Neighbours were alerted four hours earlier at 4.20am when they heard planes overhead.
Dick Morris, 59, a carpenter who lives opposite, said: ‘I heard what I first thought was a para plane, basically an engine with a seat and parachute, which is common around here. You hear one for ten minutes and it’s gone. But this went on and on.
‘I went out to load my truck at 7am and the plane was still going. I thought, “What the heck is this guy doing buzzing around and around?” ‘I peered up through the trees and caught a glimpse of a small Cessna-type plane high up and buzzing in a wide circle.
‘Then I noticed another plane so there were two of them, like opposite sides of a circle, this high-altitude circle of planes buzzing around and around.
‘Later I realised it had to be the FBI making sure she didn’t leave before the raid team got there.’