Off Topic - aviation curiosity

After the big (for washington state) Duvall Earthquake, there was a
airplane flying back and forth along the foothills of the Cascades,
which was where the quake was centered for a couple of weeks. The
aircraft looked like a Pilatus turbine with a really long stinger in
the back, maybe some kind of magnetic imaging device?

(tinfoil_hat=on)

This happened about 5 miles as the crow flies from my house.

Also, for those of us that are fond of tin foil hats; about 6 years ago
the trail head and access points for one of the taller foothills was
blocked off. The men and vehicles were from every alphabet soup agency
you could think of. The had auto weapons and they were keeping folks
way back from the dead end road, that led to the trails.

To top that off, there was a big helicopter gunship, that was fully
loaded, orbiting the hilltop, with a smaller spotter copter, the kind
with the ball on top of the rotors, scouting for it. This went on for
about 3 days!

The rumor, because there never was an official explanation was there
was a meth lab in them thar hills and they were out to git 'em.

A word of interest he the mountain was right under the descent point
for a major airway as the aircraft would start their approach into
Sea-Tac...............this was all prior 9-11
(tinfoil_hat=off)

Brad

Bob Kuykendall wrote:
Gary Emerson wrote:
...Cessna 182RG orbiting ... constant ~3 minute
turn rate over a fixed spot for several hours straight...

When that was happening over Lodi CA, it was Northwest Aircraft Leasing
Corp. of Delaware doing surveillance for some government agency:

http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/..._over_lodi.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1433330/posts

They were based out of Hayward, CA, about 100 mi distant. Word is they
were collecting satellite phone traffic, but that's probably just
rumor.

Bob K.