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CIA Admits: All Those UFO Sightings In 1950s? 'It Was Us'
Fox News ^ | 1-1-2015 | By Kate Seamons

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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KEYWORDS: aliens; cia; nasa; ufo
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To: Sybeck1

Stored out in area S5 south of Groom Lake where they reverse-engineer alien space craft into Apple products.


21 posted on 01/01/2015 8:07:21 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Zeneta
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 ?

Have you been to Walmart lately? Or paid attention to Congress? Beings from outer space HAVE to be smarter than us.

22 posted on 01/01/2015 8:07:50 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Zeneta

“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 ?”

Just two reasons,
1.They figured out how to get here.
2.They are smart enough not to have anything to do with us.


23 posted on 01/01/2015 8:09:08 PM PST by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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To: PROCON

24 posted on 01/01/2015 8:12:18 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: SaxxonWoods
We are the aliens we’ve been waiting for?

Well, yes. I mean, I tried to tell you guys 10,000 years ago "F'Petessake don't wipe out the Neanderthals" but Zoltar was all "they're nothing but a bunch of knuckle-dragging Neanderthals," which was true but beside the point and so after he stole beer, the light bulb, and the Infield Fly Rule from them, zappo! "Let's build a bunch of stone structures with little points on them," he sez one night, obviously into that Neanderthal brew, "it'll drive our descendants nuts! Oh," and he's giggling, "lets stack up some rocks in some godforsaken wilderness in England and blame the Picts." He had a heckuva sense of humor, ol' Zoltar, but when he crashed the saucer into Mount Etna trying to buzz a flock of wild sheep the rest of us were marooned here. At least until Dennis Kucinich came along.

25 posted on 01/01/2015 8:13:18 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: blam

That Lockheed U-2 doesn’t look like the Mother Ship to me!


26 posted on 01/01/2015 8:13:20 PM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Sybeck1

I have no doubt htat there is life elsewhere in the universe. I still question if it has come in saucers to visit us.

The Voyager spacecraft launched in the 70’s would take almost 100,000 years to get to Alpha Centari, the next closest star to the Sun if it had been sent there.

And so if some alien life form had figured out how to get around the time problem, the gamma radiation, problem, the de-calcification of bones problem, the atrophying muscle problem not to mention food, fuel, and life support issues, would they do all of that and end up crashing into a windmill in Aurora Texas or Roswell New Mexico?


27 posted on 01/01/2015 8:13:31 PM PST by Clay Moore ("911 is for when the backhoe won't start." JRandomFreeper)
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To: blam

True believers will not be swayed.


28 posted on 01/01/2015 8:15:39 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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To: Billthedrill
At least until Dennis Kucinich came along.

I knew it...and from Ohio? The conspiracy runs deep...

29 posted on 01/01/2015 8:18:06 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100% -- unless you're donating Blood.)
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To: blam

Old news, but what about the years from 1947 to 1954, beginning with Roswell?


30 posted on 01/01/2015 8:18:18 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: blam

Hey I was in on it too! LOL


31 posted on 01/01/2015 8:18:20 PM PST by mylife
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To: Veggie Todd; varyouga; pieceofthepuzzle; ROCKLOBSTER; Mechanicos; dvan

OK, So, I just watched some moron trying to figure out how to fill up her gas tank. It took her 4 tries.

I’m not saying that the “superior intellect” wouldn’t exist among those that built the spacecraft, but there is no assurance that those that are traveling would be superior.

There was a time when the first automobiles hit the road and it took you and a mechanic to operate the thing.

Today, virtually all large commercial aircraft can be flown without a pilot for most of their flight.

Just a thought.


32 posted on 01/01/2015 8:18:27 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: blam

First of all, I don’t believe a word the government tells us.

Second, why would they admit this now? If it was them in the 50s, what was it in the 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s etc?


33 posted on 01/01/2015 8:20:52 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy.)
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To: blam

U2s are awesome, Aliens suck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJoMDq4AyLc


34 posted on 01/01/2015 8:21:26 PM PST by mylife
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To: Zeneta
how to fill up her gas tank. It took her 4 tries.

You still use gas and not hydrogen, silly humans...

35 posted on 01/01/2015 8:21:39 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100% -- unless you're donating Blood.)
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To: PROCON

Hey, where’s your cow???!!!


36 posted on 01/01/2015 8:25:15 PM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: SaxxonWoods

If you like your dead aliens, you can keep your dead aliens.


37 posted on 01/01/2015 8:25:16 PM PST by fhayek
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To: SaxxonWoods

“We are the aliens we’ve been waiting for?”

Didn’t you watch INTERSTELLAR ?


38 posted on 01/01/2015 8:25:39 PM PST by omni-scientist
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To: Zeneta

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 ?


Let’s see.

They traveled light years to our world.

They mutilate cattle.

They make funny patterns in crops.

They stick things up peoples butts.

Yeah, they’re freakin brilliant!


39 posted on 01/01/2015 8:27:20 PM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: blam

“... more than half of the UFO sightings logged in the 1950s and 1960s.”

What about the other half?


40 posted on 01/01/2015 8:28:06 PM PST by MNnice
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