Aircraft Jim Wilson

The decades immediately following World War II were a time of suspicious rivalry between nations, particularly the United States and the Soviet Union. They were also a time of numerous UFO sightings. Could there be a connection"

Today, as more and more formerly classified documents have been released by both governments, it is clear that some UFOs were secret experimental or reconnaissance aircraft neither country wanted its rival to know about. The Stealth B—2 bomber is one of the more recent examples of aircraft that could easily be mistaken for a UFO. The dark triangular plane is nearly invisible to radar, and it was a craft unknown to most civilians until the late 1990s. The Soviet Union, too, had its secrets. In the fall of 1967, the crew of a Russian airliner claimed a UFO had hovered nearby and then disappeared...