CIA Admits Being The Source Of UFO Hysteria During Cold War: ‘It Was Us’Declassified document reveals that the U-2 aircraft's role in spurring Americans' imaginations.Police State USA Jan. 05, 2015 |
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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. #1 most read on our #Bestof2014 list: Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? It was us. 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.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. |