Pic and video apparently taken at the Helendale Radar Cross Secrtion facility:



https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/30/lock ... fence-air/

In other news, Lockheed just installed a new cabana over their employee break area where people can relax in comfort while outdoors in the hot High Desert environment without being fried.

I think you meant UTO (Unidentified Trailered Object).

Any word on the trailer containing their fusion engine? I think that was due a couple of years ago....

Best,
Rich

If you can see it, it was meant to be seen

Yeah, thats UFO-ish.

Then again, it could be something Wiley Coyote once flew and got smashed to a pancake.

If the story is true about it being a new plane getting ready for radar stealth testing, Lockheed has learned their lesson from the SR-71 testing.

This bird has irregular framing and covering on it to disguise it's shape. For the SR-71 testing at Area 51, they put a full size mock up on a pole, but knew when the Russian satellites would be flying over, and took it off the pole before they did.

The problem was that in the hot desert sun, the cooler ground of the shadow that the plane made was easily seen in infra red, so the Russians had the shape and size of the plane before it ever flew. I don't think that mistake will be made again.

Once the US figured out the Russians were doing this, the folks at area 51 began placing fake, crazy, aircraft out to cool down the desert to trick the satellites. From what I've read, they even places heaters on the "engines" of the fake planes to really confuse the soviets!

In the late 80”s the were blanketing C5”s twice a week a Burbank and a mid night run to
Tonopah Nevada

GB

B-2 testing RCS from back in the day...

I remember reading an article in Aviation Week & Space Technology circa 1994 which talked about some of the secret aerospace projects going on. It talked about being an engineer's dream, with pretty free-reign to push limits of what was possible. It described remotely piloted aircraft cable of extreme speed and very high Gs with lots of stealth capability.

The concept drawings looked a lot like this.

Reminds me of Boeing’s YF-118G Bird of Prey … another black program demonstrator.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military ... ft/bop.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Bird_of_Prey

Signature design of all Birds of Prey, the drooped wing tips.
https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/k ... f-prey.php

wow. Bird of Prey.

First thing I thought of was the "Shock and bump" tests for a wingtip mounted Pulse Cannon. I wonder what the acceleration vs. frequency plot would look like. Not too unlike a 310 I suspect.

Sorry....nerded out there for a sec.....