Secret military plane lands with a sonic boom, waking everyone in Central Florida.

[Baitball Blogger]

So, now we know we have a secret military plane.


Sonic boom rattles Central Florida as secret military space shuttle lands at Kennedy Space Center

A sonic boom that rattled Central Florida early Sunday morning was no secret. What caused it was a secret military mission ending at Kennedy Space Center.

The U.S. Air Force tweeted Sunday morning that “The Air Force #X37B #OTV4 has returned from orbit and landed safely at @NASAKennedy.”

The X37B is a secret military unmanned mini-space shuttle, which as been orbiting the Earth for nearly two years on its fourth flight.

There were rumors back in February that the X37B might be returning to Florida. Now, after 719 days flying around our planet, the mini shuttle landed at Kennedy Space Center at its Shuttle Landing Facility.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/go-for-launch/os-sonic-boom-military-space-shuttle-0507-story.html

[drray23]

1. interesting.

So while space-x and the like are still perfecting that, the military just casually launch, have the thing stay in orbit for two years and then land a shuttle.
Given their gigantic budgets, some of it secret, I wonder what else they have we dont know anything about..

[Skidmore]

2. Busy militarizing space...nt

[FloridaBlues]

3. I wondered what that boom noise came from

I'm in south fl probably everyone in fl heard this
Thanks

[Takket]

9. it was a sonic boom

[Ligyron]

4. I hope they got the data they were looking for.

I guess.

I have to wonder why our new fighters are even manned and not on auto/remote pilot. They could do amazing stuff irregardless of the G-forces encountered.

[longship]

5. Info:

[Wawannabe]

6. Time for

A data download!

[Barack_America]

7. All the parents at Disney must have been thrilled.

Thousands of children simultaneously awoken in terror.

[oswaldactedalone]

8. Strap a nuke on that thing

and Stanley Kubrick/Arthur C. Clarke's vision in 2001: A Space Odyssey comes true.