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61 lines
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SUBJECT: Aurora Flies in Scotland FILE: UFO36
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According to the Sunday Post newspaper on 9th May 1993
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above the golf course by RAF Macnrihanish near Campbletown, not
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far from the tip of the Kintyre peninsula flies the American top
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secret new spy plane.
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This was first spotted flying high over the North Sea in
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1989, the plane's existence has never been officially admitted by
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the American authorities.
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They were equally secretive when the Stealth bomber also
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used Machrihanish for secret trials before it took part so
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devastatingly in the Gulf War.
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The New York Times, Jane's Defence Weekly and the US
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magazine Aviation Week have all reported that the aircraft
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exists.
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It is known as PROJECT AURORA.
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Oil rig engineer Chris Gibson is reported to have claimed
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to have seen the aircraft from the rig Galveston Key. Gibson, a
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part-time member of the Royal Observer Corps, saw the dart-shaped
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plane taking on fuel from a US Air Force Tanker.
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First word of it using Macrihanish came when a report
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filtered out about an RAF radar man picking up an unidentified
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craft travelling at three times the speed of sound near the
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Kintyre peninsula.
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Locals started querying terrific sonic booms ripping
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through the sky near the base.
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Then the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
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investigated earth tremors and strange shock waves across the
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Friesian coast, and said the probable cause was the sonic boom
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from an aircraft flying at a speed of 4000mph.
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Machrihanish has the longest military runway in Europe
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and the US is to invest œ7 million in the base.
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Moreover, the US's secret or black budget has pumped $8
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million into Lockheed Corporation's ultra-high security Skunk
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works in the California desert, believed to be for project Aurora.
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Aurora's task would be to fill in the fine detail of
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observations by the spy satellites the US uses for routine
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reconnaissance.
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Like the stealth bomber it would be capable of defying
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alomost any radar system.
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Add it all up and there's little doubt about the most
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curious birdie at Machrihanish golf course these days.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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