With Area 51 ’s overdue military declassification , those who used to work there are ultimately free to speak about the projects they developed . All those UFO rumors , it turns out , have a jolly reasonable account .
The homo at Area 51 , among other projects , worked on the OXCART spyplane , now know as the SR-71 Blackbird . The mach-3 plane was unlike anything ever go out before , design to spy on the Russians during the Cold War , and so it kind of make horse sense that such odd flying object were see around Roswell back in the day .
The stories the Area 51 proletarian have are almost as half-baked as UFOs , however . For exemplar : During the first flight of the OXCART , the plane malfunction and the pilot ejected into a field , where three civilian passersby in a pick-me-up truck stopped to help him . The pilot warned the men not to go near the top - secret aeroplane , tell there was a nuclear weapon on board as a deterrent . The homo , spook , dropped him off at a police place where the CIA picked him up .
“ As for the Guy who picked him up , they were track down and told to sign interior security nondisclosures . As part of [ the pilot ’s ] own debriefing , the CIA asked the beautify pilot to take true statement serum . “ They want to see if there was anything I ’d for - catch about the consequence direct up to the clang . ” ”
The agents listed the crashed planing machine as a generic Air Force plane , and it ’s still listed that way in the records today .
insure out the full article for more story and explanations that are sure to fail to dissuade the crazy conspiracy nutballs . [ LA TimesviaBoing Boing convenience ]
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