I'd just like to state a little side note here. I live near the downtown area of my city, and thus, maybe 15 or 20 miles from the major airport.
I'm almost always up at this time of the morning (5 AM here).
But in the last hour, there have been about 30 planes leaving from the exact same direction of the airport, one after the other, consecutively. It is a busy airport, but never have I noticed such a consecutive departure, one after the other of planes, as I'm seeing this morning. It's rather odd... Just thought I'd share in case something happens.
Barack Obama is supposed to be in town this Friday, fresh off his VP announcement, maybe that has something to do with it. But seriously, it has just been a continuous loop of outgoing planes for the past hour strait. This has never happened before, at least that I've noticed from several years of watching the morning skies. Makes me wonder if a mass evacuation is taking place or something.
A radio test of the 'emergency broadcast' system came on as I was typing this...
EDIT: Or of course it might be some kind of helicopter, doing very wide sweeps around the entire city (some 50 times!), as I'm unable to follow it through all the tree lines, but due to the frequency of its appearance, it doesn't seem likely that it's a single aircraft doing circles.
Just found it weird, that's all... Probably nothing.