Soviet Union UFO documents available

[Loredoctor]

www.indiadaily.com/editorial/6063.asp

An article detailing this is above.

[Queeaqueg]

If I was a Russia who saw that I would think it was the Americans watching me. I think it was the Americans playing tricks on Russia.

[Loredoctor]

I think it was the Americans playing tricks on Russia.

So the Americans were building UFOs? Are you sure about that?

[Queeaqueg]

Don't think they were building UFO's (Unless they went out of their way to trick the Russia for a cheap/expensive laugh).
I think it might of been one of many US U2s flying over and it got mistaken for a UFO since that sort of stuff was big at the time.

[Loredoctor]

I think it might of been one of many US U2s flying over and it got mistaken for a UFO since that sort of stuff was big at the time.

Could be, could be.

[ur-bane]

That's a pretty interesting article.
As BB suggested--why is a UFO automatically considered extraterrestrial?

Granted, I personally don't subscribe to the SR-71 Blackbird being mistaken for anything resembling the image in the article. At 85,000 feet and 2,000 mph, could the naked eye even see it from the ground, especially given it's non-reflecting surface?
No, these sightings were something else IMO, and I cannot discount the possiblity of over-active imagination. After all, UFO is "unidentified flying object." That is not necessarily alien, but simply unkown to the observer.

[Cheval]

...After all, UFO is "unidentified flying object." That is not necessarily alien, but simply unkown to the observer.

EXACTLY!!!
UFO just means that you cannot identify the object that is flying,
not that it's extraterrestrial.
(Silly Earthlings... er, I mean people)

At 85,000 feet and 2,000 mph, could the naked eye even see it from the ground, especially given it's non-reflecting surface?

Even if flew that speed at tree-top level, would you be able to see it?
(What's the speed of a bullet when it's fired out of the barrel of a rifle?
Can you see the bullet exit?)

OMG! AN INVISIBLE AIRCRAFT!
It MUST be alien!!!

[ur-bane]

We're on the same page here with the "UFO" aspect, cheval, but I don't agree with your bullet analogy. For one thing, the bullet is much smaller than the Blackbird.

Perception of speed is also related to proximity. In the case of an aircraft, the farther away it is, the slower it appears to be traveling. Also, the farther away an object is, the longer it remains in your field of vision.

Perhaps an SR-71 traveling at 2,000 mph at treetop level would be nothing but a blur and a deafening roar, but at higher altitudes it would appear to travel more slowly, and remain in one's line of sight for a longer period of time. I just don't know if the naked eye can see an object of its size and surface characteristics at 85,000 feet (even if it were not moving).