Crofton - anyone hear what sounds like large bombers ?

[Jim12]

A B2 flew over a Redskins game in 2001 or 2002. Was really cool. I saw it well before I heard it. Was like a UFO cruising over the stadium. Did not actually hear it until it was past us. And even then was just a quit hum.

What do UFO's sound like?

 

[bigdv]

What do UFO's sound like?

B2 bombers

 

[K31]

Nope, didn't hear any thing unusual but nice to see another member in Crofton.

THAT'S RIGHT, you didn't see ANYTHING!

 

[fightinbluhen51]

We have a general path of flight?

I keep track of things like this, hoping we might gleam a bit more about Aurora.

 

[BeoBill]

A B2 flew over a Redskins game in 2001 or 2002. Was really cool. I saw it well before I heard it. Was like a UFO cruising over the stadium. Did not actually hear it until it was past us. And even then was just a quit hum.

You like B-52 noise? We used to live right across from the runway at Ellsworth AFB. Try sleeping through a MITO Alert scramble. Windows and doors rattle and things fall off shelves. A window shattered once. Then the kids start crying. great fun...

 

[platoonDaddy]

We have a general path of flight?

I keep track of things like this, hoping we might gleam a bit more about Aurora.

It was so cloudy, unable to see any contrails or determine if multiple. Certainly was the conversation in the neighborhood.

Maybe other members from the area will chine in on path of flight.

Today was all quiet.

 

[fightinbluhen51]

It was so cloudy, unable to see any contrails or determine if multiple. Certainly was the conversation in the neighborhood.

Maybe other members from the area will chine in on path of flight.

Today was all quiet.

It sound like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvn...d=5kG9U69QOdY&annotation_id=annotation_304707

Or the one here?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-rumbling-noise-reported-UK-exactly-time.html




And just found this...

https://www.google.com/fusiontables...759.7078660249999&z=3&t=1&l=col27&y=2&tmplt=2

 

[platoonDaddy]

It sound like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvn...d=5kG9U69QOdY&annotation_id=annotation_304707

Very similar to the one above, will forward onto neighbors and get their opinion.

 

[pitpawten]

Since we're talking about seeing and not hearing big planes, thought I'd share a couple of experiences.

Live on the Eastern Shore in (what a pilot buddy of mine has told me) some very lightly restricted airspace. It also happens to be on a common flight path of the big boys out of Dover AFB.

When we were kids the C5-B's would come SUPER low and slow and make a sharp bank right over our house (I know they were using our house or intersection as their turn mark). After a few stiff calls from my dad they stopped...until recently.

Now its C-17's, and its at night. Recently I was in bed and saw both wing-tip lights and rough profile of a C-17 on its side.....not too much higher than the 2nd story window I happened to be looking out of. It was hustling and made exactly 0db of sound as it rolled by. Had it not been moonlight and I looking right there I would have missed it.

More recently I was outside at night with my son at night when I heard a faint rumble and turned to see the profile of COMPLETELY BLACKED OUT C-17 in HEAVY bank at high speed maybe 1K max altitude. Yeah I know how low 1K is for a C-17, it was that low. There was not a single light on it whatsoever other than a faint glow on the side (I thought maybe in the shape of a circle?).

The crazy thing was that while I was maybe 1/4 mile away from it distance wise, the only sound was a faint rumble. And it wasnt like doppler where it got loud once it passed, once it was gone it was gone and silent again.

Somewhat disconcerting to have something that big, fast and close sneak up on you and then be gone, kind of like a big shark sneaking up quietly underneath you and then noticing it.

Only thing I could find was this:

http://www.amc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123353833

SPRO consisted of day and night training.

The primary difference between day and night training is visibility. During night operations, night vision goggles are used. Clear, concise communication is important at night due to the limitation of vision.

"The night time training is probably more realistic," said Capt. Zach Walrond, 3rd AS chief of tactics. "You are going into a field that is totally blacked out but they are using covert lighting so they can only see the panels with their goggles on."

 

[Blaster229]

Sounds like SOLL II ( Special Ops Low Level) flying with some tricked out C-17's.

 

[BeoBill]

One for the pilots in the group: Aren't they required to show marker lights when flying in FAA controlled airspace?

 

[engineerbrian]

If I was back in NAM and heard that rumbling, I would have said there is an ARC-LIGHT mission somewhere.

Had to google that one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Arc_Light

 

[Dave Taylor]

How soon history seems to be forgotten.

Is this country doomed to repeat it?

 

[Arcamm]

You like B-52 noise? We used to live right across from the runway at Ellsworth AFB. Try sleeping through a MITO Alert scramble. Windows and doors rattle and things fall off shelves. A window shattered once. Then the kids start crying. great fun...

When I was in the oil patch, I had to spend time in Fort Worth training. We got a per diem so I cheaped out and found a motel that half the cost of anything else around. My first morning there, I found out why. It was at the end of a little air strip. It think it was called Carswell Field.

About way-to-early thirty in the morning, they would roll out about a half dozen B-52 bombers. Right over the motel. Close enough that if they didn't get their landing gear up fast enough, they'd knock shingles of the motel roof! One of the coolest things I've ever seen. Alarm clock or coffee not needed!

 

[Justemily]

It was for the Ravens game; yesterday was their Veterans Day celebration. 70th anniversary of the end of WWII so they had some vintage plans do a fly over.

 

[wilcam47]

You like B-52 noise? We used to live right across from the runway at Ellsworth AFB. Try sleeping through a MITO Alert scramble. Windows and doors rattle and things fall off shelves. A window shattered once. Then the kids start crying. great fun...

there haven't been B52's at Ellsworth for a long time, But I understand what you are saying...

 

[BurtonRW]

Nope, didn't hear any thing unusual but nice to see another member in Crofton.

Wasn't home, so I didn't hear them, but I thought I'd chime in and let you know there are at least three of us.

-Rob

 

[usa259]

Im in Crofton as well and didn't notice...

 

[fightinbluhen51]

I just heard one big boom in norther Harford county.

 

[INMY01TA]

What time?