{"id":394494,"date":"2025-11-21T11:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/394494\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:10:16","slug":"two-fighter-jets-buzzed-dallas-wednesday-night-what-were-they-doing-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/394494\/","title":{"rendered":"Two fighter jets buzzed Dallas Wednesday night. What were they doing here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Two military fighter jets buzzed over North Texas last night for unknown reasons \u2014 shaking some residents \u2014 before visiting Dallas Love Field and taking off again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cAnybody in Dallas just hear that plane that was super low and super loud and didn\u2019t appear on the radar,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/taylordbaird\/status\/1991326419880661376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/taylordbaird\/status\/1991326419880661376\">an X user wrote. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cYep. Twice. Loudest I\u2019ve ever heard,\u201d another user responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cWhat in the heck kinda fighter jet or plane just flew over Dallas twice that\u2019s not registered on radar,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CourtKramer39\/status\/1991326432597778628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CourtKramer39\/status\/1991326432597778628\">another wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A jet, which internet watchers identified as a F\/18 Super Hornet, landed at the Dallas airport just after 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Aviation News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Stay prepared. Receive the latest airlines news, delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The jet took off again and came back about 30 minutes later. When it landed again, it was following another F\/18 Super Hornet fighter jet. The planes then taxied to a spot near JSX\u2019s hangar for refueling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">These kinds of planes are common on the western side of the metropolitan area where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/technology\/2025\/08\/15\/lockheeds-f-35-fighter-jet-makes-a-splash-in-north-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/technology\/2025\/08\/15\/lockheeds-f-35-fighter-jet-makes-a-splash-in-north-texas\/\">Lockheed Martin has a major F-35 manufacturing facility<\/a> \u2015 but not in central Dallas and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/love-field\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/love-field\">Love Field<\/a>, where Southwest Airlines is headquartered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Some of the excitement was captured by plane watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCxEfOZF4qEwygVVxlpPBObw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCxEfOZF4qEwygVVxlpPBObw\">Youtube channel Runway DFW<\/a>. Walt Zwirko, who runs the live feed, said later that he didn\u2019t have the correct angle to film the jets taking off again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cIt was quite something to see,\u201d Zwirko said in an interview. \u201cI can understand why people around Love Field and North Texas would be paying attention.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The plane wasn\u2019t tracked by the FAA\u2019s system, which isn\u2019t uncommon for military jets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Dallas Love Field said that they didn\u2019t have information on the fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cThe military does utilize DAL for various operations,\u201d Love Field spokesman Patrick Clarke \u201cOur team, however, does not track nor is privy to their flight plans or purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The FAA referred any questions to the military. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">One of the jets had the letters \u201cN H\u201d on the tail, indicating that it was a part of the U.S. Navy\u2019s \u201cStrike Fighter Squadron 211,\u201d based out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The squadron is nicknamed \u201cFighting Checkmates\u201d as shown by a large checkmark on the jets\u2019 tails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Representatives for the U.S. Navy\u2019s Southern Command did not respond to requests for comment by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Aviation reporter Jordan Parker contributed this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two military fighter jets buzzed over North Texas last night for unknown reasons \u2014 shaking some residents \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":394495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[10314,5229,1596,18466,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,36790],"class_list":{"0":"post-394494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-love-field","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-veterans-and-military"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115587385230003713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}