Weird Night-time Chopper Activity, Worcs
 

This is probably really dumb of me, but I was recently staying in Worcestershire, about four miles from Tewkesbury. I was woken on 29/07 at about 0300 by helicopters going over, very low. I staggered out to look, and the main culprits were two heavy types (sorry, I'm not a rotorhead!), lit, with a Chinook flying between them, with no lights.

They (or something equally noisy) went round in roughly the same circular pattern for about an hour.

I don't know the area. This is probably a daily occurrence. But I was intrigued - once the "WTF??" effect had worn off; on the first pass, those babies were so low the windows rattled. I've seen a few helicopters in my time, but never that close to Mother Earth.

What were they doing, please?

Weird Night-time Chopper Activity, Worcs
 

Searching for an escaped ET.

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

Well, we could tell you... BUT....

Thanks HD.

Night military exercise not far from Hereford........

their Dominos Pizza order got lost???

saw the same over Skipton area on Thursday night - 2 large helicopters and one small.

When I read the title of this thread I thought it was about the chaps on Hampstead Heath:}

You could try asking on the home of weird choppers, the Military Aviation board.