Strange happenings last night...
We live in Chappell Hill, which is about 8.25 miles east of Brenham. Very quiet little town.
The nights and days here are silent.
Its about 10pm last night, (video below was taken at 9:59:53) and the wife and I are watching "24-Season 4". (which ironically has a terrorist stealing a F117 stealth fighter and shooting down airforce one)
In the middle of the episode, we hear a low flying jet that actually rumbles our house. My first thought was it was in the TV show, but upon pausing it I realized it wasn't. I then started thinking that it was a private jet too low on approach to Brenham Civil Airport. The noise abated as I got up and went to the window, when about 30 seconds later I hear the noise again, and see a low flying jet right above our house. I do not know if it was the same one that quickly somehow circled around, or if it was another jet altogether.
I scrambled to put some shoes on, and hurried outside to see what was going on. I was standing in my driveway (for clarity I included a daytime picture from where I was standing in the video), when we started hearing the jet (or another jet) again. I quickly started videoing with my phone, and caught it going over.
Now my father has been a pilot for 30 years flying 737s, and I knew something was majorly wrong. The plane to me looked about 500-750 feet up, and appeared to be a 757 or maybe an A330. Had a round engine cowl, so not a 737. The tail light was not illuminated on the plane if it had one, and I don't think its landing gear was down, as I saw no taxi light. The thing flew over head and appeared to be descending as it went toward HWY290. It had a heading of about 235deg. I was fairly certain the thing was going to crash, although nothing happened. This video was the last time that it happened and I never heard anything more about it.
I called the non emergency Brenham police line, and the lady told me they had had multiple calls about it and "were sending deputies to investigate" Said she'd call back if they found anything out and that a deputy might call to see my video but none of that ever happened. I looked on flight aware, but didn't see anything anywhere near os that fit the description as everything was flying ~20000 ft. which is normal for the approach to Houston (different direction from where this plane was going) that goes over our place.
Anyone have any idea on what this could have been?
Pics and Video below.
Neither of them is zoomed in.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/Xu13Au][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/Xib6TJ][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/XicYfy][/url]Video Link on Flickr
We live in Chappell Hill, which is about 8.25 miles east of Brenham. Very quiet little town.
The nights and days here are silent.
Its about 10pm last night, (video below was taken at 9:59:53) and the wife and I are watching "24-Season 4". (which ironically has a terrorist stealing a F117 stealth fighter and shooting down airforce one)
In the middle of the episode, we hear a low flying jet that actually rumbles our house. My first thought was it was in the TV show, but upon pausing it I realized it wasn't. I then started thinking that it was a private jet too low on approach to Brenham Civil Airport. The noise abated as I got up and went to the window, when about 30 seconds later I hear the noise again, and see a low flying jet right above our house. I do not know if it was the same one that quickly somehow circled around, or if it was another jet altogether.
I scrambled to put some shoes on, and hurried outside to see what was going on. I was standing in my driveway (for clarity I included a daytime picture from where I was standing in the video), when we started hearing the jet (or another jet) again. I quickly started videoing with my phone, and caught it going over.
Now my father has been a pilot for 30 years flying 737s, and I knew something was majorly wrong. The plane to me looked about 500-750 feet up, and appeared to be a 757 or maybe an A330. Had a round engine cowl, so not a 737. The tail light was not illuminated on the plane if it had one, and I don't think its landing gear was down, as I saw no taxi light. The thing flew over head and appeared to be descending as it went toward HWY290. It had a heading of about 235deg. I was fairly certain the thing was going to crash, although nothing happened. This video was the last time that it happened and I never heard anything more about it.
I called the non emergency Brenham police line, and the lady told me they had had multiple calls about it and "were sending deputies to investigate" Said she'd call back if they found anything out and that a deputy might call to see my video but none of that ever happened. I looked on flight aware, but didn't see anything anywhere near os that fit the description as everything was flying ~20000 ft. which is normal for the approach to Houston (different direction from where this plane was going) that goes over our place.
Anyone have any idea on what this could have been?
Pics and Video below.
Neither of them is zoomed in.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/Xu13Au][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/Xib6TJ][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/XicYfy][/url]Video Link on Flickr