Did Aurora exist or not? Who knows. There's one conspiracy theory that has it that the YF-23 was actually "Aurora". There is one oddity, though, that I've never seen satisfactorily explained - mainly because I never bothered to look.
Why did a YF-23, or something that looks very like one, crash at Boscombe Down back in September 1994? What was it doing there? What actually was it?
There's no real possibility of denial - there are photos of the thing with the back end covered in a tarp, nose section sticking out. I still have the edition of Air Force's Monthly with the photos in it. A C-5 was alleged to have shown up pretty sharpish and carted it off. The RAF denied the C-5 had visited, supposedly, but I'd have thought C-5s were a bit hard to miss.
So what was that all about then?
p-k-b