Unfortunately it is not military from the looks of it. In general I know my planes/jets and this appears commercial, but not lol. It’s strange to me.
Ah, well then I can’t recall seeing anything else unusual beyond the C-17s and to a lesser extent the C-130.
Back around 97-98 there were a lot of “alien” sightings in Tallahassee that ended up being photographed by one of the local tv stations and it was a four engined scram jet of some kind, that was probably the “Aurora” spyjet (never officially admitted, but the photos showed four scramjets which didn’t match anything that’s been publicly released) being flown out of Eglin. Although officially/publicly never stationed there, I remember seeing F-117s in Eglin when I would visit my uncle on the base long before they were officially outed and back when they were being called F-19s in the tinfoil community.
Sidenote by “Aurora” I very likely mean the SR-72 that Lockheed officially said they were “working on” and revealed some specs and will be unveiled in a year or two. I assume what we saw in 97-98 was a prototype and that the SR-72s have been in actual full use for a decade or more. The F-117 had its prototype maiden flight in 1977 as the Have Blue and was operational in 1983 and fought in Panama but wasn’t officially acknowledged until 1991 after the initial days of Desert Storm. So 14 years from prototype to acknowledgement would mean that the SR-72 is a little longer in tooth than the F-117 “stealth fighters” if what we saw in 97-98 is the same plane as what will be announced and not a true successor plane.
I only mention all of that because the tinfoil community applies the Aurora tag to the triangular hover planes that have been filmed and photographed repeatedly but those are a completely different aircraft called the TR-3B by the tinfoil community that has some type of magnetic hover drive and not scramjets.
Actual photos of the magnetic drive TR-3B
And a video
Versus the scramjet SR-72
Hhmmm, I mysteriously can’t seem to find the old 90s shots that used to be very easy to find on the internet for years. Not sure why they are being buried by Google but not the others. If I find them I’ll repost them here.
With the official drawing of the SR-72 by Lockheed
And a spec drawing
And btw there’s something else out there also mistakenly called Aurora, likely a stealth fighter/tactical attack jet. Here’s the actual photos of whatever this will be called. It might be the prototype for the B-21 that’s going to replace the B-1s and some B-52s as it’s tough to gauge size from such a distance.
And then there’s this hypersonic plane accidentally photographed by Google Earth at the airport near Trump’s “Southern White House”.
So a much smaller hypersonic aircraft, maybe even a UAV rather than a piloted plane.
The morale of this story is...there’s lots of weirdo planes out there....but I haven’t seen anything other than cargo planes and other officially outed military in Tally since the late 90s.
