CIA Admits That It Owns All of the Flying Saucers

1. Folks:

   It bothers me that the method of making secret document public seems to be simply scratching out the ‘secret’ and ‘secretNOFORN’ on each page. Granted, there is some redaction, just seems sloppy at best.

   tinker

   1. well, they didn’t have Microsoft Word in the 60s, so these are all paper documents. back in 1998, someone had to make a facsimile of the original, do all the redaction work by hand, and then scan it and make it a pdf. some poor mid-level desk jockey at the CIA with a high security clearance but not enough seniority to dump such a tedious job on someone else had to do all that work for us! won’t you think of the mid-level desk jockeys?

2. OXCART (What they were hiding under the black tape)

3. Unidentified missing article?

4. Were’s the UFO’s?, like were’s the beef? Dah

   1. UFO’s are everywhere, hundreds of reports every year. Just means someone saw something…

      1. I mean in the report.

         1. well, once you know what they are, they’re no longer unidentified. they’re saying that the “UFOs” were actually spy / recon aircraft that the CIA were flying around. specifically, the U2 and its precursors and the SR-71 and its precursors.

         2. See p.72-73 of the pdf.

            1. It’s the pdf that I can’t see. There’s nothing visible in the article.

               Anyone got a direct link?

            2. t’s the second hyperlink in the Twitter message: 1.usa.gov/1lU3oIU

            3. This is what I see in this post:

         3. Correction: See pages 72-73 of the PDF.

         4. Its a very short mention. See page 72 of the report. Says airline pilots reported the UFOs to the Air Force and in response Project Blue book was initiated. Of the UFOs reported late 50s and all of the 60s the U2 and OXCART flights were responsible for over half of the sightings.

   2. Those are the parts that are blacked out.

5. Unfortunately the CIA continues its practice of using black highlighters over the most important parts.

6. My question is, how long will it take until they fess up that THEY were also behind the infamous “Men in Black”??!!!

7. We already know the aliens. They are in Congress.

   Oh. And Kim Jong-Un. And Kim Kardashian I suppose.

8. Oh… Just about the U2. No big revelation then…

9. Interesting that the “other” high-altitude subsonic recon aircraft, the RB-57, was already in service when the U2 was developed, and in its final iteration, the WB-57F, is still flying for NASA (and occasionally DOD) today.

10. Not trying to change the subject, but one thing I was reminded of is the way reports are done up, then vs. now.
    This report was very well written. I enjoyed reading every word of it. The detail in chapter 2 was exciting. It was detailed where it needed to be, sparse when it didn’t. It read like a well done novel. The story about the L pill mistaken for a lemon drop? How could you stop reading?
    I say this as I am putting together another bland PowerPoint, with everything nice and bulleted the way the boss wants, making sure to throw in “takeaways”. I’m sick and tired of dumbing down seemingly everything I write.
    I wonder what this document would look like done today?

    1. “This report was very well written. I enjoyed reading every word of it.”

       As did I! As a fellow resident of Powerpoint Hell, I agree with everything you said.

       Today, it would look something like the (in)famous Powerpoint Gettysburg Address:
       http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/

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