There is also the aircraft that crashed at Boscombe Down in the 90's that was taken back to the USA in a C5. It has always been said it was an Aurora aircraft that crashed.
Great video. It's been quite awhile, since anyone has dug up information about the the ever elusive Aurora. I'm not sure if you are aware of this but there is a couple satellite photographs of the contrails left by the Aurora. It's also photographed in HD as well.
Depends, does another country find the stuff and leak it. Or do the crash it in a populated area. Kinda like the U-2 Dragonlady. No one was supposed to know we had them, but the soviets sure did.
@johnny blaze Something replaced the SR-71 Blackbird decades ago. The public don't know its replacement, but come on, it was replaced, and you know what replaced that, had to be MUCH better.
I've been a pilot for 21 years. I saw this plane at nighttime west of Las Vegas at approximately 800-1200 ft AGL. Around 10pm. It was very low, very fast and silent. Without the red lights, I wouldn't have noticed it but I could see the overall shape as it passed over with the light from vegas. It without a doubt exists.
tr3b is the silent doreado, this plane would be very loud especially below 10,000 feet the air is too thick, we have hypersonic mini shuttles that have the ability too bomb targets or take pictures or manuver in space.
@@debbies3763 I agree with you. I have always heard from witnesses that the Aurora sounded like “the sky was being torn apart “ Every witness stated the same thing and that was that it was extremely loud. That the sound was completely different than a sonic boom and that the sky was being ripped apart.
Eric it was jet black right, without any lights on the exterior of any kind right? I saw the same thing in Spokane in 2006, it was darker than the night sky, pitch black. It was so dark that I could see it against the dark sky at 10:00pm, because it was darker than the ambient sky light, which was very dark. Before seeing it, I saw a shooting star. Then a moment later, I saw the black triangle without any lights on it, and without any sound at all, move very quickly across the horizon. I still think the shooting star may have actually been the craft entering the atmosphere. What's so interesting is the lack of any sound, and absolutely no light being emitted from any engines, and no ionization of the air (glowing). It's a very interesting technology because it's basically totally silent, and has no atmospheric reactions, and no sound of the air passing over the fuselage. I didn't hear a single sound, despite the craft moving very very fast.
Around 1999 I was driving on Route 27 in Montauk with my girlfriend at around 2am. We were out there for the weekend and had just gotten done with a late dinner. The road was basically deserted, and it was a clear sky with a full moon. I looked out over the ocean and saw the famous 'donuts on a rope' contrail hanging in the sky, lit up by the moonlight. Even back then I was aware of the Aurora theory and couldn't believe what I was seeing. To be extra sure, I pulled over to the side of the road and got out just to observe in detail for a little while longer. My girlfriend thought I was nuts, but I tried my best to explain to her why this was important. The contrail was relatively low from what I could tell... probably 25k feet or so, from what I remember (I was also taking flying lessons at the time so I had some sense of these things). The contrail had already begun to expand and disperse, so I estimated that the aircraft had probably passed through the area around 30 minutes prior. It was unmistakably NOT the contrail from a standard aircraft though. I have never seen anything like it before or since. This is the same area where military maneuvers are relatively common, and where TWA Flight 800 had crashed a few years prior. I'm not saying it's definitive proof of anything, but I do know what I saw.
I used to live close to one of the busiest airports in the world and used to enjoy a spot of sky watching. I'd see contrails identical to the alledged "do-nuts on a rope contrail" pretty much every day. While I suppose it's possible that the US is flying a secret spyplane in a foreign country in some of the busiest airspace in the world without being spotted, I think a simpler explanation is more likely - these contrails are produced by standard civilian aircraft
@@5ynthesizerpatel Like I said, what I saw doesn't prove anything either way. But I've also been around aviation quite a bit and I've never seen those contrails at any point before or after. Just my personal experience. It could have been nothing, but that image has really stuck with me ever since.
I think this is the best way to approach things You collect evidence, witnesses, theories and see how they fit, then seek further information to make it or break it. It's the collating of evidence that paints the picture.
After coming back home to Las Vegas from the USAF I have maintained my love for aviation and am always looking up. I was driving home from work in 2014 or 2015 when I witnessed a contrail rapidly appear in the sky above Vegas. When I say rapidly, I mean from one horizon to the other within 20 to 30 seconds. I also witnessed at the same time all other visible air traffic in the vicinity complete divert from their original flight path. This happened in the middle of the day around 1pm.
According to my basic countings, the speed was mach 11,75 if horizon is about 40km from you. Do you have some info about the visibility? This count is pretty unstable because it is partially estimated and I don't have precise info, also I am not a math genius...
@@jonnyjackson6050 Yeah, I vaguely remember pictures from the showing at Palmdale. I tried to be smart and check my facts and instead read the introduction date which was '97. :)
I had the pleasure of guarding the B2 Bomber in 1986/87 before it was acknowledged. Before it officially existed. I remember hearing people speculating about whether or not the Air Force had “flying black triangles” and myself and my coworkers knew all about it. Stealth bombers and stealth tactical fighters were not a mystery to us, they were day to day Duty.
I saw the B2 at the Wright's Patterson AFB few years ago. The thing is absolutely massive. Was kinda take. Aback at the sheer size. While the F117 looked about the size I'd expect.
That’s all I’d want out of armed service, just let me guard some badass tech in a hidden base and be a by stander for top secret events. Is that so much to ask? I’d disappear from my family and cut all ties to keep those secrets for free.
@@rotinhellu-tube2737 You may have to sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) And will probably be under surveillance so that you don't expose any info.
I live in California and have seen a lot of experimental flights over the years. When I believe I saw the Aurora, I didn't actually see it. Instead I saw the contrail appearing rapidly across the sky. It looked more like it was appearing in chunks than a straight line. No matter how much I tried to focus my vision on where the plume was starting it always seemed I couldn't see the plane. The control was all the way across the sky in a few seconds.
I was a state department contractor in Afghanistan for a number of years, sometimes stationed at a remote drone base. I saw some drones that are not known to the general public. They flew only at night, and we were literally told not to look at them (which I thought was funny until I realized how serious they were). I think it is entirely possible that something like the aircraft in this video exists. The F-117 Nighthawk was around for years before the public knew of its existence, this wouldn't be the first time they kept something secret.
I grew up by Beale AFB home of the reconnaissance wing and worked at Vandenberg AFB as a civilian. I have always been fascinated with jets and planes and the military. I have seen UFOs/UAPs and watched 2 red lights enter upper earth atmosphere from space...they were both red non flashing same speed and uniformed movement, I believed i witnessed 2 classified craft with interplanetary capabilities flying that night.
Dude, the military has a budget for secret operations. They certainly don't need to justify their spending to the public, nor would they have to hide behind fudging numbers on known operations.
@@ameliadunton6200 what are you talking about? The military budget increases every decade or so and has been for over a century. It fluctuates year by year, but that means absolutely nothing. The US spends over three times what the next country spends on their military, and over ten times the country in third.
@@Saldivinorum yes usa spends a lot more than anyone els but the budgets around 2007-2009 where alot bigger than the last 5 or so years. In 2010 and 2011 they couldn't even account for the spend ( band accounting was the excuse) but we all know it's because they spent way to much. Since then there have been smaller budgets. But I am sure they do not realeaes everything to the public. As they have shown before sometimes they just release nothing and make excuses to cover up such high spend
@@ameliadunton6200 like I said it fluctuates year by year, but that means absolutely nothing. You're only proving your ignorance on the subject. The US spent about 750 billion dollars 2010 and 2011. In 2020 they spent 766 billion, which is actually an increase. The only way you can make the argument that they spent less is by changing the figures with inflation. Not to mention the budget for military spending has increased every single year for the past several years. People like you are an example of how easily fooled people are by statistical data. If you look only at the last five years military spending has increased over 7% overall. Over the past 50 years it's gone up exponentially, however making slight dips during certain years. This is how statistics works...
I got a story about this. I used to work for Northrop Grumman at the B2 plant in Palmdale during the early 90's. I was the Health and Safety Manager for the site, and I used to participate in a Professional Association safety meeting that was held up there, with other safety folks from the area, including the guys from Lockheed Skunkworks. So anyway, at one of these meetings, I was talking to people about testing the breathing air systems on the B2 as part of the certification process, and one of these two guys from Lockheed asks me how I go about doing it. He explained that they were working on an aircraft that used Hydrogen as a fuel (or maybe it was Hydrazine) and that the breathing air system was nearby and that it was somewhat dangerous because they were using liquid oxygen, and they were not happy with the engineers about that. I asked him "what the heck airplane is that on?" and the second guy sharply elbowed the first, and that was the end of the conversation. This was during the time that all the sonic booms were happening, something like every Friday at 2 pm (exact details escape me) and had also been one or two sightings by commercial airline pilots of the wedge shape heading towards Nevada. Also there was an unmarked 737 that took off every week day from Palmdale and was rumored to be flying staff back and forth to Groom Lake. So what I gathered from all this, is yes, there is an Aurora spy plane, it uses some fairly dangerous fuel, and it is probably manned. Anyway...it is a fun story. I really loved my time with the B2 Division and I was sorry when it wound down with me eventually leaving for another job that was nearly not as good or interesting.
Retired B-2 mechanic and maintenance instructor here. Great airframe! I taught guys from Palmdale. Through some weird connections, I know the Aurora mechanics said it was a huge pain in the ass to maintain, so your story checks out.
Actually thats happening. At the highest technological margin, we can build Seemingly physics defying technological marvels, the only problem is money. It costs a literal nations worth for something of this kind of technology, Which is why the USA can usually only afford to mass equip they're forces with the least pricey yet most technologically advanced to ratio.
The bulk of aerodynamic breakthroughs are 70 years old or older right now. manned hypersonic craft were a reality in the early 70s. not pulsed jet technology, no pinched airflow as seen in the diagram, full external combustion, pulsed to stop abalation of the engines coating.
I was standing in my yard here in north central Texas in the fall watching geese fly over. I always see contrails, we are right in the middle of so many flight paths but this one stood out. The only way I can describe it is it looked like a string of Mardi Graw beads. I took a picture of the contrail and showed it to all my friends in aviation and every one said, how strange, but I don't know
I've always been interested in this plane. Even after looking into a lot of info on it and while still remaining sceptical I am pretty sure that thing actually exists. Your video on it btw is one if not the best and most factually competent videos on the entire internet regarding the Aurora!!
I'm 95% sure there was a plane fitting this description flying in the 1990's out of Area 51. It just wasn't called Aurora. Aurora was the name of the B2 test program many were confusing this particular plane with.
Fun Fact: I steadfastly believe I observed this overfly me when conducting a training exercise at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas in 1996. Lying on my hammock I saw an unlit triangle streak overhead with great speed at lower altitude (less than 5,000') with zero sound. I only saw it because the skies were clear and the shape could be made out against the starfield. NO SOUND. I waited quietly to hear anything.....and nothing. I knew what an F-117 was so I knew it wasn't that. At the time I had no knowledge of the Aurora Project's existence. 3 years later I see a cover of Popular Science showing the Aurora and stopped dead in my tracks, pointed, and said " That's it! I saw that!". I will bet all I have I definitely saw that aircraft.
THe editor of this channel is mixing two very different aircraft up. The one you saw and didnt hear was either an alien UFO or the TR3-b that was (is) based on alien technology taken from crashed craft in the 1950-80s, "Black triangle"aircraft is referring to the TR3-B and is supposedly back engineered from alien technology and is powered by a compact nuclear fission reactor and has antigravity performance capabilities. The SR-91 is hypersonic craft that uses jet engines and normal hydrocarbon fuel rather than mercury plasma accelerated in a cyclotron type device powered by nuclear fission power plant (in place of the alien crafts nuclear fusion power plant which couldn't be reproduced )
@@sanctified5523 That's what people said about others claiming the SR-71 exists. He's not a "nutter", don't assume. He might be too definitive with speculative information regarding the technologies itself, but I've witnessed 3 crafts in my lifetime that were absolutely extraterrestrial, or taken from extraterrestrial technologies. A white star-like orb that flew and "wiggled" above my apartment complex in Hattiesburg, MS, 12 years ago for hours, and a (at least) mile-wide, rectangular, void-black "boomerang", that flew about 400 AGL (I fly drones for a career). It was completely silent, no lights/darker than the night sky, and it was at the same exact time as the orb was above my complex. The last sighting I had was with 2 of my best friends, this was my favorite because it validated everything I told them about the first sightings 2 years prior. There were 5 orange/red orbs (looked on fire) flying in vector formation extremely fast over me and my friends BBQing. The orbs instantly stopped over the pond in front of us at about 600ft or so AGL, and they instantly took off in 5 different directions. They were like a bag of fireworks; some "cork-screwed", and the others went in straight lines opposite of each other, but mainly, they were so fast that they turned transparent and vanished without a single sound on a crystal-clear night sky. We spoke about it for weeks and still do to this day. We found out later that these were what the astronauts and military occasionally claim to see called, "The Foo Fighters" (not the band). The first sightings were at around 3am, and the last sighting was around 12am. If you ever have sightings like this, it'll confirm everything for you. Including the active coverups of said technologies, and where the very blatant technologies are coming from. You'll immediately know the differences, there's no mistaking it, and you're in complete awe with goosebumps; it's why there are very few REAL videos... it's usually late at night, you only care about what you're seeing, and it typically happens too quickly. Cheers
I'm a pilot. I live in central California. I have seen the knots on a rope contrails a few times. They are high altitude and along airways. I assume they are either known planes with special weather conditions, etc... or unknown planes. I am close enough to test bases for these things to have originated at one of them.
@@Markhope-e3z Aerosol vapors would be exactly that... vapors. There is no reason why the vapors you claim are released for geoengineering purposes would form to a spiral, they would be released in similar fashion to how burned kerosene from jetliners is released.
My only criticism of the existence of this aircraft is that it wouldn’t be a recon jet. Wtf do you think killed the blackbird? Satellites. Why invest billions to replace the blackbird when satellites do it’s job for a quarter of the cost and twice as effectively with virtually no risk to human life? If the Aurora exists, it’s a combat aircraft.
legit point mate. also why make it so big when stuff is advanced enough to make it smaller thus reducing the possibility of random radar crossing which once killed a F117
Perhaps a black strike aircraft...long-range, can get anywhere in the world in two hours or less. Useful for striking drug cartels in Columbia ( or farc rebels) or Russian fuel and ammo depots near the Donbass
The only problem with satellites is that they are on known, predictable orbits, so enemies know when they will be overhead. They can be maneuvered to new orbits, but it's difficult / expensive, and they are launched with a very limited supply of fuel for orbit changes. The benefit of the SR-71 / Aurora is that they can be sent quickly / stealthily over any target on very short notice before whatever they are sent to observe can be moved or hidden. As far as combat, maneuvering or launching missiles at those speeds is extremely impractical.
Also.. I dosen't matter what engine you put on an aircraft, it's still limited by hitting the atmosphere and turning into a ball of flame if you go too fast. Then there is that lil pesky thing where there are treaties in place that ANY nuclear-capable vehicle has to be publicly announced. But of course for conspiracy nutjobs like this channel none of that ever matters.
It is one of the most beautiful planes built. I was a HUGE fan of the X-15 program as a kid, and this plane brought out the same level of awe and wonder. The final cross-country flight in 45 minutes is a lasting epitaph.
once got to meet a blackbird pilot, he didn't talk much about it but did say it was much faster than is publicly said. i definitely believe aurora exists
I worked with a Blackbird pilot. He was very tight lipped despite all my clearances. He characterized its speed as one mile per second. He would not even hint about maximum altitude. Much faster than the advertised speed.
The fastest they've ever acknowledged the Blackbird actually flying was Mach 3.56, or just shy of 2,400 MPH. But it was an A-12 and not a SR-71. That was in a slight dive and ideal conditions, and lasted all of fifteen seconds.
It wouldn't surprise me, you could probably go into a parabolic trajectory before you reach your target and gain a lot of speed on the way down. Gravity can accelerate a plane very quickly in a dive.
When I was in my 20's, a guy I knew seem to have some kind of inside line on all the aeronautical high tech goings on at that time. This was in the early 80's. He was doing allot of talking about the Aurora and scratch built a model of it. He was also doing a bunch of writing on it too. The stuff he was talking about was over my head at the time and some still is, but I had an appreciation for what he was presenting and doing. It was really cool and he was obviously a pretty smart dude. Then he got raided by the FBI and they confiscated all his work on it and of course the model. I think it's safe to say, he was on to something.
Oh look it’s a not plane, no it doesn’t exist but it’s over there, oh no it’s moved again, misdirection is a secrets greatest asset, just ask a magician.
yeah, but by that same argument they would be more than happy to let the idea of this plane stand if it isn’t true. If that serves as a distraction to whatever they are actually working on, or as a misrepresentation of something.
This is why the USA invested so much into encouraging ufo conspiracy theorists from the 1950s onwards It didn't _just_ serve to cover up aircraft. The cattle mutilation stuff turned out to be atomic scientists pulling organs to track radiation clouds from nuclear bomb tests gone awry Amazing how dumb panicked smart people can be. A trip to a local abattoir would have been far less attention-getting....
My father worked for the skunk works for over ten years in Palmdale California. He was a master electronics engineer. He worked on both the SR-71 project and the F117 nighthawk. His name was James Bardin Campbell. He passed away in 2008. I live in Reykjavik Iceland now however I leave this comment here for anyone who knew my father.
Your timeline is off, dude! The SR-71 and the F-117 were designed and flew while Skunk Works was still in Burbank! My father was a director under Ben Rich. He had retired from North American Rockwell in 1979 and went to work for skunk works later in the year. He was there from 1979-1994. He left Skunk Works and permanently retired when Skunk Works moved to Palmdale! And yes they did build the "Aurora".
@@mikeroth7080 Well, he said his father worked for over 10 years in Palmdale which doesn't preclude that he worked in Burbank for a number of years before that.
I have seen three of these. Two flying in formation one morning in 2018, and one with double width wings in 2020. They had what looked like rocket engines, based on the exhaust. No doughnuts, but long clear blue flames. One trail each. Looked like a tiny triangle, only was visible for maybe 10 seconds. The darn thing went from horizon to horizon in 10 seconds. Basically a manned ICBM, possibly steered into orbit for reconnaissance purposes, or to go insanely fast as a strike bomber/reusable ICBM.
Satellites aren't completely reliable if you're trying to track down a moving target, that's why spy planes are still viable since they give up to date information
I remember hearing about the Aurora back in the 90's. There was some kind of multiple sonic boom event over southern california that freaked people out, and the air force came out and claimed responsibility for the event and called it "Aurora."
The funding is for weather balloons. As we have seen, the flight dynamics of those weather balloons are quite impressive. Now we even have "tic tac" shaped ones that will outperform navy fighter jets. Perhaps they found a way to fill one with swamp gas?
Unless humans have figured out how to manipulate gravity like these objects appear to be, (which would be a completely revolutionary breakthrough) it doesn’t seem likely humanity could create and operate such things.
I remember meeting some grad students when I was touring colleges who were studying supersonic combustion in a loop. They were still trying to figure out how some of the reactions would change direction instantly I remember asking a question where their response was along the lines of “we don’t know but the military does” it is really frustrating that there is so much technology that is available now but only used for secret weapons to fight a war that is ridiculously improbable
Disclosure of advanced technology to the public might be further researched and advanced by anybody, which then could cause a threat in the public to overpower the government of the nation.
@@ens0198 More likely that the powers that be do not want this technology to fall into enemy hands. Which is difficult to safeguard if it's in the public domain.
I've lived nearly all of my life here in Southern California, and with a very healthy appetite for all things aerospace. I clearly recall those seismic reports and seeing published sensor data that showed a clear path heading out lower Nevada and into the cnetral Pacific Ocean, then coming back further north up the SoCal coast and pointing directly back to lower Nevada.
I worked graveyard shift in So Cal in 1991. One morning the fluorescent lamp over my desk started to shake back and forth. Two seconds later I heard one of the strangest sounds I've ever heard, I guess the sky tearing apart isn't a bad description. It was so weird that the shockwave arrived two seconds before the sound. There were reports of the Aurora having flown by that morning later in the day.
No doubt about that. I was using touch screen technology in the Navy in 1980 on a ship that was commissioned in the 1960s. And it was the mid-1990s before I see it in consumer products for the first time. A good rule of thumb is to always assume the government has had it *for at least 20 years* before the public gets it.
In 1999 I was living on an island 60 miles north of Seattle. I had a dog who was absolutely petrified of lightning. One night she started making noise so I went to bring her and she was looking up at the sky and was following something. It was making a sound similar to a blowtorch, not the usual jet noise. I had previously been working on the B 2 so when I moved back down to work on the Predator I stopped by Tehachapi to see a friend I had worked with. He described hearing the same sound fly over his house. Word had gotten around that it was flying an elliptical course from Edward's to the Canadian border and said he had heard people say it was operating out of Edward's but I find that unbelievable, Groom Lake yes.
bruh its none of the above, its a concept made just for the movie, just meant to represent something hypersonic that tom cruise tests, not any existing projects
@@Kilroy.402 nope, EDI and the Talons are hypersonic but they are fighters not spy planes, also they are powered by scramjets not pulse detonation engines
We're here to hel... (insert Kamala Harris insane cackle laughter) Help... ha ha... you. Ahem. We're here to help you. Because we're the government. (snicker)
When I was in college I worked at a homeless shelter where part of the program was helping veterans. They had people there who could help vets find access to services and compensation that they may have not known about. We had a hand full of people come into that shelter most from the navy and Air Force who claimed to have worked on special air craft that are straight out of science fiction. Some of the guys would sometimes claim that famous ufo sightings were really just these secret air craft that they had supposedly worked on. They would go on and on about anti gravity and nuclear power. Now it seems easy to brush these people off as simply crazy however some of the guys had health issues do to being exposed to high levels of radiation like Chernobyl levels and what’s even stranger is that the VA wouldn’t help them out medically as they said that the medical issues were seen as not related to services 😵💫. The military has some crazy stuff and the darkest part is that they will let the soldiers involved in making that stuff die just to keep a secret.
There was actually a court case that some military personnel won regarding the health effects from burning materials at Area 51. Basically, because everything was classified, the military would just dump jet fuel on anything they wanted destroyed and lit it on fire. The fumes caused serious health issues.
@@DAAllan82 yeah I heard about that one and I actually think there was another one where personal sued during the first testing of the first nuclear bombs. They literally made the soldiers stand just outside the blast radius to see the effects it would have and they made them run drills in areas close to the blast zones shorty after the bombs detonated. There is a bunch of videos of soldiers literally running towards the mushroom clouds and I believe a tone of people died from radiation poisoning and cancer. If I remember correctly the families and survivors sued.
Crazy happens in the military though. I've had older navy and air force vets tell me some of the wild but demonstrably false stuff thier coworkers would say. That said. I'm sure somewhere in there there's a couple guys who really did work on stuff like that.
I worked for a company that made high precision gear. Our customer was Lockheed aviation. I was at work when they flew the SR-71 to break it's own air speed record the day it was announced the plane was being retired. A rep for Lockheed came to pick up parts. We talked about the SR-71 and why would they retire it when it still held the air speed record. He said do you think we would retire it if we did not have a better replacement?
@@bobwei1631 That's what they told the public. And yes, spy satellites are very important. But there is just no way to replace quality human work, which is why I strongly believe SR-71-like spy planes never went away.
Actually, the "Flying Dorito" was the nickname for the Navy's first carrier-based stealth attack plane, the A-12. The program was canceled due to underperformance and cost overruns.
In the late 90's & early 2000's I would sit on my Dad"s back deck in Grass Valley Ca and watch this plane fly over. It had a very distinctive con trail. Donuts followed it as it went bye at such speed and altitude it was almost impossible to see or keep track of the source. But somehow my dad knew that it was called the Aurora, a plane that didn't exist, he claimed that ALL the the info was in the public domain if you knew where to look. He has since been proved to 100% correct. I sure miss his inquisitve mind & .ability find things about things that puzzled him. And that con trail that he had been watching was a big one.
im sure. humans know so much about everything cept what happened 5 minutes ago. so we can trust them as long as we give them money an meth when they ask for it. we can trust them. 👍
I first heard of the donuts-on-a-string contrail, the supposed mach 6 cruise speed, and the name _"Aurora"_ around 1997. It's been 24 years since, and still no big public reveal. If it's real, they've done an uncommonly good job of keeping it secret.
Well to be fair, if most of their secrets are successfully kept, it would *seem* like it's uncommon for them to keep secrets under wraps, in all honestly we know absolutely NOTHING. The government tells us jack shlt.
@No Body "Once an airframe goes into production it's completely impossible to keep secret" How do you suppose that..? What are you basing that on? They could easily have facilities that are specifically meant for building top secret vehicles that nobody besides people approved can lay eyes on
I'd say Aurora exists. Simply because 750BN$ military budget buys *alot* of secrets. Remember the 9B$ black hole in the military budget that couldn't be accounted for... I'm sure the correct term for the Aurora is TR3b. Some. Say this is a different aircraft. This might explain the confusion - people are looking for the wrong aircraft Designation.
I've been interested in HAM radio since the mid seventies. Sometime in the early 90's I was scanning the 80m band looking for someone talking about a technical subject. I was in Illinois, and it was late, maybe 1am. I think it was up around 3.95 I ran into 2 guys talking about aviation. They were both Skunkworks engineers, one retired, one was currently working. They got to chatting back and forth, the usual describing their stations, weather, etc. As time went on, they started talking more and more 'shop'. Having spent over 40 years talking on the radio, I know how easy it is to forget you're broadcasting and not talking on a phone. It was late, bands were quiet, noise levels were low and these 2 guys fell into the trap. The retired guy worked on the SR-71 or 72 project, the younger guy said he was working on a plane called Aurora, and it will exceed every aspect of the SR series performance. According to the retired guy, the declassified speed and altitude limits are bullshit, they're both substantially higher. It couldn't be run at those speeds for any length of time as it caused a lot of damage, but in an emergency it could be pushed. The biggest limit on speed is heating of the leading edges. The Aurora guy said they were creating an ION field in front of the leading edges to deflect the oncoming air away from the surface thus reducing temperatures allowing substantially higher speeds, approaching double what the SR could do. They also chatted about propulsion, everything from ramjets up to nuclear pulse jets which was the key to increasing their operational ceiling. It was absolutely fascinating, much of it way over my head and long since forgotten. I wish I had gotten it on tape but was so caught up in it that it never occurred to me. I was an AOL member at the time so I searched (what I could at the time) on and off but came up with nothing. It wasn't until a few years later once the Internet started to coalesce that I started to find references to it. It was at that point I knew that the 2 guys I listened to talking shop were the real deal, and that the Aurora did exist in the black.
I saw one on a moonlit night easyetn shore of MD early 90s on its decent from where ever and it was glowing from heat . It was crazy . I am guessing the pilot pulled the throttle back to idle a few hundred miles back and it was still covering crazy ground. I thought it was a UFO until further research. I am also a pilot and the speed it must have been going was tremendous. I bet it covered 100 miles in the matter of seconds
@@petet-rex5589 I was an electronics warfare technician, in the navy, in the early to late 90s. I saw this plane (electronically) off the NE Coast. It was barely visible on radar and traveling at Mach 7+. I absolutely believe flight 800 was taken down by a collision with an aurora.
@@jasgk74 I highly doubt thats what happened to TWA 800. A short circuit in one of the fuel tanks caused it to explode because of the fuel being vaporized by an overheating air conditioning system.
@@spran369 At least that’s the story we were given. I left out a lot of information from my story. Suffice it to say, there was a lot of secrecy preceding the encounter; & it was assumed that our OS wouldn’t be able to see it on radar. The equipment I operated was supposed to be disabled during that designated time frame, but I was ordered to verify the contact. So... I did. Eye witnesses to the flight 800 incident (which happened a few weeks later) said they saw a missile hit the jet. Considering, (theoretically) only missiles could travel that fast; anything moving at that speed would look like a missile.
@@jasgk74 I don't subscribe to that theory. Why the hell would the US Navy shoot down an american passenger jet? Besides, the supposed ship that shot down the jet was nowhere near the crash. Interviews and other information also corroborates this. Furthermore, the eyewitness claim that they saw a missile flying may have actually just been the 747 climbing while on fire since the cockpit was ripped off the rest of the plane when the fuel tank exploded.
I've heard it and seen the doughnuts on a rope. Working at Holloman AFB, NM 1987-1995, I grew up and lived around Air Force bases all my life. The sound is unlike any other aircraft, an unforgettable thump, thump, thump with a background roar. It doesn't last long, incredibly fast.
What I find most amusing about this is just how common some of the knowledge of this plane is. I remember as far back as 2002 seeing rumors about this plane in a issue of popular mechanics, or something like that. In 2003 command and conquer generals had it as a bomber for the American faction. And it was almost identical in design and function to what was described in the video.
When I worked for Northrop Grumman in California in the mid 90s, we heard pulsating sounds and the sonic booms along the coast near Oxnard. This happened on multiple occasions and we did detect the weird contrails on one occasion.
While camping in southern utah, 7/1994, we saw a triangle shaped aircraft. It was black, no lights on top, but blue and red lights underneath. It was completely silent, and slowed down so much I thought it was going to stop right above us. When I first spotted it, it was just another light in the night sky by the moon. But within 20 minutes or so, it was right in front of us. I'll never forget it.
Flying triangles are sightings on both sides of the Atlantic as soon as early '80 , I remember the sightings in 86', after the Gulf war I was convinced it was F-117 prototype !
In the mid 90s, can’t remember the exact year unfortunately, was driving in the Antelpe Valley. When there, which was frequent, I always scanned the horizon there, being aware of the many skunkworks facilities and Edward Air Force base and expected to see odd things. I was literally buzzed by a stealth fighter one time and saw the stealth bomber more than one time flying about before they were revealed. I had recently heard about the Aurora and knew the way to identify it was by the cotton ball puffs for a con trail. To my amazement I saw the con trail first then the jet, it was really fast all I could make out was a tiny black triangle shape, more like a V from where I was situated. I couldn’t believe my eyes since I just heard about this thing! Fun stuff.
Nah, it was an owl and the moonlight refecting of the owls red eyes make a a triangular shape everyone know this, is 7th grade science...🙄. Interesting story thanks for sharing.
I was buzzed by a stealth jet once in the deserts of Texas. It was practicing ground-hugging exercises late at night and came up out of a valley and right across my car. You could not see or hear it coming and suddenly it was in my vision like a giant black bird in the dark-- nearly scared me. Then as it went over it sounded like a vaccum-cleaner. Then you could see the red-orange orb of fire in the tail. Then it was gone.
TO DEADMANTT DONT SAY I TOLD YOU SO YOU HAVE NOT GOT A CLUE IF DID NOT EXIST THEN IS IT FLYING CAUSE I HAVE SEEN IN VIDOES BEFORE TH-cam TOOK THEM DOWN THEY HAD THE HARD WORD PUT ON THEM SAME AS THE MEN IN BLACK AND I KNOW ABOUT THEM TOO OK
Based upon a close relationship I have to a retired A51 engineer, we would not retire the SR71 until we had a replacement ready to go, as in either the Aurora or the SR-72. Secondly. there is a wing commander, who is a general, who is not in the test aircraft unit, based at Groom and I am told once the base clears and everyone flies home on Janet, that is when the magic happens.
I tried to tell an ex-brother-in-law, when they announced the SR71s "retirement," who was very knowledgable in military equipment that the government would not have "retired" the SR71, when they are still flying the U2, without having a replacement in operation!
I talked to a 94 yr old man here on TH-cam and he's definitely a retired Lockheed technician and worked on several different types of the TR-3B or actually TR-1A,B,C, TR-2A,B,C TR-3A,B,C etc He explained a lot but couldn't say a lot either. Expect them to be declassified soon.
come on -_- theres even less evidence for all of that, let alone thay specific classification scheme, than even the aurora. and im not even saying that as a pure skeptic. i have personally recorded triangular hovering lights swapping spots in midair. but naming and classifying and believing stuff as specific as what youre saying is just the realm of delusional "i want to believe"
I worked private military tech for Lockheed primarily but Northrop, Raytheon and NASA as well. Most of my time was spent working on Lockheed latest VLS (Vertical Launch Systems). I did work on a lot for the Navy and Space. Left a few years ago to pursue a more sustainable lifestyle surrounded by my family. 😁
I remember reading an article about the aircraft in Jane's defence magazine back in the early 90's . Then you had the doughnut on a rope contrails in the mid to late 90's
When I lived on the Far East side of Long Island New York, my house shook one early evening . I went outside and I looked up and I saw a string of giant circular clouds and a trail. The photo you posted was it! I had never in my years seen anything like that. I like to watch videos that cover any kind of air craft because the event sparked my interest in aviation. It’s a beautiful thing to have maybe witnessed an amazing feat of engineering.
Yep, in this other video, there's a guy who also claims that his house was shook and he saw donuts on a rope contrail. He said he could feel the rumble in his chest and that it felt like an earthquake. Skip to 6:08 in this video th-cam.com/video/7P7ssFbqjbY/w-d-xo.html
@@FearUniverse wow thank you for this! This is exactly like what I felt. The windows did vibrate and it did exactly “creep up” before feeling like a full blown wave.
One time I was out in the farm field with some friends and just happened to look up and see a flying Delta wing style plane at extreme altitude going stupid fast. Even pointed it out to my friends who saw it too. And compared to the regular jets you see leaving contrails it was 3-4x higher and many times faster almost to the point I thought it was the space station but it was going almost due north. I thought it had to be either a new bomber or a new recon plane or they're lying about the max speed of the B2. It had the same profile as the B2 but it was absolutely screaming fast
I worked on the test hanger inside of a hanger for that beast. The engineer made a mistake by showing me a picture from his locked desk. He told me it only made a put, put sound and was very quiet. The original design was a bit different although it was the same propulsion. I was laid off with my partner for asking too many questions. We stayed there since we were out of town and were followed every night when we went out. This was in the 80's
The project did exist. I worked at a crane dealership called Coast Crane located in San Leandro and routinely received parts request for Grove crane parts from Lockheed Martin and more specifically from their Skunkworks division. I was in charge of quoting parts from that division and often supplied them with crane parts. Which we all knew were required in building and maintaining there jets. So one day I I recvd a 4 page parts request. The first two pages were a request for crane parts which included the Model and serial # for the specific crane they needed parts for. The second two pages were for turbine engine parts which showed a parts drawing along with specific part numbers I did not have knowledge of. After re-reading the two extra parts pages there was alot of extra text to the parts pages that weren't on the first two pages. The words 'ultra top secret' were included at the top and bottom of the fax. Also at the bottom of the fax was written instructions if you to have received the pages in error. There was a stern warning that if you had received or viewed these pages in error I wad to not show the pages to anyone else and was to immediately call a 1-800 # supplied with the pages. So I went to my Manager at the time and showed him the parts pages in question. He then directed me to call the phone # provided but infomed me to not let on that I had showed them to him. So I called the #. In under 20 minutes 3 agents supposedly from the FBI artived at my worked flashed their badges and requested from my manager a private room where they could question me. My manager provided them with the room and I was then interrogated for about 45 minutes. Their main focus was 'if' I'd shown the fax to anyone else at my company. To whit I lied and said I didn't. They never believed me but in the end forced me to sign some non-disclosure agreement upon the threat of detainment at federal facility without trial for the next 50 years. After reading the agreement and arguing with them I finally signed the agreement. I signed my name and next to It I signed 'under duress of unlawful arrest and detainment. Lol. They try to bully me into signing another agreement, which I refused. In the end they left but before confiscating the company fax machine, due to data being stored in the buffer. I can only surmise that I recvd. The fax data in an operator's error when sending the initial 2 crane parts fax. Nuff Said. So you see I did really recv a knock on my door. Lol.
Satellites and UAVs... seeing as militaries have been using UAVs since the 70s for reconnaissance. Especially these days with them getting smaller and the cameras getting better.
I was in the U2 community, we made fun of the SR71 community. Oh sure, it could come and go pretty quick but linger? Hah! Still, they were good for getting people to turn the lights on 15 minutes after they left while other more dedicated systems and the men behind them stayed and watched reaction times. And as others have mentioned - drones are a thing. Also fighters still have their purpose in reconnaissance and don't forget several flavors of RC135! No, the retirement of the Black Bird did NOT leave the military flying blind, far from it! Simply put, the SR71 was very, very costly to run and no longer provided anything that could not be gotten more reliably from other sources for a fraction of the cost. I know that is not as sexy as assuming the fastest must have been replaced by faster but cold reality is that biggest or fastest does not always equal best. Same thing for battleships. They were not retired because there we have some super secret 2,000" beam, 70 knot hydrofoil Romulan cloaking device wearing monsters packing 18 25inch guns, 10 twin rapid fire 10" guns, 100 AAA of diverse sizes, two decks of quad .50's mounted shoulder to shoulder, 24 Phalanx, 30 Tomahawk and 15 Harpoon launchers and 2 Virginia class submarines stored in quick launch bays - and then there are the secret squirrel stuff.... No, they were retired because they no longer serve a useful role in modern warfare - too expensive, too big of a target, and for what? Throwing '67 Volkswagen Beetles over the horizon? So am I saying there is no such thing as an Aurora? Not at all. Might be, might not be - i honestly don't know. What I do know is that one is not needed. Sure, might be a cool testbed to develop something to take on the mother ship Randy Quaid blew up but in the real world? Not so much.
This is the first explanation I have seen for the orange square hole in the center of the aircraft that I believe. It makes much more sense for it to be an engine intake than for it to be a stealth craft with a drone deployment bay like a star destroyer. This is a beautiful aircraft. To the yet un-named builders: Bravo and well done!
Your grandpa know Kelly Johnson? , or did he work out at Moffett field Santa Clara ? Worked for L. M. Pretty cool !. Ben Rich claims we can take ET home this I don't believe because ets are home here.
It just so happens that I know the head of finance for JPL. I met him with his wife from Thailand at a Buddhist temple in California and saw him every week for a couple years. I asked him about the Aurora project and he openly said to me that it's not totally classified anymore, as far as admitting its existence, and that it is completely real.
IM a firm believer in this and other "black" items. What boggles me is they manage to keep all this hush hush. SUre we have this vid and information...supposedly. Its all suspect and THAT is impressive. Over 30 years of keeping secret is a feat man.
Perhaps this is an old program that they let people think is still alive in order to keep them occupied. If the project did have potential they probably already started proposals for a new project iterating upon this design, perhaps to solve the issues of sonic booms and the unique tell-tale contrail. I of course also think that black projects are real, but I also believe that many of the theorists who try to uncover and speculate them do the best job of keeping themselves occupied, looking for clues everywhere and trying to monitor a supposed program that probably already ended two decades ago at latest.
@@barrag3463 you don't imagine. I once had an old french book from the 90's, about futuristic war planes. At this time, the F22 and F35 were nearly merged in those guy's minds, and the Comanche was said to be "nearly finished". They also wrote about the Aurora, and were saying that the program was probably only a legend based on F117 observations, because a Mach 14 plane wasn't so realistic and useful : just use a fcking ICBM for bombs, or satellite for photos.
Being a government contractor myself, when you work on these kinds of projects, you really take on the "keep your mouth shut mentality". When you're a part of a team in sports for example, you don't display your playbook for other teams or the public to see. It's the same concept. And honestly, once you're around these things for awhile. It just feels like a regular job and you could give a shit less about telling anyone about it. Especially when you're involved in the building process. You realize it's just another machine. It really loses that WOW factor to be honest. At the end of the day it's just metal, bolts and wires.
i remember reading about the aurora back in the early 90s. When the sightings stopped i believe that testing was over and active duty for this plane began.
In the late 1990's me and another guy were walking by Utah State University in Northern Utah and we saw two of these flying together over the mountains to our East flying South. There was no engine sounds, they were moving around in a way that we have never seen airplanes fly before. It looks like they were just floating while they were moving quite quickly. They looked completely triangle shaped, there were no lights but it was during the evening and the sun was still out, probably around 8pm. This Aurora is the closest thing I've seen that looks like what we saw. I'd say what we saw was a little longer shaped triangle, but no curves or wing shapes. They were probably about 3000 feet above us (around the top of the mountains which are about 10,000 feet and we are at 5000 feet.)
Something with these characteristics flew over me in Southern California in 1993. It was just a dot of light late at night, that moved over the sky in seconds. No sound but a steady pulse you could only feel in your chest. Flew from the NNW towards the coast.
Yes! Same thing couple years ago ove southern michigan...a slow thrumming sound I could feel but not hear. Glad I am not the only one to experience this sensation. Wow.
@@tonyv8925 I recall that. No finite explanation was ever offered - for some years I was online friends with an employee of an aerospace research and development firm in a neighboring state, with my fascination of the premise of external combustion (the shockwave from the aircraft's speed representing a finite part of a combustion "chamber") - and 'Aurora' being suggested to exist (publicly) in Popular Mechanics by the late '80s - early '90s, I asked her on numerous occasions both prior to and after our Michigan experience of its existence, and the response was always similar to the phrase "I'll have to look into that", but never any information, and the phrase itself always verbatim, never part of a sentence, and the subject immediately evaded during conversation (as if she had 'self-programmed' a fixed response to any questions regarding it). She had always been forthcoming of uncommon information on other subjects regarding hypersonic flight, material characteristics required to adress heat etc etc, on occasion a picture or two of such projects - I'm positive never a corporate 'secret' as they were not wiped of phones/camera on entering R&D assembly areas. My take on it is as yours - it does exist but the technology's details might never become public knowledge.
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Back in the early 1990's i was a young kid growing up in Scotland my father was working for the government and eventually retired after 33 years working for them. I recall him telling me of a Special runway in a place near a small town called Campbelltown and that a secret US military craft called Aurora was being tested there. I never really thought much of it after that time until i watched this....Brought the memory back all these years later.
When I was a kid many years ago the super secret and expensive stealth f-117 was the big thing that didnt exist. Now it's a museum piece. Same thing will happen to Aurora.
USSR got it blueprints when it was not finished yet. Soviets created it copy to make fingerprint of it for radars. Each flying object (from missile to helicopter) is produced and then scanned from all directions by misc radars, so radar can understand what it see. US not accepted F-117 yet, while Soviets already programmed own radars with it fingerprint. Now it also in Russian museum. Else funny fact, in that museum also two non existing yet prototypes of future American hypersonic missiles :D
In 2012 a friend and I were sitting on an open deck at the Battleship Inn at Battleship Park in Mobile, AL. It was a crystal clear night. At about 11pm four triangle shaped aircraft approached from a NW direction. They were either a very dark gray or black in color. As they flew over Mobile Bay they made a very sharp turn left and then accelerated at a much higher velocity turning back in the direction from which they came. Only then was a very subdued exhaust visible. If they made any sound at all it wasnt detectable over the nearby highway traffic. Their altitude looked to be approximately several thousand feet. They appeared to be the size of modern day fighter planes. I was and still am in awe of those aircraft and believe what we saw were advance design aircraft of ours.. Possibly prototypes or maybe yet to be revealed operational aircraft. Anyway it was an awesome sight.
Predictable, yes, but if you have, say, 12 of them evenly spaced, then one will fly overhead every 2 hours, which is frequent enough to make it very difficult to hide any sort of large operation. Just imagine the logistics of trying to cover and uncover a large construction site every two hours and still getting anything done! Or trying to drive a convoy of perhaps 50 military vehicles across just about any place but a heavy forest - these vehicles won't fit in a lot of civilian garages, so finding a place to hide every 2 hours will be very difficult.
The fun thing about an observation satellite is line of sight isn’t necessarily straight down. So let’s say we have the 12 “observation platforms” at different polar orbits with the ability to pan and tilt that 2 hrs turns to 24/7 real quick.
@@N4CR He's made a few mistakes here for certain like saying the SR 72 is decades away and talking about recent development of the B2 which was forty years ago. It's the B21 which is coming online now and the SR 72 is most likely already up there.
I saw this plane in Alaska in 1988. There were five large ones and one smaller one. Each had A large ruby red light at nose. They were 200 feet up and moving about 20 mph. The only sound was a quiet hissing sound like I heard on X-files a few times. Just past my home someone touched a throttle and for an instant it was unmistakenly a jet engine. An hour later they reappeared over the Cook Inlet, being observed by a circling A-10 Warthog. My old professor once had clearances at Area51. He told me they were from there.. They were so low and slow I could have alarmed them with bright light. They were not kept in the air by L/D...They had to have had anti gravitational capacity, which alerted me to the reality that the space shuttle was mere window dressing. Space Force was operational already.
WHERE....ARE....THEY???? This isn't the 1950's. Our friends and adversaries have bazillion satellites looking down on the entire Earth. If we have them, some of them would be talking. I don't give a BLEEP about what Ben Rich SAID...where is the evidence???? NEXT: why would our government keep these advances out of the commercial realm? The government developed civilian nuclear energy after WWII, so...what is the point of keeping all this aerospace technology from everyone? Try to answer w/o descending into conspiratorial/spooky arguments that rely on "secret reasons".
@@jelink22 Without getting into conspiracy I can only answer one of those questions. Do you really think the government wants everyone to know about a S P Y plane? The whole point of spying is to kinda keep it on the down-low. Also about sharing Nuclear Energy they thought they were gonna run into a fuel crisis I believe, so they scrambled to make things nuclear power since it was like the god of all fuels
The SR71 was an incredible machine....even by today's technology.....it makes no sense that the military would retire it unless they had something even better
@@davidsomerset8411 you realize that most x-planes are DoD - NASA joint ventures right? If you’re talking about hypersonics research in the 20 century, NASA was involved.
I wonder if it will be disclosed some time soon. With the release of the new Top Gun film, it also has a triangular TR-3B/Aurora craft featured in it they claim is fiction.. yet it is named "Darkstar" just like the 2 callsigns overheard in that transmission to the AWACS craft decades ago.
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I've seen this craft flying over Prescott, AZ around 1 am. I was out on the balcony smoking a cigarette when I seen what looked like headlights coming over the mountain in the distance. Of course I was curious and I watched it as it got closer and closer. Then it got about 300m away from me as it rotated back, as it was turning, I seen 2 white lights underneath it. But I looked past it to the night sky and I could see the silhouette of a triangular plane. It was darker than night so it was fairly easy to see when looking past it. I knew it had to be an experimental plane because I've heard of it before. It was flying low and fairly slow but the only thing I could hear was it cutting through the air. It left no visible trail that I noticed.
@@sinxsideways5900 hey! That sounds like the TR-3B Black Manta, they are near silent and have 3 lights underneath too, maybe one one off?I think they have something to do with how it works. Antigravity.
I live in Anchorage, Alaska right near JBER joint army/Airforce base so we're very used to seeing the 50 F-22 Raptors flying around our city daily. One night at 2AM in 2020 we were about 35 miles outside Anchorage in an area called Eklutna which is fairly remote and we saw a craft flying towards Anchorage that was triangular in shape and from underneath it, it looked like a damn alien ship with all the white and red lights flashing everywhere. I actually had a video, but it's on my old cellphone camera. Makes you wonder what else they have out there. This craft definitely wasn't being propelled by explosions, just extremely powerful jet engines that make the Raptors engines sound quiet. And anyone that's seen Raptors fly closeby knows those suckers are loud. But then again we were out in a silent forest environment(We were about to try out my new Bts-12 Semiautomatic shotgun.) and all the sudden this craft goes flying overhead at 2 am scaring the shit out of all the Grizzly bears...and us.
Is it still possible to post the video of the aircraft you recorded? If not, then it's okay. Cause i don't want you to get in trouble, if you know what i mean. 👍
So I saw a SR 71 black bird in the Pima air museum recently in Tucson AZ. This jet is the fastest jet ever made and was developed in the 1950’s when the average person was driving a 1957 Chevy. Imagine what type of aircraft the military has now.
Yep. Think about it this way. The time from the Wright Brothers to Apollo 11 is the same as the time from the SR-71 to today. And for those recent decades since the SR-71, we’ve had huge defense budgets.
I saw something with the Christmas tree shape (lights at vertices of an isosceles triangle), at high altitude in approximately 2015. I have no way of knowing what it was, but I stared at it for about 2 minutes (I have really good vision, and I was on top of a dark hill on a clear night). I thought that it must be in space, because it was so far away, and appeared to not be moving quickly, relative to me staring up at it. I don't know why they would have lights on though... white lights at 3 vertices, not red/greed. Also, I wouldn't know the difference between looking at something at 60,000+ feet and something in space, but it was very small, with low/no relative speed, assuming it travels on an arc (orbitally), to someone looking up at it. Normally, airplanes move quite noticeably if you watch for 2 minutes, so that you have to move your eyes/head to follow.
Yeah that is highly interesting, I remember that UFO wave, it was crazy! It never been explained what I know, but I remember there where very credible witnesses such as police officers etc. Europe was a mess at the time, with the eastern block breaking apart and countries gaining independence one after another, so its not unbelievably that the US launched its allegedly TR3B Black manta to gather intel. However judging from these reports, that must have been an ant gravity craft of sorts, as it was seen quietly hovering....
Imagine some dudes in an F-15EX were just doing normal training and then they look up and just see some black triangular thingy flying at almost 3x their altitude and more than triple their speed.
The crew hears a calm voice I'm Bob close your eyes I have total control in 😑 3....2..1 you will awake......Warning low fuel....oh crap 😳 not again ....No sir Bob wasn't a little green thing 👽 of my imagination
"There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment. It occurred when Walt and I were flying our final training sortie. We needed 100 hours in the jet to complete our training and attain Mission Ready status. Somewhere over Colorado we had passed the century mark. We had made the turn in Arizona and the jet was performing flawlessly. My gauges were wired in the front seat and we were starting to feel pretty good about ourselves, not only because we would soon be flying real missions but because we had gained a great deal of confidence in the plane in the past ten months. Ripping across the barren deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California from the Arizona border. I was, finally, after many humbling months of simulators and study, ahead of the jet. I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat. There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios. This was good practice for him for when we began flying real missions, when a priority transmission from headquarters could be vital. It had been difficult, too, for me to relinquish control of the radios, as during my entire flying career I had controlled my own transmissions. But it was part of the division of duties in this plane and I had adjusted to it. I still insisted on talking on the radio while we were on the ground, however. Walt was so good at many things, but he couldn't match my expertise at sounding smooth on the radios, a skill that had been honed sharply with years in fighter squadrons where the slightest radio miscue was grounds for beheading. He understood that and allowed me that luxury. Just to get a sense of what Walt had to contend with, I pulled the radio toggle switches and monitored the frequencies along with him. The predominant radio chatter was from Los Angeles Center, far below us, controlling daily traffic in their sector. While they had us on their scope (albeit briefly), we were in uncontrolled airspace and normally would not talk to them unless we needed to descend into their airspace. We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: "November Charlie 175, I'm showing you at ninety knots on the ground." Now the thing to understand about Center controllers, was that whether they were talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna, or to Air Force One, they always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional, tone that made one feel important. I referred to it as the " Houston Center voice." I have always felt that after years of seeing documentaries on this country's space program and listening to the calm and distinct voice of the Houston controllers, that all other controllers since then wanted to sound like that, and that they basically did. And it didn't matter what sector of the country we would be flying in, it always seemed like the same guy was talking. Over the years that tone of voice had become somewhat of a comforting sound to pilots everywhere. Conversely, over the years, pilots always wanted to ensure that, when transmitting, they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios. Just moments after the Cessna's inquiry, a Twin Beech piped up on frequency, in a rather superior tone, asking for his ground speed. "I have you at one hundred and twenty-five knots of ground speed." Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren. Then out of the blue, a navy F-18 pilot out of NAS Lemoore came up on frequency. You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios. "Center, Dusty 52 ground speed check". Before Center could reply, I'm thinking to myself, hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million-dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a readout? Then I got it, ol' Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is. He's the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet. And the reply, always with that same, calm, voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: "Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground." And I thought to myself, is this a ripe situation, or what? As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios. Still, I thought, it must be done - in mere seconds we'll be out of the sector and the opportunity will be lost. That Hornet must die, and die now. I thought about all of our Sim training and how important it was that we developed well as a crew and knew that to jump in on the radios now would destroy the integrity of all that we had worked toward becoming. I was torn. Somewhere, 13 miles above Arizona, there was a pilot screaming inside his space helmet. Then, I heard it. The click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew. Very professionally, and with no emotion, Walter spoke: "Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground." I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: "Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money." For a moment Walter was a god. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A.came back with, "Roger that Aspen, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one." It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on freq were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day's work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast. For just one day, it truly was fun being the fastest guys out there." Wouldn't ve the first time
Reminds me of the story of some WWII pilots reporting a plane with no propellers being flown by a gorilla-like man, flying way faster than their own planes.
My dad worked at Area 51 years ago. He saw several aircraft like this. Pretty much spilled his guts after he had a stroke, before he passed away. I also asked him if there were aliens there, and after denying it for years, he finally said "yes". Take this for what you will. 😀
It makes sense to me that flying faster than mach 3 would have to be at a higher altitude, traveling through less dense air to keep the hull temperature lower. Satellites are great but they can't be everywhere you need them, when you need them. This is a plausible platform to have this essential capability. It also brings into focus the reason Russia and China have been developing hypersonic missile defense systems.
Starlink satellites are simple light things made only to provide internet connection. Adding the capacity for them to function as spy satelites would make them unnecessarily heavy and expensive. Given that they try to launch as many at a time to keep costs low, weight is important.
I have witnessed the aura in flight. When I was a teenager living in TN we were rocked by several sonic booms in the late 90’s when we went outside there was the tell tale contrail going across the sky, it was a perfect trail with rings around it. It wasn’t until years later when the internet matured past 56k I found out about this aircraft.
Where at in TN and what direction was it headed in? I’ve seen one in Maury County and it was hovering less than 50 feet in the air and was dead silent moving almost perfectly west at about 4 - 5 mph.
@@TheNuclearBolton Hixson Tennessee on a west to east path if I remember correctly right around cloud level. It was north of us, Maury county is west of Hixson just north, we probably saw the same flight lol.
@@TheNuclearBolton none, probably a long range test of some sort, back then they were probably in the early development of “ram jet” technology back when it was basically a black wedge. As to why they were supersonic over the states is a mystery, this event was on the local news back then, several people had their windows broken out because of it.
I worked with a film designer & pilot who told me this project existed in the mid 90s. But the planned design then was unmanned, quite possibly a totally different airframe.
I saw this thing when I was in 5th grade. Black triangle, so tiny you almost couldn’t see the light of the thrusters, streaking across the sky like a comet. Absolutely a real plane.
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There is also the aircraft that crashed at Boscombe Down in the 90's that was taken back to the USA in a C5. It has always been said it was an Aurora aircraft that crashed.
I think that it is a testbed aircraft for the SR-72 or B-2
The SR-91 does not exist. Period. It’s a dreamt up fever dream by some weed smoking conspiracy theorist. Stop spreading fake news.
Great video. It's been quite awhile, since anyone has dug up information about the the ever elusive Aurora. I'm not sure if you are aware of this but there is a couple satellite photographs of the contrails left by the Aurora. It's also photographed in HD as well.
We won't know about Aurora officially, until they already have IT'S replacement ready.
Depends, does another country find the stuff and leak it. Or do the crash it in a populated area. Kinda like the U-2 Dragonlady. No one was supposed to know we had them, but the soviets sure did.
It doesn't exist. It's just a concept. There have been loads of proposals along these lines e.g Prompt Global Strike.
True, it's a dinosaur
@@AC-pn4tk And they still fly it regularly. My dad was part of the 9th Reconnaissance Group stationed mostly at Beale in CA in the 90s.
@johnny blaze Something replaced the SR-71 Blackbird decades ago. The public don't know its replacement, but come on, it was replaced, and you know what replaced that, had to be MUCH better.
I've been a pilot for 21 years. I saw this plane at nighttime west of Las Vegas at approximately 800-1200 ft AGL. Around 10pm. It was very low, very fast and silent. Without the red lights, I wouldn't have noticed it but I could see the overall shape as it passed over with the light from vegas. It without a doubt exists.
tr3b is the silent doreado, this plane would be very loud especially below 10,000 feet the air is too thick, we have hypersonic mini shuttles that have the ability too bomb targets or take pictures or manuver in space.
The 2022 area 51 leaks are shockingly similar to the concept art for this plane.
@@debbies3763 I agree with you. I have always heard from witnesses that the Aurora sounded like “the sky was being torn apart “ Every witness stated the same thing and that was that it was extremely loud. That the sound was completely different than a sonic boom and that the sky was being ripped apart.
@@debbies3763 I was thinking the same thing like how could a pulse detonation engine be silent? More than likely he encountered the tr3b
Eric it was jet black right, without any lights on the exterior of any kind right? I saw the same thing in Spokane in 2006, it was darker than the night sky, pitch black. It was so dark that I could see it against the dark sky at 10:00pm, because it was darker than the ambient sky light, which was very dark. Before seeing it, I saw a shooting star. Then a moment later, I saw the black triangle without any lights on it, and without any sound at all, move very quickly across the horizon. I still think the shooting star may have actually been the craft entering the atmosphere. What's so interesting is the lack of any sound, and absolutely no light being emitted from any engines, and no ionization of the air (glowing). It's a very interesting technology because it's basically totally silent, and has no atmospheric reactions, and no sound of the air passing over the fuselage. I didn't hear a single sound, despite the craft moving very very fast.
Around 1999 I was driving on Route 27 in Montauk with my girlfriend at around 2am. We were out there for the weekend and had just gotten done with a late dinner. The road was basically deserted, and it was a clear sky with a full moon. I looked out over the ocean and saw the famous 'donuts on a rope' contrail hanging in the sky, lit up by the moonlight. Even back then I was aware of the Aurora theory and couldn't believe what I was seeing. To be extra sure, I pulled over to the side of the road and got out just to observe in detail for a little while longer. My girlfriend thought I was nuts, but I tried my best to explain to her why this was important.
The contrail was relatively low from what I could tell... probably 25k feet or so, from what I remember (I was also taking flying lessons at the time so I had some sense of these things). The contrail had already begun to expand and disperse, so I estimated that the aircraft had probably passed through the area around 30 minutes prior. It was unmistakably NOT the contrail from a standard aircraft though. I have never seen anything like it before or since.
This is the same area where military maneuvers are relatively common, and where TWA Flight 800 had crashed a few years prior.
I'm not saying it's definitive proof of anything, but I do know what I saw.
I used to live close to one of the busiest airports in the world and used to enjoy a spot of sky watching.
I'd see contrails identical to the alledged "do-nuts on a rope contrail" pretty much every day.
While I suppose it's possible that the US is flying a secret spyplane in a foreign country in some of the busiest airspace in the world without being spotted, I think a simpler explanation is more likely - these contrails are produced by standard civilian aircraft
@@5ynthesizerpatel Like I said, what I saw doesn't prove anything either way. But I've also been around aviation quite a bit and I've never seen those contrails at any point before or after. Just my personal experience. It could have been nothing, but that image has really stuck with me ever since.
At 2am, under a full moon by the ocean, you should have focussed more on the girlfriend, dude!
I think this is the best way to approach things You collect evidence, witnesses, theories and see how they fit, then seek further information to make it or break it. It's the collating of evidence that paints the picture.
@@commonape856 😂
After coming back home to Las Vegas from the USAF I have maintained my love for aviation and am always looking up. I was driving home from work in 2014 or 2015 when I witnessed a contrail rapidly appear in the sky above Vegas. When I say rapidly, I mean from one horizon to the other within 20 to 30 seconds. I also witnessed at the same time all other visible air traffic in the vicinity complete divert from their original flight path. This happened in the middle of the day around 1pm.
According to my basic countings, the speed was mach 11,75 if horizon is about 40km from you. Do you have some info about the visibility? This count is pretty unstable because it is partially estimated and I don't have precise info, also I am not a math genius...
The B2 was unveiled in 1997. Having run for several years. Don't tell me there's been no advance in the past 24 years!!!
One look at NASA would tell you all you need to know on that topic.
The B2 was unveiled long before 1997.
More like 1988.
@@jonnyjackson6050 Yeah, I vaguely remember pictures from the showing at Palmdale. I tried to be smart and check my facts and instead read the introduction date which was '97. :)
TR-3B.
The B2 was designed in the eighties. There has been no real advance in a long time.
I had the pleasure of guarding the B2 Bomber in 1986/87 before it was acknowledged. Before it officially existed. I remember hearing people speculating about whether or not the Air Force had “flying black triangles” and myself and my coworkers knew all about it. Stealth bombers and stealth tactical fighters were not a mystery to us, they were day to day Duty.
I saw the B2 at the Wright's Patterson AFB few years ago.
The thing is absolutely massive.
Was kinda take. Aback at the sheer size.
While the F117 looked about the size I'd expect.
That’s all I’d want out of armed service, just let me guard some badass tech in a hidden base and be a by stander for top secret events. Is that so much to ask? I’d disappear from my family and cut all ties to keep those secrets for free.
How many alien ships did you guard too
Glad u didn’t blab or share any classified docs with anyone
@@rotinhellu-tube2737 You may have to sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) And will probably be under surveillance so that you don't expose any info.
I live in California and have seen a lot of experimental flights over the years. When I believe I saw the Aurora, I didn't actually see it. Instead I saw the contrail appearing rapidly across the sky. It looked more like it was appearing in chunks than a straight line. No matter how much I tried to focus my vision on where the plume was starting it always seemed I couldn't see the plane. The control was all the way across the sky in a few seconds.
I seen it too! I live in Cali near march air force base which is commonly used to test planes since we have such weird weather.
Saw that too. I live in Québec.
Yep.
@BEWARE OF SEEKER FRIENDLY CHURCHES JESUS IS COMING What in the hell is this comment doing here?
So you saw nothing, ok then.
I was a state department contractor in Afghanistan for a number of years, sometimes stationed at a remote drone base. I saw some drones that are not known to the general public. They flew only at night, and we were literally told not to look at them (which I thought was funny until I realized how serious they were). I think it is entirely possible that something like the aircraft in this video exists. The F-117 Nighthawk was around for years before the public knew of its existence, this wouldn't be the first time they kept something secret.
You likely saw the drone they've nicknamed "The Beast of Kandahar".
I grew up by Beale AFB home of the reconnaissance wing and worked at Vandenberg AFB as a civilian. I have always been fascinated with jets and planes and the military. I have seen UFOs/UAPs and watched 2 red lights enter upper earth atmosphere from space...they were both red non flashing same speed and uniformed movement, I believed i witnessed 2 classified craft with interplanetary capabilities flying that night.
Makes you wonder if each B-2 actually cost $2.4 Billion a pop, or was the cost of the Aurora hidden in the cost of each Spirit.
Dude, the military has a budget for secret operations. They certainly don't need to justify their spending to the public, nor would they have to hide behind fudging numbers on known operations.
@@Saldivinorum they might have to when the budget keeps being lowered (as far as the public are concerned)
@@ameliadunton6200 what are you talking about? The military budget increases every decade or so and has been for over a century. It fluctuates year by year, but that means absolutely nothing. The US spends over three times what the next country spends on their military, and over ten times the country in third.
@@Saldivinorum yes usa spends a lot more than anyone els but the budgets around 2007-2009 where alot bigger than the last 5 or so years. In 2010 and 2011 they couldn't even account for the spend ( band accounting was the excuse) but we all know it's because they spent way to much. Since then there have been smaller budgets. But I am sure they do not realeaes everything to the public. As they have shown before sometimes they just release nothing and make excuses to cover up such high spend
@@ameliadunton6200 like I said it fluctuates year by year, but that means absolutely nothing. You're only proving your ignorance on the subject. The US spent about 750 billion dollars 2010 and 2011. In 2020 they spent 766 billion, which is actually an increase. The only way you can make the argument that they spent less is by changing the figures with inflation. Not to mention the budget for military spending has increased every single year for the past several years.
People like you are an example of how easily fooled people are by statistical data. If you look only at the last five years military spending has increased over 7% overall. Over the past 50 years it's gone up exponentially, however making slight dips during certain years. This is how statistics works...
I got a story about this. I used to work for Northrop Grumman at the B2 plant in Palmdale during the early 90's. I was the Health and Safety Manager for the site, and I used to participate in a Professional Association safety meeting that was held up there, with other safety folks from the area, including the guys from Lockheed Skunkworks. So anyway, at one of these meetings, I was talking to people about testing the breathing air systems on the B2 as part of the certification process, and one of these two guys from Lockheed asks me how I go about doing it. He explained that they were working on an aircraft that used Hydrogen as a fuel (or maybe it was Hydrazine) and that the breathing air system was nearby and that it was somewhat dangerous because they were using liquid oxygen, and they were not happy with the engineers about that. I asked him "what the heck airplane is that on?" and the second guy sharply elbowed the first, and that was the end of the conversation. This was during the time that all the sonic booms were happening, something like every Friday at 2 pm (exact details escape me) and had also been one or two sightings by commercial airline pilots of the wedge shape heading towards Nevada. Also there was an unmarked 737 that took off every week day from Palmdale and was rumored to be flying staff back and forth to Groom Lake. So what I gathered from all this, is yes, there is an Aurora spy plane, it uses some fairly dangerous fuel, and it is probably manned. Anyway...it is a fun story. I really loved my time with the B2 Division and I was sorry when it wound down with me eventually leaving for another job that was nearly not as good or interesting.
Probably hydrazine
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@@Redd56 Sounds improbable as hydarzine is a relatively weak type of fuel. In the Spacecraft it is only used for attitude control and such...
@@louisr6560 Actually, hydrazine is perfect in this application.
Retired B-2 mechanic and maintenance instructor here. Great airframe! I taught guys from Palmdale. Through some weird connections, I know the Aurora mechanics said it was a huge pain in the ass to maintain, so your story checks out.
It's like technology is advancing so fast that by the time a cutting edge aircraft can be built it is already falling behind.
It's referred to as MOORE'S LAW!
that's why we should have the biggest and best military/weapons that money can buy. This is the only part of the budget I am ok with.
@ The primary purpose of the federal gov't should be defending the country.
Actually thats happening. At the highest technological margin, we can build Seemingly physics defying technological marvels, the only problem is money. It costs a literal nations worth for something of this kind of technology, Which is why the USA can usually only afford to mass equip they're forces with the least pricey yet most technologically advanced to ratio.
The bulk of aerodynamic breakthroughs are 70 years old or older right now. manned hypersonic craft were a reality in the early 70s. not pulsed jet technology, no pinched airflow as seen in the diagram, full external combustion, pulsed to stop abalation of the engines coating.
I was standing in my yard here in north central Texas in the fall watching geese fly over. I always see contrails, we are right in the middle of so many flight paths but this one stood out. The only way I can describe it is it looked like a string of Mardi Graw beads. I took a picture of the contrail and showed it to all my friends in aviation and every one said, how strange, but I don't know
Mardi Graw?
I've always been interested in this plane. Even after looking into a lot of info on it and while still remaining sceptical I am pretty sure that thing actually exists. Your video on it btw is one if not the best and most factually competent videos on the entire internet regarding the Aurora!!
thank you for the wonderful comment :)
@@FoundAndExplained Absolutely deserved, I'm also very into these black projects and this was a very well put together video mate.
Aliens 👽
@@deeacosta2734 To boldly go where no man has gone before!
I was going to say Aliens too but thought you all would laugh at me :(
I'm 95% sure there was a plane fitting this description flying in the 1990's out of Area 51. It just wasn't called Aurora. Aurora was the name of the B2 test program many were confusing this particular plane with.
Fun Fact: I steadfastly believe I observed this overfly me when conducting a training exercise at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas in 1996. Lying on my hammock I saw an unlit triangle streak overhead with great speed at lower altitude (less than 5,000') with zero sound. I only saw it because the skies were clear and the shape could be made out against the starfield. NO SOUND. I waited quietly to hear anything.....and nothing. I knew what an F-117 was so I knew it wasn't that. At the time I had no knowledge of the Aurora Project's existence. 3 years later I see a cover of Popular Science showing the Aurora and stopped dead in my tracks, pointed, and said " That's it! I saw that!". I will bet all I have I definitely saw that aircraft.
THe editor of this channel is mixing two very different aircraft up. The one you saw and didnt hear was either an alien UFO or the TR3-b that was (is) based on alien technology taken from crashed craft in the 1950-80s, "Black triangle"aircraft is referring to the TR3-B and is supposedly back engineered from alien technology and is powered by a compact nuclear fission reactor and has antigravity performance capabilities. The SR-91 is hypersonic craft that uses jet engines and normal hydrocarbon fuel rather than mercury plasma accelerated in a cyclotron type device powered by nuclear fission power plant (in place of the alien crafts nuclear fusion power plant which couldn't be reproduced )
@@jpslayermayor9293 lol you're a nutter
Question did this thing hover high up in the air, not just hover but stayed completely still?
@@strikeforcealpha9343 No, it was moving the entire time, and it was moving quick...silently.
@@sanctified5523 That's what people said about others claiming the SR-71 exists. He's not a "nutter", don't assume. He might be too definitive with speculative information regarding the technologies itself, but I've witnessed 3 crafts in my lifetime that were absolutely extraterrestrial, or taken from extraterrestrial technologies. A white star-like orb that flew and "wiggled" above my apartment complex in Hattiesburg, MS, 12 years ago for hours, and a (at least) mile-wide, rectangular, void-black "boomerang", that flew about 400 AGL (I fly drones for a career). It was completely silent, no lights/darker than the night sky, and it was at the same exact time as the orb was above my complex.
The last sighting I had was with 2 of my best friends, this was my favorite because it validated everything I told them about the first sightings 2 years prior. There were 5 orange/red orbs (looked on fire) flying in vector formation extremely fast over me and my friends BBQing. The orbs instantly stopped over the pond in front of us at about 600ft or so AGL, and they instantly took off in 5 different directions. They were like a bag of fireworks; some "cork-screwed", and the others went in straight lines opposite of each other, but mainly, they were so fast that they turned transparent and vanished without a single sound on a crystal-clear night sky. We spoke about it for weeks and still do to this day. We found out later that these were what the astronauts and military occasionally claim to see called, "The Foo Fighters" (not the band). The first sightings were at around 3am, and the last sighting was around 12am.
If you ever have sightings like this, it'll confirm everything for you. Including the active coverups of said technologies, and where the very blatant technologies are coming from. You'll immediately know the differences, there's no mistaking it, and you're in complete awe with goosebumps; it's why there are very few REAL videos... it's usually late at night, you only care about what you're seeing, and it typically happens too quickly. Cheers
I'm a pilot. I live in central California. I have seen the knots on a rope contrails a few times. They are high altitude and along airways. I assume they are either known planes with special weather conditions, etc... or unknown planes. I am close enough to test bases for these things to have originated at one of them.
how do i work in one of the test base
@@user-mq9lx9im3x luck
Spiral contrails you mean the high-altitude geoengineering aerosol releases those spiral contrails.
@@Markhope-e3z Aerosol vapors would be exactly that... vapors.
There is no reason why the vapors you claim are released for geoengineering purposes would form to a spiral, they would be released in similar fashion to how burned kerosene from jetliners is released.
@@erikbruil4907 th-cam.com/video/riJ4bPWhe8Q/w-d-xo.html
My only criticism of the existence of this aircraft is that it wouldn’t be a recon jet. Wtf do you think killed the blackbird? Satellites. Why invest billions to replace the blackbird when satellites do it’s job for a quarter of the cost and twice as effectively with virtually no risk to human life?
If the Aurora exists, it’s a combat aircraft.
legit point mate. also why make it so big when stuff is advanced enough to make it smaller thus reducing the possibility of random radar crossing which once killed a F117
Perhaps a black strike aircraft...long-range, can get anywhere in the world in two hours or less. Useful for striking drug cartels in Columbia ( or farc rebels) or Russian fuel and ammo depots near the Donbass
The only problem with satellites is that they are on known, predictable orbits, so enemies know when they will be overhead. They can be maneuvered to new orbits, but it's difficult / expensive, and they are launched with a very limited supply of fuel for orbit changes. The benefit of the SR-71 / Aurora is that they can be sent quickly / stealthily over any target on very short notice before whatever they are sent to observe can be moved or hidden. As far as combat, maneuvering or launching missiles at those speeds is extremely impractical.
Bomber
Also.. I dosen't matter what engine you put on an aircraft, it's still limited by hitting the atmosphere and turning into a ball of flame if you go too fast.
Then there is that lil pesky thing where there are treaties in place that ANY nuclear-capable vehicle has to be publicly announced.
But of course for conspiracy nutjobs like this channel none of that ever matters.
The SR-71 BLACK BIRD will always have a special place in my heart
Same for Clint Eastwood
Indeed
It is one of the most beautiful planes built. I was a HUGE fan of the X-15 program as a kid, and this plane brought out the same level of awe and wonder. The final cross-country flight in 45 minutes is a lasting epitaph.
I always loved it's sleek curves and futuristic design...it even looks modern by today's standards. no wonder people in the 60's mistaken it as a UFO!
agree! It looks perfect and it reminds me my childhood ^^
I’d be willing to bet, we have even more advanced Aircraft.
Lol we or they
Yeah, like the Tr3b.
@@michaelthompson5439 their usually referred to as electro gravitic propulsion craft
Ever been on an LCAC? Those are some amazing hovercraft that can carry many tons of cargo.
Indeed
once got to meet a blackbird pilot, he didn't talk much about it but did say it was much faster than is publicly said. i definitely believe aurora exists
Aurora has been rumored since the early 90s. It's likely outdated at this point hence more info trickling out
I worked with a Blackbird pilot. He was very tight lipped despite all my clearances. He characterized its speed as one mile per second. He would not even hint about maximum altitude. Much faster than the advertised speed.
The fastest they've ever acknowledged the Blackbird actually flying was Mach 3.56, or just shy of 2,400 MPH. But it was an A-12 and not a SR-71. That was in a slight dive and ideal conditions, and lasted all of fifteen seconds.
This plane exists definitely!👍
It wouldn't surprise me, you could probably go into a parabolic trajectory before you reach your target and gain a lot of speed on the way down. Gravity can accelerate a plane very quickly in a dive.
When I was in my 20's, a guy I knew seem to have some kind of inside line on all the aeronautical high tech goings on at that time. This was in the early 80's. He was doing allot of talking about the Aurora and scratch built a model of it. He was also doing a bunch of writing on it too. The stuff he was talking about was over my head at the time and some still is, but I had an appreciation for what he was presenting and doing. It was really cool and he was obviously a pretty smart dude. Then he got raided by the FBI and they confiscated all his work on it and of course the model. I think it's safe to say, he was on to something.
Was that the guy from Ventura who also built the water car?
@@apollo5751 Stanley Meyers? He was whacked back in the 70s iirc.
@@fred_ditto Dear sir, it was 1998
@@apollo5751 Oh wow, thanks. I didn't realize it was that (relatively) recent.
@@fred_ditto I'd forgotten his name, I'm from Ventura
“There’s little reason to contradict the government’s position” LOL😆 🤣
Only, if they say so!
Well, in that case, I totally believe it exists.
Little reason is plenty reason enough..!
Oh look it’s a not plane, no it doesn’t exist but it’s over there, oh no it’s moved again, misdirection is a secrets greatest asset, just ask a magician.
yeah, but by that same argument they would be more than happy to let the idea of this plane stand if it isn’t true. If that serves as a distraction to whatever they are actually working on, or as a misrepresentation of something.
@ Colin Boneham. So is gullibility and ignorance. Politicians and advertisers rely on it.
It's old technology -- 30 plus years old
@@TerryTerius epapo
This is why the USA invested so much into encouraging ufo conspiracy theorists from the 1950s onwards
It didn't _just_ serve to cover up aircraft. The cattle mutilation stuff turned out to be atomic scientists pulling organs to track radiation clouds from nuclear bomb tests gone awry
Amazing how dumb panicked smart people can be. A trip to a local abattoir would have been far less attention-getting....
My father worked for the skunk works for over ten years in Palmdale California. He was a master electronics engineer. He worked on both the SR-71 project and the F117 nighthawk. His name was James Bardin Campbell. He passed away in 2008. I live in Reykjavik Iceland now however I leave this comment here for anyone who knew my father.
Your father was a brilliant man
Wish I did. I love working on stuff like this. And improving
Your timeline is off, dude! The SR-71 and the F-117 were designed and flew while Skunk Works was still in Burbank! My father was a director under Ben Rich. He had retired from North American Rockwell in 1979 and went to work for skunk works later in the year. He was there from 1979-1994. He left Skunk Works and permanently retired when Skunk Works moved to Palmdale! And yes they did build the "Aurora".
FYI, the SR-71 was built in the 60's and the F-117 was in the 80's! You said your dad worked there for 10 years and worked on both? Do the math! LMAO
@@mikeroth7080 Well, he said his father worked for over 10 years in Palmdale which doesn't preclude that he worked in Burbank for a number of years before that.
I have seen three of these. Two flying in formation one morning in 2018, and one with double width wings in 2020. They had what looked like rocket engines, based on the exhaust. No doughnuts, but long clear blue flames. One trail each. Looked like a tiny triangle, only was visible for maybe 10 seconds. The darn thing went from horizon to horizon in 10 seconds. Basically a manned ICBM, possibly steered into orbit for reconnaissance purposes, or to go insanely fast as a strike bomber/reusable ICBM.
"blind for the last 30 years"
one word; Satellites
Satellites aren't completely reliable if you're trying to track down a moving target, that's why spy planes are still viable since they give up to date information
Yep
One of the problems with satellites is inclement weather.
Orbits are well known and can be calculated.
Trivial to hide most sensitive stuff from them.
Satellites are anything but stealthy and classified ground ops can be informed as to when they are watching ...
I remember hearing about the Aurora back in the 90's. There was some kind of multiple sonic boom event over southern california that freaked people out, and the air force came out and claimed responsibility for the event and called it "Aurora."
Citation?
@@SMSCOOBY71 never
@@SMSCOOBY71 they remember it happening…
@@SMSCOOBY71 trust me bro 🗿
Me too, always on a Thursday. I believe they said.
The funding is for weather balloons. As we have seen, the flight dynamics of those weather balloons are quite impressive. Now we even have "tic tac" shaped ones that will outperform navy fighter jets. Perhaps they found a way to fill one with swamp gas?
Unless humans have figured out how to manipulate gravity like these objects appear to be, (which would be a completely revolutionary breakthrough) it doesn’t seem likely humanity could create and operate such things.
Ha! Fantastic!
Pulse wave detonation engines are typically heavy, or, require a super volotile fuel.
No we don’t habe alien technology, why are people so dumb
Have*
I'm sure they are working on something well beyond this technology today
well tr3b is
@@AmicusAdastra That's a rumor/myth. all of this is rumor/myth.
I remember meeting some grad students when I was touring colleges who were studying supersonic combustion in a loop. They were still trying to figure out how some of the reactions would change direction instantly I remember asking a question where their response was along the lines of “we don’t know but the military does” it is really frustrating that there is so much technology that is available now but only used for secret weapons to fight a war that is ridiculously improbable
Disclosure of advanced technology to the public might be further researched and advanced by anybody, which then could cause a threat in the public to overpower the government of the nation.
@@ens0198 it is very unlikely anyone who makes a public application of something like super efficient airplane propulsion would be an anarchist
@@ens0198 that's just fearmongering
@@ens0198 More likely that the powers that be do not want this technology to fall into enemy hands. Which is difficult to safeguard if it's in the public domain.
That's why I love it
I've lived nearly all of my life here in Southern California, and with a very healthy appetite for all things aerospace. I clearly recall those seismic reports and seeing published sensor data that showed a clear path heading out lower Nevada and into the cnetral Pacific Ocean, then coming back further north up the SoCal coast and pointing directly back to lower Nevada.
I worked graveyard shift in So Cal in 1991. One morning the fluorescent lamp over my desk started to shake back and forth. Two seconds later I heard one of the strangest sounds I've ever heard, I guess the sky tearing apart isn't a bad description. It was so weird that the shockwave arrived two seconds before the sound. There were reports of the Aurora having flown by that morning later in the day.
just remember. “IF” and when they do release it, it’s already obsolete….
Basically
No doubt about that.
I was using touch screen technology in the Navy in 1980 on a ship that was commissioned in the 1960s.
And it was the mid-1990s before I see it in consumer products for the first time.
A good rule of thumb is to always assume the government has had it *for at least 20 years* before the public gets it.
When they figure out UFOs we will see it 😂
It's only obsolete if all our adversaries have one....
@@earlharvey7659 if that’s the case we can un retire the F117….which was flying in the 70s as have blue.
In 1999 I was living on an island 60 miles north of Seattle. I had a dog who was absolutely petrified of lightning. One night she started making noise so I went to bring her and she was looking up at the sky and was following something. It was making a sound similar to a blowtorch, not the usual jet noise. I had previously been working on the B 2 so when I moved back down to work on the Predator I stopped by Tehachapi to see a friend I had worked with. He described hearing the same sound fly over his house. Word had gotten around that it was flying an elliptical course from Edward's to the Canadian border and said he had heard people say it was operating out of Edward's but I find that unbelievable, Groom Lake yes.
it sounded like a roar or something ?
this aircraft is in the new top gun movie.
No, it's the sr-72 that's gonna appear
A version of this was in Stealth too
I thought that was the TR-3B?
bruh its none of the above, its a concept made just for the movie, just meant to represent something hypersonic that tom cruise tests, not any existing projects
@@Kilroy.402 nope, EDI and the Talons are hypersonic but they are fighters not spy planes, also they are powered by scramjets not pulse detonation engines
"...there is little reason to contradict the government's position", yours sincerly,
The Government.
We're here to hel... (insert Kamala Harris insane cackle laughter)
Help... ha ha... you.
Ahem.
We're here to help you. Because we're the government. (snicker)
They're watching you
I remember hearing all sorts of talk about the Aurora project back in the mid 2000s and then it all stopped which was really strange.
When I was in college I worked at a homeless shelter where part of the program was helping veterans. They had people there who could help vets find access to services and compensation that they may have not known about. We had a hand full of people come into that shelter most from the navy and Air Force who claimed to have worked on special air craft that are straight out of science fiction. Some of the guys would sometimes claim that famous ufo sightings were really just these secret air craft that they had supposedly worked on. They would go on and on about anti gravity and nuclear power. Now it seems easy to brush these people off as simply crazy however some of the guys had health issues do to being exposed to high levels of radiation like Chernobyl levels and what’s even stranger is that the VA wouldn’t help them out medically as they said that the medical issues were seen as not related to services 😵💫. The military has some crazy stuff and the darkest part is that they will let the soldiers involved in making that stuff die just to keep a secret.
Thank you very much for your comment. Very interesting and disturbing at the same time.
Russia sounds so evil!
There was actually a court case that some military personnel won regarding the health effects from burning materials at Area 51. Basically, because everything was classified, the military would just dump jet fuel on anything they wanted destroyed and lit it on fire. The fumes caused serious health issues.
@@DAAllan82 yeah I heard about that one and I actually think there was another one where personal sued during the first testing of the first nuclear bombs. They literally made the soldiers stand just outside the blast radius to see the effects it would have and they made them run drills in areas close to the blast zones shorty after the bombs detonated. There is a bunch of videos of soldiers literally running towards the mushroom clouds and I believe a tone of people died from radiation poisoning and cancer. If I remember correctly the families and survivors sued.
Crazy happens in the military though. I've had older navy and air force vets tell me some of the wild but demonstrably false stuff thier coworkers would say.
That said. I'm sure somewhere in there there's a couple guys who really did work on stuff like that.
I worked for a company that made high precision gear. Our customer was Lockheed aviation. I was at work when they flew the SR-71 to break it's own air speed record the day it was announced the plane was being retired. A rep for Lockheed came to pick up parts. We talked about the SR-71 and why would they retire it when it still held the air speed record. He said do you think we would retire it if we did not have a better replacement?
Exactly. There's no way the military is going to retire SR-71 without having its successor already in hand.
Back then they did have a replacement, but it wasn't the SR-91.
@@ItsVideos It was the SR-75.
@@dannypipewrench533 it was the satellites
@@bobwei1631 That's what they told the public. And yes, spy satellites are very important. But there is just no way to replace quality human work, which is why I strongly believe SR-71-like spy planes never went away.
Amazing how much CGI has advanced in the last few years!
Its amazing what someone can do in their garage with a old laptop haha!
@@FoundAndExplained lol
@@FoundAndExplained Haha, brilliant!
Absolutely love this type of content. Keep up the great work!
...since the early 90s!
@@FoundAndExplained Nice joke!
“It’s okay, black flying Doritos don’t exist they can’t hurt you”
Black Flying Doritos:
“It’s okay, Donuts on a rope don't exist they can't hurt you”
Donuts on a rope: 5:59
"No really, they can't. They're spy planes. They take pictures. Have you ever been hurt by a picture?"
_Memories of embarassing trauma _*_INTENSIFY_*
D2 players having PTSD rn
Actually, the "Flying Dorito" was the nickname for the Navy's first carrier-based stealth attack plane, the A-12. The program was canceled due to underperformance and cost overruns.
Black Flying Doritos Flamin' Hot Nacho Flavored ;D
In the late 90's & early 2000's I would sit on my Dad"s back deck in Grass Valley Ca and watch this plane fly over. It had a very distinctive con trail. Donuts followed it as it went bye at such speed and altitude it was almost impossible to see or keep track of the source. But somehow my dad knew that it was called the Aurora, a plane that didn't exist, he claimed that ALL the the info was in the public domain if you knew where to look. He has since been proved to 100% correct. I sure miss his inquisitve mind & .ability find things about things that puzzled him. And that con trail that he had been watching was a big one.
im sure. humans know so much about everything cept what happened 5 minutes ago. so we can trust them as long as we give them money an meth when they ask for it. we can trust them. 👍
I first heard of the donuts-on-a-string contrail, the supposed mach 6 cruise speed, and the name _"Aurora"_ around 1997. It's been 24 years since, and still no big public reveal. If it's real, they've done an uncommonly good job of keeping it secret.
Well to be fair, if most of their secrets are successfully kept, it would *seem* like it's uncommon for them to keep secrets under wraps, in all honestly we know absolutely NOTHING. The government tells us jack shlt.
@No Body "Once an airframe goes into production it's completely impossible to keep secret"
How do you suppose that..? What are you basing that on? They could easily have facilities that are specifically meant for building top secret vehicles that nobody besides people approved can lay eyes on
@@hotel228 "Skunk Works" ?
@No Body this would obviously not be a serial production plane, it looks more like a research platform than anything else (like thee HVTCs).
I'd say Aurora exists.
Simply because 750BN$ military budget buys *alot* of secrets.
Remember the 9B$ black hole in the military budget that couldn't be accounted for...
I'm sure the correct term for the Aurora is TR3b.
Some. Say this is a different aircraft. This might explain the confusion - people are looking for the wrong aircraft Designation.
I've been interested in HAM radio since the mid seventies. Sometime in the early 90's I was scanning the 80m band looking for someone talking about a technical subject. I was in Illinois, and it was late, maybe 1am. I think it was up around 3.95 I ran into 2 guys talking about aviation. They were both Skunkworks engineers, one retired, one was currently working. They got to chatting back and forth, the usual describing their stations, weather, etc. As time went on, they started talking more and more 'shop'. Having spent over 40 years talking on the radio, I know how easy it is to forget you're broadcasting and not talking on a phone. It was late, bands were quiet, noise levels were low and these 2 guys fell into the trap. The retired guy worked on the SR-71 or 72 project, the younger guy said he was working on a plane called Aurora, and it will exceed every aspect of the SR series performance. According to the retired guy, the declassified speed and altitude limits are bullshit, they're both substantially higher. It couldn't be run at those speeds for any length of time as it caused a lot of damage, but in an emergency it could be pushed. The biggest limit on speed is heating of the leading edges. The Aurora guy said they were creating an ION field in front of the leading edges to deflect the oncoming air away from the surface thus reducing temperatures allowing substantially higher speeds, approaching double what the SR could do. They also chatted about propulsion, everything from ramjets up to nuclear pulse jets which was the key to increasing their operational ceiling. It was absolutely fascinating, much of it way over my head and long since forgotten. I wish I had gotten it on tape but was so caught up in it that it never occurred to me. I was an AOL member at the time so I searched (what I could at the time) on and off but came up with nothing. It wasn't until a few years later once the Internet started to coalesce that I started to find references to it. It was at that point I knew that the 2 guys I listened to talking shop were the real deal, and that the Aurora did exist in the black.
I saw one on a moonlit night easyetn shore of MD early 90s on its decent from where ever and it was glowing from heat . It was crazy . I am guessing the pilot pulled the throttle back to idle a few hundred miles back and it was still covering crazy ground. I thought it was a UFO until further research. I am also a pilot and the speed it must have been going was tremendous. I bet it covered 100 miles in the matter of seconds
@@petet-rex5589 I was an electronics warfare technician, in the navy, in the early to late 90s. I saw this plane (electronically) off the NE Coast. It was barely visible on radar and traveling at Mach 7+. I absolutely believe flight 800 was taken down by a collision with an aurora.
@@jasgk74 I highly doubt thats what happened to TWA 800. A short circuit in one of the fuel tanks caused it to explode because of the fuel being vaporized by an overheating air conditioning system.
@@spran369 At least that’s the story we were given. I left out a lot of information from my story. Suffice it to say, there was a lot of secrecy preceding the encounter; & it was assumed that our OS wouldn’t be able to see it on radar. The equipment I operated was supposed to be disabled during that designated time frame, but I was ordered to verify the contact. So... I did. Eye witnesses to the flight 800 incident (which happened a few weeks later) said they saw a missile hit the jet. Considering, (theoretically) only missiles could travel that fast; anything moving at that speed would look like a missile.
@@jasgk74 I don't subscribe to that theory. Why the hell would the US Navy shoot down an american passenger jet? Besides, the supposed ship that shot down the jet was nowhere near the crash. Interviews and other information also corroborates this. Furthermore, the eyewitness claim that they saw a missile flying may have actually just been the 747 climbing while on fire since the cockpit was ripped off the rest of the plane when the fuel tank exploded.
I've heard it and seen the doughnuts on a rope. Working at Holloman AFB, NM 1987-1995, I grew up and lived around Air Force bases all my life. The sound is unlike any other aircraft, an unforgettable thump, thump, thump with a background roar. It doesn't last long, incredibly fast.
What I find most amusing about this is just how common some of the knowledge of this plane is. I remember as far back as 2002 seeing rumors about this plane in a issue of popular mechanics, or something like that. In 2003 command and conquer generals had it as a bomber for the American faction. And it was almost identical in design and function to what was described in the video.
Amusing? Aurora is quite real , has existed since the very late 70's (and was known of).
When I worked for Northrop Grumman in California in the mid 90s, we heard pulsating sounds and the sonic booms along the coast near Oxnard. This happened on multiple occasions and we did detect the weird contrails on one occasion.
While camping in southern utah, 7/1994, we saw a triangle shaped aircraft. It was black, no lights on top, but blue and red lights underneath. It was completely silent, and slowed down so much I thought it was going to stop right above us.
When I first spotted it, it was just another light in the night sky by the moon. But within 20 minutes or so, it was right in front of us. I'll never forget it.
Do you think it was manmade?
Ahh, yes. I remember reading this in both Popular Mech and Science way back in the 1990's.
Damn that ages us!
Aliens
I read about it somewhere on the internet back in 2000. Is it still not done? Lol
Flying triangles are sightings on both sides of the Atlantic as soon as early '80 , I remember the sightings in 86', after the Gulf war I was convinced it was F-117 prototype !
@@scottmoore6131 yes
I read that one too.
I was in the USAF and worked w/a guy that came off SR-71's and he said even back then in 1990 that this aircraft existed.
In the mid 90s, can’t remember the exact year unfortunately, was driving in the Antelpe Valley. When there, which was frequent, I always scanned the horizon there, being aware of the many skunkworks facilities and Edward Air Force base and expected to see odd things. I was literally buzzed by a stealth fighter one time and saw the stealth bomber more than one time flying about before they were revealed. I had recently heard about the Aurora and knew the way to identify it was by the cotton ball puffs for a con trail. To my amazement I saw the con trail first then the jet, it was really fast all I could make out was a tiny black triangle shape, more like a V from where I was situated. I couldn’t believe my eyes since I just heard about this thing!
Fun stuff.
Swap gas reflecting off the planet Venus?
/s
@@normanmadden -
Weather balloon.
Nah, it was an owl and the moonlight refecting of the owls red eyes make a a triangular shape everyone know this, is 7th grade science...🙄.
Interesting story thanks for sharing.
Yep!… good ole AV
I was buzzed by a stealth jet once in the deserts of Texas. It was practicing ground-hugging exercises late at night and came up out of a valley and right across my car. You could not see or hear it coming and suddenly it was in my vision like a giant black bird in the dark-- nearly scared me. Then as it went over it sounded like a vaccum-cleaner. Then you could see the red-orange orb of fire in the tail. Then it was gone.
"This plane doesn't exist" Yeah, but that's the whole point, right?
TO DEADMANTT THIS DOES EXIST BECAUSE I KNOW HAVE ORIGINAL PHOTOES OK
TO DEADMANTT DONT SAY I TOLD YOU SO YOU HAVE NOT GOT A CLUE IF DID NOT EXIST THEN IS IT FLYING CAUSE I HAVE SEEN IN VIDOES BEFORE TH-cam TOOK THEM DOWN THEY HAD THE HARD WORD PUT ON THEM SAME AS THE MEN IN BLACK AND I KNOW ABOUT THEM TOO OK
It doesn't exist. Too hard to keep secret this long, and UAV and satellites do it now.
Based upon a close relationship I have to a retired A51 engineer, we would not retire the SR71 until we had a replacement ready to go, as in either the Aurora or the SR-72. Secondly. there is a wing commander, who is a general, who is not in the test aircraft unit, based at Groom and I am told once the base clears and everyone flies home on Janet, that is when the magic happens.
The replacement was satellites. No real need for spy planes these days
I tried to tell an ex-brother-in-law, when they announced the SR71s "retirement," who was very knowledgable in military equipment that the government would not have "retired" the SR71, when they are still flying the U2, without having a replacement in operation!
@@jessicaandtrains7768 shocked more people aren't saying this, it's very well known that satellites were the replacement, and the SR-71 was expensive.
@@cidshroom Well, there were two Hubble telescopes. One points up, one points down.
Thanks!
We see those “smoke rings” in Utah quite a bit.
evidence
the SR-91 is stationed in Utah confirmed.
Those are the Indians...
@@Michael_Michaels 100% they are just trying to send smoke signals to God and get some rain.
@@Michael_Michaels 😂😂😂
I talked to a 94 yr old man here on TH-cam and he's definitely a retired Lockheed technician and worked on several different types of the TR-3B or actually TR-1A,B,C, TR-2A,B,C TR-3A,B,C etc He explained a lot but couldn't say a lot either. Expect them to be declassified soon.
come on -_- theres even less evidence for all of that, let alone thay specific classification scheme, than even the aurora. and im not even saying that as a pure skeptic. i have personally recorded triangular hovering lights swapping spots in midair. but naming and classifying and believing stuff as specific as what youre saying is just the realm of delusional "i want to believe"
I worked private military tech for Lockheed primarily but Northrop, Raytheon and NASA as well. Most of my time was spent working on Lockheed latest VLS (Vertical Launch Systems). I did work on a lot for the Navy and Space. Left a few years ago to pursue a more sustainable lifestyle surrounded by my family. 😁
@@johncoaleii1423 He actually worked on certain parts for it.
@@michaelwerkov3438 I have close up detailed pictures of it. It's no big deal
Over ture No you don’t.
I remember reading an article about the aircraft in Jane's defence magazine back in the early 90's . Then you had the doughnut on a rope contrails in the mid to late 90's
Still see those strange contrails occasionally. Saw it often in Afghanistan but never saw a new aircraft using the runways.
When I lived on the Far East side of Long Island New York, my house shook one early evening . I went outside and I looked up and I saw a string of giant circular clouds and a trail. The photo you posted was it! I had never in my years seen anything like that. I like to watch videos that cover any kind of air craft because the event sparked my interest in aviation. It’s a beautiful thing to have maybe witnessed an amazing feat of engineering.
Yep, in this other video, there's a guy who also claims that his house was shook and he saw donuts on a rope contrail. He said he could feel the rumble in his chest and that it felt like an earthquake. Skip to 6:08 in this video th-cam.com/video/7P7ssFbqjbY/w-d-xo.html
@@FearUniverse wow thank you for this! This is exactly like what I felt. The windows did vibrate and it did exactly “creep up” before feeling like a full blown wave.
@@patsysolatzzo2962 Your welcome! 👍
One time I was out in the farm field with some friends and just happened to look up and see a flying Delta wing style plane at extreme altitude going stupid fast. Even pointed it out to my friends who saw it too. And compared to the regular jets you see leaving contrails it was 3-4x higher and many times faster almost to the point I thought it was the space station but it was going almost due north. I thought it had to be either a new bomber or a new recon plane or they're lying about the max speed of the B2. It had the same profile as the B2 but it was absolutely screaming fast
I worked on the test hanger inside of a hanger for that beast. The engineer made a mistake by showing me a picture from his locked desk. He told me it only made a put, put sound and was very quiet. The original design was a bit different although it was the same propulsion. I was laid off with my partner for asking too many questions. We stayed there since we were out of town and were followed every night when we went out. This was in the 80's
BRAH!!!!! Hats off to you!!!! Much respect for bringing this marvellous piece of secret engineering to us!
thanks so much!
The project did exist.
I worked at a crane dealership called Coast Crane located in San Leandro and routinely received parts request for Grove crane parts from Lockheed Martin and more specifically from their Skunkworks division.
I was in charge of quoting parts from that division and often supplied them with crane parts. Which we all knew were required in building and maintaining there jets.
So one day I I recvd a 4 page parts request.
The first two pages were a request for crane parts which included the Model and serial # for the specific crane they needed parts for.
The second two pages were for turbine engine parts which showed a parts drawing along with specific part numbers I did not have knowledge of.
After re-reading the two extra parts pages there was alot of extra text to the parts pages that weren't on the first two pages.
The words 'ultra top secret' were included at the top and bottom of the fax.
Also at the bottom of the fax was written instructions if you to have received the pages in error.
There was a stern warning that if you had received or viewed these pages in error I wad to not show the pages to anyone else and was to immediately call a 1-800 # supplied with the pages.
So I went to my Manager at the time and showed him the parts pages in question.
He then directed me to call the phone # provided but infomed me to not let on that I had showed them to him.
So I called the #.
In under 20 minutes 3 agents supposedly from the FBI artived at my worked flashed their badges and requested from my manager a private room where they could question me.
My manager provided them with the room and I was then interrogated for about 45 minutes.
Their main focus was 'if' I'd shown the fax to anyone else at my company.
To whit I lied and said I didn't.
They never believed me but in the end forced me to sign some non-disclosure agreement upon the threat of detainment at federal facility without trial for the next 50 years.
After reading the agreement and arguing with them I finally signed the agreement.
I signed my name and next to It I signed 'under duress of unlawful arrest and detainment. Lol.
They try to bully me into signing another agreement, which I refused.
In the end they left but before confiscating the company fax machine, due to data being stored in the buffer.
I can only surmise that I recvd. The fax data in an operator's error when sending the initial 2 crane parts fax.
Nuff Said.
So you see I did really recv a knock on my door. Lol.
"the military has flown blind"
*satellites* Am I a joke to you?
Satellites and UAVs... seeing as militaries have been using UAVs since the 70s for reconnaissance.
Especially these days with them getting smaller and the cameras getting better.
also the U2, as it turned out was still useful beyond the SR-71... but yeah, satellites lol
I was in the U2 community, we made fun of the SR71 community. Oh sure, it could come and go pretty quick but linger? Hah! Still, they were good for getting people to turn the lights on 15 minutes after they left while other more dedicated systems and the men behind them stayed and watched reaction times. And as others have mentioned - drones are a thing. Also fighters still have their purpose in reconnaissance and don't forget several flavors of RC135! No, the retirement of the Black Bird did NOT leave the military flying blind, far from it! Simply put, the SR71 was very, very costly to run and no longer provided anything that could not be gotten more reliably from other sources for a fraction of the cost. I know that is not as sexy as assuming the fastest must have been replaced by faster but cold reality is that biggest or fastest does not always equal best.
Same thing for battleships. They were not retired because there we have some super secret 2,000" beam, 70 knot hydrofoil Romulan cloaking device wearing monsters packing 18 25inch guns, 10 twin rapid fire 10" guns, 100 AAA of diverse sizes, two decks of quad .50's mounted shoulder to shoulder, 24 Phalanx, 30 Tomahawk and 15 Harpoon launchers and 2 Virginia class submarines stored in quick launch bays - and then there are the secret squirrel stuff.... No, they were retired because they no longer serve a useful role in modern warfare - too expensive, too big of a target, and for what? Throwing '67 Volkswagen Beetles over the horizon?
So am I saying there is no such thing as an Aurora? Not at all. Might be, might not be - i honestly don't know. What I do know is that one is not needed. Sure, might be a cool testbed to develop something to take on the mother ship Randy Quaid blew up but in the real world? Not so much.
This is the first explanation I have seen for the orange square hole in the center of the aircraft that I believe. It makes much more sense for it to be an engine intake than for it to be a stealth craft with a drone deployment bay like a star destroyer.
This is a beautiful aircraft.
To the yet un-named builders: Bravo and well done!
My grandfather retired from Lockheed in the 90’s. Before he died in 2000 he told me to be on the look-out for the Aurora project. Aaaand here we are….
Really?
Hello Bob you have been saying things you shouldn't have been saying...🕋...Time for a lesson Bob 😯 💉 🥴
@@1STGeneral uh oh
Your grandpa know Kelly Johnson? , or did he work out at Moffett field Santa Clara ? Worked for L. M. Pretty cool !. Ben Rich claims we can take ET home this I don't believe because ets are home here.
@@1STGeneral No kidding, right? For the record, that was all that was said, so CIA, if you are listening, please don’t suicide me. Thank you!
It just so happens that I know the head of finance for JPL. I met him with his wife from Thailand at a Buddhist temple in California and saw him every week for a couple years. I asked him about the Aurora project and he openly said to me that it's not totally classified anymore, as far as admitting its existence, and that it is completely real.
IM a firm believer in this and other "black" items. What boggles me is they manage to keep all this hush hush. SUre we have this vid and information...supposedly. Its all suspect and THAT is impressive. Over 30 years of keeping secret is a feat man.
perhaps they only have one test aircraft that they used to see if the tech worked. but then couldn't get the funding to make it into production.
Well in fact it's just a very probable proof that it's fake.
Perhaps this is an old program that they let people think is still alive in order to keep them occupied. If the project did have potential they probably already started proposals for a new project iterating upon this design, perhaps to solve the issues of sonic booms and the unique tell-tale contrail.
I of course also think that black projects are real, but I also believe that many of the theorists who try to uncover and speculate them do the best job of keeping themselves occupied, looking for clues everywhere and trying to monitor a supposed program that probably already ended two decades ago at latest.
@@barrag3463 you don't imagine. I once had an old french book from the 90's, about futuristic war planes. At this time, the F22 and F35 were nearly merged in those guy's minds, and the Comanche was said to be "nearly finished". They also wrote about the Aurora, and were saying that the program was probably only a legend based on F117 observations, because a Mach 14 plane wasn't so realistic and useful : just use a fcking ICBM for bombs, or satellite for photos.
Being a government contractor myself, when you work on these kinds of projects, you really take on the "keep your mouth shut mentality". When you're a part of a team in sports for example, you don't display your playbook for other teams or the public to see. It's the same concept. And honestly, once you're around these things for awhile. It just feels like a regular job and you could give a shit less about telling anyone about it. Especially when you're involved in the building process. You realize it's just another machine. It really loses that WOW factor to be honest. At the end of the day it's just metal, bolts and wires.
“What do you have in there?”
The US military with this plane: UH UFO
Hot air balloon
Lol!!!! Right!!!!
Lol!!!! Right!!!!
Ted... yeah Bill? Something very strange is going on at the Circle K!
Explosion's = noise
UFO's are silent.
i remember reading about the aurora back in the early 90s. When the sightings stopped i believe that testing was over and active duty for this plane began.
I came here to say this
lmao me too!! I actually wrote my grade 4 speech on the Aurora. I'm now 41
The late great Art Bell used to mention this aircraft frequently.
It probably did!
@@apoc2500 haha grandpa 👉👴
In the late 1990's me and another guy were walking by Utah State University in Northern Utah and we saw two of these flying together over the mountains to our East flying South. There was no engine sounds, they were moving around in a way that we have never seen airplanes fly before. It looks like they were just floating while they were moving quite quickly. They looked completely triangle shaped, there were no lights but it was during the evening and the sun was still out, probably around 8pm. This Aurora is the closest thing I've seen that looks like what we saw. I'd say what we saw was a little longer shaped triangle, but no curves or wing shapes. They were probably about 3000 feet above us (around the top of the mountains which are about 10,000 feet and we are at 5000 feet.)
Something with these characteristics flew over me in Southern California in 1993. It was just a dot of light late at night, that moved over the sky in seconds. No sound but a steady pulse you could only feel in your chest. Flew from the NNW towards the coast.
Yes! Same thing couple years ago ove southern michigan...a slow thrumming sound I could feel but not hear. Glad I am not the only one to experience this sensation. Wow.
@@tonyv8925
I recall that.
No finite explanation was ever offered - for some years I was online friends with an employee of an aerospace research and development firm in a neighboring state, with my fascination of the premise of external combustion (the shockwave from the aircraft's speed representing a finite part of a combustion "chamber") - and 'Aurora' being suggested to exist (publicly) in Popular Mechanics by the late '80s - early '90s, I asked her on numerous occasions both prior to and after our Michigan experience of its existence, and the response was always similar to the phrase "I'll have to look into that", but never any information, and the phrase itself always verbatim, never part of a sentence, and the subject immediately evaded during conversation (as if she had 'self-programmed' a fixed response to any questions regarding it).
She had always been forthcoming of uncommon information on other subjects regarding hypersonic flight, material characteristics required to adress heat etc etc, on occasion a picture or two of such projects - I'm positive never a corporate 'secret' as they were not wiped of phones/camera on entering R&D assembly areas.
My take on it is as yours - it does exist but the technology's details might never become public knowledge.
I remember building these in C&C Generals. Ah good times...
Its the plane I used to deny enemy super weapon
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Hi-speed bomber ready for takeoff! 🥰
@@soda_YEET yeah, they all the MVP for Destroy the Scud Storm, Get Hit By Stinger Site, and Fall Into Toxin Tractor. What a Sacrifice.
"Breaking the sound barrier."
Ignoring the existance of the U-2, sure it's not fast, but it is a spy plane.
U-2 : I do my best.
Aurora: I am Speed
SR-72: ZZZZOOOOOOOMMMM----- Nuke
Or you know Satellites.
@ You don't seem to know how capable spy satellites are, they are the reason there is no need for a new spy plane
@Gustavo Muchavo As they did.
@ Ah yes because everyone online is always a seasoned expert.
Back in the early 1990's i was a young kid growing up in Scotland my father was working for the government and eventually retired after 33 years working for them. I recall him telling me of a Special runway in a place near a small town called Campbelltown and that a secret US military craft called Aurora was being tested there. I never really thought much of it after that time until i watched this....Brought the memory back all these years later.
When I was a kid many years ago the super secret and expensive stealth f-117 was the big thing that didnt exist. Now it's a museum piece. Same thing will happen to Aurora.
USSR got it blueprints when it was not finished yet. Soviets created it copy to make fingerprint of it for radars. Each flying object (from missile to helicopter) is produced and then scanned from all directions by misc radars, so radar can understand what it see. US not accepted F-117 yet, while Soviets already programmed own radars with it fingerprint.
Now it also in Russian museum. Else funny fact, in that museum also two non existing yet prototypes of future American hypersonic missiles :D
@@juliap.5375 conspiracy theories 🤔?!
I’m so sad that nick from found and explained died tomorrow :( RIP man
Lol
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USA: THIS PLANE DOES NOT EXIST
Kronk: 😉👉 Rrriiight
They said that about the SR-71 too.
*does not
Squeak squeaker squeakin'
Oh, right. The spyplane. The spyplane for America, the spyplane designed especially to spy on America's enemies, America's spyplane.
@@musewolfman *YES, THAT SPYPLANE!*
In 2012 a friend and I were sitting on an open deck at the Battleship Inn at Battleship Park in Mobile, AL.
It was a crystal clear night.
At about 11pm four triangle shaped aircraft approached from a NW direction.
They were either a very dark gray or black in color.
As they flew over Mobile Bay they made a very sharp turn left and then accelerated at a much higher velocity turning back in the direction from which they came.
Only then was a very subdued exhaust visible.
If they made any sound at all it wasnt detectable over the nearby highway traffic.
Their altitude looked to be approximately several thousand feet.
They appeared to be the size of modern day fighter planes.
I was and still am in awe of those aircraft and believe what we saw were advance design aircraft of ours..
Possibly prototypes or maybe yet to be revealed operational aircraft.
Anyway it was an awesome sight.
They found out quickly that spy satellites only have advantages at certain but unfortunately predictable times.
Predictable, yes, but if you have, say, 12 of them evenly spaced, then one will fly overhead every 2 hours, which is frequent enough to make it very difficult to hide any sort of large operation. Just imagine the logistics of trying to cover and uncover a large construction site every two hours and still getting anything done! Or trying to drive a convoy of perhaps 50 military vehicles across just about any place but a heavy forest - these vehicles won't fit in a lot of civilian garages, so finding a place to hide every 2 hours will be very difficult.
The fun thing about an observation satellite is line of sight isn’t necessarily straight down. So let’s say we have the 12 “observation platforms” at different polar orbits with the ability to pan and tilt that 2 hrs turns to 24/7 real quick.
@@Keldor314 I am willing to wager that Starkink’s 1000s of satellites w 360 degree 24/7 earth coverage giving the CCP heartburn. lol.
Star Link will fix that
Probably more evidence of this plane than Samsquanch.
There’s a Trailer Park Boys fan
@@wadeworkman7283 ehhhh gnome sayin
there is a video of it lol. but this youtube guy doens't know about it sadly.
@@N4CR and where is it?
@@N4CR He's made a few mistakes here for certain like saying the SR 72 is decades away and talking about recent development of the B2 which was forty years ago. It's the B21 which is coming online now and the SR 72 is most likely already up there.
For this video i've waited exactly 32 days 40 minutes and 2 seconds
SPOILER it was really worth the wait
I saw this plane in Alaska in 1988. There were five large ones and one smaller one. Each had A large ruby red light at nose. They were 200 feet up and moving about 20 mph. The only sound was a quiet hissing sound like I heard on X-files a few times. Just past my home someone touched a throttle and for an instant it was unmistakenly a jet engine. An hour later they reappeared over the Cook Inlet, being observed by a circling A-10 Warthog. My old professor once had clearances at Area51. He told me they were from there.. They were so low and slow I could have alarmed them with bright light. They were not kept in the air by L/D...They had to have had anti gravitational capacity, which alerted me to the reality that the space shuttle was mere window dressing. Space Force was operational already.
Thats a Tr3B, there's two sizes, a 300 ft version and a larger 600 ft version, they use anti gravity.
Shortly before his death, Ben Rich said we have things flying that are 50 years beyond anything you can imagine.
WHERE....ARE....THEY???? This isn't the 1950's. Our friends and adversaries have bazillion satellites looking down on the entire Earth. If we have them, some of them would be talking. I don't give a BLEEP about what Ben Rich SAID...where is the evidence???? NEXT: why would our government keep these advances out of the commercial realm? The government developed civilian nuclear energy after WWII, so...what is the point of keeping all this aerospace technology from everyone? Try to answer w/o descending into conspiratorial/spooky arguments that rely on "secret reasons".
@@jelink22" tic tac" physics would explain many things. Not sharable.
@@jelink22 There are literally patents on anti gravitational propulsion filled out by the government that are easily searchable.
@@jelink22 Without getting into conspiracy I can only answer one of those questions. Do you really think the government wants everyone to know about a S P Y plane? The whole point of spying is to kinda keep it on the down-low.
Also about sharing Nuclear Energy they thought they were gonna run into a fuel crisis I believe, so they scrambled to make things nuclear power since it was like the god of all fuels
@@coryCuc But all of them together aren't worth $5, except as material for humor.
The SR71 was an incredible machine....even by today's technology.....it makes no sense that the military would retire it unless they had something even better
I think the current state of our space program is a great counter argument to that… we had no replacement for the shuttle when we closed shop.
They did. Satellite's
@@its2point072 yes I heard that too...did you ever stop to consider that was a disinformation exercise? You do know the government lies!!
@@brrrt8212 NASA is not the military!
@@davidsomerset8411 you realize that most x-planes are DoD - NASA joint ventures right? If you’re talking about hypersonics research in the 20 century, NASA was involved.
I wonder if it will be disclosed some time soon. With the release of the new Top Gun film, it also has a triangular TR-3B/Aurora craft featured in it they claim is fiction.. yet it is named "Darkstar" just like the 2 callsigns overheard in that transmission to the AWACS craft decades ago.
That plane they show is the SR-72.
Love your channel...really hate the use of 'Premiere' feature to spam our subscription lists for no good reason. It detracts from the usefulness of having subscriptions
I like it because it gives me a chance to watch the video with my subscribers like you
My comment exactly!
When visiting Cuba in 2010 with my family, I saw a plane with the "doughnut on a rope" contrail over Varadero beach. It was really moving
I've seen this craft flying over Prescott, AZ around 1 am. I was out on the balcony smoking a cigarette when I seen what looked like headlights coming over the mountain in the distance. Of course I was curious and I watched it as it got closer and closer. Then it got about 300m away from me as it rotated back, as it was turning, I seen 2 white lights underneath it. But I looked past it to the night sky and I could see the silhouette of a triangular plane. It was darker than night so it was fairly easy to see when looking past it. I knew it had to be an experimental plane because I've heard of it before. It was flying low and fairly slow but the only thing I could hear was it cutting through the air. It left no visible trail that I noticed.
You "saw" NOT "seen". FUCK.
@@jojo-fu4xh i have seen is correct. Someone doesn't know English 😩
@@sinxsideways5900 hey! That sounds like the TR-3B Black Manta, they are near silent and have 3 lights underneath too, maybe one one off?I think they have something to do with how it works. Antigravity.
The way you talk and the cigarette is all I need to know this account is fake.
Yeah you're right.
I live in Anchorage, Alaska right near JBER joint army/Airforce base so we're very used to seeing the 50 F-22 Raptors flying around our city daily. One night at 2AM in 2020 we were about 35 miles outside Anchorage in an area called Eklutna which is fairly remote and we saw a craft flying towards Anchorage that was triangular in shape and from underneath it, it looked like a damn alien ship with all the white and red lights flashing everywhere. I actually had a video, but it's on my old cellphone camera. Makes you wonder what else they have out there. This craft definitely wasn't being propelled by explosions, just extremely powerful jet engines that make the Raptors engines sound quiet. And anyone that's seen Raptors fly closeby knows those suckers are loud. But then again we were out in a silent forest environment(We were about to try out my new Bts-12 Semiautomatic shotgun.) and all the sudden this craft goes flying overhead at 2 am scaring the shit out of all the Grizzly bears...and us.
Is it still possible to post the video of the aircraft you recorded? If not, then it's okay. Cause i don't want you to get in trouble, if you know what i mean. 👍
"Pouring over dark websites "
Bruh be honest, you got this info from skimming through Wikipedia for a few minutes.
Wikipedia the darkest website known to man
Exactly WHAT is being "poured" over dark websites----molasses?
@MarkThe Shark Where are you getting the $21 trillion figure?
@@Nothing_._Here from them dark websites lol
@MarkThe Shark billion I can believe that's 2 Gerald Ford worth of money 21 trillion that's the US GDP basically
So I saw a SR 71 black bird in the Pima air museum recently in Tucson AZ. This jet is the fastest jet ever made and was developed in the 1950’s when the average person was driving a 1957 Chevy. Imagine what type of aircraft the military has now.
Yep. Think about it this way.
The time from the Wright Brothers to Apollo 11 is the same as the time from the SR-71 to today.
And for those recent decades since the SR-71, we’ve had huge defense budgets.
Good to see a video about the Aurora. I remember the boom sounds and weird cloud shapes years ago.
I saw something with the Christmas tree shape (lights at vertices of an isosceles triangle), at high altitude in approximately 2015.
I have no way of knowing what it was, but I stared at it for about 2 minutes (I have really good vision, and I was on top of a dark hill on a clear night). I thought that it must be in space, because it was so far away, and appeared to not be moving quickly, relative to me staring up at it.
I don't know why they would have lights on though... white lights at 3 vertices, not red/greed. Also, I wouldn't know the difference between looking at something at 60,000+ feet and something in space, but it was very small, with low/no relative speed, assuming it travels on an arc (orbitally), to someone looking up at it. Normally, airplanes move quite noticeably if you watch for 2 minutes, so that you have to move your eyes/head to follow.
If the Aurora is real, then we've had the tech for quite a while. Hence the Belgium Ufo wave of the 1980s.
Just going from memory, didn't those triangular shaped devices hover and emit light? Quite different than the device described here.
@@whalesong999 TR3B
TR3B
May have been the TR-3B, anti gravity.
Yeah that is highly interesting, I remember that UFO wave, it was crazy! It never been explained what I know, but I remember there where very credible witnesses such as police officers etc.
Europe was a mess at the time, with the eastern block breaking apart and countries gaining independence one after another, so its not unbelievably that the US launched its allegedly TR3B Black manta to gather intel. However judging from these reports, that must have been an ant gravity craft of sorts, as it was seen quietly hovering....
Imagine some dudes in an F-15EX were just doing normal training and then they look up and just see some black triangular thingy flying at almost 3x their altitude and more than triple their speed.
Been there but not in an F15
The crew hears a calm voice I'm Bob close your eyes I have total control in 😑 3....2..1 you will awake......Warning low fuel....oh crap 😳 not again ....No sir Bob wasn't a little green thing 👽 of my imagination
"There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment.
It occurred when Walt and I were flying our final training sortie. We needed 100 hours in the jet to complete our training and attain Mission Ready status. Somewhere over Colorado we had passed the century mark. We had made the turn in Arizona and the jet was performing flawlessly. My gauges were wired in the front seat and we were starting to feel pretty good about ourselves, not only because we would soon be flying real missions but because we had gained a great deal of confidence in the plane in the past ten months. Ripping across the barren deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California from the Arizona border. I was, finally, after many humbling months of simulators and study, ahead of the jet.
I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat. There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios. This was good practice for him for when we began flying real missions, when a priority transmission from headquarters could be vital. It had been difficult, too, for me to relinquish control of the radios, as during my entire flying career I had controlled my own transmissions. But it was part of the division of duties in this plane and I had adjusted to it. I still insisted on talking on the radio while we were on the ground, however. Walt was so good at many things, but he couldn't match my expertise at sounding smooth on the radios, a skill that had been honed sharply with years in fighter squadrons where the slightest radio miscue was grounds for beheading. He understood that and allowed me that luxury.
Just to get a sense of what Walt had to contend with, I pulled the radio toggle switches and monitored the frequencies along with him. The predominant radio chatter was from Los Angeles Center, far below us, controlling daily traffic in their sector. While they had us on their scope (albeit briefly), we were in uncontrolled airspace and normally would not talk to them unless we needed to descend into their airspace.
We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: "November Charlie 175, I'm showing you at ninety knots on the ground."
Now the thing to understand about Center controllers, was that whether they were talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna, or to Air Force One, they always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional, tone that made one feel important. I referred to it as the " Houston Center voice." I have always felt that after years of seeing documentaries on this country's space program and listening to the calm and distinct voice of the Houston controllers, that all other controllers since then wanted to sound like that, and that they basically did. And it didn't matter what sector of the country we would be flying in, it always seemed like the same guy was talking. Over the years that tone of voice had become somewhat of a comforting sound to pilots everywhere. Conversely, over the years, pilots always wanted to ensure that, when transmitting, they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios.
Just moments after the Cessna's inquiry, a Twin Beech piped up on frequency, in a rather superior tone, asking for his ground speed. "I have you at one hundred and twenty-five knots of ground speed." Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren. Then out of the blue, a navy F-18 pilot out of NAS Lemoore came up on frequency. You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios. "Center, Dusty 52 ground speed check". Before Center could reply, I'm thinking to myself, hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million-dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a readout? Then I got it, ol' Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is. He's the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet. And the reply, always with that same, calm, voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: "Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground."
And I thought to myself, is this a ripe situation, or what? As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios. Still, I thought, it must be done - in mere seconds we'll be out of the sector and the opportunity will be lost. That Hornet must die, and die now. I thought about all of our Sim training and how important it was that we developed well as a crew and knew that to jump in on the radios now would destroy the integrity of all that we had worked toward becoming. I was torn.
Somewhere, 13 miles above Arizona, there was a pilot screaming inside his space helmet. Then, I heard it. The click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew. Very professionally, and with no emotion, Walter spoke: "Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."
I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: "Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money."
For a moment Walter was a god. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A.came back with, "Roger that Aspen, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one."
It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on freq were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day's work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.
For just one day, it truly was fun being the fastest guys out there."
Wouldn't ve the first time
@@AuxenceF You really took me there with that story.
Good stuff.
Reminds me of the story of some WWII pilots reporting a plane with no propellers being flown by a gorilla-like man, flying way faster than their own planes.
Oh fuck its real. I just thought command and conquer generals was making it up as it goes.
real in the sense that this thing is actual vaporware.
I remember it. It came back to base about as often as the GLA's bomb truck.
My dad worked at Area 51 years ago. He saw several aircraft like this. Pretty much spilled his guts after he had a stroke, before he passed away. I also asked him if there were aliens there, and after denying it for years, he finally said "yes". Take this for what you will. 😀
He worked with the aliens
@@-p2349 Maybe. I'll try to reach him from beyond the grave, see what he says.
@@PhilAndersonOutsidelol oh u were just messing around
It makes sense to me that flying faster than mach 3 would have to be at a higher altitude, traveling through less dense air to keep the hull temperature lower. Satellites are great but they can't be everywhere you need them, when you need them. This is a plausible platform to have this essential capability. It also brings into focus the reason Russia and China have been developing hypersonic missile defense systems.
StarLink ???
Starlink satellites are simple light things made only to provide internet connection. Adding the capacity for them to function as spy satelites would make them unnecessarily heavy and expensive. Given that they try to launch as many at a time to keep costs low, weight is important.
I have witnessed the aura in flight. When I was a teenager living in TN we were rocked by several sonic booms in the late 90’s when we went outside there was the tell tale contrail going across the sky, it was a perfect trail with rings around it.
It wasn’t until years later when the internet matured past 56k I found out about this aircraft.
Where at in TN and what direction was it headed in? I’ve seen one in Maury County and it was hovering less than 50 feet in the air and was dead silent moving almost perfectly west at about 4 - 5 mph.
@@TheNuclearBolton Hixson Tennessee on a west to east path if I remember correctly right around cloud level.
It was north of us, Maury county is west of Hixson just north, we probably saw the same flight lol.
@@funkmonkeyfun who was facilitating this craft? Any ideas of a nearby military base that may possibly be associated?
@@TheNuclearBolton none, probably a long range test of some sort, back then they were probably in the early development of “ram jet” technology back when it was basically a black wedge. As to why they were supersonic over the states is a mystery, this event was on the local news back then, several people had their windows broken out because of it.
I worked with a film designer & pilot who told me this project existed in the mid 90s. But the planned design then was unmanned, quite possibly a totally different airframe.
I heard it could be both, manned or unmanned. Also heard it can use a form of an EMP for defense.
I saw this thing when I was in 5th grade. Black triangle, so tiny you almost couldn’t see the light of the thrusters, streaking across the sky like a comet. Absolutely a real plane.
everyone has seen aliens an been abducted as well if you ask them. 👍