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SUBJECT: NEW SECRET SPY PLANE IN ACTION FILE: UFO3108
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Date: 05-15-93 (14:30)
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From: LUIS REYES
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Does the U.S. Air Force - or perhaps one of America's intelligence agencies
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have a new secret spy plane in action? A growing body of evidence suggests
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that the answer is yes. A startling disclosure came recently when
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Chris Gibson, a British oil engineer and highly trained aircraft-spotter,
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produced a sketch that captured the shape and size of an unusual aircraft
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he saw during daylight hours in August 1989, flying over his drilling rig
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in the North Sea. The expert eye witness's drawing is the keystone that,
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with other evidence, provides an understanding of a secret hypersonic
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reconnaisance aircraft that is widely rumored to exist, but routinely
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denied by U.S. officials. It's nickname Aurora.
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Gibson - a former member of the disbanded Royal Observer corps, a group of
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volunteer aircraft spotters was able to estimate the strange airplane's
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length and width by comparing it with the known dimensions of the
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K-135 refueling tanker and two F-111 bombers flying alongside.
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But it wasn't until last year, when he came across a magazine illustration
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of a hypersonic (faster than Mach 5) aircraft design, that Gibson suddenly
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made sense of the sharp triangular silhouette he saw.
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Gibson's North Sea sighting completes a puzzle that has obsessed military
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aircraft analysts for several years. Consider the following pieces of
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evidence hinting at the existence of something unacknowledged that flies
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high and fast.
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In February 1990, the Air Force retired its SR-71 spy planes.
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The official reason was saving $200 - $300 million a year it costs to
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operate the fleet of Blackbirds. Reporters were told that the SR-71's
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role had been take over by advanced spy satellites.
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The Air Force actually discouraged congressional attempts to reverse
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this termination of its most glamorous aircraft mission. Never in its
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history has the Air Force walked away from a manned mission without a fight.
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The pace of activity at the Air Force's top-secret Groom Lake test site
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in the Nevada desert has increased dramatically in recent years, suggesting
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the presence there of one or more secret aircraft programs. by comparing
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recent photos of the base with ones taken in the 1970's, it's apparent that
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several large new buildings were added during the 1980's. Always visible
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in the recent pictures are a number of chartered Boeing 737 airliners that
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ferry workers in from other defense industry towns such as Palmdale,
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Burbank, or Edwards in Southern California, or from Nellis Air Force Base
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in Nevada.
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Since mid-1991, enexplained sonic booms have periodically rattled
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Southern California. Officials at the United States Geological Survey,
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the agency that monitors earthquake activity, no doubt irked the military
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with their public statements that a very fast, high-flying aircraft was
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causing the "airquakes" registering on their array of seismographs.
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The Federation of American Scientists, a private Washington, D.C. based
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policy group, issued a report late last year on the likelihood that
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unacknowledged military aircraft might exist. The cautious review of
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unclassified literature on the subject concluded that several new types of
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aircraft may indeed be covertly flying around.
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In a 1985 Pentagon budget document requesting production funds for 1987,
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a censor's slip let the line item "Aurora" appear, grouped with the
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SR-71 and U-2 programs. Even if Aurora actually was the prjects name
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at the time, it almost certainly would have been changed after being thus
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compromised; "Senior Citizen" is one new label that has been reported.
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rated by the Pentagon as an "unacknowledged special-access program," the
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plane's existence and real name secret, and therefore deniable.
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Gibson's sighting now makes it possible to reconstruct the Aurora program
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history. the spy plane was operational, or nearly so, by August 1989, just
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before the Air Force parked its SR-71's for the last time. Aurora would
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have made its first flight by 1986 at the latest, following the development
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effort that was launched in 1981. This analysis elicited denials by high
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officials involved in defense and intelligence matters.
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