mabye it was a b-3 bomber...the pilots like to fly close to the ground and scare the hell out of people...it happened to me and my dad on the utah az border while we were coming through a small canyon type area near the bridge...everything was calm. then woosh it flow by about 3 hundred feet in front of us and it was flying about 50 feet off the intersecting road ...and as soon as it flew by the sound was gone...coolest thing i've ever seen

Do you live near the airport? When planes land, they kick on the reverse thrusters to slow down, and those things are LOUD!

I used to live about 2 miles from the airport here in Ottawa, and when planes landed, you could hear the reverse thrust for about 5-10 seconds, and then it was silent.

Sounds like what you are describing.

We live in the U.S. west of the BlueWater Bridge.
We havent had what you experienced but we did have an
A-10 Thunderbolt (TankBuster) fly over at about 10:30 A.M. on 7/11/09.
(a first for us in this area)
Then, last night, we had some type of "chopper" fly over with only 2 red lights flashing in a strobe like sequence. the soundof it was so quiet it was hard to tell what it was 'til it was on top of us.
I have never seen a chopper fly at night without some kind of other
lighting. Out here they usually got a ground search beam on, or at least several other small lights that help us to identify them.


Oh, I forgot to mention that the A-10 came from Canada traveling East to west. It was quite a sight, never seeing one in flight before.

[edit on 11-11-2009 by azureskys]

Originally posted by aethernaut
I have not seen any jets flying without their lights on at night. However I have seen a small plane flying at night , with no lights on. When it passed under the light from the moon I could see it clearly and the plane was completely silent , no noise at all. I reasoned that it must have been 'drug-runners'.

It may very well have been a drug runner.

Fwiw - a light plane that's throttled back and on the glide path or simply descending is very quiet.