Did you touch it? I did. It was over the Indian Ocean on a flight out of Diego Garcia. It was a medevac flight to the Philippines. We had a doctor on board and several hot USAF nurses. I was willing to go into cardiac arrest just to get CPR from one of those hotties. I know, today would be a different story. I was young dumb single and on my way to the Philippines, YES!
No, this was certainly an aircraft, it was high in the sky. Where my folks used to live was in the flight path of both military and civilian aircraft, it wasn't uncommon to see stealth fighters from WPAFB, C-130 flights just barely scraping the trees, and medivac flights.
It's really hard to tell what Uncle was flying over while the cold war still raged.
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