B-2?
Lost 777???
Loose Lips Sink Ships.
UAV, probably RQ170 out of Ft. Worth
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.
Shuriken ala 2014 with jet propulsion ....
New Eric Holder/DOJ gun running program.
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
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?
Is the testing phase of the government anal probe drone. Why should aliens have all the fun?
Weather Balloon... Nothing to see hear, move along...
Flying Dorito? That one was known to be in development and was cancelled due to overruns and technical delays. There was a lawsuit that got settled, I think last year. There was a topic around here about it at the time I believe.
The Aurora is probably still in development; the spec must be something that can exceed the capability of the very successful (thank you Kelly Johnson) SR-71 Blackbird, which was capable of sustained flight above Mach 3, and flew very long missions over hostile territory, landing and taking off from the same few places, and refueled mid-air as much as necessary.
It’s been speculated that the Aurora and the Flying Dorito were confused for each other, and that the Aurora testing has been done at very high altitude and mostly over the mostly empty federal lands and other sparsely population areas of the SW.
Ben Rich, colleague and successor of Kelly Johnson at Lockheed’s Skunk Works, once cryptically remarked that a “beads on a rope” contrail report he was asked about would suggest a cryofueled engine. The Aurora used to be believed to use liquid methane fuel, and the “beads” were from the pulse jet propulsion needed to make the methane burn right.
Rich is also known to have worked on some very high speed pulse jet drones used in the 1960s to spy on the Chinese interior. The program was cancelled, but in the 1990s the unused inventory was still around and brought back out, apparently for test bed work (rumor).
Nice series of links BenLurkin!
http://www.dreamlandresort.com/forum/messages/17185.html
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/100years/stories/rich.html
https://www.google.com/search?q=Donuts+on+a+rope+contrail&tbm=isch