Posted on 01/01/2015 7:51:38 PM PST by blam
Kate Seamons
December 30, 2014
In an Aug. 4, 1955 photo provided by the CIA, the prototype U-2 spy plane is tested at what became known at Area 51 in Nevada. (AP Photo/CIA)
As far as "best of 2014" lists go, the CIA has a pretty irresistible one: On Dec. 22 it started tweeting links to the 10 most popular articles of the year that it shared on Twitter, and the agency arrived at No. 1 yesterday, tweeting: "Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? It was us." The accompanying link directs readers to The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974, a 272-page document from 1998 the CIA tweeted a link to in early July, reported KAKE at the time.
The upshot of the report is that the CIA was the culprit behind more than half of the UFO sightings logged in the 1950s and 1960s.
As VentureBeat reports, the CIA tested its U-2 spy planes at 60,000 feet, an altitude that seemed impossible for man to reach at the time—leading observers, specifically pilots, to suspect it wasn't man up there at all.
VentureBeat highlights a portion of the report that explains that in the mid-1950s, most commercial airliners stuck below 20,000 feet; military aircraft kept it below 40,000 feet.
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(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Sure what about those dead aliens?
A U-2 at 60,000 feet isn’t going to look even remotely like the classic UFO sighting. If it was “us,” that wasn’t what it was in the majority of sightings that remain unexplained.
Then what's this out in my backyard RIGHT NOW?!?!?
That’s swamp gas.
I keep my dead alien out in the garage...
Why is it that virtually EVERYBODY thinks that “if” there are “Space Aliens”, “ET’s” or some kind of “Space Travelers”, they would have some superior intelligence relative to us ?
“Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the ‘50s? It was us.”
... that’s what they WANT you to believe....
We are the aliens we’ve been waiting for?
Of interest to one or more of your pinglists I’m sure
Somebody alert Quix.
UFO debunker Philip Klass glomming onto this report in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
What a ridiculous story by the CIA.
Mostly because we haven’t figured out yet how to travel long distances through space, and if ‘they’ have, they must be at least technologically more advanced than us.
In other words; Here is some nice new dis-information for the masses. Make of it what you will.
Because they're "Space Travelers" and we're not?
Logic: they would have to have advanced science and technology at minimum that necessary for space travel...
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