United States: UFOs were spy planes

Big disappointment for fans of X-Files, the truth is not somewhere else! A declassified CIA report confirms that the famous Area 51 in the Mojave Desert was the basis for secret spy planes U-2.

Flights to high altitude U-2 is the source of many UFO reports. From the beginning of the test and training flights in July 1955, "the high-altitude U-2 quickly led to an unexpected side effect: the dramatic increase in reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs)" , the authors recount the CIA report.

At the time, commercial aircraft flying at an altitude of 3000-6000 meters. The U-2 flew, they, more than 20,000 meters. "Such reports are very common in the early evening from commercial pilots flying from east to west." The sun was so low on the horizon, their device is "in the shadow". If a U-2 flying around at high altitude, the sun glinted off his silver wings, which "appeared for the commercial pilot, 12,000 feet below, as a flaming" object, the report says déclassifé.

This phenomenon can also be observed from the ground, simply because that "at that time, no one suspected that the manned flight was possible at 20,000 feet, so nobody planned to see if an object high in the sky".