In August 1990, two hikers sent photos of a strange diamond-shaped aircraft to the press – but the story never appeared. Was it a prank, a hoax, an optical illusion or something else entirely?
  • megopie@beehaw.org
    5·
    7 days ago

    So, thing is, photos don’t prove anything about the relative movement of the aircraft, and people are notoriously bad about judging such things from the ground.

    Now let’s apply Occam’s razor, it’s 1990, what secret diamond shaped objects might have been flying along side a RAF harrier? Perhaps, say, an F-117 night hawk from the USAF doing joint training? A highly secretive aircraft that only flew its first combat sortie in 1989 and wouldn’t be widely publicized till the 1991 gulf war. An aircraft that likely would have been flying along side the RAF in the case of a hot war with the Soviet Union, and thus would have had reasons to have joint exercises with a harrier.

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
    10·
    9 days ago

    I wish they’d have shown the other photos, because the one example they show looks, to me, like someone took a picture, downwards, at a rock in a still pond reflecting the sky and a jet. Like, if you were standing on a road, looking down a slope with a fence running along the edge of a pond, in which a pointy rock is sticking out.

    I’ve seen too many photos of street puddles so still that it’s hard to tell what’s reflection and what’s not.

    TA says there was a series of photos, any of which might clear up the reflection question.