Originally posted by Station
On Thursday, May 27th 20004, I was driving across the Mojave Desert near Edwards AFB

Wow, we have a time traveller! Welcome to the 11th of May, sir. How was your trip from the future?

Oops!! I meant April.

Just kiddin you about the date.

All I can tell from the pic is that it was probably taken with a Nikon Coolpix. It's a damn good photo, considering the sun appears to be directly in the field of view. Alternatively the "sun" could just be the sun's reflection of a shiny surface.

The aircraft can't be an F4D Skyray because the trailing edge is the wrong shape. It doesn't match up with the old Testors "F-19 Stealth" plastic model, either.

There are very few aircraft with ogive delta wings. (That's the s-curve shape of the leading edge). Concorde, F5D Skylancer, MiG-21-I "Analog", etc, but that's about it. If that's a real airplane, I'm stumped.

The photo shows an aircraft with too much wing to be presumed hypersonic. The presumed Aurora aircraft has an engine on the underside and simpler wings with straight edges. Your mystery plane looks like it might have jet intakes in the wing roots and an exhaust on the upper surface.

It has the swoopy lines of a 1950's or 1960's jet fighter. The wing shape is rather complex and unsuited to a UAV where the construction is often simple and chunky.

[EDIT: DOH! it's a drawing, not a photo. That explains why the sun looks weird]

[Edited on 11-5-2004 by Amet Khan]

I aint got a clue wether it is or isnt but thats a damn good drawin better than i could do anyway

Yes, it's a nice drawing for sure. Had me fooled too!

I drew that!! It's NOT a real pic.

There is no attempt to mislead anyone. I clearly stated in the original post that it's a drawing of what I saw.

Having said that, I took a pic of my drawing with a coolpix. Good eye, Amet!!

Station... how fast was the plane going? Did it make a noise? Give a little bit more information if you will.

It wasn't going terribly fast. It looked like it was descending/decelerating on approach to land. I have a pretty noisy car (S2000), so I heard no noise other than my engine. I've heard the Aurora is loud, but whatever this was I couldn't hear it at all.

Originally posted by Station
I drew that!! It's NOT a real pic.

There is no attempt to mislead anyone. I clearly stated in the original post that it's a drawing of what I saw.

Having said that, I took a pic of my drawing with a coolpix. Good eye, Amet!!

Yeah... I was thinking "Wow, that's a really good photo for a digital camera. The sun's almost blinding the camera, yet the image turned out pretty sharp."

Anyways, fantastic drawing. It looks like a reasonable airplane. I mean, whatever it was may have been exerimental but it is certainly more believable than Elvis-in-a-ufo.

If it wasn't for the shape of the rear end it'd be a dead ringer for a Douglas F4D.

like amet said, the wing is rather large for a hypersonic plane. it certainly doesnt look like a D-21, the wings doesnt match. maybe it's some other experimental aircraft thats better then aurora, it is soundless you know

Originally posted by 2009
like amet said, the wing is rather large for a hypersonic plane. it certainly doesnt look like a D-21, the wings doesnt match. maybe it's some other experimental aircraft thats better then aurora, it is soundless you know

You can't say it's soundless, you can just say it wasn't louder than Station's car which he said was pretty noisy so it could have drowned it out. Maybe it uses some sort of electrogravitic propulsion. It has been getting more and more scientific attention nowadays. Maybe the veil is gonna be lifted on so-called ufo technology hmm? Did you notice anything that hinted on what type of propulsion it used?

I have a special log here of information from a source off of ATS... Station did infact whitness some supersonic plane. I have all of the logs right here in front of me as a matter in fact. So don't try to prove otherwise

its a flying spade. your drawing could almost fit in a deck of cards.

Station, I recommend you do some research on the Aurora yourself. We may have a project open, but that shouldn't stop you from looking into details and information yourself. Then you can create your own opinion and be happy with it.

Those threads are there as recommendation on information on this site. But, there are many other sites out there with information.

One being the Aurora Aircraft Page... there are some picture sites, and so on, and so forth. There is a lot of information on Aurora throughout the site and the web.

Originally posted by Shugo
I have a special log here of information from a source off of ATS... Station did infact whitness some supersonic plane. I have all of the logs right here in front of me as a matter in fact. So don't try to prove otherwise

Please tell us more about your special log.

intensity, if you're gonna act like an idiot then don't waste my time... this log is from another site to which Station submitted, claiming the fact of:

"A bright gray aircraft traveling at subsonic speeds"

You can not argue with the details expecially when you've got records on hand that prove otherwise. If you want to try and dis-credit me, it's not going to work this time.