UFO

[JaXanim]

I just watched Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series once again. As you'll probably know, Sagan was convinced that the universe is teeming with life. Part 12 ('Encyclopoedia Galactica') covers the saga of alien visitation and close encounters of all kinds. The upshot of it all is why would they come here anyway? Brilliant!

JaX

[JaXanim]

On Saturday (10 June) UK's Channel 4 tv aired an excellent investigation into the whole UFO phenomenon. It provided some well researched evidence that the cold war was responsible for the American Government encouraging the UFO myth to help them hide their research efforts in places like Area 51 from the late 40s to the present day.

The 'flying saucer' may well have been part of that research.  The US Government actually bought out one aeronautics company (was it McDonnel Douglas?) who'd built and flown doughnut shaped craft, said by top thinkers to be the future of high speed, covert aircraft. A film of the actual flights was shown. After the Government took control, the craft was never heard of again. However, it was probably seen many times by the public who were already conditioned to the myth and encouraged to shout 'aliens!'.

They even got the Russians hooked after an invasion of their airspace by an 'alien craft'. The biggest UFO search in history then started. Every single soldier in the USSR was ordered to watch the skies every night and report any 'UFOs'. That search continued for thirteen years! It seems the Russians rightly suspected the USA was behind it all.

Considering the phenomenal technologies developed by the USA in the aftermath of the U2 fiasco, what they have today is undoubtedly the stuff of science fiction. Considering the Blackbird spy plane was travelling at Mach3 in the early 60s, today even the fabled Aurora project is almost undoubtedly fact.

Imagine what you would think if a hypersonic craft flew past you! UFO? Aliens? Has to be.

Satellite photographic evidence was shown of a pulsed engine contrail traversing the whole USA, across the Atlantic, over Europe and over the old Soviet territories in not very many minutes. The speed was estimated at 8,000 mph. More on Aurora here.

The Channel 4 investigator also visited a boffin's garage where he had what might be described as an anti-gravity drive fully operational. Even he doesn't know how it works, but the tinfoil and balsa wood machine was most definitely levitated. Mind blowing!

So, we don't need to look to the Cosmos to explain UFOs and such stuff. It's all man-made right here on Earth.

JaX

[JaXanim]

@Tigger

I understand the SR-71 fleet went out of service in 1990 (but the USAF continued flying some until 1998). The 1994 Boscombe Down crash appears (according to the cited report) to involve a much more 'secret' vehicle than the Blackbird. The SR-71 was already on public display when that particular crash occurred.

You're right about fitting fixed wing craft into a C-5. The SR-71 is three times the width of the hold, but I've no idea how big, or small, the Aurora is.

I just read all this in Wikipedia following your assertion that it was an SR-71 that crashed. Are there any reports we could read?

JaX

[JaXanim]

Tigger said:

"- - -  the C5 came to repair the aircraft not take it back."

I was refering to one of the cited reports. I admit to knowing absolutely zilch about aircraft but it's interesting to compare eye witness reports with what is and isn't known as fact. The report (which is undoubtedly biased towards science fiction) does say the crashed plane was taken away in a C-5.

Have you any ideas about the trans-world 'knotted' contrail that was photographed by satellite? (see my earlier post). The tv program said it suggested a pulsed jet/rocket engine that's needed to acquire Mach 6 or whatever Aurora is said to attain. A couple of days ago, I saw reports of dozens of 'earth tremours' in the region it's said to get tested. I understand this is the effect of hypersonic speed, where the shock wave can't get away from the nose (something like that).

Cheers, JaX