CIA summed up the year on twitter. “UFOs in the 50s? It was us” – tokfm.pl

In the last week of December, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has published a series of entries on Twitter summarizing the past year. Tweety bears the tag # Bestof2014. These set out a summary of content that attracted the most attention tracking twitterowy profile Agency in 2014.

Robot fish, pigeons and UFOs

They included, among others, Article missions pigeons, the description in the shape of a fish robot or porcelain image logo Air America – airlines unofficially belonging to the CIA. Internet users attracted the greatest interest, however, another matter. It’s about UFO sightings, that unidentified flying objects in America in the 50′s.

“The most read content on our list: a report on. Unusual activity in the sky in the 50s it was us” – tweet proclaimed that electrified the media. The case even wrote a “New York Post” .

Aircraft spy U-2

In his tweet mentioned the link to the CIA report said. Here you can read about the trials of US spy planes U-2, which took place in the years 1954-1974. The report indicates that the test aircraft at the time coincided with reports of people who claimed to have observed a UFO in the sky.

“In the mid-50s, most passenger aircraft was flying at a height of 10 to 20 thousand. Feet ( approx. 3-6 thousand. meters), and military aircraft flying no higher than 40 thousand. feet (approx. 12 thousand. meters) above the ground. Reports of UFO appeared most often in the early evening. They came from the pilots who flew from the East to the west. When the sun was hidden behind the horizon now, a plane flying at an altitude of 20 thousand. feet plunged into darkness “- the report says.

spy planes flying U-2, however, much higher – at a height of 60 thousand . feet (approx. 18 thous. m). If any of them just flew the aircraft cruise, the pilots saw machine passenger sun glint on the underside of the wing of the CIA, which might look like a mysterious luminous objects. In those days, no one even thought that any “earthly” object can fly at an altitude of 18 km, which is why the control towers pilots reported that they had seen a UFO.

Investigators had to keep silent

A large number of reports from pilots cruise machines, as well as observers on the ground, who wrote to the US Air Force of the strange phenomena in the sky, meant that it was assumed so. operating a blue book. It collected all applications.

then compared them with the flight logs spy planes U-2. It turned out that more than half of the reports of the appearance of a UFO was coincident in time with the test machine spy in the mid-50s, and in the next decade, they accounted for the majority. Of course, the investigators could not inform people about their findings, because the design of the U-2 was a secret. This sparked a wave of speculation lasted to this day.

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CIA summed up the year on twitter. "UFOs in the 50s? It was us" – tokfm.pl