Re:CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents
by rl3 on Monday January 25, 2016 @10:25PM
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>A UFO over US soil would usually be a USAF plane, but the CIA ran (runs?) a reporting hotline because they might occasionally be foreign spy planes instead.
The OXCART program (SR-71 predecessor) was a CIA program. This is probably one of the best pieces of journalism I've ever read on the topic:
While the entire article is good, paragraphs 5-8 are by far the best. The CIA literally drugged their own test pilot during debriefing.
>I'm pretty sure this is the result of a deliberate strategy: create a bunch of fake information, so that real information about US military capabilities will be harder to find. A few hints and a few taunts, and voila, every discussion about unidentified aircraft is guaranteed to have a schizophrenic walk in and start rambling about aliens!
I was actually just writing about this, except in context of aviation industry insiders perhaps misleading a respected industry journalist:
The OXCART program (SR-71 predecessor) was a CIA program. This is probably one of the best pieces of journalism I've ever read on the topic:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-mag-april052009-back...
While the entire article is good, paragraphs 5-8 are by far the best. The CIA literally drugged their own test pilot during debriefing.
>I'm pretty sure this is the result of a deliberate strategy: create a bunch of fake information, so that real information about US military capabilities will be harder to find. A few hints and a few taunts, and voila, every discussion about unidentified aircraft is guaranteed to have a schizophrenic walk in and start rambling about aliens!
I was actually just writing about this, except in context of aviation industry insiders perhaps misleading a respected industry journalist:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10971548
Entire thread for context:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10957365