TR3B photographed in low earth orbit from the ISS

[old steel]

Possibly leaked before the airbrush crew got hold of it?

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/QuickView.pl?directory=ISD&ID=STS61C-31-2

4355

[old steel]

Being that they have been in possession of this technology for a long time it only gives me pause to wonder what type of weapons systems it can deploy?

[Dogman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29



http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ISD/lowres/STS61C/STS61C-31-2.jpg

[vacuum]

http://gold-silver.us/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4356&stc=1&d=1359054061

[vacuum]

Interesting how the one in the OP is earlier than the one dogman and I pulled down from the website. You'd think the website would always be updated with later pictures, not go back to earlier ones.

[Glass]

and I thought everyone agreed they weren't going to militarize space

[Neuro]

It is just an arrow to start the video that went drifting, nothing to see here, move along...

[ShortJohnSilver]

Date on the photo is 1986, means they have had this for many years.

[Cebu_4_2]

Date on the photo is 1986, means they have had this for many years.

where you get that?

[osoab]

where you get that?

860112 135925 1986, 01, 12 13:59:42

I'm guessing photoshop.

[Cebu_4_2]

Kindof looks like the kite my kid lost back then.

[ShortJohnSilver]

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS61C&roll=31&frame=2

Scroll down to "Nadir" section and look at date code.

[old steel]

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS61C&roll=31&frame=2

Scroll down to "Nadir" section and look at date code.

That is when the major flap of triangular shaped UFO's first hit the MSM.

[Celtic Rogue]

If you look at the image blown up... The shape is a right triangle, (L) not an isosceles triangle. The line that runs north south on the triangle is straight at an arrow with no pixilization. The other two lines are very pixilated. It does not look like any craft to me. Looks like an error in the reading of the digital information. Too bad. 8-)

[ShortJohnSilver]

If you look at the image blown up... The shape is a right triangle, (L) not an isosceles triangle. The line that runs north south on the triangle is straight at an arrow with no pixilization. The other two lines are very pixilated. It does not look like any craft to me. Looks like an error in the reading of the digital information. Too bad. 8-)

Except it was done with a FILM camera. Read the link I posted above - the type of film, type of camera, lens, exposure, etc. is all given on that page. And I think NASA would have the equipment needed to scan any film properly ...

[mick silver]

y the late 1980s, many aerospace industry observers believed that the U.S. had the technological capability to build a Mach-5 replacement for the aging Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird). Detailed examinations of the U.S. defense budget claimed to have found money missing or channeled into black projects (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_project).[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29#cite_note-7) By the mid-1990s, reports surfaced of sightings of unidentified aircraft flying over California and the United Kingdom involving odd-shaped contrails, sonic booms and related phenomena that suggested the US had developed such an aircraft. Nothing ever linked any of these observations to any program or aircraft type, but the name Aurora was often tagged on these as a way of explaining the observations.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29#cite_note-asw-1) ... American sighting claimsA series of unusual sonic booms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom) was detected in Southern California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California), beginning in mid- to late-1991 and recorded by U.S. Geological Survey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Geological_Survey) sensors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismometer) across Southern California used to pinpoint earthquake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake)epicenters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicenter). The sonic booms were characteristic of a smaller vehicle rather than the 37-meter long Space Shuttle orbiter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_orbiter). Furthermore, neither the Shuttle nor NASA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA)'s single SR-71B (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird) was operating on the days the booms had been registered.[11] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29#cite_note-11) In the article, "In Plane Sight?" which appeared in the Washington City Paper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_City_Paper) on 3 July 1992 (pp. 12–13), one of the seismologists, Jim Mori, noted: "We can't tell anything about the vehicle. They seem stronger than other sonic booms that we record once in a while. They've all come on Thursday mornings about the same time, between 4 and 7."[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29#cite_note-aemann.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk-5) Former NASA sonic boom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom)expert Dom Maglieri studied the 15-year old sonic boom data from the California Institute of Technology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology) and has deemed that the data showed "something at 90,000 ft (c. 27.4 km), Mach 4 to Mach 5.2". He also said the booms did not look like those from aircraft that had traveled through the atmosphere many miles away at LAX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAX), rather, they appeared to be booms from a high-altitude aircraft directly above the ground moving at high speeds.[12] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29#cite_note-12) The boom signatures of the two different aircraft patterns are wildly different.[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29#cite_note-secret-4) There was nothing particular to tie these events to any aircraft, but they served to grow the Aurora legend.
On 23 March 1992, near Amarillo, Texas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarillo,_Texas), Steven Douglas photographed the "donuts on a rope" contrail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail) and linked this sighting to distinctive sounds. He described the engine noise as: "strange, loud pulsating roar... unique... a deep pulsating rumble that vibrated the house and made the windows shake... similar to rocket engine noise, but deeper, with evenly timed pulses." In addition to providing the first photographs of the distinctive contrail previously reported by many, the significance of this sighting was enhanced by Douglas' reports of intercepts of radio transmissions: "Air-to-air communications... were between an AWACS aircraft with the call sign "Dragnet 51" from Tinker AFB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_Air_Force_Base), Oklahoma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma), and two unknown aircraft using the call signs "Darkstar November" and "Darkstar Mike". Messages consisted of phonetically transmitted alphanumerics. It is not known whether this radio traffic had any association with the "pulser" that had just flown over Amarillo." ("Darkstar" is also a call sign of AWACS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_early_warning_and_control) aircraft from a different squadron at Tinker AFB)[13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29#cite_note-13) A month later, radio enthusiasts in California monitoring Edwards AFB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_Air_Force_Base) Radar (callsign "Joshua Control") heard early morning radio transmissions between Joshua and a high flying aircraft using the callsign "Gaspipe". "You're at 67,000 feet, 81 miles out" was heard, followed by "70 miles out now, 36,000 ft, above glideslope." As in the past, nothing linked these observations to any particular aircraft or program, but the attribution to the Aurora helped expand the legend.
In February 1994 former resident of Rachel, Nevada, and Area 51 enthusiast, Chuck Clark claims to have filmed the Aurora taking off from the Groom Lake facility. In the David Darlington book "Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles" he says:

I even saw the Aurora take off one night - or an aircraft that matched the Aurora's reputed configuration, a sharp delta with twin tails about a hundred and thirty feet long. It taxied out of a lighted hangar at two-thirty A.M. and used a lot of runway to take off. It had one red light on top, but the minute the wheels left the runway, the light went off and that was the last I saw of it. I didn't hear it because the wind was blowing from behind me toward the base." I asked when this had taken place. "February 1994. Obviously they didn't think anybody was out there. It was thirty below zero - probably ninety below with the wind chill factor. I had hiked into White Sides from a different, harder way than usual, and stayed there two or three days among the rocks, under a camouflage tarp with six layers of clothes on. I had an insulated face mask and two sleeping bags, so I didn't present a heat signature. I videotaped the aircraft through a telescope with a five-hundred-millimeter f4 lens coupled via a C-ring to a high-eight digital video camera with five hundred and twenty scan lines of resolution, which is better than TV." The author then asked "Where's the tape?" Locked away. That's a legitimate spyplane; my purpose is not to give away legitimate national defense. When they get ready to unveil it, I'll probably release the tape.[14] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29#cite_note-14)
[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aurora_(aircraft)&action=edit&section=5)]Additional evidenceIn the controversial claims of Bob Lazar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar), he states that during his employment at the mysterious S-4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-4_(Sector_Four)) facility in Nevada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada), he briefly witnessed an Aurora flight while aboard a bus near Groom Lake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_Lake). He claimed that there was a "tremendous roar" which sounded almost as if "the sky was tearing." Although Lazar only saw the aircraft for a moment through the front of the bus, he described it as being "very large" and having "two huge, square exhausts with vanes in them." Upon speaking with his supervisor, Lazar claims he was informed that the aircraft was indeed an "Aurora," a "high altitude research plane." He was also told that the aircraft was powered by "liquid methane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane)."[15] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29#cite_note-15)
By 1996 reports associated with the Aurora name dropped off in frequency, suggesting to people who believed that the aircraft existed that it had only ever been a prototype or that it had had a short service life.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29#cite_note-asw-1)
In 2006, aviation writer Bill Sweetman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Sweetman) put together 20 years of examining budget "holes", unexplained sonic booms, along with the Gibson sighting and concluded, "This evidence helps establish the program's initial existence. My investigations continue to turn up evidence that suggests current activity. For example, having spent years sifting through military budgets, tracking untraceable dollars and code names, I learned how to sort out where money was going. This year, when I looked at the Air Force operations budget in detail, I found a $9-billion black hole that seems a perfect fit for a project like Aurora."[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29#cite_note-secret-4)
[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aurora_(aircraft)&action=edit&section=6)]See also

[Cebu_4_2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eqD-ANP9PY