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This isn't one fun PDF, it's pages and pages of them: the CIA's response to FOIA requests about UFOs. I thought this would just be a single-page response that says "UFOs aren't real, go away", but noooo it's all kinds of wild shit from the 50s and 60s.

(I am guessing, and hoping, that when they document "interrogations" of UFO witnesses, this is a term of art that's inclusive of regular nonviolent interviews.)

Honestly, after reading these... I kinda believe in UFOs now? There's a lot of reports here where people all over an area describe seeing the same object at the same time.

I don't believe that UFOs are aliens who traveled 20,000 light-years just to not talk to us, but there was something going on in the skies in the 50s. Experimental aircraft/missiles? Or just UFO publicity making people suggestible? Or [I was going to put a third possibility here but honestly I don't know what that would be]?


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or the CIA wants us to believe in UFOs and so laid out a page that would only subtly push a person towards that belief. not sure why they would want this, but I wouldn't put it past 'em.

still, there were also a lot of similar UFO sightings reported in other sources in the same era

Naturally, I can’t find the source now, but a study analyzed factors that linked UFO sightings and found that the number 1 predictor of whether you’d see a UFO was … how close you were to military airspace.

To be fair, if I saw an F-117 up in the sky in 1980, I would think “aliens???” for at least five seconds