Dancing Butterflies By Digger Bar

[Manuel Tavares]

Dancing Butterflies
By Digger Bar
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The plane was flying low. Not low enough to be landing but low enough to be out of place. The place was a pristine North Idaho lake. No aircraft of that size should be flying that low over the water. There were fishing boats out there.

I heard it before I saw it.

Hearing the roar of a large engine I turned from my raking of pineneedles and looked out at the water. A large gray military type plane thundered through about 30 feet above the water’s surface. I was standing on a slight incline maybe 15 feet above the water and the plane was only four, maybe 5 dock lengths out as they leveled out and continued southward. It was so close and so out of place I knew I was witnessing something I probably wasn’t meant to see.

We were approximately a 40 minute drive from the Canadian border with no large airport in the area. The plane itself had no markings. None. There were no tail numbers, no decals, nothing but seagreen gray.

I wish I knew more about plane types but all I can do is describe it...+
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