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I saw this last Friday while out in the parking lot of my apartments. There was a service technician standing with me as another witness. We could not believe what we were seeing!
It was an airplane hovering, not moving forward at all! We watched it for about 5 minutes and then it started very, very slowly to move sideways. The movement was almost imperceptible.
This was NOT an "optical illusion". We had rooftops and trees as points of reference and this plane was absolutely at a dead stop for 5 minutes or more.
Our expectation was that it was going to crash at any moment. I mean, how could a small aircraft just stay up in the air while not moving?
The plane looked like one of those old-fashioned propeller crop dusters with the wide, rounded wings. I did not see propellers, but it sounded like a prop plane. The color was a deep orange/tan color. I saw no lettering or markings of any kind on it.
As it slowly began to move sideways it moved into the glare of the sun and we lost sight of it.
I was baffled and somewhat freaked out. I checked the local news later to see if a plane had crashed in my area.
Went on-line and found that others had seen planes stop in mid-flight and been just as baffled.
How about you? Ever seen this? Any thoughts about it?
I saw something a little similar and scary last summer. It was a prop plane, a noisy one at that and flew about 8000 feet over my house and then silence. My wife yelped, I looked up and it was not moving and no sound. It hovered for less then a minute, restarted its motor and moved on.
Some of those home builts have pretty low stall speeds. Even single prop small planes can get pretty slow with flaps down. 40-50MPH stall speeds.
Get a nice headwind going and it's pretty possible to make a plane appear to hover in relation to the ground, meanwhile it's still chugging away in the air mass that is moving over the ground at higher speed.
I fly R/C airplanes and on windy days, I usually try to "hover" a plane by heading into the wind and slowing down so the plane doesn't appear to move.
Depends on the angle of travel as well as wind direction/speed as others have said. There are always several planes in the air here, since I'm southwest of O'Hare airport, and I've seen jets appear to be stationary for a few minutes until they change their angle of approach. Sometimes I'll think one is a planet until all of a sudden it starts to move.
I did google this topic and there were lots of comments from other similar sightings that perhaps these might be "ETs" masking as our aircraft. Hence my posting it here for discussion.
Your explanations seem plausible to me, though I am open to ET visitations in various forms. I feel pretty confident that this was NOT one of those. It's been very interesting to read your commentaries.
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