Everytime
Beach Fanatic
It's been awhile since I've posted (I skipped the NCAA Football Pick 'Em this past year), but I wanted to bring up an old mystery; last post I found in "Search" was from 2010.
On July 4, we were watching fireworks on the beach near Eastern Lake. For most of the night, we'd see an orangish light that appeared to be an aircraft with a balloon type fuselage heading west from PCB area, turning south over the Gulf near Eastern Lake, then appearing to fade out; we also saw them, but fewer, flying from the west, turning south, and fading out over the Gulf.
We saw one solo several years ago, low-flying and with better clarity, over Front Beach Road in Sunnyside, flying east. Then, shortly after BP's poop-in-the-Gulf incident, we were eating out on our neighbors' deck on the beach near Eastern Lake and saw several of them flying over from the west. We went to the Oil Spill Cleanup station across Eastern Lake (Lakewood subdivision beach access) and the workers told us they were a manned observation aircraft from Eglin AFB and were being used to track the oil spill effects.
Has anyone ever gotten a better explanation of what these aircraft are? For any "black helicopter conspiracy theorists" out there, they aren't black but don't seem to make any noise; just an odd sight to see in the night sky!
On July 4, we were watching fireworks on the beach near Eastern Lake. For most of the night, we'd see an orangish light that appeared to be an aircraft with a balloon type fuselage heading west from PCB area, turning south over the Gulf near Eastern Lake, then appearing to fade out; we also saw them, but fewer, flying from the west, turning south, and fading out over the Gulf.
We saw one solo several years ago, low-flying and with better clarity, over Front Beach Road in Sunnyside, flying east. Then, shortly after BP's poop-in-the-Gulf incident, we were eating out on our neighbors' deck on the beach near Eastern Lake and saw several of them flying over from the west. We went to the Oil Spill Cleanup station across Eastern Lake (Lakewood subdivision beach access) and the workers told us they were a manned observation aircraft from Eglin AFB and were being used to track the oil spill effects.
Has anyone ever gotten a better explanation of what these aircraft are? For any "black helicopter conspiracy theorists" out there, they aren't black but don't seem to make any noise; just an odd sight to see in the night sky!
