First Pictures of Top Secret “Aurora” Spy Plane?

A hypersonic spy plane, often called the “Aurora,” has been rumored to exist for more than a decade.  So far there has been no official confirmation.

You can read more about it here.

This video features photos that could well be that aircraft.

Here’s a couple of images of a plastic model kit based on “the technical requirements of hypersonic aircract … to develop a reasonable guess as to what [Aurora] might look like.”

They do bear  more than a passing resemblance to the photos featured in the video.

Update June 21, 2009:  Could these also be pictures of the Aurora?

Update: Reward for Finding Canadian Meteor!

From the Canwest News Service:

Those who find [the meteor] first could be richly rewarded — but their search is at the mercy of Mother Nature.

Famous American meteorite collector Robert Haag is offering a $10,000 US reward to anyone who can locate the first one-kilogram chunk of the meteorite. But after the first snowfall that may get a lot harder.

“As soon as the snow falls, there’s no chance of finding anything until springtime,” says Frank Florian, community astronomer at the Telus World of Science. “If we had a lot of snowfall anywhere, trying to find a rock that gets sucked up by the snow that’s underneath all this white cover, unless it was large enough to leave a large enough crater visible from the air, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

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Canadian Meteor Crash Compared to “Billion Watt Bulb”

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (AP) — Scientists say they hope to find remnants of a meteor that brilliantly lit up the sky before falling to earth in western Canada.

University of Calgary planetary scientist Alan Hildebrand called it one of the largest meteors visible in the country in the last decade.

Widely broadcast video images showed what appeared to be a speeding fireball Thursday night over Saskatoon that became larger and brighter before disappearing as it neared the ground.

Hildebrand said Friday that he received about 300 email reports from witnesses.

“It would be something like a billion-watt light bulb,” said Hildebrand, who also co-ordinates meteor sightings with the Canadian Space Agency.

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