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25 Building A Secret Air Force 25 Building A Secret Air Force BUILDING A SECRET BUILDING A SECRET British-US developmental operation to produce aware of the secret U-2 flights tried to explain away such sightings by linking them to natural AIR FORCE : The a nonconventional flying-saucer-type aircraft, phenomena such as ice crystals and temperature AIR FORCE : The and Agency officials feared the Soviets were CIA's Role in the Study testing similar devices. (41) inversions. By checking with the Agency's U-2 CIA's Role in the Study Project Staff in Washington, BLUE BOOK Adding to the concern was a flying of UFOs saucer sighting by US Senator Richard Russell investigators were able to attribute many UFO of UFOs Continued from Page 18 and his party while traveling on a train in the sightings to U-2 flights. They were careful, Continued from Page 18 however, not to reveal the true cause of the USSR in October 1955. After extensive interviews of Russell and his group, however, sighting to the public. A nonbeliever in UFOs, Odarenko CIA officials concluded that Russell's sighting sought to have his division relieved of the did not support the theory that the Soviets had Continued on Page 28 responsibility for monitoring UFO reports. In developed saucerlike or unconventional aircraft. 1955, for example, he recommended that the Herbert Scoville, Jr., the Assistant Director of entire project be terminated because no new OSI, wrote that the objects observed probably The ‘X’ Zone Archives Are Available At information concerning UFOs had surfaced. were normal jet aircraft in a steep climb. (42) www.xzonearchives.com Besides, he argued, his division was facing a Wilton E. Lexow, head of the CIA's serious budget reduction and could not spare the Applied Sciences Division, was also skeptical. resources. (39) Chadwell and other Agency He questioned why the Soviets were continuing In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada officials, however, continued to worry about to develop conventional-type aircraft if they had People Listen To People Listen To UFOs. Of special concern were overseas reports a "flying saucer." (43) Scoville asked Lexow to The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show of UFO sightings and claims that German assume responsibility for fully assessing the The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show with engineers held by the Soviets were developing a capabilities and limitations of nonconventional with "flying saucer" as a future weapon of war. (40) aircraft and to maintain the OSI central file on Rob McConnell Rob McConnell To most US political and military the subject of UFOs. on on leaders, the Soviet Union by the mid-1950s had AM 580 CFRA become a dangerous opponent. Soviet progress CIA's U-2 and OXCART as UFOs AM 580 CFRA CIA's U-2 and OXCART as UFOs in nuclear weapons and guided missiles was particularly alarming. In the summer of 1949, In November 1954, CIA had entered into the the USSR had detonated an atomic bomb. In world of high technology with its U-2 overhead August 1953, only nine months after the United reconnaissance project. Working with States tested a hydrogen bomb, the Soviets Lockheed's Advanced Development facility in detonated one. In the spring of 1953, a top Burbank, California, known as the Skunk secret RAND Corporation study also pointed Works, and Kelly Johnson, an eminent out the vulnerability of SAC bases to a surprise aeronautical engineer, the Agency by August attack by Soviet long-range bombers. Concern 1955 was testing a high-altitude experimental over the danger of a Soviet attack on the United aircraft--the U-2. It could fly at 60,000 feet; in States continued to grow, and UFO sightings the mid-1950s, most commercial airliners flew added to the uneasiness of US policymakers. between 10,000 feet and 20,000 feet. Mounting reports of UFOs over eastern Consequently, once the U-2 started test flights, Europe and Afghanistan also prompted concern commercial pilots and air traffic controllers that the Soviets were making rapid progress in began reporting a large increase in UFO this area. CIA officials knew that the British and sightings. (44) (U) Canadians were already experimenting with The early U-2s were silver (they were "flying saucers." Project Y was a Canadian- later painted black) and reflected the rays from the sun, especially at sunrise and sunset. They THE ‘X’ ZONE TV SHOW often appeared as fiery objects to observers THE ‘X’ ZONE TV SHOW www.xzonetv.com below. Air Force BLUE BOOK investigators www.xzonetv.com