Unidentified Aircraft Seen Over Texas Options

[Cobretti]

First, some information as to what the hell I'm talking about:
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/another-t...he-u-1564690286
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/so-what-w...tted-1555124270
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/...-texas/9007123/
http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/bfont-...-258730351.html



Now that that's out of the way, I stumbled across this news a few weeks ago. Back in May there were sightings of triangular, B2-like aircraft in the skies over the midwestern US. From the pictures they clearly aren't B2s and the USAF stated that there weren't any B2 bombers, much less three of them at once, flying over the areas where these flying wing aircraft were spotted. They also don't appear to be RQ-170 Sentinels, a secret reconnaissance UAV that was classified until one was sighted at an airport in Kandahar, Afghanistan. So what are they?

The second article gives some good theories as to what they are. The indications that it is the alleged TR-3A Black Manta reconnaissance/electronic warfare aircraft or some sort of UAV based on the proposed design makes sense. But if the TR-3A was indeed replaced by the RQ-170 Sentinel, why is it still flying around? Does it have even greater ELINT capabilities than the RQ-170? Can it be used as a low-observable surgical strike bomber? Is it being used as the testbed for some sort of experimental weaponry, like a directed energy weapon? Or is it in fact deploying such weapons in the field? Perhaps this top secret reconnaissance/EW aircraft had or was modified for some sort of strike mission to take the F-117s place. In addition to collecting data from the enemy it could be able to deliver laser guided munitions or JDAMS to a target or even use laser/microwaves to disable enemy radars and electronics, thus clearing the way for less stealthy aircraft.