Record entry · Defense Procurement

Blackbird

What is happening now

  • A US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Made Military History and Hit Mach 3.43 and Blew Out Both Inlets. The USAF Says That Wasn’t Even the Fastest a ‘Blackbird’ Ever Flew.

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

How well we know this

80 documents · 22 publishers · 10% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 14 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.1: about 90% of mentions carry no typed assertion
Added 30 Sept 2026Mentions 24Sources 8Days of coverage 18

Why this name is on the record

Blackbird was added automatically on 30 Sept 2026 after 24 mentions across 8 sources over 18 days. 71% of that coverage came from a single subject area.

Reported alongside Blackbird

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

Lockheed MartinSr-71United StatesNASA
  • Sr-71 Blackbird · 57 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Mach · 53 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Lockheed Martin · 49 shared documents
  • Sr-71 · 47 shared documents
  • United States · 27 shared documents
  • NASA · 26 shared documents
  • Pratt · 22 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Cold War · 21 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Soviet Union · 20 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Blackbirds · 19 shared documents · no page of its own yet

For developers

GET https://api.signalbureau.ai/api/registry?slug=blackbird

{
  "slug": "blackbird",
  "state": "active",
  "detail": {
    "state": "active",
    "source": "ontology",
    "label": "blackbird",
    "promotedAt": "2026-09-30",
    "category": "defense_procurement",
    "evidence": {
      "mentions": 24,
      "sources": 8,
      "days": 18,
      "concentration": 0.708,
      "standAloneShare": 0.649
    }
  }
}

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Blackbird

Entity.

Evidence
80 documents · 22 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 3 Sept 2026, last seen 14 Oct 2026
Measured
10% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
15 Oct 2026
11 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (1)

  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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