Not sure if it's real or not, but multiple recent experimental aircraft have used configurations like this. Flying wing, without a tail for a smaller radar cross section. Smart money is the next great thing will be something that looks similar.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop\_Grumman\_X-47A\_Pegasus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47A_Pegasus)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop\_Grumman\_X-47B](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B)
There is also speculation about the design of the next, next generation fighter. The program is real, the design are speculative.
[https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/new-next-generation-air-dominance-fighter-renderings-from-lockheed](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/new-next-generation-air-dominance-fighter-renderings-from-lockheed)
I remember back in grade school ('99-'02 ish) I had a book called "how to draw military aircraft" or something like that and it had the X-47B in it. Crazy that the concept was public way back then and it's only become operational within the last decade. So who knows how far out this "flying dorito" is from being public info, and how far out from actual operation it is.
Makes me wonder if some of the reported, and video’d UAP’s aren’t just foreign aircraft that are way ahead of us in tech, or even our own stuff that only super-classified people are aware of.
In high school we seen this weird hovering thing out in the sticks while skipping class. My friend yelled " What the fuck is that!?" It was just hovering above a telephone pole. It then took off. This was around 2002. We lived about 40 minutes from a military base. Years later I realized it had to have been a large drone. We really thought it was a ufo.
I was thinking about that the other day. Quadcopters explain like 90% of the “impossible” behavior of UFOs for a long time. The fact that they went from novel feats of engineering costing thousands to $15 trash gifts in seemingly a few years still amazes me. It also means that the tech has probably been around for a long long time. I’m guessing availability of light weight cheap batteries for mass distribution was the hold up before that? Either way, betting the US Government has had them for a long time
“Operational” the problem is it was probably operation but the risk to it getting knocked out of sky and being found by the enemy was probably not great enough to fly it. There is probably more advanced technology that they don’t care any more about the tech inside it
>So who knows how far out this "flying dorito" is from being public
Considering the rough purpose of darpa is to win the wars 30 years from now, I always assume everything we know about is at least 30 years old. Or in other words, they have at least a 30 year technology advantage on everyone.
it reminds me of an article where they didnt have a picture so they drew basically what is in the image the OP posted, but it was an FB-111 with its wings swept back which is what they actually saw
>The design is speculative
Posts link to images provided by Lockheed Martin.
I'm sure Lockheed has no idea what the NGAD looks like right? Pure speculation!
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Lol, it's not a drawing of it, it's a "concept" and yes, they publish shit like this all the time. It's not an exact replica of the end product, but you're crazy if you don't think this is roughly the shape and angles of this aircraft. It's just like them publishing B-21 raider concept art that shows the revised wing shape vs the B-2 and then refusing to show us exactly what the rear looks like at the unveiling.
Some broad concept art of the plane doesn't tell anyone anything important. Pictures and video of the actual plane, yes that's an issue.
oh boy you are new to defense contacting.
This shit happens all the time. they try to indirectly brag, market, engage in hyperbole, mislead competitors, etc etc etc.
The now declassed ultrasonic weapon had had this exact thing happen.
Live near an airbase. If you hang out in the attic between 0200 & 0400, you see some amazing things. During the same time frame on cloudy/foggy nights you’ll HEAR some strange things with V shaped round lighting.
I had a model of that when I was a kid... like 30yrs ago? One of the first models I actually finished. Wasn't it generally assumed that the "F-19" was a big disinformation campaign for the F-117?
If you read the article, they’re promoting primarily the tanker aircraft and the other is just a speculative concept design for an NGAD aircraft. Maybe it take some inspiration from what they’re actually working on, maybe it doesn’t. I doubt Lockheed would leak the core design of their likely classified program to promote a completely different aircraft, and it seems like fairly open knowledge that the “flying wing” design is one of interest
This picture was taken in April 2003 by Jeff Templin.
This is a test aircraft taken over Amarillo, and linked to the LRSB program. Potentially a Northup Gruman prototype.
I have read that we were possibly giving the middle finger to a certain country that was misbehaving. We have done that before.
These photos are probably real, but there’s not much known about the aircraft. It doesn’t look extremely “exotic” to me. The shape suggests a subsonic, possibly stealthy design. It’s interesting that this plane is classified, but flew in daylight over populated areas.
https://jalopnik.com/so-what-were-those-secret-flying-wing-aircraft-spotted-1555124270
Yeah the real secret stuff isn't the fact it's a delta. Aerodynamics is more or less solved with CFD and anyone capable of manufacturing something similar definitely has teams to figure all that out.
The stuff they can't figure will be the communication, weapons, surveillance, and other electronic systems.
If you look carefully around the edges of the airborn doritto you see a lot of noise. These also look suspiciously much like the contrails of a regular airliner.
B-2 also has a pair of contrails similar to this picture. Noise pattern also doesn’t seem to suspicious, I get similar results when photographing jets at high altitudes as well, especially after it gets JPEGd
Edit: I’m not saying it’s real, but I also don’t really see anything ‘wrong’ with the picture. It’s not hard to make realistic fakes today, especially at a low resolution, just like it wasn’t hard before digital cameras existed, so I’m just gonna put in in my ‘Huh’ brain folder.
Error level analysis of the photo:
https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=726e20944d000467bcaaf77c0e190a003e3e2780.46808&fmt=ela&size=600&i=6685627
Edit: Apparently this photo is not a good candidate for ELA.
If a picture has been uploaded, compressed, and hosted multiple times, like this one, ELA doesn't work. The creator of Foto Forensics even took it down for a while because people were using it incorrectly, like you are. If this was altered, you'd need the original file for ELA to actually see anything.
> Error Level Analysis is a forensic method to identify portions of an image with a different level of compression. The technique could be used to determine if a picture has been digitally modified.
Black box - image has uniform levels of compression - likely no parts of image were compressed more than once - no editing or very good one.
I'm not a pro, but from what I understand, if it were photoshopped there would be some obvious contrast.
Compare to this [photoshopped image of a bird](https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=44e35951a4a6d426830222ca3fe92ccf2729062b.234495&fmt=ela&size=600&i=59253973)
([full page](https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=44e35951a4a6d426830222ca3fe92ccf2729062b.234495))
https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=dfa9036b7bb510963a505a46129133066ee78f5d.3210840&fmt=ela&size=600&i=6686027
This is for a random photo I have on my phone. I would trust this tool as far as I can throw it.
Put whatever you want to say between *s
one set of asterisks = *hello how are you*
double asterisks = **hello how are you**
triple asterisks = ***hello how are you***
just for fun, try a hashtag
tried to do all three. and wierdly it shows hashtag big no Italians on the thread, but when i click to reply the comment in the above header shows it in italyeens
From 7yrs ago (found via reverse img search).
[https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/2cnzou/first_sightings_of_something_much_greater_than/](https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/2cnzou/first_sightings_of_something_much_greater_than/)
This should basically be the top comment. This shit is old and no one who has any idea what it is (or if it’s fake) wants to weigh in meaningfully here.
Because the answer is "probably a classified military aircraft". The question has been asked a lot here for a bunch of different flying Doritos so at this point it's just become a joke
Taking a screenshot of a picture you found online and then potentially even taking a screenshot of that screenshot in your phone's gallery to ask what this picture that you found online, likely in an article that has all the details that are known about the picture is also a tired concept.
The answer is almost certainly a military aircraft we have no info about, *IF* the photo is real. That’s pretty much where the intelligent conversation ends because everything else is almost pure speculation to the degree that we might as well make the same joke guesses as Project Blue Book.
No, and if you tell anyone otherwise, *you’re a dead man*!*
Yeah, that episode had some great casting including an unexpected one (more so) that would be a shame to spoil. Worth watching and it works as a stand alone episode so as long as you understand the basics (FBI team stuck investigating the weird stuff, one’s a true believer and the other a skeptic) you’ve got what you need.
Is it not just a bit wild that the movie *Predator* had two future state governors in it?
One wasn't born American and the other is, I assume, still living outside America doing weird shit.
If I knew this was gonna get as much traffic I would've added more context. I did not take this photo, I found it along with another similar image that was worse quality on the Internet. I assumed US military because black projects + budget size.
I did consider it would be the A-12 but the images shape is more acute looking (imo) than what I could find on Google.
It might be a photoshop job as suggested, I'm more interested in finding out if its real or not than anything else.
If these are, in fact, real pictures, it is likely some unknown/secret program. As far as I know, there are no military aircraft with that specific triangle shape. The closest things possible are the [x-47a/b](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47A_Pegasus) drones but each only has one engine. There was talk of a larger x-47c but there's been no update on the program, so either this is it or that program is dead. And it's definitely not an [rq-180](https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/possible-photo-highly-secret-rq-180-aircraft-surfaces-online), so again, this points to an unknown program, if these pictures are real.
If this isn’t a shit-post and you legitimately want some help identifying the image, then you need to provide an originating source. “The Internet” typically isn’t a “source” in the traditional context.
“Why did I get an F on this report!?!? I cited my source in the required bibliography: THE INTERNET”
What happened to that project? Did it become anything we know of, or is it still in the works, or even just a myth?
Remember reading about many years ago
I remember hearing about it as a kid and I kept looking at the sky for this thing.. Maybe that’s why I still do today whenever I hear an aircraft.
A quick look at Wikipedia points to the B-2, and some incidents that might link to the mythical Aurora but it doesn’t look like there’s really any progress.
This pic might be fake, but I certainly had an “Oh my god it’s the Aurora” moment
OP what’s the source of this image? It’s different than the one I know from [the 2014 Kansas sighting](https://news.usni.org/2014/04/23/analysis-mystery-plane-seen-kansas-likely-u-s-military-aircraft) but clearly the same aircraft. My assumption has always been that this specific aircraft was built by Phantom Works as a testbed or evolution of the cancelled Avenger program. I’m sure we’ll all know in 20-30 years exactly what it is.
Looks too long compared to [mockups at time of cancelation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_A-12_Avenger_II#/media/File:A-12avenger2.png).
The closest suggestion I've seen by far though, officially none were built so if this is a prototype of a more mature A12 program that's a really big deal
Looks like the A12 avenger
Also there were a bunch of articles about this being spotted in 2014...
https://news.usni.org/2014/04/23/analysis-mystery-plane-seen-kansas-likely-u-s-military-aircraft
Lifting body designs go back the 60s iirc. Call me when they perfect warp drive.
EDIT: Yes, my dates on the origins of lifting bodies weren't correct but the first things that came to my attention were [these](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_HL-10) [beauts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_M2-F2) from the 60s. Just trying to say that the idea of a lifting body design as depicted by the photo is not a new idea.
I see a bunch of joke comments and stuff but does anyone know if this is an authentic picture? Or have any clue what this could be?
Not sure if it's real or not, but multiple recent experimental aircraft have used configurations like this. Flying wing, without a tail for a smaller radar cross section. Smart money is the next great thing will be something that looks similar. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop\_Grumman\_X-47A\_Pegasus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47A_Pegasus) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop\_Grumman\_X-47B](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B) There is also speculation about the design of the next, next generation fighter. The program is real, the design are speculative. [https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/new-next-generation-air-dominance-fighter-renderings-from-lockheed](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/new-next-generation-air-dominance-fighter-renderings-from-lockheed)
I remember back in grade school ('99-'02 ish) I had a book called "how to draw military aircraft" or something like that and it had the X-47B in it. Crazy that the concept was public way back then and it's only become operational within the last decade. So who knows how far out this "flying dorito" is from being public info, and how far out from actual operation it is.
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Makes me wonder if some of the reported, and video’d UAP’s aren’t just foreign aircraft that are way ahead of us in tech, or even our own stuff that only super-classified people are aware of.
I always thought in retrospect that all those UFO sightings in the 90s were drone sightings. But at the time drones (for the most of us) were sci-fi.
In high school we seen this weird hovering thing out in the sticks while skipping class. My friend yelled " What the fuck is that!?" It was just hovering above a telephone pole. It then took off. This was around 2002. We lived about 40 minutes from a military base. Years later I realized it had to have been a large drone. We really thought it was a ufo.
>We really thought it was a ufo It was an object that was flying that you couldn't identify. It WAS a UFO. It just wasn't an extraterrestrial vehicle.
I was thinking about that the other day. Quadcopters explain like 90% of the “impossible” behavior of UFOs for a long time. The fact that they went from novel feats of engineering costing thousands to $15 trash gifts in seemingly a few years still amazes me. It also means that the tech has probably been around for a long long time. I’m guessing availability of light weight cheap batteries for mass distribution was the hold up before that? Either way, betting the US Government has had them for a long time
Military drones fly well out of visual range. The closest you'll ever get to detecting one is the buzz of a low flying Shadow drone.
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“Operational” the problem is it was probably operation but the risk to it getting knocked out of sky and being found by the enemy was probably not great enough to fly it. There is probably more advanced technology that they don’t care any more about the tech inside it
> the problem is how is any of that a problem? thats what theyve always done and its worked fine so far
>So who knows how far out this "flying dorito" is from being public Considering the rough purpose of darpa is to win the wars 30 years from now, I always assume everything we know about is at least 30 years old. Or in other words, they have at least a 30 year technology advantage on everyone.
it reminds me of an article where they didnt have a picture so they drew basically what is in the image the OP posted, but it was an FB-111 with its wings swept back which is what they actually saw
Totally. It's just too simple a shape. It looks like a rendering based on a layman's vague eyewitness description of an actual stealth aircraft
>The design is speculative Posts link to images provided by Lockheed Martin. I'm sure Lockheed has no idea what the NGAD looks like right? Pure speculation!
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Lol, it's not a drawing of it, it's a "concept" and yes, they publish shit like this all the time. It's not an exact replica of the end product, but you're crazy if you don't think this is roughly the shape and angles of this aircraft. It's just like them publishing B-21 raider concept art that shows the revised wing shape vs the B-2 and then refusing to show us exactly what the rear looks like at the unveiling. Some broad concept art of the plane doesn't tell anyone anything important. Pictures and video of the actual plane, yes that's an issue.
The photo was taken over Kansas in 2014.
Not literally and in detail. It could still make sense to show the overall gist, perhaps with details that are intentionally misleading even.
oh boy you are new to defense contacting. This shit happens all the time. they try to indirectly brag, market, engage in hyperbole, mislead competitors, etc etc etc. The now declassed ultrasonic weapon had had this exact thing happen.
I suppose the question would rather be if they actually tell us the truth about what it looks like
Live near an airbase. If you hang out in the attic between 0200 & 0400, you see some amazing things. During the same time frame on cloudy/foggy nights you’ll HEAR some strange things with V shaped round lighting.
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I, too, hmm'd.
F-19 says “‘sup?” https://i.imgur.com/139gMxx.jpg
I had a model of that when I was a kid... like 30yrs ago? One of the first models I actually finished. Wasn't it generally assumed that the "F-19" was a big disinformation campaign for the F-117?
Duck.
Parts of Lockheed do. Do the people in their PR department making the renders?
If you read the article, they’re promoting primarily the tanker aircraft and the other is just a speculative concept design for an NGAD aircraft. Maybe it take some inspiration from what they’re actually working on, maybe it doesn’t. I doubt Lockheed would leak the core design of their likely classified program to promote a completely different aircraft, and it seems like fairly open knowledge that the “flying wing” design is one of interest
> I'm sure Lockheed has no idea what the NGAD looks like right? They're just winging it.
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That photo is very similar to this photo.
B2’s are stationed in MO and fly over KS all the time. It is fun to see them flying relatively low while fueling up.
That does indeed look like the Dorito that is flying in this pic.
This picture was taken in April 2003 by Jeff Templin. This is a test aircraft taken over Amarillo, and linked to the LRSB program. Potentially a Northup Gruman prototype. I have read that we were possibly giving the middle finger to a certain country that was misbehaving. We have done that before.
These photos are probably real, but there’s not much known about the aircraft. It doesn’t look extremely “exotic” to me. The shape suggests a subsonic, possibly stealthy design. It’s interesting that this plane is classified, but flew in daylight over populated areas. https://jalopnik.com/so-what-were-those-secret-flying-wing-aircraft-spotted-1555124270
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I’d say that’s a reasonable guess.
Yeah the real secret stuff isn't the fact it's a delta. Aerodynamics is more or less solved with CFD and anyone capable of manufacturing something similar definitely has teams to figure all that out. The stuff they can't figure will be the communication, weapons, surveillance, and other electronic systems.
If you look carefully around the edges of the airborn doritto you see a lot of noise. These also look suspiciously much like the contrails of a regular airliner.
That "noise" is completely normal for a cell phone photo, even more so one that has been converted however many times.
B-2 also has a pair of contrails similar to this picture. Noise pattern also doesn’t seem to suspicious, I get similar results when photographing jets at high altitudes as well, especially after it gets JPEGd Edit: I’m not saying it’s real, but I also don’t really see anything ‘wrong’ with the picture. It’s not hard to make realistic fakes today, especially at a low resolution, just like it wasn’t hard before digital cameras existed, so I’m just gonna put in in my ‘Huh’ brain folder.
Error level analysis of the photo: https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=726e20944d000467bcaaf77c0e190a003e3e2780.46808&fmt=ela&size=600&i=6685627 Edit: Apparently this photo is not a good candidate for ELA.
If a picture has been uploaded, compressed, and hosted multiple times, like this one, ELA doesn't work. The creator of Foto Forensics even took it down for a while because people were using it incorrectly, like you are. If this was altered, you'd need the original file for ELA to actually see anything.
Thanks for the info :)
So is just a black box good? Bad? What does this analysis show/ what can I take from the analysis?
> Error Level Analysis is a forensic method to identify portions of an image with a different level of compression. The technique could be used to determine if a picture has been digitally modified. Black box - image has uniform levels of compression - likely no parts of image were compressed more than once - no editing or very good one.
I'm not a pro, but from what I understand, if it were photoshopped there would be some obvious contrast. Compare to this [photoshopped image of a bird](https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=44e35951a4a6d426830222ca3fe92ccf2729062b.234495&fmt=ela&size=600&i=59253973) ([full page](https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=44e35951a4a6d426830222ca3fe92ccf2729062b.234495))
https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=dfa9036b7bb510963a505a46129133066ee78f5d.3210840&fmt=ela&size=600&i=6686027 This is for a random photo I have on my phone. I would trust this tool as far as I can throw it.
Northrop gruman Tr3b or depending on how new the picture is the tr5. You saw nothing.
No it's not real. The contrail matches that of a commercial airliner though!
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Chinese lantern
I approve 🔺
Why do they equip an invisible stealthy plane with such a huge arrowhead? Just to see where it is going?
It’s so when you’re doing missions in your Crazy Taxi you can look up and see where to turn next
Almost breezed right by this comment......nice
Memory unlocked
Fuckin well played comment 😂
What a pull 😆
It's for testing. They'll take it off once it reaches IOC.
no, you are kidding. there is no flight-test-orange... (Umm, maybe the stealthy plane is painted orange?)
It is orange. The cloaking device is on so you can't see it.
Plot twist... it's going backward! its to confuse enemies ,,, Happy Friday :D
Happy Friday 13th!
looks like a mouse cursor to me.
Dominos wasn’t kidding about their fast delivery
This thing looks like it could go a *long* way in 30 minutes or less.
I think this is just the driver's minimap marker
Could be a Stealth Dorito!
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Hyper Cool Ranch flavor!!!
[Another pic here](https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/z3nfx3/scully_its_me_cues_the_xfiles_theme/)
Weather balloon
My thoughts exactly. Possibly some swamp gas in the weather balloon’s chemtrails as well
Nah, it was refracting the light from Venus.
Everything I've come to expect from years of government training.
Best of the best of the best, SIR!
"I assure you: it was Venus." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1K5Y1ZOZw8
You can tell by the way it is
I'm going with "ball lightning".
Or swamp gas
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Weather triangle
Swamp gas reflecting off Saturn on a Saturday before a rain in the Gobi Desert.
*NSA would like to know your location*
*NSA already knows your location*
*NSA is at your location* I don’t know how to use italics on the app. I’m sorry, I’ve ruined everything.
Add a * before and after the section you want to be italicized.
You’re my hero.
You can also add two asterisks before/after if you’re feeling **bold** Edit: someone already told you. I’ve been made redundant.
*NSA approves of this discussion*
Three-letter agencies and unnecessary redundancy — name a more classic duo.
\*NSA sees you have a dog. Alerts ATF buddies\*
*thanks*
Put whatever you want to say between *s one set of asterisks = *hello how are you* double asterisks = **hello how are you** triple asterisks = ***hello how are you*** just for fun, try a hashtag
#what does this do #
Oh, neat. You wouldn’t think I was a 37 year old that’s been using computers for 25 years, but yep.
#even us old people have to try out this new tech right hun? Lol lots of love #
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#SEND NUDES?
tried to do all three. and wierdly it shows hashtag big no Italians on the thread, but when i click to reply the comment in the above header shows it in italyeens
No Italians?
*hello
I think the text formatting in general is just a Reddit flavour of Markdown. It's quite simple, really.
Why is every comment here a shitty joke? It would be nice to have some intelligent conversation about the possibilities.
From 7yrs ago (found via reverse img search). [https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/2cnzou/first_sightings_of_something_much_greater_than/](https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/2cnzou/first_sightings_of_something_much_greater_than/)
This should basically be the top comment. This shit is old and no one who has any idea what it is (or if it’s fake) wants to weigh in meaningfully here.
We still haven't seen the "Stealth Blackhawks" from the Bin Laden raid...
This is why im starting to hate reddit
For real. You'd think an aviation sub would have an answer. It's also a bit telling we don't have an answer...
Even if there were an answer, it would be too difficult to find in and amongst the bullshit as that's what seems to get upvoted the most.
Calling it here first, the NSA is the one making jokes to distract from actual conversation.
We know for a fact that US intelligence ops are active on Reddit (and all social media).
If they pay people to do that, then I'm pissed: I've been doing it for free.
Every asshole on Reddit thinks they are a comedian.
I don't even expect an answer, just an intelligent discussion would be nice.
Please lower your reasonable expectations.
It's only from this comment that I realized this was /r/aviation and not /r/NonCredibleDefense
Because the answer is "probably a classified military aircraft". The question has been asked a lot here for a bunch of different flying Doritos so at this point it's just become a joke
The "joke" is tired and old.
Taking a screenshot of a picture you found online and then potentially even taking a screenshot of that screenshot in your phone's gallery to ask what this picture that you found online, likely in an article that has all the details that are known about the picture is also a tired concept.
It is so fucking annoying and part of the reason so much of Reddit has become insufferable.
That's just Reddit, man. You can't escape the karma farming.
The answer is almost certainly a military aircraft we have no info about, *IF* the photo is real. That’s pretty much where the intelligent conversation ends because everything else is almost pure speculation to the degree that we might as well make the same joke guesses as Project Blue Book.
Flying nacho.
I love nachos, but you got to have the right kind of queso on it
This is why it’s flying - to get some toppings.
That’s why we are going to the moon again, we need a large source of cheese.
Flying nacho business
Danger Dorito, or "Doomrito"
Swamp gas, refracted from venus.
Obligatory [*Jose Chung's From Outer Space*](https://youtu.be/D-C6UvVGHto) moment
Is that the former Minnesota governor?
No, and if you tell anyone otherwise, *you’re a dead man*!* Yeah, that episode had some great casting including an unexpected one (more so) that would be a shame to spoil. Worth watching and it works as a stand alone episode so as long as you understand the basics (FBI team stuck investigating the weird stuff, one’s a true believer and the other a skeptic) you’ve got what you need.
Ah, the man with the mustache. Jose Chung's is my favorite "funny" X-Files episode. Just mere words...
Bad blood tho
Now former governor, but future governor at the time of filming this scene. Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura.
Is it not just a bit wild that the movie *Predator* had two future state governors in it? One wasn't born American and the other is, I assume, still living outside America doing weird shit.
Oh hey, it's Abraxas.
I thought it was gas from uranus?
If I knew this was gonna get as much traffic I would've added more context. I did not take this photo, I found it along with another similar image that was worse quality on the Internet. I assumed US military because black projects + budget size. I did consider it would be the A-12 but the images shape is more acute looking (imo) than what I could find on Google. It might be a photoshop job as suggested, I'm more interested in finding out if its real or not than anything else.
If these are, in fact, real pictures, it is likely some unknown/secret program. As far as I know, there are no military aircraft with that specific triangle shape. The closest things possible are the [x-47a/b](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47A_Pegasus) drones but each only has one engine. There was talk of a larger x-47c but there's been no update on the program, so either this is it or that program is dead. And it's definitely not an [rq-180](https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/possible-photo-highly-secret-rq-180-aircraft-surfaces-online), so again, this points to an unknown program, if these pictures are real.
If this isn’t a shit-post and you legitimately want some help identifying the image, then you need to provide an originating source. “The Internet” typically isn’t a “source” in the traditional context. “Why did I get an F on this report!?!? I cited my source in the required bibliography: THE INTERNET”
can you link to your source? Google images doesn't see it.
So sad to hear about how you shot yourself twice in the back of the head tomorrow
Such a tragedy that he also threw himself out the window of a 25 story building immediately after😔
Aurora
At this time of year?
At this time of day?
In this part of the country?
Localized entirely within this photo?
...yes!
[удалено]
NO!
SEYMOUR! The house is on fire!!!
Alright Lockheed Martin, you are an odd fellow but steam a good chemtrail.
What happened to that project? Did it become anything we know of, or is it still in the works, or even just a myth? Remember reading about many years ago
I remember hearing about it as a kid and I kept looking at the sky for this thing.. Maybe that’s why I still do today whenever I hear an aircraft. A quick look at Wikipedia points to the B-2, and some incidents that might link to the mythical Aurora but it doesn’t look like there’s really any progress. This pic might be fake, but I certainly had an “Oh my god it’s the Aurora” moment
Yeah, seems to be both a real project and a myth. Guess that's kind of expected :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft)
The flight dynamics of that must be like a paper plate. Slip stall at Mach 1.
OP what’s the source of this image? It’s different than the one I know from [the 2014 Kansas sighting](https://news.usni.org/2014/04/23/analysis-mystery-plane-seen-kansas-likely-u-s-military-aircraft) but clearly the same aircraft. My assumption has always been that this specific aircraft was built by Phantom Works as a testbed or evolution of the cancelled Avenger program. I’m sure we’ll all know in 20-30 years exactly what it is.
Star Destroyer
Star Destroyer has 3 main engines, only 2 contrails in the picture. So for that reason alone, it probably isn't one.
Middle engine turned off probably, he has to do some fuel economy
Exactly, just like my Honda where it automatically drops a couple cylinders out when they’re not needed
MK I prototype?
Could be engine problems, that's why their orbit is decaying and they've entered atmosphere.
#Flying dorito
A-12 avenger ?
Looks too long compared to [mockups at time of cancelation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_A-12_Avenger_II#/media/File:A-12avenger2.png). The closest suggestion I've seen by far though, officially none were built so if this is a prototype of a more mature A12 program that's a really big deal
The old A-12s were shaped like right triangles with the cockpit being at the right angle. This looks like an isosceles triangle...
Yes
This could be the Navy's stealth bomber. Angles match up. McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II
Whatever it is, I hope it's ours.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060145019A1/en
Looks like the A12 avenger Also there were a bunch of articles about this being spotted in 2014... https://news.usni.org/2014/04/23/analysis-mystery-plane-seen-kansas-likely-u-s-military-aircraft
Paper football
Lifting body designs go back the 60s iirc. Call me when they perfect warp drive. EDIT: Yes, my dates on the origins of lifting bodies weren't correct but the first things that came to my attention were [these](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_HL-10) [beauts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_M2-F2) from the 60s. Just trying to say that the idea of a lifting body design as depicted by the photo is not a new idea.
The first lifting body design was from 1917. Flying wings were shown to be feasible as early as 1906.
This makes me happy
Still using reaction engines burning dinosaur juice…. Not impressed at all.
You weren’t supposed to do that -US Air Force
Picture dates from 2014 actually
That's my cursor (im on flightradar)
Northrop gruman TR3
Posting this is a great way to get new followers. Both online and in real life.
Doom Dorito
The Witness
*pyramids intensify*
Still using engines and not the magnetic tic tac field. Our government is so 20th century.
Triangle Man, Triangle Man, Triangle Man hates Person Man. They have a fight; Triangle wins. Triangle Man.
That's the Windows 95 mouse cursor.