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Posted: 6:04 a.m. Friday, Feb. 20, 2009

6 Top-Secret Aircraft that are Mistaken for UFOs 

By Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News

The CIA estimates that more than half of the UFOs reported in the 1950s and 1960s were really American spy planes. Here are six (no longer) secret aircraft that people have mistaken for extraterrestrial flying saucers.
 

1. RQ-3 Darkstar
RQ-3 DarkstarManufacturer: Lockheed Martin/Boeing First Test Flight: 1996 Deployment: None (it was canceled in 1999) Declassified: 1995 Size: 15 ft long; 69-ft wingspan Performance: 288 mph (cruising speed); 45,000+ ft (max. alt.)
UFO Link: The official life span of this unmanned spy plane was brief and disappointing, with a crash and a program cancellation after just three years. But in 2003, Aviation Week reported that a similar stealth UAV was being used in Iraq--fueling speculation that the government scrapped the craft publicly only to secretly resurrect it for clandestine missions.

See the other 5 Top-Secret aircraft here...

 
 
 

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