Air Force Secret Hypersonic glider vanishes nine minutes into flight

Date: Thursday, 11-Aug-2011 14:14:01 The Air Force's Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2—designed to attack global targets at Mach 20—has disappeared nine minutes into its first test flight, just after separating from its booster. Contact was lost, and it hasn't been found yet. The Falcon was supposed to splash down in the Pacific Ocean after a 30-minute, 4,100-nautical-mile test flight. Not to be confused with the unmanned X-37B space shuttle—which launched on April 22—the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 blasted off last week from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on a Minotaur IV rocket.

Instead of completing its flight, however, the Air Force lost all contact with the aircraft. According to DARPA's Johanna Spangenberg Jones:

Preliminary review of data indicates the HTV-2 achieved controlled flight within the atmosphere at over Mach 20. Then contact with HTV-2 was lost. This was our first flight (all others were done in wind tunnels and simulations) so although of course we would like to have everything go perfectly, we still gathered data and can use findings for the next flight, scheduled currently for early 2011.

Just that: The telemetry data signal vanished, and the aircraft is nowhere to be found. Being a semi-secret project, nothing else has been disclosed. The only logical explanations are 1) a massive structural failure, 2) Nazi UFOs or 3) somebody lost it in a beer garden. I will pick number two for the time being.

The hypersonic glider is built by Lockheed Martin under a DARPA program. It's designed to launch conventional weapons against any target in the planet in just one hour. This capability makes it a perfect substitute for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Unlike ICBMs loaded with conventional heads, the plane can't be mistaken with a nuclear missile, so it won't make other nuclear powers to hit the red button. Maybe. [Physorg]

So where did it go?

Do you think it is a possibility that it went into the future?

What about traveling to another dimension?

Given the possibilities of what could have happened I'm surprised that this thread hasn't caught on fire.

Carol wrote:So where did it go?

Do you think it is a possibility that it went into the future?

What about traveling to another dimension?

Given the possibilities of what could have happened I'm surprised that this thread hasn't caught on fire.

crossed my mind too...entered another dimension..could be...

burgundia, this could even be the US version of a new space craft. Now wouldn't that be something?

By the way... a big hello to Moffett Naval AFB in California. Keep up the great work guys. I bet someone there knows what happened to that Hypersonic glider. There had to be some sort of tracking devices on it.



Moffett Field (Naval Air Station, Sunnyvale; Moffett Field; Moffett Field Air National Guard Base)
Moffett Federal Airfield (MFA), formerly Naval Air Station (NAS) Moffett Field, is currently operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA has continued the tenant program begun by the Navy, hosting several other organizations at MFA including the Naval Reserve, the California Air National Guard, and Onizuka Air Force Base. Control of on-base and off-base housing was transferred to Onizuka Air Force Base. Currently, NASA is continuing to operate MFA as a restricted federal airfield, but is also considering various other uses of the property that will support its mission.

Located in Santa Clara County, California, near the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, MFA encompasses approximately 2,200 acres. It is bordered on the north by salt evaporation ponds which are adjacent to San Francisco Bay, on the west by Stevens Creek and NASA's Ames Research Facility, on the south by Highway 101, and on the east by the Lockheed Aerospace Center. MFA is surrounded by a security fence, and access is limited to personnel, residents, and authorized visitors. Although the NASA-Ames property is distinct from the Moffett Federal Airfield property, NASA-Ames is located within the Moffett Field perimeter security fence.)

however since the reason for its existence is "It's designed to launch conventional weapons against any target in the planet in just one hour"..maybe someone has intervened here...

Well now. That is also a possibility. ET stole it? Or blinked it out of existence?

Hmm, we can't forget about China or Russia. Did they do something?

Burgundia gave the certain reply. It goes for another dimension. I and Burgundia are not on emotionally conection to the US, therefore, perhaps, this are the way. Another dimension. Kisses, Monique.

This is a verra, verra interesting website. http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/index.html

Hmmm

http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/facility/ktf.htm

Barking Sands

A forum http://forum.globalsecurity.org/

http://forum.globalsecurity.org/forumdisplay.php?19-Space-Systems

Sounding the Sun http://forum.globalsecurity.org/showthread.php?44878-Sounding-the-Sun

The long term goal of this project is to help ensure the safe and continued operation of DoD communication systems, both earth-based and those involving satellite links, by providing early detection of solar events known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and enabling early warning to be given of CMEs that appear likely to impact the earth. It has already been demonstrated, in January of 1997, that communication satellites can be disabled as a result of these CMEs. More such events, and possibly many more such events, can be expected as we approach the solar maximum projected for the years 1999-2000 (see solar cycle figure below). In addition, there may be more extensive blackouts in the US, Canada, and other countries than have occurred during earlier solar maximums due to the recent trend of deregulation and consequent merger of many electric utilities into larger units. Note also that, while emphasis is given here to the impact of CMEs on communication systems, operation of the GPS navigation system has never been tested during a solar maximum period, and it is conceivable that the strong CMEs expected during the solar maximum of 1999-2000 will affect the GPS satellites and their communication links to the earth as well.


and this

Correlated Measurements of the Disturbances of Geomagnetic Field and Changes of Secon

Our objective is the development of a geomagnetic storms forecast service. It will consists of a observed solar bursts data, particle detector data and current geomagnetic activity data. They originate in solar activity and variability of many different forms including solar flares, coronal mass ejections, solar wind sector boundaries and coronal hole streams. Variations of geomagnetic field can adversely affect any technical systems which rely on local magnetic field measurements to be taken in the absence of significant geomagnetic variations. Users who are unaware of and thus unprepared for the imminent occurrence of major magnetic field disturbances may conduct operations which later turn out to have been useless and eventually a waste of time and resources. Our project attempts to address geomagnetic storm forecasting by developing a service which gives advance notice of increasing geomagnetic activity and thus enables the affected users to plan and conduct their operations in a more cost-effective way. Information on flux changes for different secondary particles helps to "test" Interplanetary Magnetic Fields (IMF) and magnetosphere for understanding of the level of disturbance and specific mechanisms leading to cutoff rigidity reduction. Our observations of the GMS occurred during 23rd Solar activity cycle demonstrate that Cosmic Ray increase during GMS occurs coherently (or approx. 1 hour in advance) with abrupt changes of the geomagnetic field, sized up by Dst index. To test geomagnetic disturbances models and provide a valuable user-oriented forecast, it is not sufficient to have only global geomagnetic indices. Several studies demonstrate that local geomagnetic indices are better correlated with consequences of severe GMS. Unfortunately in the radius of 1000 km. from mt. Aragats there are no permanently operating geomagnetic observatories or magneto-telluric station http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA535231&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

ET is also monitoring the sun very closely.