Coffey, on 28 November 2012 - 09:05 PM, said:
I think it's the same type of craft. The one I've seen matches all the descriptions that other people give.
I don't know what to think really about if it's ours or not though. I know the F117 and Blackbird where both seen before they where revealed fully. But spy planes are not really something bother with now, as Drones and Satellites fill that role and Satellites are everywhere. The last true spy plane we know of was the Blackbird. Then we also have the B52, it's stealth but everyone knows about it. It's not kept secret. There is also the fact a lot of the sightings have been in built up areas like cities and motorways. So these things do bring a lot of questions about who owns the craft.
yes, that's what always seems illogical to me. The F-117 and A-12 (prototype of the Blackbird) were, this is the important bit, kept
secret before they were revealed publically, meaning that they were flown from bases which the public couldn't get anywhere near (e.g. groom lake), and operated at high altitude and/or under cover of darkness, the whole point being that people wouldn't be able to see them. And when they were operating somewhere that they might possibly be seen, they used miminal lighting (since they made every effort to keep them away from airspace that was used by other traffic, they usually didn't use any lights at all). So it seems completely illogical to me to go out of their way to let people see them. And there's the question of how long these have supposedly been about; they're supposed to have been about since the late 80s, even, aren't they, but, despite ambling about over cities with lights on from time to time, they've still managed to keep the totally secret? That seems illiogical to me, captain. Looking at known secret aircraft projects (as it were), the A-12 flew for six years in total, (and the SR-71 overlapped it, so any sightings could be attributed to that) and the F-117's
first flight was in 1981, and it achieved
initial operating capability status in October 1983, and was "acknowledged" and revealed to the world in November 1988. The B-2 (not B-52, which is not exactly stealthy) was in fact announced puiblically before it actually flew.
So six or seven years seems feasible to keep something Secret, but 20+ years seems to be stretching things a bit.