... might find this declassified Area 51 stuff interesting. The general interest article is written by a guy at the National Security Archive at George Washington University (they gather and archive declassified documents). The article is a pretty cool overview of some of the work that was done there through the 60's and 70's with links to the declassified actual documents.
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB443/ The one that I may attempt to read (probably way over my head though) is a math heavy document (document 10) which is referenced in the Stealth fundamentals section ... and I will quote from the general interest article:
The first of those programs, and the unconventional shape of the aircraft produced, had its origins in a 1962 work (Document 10) by Russian theoretical physicist (and electric engineer) Pytor Ufimtsev — which did not spur the Russian air force to either classify the work or make use of it. The paper, Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction, when translated by the Air Force Foreign Technology Division in 1971 would consist of over 200 pages of mathematical analysis. A foreword explained that Ufimtsev studied the scattering characteristics of "reflecting bodies with abrupt surface discontinuities or with sharp edges." He took into account "the laws of geometric optics ..., the additional currents arising in the vicinity of the edges or borders which have the character of edge waves and rapidly attenuate with increasing distance from the edge or border."
Who knows, maybe I can apply some stealth technology to my basement/bedroom studio.