Black Ops Planes-What's Out There?

Sat Sep 23 18:30:22 -0700 2006
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We all know hints and rumors of the Nighthawk F-117 circulated for years before the DOD finally admited they existed. Same with the SR71 and B-2. But these planes are old now. What has replaced them as the latest and greatest and most secret?


"On a trip to las vegas in 2004, observing from my east-facing hotel room in the pyramidal Luxor Hotel at daybreak, I watched a fleet of six unmarked 737s make commuter flights to nowhere. These aircraft depart every weekday morning from a tidy, anonymous terminal on the western side of McCarran International Airport. A long line of cars pours into a 1,600-spot parking lot as the jets pull away from the terminal, taxi to the runways, and head out into the desert sky. At the end of the day, the shuttle flights return and the lot empties. The passengers go home and tell their families nothing about what happened at work that day."..more "nothing to see here, move along now", there