A MC-130 Dragon Spear from Cannon AFB has been "secretly" orbiting over Amarillo tonight.
I couldn't help but notice my apartment complex seemed to be in the center of his orbit - either that or I'm just paranoid.
He was running dark most of the time- but I could hear his engines and were monitoring his communications with Albuquerque Center.
Interesting enough while Ken and I were talking about the aircraft - on cell phones Ken threw in a few keywords " and said , "I wish Obama would bomb Allah at Admiral Ackbar's palace."- as a joke.
We were amazed to see the MC-130s orbit change to include Ken's place who is about seven miles away as the crow flies. I can't help but wonder what the monitoring suite on the aircraft can do.
I cobbled my digital Cannon to my Russian night vision scope and turned the tables on our high flying spy friend and captured a fairly decent snap of a military aircraft flying at night.
Say hello to the rest of the spokes back at Cannon for us!
Since you're in TX you could make use of NAVSPASUR to monitor things flying overhead.
ReplyDeleteIt might help you catch some more pictures like this!!
See http://www.rcallen.com/doppler.htm - the screen captures clearly show airplanes flying overhead and other things (like comets etc).
You just need a radio that can do UHF SSB, and hook it up to a pc (radio output to soundcard in), and fire up some spectrum analysis software.