I hate to rain on this parade, but .....
If it's a recce programme, where's the recce product? Why was there such a shortfall of recce imagery in Desert Storm (for example)? How come we can reliably account for where the recce imagery comes from?
We knew that 'something was out there' long before -117 was officially revealed, but there's no credible evidence of Aurora's existence yet, and its credibility is flawed by the way in which the 'conspiracy nuts' and UFOlogists have taken it to their hearts.
But, I do believe that there may be something out there - which perhaps debuted as a stealthy high level laser designation platform during Desert Storm, mostly operating in conjunction with F-117As. It would explain certain inconsistenceies in the way some of the -117 missions were conducted.