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ground observer

American  

noun

  1. a person stationed in a position on the ground to watch, follow, and report on flights of aircraft, especially of enemy aircraft.


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The aircraft would be restricted to closed movie sets on private or “controlled-access” property, and would have to remain within sight of the pilot or a ground observer.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2014

A ground observer can see cloud effects about five miles away.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the case involving the ground observer and the F-47 near the atomic installation, we plotted the winds and calculated that a lighted balloon was right at the spot where the pilot encountered the light.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.

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