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GySgt Thomas Vick
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We managed to keep the Stealth Fighter secret for years, people around Southern Nevada used to report them as UFO's, so why not.
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LTC Stephen F.
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Thank you my airplane-advocate friend Sgt (Join to see) for posting this documentary on the declassified SR-91 project initiated inn the 1980's. In "the 1980s an idea was conceived by military planners to develop a hypersonic spy plane that could reach Mach 5+,'

A prototype or two may have been developed and tested but the plane never went into production. No doubt lessons learned were applied to other aircraft.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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No reason to believe it's not real. I can recall the codename Aurora from my time in the military but was never read in. Look, the F-117 was flying operational missions long before its existence was ever acknowledged. In the darkness of intelligence flights there is no reason to expect that there wasn't something in the pipeline to replace the SR-71 despite the "claims" that satellites could take over the task. If you've ever had to work with satellite data you know that isn't necessarily true, satellites may need to be repositioned to cover some areas and that takes time, a manned/unmanned aircraft can respond immediately.
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Excellent comments, Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen... Thank you for your 1st hand knowledge from back in the day...
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