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Originally Posted by elanaiba
What was it like for you older guys in the US to hear of the F-117 the first time (in the 80s IIRC) ?
Were you impressed/proud? Did you care?
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If you had been reading the right magazines (including the
Weekly World News starting in about 1981/82 or so
), the Area-51 watchers had been foretelling it's existance for a few years before it went operational in 1983 and long before the Pentagon officially owned up to its existance. I suppose technically the night-watchers out around Groom lake were really seeing YF-117 and Have-Blue "proof of concept" models before that, but still, they had it right all along (does that mean they're also right about the alien bodies in frozen storage too...:hmm
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