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Why did the SR-71 crew members not worry about being shot down? Among other reasons the United States fighter pilots couldn’t even find them do you think the Russians could? The "Eagle Bait" missions were training exercises where the SR-71 Blackbird acted as a high-altitude, high-speed target for U.S....

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My friend’s father was involved in a test where various sites tried to locate the Blackbird as it was flying westerly from the east coast. His site was the only one that picked it up on radar. When asked how he did it, he told em “well, you let us know direction it was traveling so we just kept scanning the eastern horizon only”. 😂

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I was hoping to see the black bird walk off.

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Salty Sea 🇺🇸🖤🪸2 gün önce

This is all so fascinating. I've fallen in love with the SR-71 because of your posts. Thank you for sharing.

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This and the A-10 are the most beautiful planes ever

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The Russians didn’t but the RAF did with a Lightning, always bet on Britain 😎

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Josh2 gün önce

I grew up building models of that airplane and got to see it in real life a few times during it's operational years. It will maintain a clear spot as king of the skies for long to come. We can build newer and faster planes, but will be tough to build anything cooler. 😎👌🇺🇸

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Why can't the supposed UFO videos be that clear, just saying.

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@TavernGatos add the P38 to that short list.

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Outstanding!

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if the russians couldn't, then the sr 71 could've just flown over ussr couldn't it? why larp bs, when even GDR with enviable regularity intercepted sr71 over baltics, an account which i read from history of sr71 by cia

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I served with the wing commander of the F15s at Kadena. He said the SRs could fly faster than they could track… and the F15 had the best radar in the world..

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🧐🇺🇸 Before satellites could provide real time intelligence, there was the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Cruising above 85,000 feet and exceeding Mach 3, the SR-71 was so fast that when enemy missiles were launched, pilots often responded by simply accelerating. No SR-71 was ever shot down by enemy action. Built during the Cold War, it could survey vast areas of territory in a single mission, gathering intelligence that shaped military and political decisions at the highest levels. Even today, decades after its retirement, many of its performance records remain unmatched. Speed: Mach 3+ Altitude: 85,000+ ft Combat losses to enemy fire: 0 Some aircraft served history. The SR-71 helped write it.
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🧐🇺🇸 Before satellites could provide real time intelligence, there was the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Cruising above 85,000 feet and exceeding Mach 3, the SR-71 was so fast that when enemy missiles were launched, pilots often responded by simply accelerating. No SR-71 was ever shot down by enemy action. Built during the Cold War, it could survey vast areas of territory in a single mission, gathering intelligence that shaped military and political decisions at the highest levels. Even today, decades after its retirement, many of its performance records remain unmatched. Speed: Mach 3+ Altitude: 85,000+ ft Combat losses to enemy fire: 0 Some aircraft served history. The SR-71 helped write it.

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I think it was the 1982 or 83 Toronto Airshow. I was a participant, we took an SR-71 and three crews went. One crew flew it in. One crew flew on the second-day airshow. And the third crew which was myself flew just a couple of flybys the third day of the airshow and then actually flew the aircraft back to Beale Air Force Base. So, when I came back into the Sacramento area and I was descending to land at Beale, we had a lot of fuel. We had to work on the holiday and I asked the backseater You want to make an approach at Sac Metro? And he said Can we do that? And I said Why not? Murray, Rosenberg SR-71 Pilot
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I think it was the 1982 or 83 Toronto Airshow. I was a participant, we took an SR-71 and three crews went. One crew flew it in. One crew flew on the second-day airshow. And the third crew which was myself flew just a couple of flybys the third day of the airshow and then actually flew the aircraft back to Beale Air Force Base. So, when I came back into the Sacramento area and I was descending to land at Beale, we had a lot of fuel. We had to work on the holiday and I asked the backseater You want to make an approach at Sac Metro? And he said Can we do that? And I said Why not? Murray, Rosenberg SR-71 Pilot

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The SR-71 Blackbird wasn’t just fast… it was a machine that literally OUTRAN missiles. 🚀🖤 Here’s why this aircraft is still unmatched today 👇 The Blackbird could fly at Mach 3+, over 85,000 ft, with a skin temperature so hot the jet expanded mid-flight. 🔥 It leaked fuel on the ground because the titanium panels only sealed when heated at speed. 😳 Its engines—part turbojet, part ramjet—were so advanced that after Mach 2.5, the shockwaves did most of the compression work. Pure engineering magic. ⚙️✨ And here’s the crazy part: No SR-71 was ever shot down. Every time a missile was launched, pilots simply pushed the throttles forward… and outran it. 🏃‍♂️💨✈️ Built in the 1960s. Still futuristic today. A masterpiece that flew faster than the edge of human imagination. 🖤 What should I cover next? Another legendary aircraft? 👇🔥 📸 by ig/jet.nerd
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The SR-71 Blackbird wasn’t just fast… it was a machine that literally OUTRAN missiles. 🚀🖤 Here’s why this aircraft is still unmatched today 👇 The Blackbird could fly at Mach 3+, over 85,000 ft, with a skin temperature so hot the jet expanded mid-flight. 🔥 It leaked fuel on the ground because the titanium panels only sealed when heated at speed. 😳 Its engines—part turbojet, part ramjet—were so advanced that after Mach 2.5, the shockwaves did most of the compression work. Pure engineering magic. ⚙️✨ And here’s the crazy part: No SR-71 was ever shot down. Every time a missile was launched, pilots simply pushed the throttles forward… and outran it. 🏃‍♂️💨✈️ Built in the 1960s. Still futuristic today. A masterpiece that flew faster than the edge of human imagination. 🖤 What should I cover next? Another legendary aircraft? 👇🔥 📸 by ig/jet.nerd

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A United Airlines flight bound for Australia was forced to stop its takeoff roll in San Francisco after the pilots received a warning indicating a possible open cargo door. The Boeing 777, preparing to depart on the long flight to Sydney, was accelerating down the runway when the crew declared a MAYDAY and rejected the takeoff at about 41 knots rather than risk continuing with a potential safety issue. The aircraft safely exited the runway and returned to the gate so maintenance crews could inspect the warning. While the alert later turned out to be precautionary, the decision highlights how seriously flight crews treat even the smallest indication of a problem, especially before a transpacific flight lasting more than 14 hours. After technicians checked the aircraft, the flight departed roughly two hours later and continued on to Sydney without further issues. The pilots are being praised for their quick judgment and willingness to stop the takeoff immediately, showing how experience and caution play a critical role in keeping passengers safe long before an aircraft ever leaves the ground. 📸 flightsimulatorfantasy

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🇮🇷🇰🇼🇺🇸 Iran's F-5 pilot shares details of bombing of US Buehring base in Kuwait He explains that, to avoid detection by US Patriot air defense systems, they had to fly extremely low, even below 50 FEET "We were flying so low that we passed between 2 ships, and their decks were higher than us" As they entered Kuwait's airspace, they passed several refineries but did not strike them, as Camp Buehring was the primary target "We carried out this route at very high speed and very low altitude. And then, when we reached the base, we bombed it successfully"
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🇮🇷🇰🇼🇺🇸 Iran's F-5 pilot shares details of bombing of US Buehring base in Kuwait He explains that, to avoid detection by US Patriot air defense systems, they had to fly extremely low, even below 50 FEET "We were flying so low that we passed between 2 ships, and their decks were higher than us" As they entered Kuwait's airspace, they passed several refineries but did not strike them, as Camp Buehring was the primary target "We carried out this route at very high speed and very low altitude. And then, when we reached the base, we bombed it successfully"

Lord Bebo

40,631 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

General "Raizin" Caine, details the precision extraction mission in Venezuela: "Over the course of the night, aircraft began launching from 20 different bases on land and sea across the Western Hemisphere. In total, more than 150 aircraft, bombers, fighters, intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance, rotary wing, were in the air last night. "Our youngest crew member was 20 and our oldest crew member was 49. And there's simply no match for American military might. As the night began, the helicopters took off with the extraction force, which included law enforcement officers, and began their flight into Venezuela at 100 feet above the water. As they approached Venezuelan shores, the United States began layering different effects provided by SPACECOM, CYBERCOM, and other members of the inter-agency to create a pathway. "Overhead, those forces were protected from aircraft- were protected by aircraft from the United States Marines, the United States Navy, the United States Air Force, and the Air National Guard. The force included F-22s, F-35s, F-18s, EA-18s, E-2s, B-1 bombers, and other support aircraft, as well as numerous remotely piloted drones. As the force began to approach Caracas, the joint air component began dismantling and disabling the air defense systems in Venezuela, employing weapons to ensure the safe passage of the helicopters into the target area. "The goal of our air component is, was, and always will be to protect the helicopters and the ground force, and get them to the target, and get them home. As the force crossed the last point of high terrain where they'd been hiding in the clutter, we assessed that we had maintained totally the element of surprise. As the helicopter force ingressed towards the objective at low level, we arrived at Maduro's compound at 1:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, or 2:01 AM Caracas local time, and the apprehension force descended into Maduro's compound and moved with speed, precision, and discipline towards their objective, and isolated the area to ensure the safety and security of the ground force while apprehending the indicted persons. "On arrival into the target area, the helicopters came under fire and they replied with that fire with overwhelming force in self-defense. One of our aircraft was hit, but remained flyable, and as the President said earlier today, all of our aircraft came home. And that aircraft remained flyable during the rest of the mission. As the operation unfolded at the compound, our air and ground intelligence teams provided real-time updates to the ground force, ensuring those forces could safely navigate the complex environment without unnecessary risk. "The force remained protected by overhead tactical aviation. Maduro and his wife, both indicted, gave up and were taken into custody by the Department of Justice, assisted by our incredible US military with professionalism and precision, with, with no loss of US life. After securing the indicted persons, the force began to prep for departure."
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General "Raizin" Caine, details the precision extraction mission in Venezuela: "Over the course of the night, aircraft began launching from 20 different bases on land and sea across the Western Hemisphere. In total, more than 150 aircraft, bombers, fighters, intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance, rotary wing, were in the air last night. "Our youngest crew member was 20 and our oldest crew member was 49. And there's simply no match for American military might. As the night began, the helicopters took off with the extraction force, which included law enforcement officers, and began their flight into Venezuela at 100 feet above the water. As they approached Venezuelan shores, the United States began layering different effects provided by SPACECOM, CYBERCOM, and other members of the inter-agency to create a pathway. "Overhead, those forces were protected from aircraft- were protected by aircraft from the United States Marines, the United States Navy, the United States Air Force, and the Air National Guard. The force included F-22s, F-35s, F-18s, EA-18s, E-2s, B-1 bombers, and other support aircraft, as well as numerous remotely piloted drones. As the force began to approach Caracas, the joint air component began dismantling and disabling the air defense systems in Venezuela, employing weapons to ensure the safe passage of the helicopters into the target area. "The goal of our air component is, was, and always will be to protect the helicopters and the ground force, and get them to the target, and get them home. As the force crossed the last point of high terrain where they'd been hiding in the clutter, we assessed that we had maintained totally the element of surprise. As the helicopter force ingressed towards the objective at low level, we arrived at Maduro's compound at 1:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, or 2:01 AM Caracas local time, and the apprehension force descended into Maduro's compound and moved with speed, precision, and discipline towards their objective, and isolated the area to ensure the safety and security of the ground force while apprehending the indicted persons. "On arrival into the target area, the helicopters came under fire and they replied with that fire with overwhelming force in self-defense. One of our aircraft was hit, but remained flyable, and as the President said earlier today, all of our aircraft came home. And that aircraft remained flyable during the rest of the mission. As the operation unfolded at the compound, our air and ground intelligence teams provided real-time updates to the ground force, ensuring those forces could safely navigate the complex environment without unnecessary risk. "The force remained protected by overhead tactical aviation. Maduro and his wife, both indicted, gave up and were taken into custody by the Department of Justice, assisted by our incredible US military with professionalism and precision, with, with no loss of US life. After securing the indicted persons, the force began to prep for departure."

Andrew Kolvet

76,491 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran just made American fighter jets obsolete in its skies and a retired U.S. Army Colonel explained why. Colonel Gagnon, speaking on ABC News, laid it out cold: Iran has shifted to passive infrared detection systems that don’t emit radar signals. They track heat signatures instead. The F-35 and F-15 — the crown jewels of U.S. air power were never built to face this. Stealth means nothing when the hunter is silent and staring straight at your engines. “Iranian airspace is no longer safe for U.S. fighter jets.” The empire that bragged about total air superiority is now watching its own experts explain why their trillion dollar birds are flying into a trap they can’t see coming. The owners of the Gulf control more than the waters now. They control the air above them too.
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran just made American fighter jets obsolete in its skies and a retired U.S. Army Colonel explained why. Colonel Gagnon, speaking on ABC News, laid it out cold: Iran has shifted to passive infrared detection systems that don’t emit radar signals. They track heat signatures instead. The F-35 and F-15 — the crown jewels of U.S. air power were never built to face this. Stealth means nothing when the hunter is silent and staring straight at your engines. “Iranian airspace is no longer safe for U.S. fighter jets.” The empire that bragged about total air superiority is now watching its own experts explain why their trillion dollar birds are flying into a trap they can’t see coming. The owners of the Gulf control more than the waters now. They control the air above them too.

THE ISLANDER

133,320 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

Two air forces started the Pacific war. One trained its pilots, then kept them fighting until they died. The other trained its pilots, then often pulled many of its experienced combat pilots out to teach everyone else. This is one of the reasons America won the Pacific air war, let's dive in.. Japan's Elite Aviators At the start of the war, Japan had some of the finest fighter pilots in the world. The aviators who attacked Pearl Harbor were elite. Many had hundreds of hours in the cockpit and real combat experience from the fighting in China. Flying the nimble A6M Zero, they cut through Allied opposition in the early months of the war and earned a fearsome reputation. But Japan made a fateful choice about these men. It kept them in combat, more or less indefinitely. Japanese pilots flew mission after mission with no real system to rotate them home. They fought until they were shot down, crippled, or killed. It seemed ruthless and efficient. In reality, it was a slow-motion disaster. The Difference in Philosophy Because every time Japan lost one of those veterans, everything he knew died with him. America did the opposite. It regularly rotated many of its experienced combat pilots back home once they had done their share of fighting. There, they became instructors, pouring everything they had learned in real air combat directly into the next generation of pilots. So the two systems pulled in opposite directions. Japan's pool of skill drained away with every ace it buried. America's pool of skill grew, as each returning veteran multiplied his knowledge across hundreds of students. One nation was teaching. The other was simply dying. The Training Gap The gap became a chasm, and it was made worse by sheer scale. By 1944, the United States was training around 8,000 new aviators every month, each of them getting well over a year of instruction and hundreds of hours in the air before they ever saw combat. Japan could not come close. As its veterans vanished, its training program collapsed, and it was crippled by something else, too. Fuel. Japan was running so short of it that many trainees could barely fly enough hours to learn their trade. By the later part of the war, Japanese pilots were being rushed into battle with barely 100 hours of flying time, and sometimes far less. They were teenagers with almost no training, being sent up against American veterans who had been taught by the best combat pilots in the fleet. The outcome was no longer a contest. It was a slaughter. The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot Nowhere was that clearer than in the skies over the Mariana Islands in June 1944. When the Japanese launched hundreds of aircraft against the American fleet, they flew into a wall of Hellcat fighters, guided by radar and expert fighter direction that positioned the Americans at the perfect height and moment to strike. The green Japanese pilots in their now outdated Zeros never had a chance. In and around that battle, Japan lost nearly 480 aircraft, while the Americans lost only a few dozen. It was so one-sided that the American aviators nicknamed it the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. Japan's naval air power, once the terror of the Pacific, was broken in a matter of days. Better Aircraft, Better Technology It was not only the pilots. It was the machines too. America kept producing better and better aircraft, like the tough, heavily armed F6F Hellcat, designed after studying a captured Zero and built to beat it. It could take punishment, out-dive and out-gun its opponent, and it was forgiving enough that even a less experienced pilot could survive his first fights and become a veteran. Over the war, Hellcat pilots claimed more than 5,000 enemy aircraft for a tiny fraction of that in losses. Japan, meanwhile, kept sending men up in the aging Zero, a plane that had been revolutionary in 1941 but was now underpowered, fragile, and outclassed. It was fast and agile, but a single burst of American fire could tear it apart, because it had traded armor and protection for maneuverability. Better pilots, in better planes, backed by better technology. The advantages stacked on top of one another. The Spiral Ends By the end, Japan had reached the final, desperate stage of the spiral. With almost no trained pilots left, and no way to make more in time, it turned to the kamikaze. A pilot did not need 500 hours of training to crash his aircraft into a ship. He only needed to take off, aim, and die. It was the last resort of an air force that had run out of the one thing it could never mass produce. Experienced men. America won the Pacific air war for many reasons. Its factories out-built the enemy. Its radar and intelligence gave it eyes the Japanese lacked. Its aircraft grew deadlier every year. But underneath all of it was something simpler. America treated its best pilots as a resource to be protected and passed on. Japan treated them as fuel to be burned. One of those choices built an air force that kept getting stronger. The other burned brightly, and then burned out. This was why America won the Pacific air war. I post a story like this every single day. Most people never see them. Follow so you don't miss the next one.
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Two air forces started the Pacific war. One trained its pilots, then kept them fighting until they died. The other trained its pilots, then often pulled many of its experienced combat pilots out to teach everyone else. This is one of the reasons America won the Pacific air war, let's dive in.. Japan's Elite Aviators At the start of the war, Japan had some of the finest fighter pilots in the world. The aviators who attacked Pearl Harbor were elite. Many had hundreds of hours in the cockpit and real combat experience from the fighting in China. Flying the nimble A6M Zero, they cut through Allied opposition in the early months of the war and earned a fearsome reputation. But Japan made a fateful choice about these men. It kept them in combat, more or less indefinitely. Japanese pilots flew mission after mission with no real system to rotate them home. They fought until they were shot down, crippled, or killed. It seemed ruthless and efficient. In reality, it was a slow-motion disaster. The Difference in Philosophy Because every time Japan lost one of those veterans, everything he knew died with him. America did the opposite. It regularly rotated many of its experienced combat pilots back home once they had done their share of fighting. There, they became instructors, pouring everything they had learned in real air combat directly into the next generation of pilots. So the two systems pulled in opposite directions. Japan's pool of skill drained away with every ace it buried. America's pool of skill grew, as each returning veteran multiplied his knowledge across hundreds of students. One nation was teaching. The other was simply dying. The Training Gap The gap became a chasm, and it was made worse by sheer scale. By 1944, the United States was training around 8,000 new aviators every month, each of them getting well over a year of instruction and hundreds of hours in the air before they ever saw combat. Japan could not come close. As its veterans vanished, its training program collapsed, and it was crippled by something else, too. Fuel. Japan was running so short of it that many trainees could barely fly enough hours to learn their trade. By the later part of the war, Japanese pilots were being rushed into battle with barely 100 hours of flying time, and sometimes far less. They were teenagers with almost no training, being sent up against American veterans who had been taught by the best combat pilots in the fleet. The outcome was no longer a contest. It was a slaughter. The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot Nowhere was that clearer than in the skies over the Mariana Islands in June 1944. When the Japanese launched hundreds of aircraft against the American fleet, they flew into a wall of Hellcat fighters, guided by radar and expert fighter direction that positioned the Americans at the perfect height and moment to strike. The green Japanese pilots in their now outdated Zeros never had a chance. In and around that battle, Japan lost nearly 480 aircraft, while the Americans lost only a few dozen. It was so one-sided that the American aviators nicknamed it the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. Japan's naval air power, once the terror of the Pacific, was broken in a matter of days. Better Aircraft, Better Technology It was not only the pilots. It was the machines too. America kept producing better and better aircraft, like the tough, heavily armed F6F Hellcat, designed after studying a captured Zero and built to beat it. It could take punishment, out-dive and out-gun its opponent, and it was forgiving enough that even a less experienced pilot could survive his first fights and become a veteran. Over the war, Hellcat pilots claimed more than 5,000 enemy aircraft for a tiny fraction of that in losses. Japan, meanwhile, kept sending men up in the aging Zero, a plane that had been revolutionary in 1941 but was now underpowered, fragile, and outclassed. It was fast and agile, but a single burst of American fire could tear it apart, because it had traded armor and protection for maneuverability. Better pilots, in better planes, backed by better technology. The advantages stacked on top of one another. The Spiral Ends By the end, Japan had reached the final, desperate stage of the spiral. With almost no trained pilots left, and no way to make more in time, it turned to the kamikaze. A pilot did not need 500 hours of training to crash his aircraft into a ship. He only needed to take off, aim, and die. It was the last resort of an air force that had run out of the one thing it could never mass produce. Experienced men. America won the Pacific air war for many reasons. Its factories out-built the enemy. Its radar and intelligence gave it eyes the Japanese lacked. Its aircraft grew deadlier every year. But underneath all of it was something simpler. America treated its best pilots as a resource to be protected and passed on. Japan treated them as fuel to be burned. One of those choices built an air force that kept getting stronger. The other burned brightly, and then burned out. This was why America won the Pacific air war. I post a story like this every single day. Most people never see them. Follow so you don't miss the next one.

Untold War Stories

156,114 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

(Video): “"Mile Wide Delta Shaped Craft made Two US F-14 Fighter Jets Disappear in Puerto Rico 1988” On December 28, 1988, at approximately 7:45 pm, a large triangle craft roughly the size of a baseball field was seen moving steadily along in the region near the naval air station in Puerto Rico, according to many witnesses (over a hundred). Three F-14s intercepted the moving UFO and apparently tried to force it to change its course. As the navy fighter planes engaged the large craft, it slowed down its forward speed almost to a standstill. One plane, in particular, stayed mostly to the right of the UFO and another stayed behind the UFO making close approaches at times. The third plane apparently stayed a bit farther out. The F-14 in the rear came close to the object, but as it flew either over or under the object, it was not seen again. Small red lights were also seen at times flying outside the large craft and may have served to protect the craft. It was as if the fighter plane had somehow been drawn into the large craft. The second aircraft made a sweep closer to the large object and was seen by one ground witness-using binoculars-to suddenly disappear possibly being taken in by the UFO. The third F-14 reportedly high tailed it out of the area on afterburner with glowing red lights chasing after it apparently in pursuit, according to ground witnesses Source: EyesOnCinema 🚬👀 #anonymoushadoww #ufotwitter #uaptwitter #ShadowLurker #ufo #Twitter
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(Video): “"Mile Wide Delta Shaped Craft made Two US F-14 Fighter Jets Disappear in Puerto Rico 1988” On December 28, 1988, at approximately 7:45 pm, a large triangle craft roughly the size of a baseball field was seen moving steadily along in the region near the naval air station in Puerto Rico, according to many witnesses (over a hundred). Three F-14s intercepted the moving UFO and apparently tried to force it to change its course. As the navy fighter planes engaged the large craft, it slowed down its forward speed almost to a standstill. One plane, in particular, stayed mostly to the right of the UFO and another stayed behind the UFO making close approaches at times. The third plane apparently stayed a bit farther out. The F-14 in the rear came close to the object, but as it flew either over or under the object, it was not seen again. Small red lights were also seen at times flying outside the large craft and may have served to protect the craft. It was as if the fighter plane had somehow been drawn into the large craft. The second aircraft made a sweep closer to the large object and was seen by one ground witness-using binoculars-to suddenly disappear possibly being taken in by the UFO. The third F-14 reportedly high tailed it out of the area on afterburner with glowing red lights chasing after it apparently in pursuit, according to ground witnesses Source: EyesOnCinema 🚬👀 #anonymoushadoww #ufotwitter #uaptwitter #ShadowLurker #ufo #Twitter

AnonymouShadow | UFO Research

50,391 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce

> full story on how wumuti invited each member to be a part of xlov: – hyun was considering giving up on being an idol because they'd been hurt too many times after training for 7 years and not debuting, so when wumuti told them about the group they needed time to think about it. they later accepted it and even signed the contract without saying anything, encouraging wumuti to not give up on xlov – haru went to see wumuti at their fanmeeting in Japan because they missed them, and when wumuti invited them they just said yes right away even though they didn't understand the full thing because their korean wasn't good yet – rui was the last one to be invited because the both of them were really close, and wumuti didn't want to give them false hope. they were also getting opportunities at other companies and muti was worried they'd turn it down for a project that could maybe not even come out of the woodwork. when everything was settled, they apologized to rui for telling them last, but said the concept fit them the best and that they deserved a group that valued their beauty.
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> full story on how wumuti invited each member to be a part of xlov: – hyun was considering giving up on being an idol because they'd been hurt too many times after training for 7 years and not debuting, so when wumuti told them about the group they needed time to think about it. they later accepted it and even signed the contract without saying anything, encouraging wumuti to not give up on xlov – haru went to see wumuti at their fanmeeting in Japan because they missed them, and when wumuti invited them they just said yes right away even though they didn't understand the full thing because their korean wasn't good yet – rui was the last one to be invited because the both of them were really close, and wumuti didn't want to give them false hope. they were also getting opportunities at other companies and muti was worried they'd turn it down for a project that could maybe not even come out of the woodwork. when everything was settled, they apologized to rui for telling them last, but said the concept fit them the best and that they deserved a group that valued their beauty.

xlov archive ✦

167,931 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has been briefed on a downed U.S. F-15 in southwestern Iran near Kharg Island. Fox’s Jennifer Griffin just revealed the details behind the high-stakes rescue mission is already underway — with pilots believed to be alive. GRIFFIN: “What we are seeing and what we would expect in this situation is that the air force and their Pave Hawk helicopters...that are designed for search and rescue...they can carry it out day as well as night.” “It’s still daylight over there so it is a very risky mission for [them] and suggests that there is a sense that these pilots are alive and that they are trying to find them before any Iranian forces are able to take them.” “These pilots of the F-15E would have been trained in SERE training, that’s survival training.” “We have seen images that suggested at least one of the pilots ejected because we see the seat and we see the parachute.” “We also know from Israeli sources that Israeli officials have called off airstrikes in this part of southwestern Iran.”
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🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has been briefed on a downed U.S. F-15 in southwestern Iran near Kharg Island. Fox’s Jennifer Griffin just revealed the details behind the high-stakes rescue mission is already underway — with pilots believed to be alive. GRIFFIN: “What we are seeing and what we would expect in this situation is that the air force and their Pave Hawk helicopters...that are designed for search and rescue...they can carry it out day as well as night.” “It’s still daylight over there so it is a very risky mission for [them] and suggests that there is a sense that these pilots are alive and that they are trying to find them before any Iranian forces are able to take them.” “These pilots of the F-15E would have been trained in SERE training, that’s survival training.” “We have seen images that suggested at least one of the pilots ejected because we see the seat and we see the parachute.” “We also know from Israeli sources that Israeli officials have called off airstrikes in this part of southwestern Iran.”

Overton

45,588 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce