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On 1-Aug-2006, "Kyle Boatright" wrote:

No, I'm not spilling the beans on who it was or the forum topic

Forgive me, but I'll spill 'em for you: Michael Schratt, and the topic was
"That's classified, USAF Secrets Revealed". Ohmygawd, was that an
incredible presentation, and I don't mean incredible in a good way. There
were so many outlandish claims, so many "facts" and so much "detail" that
was completely wrong, it was sickening. I couldn't help myself, when he was
done with his presentation on the day I saw him, I went up to him and told
him he was full of ****. Not exactly an educated, academic type of response
I know, but I felt it was appropriate. Just a minor "for instance": he
claimed that during an open house/ air show at Norton AFB, California,
senior member of the government were taken into the largest hangar at Norton
and shown a classified anti-gravity ship that could easily travel among the
stars. One "witness" supposedly told him all the detail, including that the
craft had ACES 2 ejections seats from an F-4 Phantom, and obviously had been
built in the early 1960s. Well, aside from the prototype, F-4s had Martin
Baker Mk-H-5, and later Mk-H-7 seats, ACES 2 didn't appear until the mid
-1970s and was to my knowledge NEVER flown in an F-4. That doesn't address
the IMHO ridiculous assertion that a highly classified display was given in
a hanger during an open house with thousands of civilians milling around
just outside. And to have this happen at Norton, not Edwards, Tonopah Test
Range, or someplace much more secure, that just boggles my mind. I can't
believe EAA gave him the time of day. Sadly, Oshkosh's local paper gave him
a nice write-up without really challenging his assertions at all.
http://www.thenorthwestern.com/apps/...31/OSH0101/607
310346&SearchID=73252563925769

Must be a Zoom Wanna Be.