CIA officially acknowledged the existence of secret U.S. research site known as Area 51. Documents obtained by the American universities explaining the takeover of a location in the Nevada area in 1955 to test the secret spy plane U-2.
U-2 aircraft were made to spy on the Soviet Union Cold War and the future is still flown by the U.S. Air Force.
This document also describes the relationship of the area with UFOs and aliens. Remote location in the desert which surrounds Lake Groom routes have adjacent to a nuclear testing facility. "U-2 is very secret," said British defense journalist, Chris Pocock, and author of the history of aircraft development program the U-2, told the BBC. "They try to hide everything about it," he added.
Area 51 is often associated with an unknown aircraft or UFO.
Internal CIA documents about the history of the U-2 program in 1992, was originally opened to the public in 1998 with a lot of editing. Many details of the 'dark' newly revealed this month after a request by the National Security Archive at George Washington Universita, Washington DC.
Area 51 locations selected for the U-2 program in 1955 after the CIA and the air force aerial survey. According to history, President Dwight Eisenhower signed personally mengambilalihan the land.Officials from the CIA, Air Force, and the building contractor is Lockheed U-2, began to move into the facility in July 1955.
Besides the development of the U-2 program, this historical document also attempts to explain the public's fascination with Area 51 and its relationship with UFOs and extraterrestrials.
The document notes that the U-2 testing in 1950 with a height that is much higher than commercial aircraft-fueled "significant increase in reports of unidentified flying objects (UFO)".
"At that time, no one could believe a manned flight to fly over 60,000 feet [like the U-2], so that [the majority] no one thought would see an object that is so high in the sky," notes author Gregory Pedlow and Donald Welzenbach. (BBC)
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