Rumbling LOUD skies Clearwater area/jets?

Gee could not be McDill right?

Could be, but new sound to me and I've been here for decades. Only been hearing the past year, and this time was the loudest.

Either MacDill..or they flew something big and low to St.Pete/CLWR.airport

Yup, just wondering if anyone else heard it.

Went on for about 15 minutes or so, so was more than just one aircraft, if that's what it was.

wasnt the first time

No it wasn't, but was louder than usual this time. Also earlier in the day than usual.

It sounds like god said it is done?

Nope, no audible voice my dear.

I lived near airbases.

If it sounds like one jet but is LONG and LOUD, it is multiples taking off one after the other. Probably after burn takeoffs if the jet is fully loaded with ordinance.


I remember watching evenings when Oceana NAS would scramble jet after jet after jet. This was during the first Gulf War.

Our local NATO training base jets went up at 6:30 am and are flying like crazy. Pretty loud.

Earthquake?

Interesting, is that in Florida? How can you tell if it's a Nato training base?

Florida, no earthquakes here, plus noise coming from sky for sure.

Yup, one really long really loud one, maybe 15 minutes. Usually they are short and only like a few seconds or so.

Because it is called an ENJJPT Program (Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training)

And it's in Texas.

The night before the First Gulf War I lived in St. Pete near the Pier and I heard jets ALL night long, for hours and house, never in my life heard so many jets. I knew something was coming, the next day we saw the start of the Gulf War on TV.

I heard faint rumbling this morning for about 15 minutes. I was still in bed and it was very silent except for the distant rumbling. I'm in central Texas.

Interesting, I wonder if we have any in Florida here.

Interesting, maybe the same noise, usually when I hear it it's faint, but this time very loud, loud enough to make us go outside and look.

No the local base here in Texas is the only one.

Thread: Tampa Bay Area, getting creamed with chemtrails!

I am 99.9% sure you heard a series of hard take offs.

They were all lined up and 1 will take off, then just as the one jet lifts from the runway, 1 more throttles up and tales off. Again, just as that jet lifts off the runway, another one throttles up.

The military does practice putting as many jets in the air as possible every so often.

It results in a LONG drawn out rumble that sounds just like one jet but over a long period and is noticeably louder.

Yeah, I saw the chemtrails, LOTS of them, when I heard the noise and ran outside. They must have just been laid down. Now they are pretty much dissipating, it's a little breezy here.

Interesting, thanks for the great explanation. I've never heard that before. I love sky watching aircraft. I saw a bunch of Chinooks the other day for the first time, I did a thread on that too, guess you could call me a sky-tard LOL.

My Dad was in that war, on the JFK. We watched the news every morning. As a kid, I was on the air base often....mostly swimming pool. But we did like to watch the jets when they were practicing.

During the onset of the 1st Gulf War, I saw my first B2 bomber landing. They fly so quiet it seems like I was watching a hologram flying. Got to sit in an F-117 as well.

Not common, I saw/heard it twice over a period of 8 years.

When I saw it, they were fully loaded with weapons and fuel. It was just after sunset and the afterburn take off was awesome.

In fact, if I remember correctly, that was the squadron that loaded up the JFK off shore when they shipped off to war.

The jets never stay on ship when in port. they all land on base. And all fly out to the ship when off shore.

Sure was surreal watching that war on TV. Not sure if I've seen a B2, probably not, sounds pretty cool. Sitting in an F-117 sounds like fun, but I don't think I could handle the G-force if i took off, LOL. I hope your dad made it through the war okay and all.

He did, alive and well today.

As a kid, it was fun, the jets, the noise, the smell of jet fumes. I was a runway rat back then.


The war was scary when Scuds were hitting Israel with the chemical weapon threat. I remember that well.

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I bet that was a fabulous site, I was really hoping to see something this morning, but didn't, either they had passed or maybe just not in viewing space.

Never know that about not staying on ships when on shore, I guess they fly them in for safety reasons.