CIA Takes Blame for More Than Half of UFO Sightings in 50s and 60s

The CIA must have been in the spiked eggnog over the holidays and released once-classified documents to the public. This installment concerns the rash of UFO reports back in the 50s and 60s and the part the CIA played by masking the true nature of the UFO sightings. The problem here is whether or not the CIA is still throwing up a smokescreen with the release of documents that could misdirect the truth once again. Tin Foil hats are recommended past this point.

Over the last few days, the CIA has been tweeting out links to its top ten most-read ‘BestOf2014’ documents. Today, it confessed that Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the ‘50s? It was us.

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And Jack Daniels takes blame for the other half.

Where is the CIA version of Eric Snowden?

At the height of the Cold War the USA wanted people talking about UFOs and not top secret technologies that we would need to spy on the Soviets ... it has always made far more sense that it was government misdirection than actual UFOs ... there were too many reasonable earthbound solutions to what people claimed were UFOs without having to resort to the much less likely solution of UFOs being real and from outer space ... besides, the old joke holds true with UFOs and all other weird phenomenon "Look, it's a UFO/Bigfoot/Lock Ness Monster/Etc ... Let's get the worst possible camera we have and take a picture"

It may not be with the U-2, but 40 years from now I expect the same kind of information to come out about the UFO's in the 90's and 2000's.

Right, half the reports were of an aircraft that would be virtually impossible to see at operational altitudes, and if one could see it, guess what, it looks like an airplane. Ya that's what all the fuss was about.

funkydmunky said:

Right, half the reports were of an aircraft that would be virtually impossible to see at operational altitudes, and if one could see it, guess what, it looks like an airplane. Ya that's what all the fuss was about.

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Well Roswell was almost certainly a weather balloon ... I am sure there were lots of innocuous technologies in the 50s/60s that the government had no desire to talk about during the Cold War (either because they were testing different things out or because they liked the uncertainty of people talking about something that didn't exist rather than something that did), so it was a UFO

Incidentally I do believe there is almost certainly extraterrestrial life, I just don't believe it is anywhere in our vicinity and has no interest in visiting us in our rather remote portion of the galaxy (we are in the galactic boondocks after all)

funkydmunky said:

Right, half the reports were of an aircraft that would be virtually impossible to see at operational altitudes, and if one could see it, guess what, it looks like an airplane. Ya that's what all the fuss was about.

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The reason why stuff like that was tested in the southern US is because of low population density and societal problems that would keep people focused on arguing with each other or throwing plates. The ones that do see things invented persistent UFO stories because they were all like drunk and stuff. If they would have tested new technologies in the north, there would have been waaay too many people out taking measurements, photos, and making more sensible observations so the things they were doing would have gotten out as complete, coherent stories. It was much better to have some backwoods type screaming about alien abductions as the reason why his first cousin is prego with his baby and that the lights in the sky did it.