# B-2 Stealth Bomber over Los Angeles area **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 7, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175 "2008-12-07T22:31:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pasta)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/21 "2008-12-09T03:29:02Z")
Thanks, **Ruffian**! Fantastic answer. If anyone has any further details on the other questions in the OP, I’m still interested. ---
**Author:** ![PhilHampton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cdc98d/32.png) [@PhilHampton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhilHampton)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/22 "2015-09-07T22:45:03Z")
In case anyone is interested on 12/07/2008 I saw the B2 bomber about 1/2 mile from my house, guessing Azusa Ave and 11th St. I made quite a few passes traveling the same route. I took a picture of it on one of the last passes and my camera stamped a date of 12/7/2008 2:55 PM. Just stumbled across the picture in my library, googled the date and B2 bomber and came across this blog. It was quite a sight… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/23 "2015-09-07T23:40:29Z")
Wouldn’t it be a lot more impressive if you _didn’t_ see it? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/24 "2015-09-08T00:17:46Z")
Jeez, I didn’t realize I was reading a zombie. Anyway, I found the story amazing for any number of reasons. Not too long ago, the White House got this idea for an anniversary photo shoot or something of Air Force One (I really don’t remember what), accompanied by a fighter jet escort, flying low over the Statue of Liberty. It was extremely upsetting to many people–myself included when I saw it–and caused quite a fuss. New Yorkers got funny that way after 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/25 "2015-09-08T01:13:14Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Not too long ago, the White House got this idea for an anniversary photo shoot or something of Air Force One (I really don’t remember what), accompanied by a fighter jet escort, flying low over the Statue of Liberty. April 2009. Virtually contemporaneous with the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/26 "2015-09-08T13:13:11Z")
Huh. Five years. Just to take the opportunity to say it, on 9/11, when I saw the F-whatever (I can only remember one), I kind of remember a nausea of horror of too late, and God, more to come. Also that it was shocking to see _anything_ moving so fast over the skyscrapers. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/27 "2015-09-08T14:01:46Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Huh. Five years. > > Just to take the opportunity to say it, on 9/11, when I saw the F-whatever (I can only remember one), I kind of remember a nausea of horror of too late, and God, more to come. > > Also that it was shocking to see _anything_ moving so fast over the skyscrapers. Perhaps a Vermont ANG F-16?: [http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jjDOcRAe4YA/maxresdefault.jpg](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jjDOcRAe4YA/maxresdefault.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/28 "2015-09-08T14:04:55Z")
… why would they send aircraft from _Vermont_? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/29 "2015-09-08T14:11:57Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > … why would they send aircraft from _Vermont_? Perhaps the Vermont National Guard had the closest aircraft armed and ready. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/30 "2015-09-08T14:49:54Z")
[http://archive.armytimes.com/article/20110909/NEWS/109090320/Photo-Guard-jet-over-NYC-becomes-9-11-icon:](http://archive.armytimes.com/article/20110909/NEWS/109090320/Photo-Guard-jet-over-NYC-becomes-9-11-icon:) Vermont? [http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a925fightersarrive&printerfriendly=true:](http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a925fightersarrive&printerfriendly=true:) Otis, Mass.? Can somebody straighten these out? I’ve got to go, and too many Truther sites are in the way… ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/31 "2015-09-08T14:54:46Z")
[BTW, OP is **Pasta**. Haven’t seen him around in a while. Anyone heard from him?] ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/32 "2015-09-08T15:31:23Z")
Looks like he was last active in late June this year. ---
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/33 "2015-09-08T16:08:19Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > I know just what you mean. I haven’t seen many come in and out of Nellis, but the first time I matched the noise to the plane I thought this is Stealth? Sounded like a B-52. This is curious to me. A few years ago, a stealth bomber did an appearance at the Air and Water Show here (Chicago). Mrs. CC and I happened to be sitting on a beach a few miles north of the event and suddenly something appeared in our peripheral view that caused us both to duck, as if a bird were about to land on us. We saw that it was the stealth bomber, making a turn to go back downtown for another pass. But we had heard nothing before seeing it. Point is, that plane was virtually silent until it was moving away and the back end of it was facing us. It may have been sort of coasting, but it taught me that the “stealth” in stealth bomber may also refer to its ability to move around relatively undetected by its sound. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175/34 "2015-09-09T00:22:30Z")
I could be wrong but I saw a similar plane about two weeks ago in Santa Monica. But nothing in terms of yesterday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-2-stealth-bomber-over-los-angeles-area/476175.md?page=1)