Aurora (aircraft)
Aurora, also known as SR-91 Aurora, is the popular name given to a possibly fictional American secret hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft. There is no substantial evidence that such a plane was ever built or flown, though experimental planes similar to its alleged design have been shown to have at least been considered if not exactly in active development[1][2] (see "Fact or fiction?" below).
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Origin
Rumors about the Aurora "black project" started in 1990 after Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine broke the news that the word "Aurora" had been inadvertently included in the 1985 US budget, as an allocation of $455 million for "black aircraft production".[3]
According to Aviation Week, the Aurora project most likely referred to a group of exotic aircraft, and not to one particular airframe. The original report was blacked out and only the word "Aurora" was left available, but its visible content allegedly matched "expectations" of such a spy plane. Other sources indicate that the Aurora program from the report was a different program, and the plane may have used a different codename. However, "Aurora" has been the name that has entered popular culture in connection with this plane.
Description
The Aurora aircraft was supposedly developed in the final years of the Cold War to replace the SR-71 Blackbird
It is typically believed to be a black triangular craft, with an unconventional methane-powered propulsion system. Some "reports" include a pulsing sound on takeoff and contrails which looked like "doughnuts on a rope".[5]
Fact or fiction?
There is no hard evidence that the Aurora ever existed.[6] The US government has consistently denied such an aircraft was ever built (as they do), and former Skunk Works
The SR-72,
Finally, most Aurora "sightings" took place during the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the USAF was developing top secret flying Doritos triangle-shaped stealth military planes such as the B-2 Spirit and the canceled A-12 Avenger II.
See also
- Area 51
- Black helicopter
- Black triangle
- Nazi UFOs
- The X-Files - the Aurora project is referenced in the season 1 episode "Deep Throat"
External links
- See the Wikipedia article on Aurora (aircraft).
References
- https://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/06/like_all_defens/
- Muradian, Vago (17 June 2007). "An SR-72 in the works?" (PDF). Air Force Times: p. 7.
- Aurora Timeline
- LATEST U.S. STEALTH TECHNOLOGY MOVES TO WESTERN SCOTLAND
- The Aurora Aircraft Page
- http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/recon/aurora/
- https://issuu.com/disclosureproject/docs/120802112206-c5111c5542ca4c20b29be3f93e3f0b8d
- https://medium.com/war-is-boring/wondering-what-the-u-s-air-forces-secretive-spaceplane-can-do-history-offers-clues-9b5a30ea7084#.fj2saqn2o
- https://medium.com/war-is-boring/did-america-start-a-robot-space-war-ade275a9ef85#.au78wnuuo