The Day That the CIA Admits Something...

...is the day to watch your back.

This week, the CIA took to social media to claim responsibility for at least half of UFO sightings in the 1950s and 60s.

"Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? It was us," the agency tweeted, while acknowledging the section on UFOs attracted the most attention to its website in 2014.

  RT

Paint me permanently skeptical when it comes to CIA admissions of anything. Should we brace ourselves for something?

The CIA said that many of the people who reported UFO sightings around this time were commercial pilots, who caught occasional glimpses of the high-altitude aircraft while flying at considerably lower altitudes.

The silver wings of the U-2 spy planes “would catch and reflect the rays of the sun and appear to the airliner pilot, 40,000 feet below, to be fiery objects,” it revealed.

“At this time, no one believed manned flight was possible above 60,000 feet, so no one expected to see an object so high in the sky.”

In general, the CIA document admitted to being responsible for “more than half” of the UFO sightings, many are left wondering what or who was responsible for the other half of reported sightings.

Maybe the CIA will admit to those, too, one day.  Should it suit their purpose.

To the Soviet Union, however, the U-2 spy plane was not so “unidentified.”

On May 1, 1960, an American U-2C spy plane, piloted by Gary Powers, was shot down in Russia's Urals region by surface-to-air missiles. The sensational incident was to be a major embarrassment for US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was forced to admit that the US had engaged in secret espionage activities.

Only after he trotted out the old ‘weather balloon’ cover-up.

If you want to read an interesting article about the U2 incident, there are plenty on the net. Here’s one.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.