Owen, who looked out his window around 4:30 to see what the racket was, was among many people reporting three military Osprey helicopters Read more.
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— Lindsay (@Lindsors) July 19, 2017
It's part of some training exercise that's been going on this week. Last night, they practiced at the old Radius Hospital in Roxbury. Goes through July 21.
Matthew George watched one of the National Nuclear Security Administration's helicopters fly low over the Marathon route today for our annual background-radiation check.
Kat Powers reports a low-flying chopper, with one of those large video thingees mounted on the front, began buzzing Watertown awake before 6 a.m. today.
At least she's in touch with local lore, though, adding:
If I pull a Gidget on the #lowFlyCopter, how #Boston is that?
UPDATE: Helicopters are buzzing the area around Egleston Square as well.
Once again, reports are flooding into Helicopter Central here of low-flying, buzzing, really loud choppers just making loops around Boston Harbor, from Logan to Aquarium and back again, over and over again, so we're going to assume they're part of the same mysterious Pentagon/police training exercises we're not supposed to know about, except it's kind of hard to ignore giant blacked out eggbeaters roaring over your heads. Read more.
An aggrieved citizen complained this afternoon:
Multiple helicopters hovering over JP right now. It is loud, and unnecessary, and disruptive.
Ed. note: They were there for the warehouse fire on Amory Street.
Neil photographed one of the helicopters that ferried Congressional Medal of Honor recipients around town to various ceremonies today - in this case, parked outside the World Trade Center, where the recipients were holding their national convention.
Mad Ty photographed an airborne Blackhawk helicopter: Read more.
Black Hawk Helicopters May Be Visible in Eastern Massachusetts on Mon 6/8 & Tue 6/9 as Part of Training Exercise pic.twitter.com/J0A9PlM6fr
— MEMA (@MassEMA) June 8, 2015
Roving UHub photographer Jim Gavaghan got what may be the day's best photo of the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration radiation-background helicopter, which was flying low and loud over and near Boston Harbor today. He saw it past the trees along L Street in City Point.
Chopper over Chelsea. Photo by Andrew Teman.
A helicopter is flying low and in circles over the area this morning. It could be a federal radiation chopper, or it could be a training exercise by the FBI and State Police. Read more.
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