LIST OF CLASSIFIED AIRCRAFT/PROGRAMS
MANNED AND UNMANNED
Super Valkyrie/Mothership
Brilliant Buzzard/Blue Eyes
Aurora/parasitic aircraft
Lockheed/Boeing/McDonnell Douglas Copper Coast/Copper Canyon TAV
Lockheed 2-stage-to-orbit TAV Spaceplane
Boeing 2-stage-to-orbit TAV Spaceplane “BlackStar”, “XOV”
F-19
General Robert M. Bond's prototype stealth aircraft “technology demonstrator” (not a Mig-23 or F-117)
(killed in crash April 26, 1984 at the Nevada test site aka Area 51)
RAF Boscombe Down Stealth aircraft crash (September 26, 1994)
(Northrop McDonnell Douglas ASTRA (Advanced Stealth Technology Reconnaissance Aircraft). AV-6 serial number 90-2414 callsign: BlackBuck 11)
Northrop-McDonnell Douglas/Teledyne Ryan THAP TR-3A Black Manta
aka the “Manta Ray” or “The Wraith”
Super STOL (ref Norton AFB November 12, 1988)
Aerodiamond/"pulser" (ref Norton AFB November 12th, 1988) unmanned
ARV/"Fluxliner" (ref Norton AFB November 12, 1988)
Lockheed Project "Q" Quartz (unmanned)
Convair “Cold Pigeon”
Lockheed X-22A two man antigravity fighter disc
“Isinglass”
“The Shadow” disc shaped craft
“Saint”
Lockheed "Senior Peg"
Lockheed Cedarville California 1982 stealth aircraft
B-52/Parasitic hypersonic aircraft (USAF Plant 42 Palmdale underground tunnel 1989)
1989 East German Flying triangle Crash retrieval
Dennis “Bones” Sager test pilot of YF-113G
Northrop B-2 Sub scale prototype (reference Revell model with straight trailing edge) Photo supplied by retired Rockwell engineer
USAF jet disc (MacDill AFB September 1967)
Daniel R. Vanderhorst test pilot of seven classified aircraft/Technology demonstrators
Test pilot Skip Holm flew three classified prototypes
1982-1989 Hudson Valley Flying wing/Boomerang
TR-3B ASTRA
F-121 Super Sentinel
800 ft. Stealth Blimp
NEPA saucer (WPAFB 1960)
General Dynamics Model 100 “Sneaky Pete” (TASK)
August 5, 1992 sighting of a mysterious supersonic aircraft seen by the crew of a United Airlines 747.
Tom Morgenfeld (retired Lockheed test pilot), pilot of at least three classified aircraft
RAF Macrihanish Air Base (testing facility for classified aircraft)
Chris Gibson’s 1989 North Sea Aurora sighting
Black triangular aircraft parked next to the “Big Hangar” at Norton AFB during the 1980’s
Large Deltoid shaped craft, which appeared in a Lockheed Martin promotional presentation at the 2005 Edwards AFB open-house/airshow
(craft was depicted as loading tanks in the aft cargo bay, then lifting off the runway vertically while a Mach meter in the center of the screen began to move past Mach 3)
Sighting of classified aircraft that crew members of two F-4 Phantoms witnessed when they broke into Area 51 airspace in 1988.
Sighting of the “Manta Ray” by a KC-135 boom operator during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
Testimony from a USAF wing commander during the late 1980’s at Nellis AFB who was told to go inside a building while a classified aircraft arrived on-base (wing commander noted that as the craft departed it sounded like “tearing paper”)
Incident which took place at night, during the early 1990’s when a military official saw a dark object which was not an F-117, take off and land at Nellis AFB. (Witnesses described the sound of the craft to be distinctly different that that of the Stealth Fighter).
Reference by a Grumman engineer that there was indeed a replacement for the F-111. Referred to as “Switchblade/Artichoke” A-17 Stealthy swing wing medium bomber.
Possible construction of at least four McDonnell Douglas/General Dynamics A-12 Avenger II’s
“Classified technology demonstrator” flown by test pilot Frank Birk in 1985
Test pilot Doug Benjamin flew three classified aircraft
Test pilot Joe Lanni flew two classified prototypes during the late 1990’s
(one of which was the YF-24)
Paul Metz (Northrop Test pilot)
As of April 1997, 120 hours of flight time on three different classified aircraft types.
Jim “J.B.” Brown (Lockheed Test pilot)
Between 1989-1992 Black program aircraft
“Ivy” Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator (ACTD)
Lockheed Martin “NGLRS” (Next Generation Long-Range Strike)
Lockheed Martin “QSP” (Quiet Supersonic Platform)
Lockheed Martin “MACK”
Lockheed Martin “Walrus”
Boeing “Whale”
General Dynamics Convair “Kingfish”
Centennial
Your comments/feedback are welcome, please contact:
Michael Schratt
email: auroracad5@aol.com
MANNED AND UNMANNED
Super Valkyrie/Mothership
Brilliant Buzzard/Blue Eyes
Aurora/parasitic aircraft
Lockheed/Boeing/McDonnell Douglas Copper Coast/Copper Canyon TAV
Lockheed 2-stage-to-orbit TAV Spaceplane
Boeing 2-stage-to-orbit TAV Spaceplane “BlackStar”, “XOV”
F-19
General Robert M. Bond's prototype stealth aircraft “technology demonstrator” (not a Mig-23 or F-117)
(killed in crash April 26, 1984 at the Nevada test site aka Area 51)
RAF Boscombe Down Stealth aircraft crash (September 26, 1994)
(Northrop McDonnell Douglas ASTRA (Advanced Stealth Technology Reconnaissance Aircraft). AV-6 serial number 90-2414 callsign: BlackBuck 11)
Northrop-McDonnell Douglas/Teledyne Ryan THAP TR-3A Black Manta
aka the “Manta Ray” or “The Wraith”
Super STOL (ref Norton AFB November 12, 1988)
Aerodiamond/"pulser" (ref Norton AFB November 12th, 1988) unmanned
ARV/"Fluxliner" (ref Norton AFB November 12, 1988)
Lockheed Project "Q" Quartz (unmanned)
Convair “Cold Pigeon”
Lockheed X-22A two man antigravity fighter disc
“Isinglass”
“The Shadow” disc shaped craft
“Saint”
Lockheed "Senior Peg"
Lockheed Cedarville California 1982 stealth aircraft
B-52/Parasitic hypersonic aircraft (USAF Plant 42 Palmdale underground tunnel 1989)
1989 East German Flying triangle Crash retrieval
Dennis “Bones” Sager test pilot of YF-113G
Northrop B-2 Sub scale prototype (reference Revell model with straight trailing edge) Photo supplied by retired Rockwell engineer
USAF jet disc (MacDill AFB September 1967)
Daniel R. Vanderhorst test pilot of seven classified aircraft/Technology demonstrators
Test pilot Skip Holm flew three classified prototypes
1982-1989 Hudson Valley Flying wing/Boomerang
TR-3B ASTRA
F-121 Super Sentinel
800 ft. Stealth Blimp
NEPA saucer (WPAFB 1960)
General Dynamics Model 100 “Sneaky Pete” (TASK)
August 5, 1992 sighting of a mysterious supersonic aircraft seen by the crew of a United Airlines 747.
Tom Morgenfeld (retired Lockheed test pilot), pilot of at least three classified aircraft
RAF Macrihanish Air Base (testing facility for classified aircraft)
Chris Gibson’s 1989 North Sea Aurora sighting
Black triangular aircraft parked next to the “Big Hangar” at Norton AFB during the 1980’s
Large Deltoid shaped craft, which appeared in a Lockheed Martin promotional presentation at the 2005 Edwards AFB open-house/airshow
(craft was depicted as loading tanks in the aft cargo bay, then lifting off the runway vertically while a Mach meter in the center of the screen began to move past Mach 3)
Sighting of classified aircraft that crew members of two F-4 Phantoms witnessed when they broke into Area 51 airspace in 1988.
Sighting of the “Manta Ray” by a KC-135 boom operator during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
Testimony from a USAF wing commander during the late 1980’s at Nellis AFB who was told to go inside a building while a classified aircraft arrived on-base (wing commander noted that as the craft departed it sounded like “tearing paper”)
Incident which took place at night, during the early 1990’s when a military official saw a dark object which was not an F-117, take off and land at Nellis AFB. (Witnesses described the sound of the craft to be distinctly different that that of the Stealth Fighter).
Reference by a Grumman engineer that there was indeed a replacement for the F-111. Referred to as “Switchblade/Artichoke” A-17 Stealthy swing wing medium bomber.
Possible construction of at least four McDonnell Douglas/General Dynamics A-12 Avenger II’s
“Classified technology demonstrator” flown by test pilot Frank Birk in 1985
Test pilot Doug Benjamin flew three classified aircraft
Test pilot Joe Lanni flew two classified prototypes during the late 1990’s
(one of which was the YF-24)
Paul Metz (Northrop Test pilot)
As of April 1997, 120 hours of flight time on three different classified aircraft types.
Jim “J.B.” Brown (Lockheed Test pilot)
Between 1989-1992 Black program aircraft
“Ivy” Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator (ACTD)
Lockheed Martin “NGLRS” (Next Generation Long-Range Strike)
Lockheed Martin “QSP” (Quiet Supersonic Platform)
Lockheed Martin “MACK”
Lockheed Martin “Walrus”
Boeing “Whale”
General Dynamics Convair “Kingfish”
Centennial
Your comments/feedback are welcome, please contact:
Michael Schratt
email: auroracad5@aol.com
