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The U.S. Air Force's X-37B unmanned spacecraft returned to Earth this morning after spending more than seven months in orbit on a classified mission.

X-37B unmanned spacecraft returns to Earth

artist's conception of the X-37 from 1999 (credit: NASA)

Artist's conception of the X-37 from 1999 (credit: NASA)

The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B unmanned spacecraft returned to Earth this morning after spending more than seven months in orbit on a classified mission.

The autonomous Boeing-built X-37B landed at 1:16 AM PST at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This craft, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle, was originally a NASA project before being taken over by the U.S. military. Little information is known about the classified seven month mission, other than basic mission objectives released by officials—testing of guidance, navigation, control, thermal protection and autonomous operation in orbit, re-entry and landing.

The X-37B is expected to return to space next year.

About Jason McClellan

Jason McClellan is a UFO journalist and the producer/co-host of the web series Spacing Out! He is also the web content manager and staff writer for OpenMinds.tv, and a co-organizer and technical producer of the International UFO Congress. As a founding member of Open Minds, Jason served as a writer and editor for the now defunct Open Minds magazine. He has appeared on Syfy, NatGeo, and, most recently, he co-starred on H2's Hangar 1: The UFO Files. ------ Follow Jason on Twitter @acecentric and subscribe to Jason's updates on Facebook.

One comment

  1. Why is this suddenly BIG news? They have known this for a long time! And was it the local TV news that inserted all the alien images, and saucer images, or was that from higher up the chain?

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