Well, this is no mystery to me or anybody else in the Lincoln area. Only they do this throttle up right over the town at about 1000-2000 feet as they approach Beale from the South.
The real mystery is all of the weird lights flying around here at night, usually on a North/South path to/from Beale. Saw 'something' one night that was 200-300 feet in front of and below a Southwest 737 as it approached Sac International from the East. All you could see were two amber lights (on what I assume at each wingtip of this 'thing'). Just after it past Lincoln it slowly veered away to the North in the direction of Beale.
Also, often hear commercial pilots on the scanner talk about their TCAS going off with nothing else around.
I could go on with some other stories but they would be hard to believe.
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