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 ...
Yes, obviously, given the temporal relationship between the two, our B2 was “standing on the shoulders of giants”.
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Horton and his colleagues recognized early on that the flying wing had a much lower radar cross section than conventional aircraft designs. Jack Northrop and his team noticed it, too, when they were developing the YB-49. It was heartening to see the video of an elderly, wheelchair bound Jack Northop when they took him to see the first B-2 prototype. I’m sure he was beaming with pride.
From Ben Rich, Lockheed martin director of skunkworks.
Ben Rich...Quotes...Anything you can imagine we already know how to do., cont...
“The U. S. Air Force has just given us a contract to take E. T. back home.”
“We also know how to travel to the stars.”
“Anything you can imagine we already know how to do.”
“If you’ve seen it in Star Trek or Star Wars, we’ve been there and done that.”
“We have things in the Nevada desert that are alien to your way of thinking
far beyond anything you see on Star Trek.”
Upon graduation with a master’s degree in thermodynamics from UCLA, Ben Rich was hired by Lockheed. In December 1954, Rich was sent to the secret research and development Skunk Works section run by Lockheed. Later was program manager for the SR-71 Blackbird propulsion system. The idea to paint the high-speed aircraft’s skin black, to help dissipate the tremendous frictional heat, was Rich’s. He championed the early prototypes of stealth technology and led the development of theF117stealth fighter. Ben Rich, stated during a 1993, Alumni Speech at UCLA:
ISN’T IT BEN RICH WHO SPOKE ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO AT A MEETING IN CALIFORNIA AND SAID WE HAD THE TECHNOLOGY `TO TAKE E. T. HOME’?
That’s exactly correct, Linda. I have that quote right here. Mr. Ben Rich passed away in 1995 and before he passed away, he dropped a number of bombshells. This took place at Wright-Patterson AFB back in 1993. He gave a slide presentation there and also at the UCLA School of Engineering Alumni speech – he gave on March 23, 1993. At the very end of his presentation, in both of these venues, he completed his slides with the following quote: `The U. S. Air Force has just given us a contract to take E. T. back home.’
He also mentioned, “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity… ...anything you can imagine we already know how to do.”
And he also mentioned at the UCLA speech, `It is time to end all secrecy on this as it no longer poses a national security threat and to make the technology available for use in the private sector.’ That’s exactly what we’re talking about here.
He was telling us about a whole level of aircraft, of spacecraft, of advanced propulsion systems that are so far advanced. He even mentioned technologies that are 50 years beyond even what we could possibly dream of. Now, when you hear that coming from the Director of the Skunk Works, I think it is important to really take that to heart. This gentleman knew something and he was trying to tell us something. And I think this is the space program that none of us have a clue about in the civilian sector. This is what Ben Rich was trying to tell us about.
And, without hard proof, it can just as easily be a well orchestrated ruse. The government and it’s minions exist in large part because of the deception they constantly throw up. Surely, in all that time at the Skunk Works Mr. Rich could have produced one photo negative of this marvelous technology to prove his case?
Let me ask you this. Do you honestly believe the US of A would give up our superiority of space travel and exploration at NASA and decommission the space shuttle program unless we already had a much more superior system of space travel?
Here is another article that you might want to read about what might be out there and why it is being kept quiet.
Yep. I think you are spot on there...
With the current crowd? LOL! You betcha!
BTW, I already addressed Mr. Rich and his “revelations” (without as much as a single photo negative to back up his claims) up thread.
Hadn't thought of that. It might have been the kids were fighting in the back seat also. (^;
The math problem was that part of it was measured in metric units and the other part was in English units.
One would think that a craft with that level of technology and a pilot could miss a 45’ windmill.
I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the thought of the CIA twittering... What next? CIA selfies? Are they on Facebook as well?...
Truth be known, they probably run FB and Instagram, too
If “they” are sooooooo smart, then why do they travel billions of light years to come here, hide, peek around for a few minutes...
and just leave.
Doesn’t sound very smart to me.
I believe it.
Yeah but burning hydrogen produces a far more potent global warming gas than see oh too!
Indeed! I'll ping when I get home.
In the same sense that Hitler's Storm Troopers simply had to be smarter than Caesar's Legions.
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