Popular Science | First Look: Bird of Prey

"Black airplanes—their existence itself is secret—are used to demonstrate high-risk technologies with a big military payoff, and a revelation like this is a once-or-twice-a-decade event. Most of these vehicles are tested at Area 51, the Air Force's secret flight-test center in Nevada."

So what has this got to do with Aurora?
Link gleaned from this Slashdot thread, which has quickly devolved into a scholarly debate about the origon and history of the Klingon and Romulan starships of the same name.