Classified USAF Patches

[Zaphod58]

I can only imagine.

People like him fascinate me. On the one hand they can seem a bit… off, maybe? Like they’re just tuned in to a slightly different frequency. But their passion and RIDICULOUS breadth of knowledge about whatever it is that they love is second to none. A lot of people who gravitate to this aviation stuff are maligned as conspiracy theorists and weirdos, and some rightfully so. It’s no different than the reptile loving community that I was once a part of, particularly the venomous keepers. A weird bunch of genuinely lovely people who are just not QUITE all there, God bless them. But that ONE time you just have to pin down that one specific detail about that one specific thing that no one knows anything about…you just reach out to your guy and he’s got your answer in like three minutes with links to some other stuff you have never even heard of… and it’s perfect. It’s precisely what you needed to know. 

You’re mentioning him has proven to be serendipitous… I’ve had Dreamland sitting in my Amazon cart for about a month now. I reckon this is as good a sign as any to just get it.

He gave me several of his other books. They’re all pretty interesting reads.

[KrustyKrab]

That was very interesting, thanks much for the post!

I love the blank “If I tell you, I have to kill you” patch.   Would love to be a fly on the wall during that group’s briefing’s 

[Ferret]

“I Could Tell You But The You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me” by Trevor Paglin is a must-have for anyone with even the slightest interest in this topic. The photos and his explanations of what is KNOWN vs what is speculated with each one are all worth the time. 

Now then… Regarding the Northrop Night Stalker II patch you shared above - I have a sneaking suspicion that, like the Bird of Prey patches shown above that what appears to be an Indian in a headdress with a single feather in the middle is the general outline of an airplane. The box containing the word “NIGHT” is the outline of the wings and the nostrils are the exhaust. I’ll go out on a limb and speculate the the “eyes” are the same general shape of the air inlets seen from head-on. That patch has always stood out to me as one enormous wink and a nod to anyone who lives in that world. 

Side note… Signal Witch… I am SO glad you are here (and if you are who I think you are, I’m glad you found your way to this site ?)

I would love it if the Northrop Night Stalker was the fabled F117 companion

[Blackfingers]

Much conjecture about the companion.Lot of hearsay and rumours.
Google Fu your appropriate Rabbit hole.
Re: F-117 Secret Companion Aircraft
Musings on the "F-117 Companion" | Secret Projects Forum
Fact or Fiction? The Legend of the RF-119 Manta : r/MilitaryAviation

[Blackfingers]

This just came up on my feed.
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me, by Trevor Paglen

[Zaphod58]

[Blackfingers]

Seems to me they are keeping them coming now new projects are hitting the skies.

[Good Bacteria]

When i was a budding airmen, I tried to collect all the squadron patches for LRAFB. Back then, it was the 16th that moved back to South Carolina, and it became the 53rd Blackjacks. I was transferred to three separate squadrons on the same base over a couple of years while they juggled staffing under the heavy swings of Clinton's sythe. 

I went from the 16th to 53rd Blackjacks, to the 50th Red Devils and then over to the 51st Green Hornets. I managed to get all the patches except for 17th Cats which was a very secretive mobile airlift squadron that you never knew when they were leaving or coming back. There were times we had to hustle up bodies on the spot just to recover surprise landings. 

(NDA expired) I also witnessed an experimental aircraft that landed on a weekend shift with 3 support C-130H's, woodland camo paint with black rims, with NO signage or designators on the planes. The craft was very sleek, no vertical stabilizer(s), almost look like the plane from 'Firefox' with Clint Eastwood, but smaller and compact. I believe it was a drone but we were told before they planes were even on approach to report the the red rope and face the hangers at attention. I looked anyway  over my shoulder, lol. We were then debriefed by civilian dressed 'somebodys', most likely AFOSI, but who knows. 

I remember we also had a special hangar STRICTLY for three letter agency business. I'd sometimes get a glance over there and there would usually be an personal jet sitting it there with a few guys milling around in sunglasses.

Busy base! Lol.

[Blackfingers]

Sounds like a demonstrator..