Air Force space plane

[rosie]

This X-37B robotic space plane seems to be shrouded in mystery. If anyone know anymore
info on this subject, would love to hear about it. It is set to go April 19th.

For the air force to be in control of this space ship, well, it just gets me thinking, why them, and why now? :confused:

http://i42.tinypic.com/jruz9d.jpg

The spacecraft measures more than 29 feet long and nine-and-a-half feet tall. Its wingspan is 14 feet, 11 inches, and it will weigh about 11,000 pounds at launch, according to an Air Force fact sheet.

The OTV will be shrouded inside a bulbous five-meter diameter payload fairing for launch. The Atlas 5 rocket will fly in the 501 configuration with the large nose cone, no solid rocket boosters and a single engine Centaur upper stage.

The military is tight-lipped on the demonstrator's payload for the April mission, but the Air Force says it will test space technologies and prove concepts for small reusable spacecraft.

(You think the air force is telling the truth on this one?)

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/24otv/

[Operator]

Hmmm, the space shuttle program stops and unmanned (!) Air Force flights are taking over ? .... is there something growing out there dangerous to human
life or is this a 'planted' news item ? After all since when did the USAF start leaking 'data' about secret programs ...

[rosie]

My point exactly operator, what is going on? Why the air force and not NASA? I have searched this subject, but to no avail.

[MustachedPrune]

Operator I have to refer to the budget constraints imposed on NASA and the unlimited Black Budget availability that the Air Force has at its disposal. It is no surprise that the Air Force has assumed total control of the Space Program just another extension of the Military Industrial Complex.

[Operator]

Operator I have to refer to the budget constraints imposed on NASA and the unlimited Black Budget availability that the Air Force has at its disposal. It is no surprise that the Air Force has assumed total control of the Space Program just another extension of the Military Industrial Complex.

I think you are right ... but this plane must have been planned and designed long time ago far before these budget restraints came into view.
And another question remains: Why unmanned ?

Some say that the space shuttle Columbia was shot to pieces since it was carrying weapons into space (official documentation says 2 military satellites).
Could this be the reason why they continue unmanned now ... ?

On the other hand if they have those advanced planes as described by Michael Schratt ... why should they need this ? Questions, questions and more questions ...

[Swanny]

The military in space.... That's not good

[Solphilos]

Well, they are purposefully putting this info out there, so my question is, what is it that they want us to perceive, believe, and how do they want us to feel?
Maybe they want us to get used to the idea of military space operations, maybe it has been going on all along, maybe it is propaganda for some future scenario? Who knows, but I am always suspicious when info like this is released on purpose, with the appearance of being a secretive operation.

[Carrie1971]

The military in space.... That's not good

Hmmm...... This maybe the "reason" the latest webot warns that earth will have more than one fallen chunck of "something" Just as a warning it also said hords of people would be trying to go pick up their own "find" after the event only to learn others were gonig to find them to get the stuff back as the chuncks will be high in radation.

[Operator]

Hmmm...... This maybe the "reason" the latest webot warns that earth will have more than one fallen chunck of "something" Just as a warning it also said hords of people would be trying to go pick up their own "find" after the event only to learn others were gonig to find them to get the stuff back as the chuncks will be high in radation.

Just a wild guess (but startling for the mind): what if it will be used as a general (multi)purpose
replacement for whatever falls out of the sky and needs
a quick replacement (for tactical warfare) ?

Does this line from Wikipedia give this away: "The X-37B effort will be led by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office ..." ?

But then again ... why would they share this publicly ?

Link to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

[Swami]

The military in space.... That's not good

Hhhm, they have been there for a long time.........

491 492

See them in space


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn-WRw4b8vM
From min. 4.33

Keep an eye on this (http://edgrimsley.com/) guy...:cool:

[Swami]

Air Force's mystery spaceship: X-37 gears up for launch

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=496

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0404/Air-Force-s-mystery-spaceship-X-37-gears-up-for-launch

[rosie]

Yes, but why Swami? :confused:

[Wood]

Maybe they are expecting the EMP event soon and they need this to quickly replace critical satellites that get destroyed? AFAIK the military relies heavily on their satellites.

[Swami]

Yes, but why Swami? :confused:

Cheaper than the Space Shuttle.....?

[rosie]

Maybe the air force is flexing it's wings in space, getting ready, preparing for the take over of NASA. We have been warned about NASA's space program not having enough money, so they have planted the seed in our minds that this is the only reason for the budget cuts.

I am betting the money is getting moved over, plus some, to the air force to quickly get up to date on what is actually going down/up.

I cannot see any of NASA's astronauts as killers, hence the air force now in the sky. They will kill without a second thought. And they do not have to promote "their" astronauts as NASA has done in the past. We will not know who, or how many of them will be up there.

The space program is going underground, that is my gut feeling. :bad:

[Swami]

All their stuff is EMP-proof... (Nukes can cause EMP too)

A couple of days ago I learned that even commercial Hummers are EMP-protected

[gibonos]

If you read clif's latest report he writes about radiation that strong, that high alltitude flights (like transatlantic) might be harmfull to humans.
If one (nasa, navy) has knowledge of such circumstance in advance for sure they will get ready.

gibonos

[bashi]

If Gary is right, then it is the Airforce which is running the show in space, not NASA.
So this program might be the public bridge to a later disclosure/justification of Airforce craft in space

[Majorion]

My point exactly operator, what is going on? Why the air force and not NASA? I have searched this subject, but to no avail.

NASA are set to retire the shuttle in about a year or less, the private corporations like SpaceX are going to take over those kinds of missions from then on. NASA's job will be to focus more on developing advanced robotics and satellite tech, and, somehow with their ever decreasing budget, they are also expected to come up with a feasible plan for future manned-exploration missions like going back to the moon or sending astronauts to an asteroid.

The term "space plane" brings about the sense its actually a plane that can traverse long distances in space, when there aren't any of that capability. People talk about the secret space program, well my information is that the Navy have 32 orbiting platforms, but nothing past that like "jump gates" or "ftl drive" or "warp", my impression now is that was fantasy, space travel is not easy, its very dangerous and everything around is practically unknown, everything from the van allen belt, to magnetic forces, cosmic rays, debris, heliosphere, and countless other known and unknown factors that make space travel - with current technologies - extremely difficult.

[rosie]

Update on the space plane, looks still to be a mystery, they are still not giving concrete reasons for this project. hmmmmm? :confused:

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - An unmanned Air Force space plane resembling a small space shuttle has been launched on its maiden voyage into orbit, carried aloft aboard an Atlas 5 rocket Thursday evening, the service announced.

The rocket carrying the reusable X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle lifted off at 7:52 p.m. EDT (2352 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, an Air Force statement said. It called the launch of the winged spacecraft a success, but released no immediate details of the mission's progress.

The space plane is to serve as a test platform for unspecified experiments and can stay in orbit for up to 270 days before gliding to an autonomous runway landing, the Air Force has said. The primary landing site is Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast northwest of Los Angeles.

The mission length wasn't disclosed by the Air Force.

The service has made public only a general description of the mission objectives: testing of guidance, navigation, control, thermal protection and autonomous operation in orbit, re-entry and landing.

However, the ultimate purpose of the X-37B and details about the craft have longed remained a mystery, though experts said the spacecraft was intended to speed up development of combat-support systems and weapons systems.

"This launch helps ensure that our warfighters will be provided the capabilities they need in the future," said Col. Andre Lovett, a launch official and vice commander of the Air Force's 45th Space Wing, in Thursday's statement.

Link to full article:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2010/04/23/13689441-ap.html?cid=rssnewsscience

[Stargazer]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An unmanned Air Force space plane resembling a small space shuttle has been launched on its maiden voyage into orbit, carried aloft aboard an Atlas 5 rocket Thursday evening, the service announced.

The rocket carrying the reusable X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle lifted off at 7:52 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, an Air Force statement said. It called the launch of the winged spacecraft a success, but released no immediate details of the mission's progress.

The space plane is to serve as a test platform for unspecified experiments and can stay in orbit for up to 270 days before gliding to an autonomous runway landing, the Air Force has said. The primary landing site is Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast northwest of Los Angeles.

The mission length wasn't disclosed by the Air Force.

The service has made public only a general description of the mission objectives: testing of guidance, navigation, control, thermal protection and autonomous operation in orbit, re-entry and landing.

However, the ultimate purpose of the X-37B and details about the craft have longed remained a mystery, though experts said the spacecraft was intended to speed up development of combat-support systems and weapons systems.

"This launch helps ensure that our warfighters will be provided the capabilities they need in the future," said Col. Andre Lovett, a launch official and vice commander of the Air Force's 45th Space Wing, in Thursday's statement.

The launch culminated the project's long and expensive journey from NASA to the Pentagon's research and development arm and then on to the secretive Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on the X-37 program, but the current total hasn't been released.

While the massive space shuttles have been likened to cargo-hauling trucks, the X-37B is more like a sports car, with the equivalent trunk capacity.

Built by Boeing Co.'s Phantom Works, the 11,000-pound craft is 9 1/2 feet tall and just over 29 feet long, with a wingspan of less than 15 feet. It has two angled tail fins rather than a single vertical stabilizer.

Unlike the shuttle, it was designed for launch like a satellite, housed in a fairing atop the expendable Atlas V rocket, and capable of deploying solar panels to provide electrical power in orbit.

[rosie]

Hi Stargazer, I have posted this earlier on page 2. It is now a double post.

I am hoping we get more info about the activities with this space plane.

[Harley]

Hello Everyone! This is my first real post here!


I am hoping we get more info about the activities with this space plane.

I noticed that there hasn't been any activity here in a while so thought I'd post a couple of updates.

Here is the launch of the X-37B:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Ez1s5I9P8

[The] launch of the US Air Force X-37B secret mini space plane has fueled speculation about the real mission of this vehicle and if it could possibly be used for a new type of military weapon. The X-37B launched on April 22, 2010 and has the ability to stay in orbit for up to 270 days. While the Air Force provided a webcast of the launch, since then there has been no word — leaked or official about the status of the mission. The X-37B will land unpiloted at Edwards Air Force Base in California. It uses solar arrays and lithium ion batteries to generate power instead of fuel cells like the space shuttle, a major reason why it can stay on orbit for much longer.

Spotted by an astronomer a little more than 24 hours after launch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOlXImbnQIs

A secret US Air Force Space Plane (X-37B) was spotted in Ontario. It is most likely a spy plane. This robotic spacecraft is orbiting just outside of Earth's atmosphere.

And now this:


US military's top secret X-37B shuttle 'disappears' for two weeks, changes orbit
By Peter Farquhar, Technology Editor news.com.au August 25, 2010 9:08AM
http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/04/22/1225856/980890-x-37b.jpg
The X-37B - amateur skywatchers are enjoying the cat-and-mouse game with the US military's "space weapon" / AP

In May, avid skywatcher Ted Molczan studied the X-37B's orbit from his home in Toronto and said its behaviour suggested it was testing sensors for a range of new spy satellites.
Since then, the X-37B been arguably the least-secret secret project on the planet, as fellow backyard astronomers joined in the scrutiny, aided by how-to video guides and apps such as the Simple Satellite Tracker.
That is, they did until July 29, when the shuttle disappeared, causing all kinds of consternation and conspiracy theories about its fate.
It took amateur skywatcher Greg Roberts of Cape Town, South Africa, who noticed that it failed to appear as scheduled above his base on August 14, another five days to find it.
When he did, he noticed it was some 30km higher and on a different trajectory, according to calculations from other colleagues in Rome and Oklahoma.
The X-37B's new track means it takes six days to pass the same spot on Earth, as opposed to its original four-day track.
Mr Molczan believes this may be another small piece to the puzzle about what role the shuttle may play in US military operations.
"This small change of orbit may have been a test of OTV-1's manoeuvring system, or a requirement of whatever payload may be aboard, or both," he said in a release paper about Roberts' X-37B find.
The shuttle has been in orbit now for 124 days. It uses a solar array once in space for power, which theoretically will allow it to stay airborne for up to 270 days.
But the additional presence of large fuel tanks and a rocket motor allows it to change orbit, as evidenced by the latest sudden change of course.
According to the The Register, this is a key component of its surveillance-related capabilities, along with the fact it can land in a much more versatile fashion than other shuttles.
Using its "cross-range" wings, it can duck off elsewhere once its entered the Earth's atmosphere rather than follow its oribital track to a pre-specified landing pad.
This means the X-37B can get up and down from space in one orbit, as its wings allow it to compensate for the slight turn in the Earth and bend it back to its original launch pad.
The Register says that capability would make it difficult to track, as it would only pass over a region once.
Theoretically, it could drop a spy satellite on one run, then pick it up on the next without the satellite having ever been detected.
Other observers claim the X-37B can carry a payload roughly the size of a medium-sized truck bed, or enough to hold a spy satellite.
According to the Pentagon, a second X-37B is under construction, so expect the guessing game to continue for some time about what the US military is really up to in space.
Until now, all that remains known about the X-37B is that is it has at least one trick - the ability to hide from skywatchers for two weeks.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/us-militarys-top-secret-x-37b-shuttle-disappears-for-two-weeks-changes-orbit/story-e6frfro0-1225909738276#ixzz0zOwsOxag

Best Wishes!

Harley

[Studeo]

America's Grand Strategy - Militarizing Space
http://www.rense.com/general92/jdw.htm
By Stephen Lendman
9-8-10

On January 3, 2001, the UN General Assembly's Prevention of an Arms
Race in Outer Space Resolution A/55/32 said:

"The exploration and use of outer space....shall be for peaceful
purposes and be carried out for the benefit and in the interest of all
countries, irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific
development. (The) prevention of an arms race in outer space would
avert a grave danger for international peace and security."

Over 140 nations agreed. Only two declined support, both abstaining -
America and Israel.

On August 9, 1996, in Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine,
then Commander-in-Chief US Space Command, Joseph W. Ashy asserted:

"It's politically sensitive, but it's going to happen. Some people
don't want to hear this, and it sure isn't in vogue, but - absolutely
- we're going to fight in space. We're going to fight from space and
we're going to fight into space. That's why the US has development
programs in directed energy and hit-to-kill mechanisms. We will engage
terrestrial targets someday - ships, airplanes, land targets - from
space."

On April 18, 2002, the Center for Defense Information's Theresa
Hitchens headlined, "Weapons in Space: Silver Bullet or Russian
Roulette," saying:

Weaponizing space "could actually undermine, rather than enhance,
(America's) national security....There is nothing to be gained, and
potentially much to be lost, by (pursuing) a momentous change in US
space policy."

Co-founder and coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and
Nuclear Power in Space, Bruce Gagnon warned:

"If the US is allowed to move the arms race into space, there will be
no return. We have this one chance, this one moment in history, to
stop the weaponization of space from happening. The peace movement
must move quickly, boldly, and publicly," what so far hasn't happened,
most people mindless to the danger.

First revealed in the 1998 US Space Command document, Vision for 2020,
it was later released in 2000 as DOD Joint Vision 2020 calling for
"full spectrum dominance" over all land, surface and sub-surface sea,
air, space, electromagnetic spectrum and information systems with
enough overwhelming power to wage and win global wars against any
adversary, including with nuclear weapons preemptively, ultimately
from space, America wanting unchallenged control.

The Pentagon's Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) plans an array of
sophisticated weapons to achieve it, some operational, others being
tested, and new ones under development for its Operations Plan (OPLAN)
8010-08 Strategic Deterrence and Global Strike use, the US Strategic
Command's (STRATCOM) Strategic War Plan.

Since at least WW II, America's strategy has been permanent war, a
topic discussed earlier, accessed through the following link:

http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/03/americas-permanent-war-agenda.html

On June 17, Space.com's Jeremy Hsu headlined, "Air Force Sees
Hypersonic Weapons and Spaceships in Future," saying:

"A recent (Air Force) scramjet test has hinted at a future where
hypersonic vehicles," traveling five times the speed of sound, fly
around the world and in space, an "experimental X-51A Waverider,"
achieving the longest ever Mach 5 flight on May 26, using a rocket
booster and air-breathing scramjet.

Charles Brink, head of the Air Force Research Laboratory's X-51
program envisions future hypersonic weapons flying "600 nautical miles
in 10 minutes," including in space. NASA's James Pittman, principal
investigator of its hypersonics project, hopes to have "large vehicles
for access to space using air-breathing propulsion."

Earlier X-43A hypersonic scramjet test flights reached Mach 6.8 in
March 2004 and Mach 9.6 in November that year - about 7,000 MPH. The
X-51A project uses a more sophisticated scramjet engine, but hasn't
yet matched or broken the X-43A's record, nor can it reach orbit, a
goal Boeing Phantom Works/Defense hypersonics director Joseph Vogel
hopes to achieve in the next 15 - 20 years, saying he expects the
technology will be able to fly missions not possible today, the X-51A
showing early promise.

In April, after years of development, the Air Force successfully
launched the X-37B, its robot space shuttle, a reusable spacecraft
traveling like an aircraft at Mach 5 - perhaps another future space
weapon. Global Security.org's John Pike told Space.com that projects
like the X-37B may "represent the tip of a space weapons program
hidden within the Pentagon's secret 'black budget,' or they might be
nothing more than smoke and mirrors," intended to deceive America's
rivals, fueling a space arms race, hoping they'll "waste money chasing
down dead ends."

For its part, the Air Force denies wanting the X-37B for an orbital
weapons delivery system or for surveillance. Others disagree,
journalist Sharon Weinberger saying "the most daring job of a space
plane, and the one least discussed, is (its) role (as) a bomber,
(letting it) fly over targets within an hour of launch to release
cone-shaped re-entry vehicles that would both protect and guide
weapons through the atmosphere."

It would also be able to "carry 1000 or 2000-pound re-entry vehicles
armed with precision munitions like bunker-busting penetrators or
small-diameter bombs (including mini-nukes more powerful than the atom
bombs destroying Hiroshima or Nagasaki), or simply use the explosive
impact of kinetic rods cratering at hypersonic speeds to destroy
targets."

On the other hand, the X37B's main function may be a test platform,
perhaps for developing even more destructive space weapons, part of
America's permanent war strategy, waging future ones from space, using
technologies adversaries can't match.

OPLAN-08 - The Pentagon's Strategic War Plan

OPLAN 8010-08 is a "family of plans" against six or more potential
adversaries, including Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and
other "terrorist" states. In 2002, the Bush administration asserted
the right to:

"do whatever is necessary to deter the use of (undefined) weapons of
mass destruction against the United States, its allies, and its
interests. If a weapon of mass destruction is used against the United
States or its allies, (or it such use is imminent or threatened), we
will not rule out any specific type military response," including
first-strike nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.

Under Obama, the policy remains in force. His May National Security
Strategy "reserve(s) he right to act unilaterally if necessary to
defend our nation and our interests." In other words, to wage
preemptive wars, using first-strike nuclear weapons "to keep the
American people safe (and advance the nation's) values and ideals,"
ones pursuing unchallenged global and space hegemony, ruling it by
intimidation and war.

OPLAN 8010-08 - Updating SIOP

Unlike the Cold War's Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP), OPLAN
8010-08 contains "more flexible options to assure allies, and
dissuade, deter, and if necessary, defeat adversaries in a wider range
of contingencies." It includes conventional strike options, but it's
mostly nuclear, custom designed for each potential adversary.

The nuclear options include the Emergency Response Options (ERO),
Selective Attack Options (SAO), Basic Attack Options (BAO), and
Directed/Adaptive Planning Capability (DPO/APO) options, specific
details, of course, highly classified.

Options range from limited ones to massive "shock and awe" strikes
against many targets, by manned and drone aircraft, ICBMs, and from
attack submarines and surface ships, using hundreds of strategically
located warheads.

The Pentagon's National Target Base includes four categories -
military forces, WMD infrastructure, military and national leadership,
and war supporting infrastructure - a post Cold War strategy to deter
all so-called WMDs, the Bush administration saying America:

"has made it clear for many years that it reserves the right to
respond with overwhelming force to the use of weapons of mass
destruction against the United States, our people, our forces and our
friends and allies. Additionally, the United States will hold any
state, terrorist group, or other non-state actor fully accountable for
supporting or enabling terrorist efforts to obtain or use weapons of
mass destruction, whether by facilitating, financing, or providing
expertise or safe haven for such efforts."

The policy remains unchanged under Obama, OPLAN 8010-08 for preventive
or retaliatory "strategic deterrence" and preemptive "global strike."
STRATCOM describes the former as its "first line of operation....that
includes nuclear force operations." The latter expands national and
theater operations globally, the terms Prompt Global Strike and Global
Strike used interchangeably, whether with conventional or nuclear
weapons, or if prompt or deliberate.

The Air Force's nuclear/conventional command is called Global Strike
Command, using America's full attack capabilities to destroy targets,
including WMDs preemptively, STRATCOM's counterproliferation strategy
designed to destroy all WMDs "before they can be used....(a)
preemptive....counterforce....or offensively reactive" strategy.

While claiming to "put an end to Cold War thinking (by) reduc(ing) the
role and number of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy,"
Obama's National Security Strategy puts old wine in new bottles,
rebranding it to appear softer while keeping hardline policies in
place, backed by a growing arsenal of globally positioned
sophisticated weapons, asserting the right to use them preemptively
against perceived threats.

During the Cold War, MAD (mutually assured destruction) held both
sides at bay. Today's strategy includes "more flexible options (for) a
wider range of contingencies (with weapons) to optimize performance,"
meaning destroy an adversary's capabilities preemptively, then target
another.

With America on a nuclear hair-trigger, it's reinvented MAD in new
form, threatening potential global nuclear winter, defined as "a long
period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would
follow a full-scale nuclear war, a layer of dust and smoke in the
atmosphere cover(ing) the earth and block(ing) the rays of the sun,
(causing) most living organisms (to) perish."

Anti-nuclear expert Helen Caldicott says "one single failure of
nuclear deterrence could end human history (quickly). Once initiated,
it would take one hour to trigger a swift, sudden end to life on this
planet." Only nuclear disarmament and abolition of nuclear weapons can
stop it.

In their joint July 1955 Manifesto, Albert Einstein and Bertrand
Russell put the nuclear threat bluntly:

"Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and
dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or
shall mankind renounce war? (The) best authorities are unanimous that
a war with H-bombs (or today's arsenal) might possibly put an end to
the human race." For some, it will be instant, but "the majority (will
experience) a slow torture of disease and disintegration." It's our
choice. So far we've made it badly.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at
sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with
distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the
Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and
Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy
listening.

http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/.

[Harley]

Thanks for that Studio! Lots of good info there.

While posting a new article on Black Budget Spending (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?5505-Where-Does-The-Money-Go) I ran across a piece of info that MAY POSSIBLY relate to the X-37B program, so I excerpted it here.


The Pentagon has mentioned two non-ICBM candidates for Prompt Global Strike, one from the Army and one from Darpa. Both of these weapons would be boosted into the atmosphere by rockets and then glide back to Earth at hypersonic speeds.

The proliferation of hypersonic research may mean that the Pentagon has faith in the technology. But it also makes black-budget watchers like John Pike, the director of the military information Web site GlobalSecurity.org, suspicious. Pike believes the military’s hypersonic programs may just be a cover for yet another black project. What kind, though, he has no idea.

“Have you ever tried to get to the bottom of the American hypersonics program?” Pike asked me rhetorically. “You know, I tried to about five years ago, and it made no sense. There were just too many programs.” Although this could just be typical Pentagon duplication, Pike sees something more suspicious. “If I was building a cover for something, I would either reduce the signal or increase the noise,” he says. “I think they’re increasing the noise.”

Two notes here:

(1) DARPA was the original owner of the X-37B research program. They since turned it over to
the USAF.

(2) The Air Force doesn't release info on Secret projects to the public. NONE. They just don't
operate that way.

So why all the whoop-de-do here, with the MSM and all? The last sentence in the excerpt is probably most accurate. If you want to really hide something you draw everyones attention away by increasing the noise. And they've taken the X-37B (basically quite old concept and technology) out of mothballs to do just that, because they have something much much more that they don't want us to see!

Have A Nice Day!

Harley