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NASA HiMAT - thanks nnenn!

OK. So I'm watching UFO Hunters on the DVR (the only way to watch TV; no commercials FTW!), and they have this rapid montage of aircraft: SR-71, something that looks like a Kfir, an F-117, an old E-3, this thing above, an F-15, and an F-106.

 

It's only onscreen for a few seconds, during which it is rolling to port. At the very end another wingtip comes into view, which made me think that it's an X-plane. Turns out it was the moon. But I couldn't find one that matches.

 

I also thought it looked an awful lot like the MiG 1.44 (and a few other canard aircraft.

 

But nothing seems to match. It looks like something Burt Rutan would design, if he build jet-powered fighter aircraft.

 

I really want to know what this is, because I just have never seen it before. Or if I have, not from this angle.

 

Also, it would make a cool MOC.

 

EDIT: Oh hey, I found the video of it on the intertubes. On this page you can see it in the third video, at around 3:18-3:21.

 

EDIT: I replaced the sketch with a screen cap of the stupid thing.

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