The Aviationist – A recent nighttime thermal image captured during flight activity near Groom Lake shows a sharply triangular aircraft that resembles an unexplained platform photographed over Wichita and Texas in 2014

The Aviationist: https://theaviationist.com/2026/01/18/

The aircraft he spotted flying at night in 2026 over Nevada bears a striking resemblance to the now somewhat famous triangular aircraft photographed in daylight over Wichita, Kansas, in 2014, an image that, as our analysis at the time showed, appeared to be legitimate and unaltered.

In fact, as our readers may remember, in 2014 we reported about an aircraft with a distinctly triangular planform was photographed in broad daylight over Wichita, Kansas. The image, captured by a local observer, showed a large, dark, flying wing-like aircraft with proportions that did not correspond to any known operational type. At the time, we noted that Wichita’s proximity to major aircraft manufacturing and testing facilities, combined with the then-recent tensions with Russia following the invasion of Crimea, made the sighting particularly intriguing.

Noteworthy, although it had been taken in February 2014, the image of the mysterious triangular aircraft over Wichita was released in April 2014, roughly one month after another intruguing sighting: on Mar. 10, 2014 Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett took some photographs of three mysterious planes flying at very high altitude over Amarillo, Texas.