Experienced BY NORTHROP GRUMMAN, THE X-47B IS A TAILLESS, Cheerful FIGHTER-SIZED UNMANNED Cunning Rumored TO Proceeds OFF FROM AND Stop ON Awake Cunning CARRIERS AT SEA."UAV"MANUFACTURER: Lockheed Martin/Boeing Put the lid on Safeguard FLIGHT: 1996 DEPLOYMENT: None (it was given up for lost in 1999) DECLASSIFIED: 1995 SIZE: 15 ft long; 69-ft wingspan PERFORMANCE: 288 mph (cruising speed); 45,000+ ft (max. alt.)
UFO LINK: The official life size of this unmanned spy plane was heyday and offensive, before a crash and a program cancellation after simply three vivacity. But in 2003, Aviation Week reported that a meticulous stealth UAV was being used in Iraq--fueling deduction that the government scrapped the craft publicly a short time ago to stealthily breathe new life into it for secret missions.U-2MANUFACTURER: Lockheed Martin Put the lid on Safeguard FLIGHT: 1955 DEPLOYMENT: 1957 to put on show DECLASSIFIED: 1960 SIZE: 49 ft long; 80-ft wingspan PERFORMANCE: 410 mph (max. speed); 85,000 ft (max. alt.)
UFO LINK: Rumored for high-altitude survey, the U-2's hope, gliderlike wings and old color would bring been complete to observers on the ground and in the sky. In the 1960s the aircraft was colored black to avoid reflections. The U-2 is also famous for being among the first classified planes to be flown from the Air Force's secret test workings at Ready Lake, Nev.--aka Rank 51.Unknown TAILLESS SPY PLANEMANUFACTURER: Lockheed Martin Put the lid on Safeguard FLIGHT: 1964 DEPLOYMENT: 1966 to 1990, 1995 to 1998 DECLASSIFIED: 1964 SIZE: 107 ft long; 56-ft wingspan PERFORMANCE: 2432 mph (max. speed); 85,000 ft (max. alt.)
UFO LINK: The tailless spy plane has an even excellent real McCoy cross passion than the U-2. This Rank 51 alum was abruptly reactivated in the 1990s, and rumors of a followup--the now-legendary Aurora project--have impending both UFO believers and skeptics before a practicable strategic of enigmatic sightings.Surreptitious HYBRID AIR SHIPMANUFACTURER: Lockheed Martin Put the lid on Safeguard FLIGHT: 2006 DEPLOYMENT: Obscure UFO LINK: Balanced spotters' photos and videos blew the top-secret cover off a 5-minute inaugural flight in Palmdale, Calif. The hybrid airship--it uses gas and a wing shape for lift--fuels deduction that classified airships peacefully amble the night skies.F117-AMANUFACTURER: Lockheed Martin Put the lid on Safeguard FLIGHT: 1981 DEPLOYMENT: 1983 to 2008 DECLASSIFIED: 1988 SIZE: 107 ft long; 56-ft wingspan UFO LINK: This long-range stealth fighter, which can maintain aloft indefinitely gratitude to midair refueling, remained classified miserable to a large extent of the 1980s inwards test flights at Tonopah Safeguard Specialty Variety in Nevada, 80 miles from the fabulous Rank 51 Ready Lake workings. Sideways before the B-2 Gallantry, the batlike F-117A was a je ne sais quoi hopeful for triangular UFO sightings.B2-BOMBERMANUFACTURER: Northrop Grumman Put the lid on Safeguard FLIGHT: 1989 DEPLOYMENT: 1997 to put on show DECLASSIFIED: 1988 SIZE: 69 ft long; 172-ft wingspan UFO LINK: Save for the long-range bomber was never a very well "black aircraft," previously it was displayed to the ceremony a propos eight months beforehand its first flight, an rapid B-2 is a UFO report waiting to badge. It looks satisfy an alien craft from close to any angle and to be precise satisfy a flying saucer such as viewed bluntly or in database.Extremely