Why Now? CIA Comes Clean on UFO’s
The current issue of Popular Mechanics has an interesting, if not wholly credible, mea culpa by the CIA. Apparently, they were not telling the truth all along but now are coming fully clean. Right. Someone at the CIA’s department of public interactions figures we will really believe them when they give us an honest, double-dog swear-on-their-mother’s-graves that this time, unlike every other time, they are telling the whole truth.
The Central Intelligence Agency says it has finally come clean about UFOs. To absolutely no one’s surprise, it knew more than it ever let on.
“Over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights,” says Gerald K. Haines, a historian for the National Reconnaissance Office who studied secret CIA UFO files for an internal CIA study that examined the spy agency’s involvement in UFOs through the 1990s.
Why lie about UFOs? “The Soviets could use UFO reports to touch off mass hysteria and panic in the United States and overload the U.S. air warning system so that it could not distinguish real targets from phantom UFOs,” Haines says.
If Cold War hysteria seems to be a less than satisfactory explanation, perhaps it is because there really is more to the story.
POPULAR MECHANICS has learned from nonclassified sources that the United States had a serious reason for wanting the public to keep believing that the strange lights in the sky were of unearthly origin. The government kept the UFO myth alive to disguise the embarrassing fact that during the hottest days of the Cold War, America’s two most secret intelligence gathering assets–the A-12 and SR-71 spyplanes–flew toward hostile terrain with the equivalent of cow bells dangling from their necks. Read More