UFO Sightings were Results of Top Secret U-2 Spy Plane Program, Claims CIA [Again]

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By www.kake.com
7-2-14

     Washington -- A report released by the CIA says the U2 spy plane program was responsible for a large number of UFO sightings in the 1950's and 60's.

The agency tweeted a link to the report Wednesday afternoon, which not only provided details on the inner workings of the 20 year program, but how it was responsible for many UFO sightings reported across the country.

The report shows the investigators from Project BLUE BOOK, the Air Force program tasked with investigating UFO reports, attempted to explain UFO sightings by linking them to natural phenomena. Investigators regularly called the CIA's project staff in Washington to check the reported UFO sightings against the U2's flight logs.

This enabled investigators to eliminate the majority of UFO reports. However, they could not reveal to the witnesses who contacted BLUE BOOK the true cause of those sightings.

You can read the full report by clicking here. . . .

Remember reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? That was us. #U2Week #UFODAY http://t.co/SOiapRR0MX pic.twitter.com/dOQjQ6ePxr
— CIA (@CIA) July 2, 2014

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Spy Plane Disrupts Air Traffic Control Computers, Shuts Down LAX | VIDEO

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By Mike M. Ahlers
CNN
5-6-14

     (CNN) -- A very old spy plane and a very new computer system played pivotal roles in last week's computer glitch that temporarily paralyzed flight operations in southern California, officials tell CNN.

The problem involved a U-2 aircraft, the type famed for conducting reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

A Federal Aviation Administration computer system interpreted the U-2's flight path at a very high altitude as if it were flying in a much lower and more crowded airspace.

The computer -- which anticipates the flight path and looks for possible conflicts such as other aircraft or restricted airspace -- was overtaxed by the many flight changes the U-2 had plotted, officials said.

That work used much of the computer's memory and interrupted its other flight-processing functions, FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said in a statement. . . .

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Photographer Narrows Texas 'Mystery Plane' | UFO NEWS

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By Carol Christian
www.chron.com
4-1-14

     Reports of an unidentified plane, three of which were spotted flying in formation over Amarillo, have prompted sky watchers of all stripes to weigh in.

Perhaps the most intriguing theory, from a retired U.S. Marine with years of experience in aviation, is that it might have been an SR-72 Blackbird, a Lockheed Martin supersonic spy plane under development in California.

The pilotless SR-72, an aircraft being designed to fly at six times the speed of sound, will be able to cross an entire continent in less than an hour, according to Lockheed Martin.

James Vinyard, who spent nearly 17 years in the Marines and worked with a jet squadron in Arizona, suggested that the SR-72, which is a successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, might have been sent by the Pentagon to the Indian Ocean to help search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. . . .

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'Mystery Aircraft' Draws Speculation of Real Spy Plane

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By Carol Christian
www.chron.com
3-28-14

     If the unidentified aircraft photographed over Amarillo turns out to be a new U.S. spy plane, it wouldn't be the first time.

Aviation Week & Space Technology journalist Bill Sweetman has posted photos taken March 10 by two veteran sky watchers, Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett.

In his blog post of March 28, Sweetman writes that he and two Aviation Week editors agree that the photos depict "something real." In other words, these pictures aren't easily explained away by reports of known military flights or the work of someone who got carried away with Photoshop.

So what can aviation experts say about the object in the photos?

"The photos tell us more about what the mysterious stranger isn't than what it is," Sweetman writes.

The size is hard to determine, Sweetman says, but its relationship to the contrails suggests it's bigger than the Northrup Grumman X-47B, which has a 62-foot wing span, according to Wikipedia. . . .

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'Son of Blackbird': Plan for a New Spy Plane

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By Brad Lendon
CNN
11-6-13

      For a big chunk of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force turned to the SR-71 Blackbird for many of its most important spy missions. The jet-black jet could fly at more than three times the speed of sound at altitudes of 85,000 feet, faster and higher than anything adversaries had to counter it.

The last of the Blackbirds flew in 1999, and the U.S. military hasn't had anything close since.

Now, Lockheed-Martin, the maker of the SR-71, says the "Son of the Blackbird," the SR-72, is in the works, and it will be twice as fast as and way more lethal than its father. That's because the SR-72 will be designed to launch missiles, something the SR-71 didn't do.

"Even with the SR-71, at Mach 3, there was still time to notify that the plane was coming, but at Mach 6, there is no reaction time to hide a mobile target," Brad Leland, Lockheed Martin's program manager for hypersonics, told Aviation Week and Space Technology. The publication provided the first detailed look at the SR-72 plans last week.

"Hypersonic aircraft, coupled with hypersonic missiles, could penetrate denied airspace and strike at nearly any location across a continent in less than an hour," Leland said in a news release.

And, by the way, the SR-72 is envisioned as a drone, unlike the original Blackbird with its crew of two: a pilot and a reconnaissance officer to operate its radar jammers and spy gear. . . .

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