Post by brillbilly on Jul 6, 2011 0:59:16 GMT 10
Military scrambled to protect aircraft, whose existence is officially denied at Boscombe Down,wiltshire.......1994
A top-secret United States spyplane which flies on the edge of space at
five times the speed of sound crashed at the British experimental airbase
at Boscombe Down, Hampshire, in September 1994, according to a report in a
leading military aviation journal. The SAS (Special Air Service), the
report said, was scrambled to throw a cordon round the wreckage, which was
flown back to the US two days later.
The hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft, called Astra or Aurora, is believed
to have been developed in the 1980s as a secret US government "black
programme".
Officially, the US denies the aircraft exists, although there have been
many reports of mysterious sonic booms and sightings. This is the first
report of such an aircraft crashing.
The British Ministry of Defence and the US Defense Department both denied
the story yesterday but David Oliver, the editor of Air Forces Monthly,
said that Royal Air Force officers had been among the sources in a two-year
investigation of the incident, and he was sure the report was true.
"We have no doubt that an incident did happen on the day in question and it
has never been satisfactorily explained by the authorities", Mr Oliver said
yesterday.
Air Forces Monthly is widely read in the MoD and in the defence industry,
both in Britain and in the US. The report says the Astra (Advanced Stealth
Reconnaissance Aircraft), or AV-6, or Aurora, crashed during take off on
runway 23 at Boscombe Down on the evening of 26 September 1994. London Air
Traffic Control Centre was alerted that a serious incident had occurred.
Later that night a witness reported seeing a tarpaulin screen around the
front of the aircraft surrounded by a number of emergency vehicles. The
witness said that the rear section of the aircraft appeared to be raised,
suggesting the nose-wheel had collapsed.
Witnesses also saw and photographed men in plain clothes arriving during
the night, who were later identified as SAS. The following day an Agusta
109 helicopter - one of four captured Argentine helicopters used
exclusively by the special forces - arrived. "The SAS arrived twice", Mr
Oliver said.
The wreckage was kept under a tarpaulin in the corner of a hangar but was
seen by witnesses when the doors were opened to bring out a Buccaneer
aircraft. The next unusual event was the arrival of a giant C-5 Galaxy
transport aircraft which is believed to have flown the wreckage back to the
US on 28 September.
Reports of the new aircraft have been around for five years. In April 1992
a US radio ham intercepted a transmission from an aircraft descending from
65,000 feet, a height only reached by the Space Shuttle and the Cold War
spyplane the U2 (later renamed TR1). Concorde, the highest-flying and
fastest civil aircraft, cruises at 59,000 feet.
In August 1992 unexplained sonic booms were measured over the Netherlands,
prompting questions in the Dutch parliament. The path of the aircraft
suggested it had flown from RAF Machrihanish on the north-west coast of
Scotland. In December that year The Independent reported claims by the crew
of a boat in the North Sea that they had seen an Aurora and produced an
artists impression similar to the latest impression in Air Forces Monthly.
On other occasions radio hams intercepted transmissions from unidentified
high-flying jets requesting permission to land at Machrihanish, though that
airfield has now closed.
The aircraft's shape is a perfect 70 degrees swept triangle so that the
body itself provides lift, doing away with the need for conventional wings.
Engines make a unique low frequency, very high amplitude "pulsing" sound.
www.independent.co.uk/news/secret-us-spyplane-crash-may-be-kept-under-wraps-1272714.html
DID something very strange happen on a windswept Wiltshire down just before
midnight at the end of September? Did a top-secret American prototype spyplane
crash in the darkness a few miles from Stonehenge, killing its crew?
A group of youthful aviation enthusiasts are convinced they have stumbled on a
huge mystery - and claim a cover-up of the "incident" was ordered at the
highest level by the British and American governments.
Some of them insist that the wreckage of the secret machine, codenamed Black
Manta, was spirited back to the USA after a forced-landing. Whatever happened,
there is evidence that the authorities moved very fast to get "something" out
of sight of prying eyes.
Whatever crashed at RAF Boscombe Down, a USAF C5 Galaxy transport plane pictured above was flown in to fly it back to the U.S
Spotters aprehended at police road blocks
Plane spotters who picked up distress calls on air-band radios near midnight on
September 26 went early the next morning to the barbed wire ringed perimeter of
Boscombe Down air base, near Salisbury - the home of British experimental
flying.
Several spotters were apprehended by local police at road blocks and briskly
ordered to leave the area, according to Michael Crutch, 24, the RAF editor of
British Aviation Review.
"People were reluctant to talk at first," he said. "They wrote down what they
had seen - and we were amazed. One was a serving air force officer who saw an
aircraft of unknown type disabled at the end of the runway, covered by
tarpaulins. Twin inward-canted tail fins were poking out of the covering."
There could be a second mystery aircraft at Boscombe, according to Jamie
Hunter, who has been keeping watch on the base at night along with other
enthusiasts hoping for a sighting. So far they have been unrewarded.
'sleek, twin-finned aircraft of unknown origin flying over Exmoor'
But there have been reports of a "sleek, twin-finned aircraft of unknown origin
flying over Exmoor in broad daylight" and loud jet sounds like a "flying train"
punctuating the night skies of the West Country. The last was on November 29.
"All I know for certain is that a flight plan was filed for a United States Air
Force Galaxy transport to fly in and out of Boscombe, a few days after the
supposed crash," Mr Hunter said. It was flying back to Palmdale in California
where the American Stealth aircraft are built.
Both the Ministry of Defence in London and the Pentagon firmly deny there was
ever any incident at Boscombe Down. A spokesman at the base said equipment used
to simulate helicopter landings on a warship deck was delivered to the base on
the day in question. This was the mystery tarpaulin-wrapped "wreckage".
There had been road closures but these were to cover the landing of an RAF
Tornado bomber testing a highly-classified anti-missile system which had fouled
up in mid-air. But persistent reports from enthusiasts indicate something did
happen and that a major operation was launched by the Americans to remove the
evidence.
Aircraft callsign did not exist
Air traffic controllers plotted the movement of two civilian jets into Boscombe
in the two weeks after the alleged incident. One was a Boeing 737, according to
Mr Crutch, but "its registration number, N1178X, does not officially exist".
One rumour is that the Boeing removed two bodies, prompting speculation that a
cockpit fire killed the crew after their aircraft made a forced landing. The
second aircraft was a Gulfstream GIV executive jet, registered to a New York
bank.
The description of the twin-finned plane fits advanced US aircraft being built
under so-called "black" programmes. The TR-3A Black Manta, a highly-secret
reconnaissance aircraft first flown in 1991 and supposedly invisible to radar,
is a likely candidate. But why should the US air force be flying aircraft, kept
secret from the American Congress, from an airbase in Wiltshire?
There is speculation that the aircraft was a Black Manta possibly returning
from a spying mission over Bosnia when something went wrong. But the fact that
the reports came from near Boscombe hints that Britain has been allowed the
highest level access to American Stealth technology.
www.anomalies.net/archive/Government-Invlovement/STHGCRSH.TXT
or more here; www.dreamlandresort.com/black_projects/boscombe.htm
we will never know for sure?
A top-secret United States spyplane which flies on the edge of space at
five times the speed of sound crashed at the British experimental airbase
at Boscombe Down, Hampshire, in September 1994, according to a report in a
leading military aviation journal. The SAS (Special Air Service), the
report said, was scrambled to throw a cordon round the wreckage, which was
flown back to the US two days later.
The hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft, called Astra or Aurora, is believed
to have been developed in the 1980s as a secret US government "black
programme".
Officially, the US denies the aircraft exists, although there have been
many reports of mysterious sonic booms and sightings. This is the first
report of such an aircraft crashing.
The British Ministry of Defence and the US Defense Department both denied
the story yesterday but David Oliver, the editor of Air Forces Monthly,
said that Royal Air Force officers had been among the sources in a two-year
investigation of the incident, and he was sure the report was true.
"We have no doubt that an incident did happen on the day in question and it
has never been satisfactorily explained by the authorities", Mr Oliver said
yesterday.
Air Forces Monthly is widely read in the MoD and in the defence industry,
both in Britain and in the US. The report says the Astra (Advanced Stealth
Reconnaissance Aircraft), or AV-6, or Aurora, crashed during take off on
runway 23 at Boscombe Down on the evening of 26 September 1994. London Air
Traffic Control Centre was alerted that a serious incident had occurred.
Later that night a witness reported seeing a tarpaulin screen around the
front of the aircraft surrounded by a number of emergency vehicles. The
witness said that the rear section of the aircraft appeared to be raised,
suggesting the nose-wheel had collapsed.
Witnesses also saw and photographed men in plain clothes arriving during
the night, who were later identified as SAS. The following day an Agusta
109 helicopter - one of four captured Argentine helicopters used
exclusively by the special forces - arrived. "The SAS arrived twice", Mr
Oliver said.
The wreckage was kept under a tarpaulin in the corner of a hangar but was
seen by witnesses when the doors were opened to bring out a Buccaneer
aircraft. The next unusual event was the arrival of a giant C-5 Galaxy
transport aircraft which is believed to have flown the wreckage back to the
US on 28 September.
Reports of the new aircraft have been around for five years. In April 1992
a US radio ham intercepted a transmission from an aircraft descending from
65,000 feet, a height only reached by the Space Shuttle and the Cold War
spyplane the U2 (later renamed TR1). Concorde, the highest-flying and
fastest civil aircraft, cruises at 59,000 feet.
In August 1992 unexplained sonic booms were measured over the Netherlands,
prompting questions in the Dutch parliament. The path of the aircraft
suggested it had flown from RAF Machrihanish on the north-west coast of
Scotland. In December that year The Independent reported claims by the crew
of a boat in the North Sea that they had seen an Aurora and produced an
artists impression similar to the latest impression in Air Forces Monthly.
On other occasions radio hams intercepted transmissions from unidentified
high-flying jets requesting permission to land at Machrihanish, though that
airfield has now closed.
The aircraft's shape is a perfect 70 degrees swept triangle so that the
body itself provides lift, doing away with the need for conventional wings.
Engines make a unique low frequency, very high amplitude "pulsing" sound.
www.independent.co.uk/news/secret-us-spyplane-crash-may-be-kept-under-wraps-1272714.html
DID something very strange happen on a windswept Wiltshire down just before
midnight at the end of September? Did a top-secret American prototype spyplane
crash in the darkness a few miles from Stonehenge, killing its crew?
A group of youthful aviation enthusiasts are convinced they have stumbled on a
huge mystery - and claim a cover-up of the "incident" was ordered at the
highest level by the British and American governments.
Some of them insist that the wreckage of the secret machine, codenamed Black
Manta, was spirited back to the USA after a forced-landing. Whatever happened,
there is evidence that the authorities moved very fast to get "something" out
of sight of prying eyes.
Whatever crashed at RAF Boscombe Down, a USAF C5 Galaxy transport plane pictured above was flown in to fly it back to the U.S
Spotters aprehended at police road blocks
Plane spotters who picked up distress calls on air-band radios near midnight on
September 26 went early the next morning to the barbed wire ringed perimeter of
Boscombe Down air base, near Salisbury - the home of British experimental
flying.
Several spotters were apprehended by local police at road blocks and briskly
ordered to leave the area, according to Michael Crutch, 24, the RAF editor of
British Aviation Review.
"People were reluctant to talk at first," he said. "They wrote down what they
had seen - and we were amazed. One was a serving air force officer who saw an
aircraft of unknown type disabled at the end of the runway, covered by
tarpaulins. Twin inward-canted tail fins were poking out of the covering."
There could be a second mystery aircraft at Boscombe, according to Jamie
Hunter, who has been keeping watch on the base at night along with other
enthusiasts hoping for a sighting. So far they have been unrewarded.
'sleek, twin-finned aircraft of unknown origin flying over Exmoor'
But there have been reports of a "sleek, twin-finned aircraft of unknown origin
flying over Exmoor in broad daylight" and loud jet sounds like a "flying train"
punctuating the night skies of the West Country. The last was on November 29.
"All I know for certain is that a flight plan was filed for a United States Air
Force Galaxy transport to fly in and out of Boscombe, a few days after the
supposed crash," Mr Hunter said. It was flying back to Palmdale in California
where the American Stealth aircraft are built.
Both the Ministry of Defence in London and the Pentagon firmly deny there was
ever any incident at Boscombe Down. A spokesman at the base said equipment used
to simulate helicopter landings on a warship deck was delivered to the base on
the day in question. This was the mystery tarpaulin-wrapped "wreckage".
There had been road closures but these were to cover the landing of an RAF
Tornado bomber testing a highly-classified anti-missile system which had fouled
up in mid-air. But persistent reports from enthusiasts indicate something did
happen and that a major operation was launched by the Americans to remove the
evidence.
Aircraft callsign did not exist
Air traffic controllers plotted the movement of two civilian jets into Boscombe
in the two weeks after the alleged incident. One was a Boeing 737, according to
Mr Crutch, but "its registration number, N1178X, does not officially exist".
One rumour is that the Boeing removed two bodies, prompting speculation that a
cockpit fire killed the crew after their aircraft made a forced landing. The
second aircraft was a Gulfstream GIV executive jet, registered to a New York
bank.
The description of the twin-finned plane fits advanced US aircraft being built
under so-called "black" programmes. The TR-3A Black Manta, a highly-secret
reconnaissance aircraft first flown in 1991 and supposedly invisible to radar,
is a likely candidate. But why should the US air force be flying aircraft, kept
secret from the American Congress, from an airbase in Wiltshire?
There is speculation that the aircraft was a Black Manta possibly returning
from a spying mission over Bosnia when something went wrong. But the fact that
the reports came from near Boscombe hints that Britain has been allowed the
highest level access to American Stealth technology.
www.anomalies.net/archive/Government-Invlovement/STHGCRSH.TXT
or more here; www.dreamlandresort.com/black_projects/boscombe.htm
we will never know for sure?
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