* Originally dated 17 Sep 1992, 20:43

        *****************  Los Angeles Times  ************************

        Mysterious tremors widely noticed from Los Angeles to San Diego
        on Wednesday at 8:55 a.m., and again about 10 a.m. definitly
        weren't earthquakes, experts said, and speculation that they
        stemmed from an exotic spy plane that has reportedly been flying
        out of a secret Air Force base in Nevada could not be confirmed.

        Military spokesmen said they knew nothing about a plane
        purportedly called the Aurora that is said to periodically
        streak over the Los Angeles Basin at about 4000 m.p.h. on a
        northeasterly path.  There have been at least six episodes of
        morning sonic boom since June of last year.

        Sources have told the Times that the Air Force is said to be
        using a secert base called S-4 near the dry Groom Lake, north of
        Las Vegas, to test the plane, which once was inadvertently
        listed on an official budget report but which now the Air Force
        denies exists.