb perhaps 2/3,000ft per second

So once I’d realised this is a pretty odd flight I checked into the previous flights log and found this unknown aircraft had flown the same similar or identical flight path out into the sea and back a few times, from Prestwick and also very similar or identical GJ light paths from two other locations

Those were Ault airbase in Washington state, and a danish AFB

Because the aircraft only appears and disappears at a similar location just of Denmark I can’t yet identify the actual afb in Denmark but I have a good idea which, these airports or AFB are used by the US Navy and I’m sure whatever this aircraft is it belongs to the US navy


Video here
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So again quickly just before the 3-2-1 screen video started up it was dropping from 20,000ft — 16,000ft I was thinking wow ? In that 3 seconds before and the 3 seconds before video it went below 1,000ft then the recording starts as it’s climbing again at 3,000ft — it went lower hence why I’m asking for somebody to grab the logs and playback

So the screen grab captures the climb from 3,000ft — 11,000ft after all that occurred

a reply to: TritonTaranis

Several drones are being sent to NATO.

Also, I'd think alt changes like that would be an issue with the tracking system. Even drones would have issues with some of that.

Once an aircraft gets into an area where there are fewer receivers to collect data, odd things happen. I watched a flight on one tracker turn around and go back towards San Antonio, while on another it continued straight ahead into New Mexico.

a reply to: 35Foxtrot

We have our own BAE Systems Taranis drones and the like.

Not sure as to its flight characteristics or if it could perform such maneuvers all the same.

But it's pretty much a combination of cutting edge technologies.

a reply to: andy06shake

If it was the same aircraft, and came out of or went to Ault Field, it's not Taranis though. It's also not making maneuvers like that. Something with that kind of range is designed for high altitude and slow flight, not radical maneuvers.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Maybe it was something like Boeing's Phantom Eye?

Video here of what I managed to capture

Ive watched a few military flights before but never seen this type of flight performance before ?

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Again the flights out of Ault Field & Denmark are identical

The flight landed before I could grab screens of that information

Anyway it was interesting to watch anyone know what aircraft this might be?

originally posted by: 35Foxtrot
a reply to: TritonTaranis

Several drones are being sent to NATO.

Also, I'd think alt changes like that would be an issue with the tracking system. Even drones would have issues with some of that.

The alt change is not glitching it’s very smooth you’ll see in the video I’ve provided

I just wish I’d recorded sooner hence why I’m trying to find the flight log/data because it was behaving in the normal parameters and I’m watching like ok... this is just some drone or F18 which it may well be

But then as I said I was like... woah that’s insane, I’ve watched many military fighters and never seen this type of crazy, it went from 20/16k ft down to sea level then back up and stabilised at 11k ft in like 1 minute or two that’s
Some G and force on the potential pilot and at night? I know pilots never dive at the ocean because of judgement of the surface but doing it at night is especially crazy unless drone?

I mean it all just stuck me as an odd flight now I’m kinda like... ok WTF was that aircraft

Here’s some more SS

So the first image is when I noticed the aircraft was dropping fast
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second
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Mental note of the Denmark flight pattern before it disappeared, so not sure what AFB this come from?
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Ault Field AFB flight pattern
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a reply to: TritonTaranis

Glitches on plane trackers don't always jump around. Some of them are very smooth and look perfectly normal. This one is coming from an area where the signal is spotty, hence the dashed line, to an area it isn't. That's usually when glitches occur.

a reply to: andy06shake

Phantom Eye, or Triton, something along those lines.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Probably Triton that's what I caught off the South Coast doing the exact same thing if you remember.

a reply to: Woody510

That's right. I forgot about that.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: TritonTaranis

Glitches on plane trackers don't always jump around. Some of them are very smooth and look perfectly normal. This one is coming from an area where the signal is spotty, hence the dashed line, to an area it isn't. That's usually when glitches occur.

Given the decent and climb which aircraft do you feel this could be? Also given the further Possible testing locations provided ?

a reply to: Zaphod58


Still have the screenshot in fact

originally posted by: Woody510
a reply to: Zaphod58

Probably Triton that's what I caught off the South Coast doing the exact same thing if you remember.

Link?

a reply to: TritonTaranis
Just posted the screenshot above as you replied mate

originally posted by: Woody510
a reply to: Zaphod58

Still have the screenshot in fact

Wow very interesting

I do remember posting on here an unknown aircraft I caught maybe 10/15 years ago flying at 140,000ft from germany to the U.K. can’t seem to find it anywhere on here now though

a reply to: TritonTaranis

It looks interesting on paper but in reality like Zaph said they're just flying out of range of the receivers so it glitches them.

originally posted by: 35Foxtrot
a reply to: TritonTaranis

Several drones are being sent to NATO.

Also, I'd think alt changes like that would be an issue with the tracking system. Even drones would have issues with some of that.

On that note

Military training activity across the EU is “UBER HIGH” what’s coming down the pipe? Never seen it so manic