CIA-UAP-003 — U-2/OXCART history (spy planes explain most 1950s-60s UFO reports).

official-recordcompeting_explanationMajestic 12 & Disinfo

PURSUE Release 03: the CIA History Staff monograph on the U-2 and A-12 OXCART programs, stating high-altitude spy flights accounted for MORE THAN HALF of all UFO reports in the late 1950s-1960s.

A load-bearing PROSAIC-explanation document: the agency's own record that its classified spy planes generated the majority of period UFO sightings. Strengthens the competing-explanation layer. ~406 pages; war.gov PDF gated.

Connected entities

CIA U-2/OXCART UFO admission (Haines 1997).PURSUE UAP Disclosure Program (2026).

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