What actually goes on at Area 51? There are two competing narratives. There are accounts

pieced together from declassified or leaked government documents that when woven together

amount to the closest thing we have to an official story. And then there's the conspiracy

laden primarily extraterrestrial based fascinating UFO lore. According to declassified CIA information,

Area 51 was used to test nuclear weapons on US soil and also to develop spy planes for the CIA

and the Air Force during the Cold War. By the early 1950s, US planes had begun conducting low

flying recon missions over the USSR, but there were constant worries of them being spotted and

shot down. So in 1954, President Eisenhower authorized the development of a top secret high

altitude recon aircraft dubbed project aquatone. The program required a remote location.

There wasn't easily accessible to civilians or spies. Area 51 was created in the Nevada desert

due to its being one of the most remote regions in the continental United States.

Then in the summer of 1955, sightings have unidentified flying objects reported around Area 51.

Again, according to the official, albeit leaked story, the sightings occurred because the

Air Force had begun testing the top secret U2 high altitude spy plane. The U2 could fly higher

than 60,000 feet up to 70,000 feet roughly compared to the most normal airliners that time flying

to 10 to 20,000 feet range. Most of the nation's commercial flights topped out at 12,000 feet,

military aircraft for maxing out around 40,000 feet, and almost known in the world knew this plane

existed. So if a pilot spotted a tiny speck moving high above them, it what they thought was an

impossible altitude, of course they would not be able to identify it and it would be logical to assume

it might be extraterrestrial. Same for any, you know, Tom, Dicker or Chikotilo on the ground.

Why are you out to meet to begin the next episode?

What Chikotilo is spotting UFOs now? I guess at least you must make a Jokosel's

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