Area 51 Lore as Cold War Psyops: DoD Report Finds Disinformation, Not Alien Technology

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A 2024 Defense Department report says much of Area 51 UFO lore was created by the Pentagon during the 1980s and Cold War to hide real weapons programs, including a colonel handing out fake flying saucer photos near Area 51 and a fictitious Yankee Blue unit used to mislead people and foreign spies, that a famous 1967 Montana sighting was caused by an electromagnetic pulse test instead of aliens, that no alien technology was found, and that deliberate disinformation was used to protect national security with more details coming in a second volume.