hmm I don't like the sound of that, hopefully it's nothing.

Is it very rare? (with the exceptions already mentioned) Was it possible to hear what any of the pilots were actually saying? Does anyone know of any possible other operations or drills that might explain it?

It's a bit odd that people on the ground can listen in to US Military radio transmissions, seeing as I'd have thought these would be encoded signals not just normal insecure radio signals. I know the British ones you can listen in to (army anyway) but the USAAF is a bit more well-equipped.

Even the US Aitforce has to contact Air Traffic Control as it passes through airspace. It does this on normal "clear" atc channels. Teh information would however not be very interesting. e.g. height, heading call sugn etc.

Cheers
M

I just got word of this article from our weblog at the John Kerry for President campaign and thought I'd check it out. Any word out there about who has heard what from aircraft transmissions? We're trying to figure out if this is purely speculative or the real deal.

The report of multiple U.S. military aircraft overflying Scotland is extremely interesting. But it would be helpful (and much more believeable) if you could meet minimum journalistic standards and cite some specific, verifiable source.

This could be critically important. Or not. How do we know if it's not verifiable?

Cheers.

Actually very few US Miltary Air-Air Comms are encypted. I sit here in Florida listening to Air-Air comms all the time. These very from just idle chit-chat while inroute to comms with NORAD regarding active Combat Air Patrol missions protecting NASA's Kennedy Space Center here in Florida.

You can hear many of these comms which I recorded at my audio library at  http://www.milaircomms.com/audio_library.html

Here in the US more police comms are impossible to monitor than military transmissions...now that is a scary thought.....

George
 http://www.MilAirComms.com <- Military Freqs and Info

If this is true, it is extremely alarming. If it is true, we nee to start moving NOW to prevent anything even more horrific than has already passed from happening.

I hope very much this is not true. I'll check back tomorrow for changes, eh?
m

I find it extremely interesting that you would jump to such conclusions about the state of another countries military. Is love for your country as strong, even if your vision of it is only a delusion?

It makes sense that with the Bush Administration's unpopularity both in the USA and abroad that this American warmonger, liar, and self-deceived murderer of Iraqi civilians would continue his stupid, asinine, criminal, and brainless aggression against smaller countries such as Iran and Syria.

It is a pattern of aggression established early in his program of complicity with Israel's bellicose Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and helps to explain the real motivation of the American leader's invasion of Iraq.

The American President believes he is the Emperor of Earth and anyone who opposes him is a 'terrorist'. How totally idiotic this Bush character is, and these planes are not likely to be on Pakistan earthquake relief duty.

One can only hope and pray that the American President can be brought back to reality by a massive outcry from the entire world's population against the American President's loss of rational mental capability.

Unpopular tyrants, despots, dictators, and other demented freaks are famously cold-blooded and vicious when it comes to losing their power, and why should we think George W. Bush is going to act any differently?

It is a good time to pray to God Almighty for help because only God can save us from this American madman with trillions of weapons of mass destruction at his fingertips.