The Skunk Works division of Lockheed Martin, which has been developing a stealth aircraft capable of flying at Mach 6 since the 2000s, has recently announced that the aircraft is ready.
A YouTube conspiracist believes he has determined where this mysterious device is parked.
Images from Google Earth, Google’s online map tool, would reveal the location of the new SR-72 hypersonic aircraft, allegedly manufactured by the Lockheed Martin group , says Tyler Glockner, a conspiracy theorist, about its YouTube channel, SecureTeam10.
“It was discovered on what looks like a sort of airstrip in the middle of Florida’s swampy land. It is a very mysterious object […]. You can see that this thing looks like a kind of supersonic plane or spaceship,” said Mr. Locker in his new video viewed more than 450,000 times.
Aviation Week magazine announced in 2013 that Lockheed Martin had initiated the design of the SR-72 reconnaissance aircraft , the successor to the legendary SR-71 Blackbird that was retired in 1998 after the end of the cold war.
The SR-72 would be twice as fast as the SR-71 and would be able to reach Mach 6, six times the speed of sound. According to the magazine, testing of a prototype of this device would begin in 2018.
At the recent SciTech Forum, organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a Lockheed Martin Vice President, Jack O’Banion, dropped a little phrase that did not go unnoticed. He suggested that the SR-72 would already be ready.
Jack O'Bannion, VP of Strategy at Skunk Works, is speaking today at SciTech conference. He showed a slide of the SR-72 and said: "Without digital transformation that aircraft you see there could not have been made." Soooo … does that mean that aircraft was made? pic.twitter.com/dD7ovOG0rg
— Stephen Trimble (@FG_STrim)
“Without the digital transformation, the plane you see could not have been made. In fact, five years ago, that could not have been done, “O’Banion said, showing a conceptual image of the SR-72 during the conference.
Did he mean that the new top secret plane of the US Air Force is already manufactured? The US Air Force has not confirmed anything on its side. Moreover, Tyler Glockner has often been at the heart of controversy in the past.
He has been pinned several times for falsifying videos and photos to artificially inflate the popularity of his channel devoted to UFOs and mystifications.
To verify Mr. Glockner’s claims about what this object is in Florida, one can establish its size by comparing it to that of the objects that surround it: it seems to be about two to three the length of a car, or no more than 13.7 m, judging by the size of the other vehicles parked in the parking lot.
In 2013, Brad Leland, Project Manager for Hypersonic Technologies at Skunk Works of Lockheed Martin, told Aviation Week magazine that the SR-72 prototype would be about the size of the F-22 Raptor (18.9m), which it would be single-engine and could fly several minutes at Mach 6, while the future SR-72 would be twin-engine and would be the size of the SR-71, about 33 m long.
If it was a prototype of the SR-72, it should be much longer than the mysterious object discovered in Palm Beach thanks to Google Earth.