Government lied to public about UFO sightings, CIA admits

“Over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights” over the United States, the CIA study says. “This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraodrinary sensitive national security project.”

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