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east or bust
This came directly out of Cmdr Fravor's mouth in the JRE podcast. The below came from a shitty podcast transcript site so the grammar is terrible, but you get the idea...
"...so when you put on night vision goggles they amplify light, like a lot, so you can see a campfire like 50 miles away. so we used to know a good spot way down in like El Centro California, there's a range that there's some bombing ranges but people go camping in the Superstition Mountains which is a kind of north and west of Imperial, but I forget what it is the Springs it's real prison, the desert, it'll come to me in a minute. so we would go out at night flying around on goggles and you'd see a campfire and you go UFO time. get the airplane going about 600 knots, and then you pull the power back to idle so you can't hear it and you get zinging towards the fire. you turn the lights are all down because we're in a restricted area so we can do that, and there's lights on it that you can only see if you're on night vision goggles, so the other airplanes can see us but no one else can see us. then you go sing it at it and then right when you get to the campfire you pull the airplane into the vertical and stroke the afterburners, you let them light off and you count to three and then turn them off and then you just go away... instant UFO Reporting"
So in short you were probably just getting fucked with by a fighter pilot :cool: