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SUBJECT: AURORA AND AREA 51 FILE: UFO3096
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Date: 23 Feb 93 18:06:00
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From: Jim Doyle
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This is a cross posted from Scifi conf on CAEUG
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I did not transcribe it. This was D/l as a file
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and had no authors name attached.
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This deals mainly with the Aurora but also makes reference to other
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objects sighted at and around Groom lake.
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The following is my attempt to transcribe the NBC newscast that aired on
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April 20, 1992. Tom Brokaw's comments are shown as TB:. Fred Francis's
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comments are shown as FF:. General Tony Tolin's comments are shown as
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TT:. Now if I could just include the video!! If you find any errors,
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please let me know so I can correct this transcription.
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TB:
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Our daily difference now. In the 90's, with the cold war behind us,
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defense spending is being scrutinized as never before. Tonight, do we
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need warplanes that are incredibly fast, agile, and still top secret?
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NBC's F Francis has exclusive details.
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FF:
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Tom, there are a lot of billion dollar Pentagon secrets that many 4-star
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generals don't know. How about this one? Something that moves at 6
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times the speed of sound and was used against Iraq!
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[Video now shows a helicopter view of traffic in southern California.
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Pilot's narration follows]
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KNX[?] newstime 9:13. Don't know for sure what made the ground move
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around 7 o'clock this morning, but seismologists say it was not an
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earthquake.
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FF:
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The predawn rummblings that has confused millions of southern
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Califonians was the sound of their tax dollars flying by.
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[video now shows a drawing of a diamond shaped plane flying by]
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NBC news has learned that the sonic booms are coming from top secret
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reconnaissance planes with revolutionary engines, codenamed Aurora.
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They look something like this. They have been tracked five times
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since last summer crossing the Los Angeles basin. Jim Mori[?], a
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Caltech seismologist, says the planes's sonic booms trigger his
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instruments every time.
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JM:
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When we see one, it seems like we see two of them coming in together
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so it seems to be 2 aircraft flying.
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[video now shows an SR-71 making a low pass--just love that plane!]
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Defense sources say the secret planes replace the vaulted SR-71
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Blackbird, retired in 1990. NBC news has been told the aircraft can
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fly at almost 5,000 miles per hour.
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[video shows an F-117 taxiing by as another plane goes by behind it]
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And one Pentagon source said the F-117's were aided by Aurora over Iraq
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during the Gulf War. The Pentagon won't talk about that or any of its
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so-called "black" airplanes.
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[video shows Fred Francis standing somewhere in Lincoln County, Nevada]
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You see, for decades those California mountains, this vast Nevada
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wasteland, the desert's dark nights, have hidden a succession of
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Pentagon secrets--hidden exotic airplanes--paid for with black budgets
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that only a few dozen people ever see.
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[video now shows the Groom Lake test facility from a distance]
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And only a few dozen civilians ever see the planes which are hidden at
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bases like this: Groom Lake, Nevada...and kept in large hangars during
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daylight.
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Following is refernce to flying objects that defy gravity and are not
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the Aurora!
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[video shows a bright light against a dark sky--all with a green tint]
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This is exclusive NBC New night-vision video of one of those secret
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flying machines--not Aurora, but something that seems to defy the laws
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of physics. Hundreds of witnesses have seen the bright light hovering
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motionless over mountains, then move quickly across the night sky at
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high speeds---like a flying saucer. Marshall Davis has seen it and
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other black planes while towing the cars of the curious who get stuck
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in the desert.
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[video shows M. Davis driving his tow truck while being interviewed]
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MD:
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If you're out towards the test sight, you'll see all kinds of different
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light patterns. They either move or are stationary..a lot of fast
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moving aircraft.
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FF:
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Davis watched the F-117 at night for years before the Pentagon unveiled
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it, but that was during the Cold War. Now the Pentagon is under
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pressure to reduce spending.
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[video shows Fred Francis interviewing General Tony Tolin]
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FF:
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Tony Tolin, a General who flew the F-117, says that spending for secret
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airplanes is still needed, and the public ought to trust the Pentagon.
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TT:
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There are other black programs. And one thing I do know about those
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that I have seen or have been associated with, they are all
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exceptionally well thought out, and there is no huge waste of taxpayers'
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dollars---nothing like that whatsoever.
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FF:
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Well, Congress is less inclined to take the Pentagon's word for it now
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that the arms race is over. Aurora and others may be the last of the
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so-call black airplanes. Tom.
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TB:
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It's nice to have the General's reassuring words, Fred, but how much
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does all this cost?
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FF:
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We think that these planes were built at Lockheed's "Skunk Works" in
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Burbank, California over the last four or five years. At something over
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a billion dollars a year, they're probably finished with the program.
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Some four thousand workers were involved, Tom, so anywhere between six
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and eight billion dollars.
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TB:
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Thank you very much, Fred Francis tonight at the Pentagon.
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[Note: total running time of this news report was 3:50 according to my
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son's VCR]
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