HUGE private jets flew into our small and rural Central Utah county yesterday and last night. I didn't even know our airport could handle this kind of large jet traffic. I have never seen aircraft this size before here. There was lots of air traffic in the sky yesterday. Lots of jets going from East to West (like from Denver to Los Angeles). No jet trails going North and South.

We have had an unbelievable amount of out of state license plates for the last few weeks as well. I had a post about that last week.
There are so many strange things going on around Central Utah.

Last Friday we went on a picnic down through Bryce Canyon National Park. It was so quiet. It should be crazy with traffic the week before Labor Day. I actually wanted to see how many out of state vehicles where in the Panguitch, UT area. It looked like it does in January - dead and quiet. One of my customers in Reno told me that he heard on his news that Bryce Canyon was shut down. I'm not far from there and I have not heard anything of the sort, but I don't watch a lot of tv.

As the jets were coming in, they would circle around the valley here 3, or 4 times and then land. We are kind of in a hole surrounded by mountains. I have not seen hardly any air traffic since March, so you could hear them coming and see them. One is jet black with an A, or B on it. One is a cream color with orange detailed paint. One is red and white. They're great big private jets. My daughter told me 3, or 4 more came in through the night. She could hear them coming in, she was up with her newborn. They're parked in a Federal part of the airport used for Forest Service fire helicopters and fire mitigation efforts. They take up most of the airport parking on one side.

I was talking to my mail lady on Saturday. She told me that just in our South County area, 16 new residents from CA have started mail service on the South County mail route in the last few months. She has 2 new residents from CO last week.

There are lots of strangers among us in Central Utah right now and it means something, I just don't know what...