The Aurora is the US Air Forces' top secret spyplane based in the so called "non-existant" Groom Lake base, AKA Area 51. It is a stealthy reconnaissance airplane capable of flying Mach 6, or 4,000 mph (meaning it can cover around 400 miles in 6 minutes). It is a pure isoceles triangle with a 75 degree sweepback. The plane has been detected in numerous ways, one of which is by the US Geological Survey. The sonic boom created by it was so intense that seismologists were able to detect it general direction and speed, around Mach 3 to Mach 4 in the general direction of Las Vegas and the Nellis Test Range, where Groom Lake also happens to be located. The plane had to be decelerating, that's why it wasn't going Mach 6. Another observation of the plane was made by a member of Britain's ROC (Royal Observer Corps). He was aboard the Galveston Key which happened to be under an air-to-air refueling area, when he spotted two F-111s and a KC-135 tanker- and what appeared to be refueling from the tanker was a black isoceles triangle which was a little longer than the F-111s, the Aurora, or what we call Aurora. The project at the latest would have started around 1982 and was made operational around mid-1989.

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For more information read "Aurora" by Bill Sweetman, published by Motorbooks International, Mil-tech series.