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Despite persistent rumors and alleged sightings—ranging from tremors in Los Angeles potentially caused by high-speed flights to a triangular aircraft over the North Sea—no concrete evidence supports the existence of an SR-91 prototype.
The only other notable “evidence” of the existence of the SR-91 were the few “sky quakes” reported to have been heard at times over Los Angeles – and while those could be from aircraft operating out of Groom Lake (aka Area 51) in Nevada, there is also little to suggest it was the Aurora.
The U.S. military has had dreams of hypersonic platforms for many years now with China and Russia racing to make those dreams into reality. But did a Mach 5 plane already exist years ago and we knew nothing about it? Meet the SR-91 Aurora.
“Although I expect few in the media to believe me,” Ben Rich wrote in 1994, “there is no codename for the hypersonic plane because it simply does not exist.”
The lack of a successor, and the SR-71’s extreme capabilities, provided grist for the rumor mills that sprung up in the 1990s about a potential successor aircraft to the Blackbird.