There used to be a practice range in Mcmullen county used by the Navy and the USAF. Not sure if it's still there now or not, but back in the 80's and early 90's it was quite common to hear and see Fighter jets in that general area of S TX., hear sonic booms, etc.

On a lease near the Mcmullen - Atascosa county line, I was walking a sendero from camp to go hunt one day, and something catches my eye and kind of startles me from overhead. It was an F16 (I think) moving from behind me on my right to out front and to the left of me. My first thought was - Man that dude is LOW!!! Second thought - OMG he has that thing moving!!!! Third - Wait...there's no sou........and that's when the thunder hit me and that moment is probably the closest I've ever been to my heart literally jumping out of my chest.

For some background, I was an AF brat, so had been around AF jets growing up and been to more Air Shows and Thunderbird performances than I can count. Still live in the San Antonio area, and for reference he was flying no where near as high as the Tower of America's, which I think is a little over 600ft give or take a few. I can tell you I have never seen anything else flying that fast at that height. It scared the you know what out of me when he passed over, but to this day it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my entire life.

There used to be a practice range in Mcmullen county used by the Navy and the USAF. Not sure if it's still there now or not, but back in the 80's and early 90's it was quite common to hear and see Fighter jets in that general area of S TX., hear sonic booms, etc.

On a lease near the Mcmullen - Atascosa county line, I was walking a sendero from camp to go hunt one day, and something catches my eye and kind of startles me from overhead. It was an F16 (I think) moving from behind me on my right to out front and to the left of me. My first thought was - Man that dude is LOW!!! Second thought - OMG he has that thing moving!!!! Third - Wait...there's no sou........and that's when the thunder hit me and that moment is probably the closest I've ever been to my heart literally jumping out of my chest.

For some background, I was an AF brat, so had been around AF jets growing up and been to more Air Shows and Thunderbird performances than I can count. Still live in the San Antonio area, and for reference he was flying no where near as high as the Tower of America's, which I think is a little over 600ft give or take a few. I can tell you I have never seen anything else flying that fast at that height. It scared the you know what out of me when he passed over, but to this day it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my entire life.

Last week, I was right in the middle of a very wide, mostly dry sandy river bed. Late morning in bright sunlight kneeling over a buck that I was quartering getting ready to pack out. I see them a lot, AF jets flying the river very low. This one, I heard it and he was right over me, with the plane at an attitude so that the pilot could see me. When I say low, I could see his oxygen mask, that low. I gave him a thumbs up, he went over me and took that sucker up and back around for another look. Altus, or SAFB, if you're reading this and that was you, hope you enjoyed your hunt that morning as much as I did. We both saw something cool.

I had a close encounter in the Lowe’s parking lot in Fort Worth near the JRB. He was bouncing an F16 and flew right over me while turning around to bounce again. He was maybe 200’ above me in a tight turn banked way over with cockpit clearly visable. We nodded at each other and he was gone. It was cool.