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      Area 51 exists but there were no little green men
      The Sunday Times – Published on Aug 18, 2013

      Washington – A newly declassified CIA document confirms the existence of famed Area 51 in Nevada, but conspiracy theorists will be disappointed there is no mention of the legendary “Roswell Incident” and no proof of alien spaceship landings in the desert.

      Area 51 has long been fodder for science-fiction films and UFO tales claiming the US government imposed secrecy over a site near Roswell, New Mexico. where a weather balloon crashed in 1947, to cover up evidence of extra-terrestrials landing on Earth.

      UFO true believers allege it was an alien spacecraft that went down, and that Area 51’s hangars had hidden evidence of extra-terrestrial corpses.

      The documents released by the Central Intelligence Agency as a result of a Freedom of Information request of 2005 from the National Security Archives at George Washington University recount a less sensational history of Area 51 – as a testing range for the government’s U-2 spy plane during the Cold War.

      The U-2 reconnaissance aircraft was designed to snoop on the Soviet Union at high altitude, and its development was top-secret. According to the CIA, the secrecy surrounding Area 51 was not about Martians but about hiding the new spy plane from the Soviets.

      The U-2 planes flew at above 18,000m, and reports of unidentified flying objects in the Nevada desert started to roll in, the report said.

      “High-altitude testing of the U-2 soon led to an unexpected side effect – a tremendous increase in reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs),” it said.

      The reports of UFOs often came from pilots of commercial airliners in the early evening hours, with the U-2 plane’s silver wings reflecting the rays of the sun. The surveillance planes appeared to be “fiery objects” high in the sky, it said.

      But the report is unlikely to stop the conspiracy theories. The 407-page document still contains many redactions, and who is to say those missing sections do not involve little green men?

      “The government probably will not release what it knows,” UFO researcher Robert Hastings said. “My opinion is that whoever is flying these craft will break the story and will reveal themselves at some point in the future. The CIA is not going to release anything they don’t want to talk about.”

      AFP, AP

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        Area 51 exists but there were no little green men
        The Sunday Times – Published on Aug 18, 2013

        Washington – A newly declassified CIA document confirms the existence of famed Area 51 in Nevada, but conspiracy theorists will be disappointed there is no mention of the legendary “Roswell Incident” and no proof of alien spaceship landings in the desert.

        Area 51 has long been fodder for science-fiction films and UFO tales claiming the US government imposed secrecy over a site near Roswell, New Mexico. where a weather balloon crashed in 1947, to cover up evidence of extra-terrestrials landing on Earth.

        UFO true believers allege it was an alien spacecraft that went down, and that Area 51’s hangars had hidden evidence of extra-terrestrial corpses.

        The documents released by the Central Intelligence Agency as a result of a Freedom of Information request of 2005 from the National Security Archives at George Washington University recount a less sensational history of Area 51 – as a testing range for the government’s U-2 spy plane during the Cold War.

        The U-2 reconnaissance aircraft was designed to snoop on the Soviet Union at high altitude, and its development was top-secret. According to the CIA, the secrecy surrounding Area 51 was not about Martians but about hiding the new spy plane from the Soviets.

        The U-2 planes flew at above 18,000m, and reports of unidentified flying objects in the Nevada desert started to roll in, the report said.

        “High-altitude testing of the U-2 soon led to an unexpected side effect – a tremendous increase in reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs),” it said.

        The reports of UFOs often came from pilots of commercial airliners in the early evening hours, with the U-2 plane’s silver wings reflecting the rays of the sun. The surveillance planes appeared to be “fiery objects” high in the sky, it said.

        But the report is unlikely to stop the conspiracy theories. The 407-page document still contains many redactions, and who is to say those missing sections do not involve little green men?

        “The government probably will not release what it knows,” UFO researcher Robert Hastings said. “My opinion is that whoever is flying these craft will break the story and will reveal themselves at some point in the future. The CIA is not going to release anything they don’t want to talk about.”

        AFP, AP

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