Good catch on the next gen LEDs. IN the mid-1980s, Paul Bennewitz was told that the Air Force was testing technology just as you and RPJ describe–able to project what was “behind” them (to an observer) on the surface of the craft, making them virtually invisible.

So how much has this technology progressed since then, since we have only heard about it recently? Looks like more and more sightings may have to be looked at as “UMT’s–Unacknowledged Military Technology.

Yeah, it lands on 4 hovercraft pads. I don’t know why the designers thought that this was useful, and didn’t use tires.

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Forget about LED’s, the next generation of video screens is OLED which is self luminescent, potentially transparent, 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, 100,000 hours, and so far the thinnest one made is 1/3 mm. They’re used for the little screens on the outside of cell phones now but are getting bigger this month thanks to Sony, then others. They can also be used for general lighting, and presumably camouflage.

That p-791 is not the smoothest of landers, is it?