The CIA has admitted that about half of the UFO sightings reported in the 1950s and 60s were actually crafts they’d put in the air for spy mission purposes.<br /><br />The CIA has admitted that more than half of the UFO sightings reported in the 1950s and 60s were actually crafts they’d put in the air for spy mission purposes. <br /><br />This valuable nugget of information was most recently brought to the public’s attention via Twitter. <br /><br />Getting in on the popular year-end trend of ‘best of’ lists, the CIA tweeted a link to its most popular reports of 2014. <br /><br />Coming in at #1 is a document titled, "The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974", which contains a section devoted to UFOs. <br /><br />According to it, during the midcentury flurry of alien spacecraft sightings the agency was both secretly testing and utilizing the U-2 spy plane. <br /><br />As it flew at 60 thousand feet above ground, something planes didn’t typically do back then, many of those who saw it in the sky assumed it was a machine from another planet. <br /><br />A lot of eyewitnesses called in reports, and according to the CIA document, more than half of the sightings chronicled were affirmatively linked to the spy plane’s missions. <br /><br />Unfortunately, they were unable to tell anybody at the time, but now they have.
