A lively retiree is going viral for his vivid impression of the moment a missing F-35 stealth plane crashed near his rural South Carolina home like “a meteorite” from “outer space.”
Wearing a straw hat in his Williamsburg County front yard, Randolph White, 72, told a local NBC affiliate that he was “in the bathroom shaving” on Sunday when a piercing noise filled the “nice, pleasant” area. calm and peaceful.”
“And I heard a screech,” he recalled. “Between a screech and a whistle.”
White then bravely imitated the noise, producing a long, rich screech that some online have compared to James Brown.
“I said, ‘What the hell is this?’” White recalled thinking. “And I heard a boom! Then my whole house shook.”
This local veteran, who retired from a nearby paper mill about a decade ago, said he didn’t realize the sound was coming from a $90 million F-35 jet that had gone missing after its pilot ejected. due to a “yet unexplained”. mishap.”
“I said well, did a meteorite come from outer space or something?” White recalled, raising his voice at the shock of it all.
Randolph White, a retiree from South Carolina, went viral for his impression of the missing F-35 plane that crashed near his home. WCBD NEWS 2 /Youtube
The F-35 stealth plane disappeared after the pilot ejected due to a “mishap.” fake images
“And I said, well, if it was a plane, we have to report it because it was flying too low,” he said. “I knew it was low because my house is pretty solid and it shook.”
A day passed before he heard helicopters flying overhead Monday night, and White didn’t immediately make a connection to the wild noise he had heard so vividly.
Instead, he thought the police activity was because “someone must have robbed a bank” or “killed some people or whatever.”
“So I walked up there and they told me it was the plane,” he said.
Randolph said he was home when he heard a sound similar to a “screeching and hissing.” WCBD NEWS 2 /Youtube
White said he was grateful that no one was hurt and noted that there was a small church just down the road that could have easily been hit by the plane.
“Anything man-made can malfunction,” he said. “You try to give them the benefit of the doubt. But it needs to be investigated and the public needs to know what really happened. You know, what happened shouldn’t be kept a secret. Because, you know, it could have been a big disaster.”
The clip of White’s animated recreation quickly went viral online, with Barstool Sports calling it “an ALL-TIME reenactment of the F-35 crash.”
The wreckage of the plane was eventually found in Williamsburg County.WCBD NEWS 2 /Youtube
“Mr. Randolph White just recreated the ‘Reeeeeee,’ and it’s EVERYTHING,” tweeted the Daily Wire’s Bree Dail, while another X user wrote, “A star and a meme are born!”
Authorities had not given an official cause of the accident as of Wednesday.
The pilot, who has not been identified, was located in a residential area of North Charleston on Sunday afternoon and taken to a local hospital for treatment.
It is understood he left the plane on autopilot when it ejected, sparking a desperate and embarrassing search that included the military asking locals for help to find the plane.
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