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Illinois Black Triangles: Are Mysterious Crafts In The Sky UFOs Or Secret Government Tech?

By Patricia Ramirez
Published on: 07:29 PST, Jun 3, 2016

Just this week, Elon Musk said that he hopes to send people to Mars by 2024; now, Illinois residents are wondering if the black triangles they’re seeing in the sky are alien spacecraft or U.S. military technology. As The Verge reported, Musk announced his plans to ferry humanity to the red planet at the Code Conference on June 1. On May 22, an Illinois man reported seeing a black triangle craft in the sky at about 9:30 p.m.

Could the Illinois black triangle sighted in May (and the many other black triangle sightings that have occurred in the past) be related to plans to get humanity to Mars? Maybe.

As Mysterious Universe reports, DARPA is currently conducting a project to create an experimental “spaceplane.” Called XS-1, the project’s goal is to create a reusable spaceplane. Designs for the plane have been submitted by assorted groups of engineers and developers, and DARPA will be choosing a “winning” design in 2017. It is entirely possible that the sightings of the Illinois black triangles could be related to this project.

Ultimately, Space.com says the spaceplanes are being designed to make short, frequent flights into orbit — up to ten of them a day. DARPA wants the spaceplanes to fly inexpensively, which is a relative term when you learn that the organization is willing to pay “no more than $5 million per flight.” The spaceplane, according to reports, is to be used “primarily as a cheap and fast way to deliver satellites to orbit.”

But, could they be intended to make longer flights? And could they be behind the Illinois black triangle sightings?

Some people think so. Others believe the Illinois black triangle sightings involve alien UFO craft. Black triangle sightings seem to cluster around Illinois, but they have been seen in the skies above almost every U.S. state.

Illinois black triangle sightings have been taking place for over a decade, well before Elon Musk’s Mars plans and years before DARPA announced its spaceplane project. One of the most widely-reported Illinois black triangle cases happened back in 2000. In that incident, which started at 4 a.m. on January 5, multiple law enforcement agencies were involved with tracking a slow-moving Illinois black triangle as it flew over St. Clair County, Illinois. One of the Illinois officers even got a grainy Polaroid photo of the black triangle that time around.

So far, no one has been able (or willing) to explain the January 2000 Illinois black triangle incident.

One unlikely explanation for the 2000 Illinois black triangle event was that the craft was a blimp giving a private tour of the area. No one has been able to explain why such a tour would have taken place at 4 a.m., nor has a local blimp company made its records available as confirmation that such a tour ever took place.

Since the 2000 Illinois black triangle sighting, sightings of the black triangles have continued with sporadic frequency. The May 22 black triangle sighting in Illinois was reported to OpenMinds by Robert Marsh. According to Marsh, the black triangle craft he spotted was only about 200 feet off the ground, and he got close enough to drive directly under it. He described the black triangle as slow moving, and said he saw it “execute an apparent banking turn” as he continued to observe the bizarre craft.

The large number of eyewitness reports of the Illinois black triangles has even influenced the Federation of American Scientists to take note of the black triangles. On it’s website, the FAS describes the incident of a black triangle aircraft that was observed back in the late 1980s.

“A very intriguing aircraft was been reported in the late 1980s. Some observers claim to have witnessed a vast black flying wing, estimated at between 600 and 800 feet in width, passing silently over city streets in California. The craft moved so slowly one observer claimed that he could jog along with it. The aircraft reportedly executed bizarre maneuvers in which it stopped, rotated in place and hovered vertically, pointing its thin trailing edge toward the ground. This vehicle’s unlikely gyrations suggest that it is distinct from the other sightings, and could be a lighter-than-air craft pushed by slow- turning propellers.”

While it increasingly seems likely that the Illinois black triangles might be some kind of super-secret government project(s), many people are unwilling to accept that the U.S. government and/or military would be capable of hiding technology of that magnitude from the U.S. public, especially for decades.

Often, people who report to have seen black triangles, whether in Illinois or elsewhere, are treated as liars, exaggerators, or insane conspiracy theorists

After all, if the Illinois black triangles can’t be government aircraft, and if UFOs are a collective delusion, what could they be?

People who have seen the black triangles, some of them even capturing them on video or in still photos, know that they are real. They just don’t know what they are, or where they come from. Check out the photo of a black triangle sighted in Washington.

What do you think? Are the Illinois black triangles top secret Earth-based aircraft, UFOs, or something else entirely?

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