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Molly Dowrick

Second jet aircraft spotted flying strange series of loops over Swansea

Some Swansea residents were left peering up to the sky again today after another jet flew a loop around the city, Gower and the Bristol Channel on Wednesday morning, March 9.

It's the second aircraft that's been spotted circling the city in just two days and was tracked to airspace above Swansea at around 11.35am.

The aircraft, believed to be an "A25 Dassault Falcon DA20," is understood to have first departed Bournemouth airport sometime on Wednesday morning, before flying over Dorset, up to North Devon and then over the Bristol Channel.

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From there, it appears to have hovered over Swansea, before flying back across the Bristol Channel and then back up to Swansea and Gower, repeating this loop several times, before going back across Devon and Dorset and back to Bournemouth.

The aircraft's flight comes just a day after a military plane was seen flying over Swansea and the Bristol Channel in multiple loops.

Did you see or hear either jet? Let us know in the comments below.

Flight tracking site, Flight Radar 24, appeared to show at least one US Air Force jet had set off from the RAF Lakenheath base in Suffolk, England, on Tuesday morning, March 8, before heading directly southwest towards Swansea.

But the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said there were also RAF Typhoons flying in the sky above Wales at the same time. You can read the full story on this here.

A spokesperson for the RAF has confirmed that the jet flying over Swansea today was not a military aircraft.

WalesOnline understands the jet is likely to have come from a private company in Bournemouth that supplies Falcon jets to the armed forces and specialist organisations for training exercises.

The plane is believed to have set off from Bournemouth airport on Wednesday morning (Flight Radar 24/screengrab)

Falcon aircraft tend to be modified in specific ways to support training around electronic warfare, naval gunnery and target work on behalf of the RAF and Royal Navy, the MoD, US Air Forces Europe, and NATO.

With this in mind, we understand the aircraft was flying over Swansea as part of a training exercise. We have contacted the aircraft company for more information.

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