Recently, a number of classified documents of the US Central Intelligence Agency have been published on UFO sightings in the 40-50s of the last century. The publication was timed to coincide with the release of the new season of the famous popular TV series The X-Files ("The X-Files") and caused a considerable stir in the yellow press.
"Surreal" archive
Thus, the portal TECH Insider highlighted seven documents from the CIA archives, which they dubbed "surreal". These include a 1952 note from the Assistant Director of the CIA Department of Scientific Research expressing fears that the United States will be vulnerable to potential attacks from "flying saucers", a report on the observation of mysterious lights over Tashkent, as well as a report on the appearance of luminous objects over located in the Belgian Congo by uranium mines.
Meanwhile, in a 1952 report, the CIA leadership claims that thousands of reports of unidentified flying objects are fiction or the result of falsification. Despite this, the control officer who prepared the report recommends that the potential threat from the UFO be taken into account and that the observation of the phenomenon continues. Also follows the order to the CIA employees to refrain from public disclosure of information.
The inexplicable is in the minority
1952 reports report unidentified flying objects observed over Germany, Spain and Africa during the specified period. They are accompanied by the minutes of the meetings of various UFO commissions, as well as detailed instructions for observers of unidentified flying objects. However, no document indicates any connection between UFOs and alien civilizations.
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This is not the first time that UFO information has been "declassified". Last year, 12,618 US Air Force reports on Project Blue Book were posted online. They are about observations of unidentified flying objects from 1947 to 1969. It is emphasized that most of these episodes are explained by various natural and atmospheric phenomena. Only 701 cases have not received a convincing scientific explanation. This represents 5.5 percent of all reported UFO incidents.
"Plates" in the Atlantic
Despite the absence of any official evidence of the presence on Earth of representatives of alien civilizations, there are periodic reports of certain intelligence officers (most often retired) making confessions exposing the "alien conspiracy theory." One of them is retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Richard French. In 2013, the elderly French announced at a hearing in Washington that in the 50s he participated in the Blue Book project and was engaged in, among other things, collecting and analyzing information about UFOs. He was also responsible for traveling to the sites of the alleged incidents.
Somehow in the early 50s, the department received information that the residents of the Canadian city of St. John's observed two strange apparatus off the Atlantic coast, plunging into the water at a speed of more than 150 kilometers per hour. French was summoned to the scene literally "in hot pursuit". Indeed, he said, in the clear water not far from the shore, two objects resembling inverted plates were clearly visible, each about 5.5 meters in diameter and less than a meter in height. Both swam under water at a distance of several meters from each other. There were also "pilots" near them. “They were half a meter to a meter high, light gray, with very thin long arms, two or three fingers,” recalls French. - The top of the head was much wider than the jaw, the eyes were slanted and seemed to have no pupils. They looked exactly the samelike aliens from the movies."
Some time later, one of the "plates" flew out of the water, but then came back. After the "aliens" made some manipulations (and it took about twenty minutes), the objects rose and quickly disappeared into the sky.
According to French, in his report, he did not mention "aliens", but described the objects as "vehicles". In 1970, the Blue Book project was closed, and its organizers issued a statement that neither aliens nor alien ships simply exist. However, the former lieutenant colonel is still convinced that he saw exactly the aliens, who were probably engaged in repairing their vehicles.
And yet, such stories cannot serve as an argument in favor of the existence of brothers in mind, because they are in no way confirmed by the official bodies … But the very fact of the existence of UFOs undoubtedly takes place. Another thing is that UFOs are a concept too general and vague to associate them with aliens.