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18 Dec 2017, 4:11 am

So a few days ago, I saw a bunch of planes flying in a direction that went over my aparment, and probably the whole city. It was quite late perhaps early hours of the morning, can't recall what time it was, but a line of planes flew over...they were all going kind of slow but had the flashing lights of airplanes so this isn't some UFO thing, just a bunch of regular planes flying over....but there were at least 20 that flew in a straight line, one after another over where I live, it may have been more. So does anyone know why that many planes would be traveling in a straight line together like that? tried looking up on the internet if anyone else local had seen this but didn't find anything, either way it did seem weird...I have never seen that before.


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18 Dec 2017, 4:57 am

Sounds like a military convoy. I've seen a lines of cargo planes arriving at Nellis afb. Really impressive to watch them peel off and land one at a time.



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18 Dec 2017, 5:25 am

Sweetleaf wrote:
So a few days ago, I saw a bunch of planes flying in a direction that went over my aparment, and probably the whole city. It was quite late perhaps early hours of the morning, can't recall what time it was, but a line of planes flew over...they were all going kind of slow but had the flashing lights of airplanes so this isn't some UFO thing, just a bunch of regular planes flying over....but there were at least 20 that flew in a straight line, one after another over where I live, it may have been more. So does anyone know why that many planes would be traveling in a straight line together like that? tried looking up on the internet if anyone else local had seen this but didn't find anything, either way it did seem weird...I have never seen that before.



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According to a military spokesperson, the lights actually belonged to a convoy of C-17 aircraft that were involved in an exercise. CBS Denver was told the planes were headed from South Carolina to Nevada and back.

Aviation expert Steve Cowell says the planes were flying in a formation that is commonly seen in military exercises.

"That was the echelon formation. In other words, they were all lined up in a row," Cowell said. "It is not uncommon to have these types of planes in formation, especially at night. Often times, you will see them doing this, especially when they are doing training flights, or standard cross country procedure."


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18 Dec 2017, 5:27 am

EzraS wrote:
Sounds like a military convoy. I've seen a lines of cargo planes arriving at Nellis afb. Really impressive to watch them peel off and land one at a time.

Yeah my boyfriend though it might be something like that, I just had never seen anything like that before.


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18 Dec 2017, 5:33 am

Soliloquist wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
So a few days ago, I saw a bunch of planes flying in a direction that went over my aparment, and probably the whole city. It was quite late perhaps early hours of the morning, can't recall what time it was, but a line of planes flew over...they were all going kind of slow but had the flashing lights of airplanes so this isn't some UFO thing, just a bunch of regular planes flying over....but there were at least 20 that flew in a straight line, one after another over where I live, it may have been more. So does anyone know why that many planes would be traveling in a straight line together like that? tried looking up on the internet if anyone else local had seen this but didn't find anything, either way it did seem weird...I have never seen that before.



Google has this to say:

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According to a military spokesperson, the lights actually belonged to a convoy of C-17 aircraft that were involved in an exercise. CBS Denver was told the planes were headed from South Carolina to Nevada and back.

Aviation expert Steve Cowell says the planes were flying in a formation that is commonly seen in military exercises.

"That was the echelon formation. In other words, they were all lined up in a row," Cowell said. "It is not uncommon to have these types of planes in formation, especially at night. Often times, you will see them doing this, especially when they are doing training flights, or standard cross country procedure."


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C-17's are what I saw arriving that one day out riding in the desert near Nellis with my dad on his motorcycle.



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18 Dec 2017, 5:40 am

The military uses the airport in our city & I've seen & heard lots of jets at a time before thou I never noticed as nearly as many at a time as you did.


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18 Dec 2017, 5:45 am

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The military uses the airport in our city & I've seen & heard lots of jets at a time before thou I never noticed as nearly as many at a time as you did.


Well I have heard that colorado has a pretty big military base that is super secure within the rocky mountains within colorado, like a base built into one of the mountains or something.


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18 Dec 2017, 6:00 am

Here's the thing though. Those cargo planes heading to Nevada were probably carring ufo's :P



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18 Dec 2017, 6:13 am

Sweetleaf wrote:
nick007 wrote:
The military uses the airport in our city & I've seen & heard lots of jets at a time before thou I never noticed as nearly as many at a time as you did.


Well I have heard that colorado has a pretty big military base that is super secure within the rocky mountains within colorado, like a base built into one of the mountains or something.


That's NORAD aka Crystal Palace. Where WWIII will be controlled.



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18 Dec 2017, 10:03 am

C-130's fly over here all the time.Sometimes they are really low.Usually in groups of three.


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24 Dec 2017, 7:22 pm

living around several military bases, I have seen more than my share of oofohs around here.