> Mysterious US military aircraft
Journalists need to stop using adjectives like "mysterious" when writing about the X-37B. While the aircraft's technology and missions are classified, there is nothing mysterious about the existence of the plane itself.
Considering there isn't even a journalist attributed on the article, I'm not sure we should be presuming any were even involved in its publication.
https://www.bbc.com/news/help-41670342
That does leave a hole when articles include opinion content mixed in with general facts.
Like one of the other more recent launches was Intruder 8, a pair of satellites used by Naval signals intelligence to detect ships using time of arrival from radio transmissions.
Compared to that, what's the new mission of the X-37B? I'd say it's pretty mysterious.