Alien Spaceship? Probably Not: CIA Admits it’s Behind (Most) UFO Sightings by 1kiki

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Alien Spaceship? Probably Not: CIA Admits it’s Behind (Most) UFO Sightings

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Friday, January 2, 2015 4:30 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Flying saucers? Little green men? Martians? Turns out, those UFOs that got the world talking about visitors from distant worlds were early U.S. spy planes. Probably.

In a CIA #Bestof2014 tweet published Monday, the Agency admitted being behind more than half of the UFO sightings logged in the 1950s and 1960s.

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#1 most read on our #Bestof2014 list: Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? It was us. http://1.usa.gov/1lU3oIU (PDF 9.26MB)
11:11 AM - 29 Dec 2014

The tweet, which references one of the CIA’s most read articles, directs followers to “The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974,” a 272-page document from 1998 written by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach and tweeted by the Agency under the title “KAKE” last July.

The article focuses on the U-2, which took its first flight in 1955 and became instrumental during the Cold War in the 1950s and ‘60’s.

The early CIA spy plane was tested at 60,000 feet, an altitude then believed to be impossible for man to reach during the two decades, leading observers, especially pilots, to suspect it wasn’t man flying the plane. That’s why it was often mistaken for an alien craft.

According to the report, in the mid-1950s, most commercial airliners stuck between altitudes 10,000 and 20,000 feet; military aircraft kept it 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," the document explains. In fact, the CIA actually cross-checked the UFO reports with its flight records, but in instances where it verified the UFO was really a U-2, it stayed mum.

Reports were mostly made "in the early evening hours from pilots of airlines flying from east to west." After the sun dropped below the horizon, the U-2s would look like "fiery objects."

The report also reveals that ground-based UFO spotters often wrote letters to the Air Force. "This, in turn, led to the Air Force's Operation BLUE BOOK," which "collected all reports of UFO sightings" and "attempted to explain such sightings by linking them to natural phenomena."

The report was part of documents declassified in 2013 that famously detailed the existence of Area 51 in Nevada.

As for the rest of the CIA's top 10, it includes a look at a day in the life of a "not yet burned out" CIA Operations Center officer and a confirmation that pigeon missions remain classified.

And as for the UFO sightings not explained by the CIA, the imagination may continue to run wild.

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Friday, January 2, 2015 5:26 PM

WHOZIT

File photo of Area 51

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Friday, January 2, 2015 6:37 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

We are not alone

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Tuesday, May 30, 2017 9:20 PM

OONJERAH

Space industry CEO is ‘absolutely convinced’ that aliens have visited Earth

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/30/15712270/robert-bigelow-ufo-aliens-
60-minutes-aerospace

Robert Bigelow thinks the truth is out there
.......

As a lifelong sci-fi fan, I'd expect this to be a favorite topic
of mine ... Perhaps I think it's a given, so no reason push it.
Otoh, I didn't know that the CIA is now claiming the UFOs.

Short: Dan Aykroyd Tells the Stories Behind
his 4 UFO Sightings on Sway in the Morning

Long: Alien Evidence UFO Sightings Real Aliens
In NASA Footage - Dan Aykroyd Documentary

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

Sometimes a cookie is not enough. I need an eclair.

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Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:31 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:

We are not alone

Except when you die.
We all die alone.

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Sunday, December 13, 2020 7:47 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

We had two three or more threads on this topic one Harry Reid and a New UFO Program and the other an old PirateNews conspiracy thread UFOs caught on old videotape and : ‘Rainbow coloured alien craft’ spied over Lake Michigan

Quote:

‘Aliens exist and have deal with Donald Trump’ claims ex-Israeli space official

Professor Eshed told Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth: “The UFOs have asked not to publish that they are here, humanity is not ready yet.
https://news.yahoo.com/aliens-exist-deal-donald-trump-161606229.html
“Trump was on the verge of revealing, but the aliens in the Galactic Federation are saying: ‘Wait, let people calm down first’.

“They don’t want to start mass hysteria. They want to first make us sane and understand.”

The Galactic Federation exist in Dr Who, Rick and Morty and other popular culture to describe a transgalactic alliance of extraterrestrials.

He retired from the Defense Ministry in October 2011, having commanded the launching of 20 Israeli satellites, reported the Jewish Press.

His claims were disputed in local media reporting saying he has “lost his mind”

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Sunday, December 13, 2020 9:25 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Pretty slim chances that anybody ever got advanced enough to get off the rock before they destroyed themselves. Even slimmer chances that they've gone far enough with their tech to travel all the way here.

If there is a Federation, they're not going to want to have anything to do with us.

Our collective greed is rivaled only by our collective cowardice.

What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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Monday, December 14, 2020 1:45 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

And here I thought it was the Russians.

After all, they're at the heart of everything bad, aren't they?

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

#WEARAMASK

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Monday, December 14, 2020 8:03 AM

REAVERFAN

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And here I thought it was the Russians.

After all, they're at the heart of everything bad, aren't they?

No, but their trolls are annoying, Russian troll.

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Saturday, April 17, 2021 9:30 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

In the Biden Corona stimulus there is a statement saying they must relase UAP info?

COVID-19 bill started a 180-day countdown for UFO disclosures

https://nypost.com/2020/12/29/covid-19-bill-started-a-180-day-countdow
n-for-ufo-disclosures/

https://news.sky.com/story/ufo-report-set-to-be-released-as-a-result-o
f-us-emergency-relief-bill-12179740

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Saturday, April 17, 2021 10:24 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Heh...

It would be funny if they're only coming out with it now since there's nothing we could do to stop it in 180 days and everybody who took the covid vaccine was being "seasoned" from the inside to better suit their palette.

Even Q-Anon and Mel Gibson didn't see that one coming.

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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.

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Thursday, May 20, 2021 4:39 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Recently, Fake News Entertainment show 60 Minutes had a segment on UFOs.
In completely unrelated events, Lord Darth Biden visited Former President Jiminy Cotta.
Back in 1976, while campaigning, Cotta pledged to release UFO information, to tell the truth about UFOs around America. After serving, during a book signing, he was asked by a citizen about this pledge, and why he did not honor it - and her replied he was not allowed to reveal the facts.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021
-05-16/

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/sightings-over-world-another-former-16395697
2.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021
-05-16/

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023 7:14 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Former NRO and NGA officer David Grusch has written a document that seemingly alludes to agreements between world governments and the non-human intelligence behind UFOs.

https://twitter.com/tinyklaus/status/1668076832812421121

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023 9:47 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

The Las Vegas UFO Crash...

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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023 6:34 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

'Science Channel' or more like conspiracy?

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023 7:08 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I thought for sure you were going to be updating this thread with the UFO hearings going on right now where they're supposedly telling us about how we've had dead alien bodies from crashed craft for decades.

They're trying to bury the fact that Hunter Biden just lost his sweet plea deal.

Some suspect that TPTB want Biden* out so bad that they're going to sink his son and force him to give his son a pardon to torpedo his chances of running next year.

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023 7:46 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

some old 2014 weirdness

Canada’s ex-defense minister: Aliens would give us more tech if we’d stop wars.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/canadas-ex-defense-minister-aliens-would-
give-us-more-tech-if-wed-stop-wars/

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023 11:07 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
some old 2014 weirdness

Canada’s ex-defense minister: Aliens would give us more tech if we’d stop wars.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/canadas-ex-defense-minister-aliens-would-
give-us-more-tech-if-wed-stop-wars/

That was a plot from South Park and probably Star Trek too.

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

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Thursday, July 27, 2023 9:23 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
some old 2014 weirdness

Canada’s ex-defense minister: Aliens would give us more tech if we’d stop wars.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/canadas-ex-defense-minister-aliens-would-
give-us-more-tech-if-wed-stop-wars/

That was a plot from South Park and probably Star Trek too.

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

Oh yeah... This doesn't predate 2014, but the idea isn't exactly a new one and we've seen it quite a few times.

Joe Biden needs those stairs on Air Force One. The hoverboard might be a good idea too, but they'd better not leave any sandbags in his way or he won't survive to election day. Please put Joe in a bike helmet.

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

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Friday, August 11, 2023 5:55 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

more claims

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12390863/UFO-whistleblower-cl
aims-government-trying-leak-medical-records-effort-smear-credibility-testimony-slammed-head-Pentagon-office-insulting.html

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Sunday, September 3, 2023 9:46 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Former State Dept official: “UFO stories are a sanctioned counter-intelligence technique”

https://revolver.news/2023/09/former-state-dept-official-ufo-stories-a
re-a-sanctioned-counter-intelligence-technique/

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023 9:07 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Another show perhaps, Mexico’s UFO hearings

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Saturday, December 9, 2023 4:09 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Military-Industrial Complex?

This is How Much Lockheed Paid to Cancel UFO Disclosure...

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Saturday, December 9, 2023 4:56 PM

ANONYMOUSE

Daria and Jane said it best in The Lawndale File:

Man on TV: The aliens aren't coming. They're already here. They could be your friends, your family. They act almost normal, but something's off.
Jane: Yes, the TV. (She turns TV off) If there were any aliens smart enough to come here, they wouldn't be stupid enough to come here.
Daria: There goes my trick ear again. What was that?
Jane: Let's say I'm an alien and you're you.
Daria: Part of this better be hypothetical.
Jane: Now, why would I, a being from the highly advanced planet Zippotron, travel light-years just to take over your body and go to high school?
Daria: Because Wednesday's Jell-O day?
Jane: Exactly. Wouldn't it make more sense to rig up some remote system of control? Neck implants or something? Then they could make you do stuff like go to the mall or think about hair without actually having to do it themselves. Makes more sense than a full-scale infiltration.
Daria: Oh, yes. Much, much more sense.

I was and still am a keen Daria fan. Rock on, sarcastic bitch. :)

"People tend to confuse the words 'new' and 'improved'."

- Agent Phil Coulson, S.H.I.E.L.D.
Pilot episode

Case in point? Windows 11. I hate it.

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Friday, February 16, 2024 3:10 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

conspiracy madness?

Dr Carol Rosin, Wernher Von Braun's Personal Assistant, about USA faking an Alien Invasion for

Eric Weinstein On UFO’s

US Navy ship USS OMAHA captures multiple UAP UFO on radar around it

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 9:52 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

THG or is it THUGR? you bumped 125 + of Your Own Threads...WTF

anyways staying on topic

'Guardian angel' theory links Trump's assassination attempt to UFOs

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13664867/Guardian-ange
l-Trump-assassination-attempt-UFOs.html

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