NORAD flight exercises planned over western Nevada

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - The Continental United States NORAD Region, a component of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, will conduct exercise flights Thursday in the skies over western Nevada.

The flights will take place in the late morning and early afternoon and people can expect to hear and see NORAD fighter aircraft as they practice their intercept and identification procedures.

NORAD has conducted exercise flights throughout the U.S. and Canada since the start of Operation Noble Eagle, the command's response to the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001.