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I've had an independant source in the Airforce tell me that the TR-3B Astra is real and that it is the real designation, my source is part of Space Command and flies the F-16C Block 30.
I also know that 1st Special Forces Detachment Delta uses TR-3B's for deep black operations which I have been involved in and i'm still suffering from the consequences of that, this was before I joined the US Army.
Obviously Scott heard part of this story. He misinterpreted “Tier-3” to be “TR-3,” which seemed credible because the U-2 spyplane had been reborn in the 1970s as the “TR-1” aircraft. But Scott took rumors of a stealthy reconnaissance development project and speculated wildly, arriving at the conclusion that stealthy spyplanes were already in operation, and had even been used over Iraq.
In 1991 Scott was back, this time with an article about a top secret stealthy reconnaissance aircraft called the “TR-3 Manta” (“Triangular Recon Aircraft May be Supporting F-117A,” June 10, 1991, p. 20). He wrote that “about 25–30 of the special reconnaissance aircraft—designated the TR-3A Black Manta—could be placed in service eventually, based at Holloman AFB, NM, and Tonapah, Nevada.” He continued: “Several TR-3As are believed to have been deployed temporarily to Alaska, Britain, Panama and Okinawa. More recently, they are believed to have supported F-117A operations in the Persian Gulf War.”
Nearly fifteen years have now passed since that article, and no such aircraft has entered operational service. No photographs of it have been produced, nor has anybody who worked on it stepped forward to discuss it, even anonymously. If a stealthy triangular-shaped aircraft ever existed, it certainly did not become operational or the government would have declassified its existence just as it has for other operational aircraft that start out as classified projects. If an aircraft becomes operational, sightings of it will increase. But the alleged rash of sightings of the “Manta” ended over a decade ago.
If the Air Force was so effective at keeping Tacit Blue, the Bird of Prey, and the F-117 secret, why would it fly a much larger top secret aircraft during daylight hours over populated areas?
Originally posted by jkrog08
Well I'm glad your protecting that member(can he not do it himself?).Also I was being sarcastic when I called you a disinfo agent,not the same as irrelevantly pointing out typos cause you are to ignorant to do anything else!
Anyways believe what you want,I'm done bickering with you,have a nice day.
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Now that's just ridiculous!
Yep!That just about sums up your opinion on everything up.
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The SR-74 Scramp is the daughter ship and rides piggyback on the huge SR-75 until take off. Scramp is from Scram-jet and rocket propulsion. Scram-jet means a supersonic combustion ram jet. Jerald witnessed the flight of the big black Air Force SR-75 carrying the little unmanned SR-74 while inside Area 51. It was sitting piggy-back on its upper raised platform on top of the SR-75 Penetrator.I heard talk about the 75 as far back as the late 70s while at Groom, and I have 2 additional friends who have seen it at Groom.Remember, the SR-74 Scramp can't take off from the ground. It can only launch from the SR-75 mother ship at an altitude above 100,000 feet, and then it can attain orbital altitudes of well over 800 thousand feet or 151 miles.
The Air Force uses the Scramp to launch small, highly classified, ferret satellites for the National Security Agency. It can launch at least two 1000 pound satellites measuring 6 feet by 5 feet. The Scramp is roughly the equivalent size and weight of a F-16 fighter. It can easily attain speeds of Mach 15, or a little less than 10 thousand miles per hourThe NASA Space Shuttle is an antique by comparison. The joke is on the taxpayers. If you think these rumors are far-fetched. Look at the YB-49 and XB-70 flown in 1948 and 1964 respectively. Now look at the SR-75 which has been spotted numerous times.
You say, the government can’t keep a secret.
You’re wrong if you think they can’t.There are new rumours that we’ve placed two new vehicles in permanent orbit. One of these is the Space Orbital Nuclear - Service Intercept Vehicle (SON-SIV). It is code named Locust. The SR-74 and the TR-3B can deliver spares replacement units or SRUs, service fuels, fluids, and chemicals to the SON-SIV. Then, the robotic SON-SIV uses these deliverables to service, calibrate, repair and replace parts on the newer NSA, CIA, & NRO satellites, which are built to be maintained in space.
L. Scott Miller, professor of Aerospace Engineering at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas said"I suspect that the people in Illinois saw an airship of some type. Is it operational? I don't know. Would it be 'sexy enough'
for the Defense Department inventory, compared to other high-tech aircraft like the B-2? I don't know," Miller said.
"Each sighting requires a great deal of analysis. A witness's perceptions of speed, acceleration, and size are likely of very little value,"
Miller said.
"I have taken an approach of first identifying needs -- or mission requirements -- and technology availability. Then I compare
those with the cold raw, simple facts of a sighting, not the conjecture or guess work of a witness," he said.
"I suspect that, as a result, perhaps up to 30 percent of the recent 'Triangle UFO' sightings are of black world aircraft,
jets or airships," Miller concluded.
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Area 51 - the Groom Air Base facilities, has a 6 mile long runway, the longest in the US. The Department of Defense and CIA’s most exotic aerospace vehicles are tested and modified at the Groom Lake facilities.Why a 6 mile long runway? You need a runway this long if the minimum, or stall speed of an aircraft, is a very high speed. Aircraft without wings, like wedge shaped lifting bodies, or those with 75 degree swept back wings, have a very high stall speed. So they take off very fast and land even faster.
It’s a place where curious outsiders circulate rumors, about aliens and extra-terrestrial technology, being utilized to accelerate the various programs at Area 51.My sources estimate that up to 35% of the SDI funding was siphoned off to provide primary expenditures for the Air Force's most secret 'Black Program’, which started in 1982. It is called - The Aurora Program.
Aurora is the code name of the ongoing project to build and test advanced aerospace vehicles.For the last few years, high-tech buffs speculated that at least one new and exotic aerospace vehicle existed. The SR-75, the first operational Aurora Program vehicle, went operational after 2 years of flight testing and modifications in 89.
The top secret SR-75 is a hypersonic strategic reconnaissance, or SR spy plane, and is called the Penetrator. It is also a mothership, which I will explain shortly. Hypersonic speeds start at approximately Mach 5. The SR-75 replaced the SR-71 spy plane, which was retired in 1990, by the Air Force, who said, "there is no replacement, all we really need is our spy satellites to do the job. Ha! The new SR-75 is capable of positioning anywhere in the world in less than 3 hours. It carries multi-spectral sensors, such as optical, radar, infrared, and laser. It collects images, electronic’s intelligence, signals intelligence, and illuminates targets.
Originally posted by jkrog08
reply to post by GrOuNd_ZeRo
Thanks for your post,is that what your avatar is supposed to be?(TR-3B)It looks like it is warping space and it is triangular,thats why I ask.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
I was thinking about this today as I was posting elsewhere, and the thought struck Me that these other threads may all be interlated, because the things happening in them I reference may be directly or even indirectly influenced by the Bilderberger's.
Blackwater : Right-Wing Conservative America, Whether You Like It Or Not...
G.I.Jane vs Rendition...Hollywood vs Reality...Training vs Torture...WATERBOARDING
United States Quits Human Rights Council
The reasoning behind this hypothesis is that when it comes to all things dark and hidden, being that the Bilderberger Group attempts to constantly stay hidden in the shadows with their meetings as well as their comings and goings, that these types of things like the organization of Blackwater as well as C.I.A. Rendition Programs may very wel be paid for in some way and or influenced by the Bilderberger Group.
I posted these all in quotes in one of the threads I reference in this thread :
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
I just posted this over on there two threads, and since it is one quote I put there, I thought I would share it here as well :
Blackwater : Right-Wing Conservative America, Whether You Like It Or Not...
United States Quits Human Rights Council
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
I just posted this over on this thread here :
United States Quits Human Rights Council
This really should concern a lot of American citizens in that if we as a nation are stepping away from an important Council like this, it only spells disaster for America.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
If the United States had stepped away from the Human Rights Council, that can only really mean one thing. That being that the U.S. Government is not going to acknowledge human rights in open quarters, since it is already not acknowledging it behind closed doors, with the C.I.A. Black sights, where there is torture going on in the name of our freedoms, but via a surrogate country doing the actual torturing.
For instance I mention waterboarding in this thread :
G.I.Jane vs Rendition...Hollywood vs Reality...Training vs Torture...WATERBOARDING
One of, and I mean one of My sources of some of this information was this book :
Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program
As well as this book also :
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Which I reference in this thread here :
Blackwater : Right-Wing Conservative America, Whether You Like It Or Not...