Red, Green and white planes flying in the night sky. But why?
I recently have taken my dog outside to do her business. Next thing i know I see a slow bright moving object coming to the direction of my house. It was blinking red on the right side, green on the left and white bright lights in the front and back of the plane. It flies past my house and i shrug it off. Normally I see a helicopter and once in awhile a plane. I look up and analyze the sky again. Another exact plane flies over my house, moving the same speed. Then shortly after another one comes but this time this plane does a curve and flies to the north of where i was standing. Now I'm questioning why i saw these planes because, normally like i explained before, I don't see planes often especially at nearly eleven at night. I see another flying object that appears to be farther from the rest and moving extremely slow but i assume thats a satellite or something.
For people that are going to say its and airplane. The nearest airport is far northeast, and i'm in the eastside. These planes were coming from the west.
Can anyone explain why they were flying like the way I explained.
It wasn't drones because drones are more closer to the trees, these werent but they were kinda close for them being planes.
I truly am confused…
Big hole in your story: If it is night, how can you tell what color they are? All you should be able to see is their lights. And I should know. I live on the approach to a major US Airforce base. I see dozens of planes flying over each day - both day and night.
"I recently have taken my dog outside to do her business. "
IRRELEVANT. (fail)
All planes have red and green wingtip lights, white landing lights and "recognition lights", and also white tail lights that are usually steady. The left wing has the red light and the right wing has the green light. They were coming toward you because you've described them backwards. (i.e. Your left and right, not theirs. Fail)
All aircraft have flashing red beacons and most have flashing white anti-collision lights called "strobe lights"
Generally speaking, only military aircraft and some airliners have flashing red and green wingtip lights.
As is typical of ignorant non-aviation ground observers, you have no basis for determining speed or height or distance or the size of the aircraft and you haven't mentioned sound. Are you outside for more than a few minutes on most nights looking at the sky year-round? If not, how would you know what is normal?
It was probably commercial aircraft. Flight paths of aircraft change depending on the wind and runways in use. Due to prevailing winds, some are used far more than others and this could have been a night when the wind was from an abnormal direction.
The bottom line is that it doesn't matter. The planes were minding their own business, so you should mind yours. Either that, or look at a "flight tracker" for the date, time and location. https://www.flightradar24.com/60,15/6
I think you shouldn't smoke a bowl before letting the dog out. Those are called "airplanes".
Hi well the lights are navigation lights. Red is port side. Green is starboard side. And white lights are like car headlights.
It was two airplanes. We're confused too, since you left out where you live and want help. Nor do you say if they made any sound.
They were trying to read your mind. But if you make a hat out of tinfoil, it blocks the frequencies.
This site is full of questions like yours. One thing I find funny is people who ask the question give a ton of useless details, like walking the dog, but omit the really important stuff, like where they are.
Every airplane and ship has navigation lights, red on the left side, green on the right. These lights let other pilots and mariners know which way the airplane or the ship is moving. If you see red on the right and green on the left, for example, the airplane is flying towards you. The white light is the landing light, they have to be on below certain altitude.
During their flight training all student pilots have to learn the basics of flying at night. To do that the instructor takes the student to an area away from other air traffic and practice aircraft maneuvers. As you said, there's very little air traffic over your home, which makes it ideal airspace for training. What you saw is, most likely, a single plane with the student practicing procedure turns and flying traffic patterns.
The planes' landing lights are very bright because they have to be seen from many miles away. Even a single engine plane flies from 90 to 120 miles per hour. When two planes are on the opposite heading their combined closing speed is about 200 miles per hour or more. The further the pilots can see each other, the more time they have to avoid the collision.
All planes have lights.
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