BOEING KC-135A AIRBORNE LASER LABORATORY

[Observer]

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Another good find by you, well done. I am trying to see if any of this can be fitted in to the RFI.
Not sure if the 'drone' was our forest dweller, but there are snippets such as its parachute for recovery whets the appetite. I'm puzzled as to why some thing like this would have been launched over the Christmas holidays in that area either from a ship or land.
The KC-135 laser 'ship' was a for runner of the 747 version flying today and that would have certainly shown up on radar.
Looking at my old ROC aircraft info, the 135 was highly vulnerable to being blown out of the sky by SAM's and air to air missiles mainly due to its incapability of dealing with multiple attacks.

We were always told when on duty if there were any 'funnies' coming into UK airspace and that included black/secret aircraft, but this aircraft was never reported to us even though it was on our list of 'funnies'
So we did know about it.
Obs

[Observer]

Appologies to Adrian, i realy should read these posts more carefully.
Obs

[AdrianF]

I had been looking at the Airborne Laser Lab, though I've only just dug around a little on the surface. It seems like it began official testing in "early 1981", so I guess it's at least possible that it could have been in use Dec 1980. Most of the documentation I can find on this seems to link it with Kirkland AFB, but could/would this have been tested over British airspace during the Cold War?. I know that JB posted about the 747 he witnessed while there, which I presume was the ALL projects ancestor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_laser

In regards to the target drones, something I did come across that also was being operated during the same time frame as the RFI, is this small delta wing drone ( it's serial designation is quite amusing ). http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-117.html



Cheers

Adrian

[time4truth]

Does anyone think RFI could be "our" (USA&Russia) covert Black Budget Project? i mentiond on another thread abt HOW FAR BEHIND we are.If in 2005 "we" had TOP SECRET Antigravity and Hyposonic Spacecraft (capable of in exess of MACH 50!!)

[time4truth]

Does anyone think RFI could be "our" (USA&Russia) covert Black Budget Project? i mentiond on another thread abt HOW FAR BEHIND we are.If in 2005 "we" had TOP SECRET Antigravity and Hyposonic Spacecraft (capable of in exess of MACH 50!!)

[Observer]

Radio controlled model air planes, seen them before, i doubt this is what they saw, much too small considering Pennistons descriptions.

Obs

[redsocks]

Hi Guys,

Going down the UAV route I have always been interested in what the russians were developing in the 60's,its pretty interesting stuff and this link may be some interest to you http://www.aeronautics.ru/nws001/tu243/history.htm but again we need more graphic information of the craft that was witnessed at Rendlesham before we can tie any craft to the incident.

Redsocks

[Wolf]

should that be -

http://aeronautics.ru/nws001/tu243/history.htm

v/r

Wolf

[redsocks]

Thanks wolf sorted


Redsocks

[Observer]

Jim Penniston gave a fairly graphic description of the alleged craft in the forest along with his note pad sketches. He then changed the sketches at a later date to a slightly different shape. More pyramid shaped than rocket shaped from what i remember.

Still can't work out how he managed to describe the top of the craft which in his own words was over 3 metres high.

Its an interesting thought to suggest Russia is the answer to this mystery and why not, we have blamed nearly every other community.

Obs

[slipX]

A UAV responsible for RFI? Hardly likely unless it had VSTOL capabilities and could return over two plus nights whilst displaying differing visual characteristics.