Boscombe Down Incident
The Boscombe Down Incident refers to an alleged crash landing of a classified flying triangle aircraft at the UK government's highly secret Boscombe Down facility on September 26, 1994. The case is documented in Ryan Wood's Magic Eyes Only and was first reported in the November 1994 edition of Air Force Monthly.
| Date | 1994-09-26 |
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The Crash
According to the Air Force Monthly article, an unusual crash landing occurred on the runway of Boscombe Down. Rumors quickly circulated that the wreck was of a flying triangle matching descriptions given by UFO witnesses for decades. Shortly after the crash, an unmarked civilian-registered (CIA-operated) Boeing 737 and a similarly anonymous DC-8 visited the facility. Two days later, the wreckage was loaded onto a C-5 Galaxy and flown to Air Force Plant 42 at Palmdale, California.
The publication speculated the aircraft involved was a TR-3A, the existence of which the US government has yet to officially acknowledge. While the article references the TR-3A designation, Edgar Fouché noted that TR-3A and TR-3B are often used interchangeably in public discourse, suggesting the crashed craft may have been a TR-3B variant operating under the Aurora Program.
Astra Connection
The code name for the TR-3B — Astra, standing for Advanced Stealth Technology Reconnaissance Aircraft — finds a possible real-world echo in this incident. In Magic Eyes Only, Ryan Wood cataloged the Boscombe Down crash among cases suggestive of advanced US black program aircraft operating from or over allied territory.