Malcolm Byrne, Deputy Director and Director of Research at the National Security Archive, tells TIME that Richelson essentially solved the mystery surrounding Area 51 indirectly. sightings, the fact that you had these high-flying aircraft in the air being the cause of some of the sightings.” The only overlap is the discussion of the U-2 flights and U.F.O. “There certainly was - as you would expect - no discussion of little green men here,” Richelson, who died in 2017, told The New York Times in 2013. The request forced the CIA to declassify documents on the history of the U-2 and A-12 OXCART program and the military base where the planes were constructed and tested - Area 51. Richelson, a senior fellow at the George Washington University National Security Archive, submitted a Freedom of Information Act Request in 2005 for information on the CIA’s Lockheed U-2 plane reconnaissance program, the secret construction and testing of spy planes used to gather intelligence. The public found out that Area 51 officially existed in August 2013 after Dr. Air Force in southern Nevada - though the site is still very secretive. Area 51, officially named the Nevada Test and Training Range at Groom Lake, is a high-security open training range for the U.S.
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