From: USDSCUBA@aol.com
We had an unusual "Black project" aircraft down here flying out of NASA Houston headed west about dusk last year. It was about 20% larger than the F-117, and the wings were a complete triangle going from nose to tail, not typical swept back versions as on a fighter craft. The length was 25% longer than the width, painted all black of course, and there was no horizontal stabilizer at all. There were 2 vertical stabilizer and these were both slanted inward at about 45 degrees, the opposite of the F-117 and YF-22 The exhaust was a large rectangle shaped mounted above the rear of the wing with no visible flame. It was very quiet in flight and was very low about 1200 to 1500 ft and speed was subsonic about 200 to 250 mph. I live within a controlled air space area so aircraft of all types are an hourly ordeal. The black outline in the sky and lack of noise made this unique, it made less noise than a C-150 and mid throttle at the same distance. It does not appear to be an Aurora due to the lack of contrail, nor a SR-71 due to the lack of noise and different shape.

AURORA
The Aurora Project appears to include several different aircraft that include various names such as the TR-3B, Firefly, Penetrator, and Senior Citizen. Presidents Reagan and Bush authorized a string of Black budget programs.  The existence of several triangular aircraft makes perfect sense only if you look at them from the point of view of their possible use.  Dart-shaped reconnaissance platforms, a range of smaller triangular 'mini B-2' Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles,  stealthy fighters and bombers.  The TR-3B is not fiction and was built with technology available in the mid-1980s or earlier.

The Aurora Program is a top secret development program for advanced aerospace vehicles and has been responsible for development of the hypersonic strategic reconnaissance SR-75   Penetrator which replaced the SR-71 spy plane, and the SR-74  Scramp, which rides piggy-back on the SR-75.  Using some of this technology the tactical reconnaissance TR-3B's first operational flight was in the early 90s.  At least three of the billion dollar plus TR-3Bs were flying by 1994.  The TR-3B vehicle's outer coating is reactive to electrical
stimulation and can change color, reflectiveness, and radar absorptiveness. This stimulation can cause the to look like a small aircraft or a flying cylinder.

EVIDENCE OF HYPERSONIC AIRCRAFT

Some of the first hard evidence the USAF or the National Reconnaissance Office was testing a hypersonic aircraft surfaced in 1990.  Strange double-sonic-booms rocked sleeping Californians awake and triggered earth quake detection-equipment.  Stealth watchers were quick to catch on and dubbing the booms "skyquakes".  According to Jim Mori, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology, the sonic boom signatures recorded by the 220 seismic sensors, operated by the U.S. Geological Service, emanated from
aircraft traveling at high-supersonic speed.  Mori said "Other frequency and shape of the seismic waves indicate the sonic booms were caused by an aircraft, much smaller than the Space Shuttle,  a hypersonic aircraft about the size of an SR-71."  Then the only operational  SR-71 was based at Edwards AFB, flown by NASA and was not in the air at the time of the skyquakes.   On many occasions, the booms came in pairs only minutes apart suggesting that there was more than one hypersonic aircraft on a test flight at the same time.  USGS seismic sensors indicated the approximate direction of travel of the mystery craft was over Southern California and into Nevada, on a heading for a landing at Groom Lake. 

Besides the skyquakes there were multiple sightings of  wedged- shaped aircraft all over the United States and abroad.  An aircraft with a diamond shaped pattern of lights was seen flying in a formation of F-117s, refueling with a KC-135Q tanker over Beale AFB, near Sacramento, California.  According to a February 1992 issue of the "Scotsman Sunday Post", high altitude tests of an American hypersonic aircraft were conducted over the North Atlantic. The mystery aircraft  were observed landing at Machrihanish, Scotland a peninsula that just southward near the coast of Northern Ireland.  Numerous press reports of loud-roaring- wedge-shaped-aircraft scaring sheep on the Scottish fields of Kintyre and mysterious fast-moving radar blips speeding
above Mach 3 by civilian air traffic controllers in Scotland began filing UK newspapers.

In 1989, one of the most famous sightings of the Aurora occurred off the coast of England.  An oil drilling engineer Chris Gibson, an accomplished aircraft observer (having served 12 years with Royal Observer Corps international aircraft recognition team) witnessed a black- wedge shaped aircraft flying over the North Sea.  The aircraft was refueling with a KC-135 tanker and escorted by two F-111 chase planes, reinforcing claims  that the aircraft was being based somewhere in the British Isles.  This may have been a prototype hypersonic Aurora.

Military insiders say that a project involving a hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft was cancelled in 1993.  Other sources say that the project (called Q) became too expensive and considered unfeasible.  The Aurora aircraft is said to be in flyable condition (in storage) at the mysterious Groom Lake flight-test facility located inside the Nellis Test Range in Nevada. According to some insiders, one components of the Aurora/Senior Citizen system was not abandoned. A stealthy high-speed reconnaissance drone,
originally launched off the back of "Aurora" (much like the D-21 drone and SR-71 mothership concept) did survive. This is the craft possibly 
responsible for the strange "donuts-on-a-rope" contrails  reported seen over the southwest. (see Science Newsfront Aug.1992 )  In any event, evidence does support that something high-flying and stealthy is still transiting the night skies of the world.  The high speed hypersonic Aurora may be an unmanned robotic drone.     

What ever the identity of Aurora, some sort of high speed aircraft appears to be flying.  Many high performance aircraft are observed in the vicinity of Area 51, Nevada.  Attached is the apparent flight route of an Aurora type aircraft from Europe to the Southwest.  It is known these aircraft are refueled with special type fuel, probably methane.  KC-135 tankers at Mc Guire Air Force Base regularly refuel high performance type aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean.

AURORA REPORTS

Possible Aurora Contrails

There are numerous reports particularly in the Southwest of the United
States.  Here are a few examples.

FLORIDA, FORT MEYERS-- Astronomer Linda S. Jacobson reports, "We have had several flying triangle craft reports here in Southwest, Florida -- the latest was caught on video.  The sighting was made on August 21, 1998, at 3:30 AM.  During the last three months, triangle UFO sightings were occurring around 10:00 to 11:00 PM.  Again as in the other cases the direction of movement was from the South, toward the North.  The Triangle that was observed on the 21st was entirely lit from below with a steady glow from the underbelly

CALIFORNIA-- On November 14, 1997, 10:05 PM, Professor of Earth Sciences and the president of an oil company spotted a triangular shaped aircraft moving east over Santa Barbara Channel.  Estimated speed was between 4000 to 8000 mph.

OHIO--October 8, 1997, midnight, pale yellow streak appeared over Columbus, Ohio. Contrail was puffy and cloud like but low ran from south to due north.  NORAD claimed it was non-correlated' event which means that it was not a man-made object that we track or monitor.

CALIFORNIA--On October 3, 1996,  there was a spectacular aerial fireball sighted throughout the western United States.  Associated with that story was a claim made by an anonymous doctor, who said that the fireball marked the emergency landing of a UFO on a hilltop near Los Angeles, California, occupied by a restricted facility called Rocketdyne, once a manufacturer of military rocket engines.  The mysterious doctor, who came to be known as "General A" on late-night radio, says one current function of the Rocketdyne facility is to service highly exotic aircraft that come and go on a regular basis.  Now, history repeats itself.  Again, a fireball has been witnessed
near Los Angeles, and again, General A claims to have seen extraordinary things at Rocketdyne. CNI News

On September 10, 1998, the sky above the greater Los Angeles area lit up. Thousands of people saw a blue-white fireball arch from west to east, appearing to crash near Calabasas area in the valley.  Two women, Carolyn in Simi Valley, and June in the mountains between Santa Monica and Calabasas, were witness to the event.  It was dusk," June said. "It wasn't that dark. I could still see the mountains and something on fire in the sky passing over my house!'  There was no sound.  It looked like something dropped off of it as it disappeared behind a nearby hill."   Evidence was gathered from local
vegetation by the Ventura/Santa Barbara MUFON group and analyzed at a lab, along with radiation readings of a site near June's home. Analyses showed whatever passed over the area had sucked the liquids from the vegetation, causing a tree to explode, bark to fall off branches, and an ash-like substance to form on top of leaves. All evidence was photographed and documented.  Simi Valley resident Carolyn, further east, was about to enter her home. "It was getting dark enough to see the early stars," Carolyn reported. "I just looked up as I was going back in the house, and there was a real bright light that came overhead from west to east.  It looked like a comet with a tail. Sort of like a gas flame; blue and white in color.  Once
it passed my head, it changed into a V shape; like a Stealth Bomber, only more V shaped.  The object traveled faster than a plane, about the same height as aircraft going into Los Angeles International Airport and Burbank airport.  As it continued eastward, all of a sudden there was a big blast of light, and poof, it was gone!  It reminded me of a Star Trek movie when they're going into warp drive," Carolyn said. Leir's friend, "General A," is a General Officer in the Reserves.  In 1996, he made several trips to the Rocketdyne facility, gaining access to the area which had been cordoned off by elite troops the night of the October 3 fireball sighting.  On October 5, 1996, the General viewed an area at Rocketdyne, blackened as if there had
been a fire.  Asking what had happened, a military spokesman told him, "A damaged vehicle made an emergency landing here.  It was repaired, and left this morning."

General revealed what happened at Rocketdyne on September 11, 1998.  "When I got up there on the eleventh, there was a vehicle there this time," the General reported. "I'm a very scientific individual. I have to see to believe.  I had the most tremendous experience of my life!  You have to call the vehicle alive -- alive in the sense that if it is perforated, or injured, it would be self-healing; the materiel is considered alive.  It's hard to say what the vehicle looks like.  Let me say it changes form; changed every time I looked at it.  When I entered it, it changed its form.  Everything was flexible," he said.  "I could see out of the craft, but not into it."   It is important to note that witness June saw the vehicle morphing in the air.  The
General added that the only reason people saw the fireball was because the vehicle was in trouble.  He said that prominent people all over the world have been briefed on what the vehicles are, and who controls them, including our own people in Washington, D.C.  Later in the report, the General said he had attended a social function and had spoken of his experience to some Armenian engineers, who were working for Boeing, who now owns Rocketdyne.  Thanks to CNI News.

FIREFLY STEALTH FLYING TRIANGLE

Graham M. Wilson reports a NATO 'Firefly' Black Budget Stealth exists?  The craft is an equilateral-shaped triangle, each edge, from tip to tip, is approximately 184 feet.  The 'Firefly' is one of the current generation of super-stealth aircraft, still part of the black-budget program.  Near silent in operational flight, near silent hover capabilities.  The underside lighting configuration is so designed as to give conflicting eyewitness accounts of the lighting and indeed shape of the craft, the three large circular red lights in each point can converge in the center to form one very large red or white light.  I am informed that there are two of these craft in Europe in current operation, one is based at Boscombe Down, England and
shares flight operations with Macrihanish, Scotland.  The other craft is
based in Germany.  The USA have two craft, of slightly different
configuration.  The craft is manned or crewed by NATO personnel, it is
believed all participating NATO countries supply flight crew.  Flight
simulators are located in the UK, Germany and the USA.  Thanks to Graham M. Wilson (Chairman & Director of Investigations) Society for Paranormal & UFO Research  http://website.lineone.net/~gwilson_spur/spur.html
GWilson_SPUR@LineOne.net

Aerospace Writer Bill Rose responds to last week's article on the alleged triangular NATO aircraft.  May I add a few comments to the recent report on Firefly.  Firefly  (proper name Lampyridae) is a stealth interdictor aircraft, semi-secretly built by Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Bohm, (MBB) now Daimler Benz Aerospace in Germany.  Designed by Dr. Gehard Lobert, this fighter sized aircraft is essentially a second generation F-117A.  Two demonstrators were flown at the Overberg Test Range in South Africa during the late 1980s, but
the project was placed on the back burner and has probably been canceled. The British HALO (High Agility, Low Observability) program is definitely not a smokescreen for any program called Firefly, because HALO is itself highly secret.  The exact nature of HALO remains classified, but BAe (British Aerospace) and the MoD (Ministry of Defence) have acknowledged that small demonstrators are being test flown. Pinning down a suitable base for trials of these craft is difficult, but a strong possibility is RAF West Freugh, a highly secret facility in Western Scotland.  NATO pilots fly each other's aircraft on a fairly regular basis (including recent Russian jets) and these
programs sometimes stretch into the black domain.  RAF and Luftwaffe pilots flew the F-117A before it was declassified..  Thanks to Bill Rose. bill.rose@virgin.net

Evidence does support that something high-flying and stealthy is still
transiting the night skies of the world.  The high speed hypersonic Aurora may be an unmanned robotic drone.  The Intelligence agencies and USAF have been playing a shell game with aircraft nomenclature - creating the TR-3, modified to the TR-3A, the TR-3B, and the Teir 2, 3, and 4, with suffixes like 'Plus' or 'Minus' added on to further confuse the issue.

What ever the identity of Aurora, some sort of high speed aircraft appears to be flying.  Many high performance aircraft are observed near Area 51, Nevada.  The National UFO Reporting Center and MUFON receive almost daily reports of craft moving at double and triple the speed of normal air traffic.  For example on September 20, 1998, at 05:50 AM in Las Vegas, Nevada a person driving to work saw a green light going from northwest to southeast at a high rate of speed.  The photographs attached show some of the best composite drawings of the aircraft.  This document is a compilation of some the best
information I can locate.

It is known these aircraft are refueled with special type fuel, probably
methane.  KC-135 tankers at Mc Guire Air Force Base regularly refuel secret high performance aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean.  Attached is the apparent flight route of an Aurora type aircraft from Europe to the Southwest. 

1. Flight route of an Aurora type aircraft
2. Drawings from www.aemann.demon.co.uk

Now that legendary Lockheed engineer and Chief model kit designer for the Testor Corporation, John Andrews is dead, William McDonald has announced that he personally confirmed the design connection between the Roswell Spacecraft and the Lockheed Martin Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs), spy planes, Joint Strike Fighters, and Space Shuttles.  He was a close personal friend of "Skunk Works" CEO Ben Rich, the hand picked successor of Kelly Johnson, the man famous for the F-117 Nighthawk "Stealth" fighter, it's half-pint prototype the HAVE BLUE, and the top  secret F-19 Stealth Interceptor. 
Before Rich died of cancer, Andrews took my questions to him.  Rich confirmed:

      1.  There are two types of UFOs.  The ones we build, and the ones THEY build.  We learned from both crash retrievals and actual "Hand-me-downs." The Government knew, and until 1969 took an active hand    in the administration of that information.  After the   1969 Nixon "Purge", administration was handled by an international board of directors in the private sector.

      2.  "'An' item", as opposed to "'The' item" was recovered     near the world's only combat operational atom bomb  base (Roswell AAF) in 1947.  Hull design,  aerodynamic measurements, propulsion info was passed directly to Jack Northrop and Kelly Johnson, beginning in   1950, with a major block of data being passed on from   "The Working Group" at Wright Patterson AFB's Foreign Technologies Division in 1952.    "'The' item" refers to the top secret designation of Kelly's original variant of the U-2 (TR-1) spy plane in congressional and Pentagon budgets in the 1950s.

      3.  Nearly all "Biomorphic" aerospace designs were inspired by the
Roswell spacecraft from Kelly's SR-71 Blackbird,  onward to today's drones, UCAVs, and aerospace craft. 

      4.  The inward canted vertical stabilizers of the F-19, the HAVE BLUE, many drones, some UCAVs, and the SR-71  matched the 30 degree inward cant of the Roswell   spacecraft's shark fin shaped pair of vertical stabs or  "Winglets." Same goes for the wing camber to fuselage      "Blend" of the airframe designs.

      5.  The outward cants of the F-22 Raptor, the F-117, the McDonnell Douglas YF-23, and the TACIT BLUE stealth concept prototypes perform similar aerodynamic functions   for stability in high performance flight.

      6.  Rich observed that the impression Kelly Johnson's contacts had was a negative impression and Kelly implied   in rare conversations on the subject that "Factions" from   "Out there" were a threat, more than they were a blessing, and that the cost of having "Them" around was   "Unimaginable" and "Unbelievable." 

      7.  It was Ben Rich's opinion, that the public should not be told.  He believed they could not handle the truth, ever.  Only in the last months of his decline did he begin to feel that the "International corporate board of directors" dealing with the "Subject," could represent a bigger problem to citizens' personal freedoms under the  United States Constitution than the presence of off world visitors themselves.