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Old 18th May 2016, 10:01
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Sydney CBD Flying Machines Last night. Aliens or Army?

Staying at a (classified) Sydney hotel last night, I was rudely awoken by some flying machine outside my window. It was hovering over the roof of a (classified) law enforcement building next door.
Then creatures with a green light in their heads slid down ropes. Does this happen often? If it does, I might change hotels.
If it was practice, do they have to do it so late? They were, I think, 3 of them.
If I wasn't so knackered, the show would have been much better than anything on TV.
This hotel is very 'touristy', and maybe I'm thinking through this too much, but what if someone decided to try take pictures of the action and used a flash? What would happen if these creatures were using nvg's when looking straight at the hotel?
They must have flown down the ( George? ) street between buildings and hid behind an apartment building while the one in front did its thing. It blocks the noise really well.

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"If I wasn't so knackered.."


That can happen if one drinks everything in the mini bar before bed..
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Haha, anyone know if this was the same "Spartan" call sign that ATC were ready to strangle a couple of days ago?
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Yeah, I wondered what was going on around that time.
From where I was in the Eastern Suburbs, I couldn't see anything but there was some quite low-level flying over the suburbs by 3-4 mil helos, heading south-east.

Also of interest at around the same time was the sound of an aircraft (single-engine radial?) loitering just off the coast - I estimated around the Maroubra/Little Bay area.
This unusual occurrence went on for about an hour.

The whole biz had me scratching my head, it did.
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With that big chopper down from the north why didnt they bring the 5 Lions and their plastic tinnie back south at the same time??
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See, it wasn't the effects of the magic mushrooms after all.


ADF counter terrorism training in Sydney - Australian Army


OK the AFP building might tick the 'suitable building to drop onto' box. But to have multiple Blackhawks flying past your balcony, when you know you are nowhere near the top of your building, doesn't correspond too well with...


Defence acknowledges that these activities may result in possible disturbances to local residents, however, wherever possible, the ADF seeks to minimise this disruption.


And while you hover at this zone ( I wonder what they call it? rope zone? drop zone? yippee zone? ) the rotor downwash is buffeting the windows of an overlooking hotel.


But I guess they decided no one would cr@p themselves too much and anyone who had the early shift next morning would have no problem with all this commotion going on 25 metres from their bedroom window after 10pm.


Hey, if it's the real thing, then anything goes - go get the mofo's. But for training, wouldn't a more industrial area be better. Or pick on office buildings, when at that time of day, any people in there are going to be awake.
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