Future Article – Kenneth Arnold disks speculation BH-1

This is an incomplete article and a work in progress. 

This article is speculation. It does use factual information including discoidal-plane characteristics. It does use an axiom that if the disks exist, then they have Radar, no exception.

This article is the speculation about the properties of the disks that Kenneth Arnold saw. 

I will be using a speed of 1700 mph for the speed of these disks. Kenneth Arnold measured the speed of one disk from Mt. Rainier to Mt. Adams (47 miles) in 1:42. One minute, forty-two seconds. Later, he arbitrarily but not without precedent, lowered the speed to 1200 mph. I will not be doing that.

In all items of the Dr. McDonald I could find no other observer who measured the speed by using two markers and a timing device. In other words, even if Kenneth Arnold is wrong I accept his error over all other guesses of speed, however correct they might be. I prefer Kenneth Arnold’s exactness and attention to detail. I prefer the method of least ambiguity in this case. 

For our purposes to start the analysis we will be using a placeholder length of 65 feet and a wingspan of 65 feet, but estimates of the original size range from about 65 feet to 140 feet to an outlier size of 240 feet.

Purpose Built Design

These disks are purpose built planes, and they are real. If you don’t think they are real you can stop reading. I don’t care. Tell all your friends there is one more crazy person to add to the list, but for the rest of you, let’s continue by analyzing just this type of plane.

When I say purpose built, I mean It is a plane that was designed on purpose to fulfill a range of missions to help the organization that built them. It means every aspect is a design choice made to increase the probability of mission success and/or to reduce the risk of a mission failure. I will take a look at some of the design choices and attempt to use my sincere amateur knowledge of planes, aerospace, military, and NASA, to illuminate revealing information from this and other sightings.

As mentioned, it had a discoid shape, a discoid shape that gave it a low aspect ratio. It is not a dull metal, but a reflective metal. They were noiseless to the pilot. They had to no tail. They appeared as large as a civilian transport plane in 1947. It had no detectable visible markings and no detectable symbols. In addition, during the 3 minutes with Kenneth Arnold, the disks made no radio communication attempt in such a way that Kenneth Arnold could receive and understand that attempt.

So, if they were a purpose-built design, and if they had the above characteristics, then they were designed using technology, and designed with greater aerospace knowledge than that of 1947. It also means, based on our current 2022 knowledge that no 1940’s military Earth could have built them in 1947. That means at the very minimum, these planes were built by an entity not from Earth. I’m sure some of you reading believe they are spaceships, but I don’t think they are, and I will have reasons why the aren’t. I will go over that more, later. But my point is, these machines can enter the atmosphere, but are not capable of interplanetary travel. 

Limits

These planes were not an accident or made with magic. They are not running on magic technology, and they are not without an intended mission. It also means the planes have limits. No matter how much knowledge there is there is always a limit to any plane, satellite, or spacecraft and its capabilities. These would have limits as well. Plane limits almost always include range and speed, but they can also include avionics limits, such as sensor ranges and capabilities, as well as the number and type of sensors.

Now, in order for these planes to exist they would have exact specifications. We don’t know the exact specifications, but we are going to try to create a minimum configuration for the plane. This is easy for me to talk about, but hard for me to explain. It is a way of looking at this plane and determining the minimum need, in other words, the minimum needed amount of technology knowledge to create the plane and to create the situation by which they would have existed in the Kenneth Arnold sighting. So, for example, in order for the plane to cross Kenneth Arnold’s path, it would need a minimum speed of 1700 mph, because that is his original calculation of speed for the plane. So the disk/plane would need to have that speed technology in order to make that happen. And based on this minimum configuration method, we’re going to infer other minimum pieces of technology that the plane would need to have. And I’m going to show that magic technology is not needed for this sighting. In fact, I believe what I’m going to show is that the plane can’t exist without certain technologies, and once that is established, your viewpoint of this sighting is going to change.

Minimum Configuration & Capability

And from this minimum configuration we are going to draw substantial information about what the intent and function of these planes are. We will be able to infer other information about the controlling organization as well.

The idea behind MCC is generate the bare minimum flight configuration and capability that would be needed for such a plane to exist on Earth and to perform the mission in the sighting as it was stated. And by doing that, by creating this MCC it will enable us to see what their missions really were. It will enable us to see what limitations the vehicles appear to have. It will enable us to determine what their entire operation accomplished. It will enable us to see what organization they have and why. Finally, it will enable us to partially see what else they came with.

And while my logic will not be perfect, I’m 100% sure it led to a far better analysis than has been done previously.

Because I think it is fun we will also be giving names to the planes, squadrons, entities and organizations for the ease of tracking mentally.

First, two other quick notes about the planes.

SQUADRON-1

There wasn’t just one plane, there were nine, which makes them a squadron. Squadrons fly with purpose to their route and back and squadrons fly with disciplined cooperation, especially through mountainous terrain. And there was cooperation between the planes. It means there was a direction and a focus and it also means their mission continued past the time that Kenneth Arnold could no longer see the squadron.

PART OF A SYSTEM

The disks, which are planes are part of a system. No set of planes just flies around aimlessly. In our USAF, squadrons are part of groups, which are part of wings. These units are often stationed at air fields or air bases. There is a system. NASA has its own systems. The rovers send data from Mars to Earth. They have a system and that system are built from other systems. In order for any organization to succeed and to have longevity it must have a system that creates success for itself and others.

It flew directly in front of his path. All nine planes flew directly in front of his vision. All nine planes flew into a flight path that increased the chances of mid-air collision from the standpoint of any given pilot in today’s day and age. All nine remained in formation as they increased their likelihood of being spotted. With a speed of 1700 mph They were at about 9500 feet. More on that later as well.

Let’s get on to the first minimum configuration (MCC).

This particular vehicle in the Kenneth Arnold sighting we’re going to call it Bloodhound 1 or BH-1.

Bloodhound-1

We’re going to set the BH-1 length to 65 ft, because, in my opinion, it doesn’t matter if it is 65 feet, 100 feet or 110 feet long. It won’t change the minimum configuration necessary for initial existence. It also won’t affect the general function of the plane at this time. It could affect the maximum range of the plane, but, again, it won’t affect the minimum range needed in our initial analysis. I think the height might be wrong. If I set his picture to 100 mm, the I get a height of but I don’t think it affects my initial specs but may affect ceiling height later.

A side note: At some point Kenneth Arnold said there was an additional crescent shape plane as well, but in the information first given, the crescent plane wasn’t described. We will revisit the crescent plane later in this writing. The crescent shape vehicle isn’t a problem, but it sure doesn’t help me right away.

According to his picture.

Length 65 ft
Width 90 ft
Height 5 ft

Why that shape? On a personal note, it is this shape, the discoid shape for a plane that I find fascinating. I have read about the discoid shape of planes since about 2004. I’ve read everything I can about the V-173, which is nicknamed the flying pancake. flying pancake, the V-173, a proof-of-concept for a “discoidal” aircraft. See X-22. Picture of both compare. There were two planes designed by Charles Zimmerman (Charles H. Zimmerman). He explored the flight characteristics of the shapes and of low-aspect ratio flight.

Insert picture.

Well the flying pancake was a unique and fascinating design. It had great low-speed capability and very low stall speed. It had high maneuverability with great structural strength. However, low-speed handling was problematic. It also had issues with vortices on the sides of the planes. The contra-rotating propellers were designed to eliminate that issue.

The planes that Kenneth Arnold saw look to me like the reverse of the flying pancake.

Low Aspect Ratio

Selecting the right aspect ratio is critical in the design of any aircraft. Wing geometry affects every aspect of a plane’s flight. By selecting the discoidal shape the BH-1 would have a low aspect ratio.

In contrast, a high aspect ratio (HAR) gives aerodynamic advantages like better lift-to-drag ratio (the plane can lift more). Planes with long thin wings have a HAR. However, longer wings need to have better structural design. Also, HAR planes will have greater parasitic drag. It’s not important to go over parasitic drag at this time.
A plane with low aspect ratio have several advantages for certain desired plane characteristics. A LAR plane will have a greater useful internal volume, useful for fuel tanks and retractable landing gear. It will also have a shorter roll moment. More importantly, in airflow below the speed of sound, subsonic flow, a high aspect ratio will be more efficient and effective. However, at transonic and supersonic speeds a long wing will cause excessive drag. The BH-1 was travelling at 1700 or roughly 3x the speed of sound.

In other words, the BH-1, was designed to have high maneuverability, high speed, good structural strength, low stall speed, and a useful internal capacity. Many different aircraft used by the USAF and abroad use LAR, including fighter aircraft, but not usually transport aircraft. An aircraft doesn’t have to be disk-shaped to have LAR.

So the BH-1 doesn’t have a delta-wing design. A delta wing is the dominant design for high-speed supersonic flight. It is the most dominant choice for fighter aircraft with examples like the F-15, F-16, F-18, etc. A delta wing doesn’t have great low-speed flight characteristics. They often have high stall speeds. Planes with the right delta wing design can use a waverider technique, a technique that allows the plane to have a shockwave below the wing and the shockwave provides great lift without increasing drag.

In other words, the BH-1 discoidal design was chosen over using a delta design. The design of the BH-1 means that delta was not the best choice for this plane for its intended mission.

It means that the best wing design choice for the BH-1 includes the sacrifice of those delta-wing advantages. It also that means that entity in control of these planes knew in advance that no plane of Earth could even keep up with the BH-1. It also means to me that while we don’t know the top speed of the BH-1, and we know that it can go 1700 mph, that the entity didn’t expect to encounter any other non-Earth planes capable of a higher speed either. Finally, it also means that the entity didn’t expect those circumstances to change in the near future. More on that observation later.
This same entity also made a choice that low stall speed was important.

So continuing on. The BH-1 was also designed to have low stall speed, and that the very fastest design was unnecessary.

One more note. That means there is a possibility that there is a theoretical design of an alien craft using a delta-design and the same powerplant as the BH-1 to achieve a different set of missions.

Another word on alien entity expectations. No matter what other people believe, I believe that this plane was purpose built design, and that its actions are always done on purpose, not accident. And these actions contribute toward the accomplishment of a mission. And this mission was considered in advance, it was planned, it was structured, and it was measured against risk. That is: the Entity expected the plane to be successful in any parameter it might face on Earth.

This is a viable plane, meaning, the disks aerodynamics are real, it could be designed and it would fly.

Length 65 ft
Width 90 ft
Height 5 ft
Aspect Ratio: Low
Stall speed: Low
Max Speed Not less than 1700 mph
Roll: Short moment
And now, for the first real revelation about the Kenneth Arnold sighting.

Radar

As planes get faster and faster, as planes encounter more and more planes in their vicinity, and as planes encounter possible hostile airplanes there is a greater and greater need for radar. Radar is…essential. And if there was an entity that could design the BH-1, and if that same entity could take that same plane to another planet, then that same entity would put a radar in the design.

This is the part where I’m supposed to explain Radar. Google it.

At the time of 1947, most civilian aircraft don’t have an avionics suite, they don’t have radar. However, some planes of the USAF in 1947 do have radar. Bombers, night flyers, and interceptors all have radar. In addition, it is not just USAF that have planes with radar, other nations including the UK, Germany also have similar.
In order for the BH-1 to exist, it would need radar. I’m not just saying it is a minimum configuration. I’m saying that no organization, no alien entity, no institution would send a plane to another planet without a minimum of radar capability. Because the BH-1 exists, it has radar as a given. I’m 100% sure.
Let’s approach that same conclusion from a slightly different perspective. Any entity, government, or business where they had a task to have nine of their planes fly in front of another unknown flying machine, light years away, they would want a plane that could perform such an operation safely and without incident. And if there were riskier missions to be expected, then the former task would need to be performed flawlessly. It would need radar in any configuration.

There is risk to travelling light years. There is a cost of travelling light years. If there is a cost, there is a budget. If there is a budget, there is expectation. And no program whether Earth based or not, would ever pass muster if the designer claimed, “it doesn’t need radar. Don’t worry about the cost of travelling, the risk to the cost, the waste of the budget, and the failure in expectations.” The designer would be fired. It would NOT be authorized. There would be no planes sent, and Kenneth Arnold would never have seen them. He did see them. This purpose built design has radar.
While I believe the entity has Full Mastery of the Electromagnetic Spectrum, let’s just figure out the minimum needed plane detecting range of radar. A minimum configuration of radar that would be no less than the following: The ability of the plane to fly at 1700 mph while in sync formation-wise with other remote control/autonomous control/being control planes, while also able to safely maneuver thru foreign/alien terrain including multiple mountains while encountering another set of flying machines that only use analog technology and are being flown by an organic species with an incomplete or not-completely-predictable reaction spectrum while able to to achieve mission success, flawlessly.

What is the detecting range? With a radar range of 5-miles and travelling at 28 miles/minute (1700 mph), there would only be 2.36 seconds advance notice to avoid any obstacle. That’s inconceivable. This would be especially true if there were 8 other planes flying behind your position. With a radar range of 25 miles and travelling at 28 miles/minute that would give the first plane just under one minute of notice. Again, not only too low, but far too risky for any decision making platform automated or otherwise. I believe the absolute minimum needed for desired mission of 9 planes to fly in front of Kenneth Arnold would be just over 100 miles. This is incredibly low compared to USAF planes in our 2022 year, but I’m making a point that it only needs about 100 miles at the bare minimum! In other words, these planes and the decision-making alterations would desire a bare minimum of 4 minutes as a desired detecting range.

Anything less could and would lead to severe risk on many missions and tasks. Let’s get onto what that means before looking at other Radar possibilities.

In the case of Kenneth Arnold, if the disks have this basic, minimum radar range of 100 miles, it means that not only did they detect Kenneth Arnolds plane, the CallAir-4 insert plane here, they also detected the DC-4 flying to Arnold’s left.

For some of you, I know your thinking caps just turned on.

In other words, the discs made a choice, they made a decision.

The planes made a mission task to create a flight path in front of Kenneth Arnold.
The discs found Kenneth Arnold, not the other way around.

To me there is only one and only one conclusion. It wasn’t an accident. This was deliberate. This flight plan was a direct, flamboyant display of maneuvering, speed, power (energy) and power projection.

And if the nine disks have radar in their avionics, and if that radar had at least a 100 mile range, then the nine disks picked up on Kenneth Arnold’s plane as he came around at Mount Rainier. And as mentioned, these same disks would have detected the DC-4. It means these planes could have run this same task in front of the DC-4. And if these planes wanted to avoid being sighted, and because they are silent, these highly maneuverable planes could have flown over Arnold or around the back of his plane. In that case, neither the DC-4, nor Kenneth Arnold would have ever seen or heard them. There was a choice to be seen.

But Squadron 1 did just that. The course selected by the group was to directly fly in front of him. In any flight school, in any country (I didn’t call every country on the planet to verify this), I’m fairly sure that flying directly in front of planes while maneuvering through mountains, is a dangerous and risk seeking effort. It is a risky operation that could have endangered any mission’s success. A “mistake” like this could show an enemy how their planes operate, what they look like, how fast they can go, etc.

But as I’ve already mentioned, this design of plane is a purpose built design, aimed at reducing risk and insuring success of its mission parameters.

My next axiom then is that the choice to fly in front of Kenneth Arnold gives away their mission. To be clear, flying in front of a small, civilian plane was risky and that, in my opinion, the only justification would be that flying in such a manner was part of “the mission”.

The mission was to fly in front of an aircraft (and measure the response or create a response).

Echelon picture

To me there is no way around the fact that the planes have radar and then used their radar to create a flight path that maneuvered to miss the DC-4 and fly in front of Kenneth Arnold plane. And then the nine planes flew into a stepped down echelon formation in such a way that Kenneth Arnold could easily see all nine planes. He could see their structure, see their shapes, and see their speed. The nine disks wanted that plane to know they exist.

You may not agree with my assertion, but I am 100% certain that these disks have radar. I’m 100% certain that these disks could detect Kenneth Arnold. And I’m 100% sure they flew in front of Kenneth Arnold on purpose.

And if they have radar then the flight plan was deliberate. And it this task was deliberate then it is more than risk tolerant. Was this heedless? Was the choice of the nine planes reckless? It certainly seems that way. Let’s ask a few more questions in an attempt to reduce ambiguity: Either these planes were careless and this alien entity is terrible at space stuff or their flight was intentional.

Is it irresponsible? It seems irresponsible if they’re trying to hide or operate covertly.
The maneuver doesn’t seem impulsive.
It doesn’t seem inattentive.
It doesn’t seem thoughtless. It seems determined. It seems dauntless.
It seems negligent unless there is intent to perform the flight path.
It seems mettlesome. It seems very indiscreet. It seems venturesome. It seems intrepid.

If the above is true, it means that the purpose is intended and is not misguided.
I feel there is undeniable clues that this task to fly in front of Kenneth Arnold was part of the mission.

Radar detector

Back to avionics. In addition to radar, any flying vehicle going into an unknown environment with unknown or known hostiles usually has an additional tool, the radar detector. And any avionics suite for a plane that is light years from its origin, with an expectation to canvas an alien planet for multiple missions and be successful would need a radar detector.

So, each of the nine planes has a radar detector.

What having a radar detector means is that Squadron 1 knew as they approached the plane of Kenneth Arnold as they flew in front of him, as they flew in a way that he could see each one of them, they knew that his plane didn’t have radar. And if his plane didn’t have radar, then he had no idea they existed up until those planes flew into his visual range.

In fact, I believe it also means that Squadron 1 knew the nearby DC-4 couldn’t detect them either. And, to me, there is a positive possibility that this flight was a test to make sure both were true.

NASA PATHFINDER STUFF
How it makes moves.

The Approach

The task to fly in front of Kenneth Arnold is not a conservative approach, but it doesn’t look to me that it was an aggressive approach, meaning the planes didn’t come from behind him, they didn’t fly up along side. It was ostentatious in that they flew exceptionally fast in front of him. But it also seems like it was a non-threatening approach. They had no weapons displayed.

And as I’ve already mentioned Kenneth Arnold said they were trying to get in front of him. They kept giving up space to show him they were there.
So, there was a task parameter that may have been, “Don’t scare him.”
Lets take a tangent to USAF surveillance and recon planes.

Black Planes/Black Project

Few things capture the imagination of plane buffs than the clandestine planes, the black planes. These include the U-2 spy plane, the F-117, the A-12, and its successor, the SR-71, and the B-2. Each of these planes came from a black project, a project that was not initially acknowledged by the government.

The F-117 was the first plane to be designed around stealth principles.
The U-2 was a day and night, high-altitude (70,000 feet), all-weather intelligence gathering plane.

Day Operation vs. Night Operation

If Squadron-1 wanted to eliminate the risk of being seen, then they could have flown at night. A night mission would increase risk, but flying at night in today’s world isn’t abnormal. So why fly during the day. In fact, flying at night would have eliminated 90% of the sightings. So if a day operation was chosen, then it was chosen for a reason.

Reflective plane

Without distinguished markings and with silent movement, the nine planes that Kenneth Arnold saw essentially could operate as a spy plane. All these planes would need is a black outer skin. The F-117, the U-2, and the SR-71 have a “explain black paint”. But Squadron-1 doesn’t have a black paint camoflage. Counterintuitively, they have a shiny, reflective surface. I’m sure there are few things that would make a plane less useful to a military than a shiny, highly reflective surface, but having such a shiny surface certainly ranks up there. It makes visual spotting easier, distinct, and memorable. So if Squadron-1 was spy planes then why would those same spy planes have a reflective surface and then fly right in front of Kenneth Arnold? They wouldn’t.

So, what advantage would reflective panels have?

On our world, the military planes have been a wide variety of dull or a color screen designed to blend into its environment including gray, green, tan, or black. So, either the shiny surfaces are a dumb idea or the there is a significant purpose to the reflective surfaces that aid the mission of the planes.

In many of the 1947 cases (again I’ll come back to many later) and in the Kenneth Arnold sighting, the shiny, reflective nature of the planes was intense. It seems as if the bottom of the aircraft has a surface that uses retroreflection. Essentially, I’m speculating that the bottom surface has an array of prisms or beads or balls that reflect light directly back to the source. Regardless, the bottom surface reflects light intensely, allowing any viewer on the ground to easily count the planes in the sky.
The shiny nature is a design choice. Furthermore, a shiny surface would increase the chance of any plane, especially a military or spy plane, of getting detected and, if detected, detection would lower its chance of success for most military or spy missions. A shiny, reflective surface is the exact opposite of a stealth need.

Radar Cross Section (RCS)

Any plane designed for our US military in today’s world for work into enemy territory would involve using design techniques to reduce the radar cross section (RCS). Planes such as the F-22, F-35, F-117, and the B-2 all use the maximum use of these techniques to lower the RCS.

The design of the BH-1 seems to have a low RCS. I can’t verify that as I’m not an expert. But one technique used to lower RCS is eliminating any and all 90 degree angles in the design. The BH-1 has a rounded front surface and an angled rear. It has no tail. The BH-1 certainly seems to make use of RCS reducing techniques. However, one design that can increase the susceptibility of radar capture is a reflective surface. This certainly would be true if the BH-1’s reflective surface is sending radar signals directly back to the source.

There is also the possibility that there is a radar countermeasures system unknown to our understanding of RCS lowering technology.

The important takeaways from the last two section are this. The BH-1 seems to have a low RCS built into its design, however, its shiny surface would appear to increase the RCS.

So, coupling both markings and its reflective surface, the BH-1 is a clandestine airplane that strives to be seen, but wants to hide its origin. The duplicity is not just unusual but also probably essential to understanding its total mission profile.

SR-71

CHINES

“…something like a pie plate that was cut in half with a sort of a convex triangle in the rear.”
Based on the sketch Kenneth Arnold made on July 12, 1947, and based on the same report that he said the side view was 1/20th the length.  Even with a picture it would be hard to prove the following, but I believe the BH-1 has chines. Chines are used on the SR-71 and others. A chine is simply a longitudinal line of sharp change int eh cross-section profile. On some aircraft, like the SR-71, the chine extends sideways and blends into the rest of the wing. In a case like Kenneth Arnold’s, a chine could give a plane the appearance of a pie plate.

INSERT PIE PAN PICTURE

In order for the BH-1 NOT to have a chine, the following chine effects detailed below would have to be created through other ways or devices. The problem with that is chines are a simple and effective solution to improve design in not only the SR-71, but a plane like the BH-1.

These are the effects:
Chines contribute additional lift at supersonic speeds. Chine lift increases with the square of the mach number. In this case they would be acting as a low aspect ratio canard surface. Simply put, the faster the plane goes, the more the chines help with lift. Chines can also reduce yaw-induced roll, which also helps roll-yaw coupling and any tendency to Dutch roll, a problem for discoidal aircraft. If the BH-1 had chines all the way around its circular shape, then it would decrease its side exposure to radar. The BH-1 would be less reflective to radar.

Additionally, chines can increase directional stability. It can reduce the adverse effects of crosswinds. This would be especially helpful if flying through mountains on a regular basis at very high speeds.

In other words, because chines would have significant effect on lift, drag, stability, and RCS, there is little doubt to me that the BH-1 has chines, based on the Kenneth Arnold description. Even if he didn’t know what it was, he was doing his very best to describe what he saw…with extreme accuracy.

NOISELESS

While the shape of the plane BH-1 is easy to determine and analyze, the silent movement is more challenging. In the end, there can be no concrete proof of what makes the plane silent, however, using the same minimum capability and minimum configuration analysis will lead to a result that will enable a more likely determination of total capability and mission profile.

Two items that receive a significant amount of time and financial attention during the design of any jet engine is thermal properties and acoustic properties.  While the planes were approaching Arnold he should NOT have heard a sonic boom, however, once the first disk passed him he should have heard one, then he should have heard nine others. It would have been a deafening 2 minutes. He didn’t hear any such thing. I’m sure the silence of the craft was not just unusual, but also somewhat unnerving.

What this means is the BH-1 doesn’t generate a sonic boom. That means the entity has technology and design capability to not only create a quiet engine, but also, and more importantly, it has the means to create a plane shape of this plane that eliminates the boom to nothing.

Notwithstanding, Arnold may have seen some of the planes with a vapor cone, one that was shaped more like a flattened elliptical cloud. I say this because he mentioned that “weaving”. It doesn’t change the fact the very loud noise of the sonic boom and roar of the jet engine wasn’t there.

So if the engine roar isn’t there, what is the engine of the BH-1? At least two possibilities exist that are very simple. But first let me say this, most magic engine enthusiasts believe it is an anti-gravity or super-magnetism engine. Before I address that let’s just mention the simple solution. It could be an electric turbojet or electric turbofan. What I’m saying is, the BH-1 has a propulsion unit that doesn’t need jet fuel, rather the combustion fans are turned via an electric motor. While the engine would be quieter, it would not take care of the noise from the nozzle.

In the last few years, Boeing has developed a nozzle that reduces noise by 80%. It isn’t in production yet. Regardless of whether this turns into the actual solution I want to raise two points. One, that acoustic silencing is important and that there looks to be dramatic improvements on the horizon. Two, it would probably be a series of technologies, not just one engine design that would create such silent capabilities.

It is my best guess that the BH-1 is an electric turbofan, with an engine exhaust nozzle design that reduces the noise to near-silent noise levels.  If the BH-1 had an anti-gravity engine, then it wouldn’t need to “fly” anywhere it could simply drop directly to its objective site. They would be more like space-helicopters. But these planes do need to fly somewhere. In addition, if the craft had such an engine or device, that would create an enormous risk it a craft were to crash. It would essentially open the door that the people of Earth would now have a chance to copy technology generations ahead of their own. The risk would be so great, any mission would never be approved.

But, there is another possibility, a possibility that would not take away from having other potential engine designs, a possibility that would increase the plane’s range and would create the BH-1 silent flight characteristics, and create other potential advantages. That possibility is that the BH-1 is gliding.

The shape of the BH-1 is a low-aspect ratio, but the Kenneth Arnold description has the same characteristics as a lifting body. The organization in charge of the BH-1 didn’t send me a copy of the blueprints, but let’s move forward anyway. So…what is a lifting body?

And now it’s time for some Wikipedia information.. In some sentences I have truncated some text, but I have not altered any meaning. I did this because I’m too lazy to re-write the great information that Wikipedia provides.
“A lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which the body itself produces lift. (Wikipedia)
Generally, a lifting body is designed to reduce drag for supersonic and hypersonic flight or spacecraft re-entry. Lifting bodies were investigated and tested by the USAF and by NASA to help create spacecraft that would allow a controlled landing to an exact destination.
Lifting bodies pose complex control, structural, and internal configuration issues.
Lifting bodies were eventually rejected in favor of a delta wing design for the Space Shuttle.
The Martin Marietta X-24 was an American experimental aircraft designed and built to test lifting body concepts, experimenting with the concept of unpowered reentry and landing. The X-24 was drop launched from a modified B-52 Stratofortress at high altitudes before igniting its rocket engine; after expending its rocket fuel, the pilot would glide the X-24 to an unpowered landing.
Top speed achieved by the X-24B was 1,164 mph (1873 km/h) and the highest altitude it reached was 74,130 feet (22.59 km).

All we need to know is that a lifting body can be dropped from a large height and glide and we don’t need to know its landing point because it isn’t going to land.
See sidebar on lifting bodies. The M2-F1 was soon nicknamed the “Flying Bathtub”.
By design, the BH-1 isn’t just a powered aircraft, it has gliding capability from its lifting body and it uses this capability to increase its range and to reduce its acoustic profile. The organization in charge of Squadron-1 also uses this drop launch capability to change its geographic entry point on various missions (more on that speculation later).

This noiseless ability also has one more advantage. An F-14 speeding through the air with a vapor cone, generating a sonic boom is not just impressive it is also intimidating and can be a little nerve racking if your an enemy of that F-14. However, silent vehicles don’t have that same roar, they don’t have the same intimidation factor. If you don’t believe me just go to the internet and look at the sheer number of negative comments about any Tesla vehicle that has just outraced a muscle car. There are always dozens that mention the sound is the problem. The silence wouldn’t create the same level of anxiety or fear that a loud, deep, rumbling sonic boom and jet roar would have.

In other words, when the disks chose Kenneth Arnold, they knew they would not inspire fear. Unless its silent design is an accident. Of course, it isn’t. The design of the BH-1 includes a non-fear factor to it.

Hailing

During the time that Kenneth Arnold saw the disks while there was flashing of lights, there was not single radio communication attempt from the desks to him. After the encounter, the disks continued on their path. These same disks made no attempt at radio contact to the nearby DC-4 as well.

There was no intention to hail or communicate via radio based on what we know.
In cartoons, the alien arrives and asks for the leader. This is not a cartoon.
In alien-invasion movies, the aliens already know to get to the White House, to fly over major metropolitan cities. They have instincts. This isn’t a movie.

All nine planes were in radio silence. In addition to that, it means those nine disks did not reach out before their detection in our US airspace. They didn’t ask for our leader. They didn’t instinctively travel to the White House. In fact, Mt. Rainier is about as far as you can get from DC in the contiguous US as you can get.

So, we have a set of nine disks, flying in a formation with an obvious aerospace superiority and they could have done one of the following:
• Reach out to the United States leadership
• Fly in front of a random civilian plane that doesn’t have radar.
They chose B. Of course, being in Washington and not Washington DC means that Squadron-1 is as far from the US leadership as can be and still be in the contiguous United States.

However, there may one indicator that Squadron-1 did communicate. Kenneth Arnold always mentions that “QUOTE GOES HERE”. So there was the shine of glint that first attracted his attention, then he mentions that the “QUOTE”. That brightness could be more than glint. It could be a “light” signal in the same way a lighthouse would serve as a signal to ships in the water that they were too close to the shore. While the confidence level on the shining glint as a communication signal is not high, the fact that Kenneth Arnold was 20-25 miles away from Mt. Rainier and still said the light was hard to look at.

Markings

Almost all planes of our world are required to have markings, meaning symbols, flag pictures, or numbers, etc. These markings help to trace the origin of the plane. They establish an order, an accountability, and a safety level.
These nine planes had no obvious markings. In our world, only planes of intelligence agencies fly unmarked planes for clandestine operations. I’ll make an argument further down as to why markings would occur on alien entity aircraft.

In the end, without markings these planes can’t be tracked. Their origin can’t be determined. They are not meant to be traced. The conclusion for this determination is that the planes are meant to have a clandestine nature.

In fact, what makes this even more unusual is that the hiding of their origin suggests that the entity has a concern about tracking their origin. But how would we on Earth know the origin of their planet in any capacity. We wouldn’t know what planet system, what country, or what agency is in charge of these planes. And what difference would it make? This suggests several possibilities which we’ll explore later but for now I’ll just state some of them.

The originating entity doesn’t want a particular country on their planet to know they’re here. The OE doesn’t want another planet to know they’re here. The OE is sending planes to a planet that isn’t supposed to have alien planes sent to it. The OE is concerned that any distinguishing marks would eventually lead to a method for the people of Earth to track their location and origin.

I think it also implies the distinguishing marks are hidden by other means. They could be microscopic. They could be hidden by the reflective paneling of the plane. They could have UV markings like that of a butterfly. We just don’t have the technology to identify them.

IT’S NOT A BIRD, IT’S NOT A PLANE

One other note about Squadron-1. Any advanced organization from another planet would have technology that is more than capable of copying any machine we could create. To me that is a given. In today’s world (2022), on our planet, our CIA, as well as our USAF could build a plane to look and act like an enemy plane. Right now, during the Ukrainian conflict, the CIA could have a plane built to look like a Russian Mig fighter. They could then fly that plane over Turkish airspace and then fly it out. It might create a political tipping point. Unless Turkish authorities could trace our plane, the CIA would have generated a successful false-flag operation, an operation where an organization impersonates its enemy to achieve a mission.

The planes of Squadron-1 don’t look like the aircraft of 1947, but they could have. What would have stopped the OE from designing planes that look like US Jets of the day. Next, imagine if Kenneth Arnold had seen 9 US Jet Airplanes instead. Jet smoke billowing out, sonic boom roaring. All the press, all the media, all the coverage of flying saucers…it all goes away. No one would ever know the machines had been here.

But False-flag operations can backfire dramatically.

False-flag operations always need approvals, approvals in the legal realm, whatever legal realm you come from. In addition, those operations often require high-level authorization. The end mission must justify the end result. That means impersonation is not part of the mission parameters. It was not authorized.
In addition, False-flag operations carry dramatic legal consequences as well. There are always rules. On Earth, if you are on a false-flag operation and you are a soldier and you are captured, the normal rules of soldier detainment won’t apply to you.
But what legal ramifications do these planes have? Zero. It means, functional excellence supersedes any covert operation. It means the home planet of these craft are less concerned if the Earth finds another entity is out there than making their visit invisible to our knowledge.

Let’s take one more look at this from another viewpoint. The planes of squadron-1 don’t look like birds. They have no wings. They can’t be mistaken for birds, contrary to any ridiculous opinion. The planes DON’T look like planes of the USAF. The choice not to look like birds or 1947 planes could also be a design choice. That way there is no mistaking that these planes are NOT from around here, even if the planes aren’t marked in a way that we can understand. The entity who designed them would know that.

But the planes of Squadron-1 could be mistaken as planes of Earth as seen from the ground. Furthermore, Kenneth Arnold thought he had seen military planes after his encounter, and others he told thought the same thing. The only way he knew they weren’t occurred when the military itself came investigating because they don’t have planes of this design. Odd, right? The only way Kenneth Arnold finds out they’re non-Earth planes is when the military tells him (without telling him), and the only way the military reveals this is when the media storm behind his sighting forces the military to react by interviewing him. And the only reason the media knows of the planes is because the planes revealed themselves to Arnold. If the planes had just gone around Arnold none of this would have happened.

Kenneth Arnold was the mission

So, considering no radio communication, no obvious markings, its reflective surface, its distinguished shape, its dramatic encounter, the BH-1 is, in my opinion, undeniably, a reconnaissance airplane with clandestine abilities and mission.
So unusually and counter to any clandestine operation ever taken, the Squadron-1 strived to be seen.

So, we have an entity that doesn’t appear to want to communicate but shows itself, but does so in a way not to be identified and thus, protect their origin. These choices with the added knowledge of the plane design only further adds to the indicators that the mission these planes were on included “visual identification” as an important component.

One component that doesn’t seem to be there is the concern of a military response from the United States. Generally, any spy plane, any clandestine military plane, any reconnaissance plane, or any ship operating in foreign airspace would be concerned if they were spotted. It could endanger the mission. Our USAF planes flying on a similar mission in Russia would be highly concerned about detection and then a military response generated by such detection as well as the political ramifications. The planes of Squadron-1 don’t seem concerned…at all.

For me, after that, there is no doubt. The mission of Squadron-1 was to be seen by Kenneth Arnold and be seen in a way that was undeniable and unmistakable, a visual display that would brand their image in his head and many more for a lifetime. Mission accomplished.

Reconnaissance Planes

Again, like many topics of the planes, we’ll visit the type of plane multiple times. But first, let’s ask a few questions about its design. Kenneth Arnold could see no weapons. It could certainly have them, but they would have to be contained within a weapons bay. But if they were fighter planes, then you need a plane to fight against. If the planes are bombers then you need something to bomb. If they’re transport planes, then you need to be transporting something from one location to another.
Again, if you have a magic engine, like an anti-gravity engine, Squadron-1 wouldn’t need to fly anywhere, they could simply drop to the target destination directly from space. They wouldn’t be planes, they would be spacecraft, but if they were spacecraft they could come from multiple directions instead of just one.

In addition, the OE wouldn’t need bombers, the bomb could simply have the anti-gravity engine built in.

Magic engines like anti-gravity supersede planes and aerodynamics to such a degree that any design would focus on maximizing the utility of anti-gravity. Therefore, aerodynamics would be a dead science to them. And if that was the case, the Kenneth Arnold wouldn’t have seen any such planes, because those planes were flying. In other words, no magic engine.

To better evaluate the capabilities of foreign powers, the US employs a massive range of agencies and services to analyze them. These include, but are not limited to (that was a fun idiom to write) the USAF, the CIA, the NRO, etc. These organizations use a very wide range of tools with a wide range of legal latitudes.

For instance, the CIA developed the SR-71. To Wikipedia:
The Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” was a long-range, high-altitude, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed and manufactured by the American aerospace company Lockheed Corporation. It was operated by both the United States Air Force (USAF) and NASA.[1]

The SR-71 represents the very best recon plane that has been developed on our planet. And compared to the planes of the Kenneth Arnold sighting, it is faster and harder to detect. So either the OE didn’t consider bringing a plane like the SR-71 or the missions required the planes to be closer to Earth than an SR-71 travels. And, if a plane is colored black, it could be (in 1947) considered a night fighter. Knowing that fact could create a negative reaction. Certainly, if there had been night fighter planes flying around in the United States, I’m sure there would have been even more UFO sightings listed. I wonder if that subject will come up again.

Two keys, but not the only keys, to the SR-71 success were its ability to fly Mach 3+, and its ability to fly at high-altitude. We know that the BH-1 has a max speed of not less than 1700 mph. We don’t know how high it can fly, but for a recon plane that can travel at the 1700 mph it most likely wouldn’t have a ceiling of less than an Earth plane of similar performance.

One recon plane we could use for comparison is the U-2. The Lockheed U-2 had a max. speed of 500 mph, but had a cruise speed of 470 mph at 72,000 feet with a max. ceiling of 80,000. While I’m certain that the BH-1 can travel higher than 72,000 feet at cruise, a ceiling of 72,000 feet is not insignificant. As one can see from the U-2 speed, while other planes of the U-2 era were faster, a spy plane is difficult to design. The range of the U-2 was 7100 miles. Amazing range. That’s the real trick to a great recon plane, ceiling, range and then speed. But what if the BH-1 is more like a fighter. We could also compare the BH-1 to the F-15. The F-15 had a max. speed of 1650 mph at high altitude (Mach 2.5), and it had a ceiling of 65,000 feet. So while the 65,000 feet does seem low for the BH-1, that service ceiling could still be used for the MCC. The F-15 did only have a 1221 mile range though. This would be far too short if the BH-1 needed to fly across the United States. But, just in case let’s set the service ceiling to the 65,000 feet even though the most likely ceiling is much higher. We’ll deal with the lower ceiling consequences as they come up.

To recap, we’ve set a speed for the BH-1 and now we’ve assigned an artificial ceiling at 65,000 feet, meaning that the BH-1 doesn’t have a ceiling of less than 65,000 feet.
By looking at the BH-1 in such a way it allows us to understand something about the squadron. But first we have to know about the V-2 rocket. Back to Wikipedia:
The impact speed of the V-2 rocket was 1790 mph and the max. speed was 3580 mph. In addition, the maximum altitude of the V2 was 128 miles if launched vertically and 55 miles if launched to its maximum operational range of 200 miles. Good thing that Squadron-1 is as far from Alamogordo as you could get and still be in the contiguous United States. By the way Alamogordo, New Mexico is where United States was testing the V-2 rockets in 1947. I wonder if that location will come up again.

I want to be as careful as I can in this next conjecture, because I do think the BH-1 is more than capable of escaping any weapon the world has in 1947, but a rocket with the potential to travel over 3500 mph and able to reach a possible 55 miles altitude or higher is a dangerous weapon.

Out of an abundance of caution and to avoid risk to any mission, this squadron was set to begin operations as far from New Mexico as possible and also as far from Washington DC as possible. The OE has strategy or remarkable luck.

Whether anyone wants to accept that fact or not. The OE doesn’t want these planes to be in harms way unless that’s part of the mission. Also, the OE might not just be worried about the BH-1, it might be concerned about other vehicles.

BH-1 Range

As I’ve mentioned before, there are limits to everything. There is a limit to costs, budgets, risks, speed, and time. Range would be no different. Flying a vehicle the size of a DC-4 costs fuel, a lot of fuel. Flying a similar vehicle at 1700 mph would burn more fuel.

Since we never see the Squadron-1 land we don’t know where they go. So it’s time to cheat a little. We know from other sightings across the country that these disks appear over and over. So for now, we know they need a range of “not less than the length of the United States.”

If the BH-1 needs to criss-cross the United States, then it would need a high range. In all likelihood it could not be less than 3200 miles, which is comparable to the SR-71, but that would be for a one-way trip and the BH-1 doesn’t have the same airbase support that the SR-71 would have. If a combat radius is needed to canvas the entire United States, then a range of at least 6400 miles would be needed, which is comparable to the U-2 spy plane at 7100 miles. That would be an amazing range. The BH-1 would have triple the speed of the U-2, but the same flight range. Unfortunately, I don’t believe 7100 fits the MCC. We’ll have to adjust the range of the BH-1 with more sightings, but for now, we will set it at 3200 miles similar to the SR-71.

This does mean that any mission for Squadron-1 would be cognizant of the cost of energy. And if the range is a concern, it would mean that having a drop gliding ability would be even more important.

This creates a new problem though. It means Squadron-1 has to refuel/charge up on a regular basis.

SKYBASE

Squadron-1 has no known starting airbase or airfield. The simplest conclusion is that there was a launching/refueling craft that remained in the sky. If the BH-1 is not a spacecraft and it is a plane, then it would need another support vehicle that would also be based in the sky. This skybase would need to avoid being spotted at any cost. It would need to be able to service at least 9 BH-1. It would also need to refuel/charge any BH-1 vehicle. Later I’ll show that there are routes going back and forth to the same locations, but for now, as a placeholder let’s create an artificial skybase in the Washington area for Squadron-1 to return to.

Even more important than its cruising range would be its ability to get back to its airbase in the sky, which means the BH-1 always needs enough energy to escape to high altitude. The cost of travelling vertically as compared to horizontal is a very steep cost in terms of energy.

Now, before we begin looking at other sightings let’s recap the plane and squadron.
Let’s mention one more thing. After this particular sighting, we will never see any BH-1 or other vehicle fly this same flight path. Not before. Not after. This was a unique route.

We will illustrate their other routes, but these disks used this route only once. They succeeded in what they wanted to accomplish, to get the attention of the United States media.

DOUBLE CHECK THE CRASH SITE AND ITS LOCATION

The SR-71 last flight was Oct. 9, 1999. Reconnaissance satellites were able to perform the same role without the same risk. And while that may have been short-sighted, putting pilots at risk to the dangers of SAM’s as those missiles get ever more deadly with every generation is a lot easier to do when one doesn’t them as real human beings, but they are.

But in 1947, the United States doesn’t have satellites nor any countermeasures against being viewed by satellites. In fact, the entire world could be mapped by a OE satellite far safely than sending in nine planes. So let’s deal with part of that topic and the rabbit-hole behind it.

Before even one disk would fly on Earth, any OE would want to have a complete picture of the environment in which they would be flying. In fact, because the OE isn’t from Earth, they would need to know something about Earth’s atmosphere. At the bare minimum they would have to know that you can fly planes, that aerodynamics work and under which conditions they would work.

The same OE would want a map of the surface and the areas they would be visiting. They could create such a map with similar mapping software that we have today. They would need to know what air capabilities the countries of Earth have.  They wouldn’t need hundreds of satellites, just one.

In fact, if they made a map of the world before beginning, they would uncover the state of the world. For example, the OE would see that Germany has significant bomb and war fighting damage. They would see that most of Europe has extensive bomb and war damage. They would see that Russia has significant damage. They would see the UK has damage but nowhere near the same as the countries of Europe. They would also see that China is at war. They would eventually see Japan has significant bomb and war damage, but not everywhere, but on the island in the south, in the prefecture, they would see two spots, two unmistakable spots where an atomic bomb had gone off.

If they hadn’t figured it out, eventually they would figure out the United States also has an atomic blast in Alamogordo, New Mexico. They would see that the United States was the only nation with an atomic blast without any bomb or war fighting damage.

Even with a satellite similar to BLANK. The OE would be able to determine Naval presence of these combatants. They would be able to determine the air capabilities of these countries. And even without knowledge of the borders, they would be able to reconstruct the borders of most countries based on their plane movement, military emplacements, the connections of the road systems.

The OE would have a map of Earth. And the United States would certainly look like an interesting country to survey.

In fact, in 1947, the Earth is in a fairly handicapped state. While the US just finished WW2 all countries have stopped war-time production. We’re decommissioning billions of dollars in equipment and turning some of it into scrap. England and Europe are in recovery mode. Russia is attempting to solidify their dominance in Eastern Europe.

If the OE wanted to attack and destroy us, they could have. We have no SAMs at this time. We have no satellites. We have no ICBM’s. We would be defenseless against most of their attacks. We wouldn’t have to worry about any cyber attack, or a crypto attack.

In order for those nine planes to fly any mission on Earth, they wouldn’t just need a map. To insure the elimination of careless risk, they would need and want an Air Traffic Control system. With a simple satellite, the OE could see what Earth planes are in the air. They could see their regular routes. They would be able to label and identify regular planes and their usage. For example, in the United States, there is a DC-4 that flies every day between Seattle and Spokane Washington. Every day. It does not have a serial number on it, but there is only plane performing that role. If a plane did have a serial number on it, with the right resolution satellite, it could have tracked that particular plane for a given amount of time, whether it be 20 days or one year. For example, it could theoretically track a CallAir plane that regularly flies in the northwest corridor of their operation.

They would also see, depending on their arrival date, the launch of captured Nazi V-2 missiles in the new White Sands Proving Ground near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The first launch was April 16, 1946. They would know that this is the same area as the atomic blast at the Trinity site.

At a bare minimum, the OE has a way to map the entire Earth and if the OE came in a spaceship, they would have been able to do this mapping all the way up to and beyond arrival. This map would be of significant and cultural importance to us, but to the OE it is just part of the operation.

INSERT ATC MAP

In other words, when those nine planes approached Mt. Rainier, they already knew what planes were in the area. While those planes still need radar, they knew every plane and where they would be. They know every cruise speed, and potentially every maximum speed of every plane on Earth and certainly in the United States. That means any crossing of paths between Squadron-1 and US planes is a controlled action. It also means, in my opinion, that there was a standing protocol not to engage or be seen by any jet aircraft of the day. And, in fact, not one jet airplane from any sighting occurred during this time.

So once again I may not be able to prove it, but I’m 100% certain, that the organization controlling the nine planes, i.e. Squadron-1, not only had a mapping system of the Earth, it also had an Air Traffic Control system. It used this system protect their vehicles from any unwanted interaction with the most advanced planes in the US and to create interaction with others. I’m also certain that it was more technologically sophisticated than that, but at the bare minimum, the MCC is a satellite mapping system with air traffic control and mapping.

There would also be capability of weather tracking or gamma spectrometry, but we can’t determine that just from the Kenneth Arnold sighting. We can do a satellite sensor comparison as we go along.

There is a difference between surveillance and reconnaissance. Surveillance is a passive activity. It can be done by satellite. In fact, almost any mission that a plane can do now, a satellite can do instead. That brings us to our next conjecture. If the disks were flying in the United States airspace, then there was a set of missions that couldn’t be done by satellite (either it couldn’t be done at all or it couldn’t be done easily).

If only we had more than one sighting of these disks. Oh wait, we do. If only we had more than one sighting on the same day. Oh wait, we do. So before we go back to the first instances, let’s explore the other sightings of June 24, 1947. Thank you Kenneth Arnold. Let’s see what the machines wanted us to see.

What were the disks doing when Kenneth Arnold was searching for them the second time.

Machine or being.

Who is flying the disks? Is it machines or is it a humanoid or something else. It’s machines. But let’s start with humanoids. if the planes are being piloted by humanoids from another planet, then it means there is a level of support that has to be maintained. This level of support becomes so large that eventually the most probable conclusion still becomes the pilot is a machine.

Let’s start. Depending on Oxygen level, the alien needs a special spacesuit, food, healthcare, money, sleep, medical care. Every machine would have to have a visual UI for the alien. There is also the time it would take for them to get here. So there would have to be a highly significant life caretaking system. In other words, a machine doesn’t need food, money, sleep, or a special spacesuit.

The other reason why I think it is machines is because there is no conceivable reason to me where an alien civilization would send someone, anyone to another planet where it might take 50 years to 80 years to get there, where they might bring a set of diseases or microbes to another planet.

The other indicator that these is a machine.
“remote control QUOTE”

In fact, in many sightings the viewers all state similar phrases about remote control, simultaneous action, moving in synchronous motion.
It is a machine. Either a machine controlling its neighbor machines or a machine above controlling all machines.

For now, the new rule is these drone flying planes are simply the machines. Actually, the more we talk about their movement patterns, the more robotic they seem. And, in fact, the more we see their hours of operation, the more it becomes apparent that if they’re not machines, then the beings controlling them would have beyond superhuman endurance.

Our culture and direction

When NASA launched the voyager, they put a bizarre plaque letting any alien entity where the probe came from. On that plaque was a record with information about our human culture. At the time of that launch, there was likely zero conception that letting any given alien entity know your origin presented any danger whatsoever.

It is my belief that in any future scenario where NASA has discovered life on another planet, there would be a reach out, like “item” or SETI. I’m 100% sure, there would be an attempt or attempts to communicate, then if the right technology existed, an attempt to meet. And these reach outs would be to scientists, institutions, governments or law makers.

I can’t predict the future, but my perspective is what is the probability vs. the probability we wouldn’t reach out to such entities, and the answer is there is no comparison.

What this means is those nine disks are part of a system, part of an organization, part of an operation that does NOT have that as a priority.

Military, Civilian, or Company?

One element were going to visit over and over is whether these craft are military, civilian, business, or intelligence agency owned.

On our world each military demands and is demanded to show that they are part of the military. There are “rules”. And also, any government or military in the past of our world, even when those entities didn’t have any communication with another, still had banners, symbols, colors, and other ways to identify themselves. In other words, markings. This is because there are costs to any army, and if there is a cost there is a budget and if there is a budget then there is accountability.

Militaries want to tell themselves apart from each other for “reasons”.

If these planes were created. And if these planes were sent here, then there was a cost. While we can’t be sure that an alien military would have the need for markings as our world generally demands, there will always be accountability. The alien entity would want their soldier back if they didn’t return. Unless there is a need to be secret.

Even during the U-2 flights over Russia, the planes had markings. The SR-71 had markings. These were black planes designed to evade the anti-aircraft defenses and enemy radar and photograph military points of interest.

As we will see from the other cases, the points of interest for these craft don’t always seem to be military.

And within our world there is no way that NASA would authorize a mission to Mars for a plane to fly around without its identifying marks.

In addition, we’ve already established that the planes flew in front of Kenneth Arnold on purpose as part of a task. What military mission starts with, “show all your capabilities to the enemy, and then fly away so they can tell everyone.”And what NASA mission would ever be considered where there is no protocol to communicate with the governments of that world before commencing. And then even if that same mission somehow got approved, part of their mission was, “show all your capabilities to a government, and then just fly away without saying anything.” Taxpayers would revolt. NASA would be closed down or restructured.

That means they are part of a system, part of an organization, and part of a mission sent here to accomplish something. They have a cost, they were constructed under a budget. There is risk to their mission and their design was made to mitigate that risk.