Top Secret Triangle Craft Photographed Over Amarillo?

• When: March 10th, 2014
• Where: Amarillo
• What: Triangle craft

A stirring photo of a triangle craft speeding through the daytime sky and leaving a contrail behind has hit the web and generated some local buzz. The witnesses, Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett, also picked up radio communication related to the flyby. You can see an enhanced version of the photo below:

Aviation blogger and friend to the witnesses, Bill Sweetman said this is the first time a classified craft has been photographed since 1956. Well, if that's the case, Mr. Sweetman, then aliens are definitely visiting because people - especially Texans - have been drawing pictures, snapping photos and taking videos of air crafts that exceed the boundaries of known technology since, well, just about the beginning of time.

But the latest is indeed one of the better photographs to date, and experts seem to agree it's probably the military's. Is the military responsible for other recent waves of triangle sightings, too, then?

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The photos tell us more about what the mysterious stranger isn't than what it is. The size is very hard to determine, for example, although the image size at contrailing height suggests that it is bigger than an X-47B. However, the basic shape - while it resembles Boeing's Blended Wing Body studies or the Swift Killer Bee/Northrop Grumman Bat unmanned air system - is different from anything known to have flown at full size, lacking the notched trailing edge of Northrop Grumman's full-size designs. 

The aircraft seen here was accompanied by two others. This and the fact that Steve picked up some apparently related voice traffic suggests that the aircraft is piloted: I doubt that you'd dispatch three large, classified unmanned aircraft anywhere in formation. The risk of a midair would be present, and such an event would be non-career-optimal. 
It's not merely logical to expect that numerous classified aircraft programs exist: it's almost a necessity under the principle of Occam's Razor, because if they don't, you have to contrive some sort of explanation for what Area 51 has been up to all these years.

One avenue of speculation is to look at gaps in the USAF's line-up. One obvious example is high-precision stealth attack: The B-2 and F-22 have the ability to drop GPS-inertial weapons on coordinates generated or updated by radar, but that's not the same as electro-optical targeting and laser guidance, which seemingly went away with the retirement of the F-117 six years ago: that technology gives you strike damage assessment as well as greater accuracy. The USAF has also talked about "penetrating, stand-in electronic attack" as an enabler for other strike systems - and talked in the same way about penetrating intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, even when the Northrop Grumman RQ-180 was under development to perform that mission.

Have you seen any triangle crafts in Texas recently? Report your sighting!