The wildest aircraft people THINK America operates in secret
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The United States has long led the world in fielding advanced new airpower technologies, from the first-ever miitary aircraft to the invention of modern stealth. But for every paradigm-shifting aircraft like the F-117 Nighthawk, B-2 Spirit or F-22 Raptor, there’s a long list of prototypes, technology demonstrators and design proposals that never see the light of day.
These classified aircraft programs serve as proof that America is keeping some of the most exotic flying platforms this world has ever seen tucked away behind the veil of classified funding... And that invariably leaves room for people to let their imaginations to run wild.
So, let's talk about some of the most famous (and controversial) secret aircraft the US has been alleged to operate.
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I seen a "UFO" going over Pratt Pond (in Mason NH) which was not many Miles from an Airforce Base in Amherst NH by the way Birds Fly. But I just didn't think it was Alien, it looked like a Drone with a Pulse Drive, the End of it was Sci-Fi Like, and every Second or whatever it was it Pulsed with Energy which I assume was how it achieved Flight. I Should of Called the Air Force Base and Reported it, but I felt like it was one of ours...
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And what happens when ground news becomes a single point of information failure? Outsourcing our ability to analyze things for ourselves isn't a good thing.
CORRECTION: Operation Paper Clip happened before the end of WW2. The war in the Pacific only ended from its efforts.
The mere fact the F-117 flew combat missions for a decade before being photographed answers the question of are we operating advanced aircraft the public is not unaware of.
The F-117's first publicly released photo happened in Nov 1988, seven years after its first flight in Apr 1981 and six years after it achieved operational capability in Oct 1983. It had its combat debut during the invasion of Panama in 1989. Ten years prior to Panama, the F-117 was still a concept and Lockheed was still working out stealth details with the Have Blue program. There is no known combat use of the F-117 prior to Panama.
In all fairness, there weren't that many cameras back then. Nobody was carrying one around all the time like we do now.
@@JarrodFratesso 5 years? This reminds me of the current state of politics where Trump exaggerates some complete fact and truth but the Biden team can only critique the discrepancy rather than the substance of the argument 🤣
@@BlackHoleSun420 No one is disputing that it was operational for five years before it was revealed to the public. There is zero evidence that it flew actual combat missions against opposing forces in that time.
@@JarrodFrates Panama was the first combat role for the F117....100%
The Stargate program alone must cost multiple billions of dollars a year!
I'm a Fan of SG-1!
I assure you sir, the technology those brave soldiers are bringing home more then pays for the mere ~$8B a year budget of running the SGC. Also loose lips sink ships sir.
Yeah - let alone the costs of the tv series made as a cover story!
You’re depressing me man.
I always get a kick out of them opening the stargate for the first time in one of our most sensitive command and control facilities. Only the government could screw up that badly, so it must be real, right?
How long was the SR-71 flying before the general public knew about it? The F-117 before it was used in Panama for it's first battle action, NOT desert Storm?
60s was used in Vietnam
I saw the 71 in1971.
Tr3b has to be top of the list
@ch-yq5yn the Phoenix lights craft is called the tr6 telos trans atmospheric electrogravaetic low observation surveillance
I saw one. Pretty amazing. @ch-yq5yn
@ch-yq5yn I was referring to aircraft that have been built tested flown and cancelled not ufo sightings
@@garythwilliams8732 Those videos at 15:50 and 16:05 look like bad made CGI clips, though.
Or maybe the Hillenkoter
tic tac drones are intriguing as the validity and quality of the personal who has seen them are most trusted.
I've always kinda wondered if that whole thing wasn't an op to basically say "look what we got", to other nations.... without really saying it. Not sure either way, but kinda interesting to think of.
No man made drone can do what David Frevor described.
@@BattleBrotherCasten Fravor is a pilot. That’s it. He can describe what he saw 20 years ago but he is not at the cutting edge of aerospace engineering, now or then.
Graphene Aerogel drones are the clear mostly see through drones. Graphene aerogels are also stronger than steel despite being just 0.2% of the steel weight. They want to put these things stationary in the ionosphere for permanent surveillance of areas, because they won’t orbit. I think what the f16 pilot saw was one of the Graphene aerogel drones some years back.
@@bpd8426agreed. Think they use vacuum to rise in the air column?
you should look into the high altitude contrails that were seen a while ago from satellite photos. spanned from Antarctica to the Arctic circle.
high altitude contrails drift into unrecognizable stratus clouds within 20-30 mins. these trails were a solid white line for about 10 thousand miles.
indicating whatever created them was performing utterly mind blowing speeds.
This was a great episode. Love this stuff!
For the most part, I find this kind of thing to be ridiculous.
Every other aircraft flown by the USAF/CIA turned out to have been operating in secret long before it was publicly disclosed, so the answer is obviously yes.
Drones are the easiest ones to assume. Anything with a surveillance mission or electronic warfare mission is going to be the most classified. We know the F-117s are still operating in small numbers as well but there's very likely a replacement stealth strike fighter already, whether drone or otherwise (and no, the F-35 doesn't count). And there's certainly a triangular high speed aircraft flying probably manned missions too as a replacement for the SR-71, and has for quite a long time now. It's been photographed several times. And lastly there's the military space shuttle for highly sensitive missions involving foreign satellites and deploying our own.
the CIA stopped keeping secrets after their last FOIA request. 😅😉
That the F-117 and U-2 are still plausibly flying gives all sorts of “oh that was just an X” cover stories.
I lived and worked in the San Gabriel Valley at the time of the reports of Aurora and Eest Coast landings of the space shuttle. I happened to work at Frank G Bonelli park (AKA Puddingstone). I had to arrive very early in the mornings to unlock the gates so that the fishermen could get into the lake for fishing. Many, many, many times in the early mornings, sonic booms (sometimes singly and other times double) could be heard AND felt as "something" was transecting the skys over SOCAL. I never did catch sight of what was up there because the boom comes after the craft has passed overhead, but everybody knew that, that was the sound of American black-ops in action. It was AWESOME!
[edited because, apparently, I can't spel.]
I saw a black triangle outside of Dallas TX in 2004. It blocked out the sky and stars. That's all you could see. 3 dim lights like looking a a road is summer heat. What I saw was the size of football field.
I love the photo that's circulating of a TR3B on the deck of an aircraft carrier. It's simply a superimposed image of a plastic model made by Mattel.
Brilliant Buzzard. A high mach, maybe hypersonic XB-70 shaped spaceplane and mothership
With over 10% of the defense budget going to black programs we better have something to show for it!
Like you say, the triangle craft I saw in the desert in ‘91 (and all reported triangles) was thought to be alien or reverse engineered AF craft from alien crashes. Its antics, including releasing a drone swarm with spectacular display was mind blowing, but I reserved judgment until modern times when all this is commonly known today. That’s why I study UFO reports, to glimpse possible tech.
Can I hire Alex to record my voicemail greeting?
You could probably have AI read it using his videos as source material for the voice.
“I’m Alex Hollings… and this is Lyle’s voicemail”?
Without a doubt there is a pitch black/silent/hovering/instant accelerating triangular aircraft with a disk shaped light at each corner. Witnessed one roughly 1 mile from Hill AFB in ~2012. Hovered stationary in complete silence maybe 50 ft off the ground. After several minutes it zoomed straight up into the sky and was out of sight within 1 second.
did the pilot give you a smoke after the probing?
No generally we only allow nicotine patches on board.
@@thevnbastid1027 the least he could have done
Please make sure not to consume alcohol after taking your meds. 😉
Some are ours, some are theirs.
The subject of Cryptids is very fascinating. I had an epiphany as to the origin of one automotive cryptid (or conspiracy) thanks to Vice Grip Garage and a comment by someone who claimed to have first hand knowledge of the event.
The story is that a fellow bought a Cadillac in the 70's that got incredible mileage. The engine also looked quite unlike anything else around. Supposedly Cadillac got wind that he had this particular engine in his car and tried to buy it back. The fellow said no. Supposedly one night, someone came and replaced the engine in his car with a regular engine. After watching VGG work on an early 80's Caddy with the 8-6-4 engine, I realized that the story could have been true and what the fellow had was a test mule for development, which Cadillac would definitely want back. I still have doubts about the tale, but there is a plausible route for it to have occurred.
70's? Interesting. I heard the same story, only it was about a Cadillac in the '50's. What is legend in this story is replacing an engine in a Caddy, overnight, without alerting its owner. I've pulled several 70's Cadillac motors. That is not going to be a quiet task.
@@JamesStripling do you think setting up a thick indoor tent around the car would help reducing the noise ?
@@leobuana7430 I think putting up a thick tent would make the noise.
Cadillac sells through independent dealers. It would have been quite the eff up for a mule to end up with a retail customer accidentally.
@@JamesStripling the location I was given would have been a farm. Possibly pulled away far enough that you could do it with hand tools. Only other thing, which would make more sense, would be towing it to a shop with a lift and proper tools then returning it in a couple hours.
Great episode, Alex! I am a casual viewer of your channel, but this episode was next-level entertaining & educational. I am also a fan of @DarkDocsSkies . Keep up the content innovation!
Thank you again for an amazing show.
Do a video about the German Bell Craft.
It’s not real.
Mid-1990s I recall an article of radio chatter of a suppose Aurora like aircraft. Overheard was the pilot reporting “there’s a screw loose on my heatshield.”
Heat shield? What was this guy flying?
Way back in maybe the late 70s my aunt lived in a small town in Nevada, she saw a black triangle fly over head. In the 90s when the stealth bomber was revealed she swears that's what she saw so many years before
Hmmm an even somewhat stealthy transport aircraft that potentially could operate off or out of anything, and was rapid dragon really developed for the c-130? Expected range, deployment speed, and platform(s) survival increases likely worth more than any cost and I wouldn’t be surprised if there wasn’t a squadron already ready for that task and rapid deployment in addition to uses by airdropped forces
Sasquatch exists, and is acknowledged on US government documents, such as Army training maps as wildlife to avoid. Also, I calculated the airspeed of the aircraft according to what the controller stated “67,000 ft, 81 miles out…” 1 minute later: “36,000 ft, 70 miles out”. Mach 1.13
20:09 😂Neighbors app here in San Gabriel Valley (Arcadia) have seen reports of inexplicable explosions on some nights.
I chimed in and said it's probably Edward's AFB doing their flight tests again 😂
Yeah, I sm from Hamburg, NY and two months ago while I was out on my patio in my Apartment complex a Craft a half mile wide with green pulsating lights flew over my complex at a height I estimate to be around
15,000 feet. At an estimated speed of 60 mph. Of course, non of my apartment complex mates believed me. It made absolutely no obvioius sound that I could hear.
Jerald Slomka
My dad was in the Air Force in the 70's. Said he saw the guys get out of the SR71 with those suits on,he thought they came from space. But if you didn't know it would've been easy to assume.
U2 pilots flew in the same kind of pressure suits.
Great episode. Have you ever covered the German bell?
There was a UA-cam video of what looked like the Dyna-Soar (jet black lifting body) scud running the Nevada desert, just outside of LV.
It was shot on cell phone from a car and posted by some random guy with no other related content on his channel
Link or Title ???
Alex, I do love your content. However, it would be really nice if your intro music was at a similar
Level to your voice, so we can have a clue as to how to set the volume. If I turn your videos p enough to actually hear the music, when you voice starts my phone will start giving me high db warnings.
You know how we suddenly had stealth coated Blackhawk? I imagine the same thing with the new f15ex
Stealth coatings are applied to F16 already, reducing the radar cross section considerably, but nowhere near as much as a 5th gen.
@reubenmorison8149 yeah I wouldn't imagine it would be anywhere close. However from my limited understanding the the electronic warfare systems on the new f15ex provide equal or better abilities to avoid a lock and perhaps stealth may not even be needed in order to remain difficult to target
Meanwhile. Canada’s estimated DND budget for 23-24 … approximately 26 billion 😂 We suck.
I thought Canada's military budget was 26c.
@buildmotosykletist1987 our budget might as well be 26 cents 😭
Well, you don't have to do power projection. Heavy airlift. Heavy sealift. Strategic counterforce. Continental radar. Strategic reconnaissance. Or any R&D. Sure, there are assets and corporations that work on some of this stuff, by either as US contractors or US military assets. Your good tech, you buy from the US, or Germany, sometimes the UK. You're literally along for the ride, the little sibling who tag along. It used to be so cute when Canada couldn't decide if it was a vassal of the Pax America or the rotting corpse that used to be Pax Britannia. Then you went and got gross, your face chin deep in the laps the PRC and Cuba.
I remember reading in a book by a fairly well-respected author (Bill Sweetman ) about a stealth aircraft years ago. There was a quote from a paratrooper saying that he had jumped from a stealthy transport plane. I believe he said it was called the C-41SP. I guess he was mistaken!
The tictac observed by fighter jet pilots are as alien as a fighter jet to the Wright brothers.
US black budget 2017 $52bn. Finland's gov. budget 2017 $55bn....
If the tr3a actual exists I certainly hope it handles better than the car of the same name.
An owner of a triumph tr3a once describe your handling characteristics to me as a billy cart out of control
Why would you tell everyone about your best weapons? Only talk about what you want to sell - either internally or export.
F-22 existing was a deterrent. F-117 was secret because it was offensive only.
25:30 I'm not so sure about the stealth Blackhawks being around for 20 years before the Bin Laden raid (or even if he meant 20 yrs from today, meaning they originated around ~2005). Roberts, I think it is? (The Navy Seal who went public with ki!!ing Bin Laden) said he'd never seen a stealth Blackhawk until a couple weeks before the raid, so if Seal Team Six wasn't using them, I can't imagine who was. Since, and pls correct me if I'm wrong, it's the Night Stalkers who transport the Seals via helicopter when they need a lift, and the Night Stalkers fly Blackhawks, as I understand it.
I got the impression (and I could be totally wrong ofc) that the stealth Blackhawk was a program under development and they more or less sent their most current working prototypes due to it being such an important, "failure is not an option," type of mission. The tech is undoubtedly more matured now, in 2024, but back in 2011, when the raid took place, I dokt believe they had hangers full of them somewhere, similar to how the F-117 Nighthawks existed in significant quantity for the start of Desert Storm.
Lastly, for those who may recall, countless news outlets still, to this day, use an image from a video game, as the actual, crashed irl chopper, which appeared more streamlined than the actual model they used. If my memory serves, the stealth Blackhawks they actually flew into the compound, were much more cobbled together, Borg abomination, looking machines compared to what most people see represented as irl images, from whatever video game the image has been taken from....which I'm quite sure is how the DoD prefers it 😂
I wouldn't be surprise the U.S. always has something up their sleeve.
All I know is that in the early '80's, when I was 5 or 6 and home alone at night (not that odd considering my upbringing), I felt the need to go outside. I walked out of the back door and noticed the night was glowing. The ground and air seemed too bright. I turned around and looked above our house and saw a black triangle in the sky, but no lights coming from it. The next thing I remember is sitting in the living room eating butter pecan ice cream, wrapped in a quilt while watching the Beaty and the Beast T.V. show. To this day I cannot eat butter pecan ice cream. Can I explain that; no. Can I explain the various object that have erupted or been cut out of me consisting of what looked like copper and glass; no.
Everyone is always lying, trust no one.
How about the huge triangular aircraft that covered the sky over Phoenix and was witnessed by thousands including the governor?
Aurora. While we know that the SR-71 is retired, there will at times be a real need for a super fast high flying spy plane to get intelligence like that provided by the old bird. I truly doubt that there isn’t any aircraft that isn’t in the actual funding of the black budget that fills the description of the Autora. Despite the fact of many denials of the Air Force for its existence. That’s always going to be their answer since it is after all beyond Top Secret.
I've seen a triangular craft off the coast of North Carolina.
I’m here for more Coelacanth analogies 🐟 👏
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the BoP was a project for cost savings stealth aircraft.
F-19 SPECTRE
F-19 SPECTRE..Allegedly 34 were built and deployed specifically in Egypt.
Sigh...this brings be back to a time when conspiracy theories were fun, made sense, and were internally consistent and supported by at least a little evidence.
Ah...those were the days!
How about the Foo Fighters from WWII. Have they been seen since.?.
SR 72 is in production. Other stuff also...
okay, 13:24 is when the video actually starts.
Wait a minute! Are you implying that Bigfoot doesn't exist? 😅
I have some wild designs and ideas that would be a lot of fun to run with if I had the kind of money these guys have. Imagine the payload of a lighter than air "new Hindenburg" style aircraft without the drawbacks of the lack of maneuverability that plagued this type of aircraft which is entirely plausible now using modern tools like thrust vectoring. There are a lot of old technologies that were entirely abandoned because they had massive drawbacks that we could potentially mitigate with modern technology, thereby bringing back their potential. I'm convinced that given modern technology there is no reason we wouldn't be able to have an all domain armored transportation vehicle capable of sustained operation underwater and at high altitudes. Because hydrodynamics and aerodynamics are really not that different at their core and modern technology has given us the capacity to have extremely lightweight materials that are capable of withstanding the pressures required of submersibles I am 10000% confident it is extremely easy to develop this capability even given current technological constraints.
The real reward gained while searching for the Aurora are the coelacanths we met along the way.
I might have seen one in washington state while gazing at hang gliders ..it was huge and I can tell it was in orbit .it dipped above the clouds and before I could point it was gone .but it was huge I saw windows .was huge
Aurora is my favorite one
Gee, what ever happened to "thumper", pulse-detonation-powered(?) plane that L.A. folks reported hearing and seeing in the '90s?
I have a Gameboy game where you fly f14’s and when you beat the game you can replay it with all the enemies being triangular alien spaceships. Lol
Certainly if we ever get us another good president maybe we will be able to come out with some of these good planes that you were talking about.
...BlackStar ?
Perception is a LOT of reality.
Almost certainly.
Certainly if we ever get us another good president maybe we will be able to come out with some of these good planes that you were talking about. Like you said our Air Force and Navy have gone haywire
Before the F-117 was made unclassified they had a squadron for the pilots called "the goat suckers" which was a nod to the legendary cryptid of the same origin...so yeah in a way it does exist 😂
Imagine the budget on their SCP programs
How many RQ-170’s are there?
I grew up hearing about the Aurora so yeah that'll always be my favorite.
I remember perusing the threads back in the day on abovetopsecret. Those rotating gifs of Aurora were so cool
I released Above Top Secret information on the abovetopsecret webpage.
He told people not to release secret information on his page after being visited by the FBI.
@@Shadowboost no civilians were eve aware of top secret classified shit
With the Black Budget, there is no doubt that top secret aircraft are being developed. Had read about 10 years back that the US Air Force has a strategy of staying about 20 years ahead of our adversaries. Also, no one mentions anything new with the Space Force.
It's spelled Space Farce 😂
@@timnor4803 your so smart.
@@gh50hill1 it's spelled "You're " 😂😂😂😂😉
@@timnor4803 its not. space warfare is more about syping. no yourselves and your enemy well and you shall win a hundred battkes.
@@krisshnapeswanipeswani3190learn or spell or use spell Czech and win a few as well
I lived in Ojai California, every time a space shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base it flew overhead and the house would shake from its double sonic booms. Then I started hearing double sonic booms when the shuttle wasn’t flying (early 90’s). Not too long after the double sonic booms there was an incident. Something crashed in the mountains above Ojai and the MILITARY closed all access to those mountains for about a week and a half. Something other than the shuttle was definitely flying in the early nineties.
I know those double booms well. Every so often they would land a shuttle at Canaveral and we in Tampa wouldn't necessarily know it was coming. It was always funny when it happened around people who weren't locals. Locals like me recognized that sound instantly, transplants would always panic lol
@@Elthenar I'd pay good money to experience double sonic booms from a returning large Space Plane.
There was a time not too long ago, when we were expecting the X-30, or VenturStar, or HOTOL to enter service.
At least we have DreamChaser to look forward to.
The aircraft that I think exists, but the USAF and USN don't want to publicly disclose, is a stealth refueler. So much of (potential) enemy defense plans against US air power are based around keeping American planes as far away from their territories as possible, either by threatening aircraft carriers or regional airbases. This requires the US to do a lot of refueling to get combat planes where they need to go, but these are vulnerable planes. There's also bound to be situations with special operations forces needing to infiltrate countries that we're not at war with directly but still want to keep us out. Operators can of course infiltrate by land or by water, but having the option of long ranged air deployment is faster, and made a lot easier by having refueling planes that don't show up on radar. After the Iran hostage crisis rescue plan went bad during that ill-fated ground refueling mission, I'm sure there was a lot of people wanting better options for covert ops beyond just having better trained helicopter pilots.
Having just a small number of stealthy refueling planes would add an invaluable capability for all sorts of high risk missions in contested airspace, just like having a small number of stealthy helicopters would be. And we know the latter does exist.
Upcoming ghost bat/loyal wingmen from Australia are meant to have some sort of fuel transfer capability right? I wonder if that's just in, or in and out?
MQ-25 Stingray is somewhat stealthy and it's a autonomous air refueling drone
They should convert a B2 Spirit to do mid-air refueling.
All the technology exists, just a matter of putting it together.
@@mike7652 That’d be pretty cool, but I think they would be too expensive to fly when the new B-21 could be converted just as easily if not more so, and probably be much cheaper to operate. They could manufacture a few extras on the sly as a special variant.
I saw a Stealth Relay Aircraft -TR3A in 1985. Mather was closed for the weekend and as I locked up the squadron building, I heard a weird turbine sound, similar to a short intake NAVY jet. I watched it go around into the sunset and the shape was undeniable. It reminded me of the Air Force recruiting poster showing the rounded tips on the delta wing "USAF 2000" jet. Only later in AW&ST did I learn what I saw.
A key part of what people label Aurora is a 'string of puffs' trail indicating some pulse engine.
Donuts on a rope is what people have called them.
@@estried86 Thanks! I forgot that exact term.
I saw a doughnuts on a rope vapour trail, high over Warrington, NW UK, about 1995. I got my 20×50 binoculars out to confirm it. Judging by the way it faded, it was flying west to easy. Unfortunately, I didn't see the craft that created it.
@@philipgraham1540 Matches lots of other reports.
I forgot, don't we have pictures of the "donuts on a rope" contrail, or is that a lie?
(In Amy case, whatever caused them is probably not a rotating detonation engine or whatever it's called, in my opinion, but I don't have any idea of what else it could be)
I've spent most of my life believing in Aurora and now at 65, I'm too old to change my mind. I will continue to believe in Aurora because I want to! 😉
Now that Lockheed Martin has publicly stated that they are working on a SR-72 project, its some more circumstantial evidence that the Aurora could still have existed as some defunct predecessor program.
While I don’t think the Aurora was ever operation or put into production I do think there’s substantial reason to believe a couple of technology demonstrators / prototypes were built. It may even have been a follow on program to the XB-70 program.
At the time the Aurora was rumored to be under development in the 1980s the SR-71 was getting quite old so a more modern replacement would have been high on the wish list, keep in mind the Blackbird is essentially late 1950s technology.
Unfortunately for the program the Cold War ended with the fall of the Soviet Union and major military spending cutbacks were needed. The aurora would have been high on the chopping block.
I should point out that there’s definitely precedent for the US operating highly capable aircraft in secret for years before the public is informed. Examples: U2, A-12, SR-71, F-117, B-2, and the still unknown and unnamed stealth variant of the Black hawk involved in the Bin Laden raid.
I personally think it might’ve been DARPA’s HTV-2. Look into that if you’re interested. That and the SR-72 designs match up pretty well.
@@cruisinguy6024 And the stealth Blackhawk itself even existing while stealth scout & attack helicopter programs having been cancelled is in a way a symptom of how this is all a reasonable thought: there's a small number of highly specialized aircraft built and in some form of testing/operations hybrid, but when they try to move forward with the tech to use for an entire fleet (thus needing to be in public) the costs per unit maybe doesn't go down? i.e. what is worth long-term tech development funds and funds for a handful of actual aircraft doesn't turn out to scale well to building many hundreds of aircraft.
Of course the Air Force / NASA / Skunkworks /... invested in development of a successor to the SR-71, like you say. And it could well have resulted in one or two aircraft that did in at least some ways improve on the SR-71s performance. And the XB-70 tech/data would also feed into that. And maybe the tech has matured a bit, and time is coming to show of some of that tech, give it a new package, and thus the SR-72 program.
It most likely turned into some drone like project. Don't think today there is much possible to hide that kind of project unless you underground and never test fly it.
Keep China guessing....GOOD...thank Alex..👉🏻
With the way Chinese sleeper agents have infiltrated Western societies, they obviously know a lot more than a guess.
I like that. Technological Cryptids. Rolls off the tongue nicely. And has presence in the real world.
Keeping in mind what a helicopter is and how it works. It blows my mind that a stealth helicopter is even remotely possible.
Yet we managed to pull one off ish.
God bless America.
Silent Loach is a good one.
Ever hear of the LHX program?
We got 5 operational ultra-high performance stealthy attack helicopters called the RAH-66 Comanche. It even sported super sophisticated rotors that could operated in "whisper" mode.
It was cancelled.
In 2016 personally witnessed an unknown/unidentified aircraft on multiple nights flying over an unpopulated area in the central U.S. The engines emitted a low, rumbling sound different from anything I’ve ever heard.
Can confirm, I was the unpopulated area.
@@brainletmong6302 I was the rumble, story confirmed
Sounds like a ramjet or scramjet the x25 Scramjets are still Top Secret
@@Soniti1324Story checks out, I'm the night.
My dad flew was a flight engineer for C-141sout of the west coast for 20 years and he swears he saw Aurora flying over the pacific in the mid 90s. He says it tailed them for a few hours going to Japan. Dude doesn’t believe in anything supernatural or aliens or whatever but he was sure about seeing that
A "Mach 5" plane tailing a C-141 for hours seems unlikely for a number of reasons. That leaves aliens. LOL.
@@Dingin4 not really, it's been proven that top secret aircraft have turned off transponder and tailed other aircraft to hide from air traffic control
@@Dingin4soooo his/her dad is wrong. But you are right! Right?... interesting
@@Dingin4 idk man that’s just what he told me
I can buy someones claim of seeing Aurora in that time period and location because I think there’s a reasonable likelihood the USAF built a couple demonstrators.
But what I have a hard time believing is it tailed a subsonic cargo plane for hours across the ocean. Even if it was traveling subsonic its cruise speed would be higher than the Starlifter
That rocket-assisted C-130 taking off in what looked like 11 feet was INSANE!!!
Look up “Credible Sport”.
The C-130 JATO was cobbled together after Operation Eagle Claw went sideways. Helicopters weren’t going to be good enough and they had to have a way to extract the hostages from the soccer stadium across the street from the embassy.
Engineers actually used motors from Shrike and Mk56 rockets. It worked too! The crash occurred because the pilot decided to attempt a manual landing at the last second against protocol.
Blue angel's "fat albert" c-130 used to perform that take-off at all of it's shows until they ran out of jato rockets. I've seen it twice when i was a kid
What we see now was being tested 25 years ago. So i can only imagine what we are testing now. Public is always 25 years behind
I think there are 50 and 60 year old project that would blow away the tech in an f22.
At the end of the day, “they” would NEVER field something they couldn’t afford to lose to the enemy and beat handily if the tech was reverse engineered.
I’ve seen stuff that absolutely doesn’t jive with “current tech” or for that matter even conventional lift or aeronautical theory. The very best they show us are basically just toys.
65 billion dollar black budget larger than some countries economies and most nations military spending gets me hard af and I’m not even American 😂 you guys are dope
Brings a tear to my eye, too. It's one of the few things I don't mind tax dollars being used for.
You get to watch without paying the taxes😅
@@brysonfitzgerald5238 In theory most of what we spend our tax dollars on makes sense; in practice many systems can be cheat, exploited, etc. Including military R&D.
I'd like some form of allied foreign oversight on these projects to make sure we aren't wasting money, but the security implications are severe so idk. I just don't recommend trusting the government on simple principal that it's made up of people who wanted more power.
@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket I absolutely agree. Money generally equals power; that's a lot of unsupervised power.
Until China or Russian spies get their hands on it to replicate with minimal investment and effort......or we have traitors 😒😬😑
I wish I could witness all the incredible and cool technology we have 😢 Only left to imagination 😮💨😤
I'm so glad this topic isn't as taboo as it used to be. Of course there are things flying in the sky that we don't know about. Just about every time I sit out in an open field at night I see something odd. They usually fly too high to be planes but too fast to be satellites (if that makes any sense). Sometimes they make sharp turns or fly in formation. The trick is to focus your eyes on the dim stars and watch for movement.
Gen3+ night vision can really be enlightening if you look up
And also these crazy craft that have active cloaking devices. Russkies don't know what they are up against.
@wolverdnp Especially because it is highly unlikely that the USA has any active cloaking technology at this time. Too many people get science and science fiction mixed up.
@pike100 - Not true, there's technology available...
@@danahebdon6810 STEALTH technology is available, not CLOAKING technology.
Cloaking only exists in Star Trek.
OK. You asked for it.
I'm a past Air Force Weather Tech, so I know my planes and meteorological phenomena.
One late afternoon, while lying on a lounge chair in my back yard, I saw something streak down from high altitude right over me. This thing came down so fast it glowed cherry red on the edges.
When it came down to what I estimate to be 10,000ft, it stopped! I could see the red glow disappear. This thing was cloaked! I knew there was something there but couldn't make out the shape.
Then I saw three conical jets light up and push this thing forward, slowly. Once again, when the jets were turned of, this thing blended into the sky. This repeated four or five times until it was out of my view.
At no time was it moving fast enough to be supported at elevation by wings or any aeronautical support. It just floated slowly.
There you go.
"Tactical High Altitude Penetrator" lol
"THAP" LMAO
Thaping all over the Middle East lol
At least it wasn't FAP! 😅 😊 😮
That's what I called my bedroom move where I jumped off the dresser onto her... 😏
_(not really, but it was too good not to say! 😅)_
Wouldn't doubt it!
From an interview with the president of Lockheed's Skunkworks division, he stated that the U.S. is so far ahead in aviation technology, it's if WWI was held today the U.S. would be bringing F-4 Phantoms to fight the great war, now take it for what it's worth, but being 50 years ahead of everyone else. Kind of makes it stupid to go toe to toe with that type of knowledge!!
I live west of Salem Oregon, and south of McMinnville... triangulate away.
One clear, moonless night in 2006/08-ish our house started to rhythmically shake "thump-thump-thump" at a very low frequency around 6-16 Hz Hz (my best estimate). There was a bit of an acoustic overtone in that 16-20 Hz range, and virtually no higher-freq 'whoosh'.
Inside, we only felt the 'whump', outside it was almost silent.
I went outside and initially didn't see anything. Then I realized some stars almost directly overhead were winking out, while others were popping back into site. There was a black 'void' overhead that was moving south to north over our forested ridge 1-200 feet over the tall Doug Firs and was on a heading which would roughly take it back to Evergreen Heli- , ER, McMinnville.
I'm a former technician/engineer (hwr/sw, in the 70s-mid-90's), I hold a DMD degree which includes a lot of head/neck anatomy/physiology knowledge and I went on to teach clinically for 3 years at the U (=verified nerd), and I'm a musician who worked for a year at Rodgers Pipe Organ Co (I know my way around very low frequency calculations for closed-system (pipe) and open-air audio wave generation and energy. And I really know my math around 9 Hz waveshapes as I worked for the first Co to get an AED thru FDA approval back in '82-84, and 9.5Hz is the fundamental electrical frequency associated with the downstroke (working contraction) a normal, healthy QRS waveform in the heart...which is right in the middle of the freq range I associate w/the sound I was hearing.
AND, I also tangentially knew someone who worked at Evergreen.
Months after my 'flying-black-hole' encounter, I bumped into them and kinda/sorta mentioned in passing** :
- a rotating wing with sufficient leading-edge diffusion might eliminate rotor-hiss AND
- a modified cross-sectional wing/blade shape might reduce the characteristic thump-thump attributable to the lift-effector as it passed a specific point.
- but the transition from 'lift-to-no-lift' as the trailing edge moves past a specific point will cause a loss in the downward pressure
- and while a rotor could be operating in a 6-12 Hz zone which should be inaudible to humans
- the existence of a 6-12 Hz pressure wave impacting on a relatively airtight wooden structure will cause said structure to deform and shudder, creating sounds which are audible to any inhabitants within.
They just shot me that 3 second look of : "STFU. I can't talk about this. But I REALLY want to talk about this"
Nothing more was said... just silent laughter and smiles.
Nerds be nerds.
** ok, I might not have used those exact words, but that was the gist of what I blurted out.
We have all but silent air craft in c-131 and navy choppers I've seen them live in person. They don't talk about them but they exist the sound goes up out away idk but they exist
They didn’t think about the effects on a building and just assumed their stealth chopper would work based on open air testing, I take it. You let them know that it wasn’t completely silent.
13:20 is where the video ACTUALLY starts... come on Alex you do not get paid by the word man!
Seriously like wtf
Lol man the stealth Blackhawks... While in college.. one of my professors who works for NASA got a call from the military to borrow NASA's uh 60s with experimental equipment and he chuckled that it was likely that the military wanted it to make a stealth hawk. That was 2006/2007. Then the bin laden op happened and my buddies shot me a picture of the tail and ask me what that was... Dots connected and i said someone fucked up, hopefully not the 160th, and just crashed a black budget helo lol.. sure enough...
Please cover The F-19 Stealth Fighter!Please cover The RQ-180!🙏👍
I liked, the Novel by Tom Clancy Red Storm Rising. , regarding the F19 Frisbee / Testors model any truth to that shape of aircraft or platform. Ty Eddie.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, damn, I love this channel! It is a little like xmas morning every time I see a new video drop lol
You are a very wise person, you think like i do ;^)
I think the reason the Chinese pilots have so many incidents like this is because they don’t know what the hell they are doing. One of these days they are going to make the wrong move and trigger something huge. I just think the Chinese military in all are all very inexperienced in all aspects. I’m no expert, but to do this so many times is idiotic. It puts themselves in harms way, as well as whoever they think they’re dicking with. It’s all a bad idea, but I sometimes wonder if it’s all on purpose or if they just don’t know what the hell they are doing.
I like Tacit Blue and sr-72. Tacit blue been out for a while now. I like American Aircraft Penetrator saw it outside a base in California never forgot.
My biological father worked on Orca (Tacit Blue).
The elusive On-Time/On-Budget-FXXX is my favorite.
ah the greatest conspiracy of all: the us military completing a plane on time and on budget
sasquatch existing is more believable than that 😂
I have seen TR3B type of vehicle in 1998 fly over Hawaii at night no sound from engines but you could see the distinct triangle shape even at night
Keep it up Alex, you cover it all. Without your investigative efforts we would still be in the dark. I am an ex-Huey pilot and particularily enjoy the rotary wing stories.
I always thought I had seen an alien craft until I learned about the TR3B. I was so spooked I went and hid under the nearest large tree.
Same for me, I ran back to my work, and hide there till 1am!
I was outside relatively late at night to feed our furnace one night and saw something similar to the descriptions of the TR3-B. It flew overhead silently at low altitude and then disappeared right in front of me. A friend also saw a similar aircraft in the same area moving at higher altitudes and speeds. There seems to be something to the rumors.
@@ireaddekkerI’ve seen it too, in daylight from 1/2 mile to directly overhead and it was only going about 5mph. I got a VERY good look. The F22 is a joke now. Basically everything is a joke now.
Airwolf
I'm a fan of your content, but the intro to this video is WAY too long. Actual content starts at 13:00
Imagine this: You're entering Disney World and you hear Alex greeting you with "I'm Mickey Mouse and THIS is Disney World" in the same voice he uses to start his videos. I think it'd be a FANTASTIC draw.
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Kids would ask if Mickey has throat cancer😮
Edit...and a stuffy nose.
@@jstriker623 Dark Mickey
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People still like Disney? Wow. They are elitist racists and sexists.
😂😂😂😂
To be honest he sounds like old school alf...if you've ever seen that tv show for real!!
Aurora, even the name is fitting!!! I love that one😂😂.
I hope that some day (if not yet) America brings that one to life! (And keep that awesone name!!)