On September 5, 2017, an unidentified aircraft crash occurred in the area of the mysterious Area 51 airbase. The approximate location of the accident is halfway between Lake Groom and Tonopah Test Range.
On September 6, in the same area, there was another accident with the A-10 attack aircraft, so at first everyone perceived the events as one.
Only on September 11 some details of the first accident became known.
In particular, the name of the crashed pilot was made public: Eric Schultz, Lt. Col., US Air Force, callsign "Doc".
However, the type of the crashed plane remains a mystery to everyone.
Since many thought that again some kind of accident with the F-35, the US military first began to refute this assumption. In particular, US Air Force Chief of Staff, General David L. Goldfein, told Military.com on September 9, "I can definitely say this is not an F-35."
But if not the F-35, then what? There are several versions on this score.
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In January 2017, theaviationist.com introduced its readers to a rare photo of a training air battle between an F-16 and a Russian Su-27P, which took place in the Area 51 area and accidentally fell into the lens of a UFO hunter.
As recently became known, Lieutenant Colonel Eric Schultz was the commander of a squadron that piloted Russian aircraft and trained American pilots for aerial combat with a potential enemy. Consequently, there may have been an incident involving a Russian plane.
At the same time, ufologists observing Area 51 claim that tests of a secret B-21 bomber are currently being carried out there, designed to replace its predecessor B-2, which does not suit the military, and, possibly, using alien technologies:
Since the disaster has been shrouded in a veil of secrecy for more than a week, many are inclined to believe that it was the B-21 accident.