It is interesting to see how those rumors develop. This one about the Aurora or what ever you prefer to call it, was a good one. From my perspective it was based on real experiences of unknown origin.
Place ~ HABU Main Base 9th SRW, Strategic Air Command (SAC), transferred to Air Combat Command (ACC).
Feb, 1990.
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As the program closed down, supply reps hurriedly swept in to confiscate all the related SR-71 support equipment. The maintenance folks curious by the haste.
ACC was taking command, changes abound, new rules, and regulations.
Then one evening around the afternoon shift change, the red phone from maintenance control rang. The super, says this is a real world, not an exercise, get everyone inside the building, close the doors, stay away from the windows. Anyone caught outside or peering out the doors or windows will be court marshaled.
The sun was setting, the evening dusk was setting in. While we finished checking in the tools, all of the sudden, we were startled with huge booming explosions, one~ boom, two~ boom, 3~ boom,boom,boom.
In my 10 years at the base I never experienced that before. <snip>
Later that evening, I arrived at my home in the foothills, about 30 miles directly north of the bases runway. I told the wife, I was going to relax a while in the hot tub out on our back deck.
I laid there floating on my back looking up at the stars in the clear evening sky, when a small flash to the south sparked my attention rising over the tops of the tall tress. I turned my head and stared intensely at this small bright white light. It passed directly over me heading straight northward. It consistently gained momentum accelerating beyond what I could imagine. (I'm use to launching Habu's)
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I could only describe it as watching a meteor or falling star descending into the atmosphere, but ~~~ it was going up.
The weeks following, news reports, about tremblers and rumblings abound.
