An oil rig worker flying over the North Sea recently spotted a mysterious "black triangle" shape flanked by a pair of American fighter jets.

The sighting occurred as there was a burst of reports of extraordinary aircraft, unexplained sonic blooms, fast-moving radar dots, and "ear-splitting high-pitched shrieks around Britain," The Sun reported.

 

For years, during the late 1980s and1990s, the British Isles appeared to have been menaced by the sounds and shapes, with the reports frequently being branded as extraterrestrial creatures.

It is believed, nonetheless, that some of the reports may have been glimpses of a long-rumored 5,000mph hypersonic US spy plane called "Aurora."

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‘Blackbird’ Aircraft
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Chitrapa)
Head-on view of an SR-71 Blackbird. Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas

  

'Black Triangle'

More so,  a similar BHFN report said, in a stroke of extraordinary luck, one of the most effective accounts of the sightings of the "black triangle" came from Chris Gibson, a highly trained aircraft spotter.

When his pal called him onto the deck to look up into the sky, Gibson witnessed the mysterious aircraft, something he had never witnessed before and had never spotted again.

He told this media outlet over three decades to the day of his sighting over the North Searoughly 60 miles off the coast of Norfolk; he had no idea what the object was.

The discoverer also said the big one is called KC-135 while the two little ones to the sides are F-111s, and he doesn't know what the one behind is called.

'Blackbird'

Two years after, Gibson's pal sent him a copy of an article featuring a sketch of a concept aircraft with the same unique triangular shape.

He then connected the dots further when he realized the tanker he saw was possibly KC-135Q, a special edition of the plane developed for the refueling of the Mach 3 that's capable of SR-71 "Blackbird."

He could identify the difference as the plane's Q version had different turbofan engines. Essentially, the SR-71 was once a highly categorized aircraft known as the "Black Project" developed by Lockheed, NASA, and the United States Air Force.

And so, with this Q version of the tanker, Gibson said he realized something special was going on. 

'Aurora'

Approximated to be roughly 81 feet long, Aurora's modern myth has turned intertwined with reports of strange sounds and sightings over Scotland and northern England, a similar EurAsian Times report said.

The declassified documents show that the United Kingdom government was concerned that the US might be flying such aircraft in their space without permission.

There's no knowledge in the MoD of a "black" program of this nature, though it would not surprise the relevant Defense Intelligence Staff and the Air Staff if it indeed exists, according to the documents handed to Tom King, John Major's defense.

Sonic Booms Detected

In 1995, Lord Kennett asked the House of Lords if it was the case that the secret US reconnaissance aircraft called Auror had been flying the British airspace.

Lord Henley replied that the existence of any secret US aircraft called Aurora would be for the US Government to confirm.

He explained that no authority had been given for any such aircraft to fly over the UK or land in the country, and there's no evidence suggesting such an aircraft has.

The sightings, nonetheless, were not restricted to Northern Europe, with reports in the state of extraordinary engine sounds and estranged "donut-shaped" contrails by the public.

Seismologists detected sonic booms on their sensors consistent with high-speed decelerating as it moved to California from Nevada.

Related information about the mysterious 'black triangle' is shown on History's YouTube video below:

 

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