Amazing video footage shows an SAS Blue Thunder helicopter training above Bury under the cover of darkness. Footage shared with the MEN show the choppers circling while most of the town slept.
Figures could be seen abseiling down from the aircraft. In an exercise is known as 'fast-roping' and allows troops to land where a helicopter cannot.
According to witnesses, the helicopters were in operation for several hours on Tuesday evening (March 15). Mark Stevenson, who shared the videos with the Manchester Evening News said the operation was centred around Bury Training and Safety Centre, in Hinds Lane.
