Army Helicopter and Military Type Plane Flying Recon in SoHum the Last Two Days

[Image from FlightRadar at 1:58 p.m.]

Flightpath of Recon47, a helicopter belonging to the US Army. [Image from FlightRadar at 1:58 p.m.]

Unusual aircraft flights in Southern Humboldt have caused consternation among residents particularly those growing cannabis the last two days.

A helicopter has been reported to be circling properties in Benbow yesterday and in Alderpoint and Elk Creek today. The helicopter shows up on FlightRadar as a US Army helicopter, RECON47. It was joined today by a plane with the call sign RCN47.

In March, more military aircraft were spotted on FlightRadar at night. Some readers speculated then that this was routine training.

Flightpath of two military aircraft.

[Image from FlightRadar about 2:15 p.m.]

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Prometheus
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Prometheus
2 years ago

So what…

Pepperwood
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Pepperwood
2 years ago
Reply to  Prometheus

You show how far we have come from believing in/ demanding personal sovereignty to bowing before the Man. Shame on you.

Northrup Grunman
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Northrup Grunman
2 years ago
Reply to  Prometheus

I’ve been using multiple sources to track planes lately and have observed a LOT of activity involving a lot of very sexy technology, flying grids within a hundred mile radius of Weitchpec for a few days recently . One especially interesting craft was a NASA biz jet decked out to gobble up data in the Optical/RADAR spectrum, mapping every detail of selected terrain, with water and other resources being the focus. That jet was accompanied by another that was monitoring anything it wanted to, in the radio frequency spectrum. Emphasis on anything. Some of the test planes look like a hedgehog they have so many antennas on them, they can suck up signals from a weapons system control module, or a nanny cam, or a pacemaker, whatever.
Putting the above article together with the presence of other aircraft I’ve mentioned creates a situation where the imagination can absolutely run amok with theory, the possibilities being endless.

Puest
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Puest
2 years ago

BIG Brother IS Watching you!!!

Willie Bray
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2 years ago

🕯🌳Just Bill Gates making sure you got your vaccine that’s all. 🖖🖖

Buster
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Buster
2 years ago

My first thought is whether or not those properties are permitted…

Gimmie a break
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Gimmie a break
2 years ago

“Sandman Viper Command!”

Blacktail Addict
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Blacktail Addict
2 years ago
Reply to  Gimmie a break

The weapon detonated over the water. Must have been wind sheer.

Pharmstheproblem
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Pharmstheproblem
2 years ago

Today wasn’t routine training it was routine illegal cannabis spotting. Warrants within two weeks to be served….

Guest
Guest
Guest
2 years ago

Exactly, the flights a couple months ago were followed by warrants being served within 2 weeks. That is the timeline for a warrant to be served based on observation. Be careful and keep it clean if they were in your neighborhood.

Guest
Guest
Guest
2 years ago

More like two days, I give Somewhere up Rancho til Thursday. Maybe tomorrow. Buck mountain Thursday or Friday.

And no, I don’t have inside info, it’s just a hunch.
That seems to be the yearly pattern.

First Rancho, then Buck Mountain.
Same as every year.

Oh wait, that’s what already happened.

Or well Burr Creek Road.

Hindsight is 20/20.

Rancho always gets multiple visits.

hidin’ Biden
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hidin’ Biden
2 years ago

I guess Biden don’t like buds.

Ben Round
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Ben Round
2 years ago
Reply to  hidin’ Biden

Duh! He reveled his dinosaur mindset about cannabis WAY back during the Presidential debates, before he was delivered to US as the heir apparent.

Martin
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Martin
2 years ago

If they were looking for illegal weed grows I sincerely hope they find every single one. I am sick and tired of these people wrecking the land, diverting streams, polluting streams, killing animals, leaving piles of garbage, and the list goes on. Instead of choppers they need a few A10 Wart Hogs.

Gimmie a break
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Gimmie a break
2 years ago
Reply to  Martin

Not to mention polluting our night skies with all that artificial light. Our dark skies are one of this county’s underrated gems that should be preserved.

peace,love,coffee
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peace,love,coffee
2 years ago
Reply to  Gimmie a break

Yes! there is a huge grow glow up at Ruth Lake across the north end of the tributary from Holly Creek. It ruins the night sky and is a complete eye sore.

Ben Round
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Ben Round
2 years ago

That is SO not cool. Report them.

Warm Coffee
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Warm Coffee
2 years ago
Reply to  Martin

No chance that some growers care more about the land than you? I’m tired of people trashing this world as well, but categorizing one group as the soul cause, well that’s just ignorant.

Legallettuce
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Legallettuce
2 years ago

They doin recons for weed or water which one of our precious resources they wanting to pilfer. Funny, used to be just the cops, feds and robbers. Now we gotta add the shitty growing corporate assholes, local government, hedge fund brokers and the commodity exchange to our list of enemies just to grow a plant.

Puest
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Puest
2 years ago

Willie B, I did as a matter of of fact, BOTH of them!!! ;-]]

Willie Bray
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2 years ago
Reply to  Puest

🕯🌳I get my second one next week. 👍🏽👍🏽

Farce
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Farce
2 years ago

Not for the weed until the federal “legalization” comes through. Then we will see every federal agency showing up w/ big guns to shut down everybody. Just remember- they have a disinformation program in place so deep that people elsewhere will be celebrating “victory” and “freedom” while every mom n pop here gets blown away in the pursuit of “market share” and “revenue stream”… They will do their best to turn Mary Jane into an instrument of oppression and corporate dominance- not to mention the federal tax dollars that will be routed to overseas bombings of villages and poor folks. It’s a cruel farce underway. Are you brave enough to fight back? Or are you selling out your community and getting a permit?

Bug on a Windshield
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Bug on a Windshield
2 years ago
Reply to  Farce

It’s been an “instrument of oppression” since, at least, Nixon.

For sure
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For sure
2 years ago

Things that are lit up at night are easy to see. The key word for 2021 is WATER. Monitor every drop.

Bug on a Windshield
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Bug on a Windshield
2 years ago
Reply to  For sure

For sure, for sure, L.A. needs OUR water to grow THEIR crops.

Prof. Quiz
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Prof. Quiz
2 years ago

Perhaps they’re planning the next DEW attack this summer?

namer
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namer
2 years ago

Maybe someone called in coordinates to nuke anyone who says, “cannabis.”

Ben Round
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Ben Round
2 years ago
Reply to  namer

That’s a whole lotta nuking!

Hoping_im_wrong
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Hoping_im_wrong
2 years ago

Well I’d say the feds are indeed making money if they are using military aircraft to help eradication of black market grows. They are enforcing illegal grows with big brother power to ensure that big farmas keep on trucking.. fed tax coming very soon

For sure
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For sure
2 years ago

Since legalization, “Corporate” is waging a 7 year campaign to shut down every unpermitted farm. If everyone totally stops growing for 1 year, maybe they would call Victory & go away! It could happen- But growing is already the longest running act of civil disobedience in our country’s history. It’s amazing to think how CAMP, in all its variations, has benn going since the 70s. And neither side can agree on anything satisfactory. The best weed will always come from the smallest scale growers, and if our county planners want a classic product, they need to use their intelligence to look 100 years into the future. Just as many many towns& villages in Europe have been creating the same product in the same way for 100s, & even 1-2000 years, the planners need to permit the smallest scale growers& let Humboldt be celebrated in the cannabis world, as the origin of Artisinal product. It’s come this far, it needs to go full circle, just like the prices.

Orygun is above California
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Orygun is above California
2 years ago

Me and the wife are a real deal mom n pop scene…it didn’t used to be that way…had a few leases blowing it up just enough to not get popped.

Times have changed tho for us we became home owners and have kids. We not as hungry as we wer… basically now we just grow enough to maintain etc

Shoots we can’t even sell our packs that we grow together now Maybe 150 pounds a year.

Nobody wants to trim the shit without hiring the Mexicans or hmung…which we just won’t do. Can’t find workers to work the season and we actually pay and feed our people 😂 lol

Few years ago everybody’s beak was wet. Lol Buying new trucks, going on vacations and folks fighting over who’s paying the huge sushi tabs

Now we are over run by the criminal organizations that y’all have had for years down there. Bulgies, Hmungs Mexicans etc.

Just down the street theres a Mexican block that literally has hoops covering 100 acres no fuckin joke. It’s not even the biggest it’s one of the many many that are everywhere now.

There’s some white boys getting down too for sure but point is y’all don’t have a single scene in humboldt that rivals the shit that’s going on in southern Oregon right now!

I’m not even going to waste anymore time pulling a damn tarp serously why would we? Who’s gone buy our shit when they can get em’ for $400 from the cartels.

Yeah blah blah blah heady organic homegrown free range gluten free trimmed with love it’s just dope and the cartels are all growing the cookies the cakes strains.

Any WOok that can get the strains and can afford to buy good soil, nutes with quality sun exposure can win.

Orygun needs CAMP, the national guard and any other privately/public funded organizations that want to chip crops and ship the illegal immigrants the fuck out of the county.

We are the new dinousaurs and the asteroid that’s wiping out our existence is legalization, lack of enforcement and letting these criminal organizations run fucking wild🖕🖕🖕💯💯💯🦾🦾🦾🦅🦅🦅

Mr. Bear
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Mr. Bear
2 years ago

“Nobody wants to trim the shit without hiring the Mexicans or hmung”

Odd thing to say out loud

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
2 years ago

To further complicate things with a big FU to Humboldt is them bringing their Oregon weed to Humboldt to sell, glutting the market here to avoid the glut in Oregon.
I have no idea why Oregon is allowing the out of control growing. They are already affecting the prices here, greenrush style.
They pretend they’re growing hemp but they’re growing regular weed. The oversight in Oregon must not even exist.

Xebeche
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Xebeche
2 years ago

Racism is ugly

Bug on a Windshield
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Bug on a Windshield
2 years ago

I get that what is “…wiping out [your] existence is … lack of enforcement and letting these criminal organizations run fucking wild”. But, legalization? So, you want it to remain illegal? So you can make a bigger buck? You want to raise your kids in an illegal environment? You want to risk having your house AND your kids taken away from you? And would you bitch about it if that were to happen? It is a flippin’ plant. I can legally grow tobacco and hops, and even datura (though a game of Russian-roulette if used, but, a really good high if you get the right part and dose). Make sure your kids don’t eat Holly berries, ’cause, you know, poisonous, but legal. Poinsettias? Well, you know. Cannabis? Mmmmmm… poisonous? Can it kill you? The result of it being illegal can. We’ve been singing “Legalize It” since Peter Tosh wrote it decades ago. Now that it is, you can’t make it in a changing world? Screw you and your growdozin’, sushi bill fightin’, Emerald Triangle 1%er ideals. Be a real mom-n-pop; grow the good shit on small scale that the large grows and cartels can’t, or don’t. Adapt already and let me grow a damn plant without getting harrassed.

Orygun is above California
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Orygun is above California
2 years ago

You can’t go into battle without an army!

These damn cartels have an army

cu2morrow
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cu2morrow
2 years ago

if your nervous, then you have right to be nervous.