I went outside, heard rumbling, saw a blackhawk, but realized this was out of the ordinary for a few reasons I'll explain below

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Rosepine

30.9199°N, -93.2824°W

LA, USA

Witness Account

I go outside for a smoke, I look up after hearing rumbling for 2-3 minutes. I think it's just a truck on the highway. Nope. Blackhawk. The helicopter isn't what I'm focusing on though. I'm ex-navy, I love aviation, so I know a lot about aircraft; directional lights, protocols, etc. A bright white light was flying alongside a blackhawk, northbound, along the highway. About 500m-750m altitude. In a traditional escort, under no circumstances will you ever fly alongside the craft. You will fly ahead of it. No aircraft's navigation lights are wired on a singular continuous circuit in such a way that creates a singular point of failure; this is not allowed for FAA safety standards and the odds of all navigational lights failing except for a landing-light on the underside of the craft are approximately zero. An underbelly navigation light is typically a strobe; and placed along the spine of the craft, which bisects the central point of an aircraft down the middle, from the front or back. This is to ensure that it's visible from any angle and anyone can tell the craft's orientation to avoid a collision. Fort Polk/Johnson escort paths do not fly along major highways for navigation if there…

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