Mysterious New Military Aircraft In The Sky, Or Hoax?
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Did a mystery aircraft get caught over California late in April?
Someone going by the name Mackbolin posted this image on file-sharing site LiveLeak on May 8.
So far, efforts to ID or contact the poster have been fruitless. The discussion over at Dreamland Resort has been inconclusive, with noted X-plane hunter Peter Merlin leaning towards the “hoax” side.
On the other hand, the pic has passed one suggested hoax test on DLR. It’s also free of some of the other trace scents of rat. It doesn’t overtly contravene the laws of physics or optics; you could take such a photo from a vantage point on the ground. It doesn’t look like an ordinary airplane seen from an odd perspective (it’s easy to misinterpret against a blue-sky background). The sighting was (ostensibly) in a pretty remote end of California. The alleged spotter isn’t after money or fame.
It’s not an obvious attempt to hornswoggle the Snark-hunting community with something that clearly resembles our favorite white whales - the Aurora or Bill Scott’s Blackstar. It does look like a plausible configuration, resembling McAir studies from the 1970s, but not many people know that.
The Woracle points out in an email that it also looks like an early design for DARPA’s RASCAL small-sat launcher. And it’s not an SR-71 or an F-14, unless it’s been messed with (see “hoax” above).
The idea that it might be a secret US aircraft is not fantasy or paranoia. The US tested and sometimes deployed entirely secret projects in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, there is more money in there than ever and the USAF’s secure flight-test center at Groom Lake is still busy (see DTI for March).
Check the original and weigh in. Debunkers welcome. And you know where we are if this looks familiar.
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LiveLeak text to the above photo reads:
California-Unknown Craft Photographed -
California-04-24-08-I was fishing on Lake Trinity, and heard the sound of an aircraft engine. It was a very low frequency sound, but I felt it more than I could actually hear it. I only had an older Sony digital camera with me, the batteries were almost dead. I snapped 4 pictures before the camera shut off, only one came out when I read the disk.
I observed the aircraft until it vanished. It flew straight and level, I was unable to guage its size since I had no reference. But a best guess, since I have seen airliners fly over a couple of times early in the morning, I would say it was as big as a medium sized airliner, probably the size of the space shuttle. I know aircraft well, this did not look like anything I have seen out at Nellis.
It was very quiet, when an airliner flies over this lake, I hear it long before I can see it. This thing was already overhead when I heard it. It was flying southeast, as if it was on course to Las Vegas. One thing that was strange, just before I heard it, or felt it, I had a funny feeling that something was watching me, so I scanned the shorline thinking there was something watching me, then my exposed skin warmed up fast and only for 15 seconds as if I was hit with a microwave beam.
Almost enough to make me want to jump in the water. Then I felt it and saw the exhaust trail and grabbed the camera cause it was a single contrail, larger than any airliner.
The one shot that came out was at the camera’s highest zoom, it is a 10X optical zoom. I was really reluctant of reporting this, the course it was on, well it flew over the most heaviest forested, least populated part of Northern California.
This thing left me with such a strange feeling that I packed up and sped home asap. I was scheduled to be on the lake through the weekend. Now I don’t think this thing is alien, but it is a UFO because I don’t know what the hell it is.
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Funny, it does resemble a Blackbird.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:56 amAs a side observation without having read the linked stuff the characteristics of the camera
Sony
Disc
10X zoom digital
fits that known (I have one ) for a Sony Mavica which uses a 3 1/2 inch floppy for storage…one of the early digital but max resolution for the early models was around 640 x 480.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:03 amRemember the flight vid that was on a few days ago, check out the no fly areas just outside of the vegas area. There are two triangular shapes that never fill in.
https://pat-dollard.com/2008/05/the-art-of-flight/
May 19th, 2008 at 10:09 amYou’re a frakkin’ freaky genius, my friend!
May 19th, 2008 at 10:12 amTo me it looks like it has canards and I see 2 contrails close to centerline. Looks a little like the XB-70 at altitude to me. Rumor was that they were testing a single stage to orbit launched off of XB-70’s, a little like the White Knight/Spaceship One tandem pair.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:15 amThe military has been planning the replacement for the SR-71 for years. Could this be the next generation (gen 5) of spy in the sky manned aircraft? Could be. Is it Aurora? Who knows. You know the “Black” community is up to something again. Well good for them. Leave it a secret, then spring it on our enemies when the time is right.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:49 amI use Photoshop 8+ hours a day. It’s a fake. Look at the blur and grain of the con trails and contrast that to the black object. Fake. One could make it look like Bash was flying the plane if needed.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:57 amaurora was supposed to have some kind of rings in the contrails as I remember
May 19th, 2008 at 11:06 amHave they ruled out it being a low-flying eRug?
May 19th, 2008 at 11:07 amPerhaps something like the XF-108?
May 19th, 2008 at 11:14 amhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:F108a_drawing.jpg
The rings on the contrail that you are talking about, Steve, was supposed to be an effect of the pulse detonation wave engines.
Karl Rove Hurricane Machine?
May 19th, 2008 at 11:45 amThat’s it!…heading out for the Gulf coast no doubt
May 19th, 2008 at 12:14 pmMy guess would be an F-16XL,(there are 2 in existence),which NASA has been using to test “supersonic laminar flow control”. See here: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/pastprojects/F16XL2/index.html
here: http://www.f-16.net/f-16_users_article26.html
and here: http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/Fleet/Small/EC97-44293-1.jpg
May 19th, 2008 at 12:40 pmIRON MAN!
May 19th, 2008 at 1:12 pm