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'Mystery aircraft' over Texas draws speculation of real spy plane
chron.com ^
| March 28, 2014
| Carol Christian |
Posted on 03/29/2014 4:03:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
first time.
Aviation Week & Space Technology journalist Bill Sweetman has posted photos taken March 10 by two veteran sky watchers, Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett.
In his blog post of March 28, Sweetman writes that he and two Aviation Week editors agree that the photos depict "something real." In other words, these pictures aren't easily explained away by reports of known military flights or the work of someone who got carried away with Photoshop.
So what can aviation experts say about the object in the photos?
"The photos tell us more about what the mysterious stranger isn't than what it is," Sweetman writes.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: aerospace; aircraft; aurora; aviationweek; billsweetman; deanmuskett; drone; mystery; sr72; stevedouglass; texas
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03/29/2014 4:03:13 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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03/29/2014 4:04:13 PM PDT
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stboz
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/29/2014 4:05:23 PM PDT
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US_MilitaryRules
(Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
To: stboz
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posted on
03/29/2014 4:05:51 PM PDT
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FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: BenLurkin
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03/29/2014 4:09:18 PM PDT
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golux
To: stboz
Wingspan is too short for a B2.
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03/29/2014 4:10:08 PM PDT
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driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: US_MilitaryRules
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posted on
03/29/2014 4:10:48 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Probably a aurora.
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03/29/2014 4:10:59 PM PDT
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driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: FreedomPoster
To: driftdiver
Doesn’t a delta wing limit top speed for an aircraft?
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03/29/2014 4:11:48 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
UAV, probably RQ170 out of Ft. Worth
To: BenLurkin
Dunno if any 4th or 5th gen fighters leave trails like that, certainly not an F117 or a B2. Some kind of drone or something experimental. Looks like the photo was taken during daylight hours, don’t think one would go too obvious with a spy plane.
To: FreedomPoster
Maybe it’s the long rumored Blackbird replacement..the Aurora.
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03/29/2014 4:14:31 PM PDT
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stboz
To: BenLurkin
Shuriken ala 2014 with jet propulsion ....
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03/29/2014 4:15:19 PM PDT
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Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: BenLurkin
Perhaps Lockheed's
SR-72 spy plane?
To: BenLurkin
Delta
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03/29/2014 4:16:48 PM PDT
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Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: BenLurkin
I’m not an engineer but I don’t think so. Consider the shuttle, B1 bomber, F111, and a host of other high speed planes which use a delta or swept wing configuration.
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03/29/2014 4:17:25 PM PDT
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driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: BenLurkin
New Eric Holder/DOJ gun running program.
To: Vendome
Figures its Texas, then. You can’t even buy throwing stars in California.
Apparently the legislature is afraid someone will use them to rob a 7-11.
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03/29/2014 4:18:04 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: jsanders2001
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03/29/2014 4:19:30 PM PDT
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MrEdd
(vHeck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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