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Old 13th March 2010 | 00:24
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Rosiedee
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I witnessed an aircraft circling over the Highlands of Scotland for approx 90 mins on Tues 9th March. It was high in the sky 30 odd thousand feet up. What could be a possible reason for this please?
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Old 13th March 2010 | 02:19
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Tanker? AWACs?
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Old 13th March 2010 | 02:33
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More than likely an E-3 Sentry. The aircraft carries a large radar mounted on a rotodome. Did it produce a circular contrail?

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/d...s/circles1.jpg

RAF - Sentry

E-3 Sentry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Old 14th March 2010 | 19:39
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Yes TEEEJ, it did produce a contrail just like the one in your link. I took several photos of it.
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Old 17th March 2010 | 16:25
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Saw something similar over Wetherby,W.Yorks, a few weeks back.Large number of long orbits.The binocs showed something similar to what TEEEJ suggests.
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