Military Hid Truth about Spy Planes Behind UFO Craze Cold War Politics Spurred Lies, CIA Reports
1997, New York Times News Service, St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
In the darkest days of the Cold War, the military lied to the American public about the true nature of many unidentified flying objects in an effort to hide its growing fleets of spy planes, a CIA study says.
The deceptions were made in the 1950s and '60s amid a wave of UFO sightings that alarmed the public and parts of official Washington.
The CIA study says the Air Force knew that most reports by citizens and aviation experts were based on fleeting glimpses of U-2 and SR-71 spy planes, which fly extremely high.
Those planes were developed in the 1950s and '60s to photograph enemy targets. From secret bases, mainly in California and Nevada, the aircraft …
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Article title: Military Hid Truth about Spy Planes Behind UFO Craze Cold War Politics Spurred Lies, CIA Reports.
Contributors: 1997, New York Times News Service - Author.
Newspaper title: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO).
Publication date: August 3, 1997.
Page number: 8A.
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