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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: Zeneta

"We know they're extremely advanced technologically, which suggests - very rightfully so
- that they're peaceful. An advanced civilization, by
definition, is not barbaric."

61 posted on 01/01/2015 8:57:21 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: tumblindice

I proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that a duplicate key to the Kanamite galley DID exist and...........

..................

That key, that key so pure as to be the key to more than what we could possibly imagine was held clinched tightly between their leaders ......


62 posted on 01/01/2015 9:01:33 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: tumblindice

A duplicate key to the Bridge stasis-box DID exist, and I would have produced that key, if they hadn’t taken the Kain out of action.


63 posted on 01/01/2015 9:02:52 PM PST by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
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To: blam
It was these guys in the 40s.

Nazi UFO Conspiracy photo NaziUFOConspiracy_zps1c745c7a.jpeg

64 posted on 01/01/2015 9:05:48 PM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Clay Moore
Mr. Alien, can't drive/pilot anyways, just ask Ms. Alien.
She was screaming in his ears when that accident happened.

65 posted on 01/01/2015 9:09:23 PM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: Bratch

I want to believe in the survival of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, too. (And there’s probably a better chance of that...)

Not that I think that extraterrestrial life isn’t ‘out there’ somewhere - it’s inconceivable to me that all that space is empty of life, and even intelligent life. But as fascinated as I’ve been with the UFO stuff throughout my life, nothing has convinced me that we’ve been ‘visited’.)

JT.


66 posted on 01/01/2015 9:17:43 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: 50sDad

I don’t want to upset you too much, but having attracted the attention of the Kanamits, you have an excellent chance of being vaporized by a 12 megawatt photon laser.
Now, tuck your shirt-tail in and notify the OOD and morale officer to reprimand that red-headed sailor. And send my cabin boys to me with the strawberries. That is all.
Captain Queeg

Situation quiet, the captain having retired for the evening.


67 posted on 01/01/2015 9:18:52 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: blam

That is what they want us to believe.


68 posted on 01/01/2015 9:24:08 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: ZULU

So they would have to be a lot smarter than us technologically and scientifically.


Maybe the smart ones built the ships to send their idiots here. Wouldn’t you send liberals to another star system if you could?


69 posted on 01/01/2015 9:25:32 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: fieldmarshaldj; Billthedrill
I'm Irish and I made the Doc sign an agreement that the gold nuggets they find in my backside remain my property and are not sent to the lab for testing.


70 posted on 01/01/2015 9:26:00 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Let the dead bury the dead.)
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To: Blue Collar Christian
"True believers will not be swayed."

No, they won't.

See the technology here

71 posted on 01/01/2015 9:28:07 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: Zeneta
"Why is it....."

Because of questions like yours.

72 posted on 01/01/2015 9:29:05 PM PST by diogenes ghost
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colonoscopy dividend


73 posted on 01/01/2015 9:29:44 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Let the dead bury the dead.)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

Good point!!


74 posted on 01/01/2015 9:30:51 PM PST by ZULU (Quo usque tandem abutere Obama patientia nostra?)
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To: diogenes ghost

Did YOU build the computer that you are using ?

I mean, write the code, program the chips etc..

or are you just an..

End user ?


75 posted on 01/01/2015 9:31:41 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Quix

Name ‘em
Ping ‘em


76 posted on 01/01/2015 9:33:32 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Clay Moore

Why do you assume that occupants of such craft would be from anywhere other than good ol’ Earth? They could have moved under the polar ice caps when they saw that the neighborhood was going to the crapper.


77 posted on 01/01/2015 9:39:11 PM PST by The Duke
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Is it possible they accidentally wiped out their intestinal gut bacteria via some new chemical and had to fly all the way here since they couldn’t re-engineer the flora?

I’ve never believed in aliens here for .015 of a second but that would explain all the anal-probe anecdotes. They seemed to go away after 1990 or so.


78 posted on 01/01/2015 9:43:26 PM PST by txhurl
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To: SaxxonWoods

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

Ummmm.....no. Those ones have been in the White House for a while now.


79 posted on 01/01/2015 9:52:12 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: txhurl
well, my attorney tells me it is best to let as few people as possible know about my rectal chip. "It's more common than you think ..." Since I started wearing tin foil briefs, I cannot be tracked.



The noise scares off the varmints ...


80 posted on 01/01/2015 9:57:38 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Let the dead bury the dead.)
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