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Full disclosure the first two images below are the raw photos I captured with my phone, the next two shots are the same two photos, I have just zoomed in on the image on my phone and screen shotted them for some clearer vision of what we are focusing on.
While out doing some work on the garden on a Saturday afternoon, I was doing my thing and gettin plenty done in the yard. It was a day like any other, sun was out, on its way to setting, and I was scurrying to get the last of the work done before it got too dark.
I was connecting hoses and clamps for the irrigation on the plants in the garden, then I start hearing a faint high pitched whine. I look up to see a commercial plane flying very low for the area we live in.
Yes, we do get planes flying through the area but this was pretty low compared to the usual air traffic and the flying seemed somewhat erratic.
I can only see the top tip of the tail, which is blue, but from the angle im on I cant make out the logo due to the rear stabilizer wings being in the way... but I would have been able to read it if not for the obstruction, it was that low.
A little pissed that this guy is making a ruckus flying so low i whip out my ol trusty phone to grab a snap so I could make a long winded article about this guy... the low plane flying stooge... where did he get his pilot license ? a cornflakes box?
But then I see it, a little ball following along the plane. By the time I have unlocked my phone and aim the shot I'm staring directly into the suns light, I'm blinded, but try snap shots of an almost non visible plane and his little follower.
I'm squinting hard to see what is happening, but I cant make it out properly, my vision is sun spotted. I hit the area of my phone i think the touchscreen button is to take photos... I only manage to get two.
In the images it looks like it pulls close to the plane and I think it then peeled away... but as mentioned, it was hard to see with my own eyes at this point.
As I sit here writing the article I can hear a plane, but its like distant thunder...This experience was much closer, the whine of the engines could be heard and the pitch changes in throttle/thrust the pilot was making.
Now im not saying its 'little green men' or that beings from a galaxy far, far away. Maybe its our own technology on test runs, maybe there was something wrong with the plane, but maybe it was something else...
All i can say is that its 'Unidentified' its 'Flying' and its an 'Object'... anything else beyond that I just dont know and none of us can say for certain.
But clearly the pilot was taking evasive action, flying very low and the 'way' the pilot was flying seems to be considerably irregular in nature. I have also done in aircraft incident search for the day with no results... What do you believe it is ?