The US Marine Corps launched an investigation after social media users noted on Tuesday that a Navy aircraft based in California had appeared to be phallic in the sky.

Spots of plane, a Twitter account documenting military flights noted the unusual flight of the plane over the Salton Sea in California, an isolated location southeast of Palm Springs. The account tweeted photos that seemed to indicate a flight path that deviated from a straight line into a complex and obscene form.

"Someone needs a word" with the pilot, joking the account.

Initially identified as a navy flight, count later corrected the record to say that the plane belonged to the Marine Corps.

Major Josef Patterson, spokesman for 3 Wing Naval Aircraft, told the Marine Corps Times that the aircraft in question belonged to the 101st Fighter Attack Training Squadron. sailors. Patterson could not say if the pilot was an instructor or training.

"Obscene or inappropriate actions, whether in flight or not, do not reflect the core values ​​we defend as Marines," Patterson told NBC 7 San Diego. He told the station that the incident was under investigation and that the Marine Corps would determine any disciplinary action to be taken after the investigation was completed.

Some see several incriminated forms in the flight path, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The paper also notes that the forms would not have been visible to people on the ground and would probably have been revealed only by flight tracking programs.

A similar incident that occurred last year in Washington State drew the country's attention when US Navy officials confirmed that one of its planes was involved in the US. writing of a penis silhouette. In this case, the incriminated form was visible to the naked eye.

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