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 ...
Advanced aircraft leave contrails, as well. Contrail formation is based upon atmospherics. For a military operation one would get a contrail prediction from weather forecasters for the particular conditions of the day and then avoid those altitudes. You also confirm the contrail altitudes if you can.
Whatever plane it is the Russians and Chinese almost certainly have people working on it and probably build half of it.
Developmental spy planes dont generally fly during the day.
Ah, but the modern brother of the ancient V-1 'Buzz Bomb' jet just might! A PDE (pulse detonation engine) fills the combustion chamber with fuel and oxidizer and then uses a detonation pressure wave to ignite it in a pulse of power. It supposedly can be used from subsonic to mach 5+ and is rumored to power the ?Aurora?
Weather balloon
The shape reminds me of the Boeing Phantom Ray. http://www.boeing.com/Features/2011/05/bds_phantom_ray_first_flight_05_04_11.html
I saw one of those fly back when I was in the air force. incredible
Looks like that new Navy drone.
Looks like an arrow head
Maybe a month ago, a military helicopter flew over. I like to take photos of them but by the time I had grabbed the camera and got out to the porch it was too far away. I took a single shot anyway but the image was so tiny, I cropped it by a large amount just to see it. That is when I noticed a flying saucer in the far distance. Well it could be a flying saucer.
Meet the TR-3A black manta?
Or it could be a bug close to the camera and too close to be in focus.
LOL
I think I saw this aurora aircraft flying over Chamberlain Lake in northern Maine. Creepy thing if I saw what you showed in picture. The guide I was with had seen it several times.
Some guy posted Loose lips sink ships!
Right Turns, tight lines
Caddis the ancient one
/johnny
Well they did until the 370 went down with the 21 Chinese spies who were heading to China with their laptops filled with spec on this aircraft..
Fortunatly they were able to land the aircraft in Garcia whatever and convince those spies to not deflect. or is it defect. LOL
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