On the morning of 31 October 2026, Lockheed Martin posted a nine-second video on social media from its Skunk Works advanced development division. It shows an eye in the dark and ends with the Skunk Works skunk and a single line: “You can’t see what’s coming.” Within a day it had passed half a million views. Lockheed Martin has not said what it refers to.

Skunk Works Teasers Have a Track Record

This is not the first time this autumn. On 12 September 2026, Lockheed posted a short clip of a shadowy aircraft silhouette captioned “Next level unlocked. More to come.” The Aviationist noted that the silhouette matched the Vectis keychains handed out at the Farnborough Airshow in July, the only official front view of the aircraft. Two days later Lockheed announced that Skunk Works was adding four more Vectis vehicles to production, and showed a full-scale model at the Air, Space & Cyber Conference; we reported it in Lockheed Vectis: Four More Prototypes, First Flight 2027.

What Vectis Is

Vectis is a stealthy, autonomous Group 5 collaborative combat aircraft that Skunk Works unveiled in September 2025 as a clean-sheet, company-funded design. It is meant to fly alongside crewed fighters on air-to-air, air-to-ground and reconnaissance missions. Lockheed has said it is smaller than an F-16, that the prototype will use a Williams International FJ44-4 turbofan, and that it aims to fly by the end of 2027. Skunk Works general manager O.J. Sanchez said at the reveal that Vectis offered best-in-class survivability at the CCA price point.

Other Possibilities

Skunk Works is also where the SR-71, the F-117 and the U-2 came from, and the teaser has revived speculation about a hypersonic successor to the Blackbird, often called the SR-72, which Lockheed has discussed publicly in the past but has never shown. None of these has been linked to the teaser by the company, and the theme of something you cannot see fits almost any stealth programme.

What the Viral Post Gets Right

The description circulating online is accurate in essence: Lockheed released a mysterious Skunk Works teaser on 31 October with the line “You can’t see what’s coming”, it has drawn large numbers of views, and the company has not explained it. Descriptions of exactly what the eye shows vary between accounts.

Sources: Lockheed Martin social media post (31 October 2026); Joshifyed Watchtower (31 October 2026); Stefano D’Urso, The Aviationist (12 September 2026); Lockheed Martin, “Skunk Works Expands Production of Lockheed Martin Vectis” (14 September 2026); Breaking Defense (21 September 2025).