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Check the skies

I would check planes and helicopters flying overhead using Flight Radar 24 during the George Floyd protests in 2020. Customs and Border Patrol sent a Predator drone to circle Minneapolis too. Pretty damn suspicious. In 2022 I was watching the Ukrainian and European flight radar. Some of the planes' info is censored, so I'm now opting for the open source ADS-B Exchange. One skill I'm learning is identifying what's overhead by sound. Some guys in the aviation community can do that. To quickly know when I hear an Aeropostale AS-350, Blackhawk UH-60, Bell UH-1D, A-10 Warthog, or Cessna Skyhawk. What started as vague paranoia may lead to another fun hobby. Obscured overhead surveillance has been confirmed since 2015, I've been down that rabbit hole. But ideally, knowledge reduces fear