[JoeProBono]

OXCART or CIA Lockheed A-12 Spy Plane.

The LA Times article, "The Road to Area 51" was written by investigative author, Annie Jacobsen. She was able to interview the five retired military personnel due to a 2007 CIA decision to declassify fifty year old files concerning the OXCART or A-12 spy plane. This allowed the five to come forward for the first time to reveal their former classified activities. All revealed their roles in the CIA’s top secret development and testing of the OXCART as Lockheed's replacement for the U-2 for intelligence gathering flights over the Soviet Union. Satellites were still in development at the time so spy planes like the OXCART and U2 were a way of secretly gathering intelligence of Soviet operations. If a 1997 CIA History is to be believed, the UFO mystery was exploited as a convenient cover for spy planes like the U-2 and OXCART.

[silverleaf]

apparently the US govt has decided to take the approach that “it was the CIA”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh5IKmWDmHk

[the long march]

Oh no not an aircraft that can go Mach 3.....I love it when folks decide they want 15 minutes (orless) in the spotlight

[mysterio]

Wow, it wasn’t space monsters. Who could have guessed that?

[varmintman]

That (people flying around in prop planes seeing jets for the first time) solves some of the UFO questions, but not all of them. Try doing google searches on “Apollo 20”....

[dead]

That's a funny article. It starts out claiming to solve the UFO "mystery" then sneak attacks the unsuspecting with proof(!) that this explanation is not enough!

It was like they reverse-engineered one of those standard "aliens are real" internet articles and used it for their own nefarious purposes!

Interstellar Overlord Glornuk will be pleased. I hope.

[Oatka]

I read/heard that the Big Secret of Area 51 was that thet were using some highly toxic fuels for the different test aircraft. Over the years, the spillage contaminated many areas on the base and if the EPA found out, they'd throw a rod.

The Las Vegas Review Journal had articles about workers there who were coming down with unknown diseases, yet in many cases the govt wouldn't tell their doctors what the men were exposed to.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I wonder if these people can explain away angel hair (a spiderweb-like material that’s been observed with UFOs at times), animal mutilations (done with surgical precision), burn circles and other CE2Ks, grays (who only vagely resemble the humans that would be flying the advanced test aircraft), related medical phenomena (including, if true, odd pregnancies), and so on.

[Quix]

1. This info pile is a stinking pile.

A) 3 times the speed of sound is NOTHING of any significance. The SR71 was beyond that and it’s very old news.

B) Cute . . . a group of highly classified employees . . . in projects so black that one never really becomes FREE from the strictures related thereto as long as one lives . . . all pontificate in tidy little ways of help to the powers that be. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO impressive. [NOT!]

C) These employees like all others in such categories work in very compartmentalized projects. For them to then come out and remotely claim [not that they did—the editor or some such seems to have] that they have solved the whole collection of UFO related mysteries is hogwash.

2. This pile is a VERY LONG WAY from clearing up a long list of TYPES OF EVIDENCE and a much longer list of evidence that has little to nothing to do with their assertions in the article.

A) Abduction related impregnations and removing of end of 1st trimester half-breed/hybrid babies.

B) 4,000+ cases of tangible trace evidence left behind on the environment of landing cases.

C) cattle and human mutilations.

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[Star Traveler]

The article says — “While stationed at Area 51...”

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Now how could they have been stationed at a facility that did not exist (according to the government)... :-)

[BIGLOOK]

Stumbling along searching for something to read that doesn't have Obama or Congress in it, trying to cheer myself up a bit....stumbled onto this.



It would make a great....and fun Fly By some weekend, wouldn't it?

Lauren....that's Groom Lake, part of Nellis AFB, the infamous Area 51.

[SunkenCiv]

Wow, the well-known SR-71 was the cause of UFO sightings. Heh... At least we know where the credulity lies vis a vis the UFO controversy. :’)