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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. Tangurena2 · 1790792691 · focus · HN ↗

            Some of the &quot;hovers then flies off at great speed&quot; reports match how an SR-71 flight could appear to a ground observer. They took off almost empty of fuel (which isn&#x27;t made any more), flew as slow as they could to a tanker aircraft (which flew about as fast as it could), refuel then accelerate to Mach 3. When the tanker + SR-71 flew roughly towards you, it looks like it is hovering. Then when it turns and accelerates away it looks like it tears off at a 90 degree turn.

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