

In the same year, a wave of observations began in Belgium, which lasted until 1992. Or a top-secret US military aircraft was known as the " TR3B Astra", " TR - 3 Black Manta" or simply " TR3B" for short. Some believe that it is a space alien ship.

With the exception of the flying disk, the triangular ship is one of the most common forms of UFO sightings in the sky. Google Patent Search, patent Des.Space? Aliens? "TR3B" - secret plane or UFO?.Google Patent Search, patent 4,019,699, issued Ap(description)."Possible Black Aircraft Seen Flying In Formation with F-117As KC-135s." Aviation Week, March 9, 1992.“Triangular Recon Aircraft May be Supporting F-117A” AW&ST, June 10, 1991."TR-3A Evolved From Classified Prototypes, Based on Tactical Penetrator Concept" Aviation Week & Space Technology, June 10, 1991.
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Black triangle (UFO): UFOlogy lore about TR-3 series aircraftĪircraft of comparable role, configuration and era.Project Isinglass: USAF atmospheric suborbital skip-gliding spyplane.The Teledyne Ryan designs also strongly resemble the unidentified flying objects photographed in Belgium in 1989–1990, which were chased by the Belgian Air Force and seen by hundreds of people in what is called the Belgian UFO wave. Teledyne Ryan was acquired by Northrop Grumman in 1999. Whether one of these designs is related to the above-mentioned TR-3A is not positively identified, but it is a coincidence that TR also stands for Teledyne Ryan. The first design is unmanned, the second one manned. This design was made by Waldo Virgil Opfer. 244,265, and closely resembles the earlier mentioned example. On May 10, 1977, a design of an aircraft was patented by Teledyne Ryan under number Des.

Cota, employees at Teledyne Ryan, a firm specialized in building unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. This aircraft of low observability, as it is called, was invented by Robert W. Īnother candidate for the alleged spy plane is a design from Teledyne Ryan, patented in the United States on April 26, 1977, under number 4,019,699. This contention is supported by United States Air Force (USAF) sources in the late 1980s confirming that the United States had no short-term plans to develop a low-observable U-2 successor. Potential candidates for TR-3īecause there is no evidence to support TR-3's existence, only sightings and "experience" stories by real people and also the web discussions on it, it is possible that the mysterious flying wing sightings associated with Black Manta could be a technology demonstrator for a potential new-generation tactical reconnaissance aircraft. The Tier III Minus program that resulted in the unsuccessful Lockheed Martin RQ-3 DarkStar was a scaled-down derivative of the original Tier III. It is, therefore possible that TR-3 is merely a corruption of Tier III, a name given to a cancelled large reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying wing designed around the time of alleged sightings of the Black Manta, circa 1988–1990. It is clearly not a continuation of the R-for-Reconnaissance series, since ER-2 (NASA designation for U-2 aircraft modified for Earth science studies) stood for "Earth Resources", not "Electronic Reconnaissance". How the TR-3 designation came up in publications is unclear. The TR-3A is supposedly manufactured by Northrop Grumman. It was alleged to have been used in the Gulf War to provide laser designation for Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk bombers, for targeting to use with laser-guided bombs. The TR-3A is claimed to be a subsonic stealth spy plane with a flying wing design.
