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CIA U-2 history released naming Area 51

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The CIA's U-2 and OXCART history, whose 2013 release openly named Area 51 CIA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

A CIA history of the U-2 and OXCART programs, released under FOIA to the National Security Archive, openly named Area 51. It says high-altitude U-2 flights sparked many 1950s UFO reports and that U-2 and OXCART flights accounted for over half of reports in the late 1950s and most of the 1960s.

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  1. OfficialThe Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974 (Pedlow and Welzenbach), Chapter 2Central Intelligence Agency (copy hosted by the National Security Archive) / 1992
  2. OtherThe Secret History of the U-2 - and Area 51 (Electronic Briefing Book No. 434)National Security Archive / 2013-08-15

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