When the US decided to decommission the space shuttles, I was convinced that we must have a secret spacecraft with the ability to enter space. Seriously, does anyone here think that the US would abandon our ability to get into space? I personally think we have that ability and do not want American citizens others to know about it.Skunk works develop new technology everyday. How many years did the SR 71 fly before it was made public. So this video could have captured 3 of our spacecraft instead of UFO’s.
At this point, with the world as it is...anything is possible...
and yes we do have a space plane...of a sort, ultra high speed and unmanned....but it’s a secret...lol....sortof..
It also could have been a fluid leak on the external cooling system that they have been having issues with since they put this thing together..
I dunno..
But it is certainly a interesting video clip.
The “objects” appear to have been water or water crystals, and were fairly close by, rather than being cryptic vehicles out over the horizon. And it turned out I’d seen the same “footage” (I don’t know what to call digital video, and I still call CDs albums, and albums are themselves a legacy of the 78 rpm era) on Sunday.
That said, the X-37 exists, and has been doing unexplained, unmanned, long-duration missions. There’s not a lot to that technology, and nothing hidden about it. Back when Ben Rich was still alive and at Lockheed, they were doing cryo-fueled vehicle research at high altitude, using some older stuff they’d mothballed in the late 1960s. That stuff was by kid standards ancient artifacts, but the performance made some eyes pop.
That research line (which was for building unmanned, high speed, very long range spy craft) was apparently abandoned again, perhaps due to his death in 1995, but as drone technology improved (and it’s been several gens at least since then) it probably would have been abandoned anyway.
The British spaceplane SSTO effort, “Skylon”, is building engines that owe a lot to the SR-71 engines. I don’t think they’re going to finish the job, nor do I think they can deliver a reliable working line of vehicles even if they succeed with their prototypes. My view is, a US company or more than one should partner with them, get ‘er done, and start the testing here, somewhere out west.
The alternative is, the Chinese do it.