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Well, there's a final word on this particular incident. On Thursday, the rule that only planes with working transponders (i.e., FAA-trackable) were allowed to fly was still in force (it has since been dropped) and, coincidentally, two flights in the area of the Petaluma Airport on that evening...

Here's the story: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/news/21plane.html The scary thing about it is these guys were probably prepared (though not expecting) to shoot a plane out of the sky practically over our heads! -Robert

Actually, the roar of passenger and cargo jets beginning their descent into the Bar Area is pretty common here at night and when they push the FAA minimum altitude limits (as the often do) it is loud enough to wake people up with a distant roaring sound. That roar and those amazingly bright...

Wow, not fifteen minutes ago (right about 7:20-7:30 pm PT) one and then another (I could see both in the sky at one point) fighter jets did a couple loops right over my head, coming very low at times and making a hellacious noise, one flying off to the NNW roughly and the second, coming not...