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The incident, which happened on July 18, went public last Wednesday after a classified document from Sweden’s Defense Ministry was leaked to the press.
The plane, a Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint, entered Sweden’s airspace after permission to do so was denied by traffic control, Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper said. It passed from the east over the island of Gotland and flew more than 200km over 90 minutes before leaving.
The aerial incursion was caused by a Russian fighter jet, which scrambled from a base in the exclave Kaliningrad Region and approached the American reconnaissance plane.
Neither party involved in the incident confirmed or denied it, but a source in the US military told CNN on weekend that it indeed happen.
The source said the plane was conducting an electronic eavesdropping mission on the Russian military when the latter locked on to the aircraft with a radar station and sent at least one jet to intercept it. The quickest path of escape was through Swedish airspace, which was what the spy plane pilot did despite the Swedes’ objection.
The source said similar incidents may happen in future, a fact which the US officials made known to Sweden. The CNN report didn’t elaborate on how it was perceived by Sweden, a country that is not even a member of NATO and maintains a non-alliance stance.
The 1950s and '60s was an intense period when a number of Americans reported UFO sightings and alien visitations. These sensational events lent cinematic credence to a number of Hollywood space blockbusters, including Steven Spielberg’s 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'ET,' and George Lucas’s 'Star Wars.'
Now it appears the unidentified flying objects were more fact than fantasy, while the mind behind them was not quite alien.
This week, the CIA took to social media to claim responsibility for at least half of UFO sightings in the 1950s and 60s.
'Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? It was us,' the agency tweeted, while acknowledging the section on UFOs attracted the most attention to its website in 2014.
#1 most read on our #Bestof2014 list: Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? It was us. http://t.co/BKr81M5OUN (PDF 9.26MB)
— CIA (@CIA) December 29, 2014
The CIA tweet linked to a heavily redacted 272-page document, entitled ‘The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974’ that described reconnaissance missions at altitudes in excess of 60,000 feet that sparked speculation on the ground.
“High altitude testing of the U-2 soon led to an unexpected side effect – a tremendous increase in reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs),” the 1998 report noted.
The CIA said that many of the people who reported UFO sightings around this time were commercial pilots, who caught occasional glimpses of the high-altitude aircraft while flying at considerably lower altitudes.
The silver wings of the U-2 spy planes “would catch and reflect the rays of the sun and appear to the airliner pilot, 40,000 feet below, to be fiery objects,” it revealed.
“At this time, no one believed manned flight was possible above 60,000 feet, so no one expected to see an object so high in the sky.”
In general, the CIA document admitted to being responsible for “more than half” of the UFO sightings, many are left wondering what or who was responsible for the other half of reported sightings.
The agency’s previously unclassified document said the CIA could not explain to people who believed they had really witnessed UFOs a true cause of some of those sightings.
To the Soviet Union, however, the U-2 spy plane was not so “unidentified.”
On May 1, 1960, an American U-2C spy plane, piloted by Gary Powers, was shot down in Russia's Urals region by surface-to-air missiles. The sensational incident was to be a major embarrassment for US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was forced to admit that the US had engaged in secret espionage activities.
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The incident, which happened on July 18, went public last Wednesday after a classified document from Sweden’s Defense Ministry was leaked to the press.
The plane, a Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint, entered Sweden’s airspace after permission to do so was denied by traffic control, Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper said. It passed from the east over the island of Gotland and flew more than 200km over 90 minutes before leaving.
The aerial incursion was caused by a Russian fighter jet, which scrambled from a base in the exclave Kaliningrad Region and approached the American reconnaissance plane.
Neither party involved in the incident confirmed or denied it, but a source in the US military told CNN on weekend that it indeed happen.
The source said the plane was conducting an electronic eavesdropping mission on the Russian military when the latter locked on to the aircraft with a radar station and sent at least one jet to intercept it. The quickest path of escape was through Swedish airspace, which was what the spy plane pilot did despite the Swedes’ objection.
The source said similar incidents may happen in future, a fact which the US officials made known to Sweden. The CNN report didn’t elaborate on how it was perceived by Sweden, a country that is not even a member of NATO and maintains a non-alliance stance.
The 1950s and '60s was an intense period when a number of Americans reported UFO sightings and alien visitations. These sensational events lent cinematic credence to a number of Hollywood space blockbusters, including Steven Spielberg’s 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'ET,' and George Lucas’s 'Star Wars.'
Now it appears the unidentified flying objects were more fact than fantasy, while the mind behind them was not quite alien.
This week, the CIA took to social media to claim responsibility for at least half of UFO sightings in the 1950s and 60s.
'Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? It was us,' the agency tweeted, while acknowledging the section on UFOs attracted the most attention to its website in 2014.
#1 most read on our #Bestof2014 list: Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? It was us. http://t.co/BKr81M5OUN (PDF 9.26MB)
— CIA (@CIA) December 29, 2014
The CIA tweet linked to a heavily redacted 272-page document, entitled ‘The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974’ that described reconnaissance missions at altitudes in excess of 60,000 feet that sparked speculation on the ground.
“High altitude testing of the U-2 soon led to an unexpected side effect – a tremendous increase in reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs),” the 1998 report noted.
The CIA said that many of the people who reported UFO sightings around this time were commercial pilots, who caught occasional glimpses of the high-altitude aircraft while flying at considerably lower altitudes.
The silver wings of the U-2 spy planes “would catch and reflect the rays of the sun and appear to the airliner pilot, 40,000 feet below, to be fiery objects,” it revealed.
“At this time, no one believed manned flight was possible above 60,000 feet, so no one expected to see an object so high in the sky.”
In general, the CIA document admitted to being responsible for “more than half” of the UFO sightings, many are left wondering what or who was responsible for the other half of reported sightings.
The agency’s previously unclassified document said the CIA could not explain to people who believed they had really witnessed UFOs a true cause of some of those sightings.
To the Soviet Union, however, the U-2 spy plane was not so “unidentified.”
On May 1, 1960, an American U-2C spy plane, piloted by Gary Powers, was shot down in Russia's Urals region by surface-to-air missiles. The sensational incident was to be a major embarrassment for US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was forced to admit that the US had engaged in secret espionage activities.
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Us Spy: Mission In Russia Download For Mac Free Powers parachuted safely from the aircraft and was convicted of espionage against the Soviet Union, but was released in a prisoner swap with US officials in February 1962.
Today, the wreckage of the U-2 aircraft, as well as items from Powers' survival pack, are on display at the Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow.
