Showing posts with label military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military. Show all posts

5/23/13

Bright white object 'overtakes' military jets over Pennsylvania skies


ROGER MARSH
Examiner

A Pennsylvania witness at West Brownsville reported watching an object "overtake two military jets" and then make a right angle turn before moving away at high speed, according to May 22, 2013, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

"I observed two jets flying side-by-side," the witness stated. "They had to be military because they were close together. My estimation was 10 plane widths apart, traveling west, and I heard no sound. The wing lights were about the width of my index finger at arm's length."The witness was just getting out of a vehicle about 9:33 p.m. on April 17, 2013, when the jets were first noticed.

And then the unidentified object was noticed.

"At the same time I noticed a bright, white object overtake them from the east at a very high rate of speed. My first impression was that it was a light from a helicopter flying at a much lower altitude which would explain the difference in perceived speed. At this time no sound was heard."

The object then made a right angle turn.

"As the object arrived at the wake of the jet on the right it made a sudden right angle turn to the left and changed color to a pink or light red and crossed the wake of the jet on the left and went south at tremendous speed. It was gone from my field of vision in less than a second. The surrounding houses and trees made it impossible for me to see it disappear over the southern horizon."

Story continues: Examiner.com

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5/21/13

Hypersonic Weapons Could Hit Battlefield by 2025
















Mike Wall
SPACE.com

High-tech weapons may be screaming through the skies at five times the speed of sound by the middle of the next decade, U.S. military officials say.

That's the most optimistic timeline for the battlefied debut of a superfast new strike capability, officials said, and it depends on continued research into hypersonic vehicles like the Air Force's X-51A Waverider, which completed its final test flight earlier this month.

The Air Force is "trying to get the technologies mature enough that in the 2020 timeframe we would like to be able to show the warfighter that we would be ready to start a development program of record sometime around that time," said Charlie Brink, X-51A program manager for the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate.



Story continues here: Space.com

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