As readers of this blog know, I am a student of the affairs of the intelligence community, in particular that part of
the community that builds incredibly expensive, secret, limited
edition devices of one sort or another. Previous posts have
discussed whether the “mysterious booms” were evidence of a
production vehicle flying and the conclusion of those posts was
“maybe, but it isn't proven”. At least not from the evidence at
hand.
That is where things
have stood for a long time now. It was time for something new to
happen and it has. There have been sightings of an unusual aircraft
flying over Texas in recent months. The aircraft is an unknown
flying wing, perhaps, and its a complicated story of just who saw
what, who denied what, and then what was seen in the same flight
path. But rather than go over old ground, I am just going to point
you to a well-written, and very long, overly long, discussion of the
evidence and possible theories.
The theory that I
find the most appealing and possibly even plausible is that there was
a secret plane built and used in production for 20 years and we kept
it secret all that time. The reason we are starting to see it now is well, sort of a mystery. It might be because they are using it so much what with all the crisis these days. Or it might be that it is nearing the end of its life so there is less reason
to keep it secret (keeping an operational aircraft secret and yet using it is hideously expensive). Or maybe it is being leaked now as a warning to those who do bad things that we have this capability. Or maybe it is just coincidence.
This plane, so the theory goes, was the followon to various technologies being tested in the 1980s that were suddenly cancelled. When something like that happens it is a natural speculation that perhaps they were continued as a black program. One theory is that the plane was a manned, long duration, stealth, tactical reconnaissance vehicle that could penetrate enemy airspace and do a variety of things possibly in conjunction with the F117. Among other things it could loiter in enemy airspace and (for example) direct special forces missions happening below it, perhaps acting as eyes and ears for those missions.
This plane, so the theory goes, was the followon to various technologies being tested in the 1980s that were suddenly cancelled. When something like that happens it is a natural speculation that perhaps they were continued as a black program. One theory is that the plane was a manned, long duration, stealth, tactical reconnaissance vehicle that could penetrate enemy airspace and do a variety of things possibly in conjunction with the F117. Among other things it could loiter in enemy airspace and (for example) direct special forces missions happening below it, perhaps acting as eyes and ears for those missions.
Read the article at
the link below.
My posts on
mysterious booms can be found here:
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