You just need to look at Google Earth to see the obvious silo sites towards the beach, we'd also see low loader trucks enter the base from time to time, with military escort and the contents of the long truck trailors well covered over. Its common knowledge what was going on there at that time (Primarily at least) and that was nuclear weapon storage, possible launch site too and the Americans obviously had a vested interest in the base because of that, Navy Seals were based there for a while, it was very heavily guarded. Rich explained that “Aurora” was simply the funding codename assigned to the B-2 project by a colonel working in the Air Force’s “black program.As regards former RAF Machrihanish, my late Dad was based there as one of his RAF tours, we were there three years at the hight of all the mystery and when the Americans were there too, this was about 1969 to 1972 ish and I would have been ages 10 to 13 ish, the military housing was around 60/40 shared with RAF and USA military familys and it was good growing up with American kids of my age, made good friends at that time. A 1994 memoir by Ben Rich, former director of Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, goes far in clarifying the confusion that ensued. As it stands, most of what we know stems back to a 1990 Aviation Week & Space Technology article claiming that the term “Aurora” was referenced in federal budget documents. It appears that these Aurora rumors, some of which intersected with other far-fetched ideas about extraterrestrial encounters and secret military projects, were spurred less by concrete proof than by popular demand for stories confirming the SR-91’s existence. In another famous 1989 sighting over the North Sea, witnesses possibly mistook a B-2 Spirit for what they believed to be an SR-91 the Spirit was a recently-introduced bomber that somewhat matched the triangular shape described in eyewitness accounts.

The purported evidence includes reports of tremors around the Los Angeles area while these quakes could very well have been caused by military aircraft operating out of the Area 51 facility in Nevada, there is nothing to suggest that the plane in question was an SR-91 prototype. There was a series of alleged sightings in the early 1990s of a plane thought to be the Aurora, but not one of these has been corroborated.

To date, there is no hard evidence that an SR-91 prototype took flight. The government has consistently denied that such an aircraft was ever built.

But there is a problem with this narrative: though it is true the SR-91 does not exist as a serial product, it is still not clear if the plane ever even existed as a design concept.

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