From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V2 #74 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Sunday, 7 February 1993 Volume 02 : Number 074 In this issue: [none] Re: Aurora See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 93 07:58:19 MST Subject: [none] kuryakin@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Rick Pavek) writes: >Up until recently, the DOD and NRO seemed to think that they could keep >the secret by keeping mum. >Now, they're telling us "There isn't any such thing". >personally, I think they're practicing damage control and are running >scared of the whole thing coming out. It certainly seems a little curious to me how we suddenly have so many officials falling all over themselves trying to deny this thing, and all of them with basically the same "prepared" statement. >There is enough anecdotal evidence and have been enough sightings to >believe there is an active, classified program flying at this time. If there wasn't, i'd be wondering WHY... and just WHO the Skunk Works has been working for lately. With the virtual *explosion* of black money over the past decade, it seems a little unbelievable that the idea of an SR-71 follow-on never occurred to CIA/NRO/DoD, etc. They have spent countless Billions on projects like Milstar and a long list of strategic nuclear systems, with SIOPs for "extended" nuclear wars and such, and they know damn well the Keyhole system would never survive in such situation. They would NEED a "survivable" strategic reconnaissance system, and the Aurora fits the bill perfectly... Without it they would be "blind". If there is no Aurora, then how could the planners have left themselves in such a vulnerable state? >Since Congress doesn't know about it, apparently, they must be playing >with funding and lying to our representatives as well... Heh... NOBODY would ever believe it if they tried to deny THAT! - -dean ------------------------------ From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 93 07:57:50 MST Subject: Re: Aurora Michael D Tissandier writes: >Just as speculation, what if the aircraft (I think we are all agreed that >there is one out there...) is buried a little deeper than, say, CIA or NASA. NASA would certainly not be the place to "bury" something like Aurora. For one thing, their budget is WAY to small! :-> >There is an agency available to the government with the resources and >security to hide such a project. >Let's discuss a possible NSA (National Security Agency) connection with >your favorite speculation and mine.... Well, NRO is quite a bit "deeper" than NSA... and as Phil said, their main business is ELINT. They already have their hands full just keeping up with the endless stream of data coming in from the satellites and listening posts. NSA is probably the one who came up with the "Aurora" codename though, and whatever Special Access Program designation it is hiding behind these days. - -dean ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V2 #74 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "listserv@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@ecn.purdue.edu". A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from harbor.ecn.purdue.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).