wierd plane over florida

Well i was outside of my house getting mail and i looked up cause i heard a plane and i saw a black plane with somthing thats kind of hard to describe on the back of it. Then what spooked me cause i thought it was dropping bombs or somthing, the wings lit up red and orange like it was on fire and then the glowing stopped and went out of sight.

And i was wondering if anyone has an idea of what this is because iam not to good with names of the planes so an information is helpfull.

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Welcome to ATS

Does this look like it? If so it could just be the TR-3B


Also what time was the sighting? Have a camera ready tomorrow and the next few days also make sure you capture some background in the video so we can judge distance and size thanks

And again welcome.

Florida is pretty big, which part of Florida did you see this plane?

Personally didn't notice anything unusual about tonight's night sky, nor did I see any strange planes.

no it was defintally not like that, it had a big thing on its back that looked sorta like a weather doppler it was around 6:30

Originally posted by worldwatcher
Florida is pretty big, which part of Florida did you see this plane?

Personally didn't notice anything unusual about tonight's night sky, nor did I see any strange planes.

well actualy it was a few days ago sorry if i caused confusion. And it was up in north east Florida

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Might have been a combat AWACS painted in dark colors. They have a large dome on top and it looks like a Saucer riding on top of an airliner!

Zindo

Without a better visual description its hard to say, can you draw a picture? However crude it might be images work better at describing inanimate objects than words, especially if the observes is not familiar with such things.

Originally posted by ZindoDoone
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Might have been a combat AWACS painted in dark colors. They have a large dome on top and it looks like a Saucer riding on top of an airliner!

Zindo

i think that mighht just be it but it was painted very darkly and the wings lit up in red and orange

Originally posted by SLAYER69
Welcome to ATS

Does this look like it? If so it could just be the TR-3B

Also what time was the sighting? Have a camera ready tomorrow and the next few days also make sure you capture some background in the video so we can judge distance and size thanks

And again welcome.

Slayer has anyone debunked that video? I hate to say it, but it looks fake to me just because it is so good looking. I know that sounds stupid to say... but after seeing that Star Wars video where he has Star Wars ships in San Fran I am starting to doubt everything. I miss the good old days when it was a lot tougher to fake things...

Originally posted by WestPoint23
Without a better visual description its hard to say, can you draw a picture? However crude it might be images work better at describing inanimate objects than words, especially if the observes is not familiar with such things.

well imagine a black AWACS with the wings kinda pointed up more and the wings lit up red and orange circles

Try this and see if it looks familiar:

www.boeing.com...

Zindo

Originally posted by ZindoDoone
Try this and see if it looks familiar:

www.boeing.com...

Zindo

its hard to tell exactly because i saw it from the bottom, but yea thats pretty much it but it was pretty much pure black and what i said about the wings

Any of these help?
Awacs
KC-135
E-6b
E4
C-5 Galaxy
Dreamlifter
NASA 747
A380
Airbus Beluga
Antilov

Not sure if they still fly these:
NASA's Superguppy
Snoopy

Originally posted by legacyv

Originally posted by WestPoint23
Without a better visual description its hard to say, can you draw a picture? However crude it might be images work better at describing inanimate objects than words, especially if the observes is not familiar with such things.

well imagine a black AWACS with the wings kinda pointed up more and the wings lit up red and orange circles

Might be off track here but it wasn't a V-22 Osprey was it?

www.boeing.com...

Originally posted by SLAYER69
Welcome to ATS

Does this look like it? If so it could just be the TR-3B

Also what time was the sighting? Have a camera ready tomorrow and the next few days also make sure you capture some background in the video so we can judge distance and size thanks

And again welcome.

That looks like a well known debunked footage of a tr-3b.

Originally posted by Chadwickus

Originally posted by legacyv

Originally posted by WestPoint23
Without a better visual description its hard to say, can you draw a picture? However crude it might be images work better at describing inanimate objects than words, especially if the observes is not familiar with such things.

well imagine a black AWACS with the wings kinda pointed up more and the wings lit up red and orange circles

Might be off track here but it wasn't a V-22 Osprey was it?

www.boeing.com...

no it was definitely not one of those, but i have seen those fly around a few times

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Did the lights look something like this?






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Yup, that would do it. Hard to miss a C5A dumping chaff at night!!

Zindo

Originally posted by WestPoint23
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Did the lights look something like this?

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yea that would do it but the things didnt fall off they were just like bright lights

Well there are several parachute flares deployed by aircraft, however these too would fall somewhat and would be quickly left behind by the aircraft they were deployed from.

Not that an AWACS deploying such makes sense.

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