{"id":4760,"date":"2017-07-19T00:54:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T00:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=4760"},"modified":"2019-07-02T21:09:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T21:09:17","slug":"cia-tweet-remember-reports-unusual-activity-skies-50s-us-u2week-ufoday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/cia-tweet-remember-reports-unusual-activity-skies-50s-us-u2week-ufoday\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Tweet: Remember reports of unusual activity in the skies in the &#8217;50s? That was us. #U2Week #UFODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>On July 2, 2014, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) posted a tweet relating to UFOs, which was, needless to say, fairly controversial.<\/p>\n<p>It read:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Remember reports of unusual activity in the skies in the &#8217;50s? That was us. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/U2Week?src=hash\">#U2Week<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFODAY?src=hash\">#UFODAY<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/SOiapRR0MX\">http:\/\/t.co\/SOiapRR0MX<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/dOQjQ6ePxr\">pic.twitter.com\/dOQjQ6ePxr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CIA (@CIA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CIA\/status\/484429844777037824\">July 2, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I thought it would be interesting to see what exactly went in to the creation of this tweet. I mean, as The Black Vault can easily prove, this was definitely NOT the truth &#8211; so how could they justify posting it? There was no feasible way the CIA could account for, and be responsible for, every legitimate UFO sighting from the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>So, I filed a FOIA request to see what research was done, how they corresponded about it, and what their thought process was. \u00a0I mean, let&#8217;s face it, if you make a claim like that, you should back it up, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, to my surprise, there wasn&#8217;t any proof or any sign of any legitimate research.<\/p>\n<p>As these documents below show, one guy\/gal had an idea, another guy\/gal said, &#8220;I love it. Good to go.&#8221; \u00a0And that was the extent of it.<\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/cia\/CIA-UFO-TWEET.pdf\">CIA Tweet: Remember reports of unusual activity in the skies in the &#8217;50s? 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It read: Remember reports of unusual activity in the skies in the &#8217;50s? That was us. #U2Week #UFODAY http:\/\/t.co\/SOiapRR0MX pic.twitter.com\/dOQjQ6ePxr \u2014 CIA (@CIA) July 2, 2014 I thought it would be interesting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,32],"tags":[66,65,1067,968,296],"class_list":{"0":"post-4760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-fringe","8":"category-ufo-phenomena","9":"tag-central-intelligence-agency","10":"tag-cia","11":"tag-tweet","12":"tag-twitter","13":"tag-ufo"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-18_17-54-31.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}