Air Force's Falcon Hypersonic Glider Disappears Mysteriously

WTF?!

I'm sure it will turn up on Gizmodo's site pretty soon claiming they found it left at a bar in California....

Mach 20 would pass 3 countries just to make a U-turn. It has no where else to go but to space. It would have to push it's limits and it can only do that in a place with the air does not have a drag force. It's probably just an updated version of the blackbird. The blackbird was up to Mach 10 in the 80's it's now 2010. If the news posted Mach 20 it's probably faster then that by far. What you should really worry about is what it was carrying before it allegedly disappeared? People would have caught that explosion from the ground. Unless it was one of the giant fireball meteor things the news reported a week ago.lol

Why pay a billion dollars for one space craft, when you can have two?

Or else sombody wanted it to disaper for the betterment of their own pocktbook. Many nations would love to have this technology,

"Disappeared" is another way of saying it broke up in mid flight.

Terrifying.

my guess it is opened up a wormhole and passed right through. some primitive planet will find the technology and 2,000 years from now we will be attacked by the same species we gave the technology to in the first place...

Steven Hawkings said not to piss off the aliens. They've taken our toys and went home.

bugs bunny and daffy duck are using it to take over the world. with that lil green alien dude.

Apple seemed more concerned about losing their prototype iPhone than these guys do about losing their secret weapon.

it traveled to the future i tell you. I bet the aliens are like this is all they can come up with in 200 years :P a flying cone.

watch out that airship could hit earth at anytime lol!

hmm already posted the story of this

it prolly broke free of gravity and even now is on a collision course with a massive alien warship who will interpret the crash as an attack and come to earth and turn it into their new parking lot.

ya like DARPA or any government weapons agency would publicly announce failure. It was a success then they say it doesn't work. the ole' swtich-a-roo

what a waste of tax money.

Hmmm...Nazi UFOs....or outer space bound? We have some really amazing and strange technology the public is unaware of...I have seen a few odd things in the sky over southern Nevada.
Perhaps this mach 20 plane went into outer space.

You would be crazy to think the greatest Air Power in the Universe failed. It's watching you now with the biggest eye ball ever.

Machine elves from another dimension stole it thinking it was one sock.

"This was our first flight (all others were done in wind tunnels and simulations)"

So we have a Mach 20 wind tunnel somewhere... That's pretty badass if you ask me.

dr. evil now has the Falcon, and it is held ransom for ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

Fail.

Well lets see well just launch your $1 Billion dollar investment... annnnnd its gone!

In a nuclear world on hairtrigger, this is truly a psychotic break-with-reality weapons program. My guess is that a Mach 20 glider could deploy dozens of H-bombs on pre-emptive first strike targets. Its only purpose is to use its momentum and maneuverability to evade anti-missile missiles in a way that dumb missiles can't do.

At Mach 20, if the stupid thing suddenly flipped over it would expose a heat-sensitive surface, broil from the inside out and maybe a few pieces of insulation batting would reach earth.

Oh No the Russians got it!

Maybe the technology onboard had similar components to a flux capacitor and it went back 65 million years and killed the dinosaurs... ? That's my theory.

your defense tax dollars at work people. personally i think aliens probably took it

Did anyone check Jason Chen's house?

I think that if we wanted to build a bomb that didnt look like an ICBM that looked like a nuke, wouldnt it be easier to just paint "IM NOT A NUKE!" on the side?

It went through a wormhole and is now in a parallel universe. Haven't you seen the movies? :))

UFO's did it... i saw them! 0_o.. lol..

landed in north korea, they are sending it back next week with a present inside going mach 20 straight for us.

Interesting that the Russians are more willing for the U.S. to develop this technology than the "missile shield" technology. L.A. to New York in 30 minutes...yeah, that's fast (assuming they find a way to build one that actually reaches its destination...).

that sounds like a terrible plan. As if that evil black triangle couldn't drop a nuclear weapon please.

SHIT!!!!!!

Its trying 2 tell you guys something ,,,,,, ITS NOT MENT TO BE MADE IN THE FIRST PLACE ...... cause we all know what it would end up being besides mere
glider , so they had better be happy with Supersonic !!!!!! WHAT NOT FAST ENOUGH ?

it traveled to yesterday.

disintegrated is my guess

wonder how much money DARPPA lost the tax payers that day

A PDF-
http://www.darpa.mil/tto/programs/falcon/files/program_fact_sheet.pdf

OOPs I think somebody forgot to tell the plane thingy that it was not to fall apart into A million little pieces Oh don't forget we are out a Billion dollars on this W.M.D.