Realist: I wonder how long the military has been playing with such shapes and if that explains the flying saucer phenomena of the 1950s UFO mania.
Conspiracist: I guess they’ve finally started to figure out how the flying saucers that crashed in the 50s worked and are incorporating them slowly into designs to hide the alien influence.
The realist interpretation seems more sane but it wouldn’t surprise me if the conspiratorial interpretation is bouncing around corners of the internet.
One conspiracy theory proposes a mix of both: that the flying wings use reverse-engineered antigrav technology from UFOs, which is argued to be required for takeoff.
Some of those UFO sightings are also clearly forced perspective errors. If you think a ship is larger than it is then it appears to accelerate much, much faster than it actually can, because you assume it’s farther away and for it to cross fifteen degrees of your field of view in one second it must have pulled 50 G’s. Or it was a drone sized object four hundred yards away.
