"Incredible" flying vehicles in the sky are observed everywhere. And just as universally, their observations are ignored. At least they are ignored among the official circles and power structures of our society.
This is nothing new - those who study UFOs have always known this. Neither the veil of denial nor the misinformation surrounding this topic is anything unique. I have shaken the air many times in vain, denouncing the inability and unwillingness of our mainstream media to discuss the range of UFO-related topics. Yes, that's old news.
As bizarre as UFOs are, I often think that the silence of the official circles is more surreal than the objects themselves. How is it that many thousands or even millions of eyewitnesses continue to be ignored?
However, one facet of this phenomenon has been spotted by the mainstream media. Perhaps we should say - touched by the very edge of them. I mean the famous triangular UFOs. American mass culture, inert and limited, nevertheless admits from time to time that such objects exist. And it would be difficult for her not to admit - there are simply too many reports of such UFOs, and they are very detailed.
Triangles in the sky
Data on triangular UFOs comes in constantly. Less than a month ago, when I was writing this article, an interesting, albeit typical, message came in. On March 2, 2003, shortly after midnight, a security guard at a gated community in Dallas saw "a massive black triangle with no lights whatsoever"; he flew westward for 8-9 seconds. The UFO was completely silent and appeared to fly at an altitude of about 1200 feet (400 m). An eyewitness watched as the triangle flew over the roof of one of the houses. He contacted the Dallas police station, where he was told that he was not the first to report the object. The full text of the message can be found in the archives of the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). Peter Davenport, who heads NUFORC, spoke to an eyewitness and found him "quite sincere and trustworthy."
Here's another recent post from NUFORC. On January 24, 2003, an eyewitness observed a triangular object while driving his car at night on a quiet street in Arkansas. He slowed down, turned off the radio and rolled down the car window. At first he thought he was seeing a helicopter, but he didn't hear a single sound. After his car came to a complete stop, he saw the object hovering 10 feet (3 meters) above a telephone pole, and noticed that there were lights in its corners - red, white and blue, one in each corner. The observation continued for four minutes, "and then the UFO disappeared."
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None of these eyewitnesses described the size of the ship they saw. In fact, the sizes of the "triangles" range from small to huge. In most cases, they fly slowly at low altitudes; sometimes eyewitnesses describe them as having the shape of a boomerang rather than a triangle. The fact that they fly so low and so slowly is a problem that requires explanation, both scientifically and politically. Complicating it is the fact that many eyewitnesses describe the incredible speed and maneuverability of triangular UFOs, for example, turning in place around its axis or tremendous acceleration. In general, this problem is complex.
The famous "police surveillance" of a giant triangular object in early 2000 in the US. Illinois is the most famous case of this kind. The UFO was significantly larger than the Boeing, flew at perhaps 500 feet (165 m), was silent or very quiet, and had many blinding white lights around the edges. This was clearly unusual, but what really makes this case difficult to explain is the object's way of accelerating. According to one of the officers, the UFO rushed off "in the blink of an eye", while "… without a single sound." In one brief moment he was several hundred yards away, in another moment he was several miles away.
They are seen all the time …
If this were an isolated incident, it could be written off as a mistake made by eyewitnesses. But it was not isolated, which exacerbates the problem. Such objects were seen many times in the early 80s in the Hudson River Valley, near the northern outskirts of New York. On December 31, 1982, people from several different locations reported a similar object. Among them were not only companies that were celebrating the New Year: the object was filmed. The UFO was giant, triangular, flew less than 500 feet, carried bright lights, described narrow loops in the air, and once directed a beam of white light onto a highway. In July 1984, the same or very similar object entered the airspace over the Indian Point nuclear power plant - and while it hovered over the reactor, electronic systems and communications did not work. Since the early 1980s, the number of eyewitnesses to such incidents in the Hudson Valley began to number in the thousands. In one case, a video of sufficient quality was shot; he was sent to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Research result: something real was captured, but … not an ordinary plane.
Then, we know of sightings in Belgium, which appear to be only part of a series of sightings that spread in late 1989 and early 1990 from the UK to Russia. On November 29, 1989, a black triangular object hovered over a Belgian police car with a humming sound and illuminated it with a blinding beam of light. The same object has been reported by many people; it has been seen all winter, but the most dramatic sighting occurred on the night of March 30, 1990. Thousands of eyewitnesses saw a low-flying UFO with a bright flashing fire in the center. The object could fly at speeds as slow as 30 miles per hour, and accelerate to unimaginable speed. All were firmly convinced that no aircraft of any air force could intercept him. However, that night, the Belgian Air Force sent two F-16s for this task. The Triangle was spotted by several NATO radar stations; fighter pilots also tracked them on airborne radars and sometimes even saw him with their own eyes.
But the F-16s - the best interceptors in the world - were left far behind by the triangular craft. He could not only accelerate to incredible speeds and stop almost instantly, but also change altitude in the blink of an eye. On one occasion, radar operators and shocked eyewitnesses watched the triangle descend 4,000 feet (1,320 m) in one second, or nearly a mile. Moreover, this facility was intelligently managed - at least that was the opinion of the Chief of Staff of the Belgian Air Force, Colonel Wilfried de Brouwer. He stated that there was "a certain logic" in the movements of the UFOs. Nick Pope, who shortly thereafter headed the "UFO Group" at the UK Department of Defense, contacted the Belgian government. It "concluded that a material aircraft flew over their country that night." However, according to Pope,they did not have any ideas about who this apparatus was.
Like other "triangles" that people saw, the Belgian object was very real. In fact, the question was, to whom does it belong?
Who owns triangular UFOs?
Many people suspect that this is a device developed during one of the secret American projects. Officially, however, there is not a single aircraft that has an ideal triangular fuselage. The B-2 aircraft, which was created using stealth technology, is all in the corners and looks very strange, but it is not triangular in shape. And he cannot do the same as the "triangles".
There is reason to believe that the Americans developed a triangle-shaped apparatus. In August 1989, a former employee of the Royal Observation Corps was working in the North Sea on a gas platform about 60 miles off the Norfolk coast. Chris Gibson - that is what his name is - was recognized as one of the world's best specialists in aircraft identification and even took part in international competitions, when a picture of an airplane taken from a distance is shown on the screen for a split second, and the participant must identify it at that time. During the triangle observation episode, Chris was writing a handbook on aircraft recognition.
He saw a black aircraft in the form of a perfect isosceles triangle with a nose angle of thirty degrees; he fueled with fuel from the KS-135 (unofficial name "flying tanker". - MG) The planes were accompanied by two F-111 fighters, and the "triangle" was noticeably larger than them. Bill Sweetman, an aviation writer, noted that "no aircraft other than supersonic aircraft - or aircraft built to test such aircraft - has not only been built or even studied to shape it."
Basically, people attributed this observation to the legendary Aurora, which seems to be the heir to the world's fastest officially recognized aircraft - the SR-71 Blackbird. Of course, "Aurora" does not officially exist, but among the rumors about it there are indications of size; they seem to match what Gibson saw.
But if we accept that the Aurora exists, it is unlikely that she was the ship that flew in the skies over Belgium in 1989-1990, and even less likely that she is responsible for observations in the Hudson Valley. The Aurora is said to be a hypersonic vehicle; this means that it flies faster than five speeds of sound. According to rumors, she develops even up to eight speeds of sound. But freezing in place? Instant elevation change? No one, at least among specialists writing about aviation, has ever said anything like that about Aurora.
There are rumors about another device, the appearance of which is very similar to the description of some "triangles". This is the TR-3 "Black Manta", another aircraft that "does not exist." Everything we know has gone through the rumor mill; they state that the TR-3 can hover silently in place and that there are two distinct prototypes, the TR-3A and TR-ZV. The first aircraft is about 45 feet long, 15 feet high and has a wingspan of 65 feet. The second allegedly extends up to 600 feet (200 meters) across.
Please note that none of this can be proven. The most detailed information I could find about these elusive celestial monsters is that spread among those who believe in their existence; it says that these are tactical reconnaissance aircraft that began to carry out the first missions in the early 90s. Funding and targeting for missions is provided by the National Security Agency, the CIA and the Office of National Intelligence (NRO). The outer coating of the TR-3B allegedly responds to radar irradiation; it can change reflectivity, radar absorption rate, and color. This makes the device extremely unobtrusive. Moreover, they even say that he can fly at high altitudes for an unlimited time and develop speed - hold on! - up to nine speeds of sound.
US spies?
I am in no way an expert on the technology involved in Black Manta. Those who talk about them claim that the TR-3B contains something called a "Magnetic Field Disruptor", in which a toroid of high-pressure plasma generated from mercury surrounds the rotating pilot compartment. … Plasma, accelerated to incredible speeds, suppresses the force of gravity, "weightless" up to 89% of the ship's mass. This is not anti-gravity in the literal sense of the word, which would provide energy for movement, but, making the ship extremely light, it provides its flight characteristics, including the ability to develop acceleration, flying in any direction.
These are, at least, the statements posted on the website of Edgar Fouche. One scientist told me that technical details such as the speed of rotation of the plasma are "not credible." Although Foucher's site provides an excellent overview of everything Black Manta has to offer, most of the information on it comes from anonymous sources; some of the details may be wrong, although the general picture will remain largely correct.
While any discussion here remains speculative, some of the claims about the Black Manta's capabilities closely resemble the flight characteristics of triangular UFOs. Does such an aircraft actually exist? I dont know.
While some aviation experts acknowledge the possibility that such an aircraft has been built, the general public is doubtful. Of course, there are those who even doubt the existence of "Aurora" …
Personally, I find it very difficult to deny that the US military has a flying triangle. Knowing about Chris Gibson's track record, I am ready to believe his story that he saw a black isosceles triangle into which fuel was poured from KS-135. I am also willing to accept that there may be other top-secret aircraft. By the time the public learned of the existence of the U-2, its successor, the SR-71 Blackbird, remained secret for a long time. We learned about the F-117A "stealth" in 1988 - only when we decided to significantly increase its production, and thus it became impossible to hide it any longer.
But even American aircraft cannot explain the triangles phenomenon. Even if something as exotic as Black Manta does exist, it is clear that they can explain observations from the early 90s, not before.
Observations were made much earlier
Or maybe they existed before? How far back can we push back the mastery of such technology and the emergence of these aircraft? Could the Black Manta be responsible for the Belgian sightings of 1989-90? Even so, what about the observations in the Hudson Valley that happened much earlier?
I doubt if TR-3A or TR-3B can explain this observation.
One clear autumn night in Hastings, PA. Minnesota, many eyewitnesses observed a triangular ship approaching at high speed from the east. When the object was almost over their heads at about 5,000 feet, it "froze as if it had been nailed down." Reddish-orange lights burned at the corners of the UFO; sometimes they turned greenish. For thirty seconds, the object hung motionless and soundlessly, and then turned 180 degrees, "leaving a trail of steam" … Hanging motionless in a new position for several seconds, the UFO flew at great speed, hovered about 15 miles, rushed vertically up " with incredible speed”and disappeared.
This object definitely has a lot in common with the Belgian Triangle, except that it was seen in mid-October 1968. As far as I know, the message has not been investigated, but there are quite a few triangles reported to NUFORC that date from the late 1960s. Most of them have detailed details; they look true and are available to anyone who wants to read these messages.
In the NUFORC database, you can read about 25 detailed reports of triangular UFOs seen from 1967 to 1973; there are several cases that date back to even earlier times. (In the USSR, the first "triangle", as far as I know, was seen in 1936, and the record of this observation was made in the early 80s, when even ufologists did not know anything about triangular UFOs. - M. G.) This must be, just the tip of the iceberg: we will never know how many eyewitnesses of triangular UFOs in the 1960s died before they had the opportunity to send their story to ufologists, but I'm sure there were a lot of them.
British ufologist Victor Keene, who founded Project Triangle on the Internet, has recorded many reports of triangular UFO sightings that occurred in Britain in the 90s. He emphasizes that the first time credible observation of the "triangle" is dated September 8, 1960. "A triangular ship with three white lights in the corners and a red light under the bottom" was seen at Tuneside and two other settlements within a radius of 10 miles. and the time difference between observations did not exceed 75 minutes. Surely someone invented the "flying triangles" back in the 50s?
If someone believes that reports of such long-standing events should automatically be considered unreliable and should be discarded, what will they say about the great number of reports about "triangles" from 1973 to the beginning of the 80s, that is, before the "wave" of observations in the Hudson Valley? Cases of observation of "triangles" in such a distant past present a serious problem for explanation.
Political aspect
There are several factors to keep in mind. First, the state of the art. I admit that this level in the secret world of the military has always far outstripped most civilian technology, but we have the opportunity to find it by studying the most advanced aircraft of those years. For example, the first flight of the F-15 "Eagle" took place in July 1972. It was the first US Air Force fighter to have a thrust / weight ratio greater than 1: 1 and thus capable of vertical flight. The first F-16 flew at Edwards Air Force Base in January 1974, the Rockwell B-1 bomber took off for the first time in December 1974, and the first prototype Apache helicopter in September 1975. All these devices are impressive, but none of them resembles "triangles" in the least.
It is important to understand that it was only in the mid-70s that the technique of "flying by wire" appeared (that is, perfect computer technology that allows an aircraft to perform many actions per second), which turned out to be practical enough for use in unconventional devices, for example, of the "flying wing". Previously, "flying wings" (and, probably, "flying triangles" as their further development) were initially unstable.
Given all these factors, it becomes difficult to attribute many of the "triangle" reports to secret technologies. Difficult, but not impossible at all. True, other problems arise here - political ones.
Returning, for example, to the Belgian observations, Belgian Air Force Colonel de Brouwer suggested that if the objects were B-2 or F-117 "stealth" aircraft (the only American aircraft known to them that remotely matched eyewitness descriptions), then the US Air Force should have given a request for overflight clearance; there was no such request. Brower also noted the obvious fact that the triangular objects "in no way" matched the known US aircraft.
The Belgian government made a request to the US government whether these "triangles" were American aircraft or not. The US Air Force informed the Air Force and the Belgian Ministry of Defense that "not a single American stele aircraft carried out any missions during this period." Nowadays, this answer can be regarded as a formal reply with carefully verified words - “not a single stele-type aircraft can mean that the apparatus flying in the skies over Belgium was not, in the technical sense of the word, an“invisible”aircraft - only the latest flying apparatus. Moreover, in at least one case it was tracked by radars.
If so, we come to shocking conclusions; How could the US Air Force endanger its NATO allies? After America unleashed the Second Gulf War, this would not have surprised anyone, but in 1990 the Soviet Union still existed, and the remnants of the Cold War remained in the world. Finally, such actions, which endanger their NATO allies, do not seem to be reasonable or polite.
Airships?
National Institute of Advanced Sciences (NIDS) in Las Vegas, PA. Nevada, not so long ago put forward his hypothesis about the "black triangles". In 2002, an anonymous aviation expert provided them with a study called The Big Black Triangles: US Department of Defense, Not Aliens. He suggested that the objects are lighter than air vehicles, that is, rigid airships - most likely with an "electrokinetic" engine, which are controlled by the US military. In other words, these are US Department of Defense airships, which are used as huge cargo ships capable of carrying large loads at high or low altitudes at speeds several times the speed of ships. An anonymous author theorizes that such devices have existed since the early 1980s.
In his opinion, "flying triangles" are silent, because they use an unusual method of movement - an "electrokinetic" engine that does not require turbines, propellers or aerostatic altitude change method using gas that provides lift, like in a balloon. All that can be heard is a slight hum of high voltage control equipment or, in older models of "triangles", from random corona discharges.
The author also discusses why triangles can pick up speed so quickly. I admit that in this place my scientific knowledge was not enough, but the explanation did not differ in many details. The author suggested that they do not have their own source of energy, which is transmitted over a distance "… from a ground-based energy system that sends it to an electrokinetic platform via a wire or by means of a microwave beam." The maximum range of remote power transmission is about 62 miles. The thrust-to-mass ratio of such a vehicle is much higher than that of a jet fighter - "between 1.7: 1 and 3: 1 - the latter in case the vehicle is lightly loaded"; this allows the apparatus to develop sharp accelerations, including in the vertical direction.
He concluded that "… given the number of possible military missions for such ships and the availability of technology for their construction, which has been well developed for almost a century, how can any Department of Defense NOT build them?"
The hypothesis seems to have been originally developed to explain the case in Millstadt, Illinois, which occurred in early 2000. We have to ask the question here: if the object was American, where was the microwave transmitter located? The UFO was definitely not pulling a wire, and its acceleration was not just great, but very, very great. Nobody thinks that the concept of the "triangles" energy source put forward in the article can be correct. One of the letters I received indicated that although it is possible to feed the ship with a microwave beam, for this the apparatus must be within sight of the transmitting station and have a receiving antenna consisting of a number of dipoles. Moreover, the beam is dangerous for everything in its path, for example, for birds. I personally do not know of any reports of "triangles" that mention bird deaths. Finally,anonymity clearly does not color this work: we do not know anything about the author's track record or the motives that prompted it to write.
Of course, rigid airships exist. Inventor Michael K. Walden demonstrated at Nellis Air Force Base in 1977 a radio-controlled lighter-than-air vehicle that was powered entirely by solar energy to representatives of the US Department of Defense and the Department of Energy. Walden seems to have made an impression on the military and power engineers, but the contract with him was never signed.
Looking for an explanation
Researchers have plotted the locations of several hundred observations of "triangles" on a map of the United States, trying to discern some patterns. According to the Institute, objects fly along "corridors" between US Air Force bases. When I tried to study this map, it almost felt like a passing Rorschach test. In it, you can see any patterns that fit any hypothesis.
The Institute of Advanced Sciences has done a good job, but we should note that its research was limited to reports that spoke of huge "triangles" that came from the United States during the 90s. But the geographical aspect is no less difficult to explain. Ufologists usually write about "triangles" as if it were a phenomenon unique to North America and Western Europe. In general, it seems that this is true, but I suspect that such a "bias" has arisen mainly due to the greater activity of eyewitnesses in these regions. In any case, "triangles" were seen in other countries, for example, in Russia during the Belgian events.
Thus, the hypothesis of the Institute of Advanced Sciences is far from being considered proven, and at best explains only part of the triangular UFO sightings. Should we assume that some secret American group launched triangles and other objects over Russia in the last years of the Soviet Union?
Judging by the behavior of UFOs during encounters with American planes, the UFOs are not occupied by the American military. The same can be said for at least some "triangles" like that one. that invaded the airspace over the Indian Point nuclear power plant in 1984.
It seems that some of the triangular objects are of terrestrial origin, as in the case of K. Gibson, others do not look like terrestrial technology. The only "natural" explanation for them is the activities of a secret group deeply hidden in the world of "black" military technology, the Fuppa, which carries out its own plans independently of any legally elected government.
Now we can only say that we still do not have an explanation that would "bring down from heaven to earth" all triangular objects without exception. There is a large amount of evidence that continues to be inconsistent with "natural" explanations, and not all "triangles" seem earthly …