Jenny Chan
Skilled Investigator
First post, I did a search and could not find discussion, so please be nice, but this has been nagging me for years:
The CIA tweeted in 2014 a 1998 document indicating that flying saucer sightings were actually U-2 flights from 1954 to 1974.
It is pretty tragic that the CIA would be proud to tweet that "It Was Us" when, if it really was, they were responsible for wasted government funds for allowing the Air Force/Project Blue Book/local police and other government officials to investigate and sometimes even risk their lives chasing these objects, not to mention blatantly lying to the public.
My instincts tell me that the CIA's claim just does not hold up to scrutiny (although I assume at least some UFO reports were of U-2s or other experimental aircraft, balloons, or drones) but was wondering what the "ufological" criticisms are of this document. What is its legacy in 2018?
The one to me right off the bat is that it does not explain the entire range of UFO phenomena starting with 1940s sightings. The nature of many Blue Book sightings were that these glowing objects moved like incredibly high speed insects or remote controlled devices. In other words, I'm sure if a pilot got "close" to one, he would have seen if it was a spy-plane.
The CIA tweeted in 2014 a 1998 document indicating that flying saucer sightings were actually U-2 flights from 1954 to 1974.
It is pretty tragic that the CIA would be proud to tweet that "It Was Us" when, if it really was, they were responsible for wasted government funds for allowing the Air Force/Project Blue Book/local police and other government officials to investigate and sometimes even risk their lives chasing these objects, not to mention blatantly lying to the public.
My instincts tell me that the CIA's claim just does not hold up to scrutiny (although I assume at least some UFO reports were of U-2s or other experimental aircraft, balloons, or drones) but was wondering what the "ufological" criticisms are of this document. What is its legacy in 2018?
The one to me right off the bat is that it does not explain the entire range of UFO phenomena starting with 1940s sightings. The nature of many Blue Book sightings were that these glowing objects moved like incredibly high speed insects or remote controlled devices. In other words, I'm sure if a pilot got "close" to one, he would have seen if it was a spy-plane.