What type of plane did I see?

RedPenguin · #1 (**permalink**) 02-25-2009, 03:20 AM

Alright, I live in Johnstown, Cambria County, PA as my profile states.

I was up at my local community college and was outside around 8:30PM. In the area is an airport fairly close.

Yet, of all the times I have been there, I have never seen what I am about to say.

I seen some sort of airplane in the sky and it musta have been fairly close, because you could really hear the engine.

Yet, no matter how hard I tried to look up, I could not see any body of the aircraft, to see if it was a commercial jet or something.

I just remember seeing constantly blinking red lights but some were blue in spots.

It looked like the plane was square or something, from what I was gathering from the lights.

I have some military around so I was thinking maybe that's it.

What type of plane fits my description that would not be flying that high, I mean I could seriously hear the engines like it wasn't more than a 1000 feet up, plus it just seemed to hoover around in the area of the school, it didn't seem in a big hurry. Never heard of a plane doing that before, unless it was a State Police copter with it's lights on.

EDIT: In case anyone is wondering, I'm not trying to say this is a UFO or whatever, it's just I have never seen a plane behave in this manor, just kinda float in the air for no apparent reason and go fairly slow when it did finally move.

rescue161 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-25-2009, 06:02 AM

"Loud" and "just kinda float" makes me think it was a Harrier.

They are very loud and can hover like a helicopter, but are all jet.

RedPenguin · #3 (**permalink**) 02-25-2009, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by rescue161

"Loud" and "just kinda float" makes me think it was a Harrier.

They are very loud and can hover like a helicopter, but are all jet.

That could really be it, because as shown in this YouTube video:

YouTube - Another night Runway 5 Harrier approach...

I see somewhat of those "red lights" blinking and you can hardly see the body of the plane like I couldn't when I saw the one I saw.

poltergeisty · #4 (**permalink**) 02-25-2009, 06:28 PM

Did you hear any propeller sound?
YouTube - Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey

Kool, kool, kooll! YouTube - Flight of the V-22 Osprey - (Part 1)

kb2vxa · #5 (**permalink**) 02-26-2009, 02:54 AM

The anti collision strobes are red, nav lights steady red and green, never heard of blue on an aircraft.

joe_disco_electronics · #6 (**permalink**) 02-26-2009, 10:31 AM

Aliens!!!!!

RedPenguin · #7 (**permalink**) 02-27-2009, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poltergeisty

Did you hear any propeller sound?
YouTube - Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey

Kool, kool, kooll! YouTube - Flight of the V-22 Osprey - (Part 1)

That actually may be it, that would explain a lot of the noise and with the wings it does have a kinda square look if you are looking at it from above.

I wouldn't be surprised with it being some sort of special plane because in my area we have airplane building companies here that do a lot of US Defense work.