Name: Project Aquatone's U-2 Spy Plane | Inside America's Secret Missions
Uploaded: 2020-10-23T23:31:06.000Z
Duration: 5 min 18 s
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NARRATOR: Area 51 was built around a dry lake

to land that we could land any direction,

It was also protected in the mountain range around it.

I could take that staff car out there, and as fast as it'd go.

RAY GOUDEY: We had a bunch of trailers for us to live in.

And we had a all-purpose building where you eat.

Didn't have TV, didn't even have a radio.

ED LOVICK: Paradise Ranch was the first name that

They thought it would soften the blow of the austerity that was

attempt to, perhaps, convince people it wasn't

NARRATOR: Area 51 was created for one top secret project

In 1955, men from the CIA, the Air Force,

and a secret division of Lockheed came to Paradise Ranch

TONY BEVACQUA: All they would tell us was we

So we knew it was going to be high altitude stuff.

Your blood boils above 50,000 without having pressurization.

MAN: When pilots fly higher than man has ever flown,

Ray Goudey prepares for a flight inside Area 51.

and rumors about what was going on inside Area 51

of the most important tools of the Cold War, the U2 spy plane.

NARRATOR: The U2 was equipped with high resolution cameras

designed to fly at 70,000 feet and take photographs

As the Cold War arms race with the Soviet Union intensified,

the U2 was America's best hope for tracking their rival's

growing nuclear arsenal and it put enormous demands

MAN: Pilots find the confines of the helmet and face plate

A number of pilots have been dropped from the program

NARRATOR: The government's cover story for the U2

was that it was being used for weather research.

NARRATOR: The U2 cruised at three times the height

I saw the sun glinting off of windows or observation

the Cold War and America's interest in UFOs

MAN: I think it was from outer space, but friendly.

TONY BEVACQUA: It was pure aluminum, and we said hey,

NARRATOR: Pilots were told to deny everything,

TONY BEVACQUA: There were stories about seeing

But they'll still get nothing, other than evasive stuff.

RAY GOUDEY: If you get up along the Canadian border,

the ground controller questioned my altitude.

And I said, no, you got to recalibrate your weapon.

[laughs] That's not the altitude we were at.

flights were the source of half of all reported UFO sightings.

But they were nothing compared to what would come.

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