by Dirk Vander Ploeg
Full Name: Stephen J Hipkin
Name of photo: UFO OVER TYNEMOUTH
Location: Tynemouth North Pier, England
Date of incident: August 29, 2006 at 8.03 pm
This is a spectacularly beautiful photograph taken by Mr. Keith Saint from Ashington Northumberland, England.
It arrived along with his submission report today, Sunday September 3, 2006. It was actually submitted by fellow photographer Mr. Stephen Hipkin, with Mr. Saint's approval.
| Is this the Manta Stealth Aircraft? |
Their questions were similar to almost all submissions I receive is: Can anyone suggest what this is?
Although, no one can claim definitely what the object is a fellow UFO enthusiast and photo analyst believes the follows:
"I believe he and his friend have shot the best photo of "The Manta Stealth Aircraft" ever captured. I have attached an enhancement/enlargement of the craft. It is absolutely beautiful with a long central spine and interesting control features along the wing, extending from the fuselage (spine) at right angles," Robert Morningstar.
The Black Manta, TR-3, an aircraft that supposively doesn’t exist has the ability to hover silently. There are said to be two very different versions, the TR-3A and the TR-3B. The first is supposed to be about 45 feet long and 15 feet high, with a 65 foot wingspan. The second is said to be a massive 600 feet across.
This black project allegedly is a tactical reconnaissance aircraft and has an outer coating that reacts to electrical radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This super stealth aircraft is said to be able to fly as high as 125,000 feet and travel as fast as Mach 9!
Keith and Stephen were taking photographs of the sky over the sea as the sun was setting trying to capture the multitude of colors present. Keith then called Stephen to come over and take a look at a shot he had just taken. The photo showed what they called an "artifact". Keith then immediately took another photograph of the same scene but the "artifact" has disappeared.
The above photograph was taken using a tripod and the lense was not cleaned between photographs.
Keith adds that a "couple of photographers we know have had a look at the image as well as ourselves and lighting conditions, dust etc have pretty much been ruled out.
Above is an awesome enhancement from John Scheldroup.
Update September 8, 2006: D Davis,who lives in Montour Falls, New York sent this photo to UFOCasebook.com. He took 2 consecutive photos within a split second. One photo had these clouds but the second photo had a little more. What he had on the second photo was a black object in the sky. The picture itself of the trees and clouds is very clear, but the black object seems like it's traveling very fast. The object also has what appears to be a air vortexes on top and bottom. It was a beautiful day, pretty cool picture.
Update September 6, 2006: Al B wrote: I enjoyed your photo on CoasttoCoastam. I submitted the following photo to CoasttoCoast last July 4th while hiking at the Phoenix Mountain Preserves. Look at the almost translucent craft at the top of the page. The 2nd object is just left of the tallest 'peak'. I didn't see either craft when I took the photo.
Update September 6, 2006: Doug Thomas wrote: Just viewed your pic of the Tynemouth UFO and immediately thought of the shot
I took of Mount Taranaki one late afternoon last year. There was nothing in the sky when this was taken & no (plane) sounds either as I only lived several miles from the mountain at the time. I'm sure there is a likeness
here dont you agree?
Update September 6, 2006: K. Thompson wrote: "The picture posted on the Coast to Coast website, showing an UFO craft, is something that has been seen here California, USA. It was a year ago my girlfriend and I were sitting on my deck talking, it was about late afternoon, out of the corner of my eye, I saw this aircraft for just a second, materialized, fleet through the sky and then seemingly, disappeared."
"My girlfriend looked at me and said I looked like I saw something strange. I told her what I saw, so she turned her chair around to look out as I was, and sure enough, we saw the aircraft for a split second, but looking straight on it in the sky.
For the first time, the pic that was posted on the site, strikingly resembled what we saw that afternoon.
You have to understand, we could only see it for a split second, and then it seemed to disappear as quick as it materialized."
Update September 5, 2006: Received an email from Bill that stated that CoasttoCoastAM.com had similar photos. Click on the following links for the photos. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page1570.html http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page1579.html.
Update September 4, 2006: Received an email from Doug who offers the following: Using Occam's razor, I'd guess it was one of these:
Dated: July 30, 2001. Northrop Grumman Corporation's Integrated Systems Sector (ISS), has completed production of the X-47A Pegasus, unmanned air vehicle that will be used to demonstrate aerodynamic qualities suitable for autonomous operation from an aircraft carrier.
Doug suggests that instead of a secret project we may have a photo of the X-47A Pegasus. As always, I leave it up to the reader to decide.
You can read more about the X-47 Pegasus by clicking here.
Update December 29, 2006: Received an email from Piotr Cielebias, our brillant contributor from Poland, who has sent us this photo which is from the Czech Republic. He states there is no further information avaiable at this time. This unique photo shows two craft either emerging or entering into time/space. Click on zoom button for details.
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