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Title: I just saw it again!
Post by: NASA on December 28, 2010, 03:36:09 PM
In the late 80's/early 90's I was camping in the high Sierra's.  In the night sky I saw an aircraft contrail that looked like puff-balls, not a solid line like normal jets leave.
Just now, at 12:15 PM, 12/28/10, looking east from Henderson, NV, I saw it again.  It launched from Nellis AFB heading south, and had a chase plane.  I think it's the Aurora, with a PDE propulsion system.  The PDE aircraft left a contrail that looked like cotton balls on a string, while the chase plane left a straight, solid contrail.  Then the PDE accelerated and the puff-balls came closer and closer until they were a solid line and the aircraft disappeared.  The chase plane trying to keep up. 

The planes were gone less than 60 seconds after I spotted them, so no pictures.  I didn't want to take my eyes off them anyway.
Title: Re: I just saw it again!
Post by: FinsnFur on December 28, 2010, 04:22:00 PM
Ya lost me. Ya lost me half way through the first sentence. :laf:
Title: Re: I just saw it again!
Post by: CCP on December 28, 2010, 04:27:58 PM
Nasa that's the new Hybrid jet engines. The puffs were the jet engine kickin in and the space between the puffs  is when the electric motor kicked in.  :eyebrow:

The money the goverment saves in jet fuel will be used to buy more private banks and American businesses.  :madd:


Alright just kidding!! It sounds pretty cool I will have to do a Google search on the Aurora with a PDE propulsion system.
Title: Re: I just saw it again!
Post by: slagmaker on December 28, 2010, 04:29:41 PM
I have seen the contrails you are talking about but have never seen the aurora making them. But yead  Pulse Detination Engine is supposed to be dang fast, it would give a normal jet a hard time keeping up
Title: Re: I just saw it again!
Post by: NASA on December 28, 2010, 07:11:28 PM
I am assuming it was the Aurora, since Lockheed designed it for the Pulse Detonation Engine.  The USAF still denies that such an aircraft exists, but nothing in the air today makes a puffball contrail.  BTW, the Aurora is supposed to be capable of Mach 6.  That's about 4,190 mph at 30,000 ft.  Even faster at higher altitudes.
Title: Re: I just saw it again!
Post by: vayotehowler on December 28, 2010, 08:07:39 PM
some swedish fisherman actually saw the aurora flying over them a few years back , it is super fast from waht have heard . never seen the pearl necklace contrail, would love to see it
Title: Re: I just saw it again!
Post by: securpro on December 28, 2010, 08:23:58 PM
NASA you'd better be gettin on the phone with Gov. Ventura asap.... :biggrin:
Title: Re: I just saw it again!
Post by: NASA on December 28, 2010, 08:43:30 PM
Haha, this ain't no conspiracy "theory" buddy.  The NRO has been funding research for this technology for 3 decades.  From what I saw today, they've got it working.
Title: Re: I just saw it again!
Post by: vayotehowler on December 28, 2010, 08:53:28 PM
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS378US378&q=aurora+aircraft
Title: Re: I just saw it again!
Post by: Jeb on December 29, 2010, 11:51:33 AM
Quote from: securpro on December 28, 2010, 08:23:58 PM
NASA you'd better be gettin on the phone with Gov. Ventura asap.... :biggrin:


lmao !!!!  :alscalls: :alscalls:  I would have liked to have seen that too .   :congrats:
                            Jeb
Title: Re: I just saw it again!
Post by: weedwalker on December 29, 2010, 02:24:44 PM
It probably was the pulse drive aurora. I just saw a TV show about it last week sometime. It didn't have a pic of the plane but did film the contrail being made. I just can't remember what show it was on. :confused: Some kind of show about govt. secrets.
Title: Re: I just saw it again!
Post by: NASA on December 31, 2010, 02:41:36 PM
securpro, you may be right after all.  I just found out that directly east of Nellis AFB is ............. Groom Lake!!!!   :innocentwhistle: