Declassified document reveals that the U-2 aircraft’s role in spurring Americans’ imaginations.
The CIA released an admission that it was responsible for the majority of the reports of Unidentified Flying Objects during America’s Cold War with Russia. “It was us,” the agency posted on social media, along with a declassified document from the 1990s.
The heavily-redacted 272-page report, entitled ‘The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974,’ describes various aspects of the CIA’s top secret U-2 program, which was used for high-altitude spy missions over Russian airspace.
The CIA’s 1998 report goes on to reveal how the deployment of the U-2 aircraft — with its revolutionary, breakthrough capabilities — practically single-handedly fueled the hysteria over UFOs during the Cold War. It reads:
High altitude testing of the U-2 soon led to an unexpected side effect — a tremendous increase in reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). In the mid-1950s, most commercial airliners flew at altitudes between 10,000 and 20,000 feet and military aircraft like the B-47s and B-57s operated at altitudes below 40,000 feet. Consequently, once U-2s started flying at altitudes above 60,000 feet, air-traffic controllers began receiving increasing numbers of UFO reports.
Such reports were most prevalent in the early morning hours from pilots of airliners flying from east to west. When the sun dropped below the horizon of an airliner flying at 20,000 feet, the plane was in darkness. But, if a U-2 was airborne in the vicinity of the airliner at the time, its horizon from an altitude of 60,000 feet was considerably more distant, and, being so high in the sky, its silver wings would catch and reflect the rays of the sun and appear to the airliner pilot, 40,000 feet below, to be fiery objects. Even during daylight hours, the silver bodies of the high-flying U-2s could catch the sun and cause reflections or glints that could be seen at lover altitudes and even on the ground. At this time, no one believed manned flight was possible above 60,000 feet, so no one expected to see an object so high in the sky.
Not only did the airline pilots report their sightings to air-traffic controllers, but they and ground-based observers also wrote letters to the Air Force unit at Wright Air Development Command in Dayton charged with investigating such phenomena. This, in turn, led to the Air Force’s Operation BLUE BOOK. Based at Wright-Patterson, the operation collected all reports of UFO sightings. Air Force investigators then attempted to explain such sightings by linking them to natural phenomena. BLUE BOOK investigators regularly called on the Agency’s Project Staff in Washington to check reported UFO sightings against U-2 flight logs. This enabled the investigators to eliminate the majority of the UFO reports, although they could not reveal to the letter writers the true cause of the UFO sightings. U-2 and later OXCART flights accounted for more than one-half of all UFO reports during the 1950s and 1960s.
What is not explicitly stated in the report is that the CIA stood to gain from UFO hysteria. The secrecy of the U-2 surveillance program was essential to the Agency, and the report discussed other various “cover stories” that were employed to disguise the program and its purpose. The myth that extraterrestrial spacecraft were visiting earth was a convenient diversion to keep Americans’ imaginations running wild — to the point that it kept the Russians from knowing anything specific about the true capabilities of the United States.
Being that one of the CIA’s primary functions is psychological operations, it is probable that it helped to perpetuate the myth a little more than they let on. The Agency, after all, has a long history of manipulating and influencing American public opinion.
I am open to the possibility that there is other intelligent life in an ENORMOUSLY HUGE universe.
I am NOT receptive to the idea that a SUPER ADVANCED (technology) Race of beings can traverse light-years across the universe ………… yet NEVER make fucking CONTACT!!
What? Were they watching Star Trek, and decided the Non-Interference Rule made sense??
I wouldn’t be surprised if SSS was in charge of the Space Aliens program. Hell, seeing how some of his opinions are so out-of-this-world …. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was one of THEM.
There is a real hum-dinger of a production coming up called Project Blue Beam. This is where TPTB pull off a alien invasion in real time to scare the bejebus out of the sheep. I first started reading about the project decades ago. You will need plenty of popcorn for this one as it also will be used to introduce the new religious figure to mankind. The way I hear it they will be pushing the new One World religion which will of coarse require a new Jebus . This show will take place in the sky globally and on the teevee.
So yes, they have and WILL f@$k with your head every chance they get. this article is one of the more detailed, just click on Project Blue Beam here http://www.educate-yourself.org
BFD.
SSS
The quality of your posts have really taken a severe NOSE-DIVE the past several weeks.
Are you feeling OK?
Ran out of Viagra?
Anyone….anyone….Beuhler….Beuhler
Old Bea throws out a bone and the old spook farts and Stucky is talking about Viagra.
Why bother posting articles. She just told you the plan by TPTB is to make Jebus obsolete.
Bea, I looked at the Project Blue Beam page… am not convinced technololgy is quite there yet, but have been wrong before.
My neighbors in Oklahoma had been abducted by aliens in Utah or S. Dakota when traveling to Oregon. The husband had a series of photos taken on a desert landscape of lights traveling across the sky. The clearest one, which seemed to show an aircraft of some odd shape with lights perhaps 50 yards over the ground (?? who can tell in the deserted desert?), he’d had blown up to huge size (perhaps 30 x 40 inches) and framed in his living room.
He was more than eager to tell me about how just after he’d taken those pictures, he and his wife were taken onto the craft and “examined and probed.” He had only flashes of memories, but remember the elongated faces of the examiners.
He was pretty sure they had taken eggs from his wife. Perhaps from his young daughters, though he thinks they were left in the car. (apparently, ETs are not aware of rules regarding pre-school age children.)
A few years after that, his wife had a quack come over and close the portals in their home so that the aliens couldn’t look in at them any more.
And now, you know why I was frantic to leave that lovely home on Whispering Lane.
“My neighbors in Oklahoma had been abducted by aliens in Utah or S. Dakota when traveling to Oregon.” ——- Maggie
Where’s the onion???
@ Maggie
I threw out the Project Blue Beam link because it fits with the topic and also religion has been foremost in the past two days. I’m just the messenger should these things come about, I know they have the technology and have tested it many, many times.
Would hate for my fellow TBP posters to have a coronary being sucked in by this trickery. Would you give up Jebus so easily as is sugested in the above link ? Me either.
As far as the story about your friend being abducted, I believe false memories are implanted into people that seem very real to them.
Oh crap ! Above anon was me.
All these people who claimed to be abducted by aliens are always involved in the occult. What they are really seeing are demons . Right Stucky , God of all wisdom.
I’ve come upon another unknown… ??Onion??
I should have used the term “claimed to have been abducted.” There was this big report one Sunday in the Joklahoman and the reporter had interviewed dozens of folks who claimed to have been abducted. All of them were identified by “anon” or “does not want to be identified.” EXCEPT my neighbors, who gave names and address.
Geesh. Why would aliens abduct dumb shits like that anyway?
“The quality of your posts have really taken a severe NOSE-DIVE the past several weeks.”
—-Stucky @ SSS
“BFD” is clear, concise, high quality and well reasoned response to this article. The U-2 program was classified Top Secret, as was the follow-on SR-71 program. Just what did you expect the CIA to say when these UFO reports started coming in during the 1950s and 1960s? “It was us” was not an option at the time. The Agency said nothing because that was its ONLY choice.
But you’re right. The quality of my comments does take a nose-dive when I have to explain it all to blockheads like you.
@ Bea… interesting. I’ve read some of the articles on that site before, but it has been a while since I’ve perused it.
I have no doubt there is a great desire to unite all of us under one world government, but unless TPTB are a lot smarter than anyone else in power I’ve ever seen, I have almost zero faith in their ability to carry it off. I suspect that “we” proles will continue along the path oblivious to the profound change.
SSS
Six or eight prunes may be just what you need to get you past this.
” …. Stucky , God of all wisdom.” ———– bb
It’s about fucken time you got it right!!
SSS … you’re gonna like my Pictorial Essay on Craptastic American cars.
The you’ll be sorry for calling me a blockhead.
“What they are really seeing are demons .” —— bb
Why must you bring gods & demons into sooooo many conversations?
Hot Dog Stuck, another car-o-rama. When will it be ready?
Stuck says “I am open to the possibility that there is other intelligent life in an ENORMOUSLY HUGE universe.”
You mean I am not alone after all?
Yet this does NOTHING to explain the uptick in AMERICA. They were running in Russia.
AND, I love the “heavily redacted” which can be construed to mean, “nothing of any use.”
Holy schnikeys @bb. Demons? Occult? Cripes.
Whatever. I usually have no desire to sit in on someone else’s day of awareness, awakening and maybe, reckoning, but my god I wish I could for yours.
You sir are going to be quite shocked that your belief systems were made by the elite to control us, and that you are their #1 bestest student.
You close your mind to god’s truth and bask in the knowledge that the statists and royals were 100% right, even when they contradict themselves, kill us, enslave us, steal from us. And there are millions and millions just like you.
whatever.
God must be so proud. I often think he must spend 99% of his time walking/floating around shaking his head and wondering out loud how the hell his creations could get it so wrong. So very wrong.
Happy New Year anyway.
Bea Lever
Maybe tomorrow IF Ms Freud isn’t up my ass (we need to go shopping, we need to do some cleaning, we need to spend some quality time together blah blah fukity blah), …. otherwise Monday.
I wonder if the Gremlin and Pacer will make the craptastic list?
Yup!!
There will be a few surprises on the list. But most craptastic cars are well know … cuz their also cheap and it’s all that overworked underpaid sheeple can afford.
I-S
I’ll give you one attempt … but you can make as many guesses as you want in the one post …. as to which car will be number one on the list.
Wanna give it a shot?
Take your time. Ms Freud is calling.
I’ll either be back later, or tomorrow morning.
IS
Top of the craptastic list would the Yugo, IMHO.
I dunno Stucky. I would guess the Ford Pinto due to it’s propensity to burst into flames when hit from behind. I hope it’s the Dodge K car. What a POS that thing was!
Stucky says: ” …. Stucky , God of all wisdom.” ———– bb It’s about fucken time you got it right!!
Why must you bring gods & demons into sooooo many conversations?
I guess O Learned One was not exalted enough for His Royal Sageness.
Anyway why is it not surprising to find that ET is OK but JC is not?
I have a feeling if I am ever abducted by an Alien, it will be bb and his craft will actually be a trailer towed by his demon rig.
BTW beebs your pink blossoms don’t really go with your green makeup.
bb is not an alien, his great grampa fought in the civil war and his grampa fought in WW2.
did you want to get abducted, I know a few vatos.
Thought for a long time Government was behind the ufo crap. Now that they admit their involvement,I have changed my mind. They don’t tell the truth about anything.
Obviously what this means is that there are real aliens and they’re on their way here to attack right fucking now! The only way the government can keep people from panicking is to lull them into complacency about extraterrestrial life. Therefore, the CIA is now falsely claiming to have been behind most UFO sightings. Duh.
Yugo is not an American car.
Pinto is the correct answer.
Sorry guys , I thought Craptastic included any vehicle sold in Merika. OK then, Pinto and Corvair for the same reason, safety problems. Pinto in the number one spot because it was butt ugly.
Corvair is on the list.
Stucky says:
“Pinto is the correct answer.”
It’s really sad that I know more about the craptastic cars than the amazing and rare cars.
I believe Ralph Nader had a hard on for the Corvair. There are way too many do gooders on the planet.
The Ford Pinto was not really that bad of a car. My mom had one and it was dependable as hell. She drove it across the country from MT to OR and then all the way to SC from there. I don’t think it ever left her stranded or even broke down in all the years she owned it. She only sold it because we moved to Espana.
“The Ford Pinto was not really that bad of a car.”
hahahaha …….. amazing …………. you will love the article …. I say virtually the same EXACT thing.
Just a couple more cars to research … should be up in the next couple hours (I”m also doing other shit … multi-tasking)
I drove a 1972 Lemon Yellow Vega for two years. Then, it died.
@Maggie
I feel your pain, I had not one but two Vegas. That and the Pinto were the vehicles of choice for the financially challenged back in the day.
@Bea… technically, I had two as well. I purchased one that had a burned out motor for 50 bucks the second year to use the spare parts. I drove around with extra alternator, battery, belts, even brake calipers in the hatchback. More than once, I changed a part on my way to work or school. One time, a policeman stopped to ask if I needed help. Since I was adjusting the brake caliper on the front drivers’ side, I just leaned out with my wrench and told him I’d be on my way in a few minutes.
Back then, the cops just laughed and moved along. I suppose I might have been shot for holding a weapon now.
I just finished and submitted the article.