How the CIA Tried to Quell UFO Panic

In January 1953, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency had a thorny situation on its hands. Reports of UFO sightings were mushrooming around the country. Press accounts were fanning public fascination—and concern. So the CIA convened a

By Becky Little www.history.com 1-5-20

group of scientists to investigate whether these unknown phenomena in the sky represented a national security threat.

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Scientist Accuses CIA of World Plot to 'Debunk' UFOs | UFO CHRONICLE – 1967

An American Scientist contended Saturday that Flying Saucers [UFOs] were visiting the earth from another world and accused governments of a deliberate program to debunk their existence.

By The Philadelphia Inqquirer 7-9-1967

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UFO Reports Throttled by CIA, Physicist Says | UFO CHRONICLE – 1966

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has ordered the Air Force to debunk stories on Unidentified Flying Objects, a University of Arizona physicist charges.

By The Los Angeles Times 10-9-1966

Dr. James E. McDonald, senior physicist at the UA Institute of Atmospheric Physics, said the hush-hush policy has throttled any scientific investigation of the objects.

He said there is reason to believe some of the objects may carry persons from outer-space on reconnaissance missions over earth.

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Former NASA Scientist Debunks All UFO Sightings

This week, again, UFO enthusiasts saw a phenomenon and an explanation they didn't believe matched up. The phenomenon was a bright, second-long streak across a time-lapse video filmed by astronaut Paolo Nespoli; the explanation, as provided by the

By Meghan Bartels Newsweek 11-22-17

European Space Agency, was that a meteor was burning up as it entered Earth's atmosphere.

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James Oberg, who used to work in mission control at NASA, is used to this sort of approach to UFO sightings, and in a fascinating interview with Atlas Obscura, he explains why space phenomena trip people up. As a hobby, he has traced back decades'-worth of UFO sightings to more mundane explanations, drawing on his professional expertise in space missions.

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Roswell UFO Crash: There Were 2 Crashes, Not 1, Says Ex-Air Force Official

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By Lee Speigel The Huffington Post 8-6-12

     The 1947 UFO controversy of Roswell, N.M. is like a bad penny: It keeps turning up.

The legend, rehashed by conspiracy theorists in countless documentaries, revolves around allegations that an unusual object fell from the sky -- an object so bizarre that the U.S. Air Force issued a press release that a flying saucer had crashed.

That story was quickly recanted, creating what would become one of the greatest urban legends in American history.

Until now, most debunkers doubted that there was even one crash. Now, in an exclusive interview, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French told The Huffington Post that there were actually two crashes.

. . . "There were actually two crashes at Roswell, which most people don't know," French told HuffPost. "The first one was shot down by an experimental U.S. airplane that was flying out of White Sands, N.M., and it shot what was effectively an electronic pulse-type weapon that disabled and took away all the controls of the UFO, and that's why it crashed." . . .

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