2017-05-18 - Spokane Valley, WA - Triangle

A large plane being followed by a triangular shaped craft

Thursday May 18, 2017-12:21 PM, Spokane Valley, WA It was noonish on Thursday. I was working in the backyard. I heard a plane and casually glanced up. I to had to look again because I didn't understand what I was looking at. I saw a large plane, like a 747, with what looked like a triangle flying next to it.

I was looking to the north. The plane was flying east, at fairly high altitude. There was silver or white triangle flying on the right side of the plane just back from the nose of the plane. The triangle was shaped like a very narrow paper airplane. It was traveling at the same speed as the plane and was about half as long as the plane.

I watched the two fly above a cloud and then come out the other side. As soon as they hit the cloud, I ran for my phone but, by the time I got my phone on they were too far away to see on my camera.

I know what I saw. It was in the middle of the afternoon on a sunny day with a few clouds. The plane could not have taken off at our local airport because of its high altitude. Had it taken off at GEG, it would have been much lower. However, Fairchild AF base is very near the airport.

I guess maybe it could have been one of their planes. The triangular shaped craft was either white or silver. It was not a like any plane or a helicopter I've ever seen.

Oddly the plane left a contrail but the triangle craft did not