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The Facts: The former director of the Pentagons UFO program recently gave an interview to the NY Post. The discussion was about the UFO phenomenon, and how the topic is quite vast and may change humanities perception of reality in cultural and religious ways. Reflect On: Why have governments kept the phenomenon a secret? Why ridicule it for so many years, and then start talking about it? Who decides whether or not humanity is ready to look into and deal with this very real phenomenon? Before yo...

INTO THE THIN AIR: F-104 Starfighter World Altitude Records INTO THE THIN AIR: F-104 Starfighter World Altitude Records By Stephen Chapis When Lockheed Skunk Works unveiled the XF-104 in 1954, it possessed out of this world looks and performance. In 1958, just months after the F-104A entered service with Air Defense Command (ADC) Lockheed and the Pentagon decided to prove the latter by making a series a series of world record flights. In this article, the first of two-parts, we will hear first-...

The Facts: Documents obtained by The Drive show that revoluntairy technology that has the capability to alter space-time may actually be "operable", according to Naval Aviation Enterprise Chief Technology Officer Dr. James Sheehy, seen in the picture above. Reflect On: Why is technology that has the potential to change the entire human experience for the better always used for defense purposes and military applications? What about the betterment of humanity? Before you begin... Take a moment an...

F-117 Nighthawk Could Still Fight (Just Not Against China or Russia) It helped propel America’s stealth journey to greatness. Heres What You Need to Know: Not only is the subsonic light bomber optimized to defeat high frequency radars, it also does not have the ability to map out threat emitters and manage its signature in real time like the F-22 and F-35. Nor does it have the performance to survive when it is detected and confronted. Now is a good time to look at the evolution of stealth s...

TAHLEQUAH – In 1958, a Cherokee woman from Los Altos, California, appeared on the television game show “What’s My Line” and stumped panelists who attempted to guess her occupation. They wondered what relation she had to rockets and missiles. Mary Golda Ross became a national icon for Cherokees and women for her work as the first Native American aerospace engineer. Ross was born in 1908 in Park Hill, and is the great-great granddaughter of Principal Chief John Ross. At 16, sh...

Check Out These Fascinating, Declassified Photos of The A-12 Oxcart RCS Tests Inside Area 51 Check Out These Fascinating, Declassified Photos of The A-12 Oxcart RCS Tests Inside Area 51 Photo of a Lockheed A-12 mock-up mounted on a test stand for radar cross section (RCS) testing. Barnes wrote, "This is a full-scale mock-up in its final external configuration with all-moving rudders on stud fins. A piston-activated ram elevate the pole consisting of three battleship propeller shafts welded toge...