I live very close to LAX, so I am used to seeing and hearing aircraft. Now they take off and land over the ocean, so not as much as before. A few minutes ago, I heard this jet engine roaring, and after a few minutes, I got up to go see what it was. It was too far away now to identify, but it was huge and extremely well-lit. What might that have been? I am thinking military cargo?
“Extremely well-lit” doesn’t sound like a military plane to me. I would guess an Airbus A380, as six airlines operate that super-jumbo out of LAX. (Alternately, maybe a 747 cargo plane.)
The Boeing E-4B "Doomsday Plane" is notoriously loud. One visited LAX in January. Maybe Pete Hegseth had a craving for In-N-Out.
I just realized i’m having double vision when I look into the distance that would explain extremely well lit and maybe some of the huge.
Yep. Aliens.
Have you been sending them communications?
I’d move before they’d get a chance to suck my brain out thru my ears.
Then call TMZ. Money in the bank. Yeah, buddy!
(I’m pretty sure it’s a big jet. )
In the future, when you hear something like that, go to FlightRadar24.com. It shows air traffic in real time. If you get to it fast enough, it’s usually pretty easy to identify which plane you just heard. It typically, not always, but typically, doesn’t show government/armed forces aircraft, but just about everything else will be on there.
Even noodling around an airport, jets are traveling 3 or 4 miles per minute. If you waited “a few minutes” to go look, it’s a virtual certainty that the jet you saw was not the one you heard.
Depending on where you are versus the airport, what you may have heard was a simple go-around. Those occur at high power = max noise, and at different altitude on a different ground track than either normal takeoffs / departures or normal approaches / landings. Such that people on the ground will see & hear an airplane doing something very unusual from their POV. Perhaps even alarmingly unusual.
I first heard it approaching as the sound was getting louder, and I could tell as it flew over the sound started getting fainter. I could still hear it when I went outside, and it was pretty far off in the distance. I said for a few minutes. It was likely closer to one minute. I wasn’t paying much attention to time.
Great suggestion. I learned something new.
I live about 7 miles from LAX, southeast. This plane was in the flight path of LAX but much higher than normal for landing and much lower than cruising.
7 miles southeast of LAX is also about 10 miles northwest of Long Beach and roughly aligned with their big jet runway which points northwest.
Maybe it was The Motherfuckin’ Pterodactyl. (Probably NSFW)
That makes sense as it is the direction it came from.
Right around 9:00 PM, a Southwest 737 took off from Long Beach and went toward LAX (and ultimately right over it).
I lived in Long Beach for several years. You wouldn’t believe the loud, scary sounds booming through the neighborhood during the annual Festival of Flight.
“Probably”?!?!?!
That was awesome, by the way. Who is this Sarah Donner anyway, and how can I make her my new best friend?
Yep! Best silliness I’ve watched in awhile.
FlightRadar24.com Is a great site. You can see almost all of the aircraft over your area and around the world if you wish. There are thousands in the air at any given time. Probably a million people or more are off this planet at any given time.
You hover your mouse over the plane and see what it is, HAL Hawaiian Airlines, United, FedX, UPS, etc and it will tell you where they left from and where they are going, even give you the flight path.
Some military aircraft are shown. If you click on them they with say N/A but still usually say what they are. I often see N/A for large planes and find that they are Boing Stratotankers coming from the base in Spokane, Wa, doing refueling exersizes out over the ocean, where a spill is less of a problem. They are large so it is better that they turn on their tracking info for other aircraft and controllers.
Who just flew over my house? That is the place to find out.
I’m near O’Hare in Chicago and the only really weird noise I remember are V-22 Osprey tiltwings but they don’t sound like jets.
I see weird stuff I would never expect flying over my house. Yesterday it was an Israeli fighter. A month ago it was a Russian cargo plane operated by a Ukrainian company. There’s an airline that paints animals on the plane’s tail and they are listed by the individual plane’s name, so I’ll see that Skippy the Three-Toed Sloth or Tonya the Hermet Crab is flying over.
Other than some military aircraft, many private aircraft are also not trackable on FlightRadar or FlightAware and similar sites despite being equipped with the same ADS-B transponders. This is at the owner’s request and most such sites respect the request as a courtesy, but since the information is public some sites track private jets despite the owner’s wishes.
Apparently, SarahDonner.com is still active (the video is 13 years old?)!
As for “probably” NSFW, I don’t know where you work; could be at an elementary school where that kind of language is commonplace (but mostly amongst the students 
). The last time I posted NSFW for something I thought was racy, I got razzed for being a sissypants. Yeah, I don’t even wear pants, so there!