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Topic started on 24-10-2009 @ 05:58 PM by notreallyalive
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Not sure this is big news to anyone but since the base is officially closed for military use, I found it a little strange these planes landed
there.
The C-130 type had props, not sure if they're C-130s, C-131s, etc but the basic type with the sub-chaser stuff on the back.
Moffett Field is in Mountain View, CA, south of San Francisco. I pass it everyday and usually it is just home for a local advertising/tourist blimp.
NASA Ames is also there but no official military any longer from what I hear.
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reply posted on 24-10-2009 @ 06:05 PM by jimmyx
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yup, i live in stockton, cal. and i've been by there many many times...that is odd...maybe with lockheed-martin right down the block, it has to do
with them.
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reply posted on 24-10-2009 @ 06:11 PM by spec_ops_wannabe
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Moffett Federal Airfield (IATA: NUQ, ICAO: KNUQ), also known as Moffett Field, is a joint civil-military airport located 3 miles (5 km) north of
downtown Mountain View, in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The airport is near the south end of San Francisco Bay, north of San Jose. Formerly a United
States Navy facility, the former naval air station is now owned and operated by the NASA Ames Research Center. Tenant military activities include the
129th Rescue Wing of the California Air National Guard, operating the HC-130 Hercules, MC-130 Combat Shadow and HH-60 Pave Hawk aircraft, as well as
the adjacent Onizuka Air Force Station and Headquarters for the 7th Psychological Operations Group of the U.S. Army Reserve. NASA also operates
several aircraft from Moffett.[1][2]
en.wikipedia.org...
Does this help?
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reply posted on 24-10-2009 @ 06:20 PM by slyce
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Thanks for the heads up.
The iAware program tells us to be vigilant and report suspicious activity.
I think you have done your duty as an aware citizen.
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reply posted on 24-10-2009 @ 07:29 PM by Iamonlyhuman
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reply posted on 24-10-2009 @ 08:34 PM by notreallyalive
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reply to post by Iamonlyhuman
Thanks! It could definitely be related. I hadn't heard about that and would likely have run into it! Thanks for the heads-up.
[edit on 24-10-2009 by notreallyalive]
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reply posted on 24-10-2009 @ 08:50 PM by FredT
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nah nothing so dramatic.
The 129th Air Rescue Squadron is co-located there. That would easily explain the C-130's which fly practice missions all the time.
The C-5 is most likely there for Lockheed Space Systems and is moving an Trident ICBM or something. I posted a thread a few years ago about an AN-124
there that was contracted to do the same thing.
edit to add:
The C-130 type had props, not sure if they're C-130s, C-131s, etc but the basic type with the sub-chaser stuff on the back.
The sub chaers you refer to are the P-3 Orions and the tail boom contained its MAD gear. But they have not been based at Moffet since it went Federal
[edit on 10/24/09 by FredT]
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reply posted on 24-10-2009 @ 09:57 PM by charlyv
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reply to post by notreallyalive
I question the validity of the entire OP. I am an ex-P3 Orion aviator, and if you cannot tell the difference between that and a bulky cargo carrier
like a C-130, then do you really know what a C5 looks like?
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reply posted on 24-10-2009 @ 10:02 PM by OzWeatherman
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Well considering the airbase in question actually home to several NASA aircraft and C-130's are present...then I think I will be believing the more
logical answer 
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reply posted on 25-10-2009 @ 12:16 PM by MrMtdew
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Originally posted by charlyv
reply to post by notreallyalive
I question the validity of the entire OP. I am an ex-P3 Orion aviator, and if you cannot tell the difference between that and a bulky cargo carrier
like a C-130, then do you really know what a C5 looks like?
As A air traffic controller.. yes the OP needs to get a aircraft ID guide before he posts such things IF he cant tell between a P3 & C130
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reply posted on 27-10-2009 @ 10:58 AM by FoundClarity
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To the OP, I too saw a craft land there the same day! I couldn't post earlier (my work doesn't allow it). I was on 237 going east at about 3pm. I
was able to snap two pictures. I never usually see millitary craft there either. I know very little about craft names, types, etc. So it may be
nothing. Could somebody kindly explain how to post my pictures? I rarely post and have never done it before.. Thanks in advance.
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