Spy and stealth planes mistaken for UFOs

Img: The B-2 Spirit, one of the candidates for confusion with a UFO. Credit: US Air Force.

United States advanced technology aeroplanes such as spy planes and stealth aircraft have often been confused as UFOs, a recent CIA report has suggested.

In a Fox News report, the network quoted the report as suggesting that most of the alleged UFO sightings in the 1950s through the 1960s were U-2 and SR-71 spy planes.

However because of the political ramifications of admitting the existence of the advanced technology aircraft during the Cold War, the report found that simple government denials of the existence of the planes only fuelled further conspiracy theories.

The report listed six spy aircraft most likely to have been confused as UFOs. These are: the RQ-3 Darkstar; U-2 spy plane; SR-71 Blackbird; P-791; F-117A Nighthawk and the B-2 Spirit.

Such is the rumoured nature of these craft that many of them appear to behave just as you would expect an alien space craft with the ability to appear to change shape and change directions quickly.

With apparently bizarre behaviour and strange shape, it perhaps is easy to understand why test flights of the spy and stealth craft were mistaken for UFOs.

However the study is unlikely to end speculation over their existence with recent footage uploaded by NASA to YouTube stimulating further discussion as to the existence of UFOs and the alleged subsequent cover up by the US government.