The CIA's Defense Language Institute (spook language school) is in Monterey, along with the old Fort Ord. Between that and the recent tsunami relief effort, I really doubt that a few extra heavy military choppers passing over Santa Cruz is anything significant. Get over yourselves - you are NOT THAT IMPORTANT.

If they flew extra-ordinarily low, it was just to buzz you and enjoy your paranoia. Military pilots are not bound by FAA regulations.

And before you say it, no, Im not a pro-military warhawk. Soldiers are, at best, misguided sociopaths willing to kill for college money.

But let's be reasonable. They're not dumping chemicals, they're not surveilling you, it's just some joker pilots exploiting your self-important paranoia for a little fun.