Alien Spaceship? Probably Not: CIA Admits it’s Behind (Most) UFO Sightings
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Flying saucers? Little green men? Martians? Turns out, those UFOs that got the world talking about visitors from distant worlds were early U.S. spy planes. Probably.
In a CIA #Bestof2014 tweet published Monday, the Agency admitted being behind more than half of the UFO sightings logged in the 1950s and 1960s.
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#1 most read on our #Bestof2014 list: Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? It was us. http://1.usa.gov/1lU3oIU (PDF 9.26MB)
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The tweet, which references one of the CIA’s most read articles, directs followers to “The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974,” a 272-page document from 1998 written by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach and tweeted by the Agency under the title “KAKE” last July.
The article focuses on the U-2, which took its first flight in 1955 and became instrumental during the Cold War in the 1950s and ‘60’s.
The early CIA spy plane was tested at 60,000 feet, an altitude then believed to be impossible for man to reach during the two decades, leading observers, especially pilots, to suspect it wasn’t man flying the plane. That’s why it was often mistaken for an alien craft.
According to the report, in the mid-1950s, most commercial airliners stuck between altitudes 10,000 and 20,000 feet; military aircraft kept it below 40,000 feet.
"Consequently, once U-2s started flying at altitudes above 60,000 feet, air-traffic controllers began receiving increasing numbers of UFO reports," the document explains. In fact, the CIA actually cross-checked the UFO reports with its flight records, but in instances where it verified the UFO was really a U-2, it stayed mum.
Reports were mostly made "in the early evening hours from pilots of airlines flying from east to west." After the sun dropped below the horizon, the U-2s would look like "fiery objects."
The report also reveals that ground-based UFO spotters often wrote letters to the Air Force. "This, in turn, led to the Air Force's Operation BLUE BOOK," which "collected all reports of UFO sightings" and "attempted to explain such sightings by linking them to natural phenomena."
The report was part of documents declassified in 2013 that famously detailed the existence of Area 51 in Nevada.
As for the rest of the CIA's top 10, it includes a look at a day in the life of a "not yet burned out" CIA Operations Center officer and a confirmation that pigeon missions remain classified.
And as for the UFO sightings not explained by the CIA, the imagination may continue to run wild.
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File photo of Area 51
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We are not alone
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Space industry CEO is ‘absolutely convinced’ that aliens have visited Earth
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/30/15712270/robert-bigelow-ufo-aliens-
60-minutes-aerospace
Robert Bigelow thinks the truth is out there
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As a lifelong sci-fi fan, I'd expect this to be a favorite topic
of mine ... Perhaps I think it's a given, so no reason push it.
Otoh, I didn't know that the CIA is now claiming the UFOs.
Short: Dan Aykroyd Tells the Stories Behind
his 4 UFO Sightings on Sway in the Morning
Long: Alien Evidence UFO Sightings Real Aliens
In NASA Footage - Dan Aykroyd Documentary
... oooOO}{OOooo ...
Sometimes a cookie is not enough. I need an eclair.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
We are not alone
Except when you die.
We all die alone.
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We had two three or more threads on this topic one Harry Reid and a New UFO Program and the other an old PirateNews conspiracy thread UFOs caught on old videotape and : ‘Rainbow coloured alien craft’ spied over Lake Michigan
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‘Aliens exist and have deal with Donald Trump’ claims ex-Israeli space official
Professor Eshed told Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth: “The UFOs have asked not to publish that they are here, humanity is not ready yet.
https://news.yahoo.com/aliens-exist-deal-donald-trump-161606229.html
“Trump was on the verge of revealing, but the aliens in the Galactic Federation are saying: ‘Wait, let people calm down first’.
“They don’t want to start mass hysteria. They want to first make us sane and understand.”
The Galactic Federation exist in Dr Who, Rick and Morty and other popular culture to describe a transgalactic alliance of extraterrestrials.
He retired from the Defense Ministry in October 2011, having commanded the launching of 20 Israeli satellites, reported the Jewish Press.
His claims were disputed in local media reporting saying he has “lost his mind”
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Pretty slim chances that anybody ever got advanced enough to get off the rock before they destroyed themselves. Even slimmer chances that they've gone far enough with their tech to travel all the way here.
If there is a Federation, they're not going to want to have anything to do with us.
Our collective greed is rivaled only by our collective cowardice.
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)
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And here I thought it was the Russians.
After all, they're at the heart of everything bad, aren't they?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:No, but their trolls are annoying, Russian troll.
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And here I thought it was the Russians.
After all, they're at the heart of everything bad, aren't they?
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In the Biden Corona stimulus there is a statement saying they must relase UAP info?
COVID-19 bill started a 180-day countdown for UFO disclosures
https://nypost.com/2020/12/29/covid-19-bill-started-a-180-day-countdow
n-for-ufo-disclosures/
https://news.sky.com/story/ufo-report-set-to-be-released-as-a-result-o
f-us-emergency-relief-bill-12179740
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