February
22nd 2005
SPY PLANE MYSTERY |
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with donuts. |
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Here, we resurrect speculation that a top secret American spy plane
is thought to have flown through air space in Sussex... |
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The U2 Spy Plane's existence was disclosed
when one was shot down over Soviet Territory in 1966.
The SR 71 Blackbird existence was made public in 1964.
Despite in retirement, the SR-71s are still officially the world's
fastest and highest-flying aircraft.
The B-2 Stealth Bomber is a strategic, long range, heavy
bomber that can respond to conflicts anywhere in the world within
hours.
The F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter code named "Senior
Trend" was designed in the late 70's and has proven to
be very effective in combat. It can travel to 646mph. It has
recently developed a weakness to enemy radar.
The Bird Of Prey is a newly developed stealth fighter/tactical
bomber which was unveiled on October 18 of 2002 by Boeing. Was
kept a secret from the mid 90's and went public because it's
technology is now the industry standard.
The TR-3B has apparently been operational by the CIA
since the Mid 90's as a recon aircraft. The UFO looking triangle
uses technology that essentially gets rid of gravity around
it making it very light and manoeuvrable. The most credible
sightings have been reported by Belgium police.
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| Picture of a regular commercial aircraft trail
which has continous combustion. |
Pictures
taken by the Horsted Keynes Webcam captured an unusual aircraft trail
on Sunday the 14th July 2002.
They show a different formation of vapour than what you would usually
expect to see from the scores of commercial and private aircraft that
pass through our skies.
The picture at the top shows the contrail with lines crossing through
- commonly known as donuts - spaced out along the line.
It's most likely a pulse jet engine created the donut
effect propelling the aircraft up to up to Mach 6 (over 2000 mph).
In this case and other similar sightings It's thought the trail could
have been left by the top secret Aurora spy plane. Although the aircraft
has never been officially disclosed it is thought to reside at Groom
Lake USAF base commonly known as area 51.
This picture is said to be 95 percent
accurate compared to the real thing when it was created following
the account of an oil engineer who described the Aurora after seeing
it over the North Sea.
The contrail from the Horsted Keynes webcam compares
to those witnessed and photographed over Scotland and Nevada in the
USA. One theory is that Aurora was being flown from area 51 in the
Nevada desert to an atoll in the Pacific, then on to Scotland to refuel
on it's way to Iraq to gather intelligence before the last war there.
The plane's real name has been kept a secret but
became known as the Aurora because a censor's slip let it appear
below the SR-71 Blackbird and U-2 in the 1985 Pentagon budget request.
After our own extensive research it appears that
not a lot more is known about the Aurora other than in recent years
it seems it may have been put into retirement. Reliable sightings
are no longer being reported and satellite technology can do the
job even more discreetly and frugally.
It maybe that one day the USAF discloses the
project as they did with the F-117a stealth fighter which was kept
a secret for over ten years after its first pre-production test
flight.
If
you look at the photo below you will see a fascinating string
of doughnuts traced across the sky. I took it from Princep Road
in Hove, looking north just before sunset, in May 2001.
My own explanations are:
1. That it was an ordinarily plane flying through densely packed
bands of wet and dry air which had been swirled together like
the marbling in a cake. Flying through each wet layer left a
puff of condensation.
2. An ordinarily plane was leaving a pulsating or shimmying
wake of turbulence, just as a flag flaps in the wind. (Most
likely).
3. The plane was dumping fuel, but I didn't think they were
allowed to do that over land.
4. It really was a secret plane, but what would one of those
be doing flying over Hove on a spring afternoon?
What does anybody else think?
Marcus Pennell, Brighton |
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