Untraceable airplanes

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Willy@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

Hi, I’ve just listened to at least 10 aircraft go over my house. It’s not unusual that I have aircraft go over my house. I’ve sometimes even hadfighters go over my house. I live in the most secure airspace in the United States when I use apps to track what type of plane is me or helicopter I hear lots of helicopters. It’s not unusual that they don’t show up but something just happened that there were at least 10 in a row.

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aushtan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’d assume it has to airforce related. Maybe some drill or something along those lines

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Many DoD and government missions don’t release flight plans publicly.

Also, if a squadron on air defense alert was scrambled for some reason, that’s not gonna have a flight plan attached to it, because they’re by definition responding to a thing and can’t really define their flight plan as “I’m departing from A, routing through to B to C, and landing at D”.

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- Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Their flight plan is “Going out for a pack of smokes, might be back later”
  
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rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
ADS-B can be disabled (not unexected for military aircraft) or made private at the request of governments.

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socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
In DC the military helps fly in mode A/C which means they do not broadcast, but will only identify upon radar interrogation.

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GuyFawkes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You can get apps that show the real time location of planes - might be worth trying that to see if they’ll tell you what the planes are.

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- egrets@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Already covered in the OP!
  
  they don’t show up on flight radar or adsbexchane even with government filters turned on
  
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JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
What type of aircraft were they?

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- Willy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Last night we’re all jets. Not of the figheter variety.
  
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  - JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    C5 Galaxy big Jets? Private jet sized Lear Jets? 737 type refueler jets?
    
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