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According to reports, by mid-1992 Aurora was being flown from a base in the Nevada desert to an atoll in the Pacific, then on to Scotland to refuel before returning to the US at night. Specially modified tanker aircraft are being used to top up Aurora's tanks with liquid methane fuel in midair. The US Air Force was using the remote RAF

airbase at Machrihanish Scotland, as a staging point.

Reports suggest that the mystery aircraft would "fly in at night before streaking back to America across the North Pole at more than six times the speed of sound. An F-111

fighter bomber is scrambled as the black-painted aircraft lands, flying in close formation to confuse prying civilian radars."

Probably the most compelling evidence for such flight tests are the series of unusual sonic booms above Southern California, beginning in mid to late 1991.

On at least five occasions, these sonic booms were recorded by at least 25 of the 220

US Geological Survey sensors across Southern California used to pinpoint earthquake epicenters. The incidents were recorded in June, October, November, and late January 1991.

Seismologists estimate that the aircraft were flying at speeds between Mach 3 and 4 and at altitudes of eight to ten miles. The aircraft's flight path was in a north, north-east direction, consistent with flight paths to secret test ranges in Nevada.

Seismologists say that the sonic booms were characteristic of a vehicle smaller than the space shuttle. Furthermore, neither the shuttle nor NASA's single SR-71B were 29

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operating on the days the booms were registered.

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 six and seven in the morning." These "skyquakes" are a continuing phenomenon, with the most recent report over Orange County California, coming on July 20, 1996. It is reported that the

"quakes" occurred around 3:00PM PST, fitting the "skyquake" pattern in the following respects:

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It occurred in a coastal area.

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Described as similar to an earthquake in some respects (rattling of loose objects, etc.) but also like a boom (but no distinct double bang as far as is known).

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Severe enough to light up government and media switchboards, but no known damage.

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Not an earthquake (CalTech sensors saw nothing).

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Local military bases deny any knowledge.

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No known other source (eg. explosion).

On April 5 and April 22, 1996 radio hobbyists in Southern California monitored transmissions between Edwards AFB's radar control facility (Joshua Control) and a high-altitude aircraft using the call sign "Gaspipe." The series of radio calls occurred at approximately 6:00AM local time on both dates.

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advisories similar to those given space shuttle crews during a landing approach. The monitors recorded two advisories, both transmitted by Joshua Control to Gaspipe:

"You're at 67,000, 81 miles out," and "Seventy mi. out, 36,000. Above glide slope."

Reported sightings of unusual high performance aircraft are not confined to the southwestern United States. More recently, such observations have also been reported in other parts of the United States, and in Europe. These reports are particularly intriguing because they are difficult to reconcile with an experimental test program, since there would be no reason for test flights to be conducted in Europe. These reports would indicate the deployment of a fully operational aircraft.

A mystery aircraft that some believe could be the Aurora was spotted by Chris Gibson, who for 13 years was a member of the ROC's aircraft recognition team.

In this field, Gibson was considered to be an expert and produced an aircraft recognition manual for the ROC. In August 1989, while working as a drilling technologist on the jack-up rig "Galveston Key" located in the North Sea, a colleague pointed out to Gibson an unusual triangle-shaped aircraft overhead.

Gibson later recounted how this particular aircraft was like none he had ever seen.

"I am trained in instant recognition, but this triangle had me stopped dead. My first thought was that it was another F-111, but there were no "gaps," it was too long and it didn't look like one. This might sound strange, but after doing aircraft recognition you get a feel for the shape of aircraft, what was called the "sit" in the past or what bird watchers refer to as "jizz." My next thought was that it was an F-117, as the highly swept planform of the F-117 had just been made public. Again the triangle was too long and had no gaps.

"After considering and rejecting a Mirage IV, I was totally out of ideas. Here was an aircraft, flying overhead, not too high and not particularly fast. A recognition gift and I was clueless. This was a new experience. My friend asked me what was going 31

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Aurora

Drawn by Bill Sweetman, according to Chris Gibson this looks fairly close to what he saw over the North Sea off England.

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on. I watched as the formation flew overhead and told him that the big one was a KC-135 Stratotanker, the two on the left were F-111 and that I didn't know what the fourth aircraft was.

"I watched the formation for a minute or two and went back inside. At the time I was writing the aircraft recognition manual and had a Danish Luftmelderkorpset

"Flykendingsbog" in my briefcase. This is probably the best aircraft recognition book ever produced. I looked through it, but nothing matched. I then sketched what I had seen. I sent this sketch to Peter Edwards, who was a Group Officer in the ROC and was also on the recognition team. We discussed what to do about it but decided that if it was reported through official channels, it would be at best rubbished, at worst lead to trouble. Having signed the Official Secrets Act I didn't want to jeopardize my position in the recognition team. So I kept my mouth shut. I told other members of the recognition team in the hope that they could shed some light on the subject.

"On returning home I had a look through my book collection. The only aircraft which came close to matching what I had seen was a Handley Page HP115. It is obvious to me though, that what I saw was not one of them. Whether this aircraft was Aurora is debatable, my background precludes jumping to conclusions based on a single piece of evidence."

Aircraft spotter Steve Douglass has a theory of his own concerning the North Sea sighting. Douglass thinks that Gibson might have spotted the top secret A-17. The A-17 is reported to be a swing-wing aircraft, armed with bombs and self-defense missiles. In the lineup of stealth aircraft, the new bomber would carry an intermediate-size weapon payload, placing it between the Lockheed F-117A attack plane and the Northrop B-2 heavy bomber.

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consumption. In this mode, range is improved, and takeoffs and landings can be made from relatively short runways. With its wings fully swept back, the aircraft assumes an aerodynamic drag-reducing delta shape suited for supersonic flight. In this shape, the A-17 would appear to ground observers to be triangle shaped.

Building Stealth into an airplane that can change the sweep angle of its wings poses a thorny technical challenge. As wing sweep changes, so do the directions in which the wing edges reflect radar beams. Designers can greatly simplify the radar-visibility problem, however, by concentrating on perfecting the airplane's shape with its wings fully swept. That's how the craft will look when it comes within range of hostile radars during an attack mission. The touchy part is minimizing radar reflections from the areas where the pivoting wings are joined.

The swing-wing plane is believed to have been developed by Northrop. The A-17

has major features in common with the YF-23, Northrop's losing bid to replace the Air Force's F-15 fighter. The A- 17 shares the YF-23's underwing air inlets, the humps atop the aft fuselage that conceal its deeply submerged engines, and the long troughs used to cool exhaust by mixing it with fresh air. The bomber may have been secretly developed alongside the YF-23, or may have even preceded it and inspired elements of the fighter's design.

Grumman, the longtime builder of Navy aircraft, may also have had a hand in developing the A-l 7. The company has swing-wing experience gained from building its F-14 Tomcat Navy fighter. Northrop Grumman Corp., the company that is the result of a recent corporate merger, has new permanent offices at Cannon AFB, although the F-111s based there were built by General Dynamics.

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pair of high performance General Electric YF-120 turbofan engines developed for the advanced tactical fighter. These variable-cycle engines are efficient over a broad range of speeds and pushed the YF-23 past Mach 2 during flight testing. In a mode known as "supercruise" they also accelerated the YF-23 to Mach 1.6 without using fuel-gobbling afterburners. Therefore, the A-17 should be able to sprint to or from a target area at supersonic speed, if needed.

One unexplained set of observations was reported at Beale Air Force Base, the California facility that was long home to the SR-71. On two consecutive nights in late February 1992, observers reported sighting a triangular aircraft displaying a distinctive diamond-shaped lighting pattern, comprised of a red light near the nose, similar to the F-117 configuration, two "whitish" lights near what would be conventional wingtips and an amber light near the tail. While the wing lights are reportedly much brighter than normal navigation lamps, they do not illuminate the body of the aircraft. Observers claim the vehicle's wing lights are approximately twice as far apart as those on the F-117, and nose-to-tail light spacing is about 50 percent longer than that on the Stealth fighter, or on any other known aircraft.

SONIC BOOMS

Reports of "unusually loud, rumbling sonic booms" near Pensacola, Florida in November 1991 have also been associated with the Aurora program. At least 30

unexplained sonic booms have been reported in Southern California in late 1991 and early 1992. By mid-1992 noted aviation observer, Bill Sweetman, concluded that "The frequency of the sonic booms indicates that whatever is making them is now an operational aircraft." In early 1992 it was reported that, "RAF radars have acquired the hypersonic target traveling at speeds ranging from about Mach 6 to Mach 3 over a NATO-RAF base at Machrihanish, Scotland, near the tip of the Kintyre peninsula, last November and again this past January."

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THE PULSER

There are two types of advanced aircraft being reported. One is nicknamed the

"Pulser" aircraft. There have been many sightings of this aircraft by several different witnesses. When sighted, it has been described as "A high-speed aircraft characterized by a very loud, deep, rumbling engine noise (1-2 Hz pulse rate) reminiscent of heavy-lift rockets."

The smoke trail of the aircraft is described as segmented and in a linked sausage shape. It is also described as a high-altitude aircraft that crossed the sky at extremely high speeds. Both ground based and airborne observers have reported it to be seen flying at altitudes above 50,000 feet. Observers have reported seeing the aircraft as a single bright light that seldom changed direction. One observer estimated that it covered 350 miles in six minutes (3500 miles/hr).

These alleged secret aircraft may indeed exist. There has been research in to what are called Pulsed Detonation Engines (PED's) also called Pulsed Detonation Wave Engines. These are different type of engine than the pulse jet engines, which are already publicly know, and have been tested in aircraft. The PED's exhaust emission produces smoke trails that closely match eyewitness reports of the supposed Pulser aircraft. Simulations of theses engines are said to be able to propel large aircraft in the

"Mach 0.2-3.0 flight regime."

PED's use shock waves created in a detonation to compress the fuel-oxidizer mixture before combustion. A cylinder chamber designed to support the detonation is constructed with a flat forward end that makes up the thrust wall. Air along with 36