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1. walrus01 · 1790727565 · focus · HN ↗

   I'd be more astonished if there isn't something superior to the SR71 (likely unmanned) that has been flying around at night from facilities like Groom Lake for years. Look at how long the RQ180 was flying around in semi-public and known about before it became seen in daylight by plane spotters in Greece. And a long time before that there were public relations approved photos of the Lockheed Martin Polecat.

   There were a series of extremely public quotations from senior DoD officially recently about how they plan to aggressively retire the Global Hawk program (which is a mostly non stealth aircraft), reading between the lines it's because they have something much better.

   edit: for those who haven&#x27;t seen the RQ180: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;q=RQ180+greece" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;q=RQ180+gre...

   edit 2 (apologies for the X link): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;MechDesignxyz&#x2F;status&#x2F;2041281689838584193" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;MechDesignxyz&#x2F;status&#x2F;2041281689838584193

   1. King-Aaron · 1790728047 · focus · HN ↗

      I know it&#x27;s probably a forbidden topic around these parts, but the &#x27;tic tac&#x27; thing that those FA18 pilots saw several years ago may be indicative of what Lockheed etc are flying up there. It&#x27;s a hot topic in conspiracy circles but it wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if a bulk load of ufo sightings were black projects being tested.

      1. krapp · 1790736359 · focus · HN ↗

         &gt;but it wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if a bulk load of ufo sightings were black projects being tested.

         Sure, I&#x27;d bet a lot of &quot;black triangle&quot; sightings are exactly that. But if the &quot;tic-tac&quot; lore is to be taken at face value, the implication is that the US military has invented antigravity technology, or reverse engineered it from alien spacecraft. I really don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s plausible. If the US had that kind of technology we would be so far ahead of the rest of known science that there would be no value in keeping it secret.

         1. King-Aaron · 1790745584 · focus · HN ↗

            I frankly do like to entertain much more exotic explanations for it, but the overall most prosaic explanation does land on exotic human craft being tested, and the observers not being fully aware of what they&#x27;re seeing - The tic tac just being an example.

            The rest of my thoughts on it probably aren&#x27;t as grounded for a HN discussion.

            1. ricksunny · 1790750988 · focus · HN ↗

               &gt;The rest of my thoughts on it probably aren&#x27;t as grounded for a HN discussion

               If everyone self-censors tabooed topics around here it’s not going to advance the tenor of the HN discourse.

               1. King-Aaron · 1790751932 · focus · HN ↗

                  It&#x27;s more that I&#x27;m currently having a real bad time and don&#x27;t have the heart for the discussion.

                  1. ricksunny · 1790752635 · focus · HN ↗

                     I’m sorry. Hope whatever the difficulty is neutralizes.

                     For what it’s worth, I do endeavor to pepper oblique references to the phenomenon on HN when it seems relevant to, sometimes suffering downvotes for it but who cares.

                     1. King-Aaron · 1790755013 · focus · HN ↗

                        Thanks man, everything passes eventually but it&#x27;s still rough.

                        And yeah I do like seeing the odd reference to the phenomenon here, I&#x27;m just quietly hoping that it doesn&#x27;t all spill out with the current administration and we end up with an Iron Sky scenario lol

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