US lied about UFO to hide spy flights

NEW YORK, Aug 4: The American military lied to the public about the true nature of unidentified flying objects (UFO) in an effort to hide i...

NEW YORK, Aug 4: The American military lied to the public about the true nature of unidentified flying objects (UFO) in an effort to hide its growing fleets of spy plane at the height of the Cold War, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

Quoting a CIA (Central Investigating Agency) study, the report says the deceptions were made in 1950 and 1960s amid a wave of UFO sightings by the public. The study says the Air Force knew that most reports by the citizens and aviation experts were based on fleeting glimpses of U-2 and SR-71 spy planes which fly extremely high.

These planes, developed in 1950s and 1960s to photograph enemy targets, repeatedly flew from secret bases mainly in California and Nevada across the country and eventually overseas to bases in countries that included Britain, West Germany and Taiwan.

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While commercial airlines in 1950s flew at altitudes of up to 30,000 feet, U-2 soared to more than 60,00 feet and SR-71 to more than 80,000 feet.

Rather than acknowledge the existence of the top secret flight, the report says the Air Force decided to put up false cover stories. For instance, it adds, unusual observations that were actually spy flights were attributed to atmospheric phenomenon like ice crystals and temperature inversions.

“Over half of all UFO reports from late 1950s through 1960s were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights” over the United States.

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