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11 Oct, 7 tweets, 3 min read
I think N300WQ was doing bathymetric LIDAR scans along the coast of Los Angeles last night. A couple nights before someone took this video of it doing the same thing in San Diego.
A commenter from reddit says "Yes, this mission is in support of the National Coastal Mapping Program. We’re currently flying at night in San Diego and LA due to air traffic congestion during the day in those areas."

reddit.com/r/gis/comments…
Supposedly the green laser they use to penetrate water is eye-safe at 250 m.
The video was posted to r/aviation, r/gis, and r/UFOs. Guess who found N300WQ? reddit.com/r/UFOs/comment…
N300WQ has been busy lasing people for a week or two now.
Here's what the LIDAR looks like from the plane's point of view. (From this video that @engelsjk found: )

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