Alright I just thought I'd post about this because I've seen crazier on this site.

Anyway, in a car ride to Milwaukee, I was watching this "Plane" going to land at this airport, which is to the right of the highway. It was cloudy, and raining, etc. So I'm just watching it as we drive closer to the city.

The plane, which then is about to touch down on the runway, goes down. Then just takes off again. I'm thinking, "wait.. what?". So then I'm still watching this plane which is getting faster and has already turned itself around so now its heading towards me.

Then it turns right more so its basically just going to fly over the highway, but the timing was pretty great, because it went over the highway at the same time we were basically right in front of it. So I'm watching this thing which now I think is a helicopter of some sort.

It goes over the highway, as we pass by it, on the left side, I can see that its clearly round, and it has just stopped moving. It was basically the retro UFO shape in all. Except more round, with the same flashing lights of a plane.

After we passed by it, it just sort of "went away". It disappeared. I don't think we have disappearing helicopter planes yet.

Could just be a B2a doing touch & go's or calibrating the airfields ILS/VOR/DME, systems it happens from time to time.

Originally posted by ROBL240
Could just be a B2a doing touch & go's or calibrating the airfields ILS/VOR/DME, systems it happens from time to time.

I'd agree with that if it wasn't shaped like a orb.

The "orb" effect would have been visual misidentification as the B2a was descending through moisture and it got wrapped around the leading edges, thus giving the impression of it morphing in and out of stages when all in fact it was doing was enhancing moisture content.
Happens at any airport where clouds are, always fun to stand at the threshold and watch the Vorticies off the winglets when the moisture content is low (in times when the content is high such as your sighting the cloud envelops itself around the wing and aircraft entirely.)

There's loads more cases in the UK people the MOD are having to say which incidents are being reported. It's all down to the Freedom Of Information act, although if they tell you to get lost it takes about six months to hold them to account. That's how we've found out about lots of incidents in the North of England recently

Now that I hear someone else mention it, i've seen some rather odd things about "planes" that seemed un-plane like.

I noticed this only at night. (Not usually outside in the daytime.) It isn't so much the shape as the lights. I've seen red, green, blue, white, even orange ones that seem to blink in really odd intervals. Then when it flies overhead all I can see are the white ones and they appear in the right spots.

It may be nothing unusual to someone more plane saavy then I, but it made me think.

Originally posted by ROBL240
The "orb" effect would have been visual misidentification as the B2a was descending through moisture and it got wrapped around the leading edges, thus giving the impression of it morphing in and out of stages when all in fact it was doing was enhancing moisture content.
Happens at any airport where clouds are, always fun to stand at the threshold and watch the Vorticies off the winglets when the moisture content is low (in times when the content is high such as your sighting the cloud envelops itself around the wing and aircraft entirely.)

I'd agree if it wasn't less than a hundred feet away from me, and being able to see it so clearly. Seriously I know it sounds stupid. But its exactly what I saw.

Hi all, interesting topic.

I had a similar experience about 8 months ago. My girlfriend and I were driving over a mountain road, roughly 10pm. My girlfriend noticed a helicopter and joked about who the police were searching for. After a few mins we noticed that it had changed the lights from red and white to white and blue. At this point we opened our windows for a better view, this is when I noticed that the sound I would expect from a helicopter was replaced with a damper lower pitched drone. Up until this point I hadn't thought anything of it, then it got closer and I saw that it was almost tpgamgtjapd, just like the craft go flight of the navigator. There are no airports near me however seeing helicopters is a regular occurrence.

What do you reckon guys?