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'Aurora Spy Plane' May Have Caused UFO Sightings
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by candice.tsuei | August 17, 2009 at 09:29 am
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A number of UFO sightings may have been caused by a US spy plane, named Aurora.
In 1993, More than 70 witnesses from the UK, including police officers, fighter pilots, and school children, claimed to have had "close encounters" with UFOs.
In one case in 1995, two men told police in Staffordshire that an alien figure with a lemon-shaped head had come out of a spaceship they had seen that was four houses high and hovering over a field, telling them: “We want you. Come with us.” The men gave police a drawing of the craft resembling a flying saucer. The files also contained drawings of other supposed sightings.
Nick Pope, the head of the Ministry of Defence's UFO desk, wrote in a briefing not to the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (ACAS), Sir Anthony Bagnall, that there was evidence of an unidentified aircraft evading UK defenses.
"You may wish to be aware of a recent particularly unusual incidence of UFO sightings over Britain, involving descriptions that match some of the reported characterisations of the so-called 'Aurora'."
So, what is Aurora?
Aurora, formally known as The Aurora Spy Plane Project or SR-91 Aurora, is allegedly a US Spy Plane developed in secret "black" programs back in the 1980's, and is supposedly capable of hypersonic flight. In the 1990's, the Aurora became a popular cultural reference that constantly appeared in books, TV series, films, and video games.
Mr Pope said yesterday: “There are some fascinating cases here [in the released files]and while we could explain 95 per cent of the sightings, the rest were a genuine mystery. We were particularly concerned by near misses with aircraft and cases where UFOs were seen close to military bases.”
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at 07:47 on August 19th, 2009
I don't quite get this - Aurora is being piloted by people with lemon shaped heads? In Staffordshire?