SHETLAND UFO SIGHTINGS PROMPTS SPY PLANE SPECULATION

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005517757
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: December 14, 1992

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SUBJ*SUBJ: SHETLAND UFO SIGHTING PROMPTS SPY PLANE SPECULATION
SOUR SOURCE; LONDON THE GUARDIAN IN ENGLISH 14 DEC 92 P 1
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* //((SIMON TISDAL REPORT: "FAST-MOVING UFO SPIED AS 5,500 MPH
SECRET TAKES OFF"))
((TEXT)) WASHINGTON -- THE MYSTERIOUS APPEARANCE OF A FAST-MOVING
*UFO OFF THE SHETLAND ISLANDS AT THE WEEKEND, WHICH PROMPTED SEASONAL
SPECULATION ABOUT THE. SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, H AS COINCIDED WITH
REPORTS IN THE US THAT AN ULTRA-TOP-SECRET AMERICAN PLANE HAS GONE
OPERATIONAL WITH A TOP SPEED OF 5,500 MPH.
SHETLAND POLICE, THE COASTGUARD AND THE LERWICK OBSERVATORY
RECORDED 1'7 SIGHTINGS OF A "LARGE, 'WHITE OBJECT TRAVELLING LOW AND
VERY FAST" AT ABOUT. 9PM ON SATURDAY.
"WE JUST HAVEN'T A CLUE WHAT IT COULD BE," A PUZZLED LERWICK
*OBSERVATORY SCIENTIST WHO REPORTED THAT THE UFO HAD BEEN MOVING. SO
FAST THAT HE HAD MISSED IT COULD ONLY SAY: "I HOPE IT COMES ROUND
AGAIN."
IT MAY DO JUST THAT. ACCORDING TO REPORTS IN WASHINGTON, DEFENCE
INDUSTRY SPECIALISTS AND WRITERS ARE GOING INTO EXCITEMENT OVERDRIVE
ON REPORTS THAT THE US MILITARY HAS BEGUN TESTING THE SUCCESSOR TO
THE SR-71 BLACKBIRD SPY PLANE.
THE PLANE WITH NO NAME IS SAID TO HAVE A TOP SPEED OF MACH 8, OR
EIGHT TIMES THE SPEED OF SOUND. IT IS SO FAST THAT IT COULD REACH
ANYWHERE ON THE GLOBE WITHIN THREE HOURS.
FOR THIS VERY REASON, TESTS CANNOT BE RESTRICTED TO US AIRSPACE,
BY THE TIME THE PLANE HAS WARMED UP, IT COULD BE OVER, FOR EXAMPLE,
SCOTLAND. IT WOULD ALSO TAKE SEVERAL COUNTRIES TO COME TO A STOP.
THE PENTAGON, PREDICTABLY, IMPOSED A NO-COMMENT ZONE OVER THE
PLANE YESTERDAY.
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