"Tater" wrote

Parents live in the Falls MOA and have seen lots of stuff fly overhead.
c130s refueling overhead. F14 and A10s in dogfights. seeing the tops of
fighter jets while they were airborne (fairly hilly area, with jets
doing NOE flight)

Here, in the quiet foothills of NC, a couple years back, there was heard (by
thousands in and around town) a low, low rumble, then combined with a roar,
merging into the unmistakable roar of powerful jet engines.

Nobody knew what it was, but I, and many others went outside to look into the
night sky, and see if we could figure out what was making the noise. It went
on, and grew, to its unmistakable crescendo, for at least 3 or 4 minutes.

The event was the talk of the town. It seems everyone heard it, and wondered
what it was. It was not until a few days later, I talked to someone who lived a
bit further out in the hills, and they actually saw what was the source of all
the noise. It was a B-1 making a NOE run up a nearby river valley, then
powering up into an afterburner climbout.

It shook a lot of people up.

It was....magnificent!
--
Jim in NC