A B-52 has taken off from Minot AFB at 3:33 a.m. ET. It is headed east. [View all]

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This might be not anything at all other than a training flight. It is keeping to a low altitude, and it is definitely not on a great circle route to the Middle East.

Its course on ADSB Exchange is erratic, as if its transponder is not reporting correctly.

00000000, https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae6ca6

I wonder if there's a flyover scheduled at Arlington Cemetery today. The plane is on a course to DC.

It's hard to miss. It's the only airborne B-52 on the entire planet.