Geek Soap Box

Captured this video this morning at the Douglaston LIRR station.  An unmarked helicopter (just labeled “001″) continued to fly in sweeping, erratic fashion back-and-forth over the inlet of Alley Pond Park.  Note how it barely makes it over the treetops on each pass; it continued this behavior for nearly ten observed minutes before my train came and I had to depart.

It was probably some form of pilot training, or even an ecological survey being performed on the rehabilitation of the area wetlands.  But still, nearly ten years after 9/11, abnormal flight activity gives me a bit of the chills.

Apologies on the strange vertical video formatting.  Still learning how to take high-definition clips with my iPhone 4, and obviously this time out I forgot to re-orient the phone so that it captured the scene horizontally!