The story was given away because there is no way to hide it.

One evening long ago, we looked up to the heavens and saw some unusual things. There appeared to be strange lights and maybe some type of smoke trail. We were so unnerved by the sight that we called the cops, who told us to calm down and go to sleep. A few days later, it was reported in the general Israeli press that the Israel Air Force (IAF) had sent up a new Ofek satellite in order to see what the Iranians in Tehran put on their kebab.

When I need a good boost of energy, I watch a short clip of the lighting of the J58 engines on the SR-71 (volume up!). I have written about the plane that is one of the greatest wonders of human imagination and creativity. Its primary designer, Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, once said that every plane needs a miracle and that the SR-71 was all miracles. Its fuel, JP7, was relatively inert; one could throw lit cigarettes into it, and nothing would happen. In order to get it to light, one had to employ Chevy engines to get the engines spinning and then release triethylborane (TEB), which explodes in air — and ignites the fuel. Any time pilots of the Blackbird needed to turn on the afterburners after a refueling, they would spritz some of the TEB to fire up the engines. They had 18 shots of TEB, and a pilot told me that he never ran out on a mission.

The other night we heard an hour of endless plane engine sound. We checked a flight radar app, and there were no commercial flights anywhere near Jerusalem. We concluded it was the IAF and it was a serious drill or a renewed attack on Iran. The last time we heard such sustained engine noise above was the first day of the presently on pause war. We couldn’t put all the pieces together until we learned that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was in the country visiting American servicemen at a base in the south of Israel. The........

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