Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

I tell ya.. I've worked in many TS facilities in Palmdale/ Edwards.. cell phone should be banned from all.. issue a non recordable cell phone each day to employees at the entrance guard shaking exchange for your phone.. anyone caught with a regular cell phone inside a restricted area is gone.. any materials found on phone would determine possible federal charges..

Release of these photos and videos can be devastating to our country's protection..

I don't think people appreciate how much expense and effort is undertaken to prevent secret visuals from getting out. If something is openly displayed on a flatbed trailer, even in the middle of the most heavily guarded facilities, it's *NOT* a secret. Have you ever heard of photo-reconnoissance satellites?

This story is ridiculous.

If this component was so "top secret" then why is it being transported in the open and not tarped, covered or in a container? This is a nothing burger story. JMHO

The Internet and cell phones....were the beginning of the end of human society

I'm assuming the individual who wrote the article is not familiar with the Military and our UCMJ. There are numerous articles in the UCMJ that an individual who violated OPSEC can be charged with. IF in fact this is considered TS the military will handle it. I'm sure the Command investigation that follows will determine what, and if, any violations occurred.

This is maddening.

I know someone who works on TS materials. He has to check in his cel phone when he arrives at work, and can pick it up when he leaves.

Why isn't this consistent?

This should be investigated, and if a breech of security happened--
The guilty party (or parties) are hauled off to prison.

The person or persons involved in this incident should be prosecuted.

Seems to me that whoever took this video should be prosecuted. They should have known better, whether they had a clearance or not.
For the record, I had a Top Secret clearance at one time.

Yeah, like they’re going to tote around a super secret aircraft on a flatbed truck for the world to see without even a 100 dollar tarp over it. Unless they wanted it to be seen?

It's a movie prop....nothing to see here..

It’s a canopy for a new pavilion! Nothing to see here… move along now! Lol

If they moved something Top Secret in the daytime with non credentialed people nearby, it's on the brass who decided to move it. Of course anyone who photograph it if it drove by on a trailer. The photographer was probably a contract labor guy with nothing to lose.

"An OPSEC violation has once again made a case for why using TikTok should be a punishable offense in the military"

OPSEC has a specific meaning of safeguarding current or upcoming military operations. Too often people use it as a catch-all phrase when talking about securing anything. By definition it only pertains to unclassified information, as national security information is a whole different beast.

We don't know that this is a "secret military aircraft." Like others have posted, the fact that someone took a picture and posted it is more reason to believe it's not. And that person is most likely not military anyway, since this was at a Lockheed testing facility and not a military installation.

This article sounds like it was written by one of these brand-new, super gung-ho Airmen to whom I have to explain that not everything is a state secret. And that whole "using TikTok should be a punishable offense" line... Get real.

Swamp gas and birds and weather balloons. Move along.

Looking at the photo and the surroundings, it is a safe bet that the video was shot by a contractor that was working on the construction project that is in the foreground. I would assume that the article in question was not too secret, or else those contractors would be nowhere near it. Especially with any type of device that can record!

Treason.
Mel.j.

Looks like swamp gas to me!

What a total shock! Anyone remember Trump outlawing tik tok from USA!
The communists need full access to everything……so now they have it….courtesy of the Bidenistas and Joe-Bama.
Congrats to us on our resourceful management of our government.

Expect much more of the same….we asked for it…

Maybe the Russians could hack TickTock out of existence and we would all be better off

Sometimes top secret things are out in the open. What make it top secret is knowing that it's a secret. Remember "Hunt For Red October"? There was a lot of classified material in that book all obtained via unclassified sources. (ie Janes, Aviation Week, etc)

....ok, let's set the record straight...this is nothing more than a large, mis-shapened paper plate on a not really so big trailer...

Looks like something set up to be LEAKED out. Possibly fake but intended to be leaked to scare somebody.

I remember in the late 70's, a friend that buys a lot of surplus stuff got this wooden crate, we opened in and it had a nickel cast of a plane body and a wing for a wind tunnel. Turns out, it was an SR71...

nonstory

I also worked as an unclassfied intern, at Y12, from 9167-1972. I did not know that picture taking was wrong. I took a picture of my adviser, and I learned fast. I was not punished.

Way things are going anything could help

ADXbear has a great fix ~ Palmdale/Edwards should heed the advice. No excuses!

It's a mocked up component, not a whole craft for radar testing. This is like comparing a shadow puppet of a torso to the next master Jedi full reveal in Star Wars movies.

i believe it is a flying saucer from outer limits captured and being studied.

When I was in the military I was stationed in Southern Spain. There was a packaged pastry that included an aviation "trading card". It was sold off base. One of the airplanes in the set was an SR-71 Blackbird. This was in 1977.

So FlightAware acknowledges this could be an OPSEC violation, yet instead of just telling the story behind the possible breach they're instead perpetuating the possible breach by posting pic & links to other internet posts of the possible breach.
Umm, nothing wrong with that ... right?

If the US is so concerned about their "secret military technology", why did they abandon some of their weapons and AIRCRAFT in Afghanistan? Afghanistan is literally "The Communists" next door neighbor. I wouldn't be surprised if one day we read in the headlines that the USAF F-35 got shot down by an ENEMY F-35.

Death by hanging.