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On July 4, 2014 the CIA shared documents publicly disclosing that the UFO sightings in the 1950's were directly linked to the testing of U-2 spy plane. One document entitled ''"The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974"'', a 272-page document from 1998 indicated that the CIA was the culprit behind more than half of the UFO sightings logged in the 1950s and 1960s. | On July 4, 2014 the CIA shared documents publicly disclosing that the UFO sightings in the 1950's were directly linked to the testing of U-2 spy plane. One document entitled ''"The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974"'', a 272-page document from 1998 indicated that the CIA was the culprit behind more than half of the UFO sightings logged in the 1950s and 1960s. | ||
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. Once U-2s started flying at altitudes above 60,000 feet, air-traffic controllers began receiving increasing numbers of UFO reports." The CIA actually cross-checked the UFO reports with its flight records, according to the document, but in instances when it verified the UFO was really a U-2, the CIA stayed quiet. | 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. Once U-2s started flying at altitudes above 60,000 feet, air-traffic controllers began receiving increasing numbers of UFO reports." The CIA actually cross-checked the UFO reports with its flight records, according to the document, but in instances when it verified the UFO was really a U-2, the CIA stayed quiet. | ||