Jet Fighter Planes and other silly Tek

I think it's safe to say that everybody here would probably be in agreement with you.

For me, I used to live Orange County CA back in the 90's, and the sounds of El Toro Marine Base were a familiar background noise.  You just got used to it.  There were always jets flying overhead, and ESPECIALLY during the air shows.  You'd be driving through the streets of Lake Forest/El Toro/Mission Viejo/Laguna Hills/Irvine and the jets would be flying in formation and doing tricks and maneuvers over the streets.   It was actually kind of cool.  It wasn't cool in Ft. Lauderdale though.  The city would turn into a madhouse during their annual Air and Sea Show.  Horribleness, all the way.  Traffic backed up on both Oakland Park and Commercial Blvd., everybody rushing to the coast, people parking their cars several miles from the beach and hiking with their families in the crazy Florida heat toting coolers and lawn chairs, shuttle busses everywhere.   You literally had to just stay inside during those few days and wait til it was over.  !   It was nervewracking watching these jets doing all their maneuvers right over all the condo buildings that lined the beach and over the crowds and beyond into the city itself.  Dangerous.  They finally decided to move it to Miami...then we left Florida anyway.  haha   Back in California though it was a different story...there had actually been crashes, and I witnessed one of the about-to-crash jets in 1992 while taking a walk in Mission Viejo.  I had the intuitive "tug" to look to the right, where I saw one of the F-16's probably flying really low in the distance, barely over the treetops from my vantage point miles away.  I thought, "pull up.....you need to pull up!  pull up!" because I could see that his angle was all wrong for how low he was flying.   When I got home it was all over the news that the jet had just crashed at the air show.

But I will say this.....living next to El Toro for years before it closed got me familiar with the two main types of fighter jets that typically flew in and out of the area.  The F-15 and 16.  It came in handy when I was up in Portland in 2001 and there was an "anomalous incident" that happened one night, where basically, fighter jets were scrambled at about 8 p.m. going after something near Portland International Airport.  I mean, it was scary......these jets were whipping around in super tight maneuvers over the neighborhoods of north Portland where we lived, actually looking like they were going after something.  It was right after 9/11 so everybody was freaking out, out on the fire escape and street looking up and watching this.  Well the next day in the paper there was this crazy story/explanation for what was going on.......TPTB claimed that these jets were A) F15's, and B) had been scrambled to go after a private plane that had supposedly gone off course and was reported as flying around near downtown.

For starters....they weren't F-15s.  I'm a girl, and even *I* could tell the body difference.  My brother was like, "Those weren't F-15's, those were HORNETS."   So, they lied about the jet type, even I had visual proof about that.  Secondly, it later emerged that the private plane in question was an antique wooden plane with cloth wings or something and which had left at like, 4 in the afternoon, taking off for Washington.  When these "F-15s" were scrambled at 8:00 pm. the pilot was already landed in Washington...and sitting at a table with friends eating dinner.   When he later found out that he was being blamed as some culprit for whatever was going on in Portland he was just mystified.   

So yeah, living near jets for years paid off down the line.    The whole official story was bullocks, as they'd say in "V" but who knows what was really going on.   I suspected they were chasing after a UFO, since we'd once witnessed two of them hovering over PDX.  Who knows though.

No to what exactly?  I'm agreeing with SC's observations about the loud and unnatural nature of the noise of jets.  You disagree and then go on to give some example about seeing the earth from the pov of being up in a plane, as well as my quote about how living near jets paid off down the line in a conspiracy, tongue-in-cheek sort of way because it enabled me to tell that we weren't looking at F-15s like the newspaper had reported.  So I guess I'm not quite getting your point/connection.  I assumed that very few people would actually think, "I disagree!  The loud ruckus of jets and man-made craziness is music to the ears!  ahhh, so relaxing and peaceful!"  But apparently you are, so, who knows.  To each his own.  !

(and not that it ultimately matters....the sun is still heating up and the comets are still coming.    haha)

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