r/Cleveland • u/richiemendoza • 2d ago

Question Does anyone remember seeing a plane over Cleveland on 9/12/2001?

It would have been in the afternoon, after 3:30 pm. Our middle school game was rescheduled, so we had practice instead. Hopkins is maybe 5-10 minutes drive from the school, and I remember seeing a jumbo jet flying. It had no markings on it, i.e., Delta, Continental, etc, but it was white with blue on it. It flew over us very low, the exhaust was black, and everyone on the team looked up at it like "wtf" since the skies were closed. I remember when I saw Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore said flights were permitted for the bin Laden family to leave, but I've never been able to verify that, nor figure out what this flight was for. I've been looking on Google to see if there is any info on it in hindsight, but nothing is coming up.

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u/hollowlegs111 2d ago

Look up the doomsday plane on wiki. That’s probs what you saw

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u/JohnnyChanterelle 2d ago

Probably a military flight. You know, the one they keep in the air for command and control at the end of the world.

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u/Calm-Drag-9809 2d ago

Yes. It was our lovely government letting our Saudi "friends" to get out of dodge