UFO For Sale, Check It Out

E=Bay ^ | Aug 8 2012 | dyanamae2001

[Yosemitest]

Wow, now I know the source of some of those weird sitings.

[Gaffer]

Go to eBay to see the real item for sale. It is NOT the one in the picture.

[P.O.E.]

“For sale is UFO on other photos with full aluminum construction in green color and black leather covered wings.”

AWEsome
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“About our knowledge, what we know just from rumor by mouth, there existed two prototypes of this aircraft. The previous one which was actually flying and then was donated to the Air force of India during the 60’s and 70’s which was used to train the fighter pilots and what happened with this aircraft nobody knows and it disappeared in time”

Even more awesomeness.

[equaviator]

NOT A UFO AND NEVER WAS!

[Yosemitest]

I tried to post that photo, but I couldn't get it, and the photo posted is the closest to it.

[Yosemitest]

Okay, you name that aircraft. Identify it, if you can.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

It’s hard enough to get a “flying wing” aircraft to be stable with fly by wire, that thing looks like a decommissioned old crop duster that someone took and wrapped a swimming pool cover over the wings to make it look “cool”.

For sale. One semi-circular death machine, never used. Inquire within...

[Gaffer]

Understood. However, the one for sale is a very very crude facsimile of the one the USAF had in its photo. This must have been a very early prototype from a bidder who didn’t get the job.

[Gaffer]

Never said it was.

[Yosemitest]

After 26 plus years of USAF air traffic control and 4 years of FAA air traffic control, I would guess that it was aerodynamically neutral (at best) or unstable.
Here, read this:

U.S. built flying wing disc aircraft? (1946 - 1967)

[WKUHilltopper]

“For sale is UFO on other photos with full aluminum construction in green color and black leather covered wings.”

If it doesn’t have cup holders, forget it!

[Catmom]

How many light years does it have on it?

[Gaffer]

An excerpt of the long story in the link : THEY DO EXIST Jack and Harold learned that some experimental jet aircraft were being stored at the base salvage/scrap-yard. These particular aircraft had already been decommissioned/declassified, and were parked directly outside, and NOT in a hangar. ................... "My gosh! Those are Flying Saucers! Those things really do exist!". There, parked outside on a taxi-way near the base scrap-yard, were four flying wing discs, measuring 20, 40, 70 and 116 feet in diameter. ...................... Because they were the last remaining of their model, the Master Sergeant of the Non-Commissioned Officer's Club telephoned the Adjutant General's Office for permission for Polaroid photographs to be taken.......................The Master Sergeant stated to Jack that he was not sure what these aircraft were for, but thought they might be some sort of "test" aircraft. The General's Office suggested that Jack use higher quality official Air Force photographs available at the Adjutant General's library at MacDill. .....................Jack was issued for his article, the highest security clearance ever given to any civilian publisher due to his prior work with SAC/TAC/Navy/Army bases. Under armed military guard, Jack was personally shown literally hundreds of official U.S.A.F. photographs of these aircraft in formation flight, on the tarmac, and was shown portions of motion picture footage of these aircraft in flight. Jack was allowed to select those photographs best suited for the up-coming NCO Club newsletter article, and obtain additional detailed information concerning the discs. ...............

Yeah, last time I looked when in the AF back then, the Master Sergeant of the NCO Club called all the shots about secret military aircraft. As for the highest clearance granting - just plain BS, there's still such a thing as NEED TO KNOW.... Lastly, all the pictures in the link are computer graphics generations. Apologize for the length of the excerpt - tried to cut as much as possible but one has to get a sense of just how poorly documented the site's recounts are.

[equaviator]

As long as the USAF knows what it was (then and now) it’s not a UFO.

Don’t make the mistake of assuming that just because the public doesn’t know what it is, that it was ever a UFO.

[Yosemitest]

Take a look at the one for sale's cockpit and glass and compare it to the cockpit of this TBF Avenger.

I think it's close and it's possible one might have been used to construct the one for sale.

[Gaffer]

Yes, it looks like it could be.

[Yosemitest]

The public couldn't identify it, hence it's an "unidentified flying object".
Enjoy the humor.

[Yosemitest]

I've had several co-workers that spent time at “Dream-Land”
and the military was experimenting with some pretty weird stuff in the 60’s and 70’s, out in Nevada.

[Yosemitest]

That’s not leather. It’s radar absorbing paint.

[Gaffer]

Oh yes....the AF was adventurous and full of grits back in the post war years (and for some efforts, a couple of decades afterwards). They’d just won a war, feeling their oats, moved into the jet age - made tremendous advances in altitude, speed, endurance, etc (expanding the flight envelope). America was rich, the superpower with money to burn.

Then, science began to give way to politics - jobs. B-2 was overbloated because of California jobs and jobs in key districts, Osprey, C-17, KC-135 replacement, et al were more politics than procurement.