Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Mystery Drone: Google Maps Image Seems To Show UAV At Lockheed Martin Skunk Works (PHOTO)


A satellite image of what appears to be an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, at a Lockheed Martin facility has fueled speculation about what the company may be building at its famous Skunk Works plant in Palmdale, Calif.

The object in the image looks like a "flying wing" design similar to Lockheed's RQ-170 Sentinel drone. It was first spotted by George Kaplan, who wrote about it last Thursday on Open Source GEOINT. According to Kaplan, the satellite image, which can be found on Google Maps and Google Earth, was taken in December of 2011 .... http://www.huffingtonpost.com