video tape it man!

get a neighbor to do it.

see if you can id the aircraft on https://www.flightradar24.com/BAW9CG/10948856

post it anyway, we may be able to enhance it...

For the uninitiated, what does that mean? Do you think you could find it on one of those flight tracker sites?

Get a video!!

https://flightaware.com/live/airport/KPHX

There don't seem to be any planes on this service following your pattern.

Are you north, east, south or west of the airport?

Looking at flightradar on my tablet, one going to milwaukee that would fit the atl and direction.

chemtrails???? (⌐■_■)

is this not normal for flight patterns? like something is happening on the plane or in the airport and they cant land, or what?

Like what's up? Just something? Lol, details man

Not so fast. I worked nights at an airport for many years. Cargo aircraft always circle at night if they are waiting for the runway to clear or there's a situation causing them to delay i.e. weather, ground interruption, etc.

Fair enough. I'm just saying, if the plane was above or near an airport or a major city with an airport, it could have very well just been staging. Most definitely if you saw more than one plane doing this.

You need to lay off whatever it is you’ve been smoking 😂

That's feasible. I don't know much about the beacons and the patterns they can be set to flash. Although I can say that generally they flash... something odd in my mind would be if they stayed on there was a noticeable pattern.

Hmmmm a plane flying...like planes were designed to do. Conspiracy!

Yet AI Suicide conveniently can't video tape it.

I hope so.

Tbf go point your camera phone towards the sky and tell me what you can record

You mean the plane is flying where planes usually fly?

Is this the app to track by?

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/phx

https://www.flightradar24.com/33.43,-112.01/10

is this your plane?

https://www.flightradar24.com/1095bddd

is it still circling your house?

did it land?

yeah. it says flight no longer exists. it either crashed or landed. it is strange that it was circling a few times and had no call sign.

Transponder off? Flight radar should show type of plane,tail # destination and departure ect..

Damn should have archived it while it was still in the air.

I love this app, use it all the time while looking up.

https://i.imgur.com/J4C9yzP.png

Dem swamp gasses.

call the news

Download Flightradar24 and see if it’s flightpath is registered.

Are other planes landing at the airport?

What's the status now?

Any update?

Passenger commercial plane that had to wait for room on the runway, doing loops.

Racetrack pattern is a holding pattern, if you knew instrument approaches you could find where the Holding pattern is located geographically. There isn’t anything weird about an aircraft doing a hold....they happen for many reasons. What’s weird is the number of times, unless weather in Phoenix is currently bad.

Air Force refueling aircraft fly in an oval race track pattern to allow passing flights of other aircraft to meet up and refuel. Think of an airborne gas station, with lines of vehicles waiting their turn at the 'pump' but everybody is racing around like NASCAR, chasing the lead car, the refueler.

The give away is the multiple pulse of white marker lights. The refuelers flash a distinctively different strobe pattern to help the other aircraft make sense of who is who in the dark. I can't find a video to link showing the double flash strobe on the bottom, top of the airplane and the wingtips. They alternate the double flashing pattern with the strobes on the wingtips in a very distinctive pattern.

If on a military flight, Flight Aware and the like may not show the aircraft and flight route.

I agree that doing this over/near populated areas seems less safe than could be.

And 5,000 feet is too low to dump fuel. I wonder if the airplane was burning fuel to get back to a safe landing weight after developing mechanical issues. If he had pressurization issues he'd have to stay under 10,000 feet.

If you're talking about the Phoenix Goodyear airport, test flights wouldn't surprise me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Goodyear_Airport

There's a long military history there, and it's not really a commercial airport, per se.

In other news water is wet. If I was paranoid about every aircraft I see or hear a day I’d go crazy man

No one is looking stupid. I’m just saying that just because you saw a plane do something that YOU thought was odd doesn’t actually mean it’s out of the ordinary. Your post’s headline is cryptic clickbait which implies that something sinister was happening when it’s FAR from what the facts suggest. Edit-mobile

“Probably have a situation developing over Phoenix airport” just has a negative connotation, don’t you think? If it was something you perceived as positive or a non-news worry story then you wouldn’t have put anything.

Fair enough

I noticed you posted about the heckling you received over this post. Now one occurrence doesn’t seem that big of a deal which is why I was skeptical and quick to dismiss your claims, but two back to back occasions does seems fishy. Who knows? You may be onto something. I have no experience or any idea how to go about tracking so I can’t say anything about it, but good luck and keep posting regardless of what people like me say!

You guys certainly know how to turn fuck-all into a story.

Sure. As one who knows what was going on whilst you were fantasizing, I’m outa here.

sounds more like meth

The only way a plane would not show up on flight radar apps is if it was blocked from showing up...either because it's transponder was off, or because it's blocked from showing up.

That's not correct, different types of transponder behave differently, sometimes there can be blind spots that show planes "popping" into existence at 15,000ft etc

Hi, there is nothing out of the ordinary about this,

Multiple pulsing lights are called "anti collision" and are literally just strobes for collision avoidance in both day and night.

The oval racetrack pattern is called a "hold." these are usually conducted overhead a GPS waypoint and flown by he autopilot via the FMC They are used by almost every big airport everyday as a method of delaying traffic for any reason, e.g waiting for bad weather to clear over airport, waiting for runway to clear etc etc

Just because the aircraft doesn't show up on flight tracking app doesn't mean it's transponder isn't on. Anybody can request to not have their transponder and location info show up for privacy reasons and this is pretty normal. I estimate that where I live, only about 75-90% of actual aircraft over flying are on the flight tracking apps and no, this doesn't mean that every other one that doesn't show up is a government spy plane, could be anything from a private Cessna 172 with private transponder or a military training jet (which almost never broadcast public transponder info)

Source- am pilot

Fair enough