WASHINGTON (WCMH) — The truth is out there. The CIA is highlighting a few items from it’s recently declassified collection of UFO-related documents that “both skeptics and believers will find interesting.”
The documents, which the CIA is calling their ‘X-Files,’ date over a 50 year period, though mostly from the 1940s to the 1950s. One such document discusses an object “resembling a huge flying pan” that landed in the Soviet zone of Germany in 1952.
“The whole object then began to rise slowly from the ground and rotate like a top,” the eyewitness told the CIA.
Another unexplained object was taken in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 20, 1960.
But the CIA also says there are UFO sightings that have been debunked. Some of the explanations for the “flying saucers” and “balls of light” were determined to be from military aircraft, light reflected from ice crystals, birds and bright sunlight rays, CNN reports.
“It was interesting to note that none of the members of the Panel were loath to accept that this earth might be visited by any extraterrestrial intelligent beings of some sort, some day,” read the summary of one UFO advisory panel. “What they did not find was any evidence that related the objects sighted to space travelers.”
To take a look at the cases, just head to the CIA’s X-Files website here.