Flights Of Heavy Planes Overflying Switzerland

Flights Of Heavy Planes Overflying Switzerland
By George Paxinos
7-15-10

At approximately 15.30 Local Time (13.30 GMT), today, July 15th, 2010, passing over Zuerich, Switzerland and environs, what sounded like at least one and perhaps two if not three very large flights of heavy planes very high up and out of sight of this author, passed over Swiss territory.

The sound began with an indefinite roar like continuous heavy thunder in the distance, but without ceasing, even after a few minutes had passed, so it could not have been thunder. It might have been an approaching earthquake, but no quake came.

After several minutes [!] there was a lull in the sound, at which point it resumed again after a minute or so and persisted for several more minutes, although this second period might have been slightly shorter than the first. This happened between a little before 15.30 (03.30 PM) local and 15.40 or twenty-to-four, in other words, over a duration of at least 10 minutes.

A telephone call to a friend on the Lake of Constance, North-East of here, caused her to go out on her balcony a few minutes after the call, which itself had endured a few minutes, and then she called me back, confirming what had sounded like very large flights of heavy planes high up, perhaps, she thought, heading toward the US Air Force base at Ramstein in Germany.

>From their estimated North-Easterly course, it would appear that they might have come from the South-West, but that they could have taken off from bases in Southern European territory seems unlikely, as the presence of such an amassing of heavy aircraft would have been very blatant and certainly arouse comment that would quickly become public. Locally, apart from France and Britain, there are few air-forces that might muster such large flights. Of these options, their course might have indicated an origin in France, but the same conditions of unwanted observation pertain there too, so it is not impossible that they might have flown in all the way from the United States.

Let us hope that this does not augur impending hostilities somewhere.

George Paxinos,
20100715