The world is full of blurry, grainy and probably fake photos which claim to show alien spaceships zooming through the sky.
But the CIA wanted to see the best possible shots of unidentified flying objects and even offered advice on how to snap the best possible images, it has emerged.
During the 20th century, spooks handed out documents which allowed extraterrestrial investigators to record their findings and showed them how to take detailed photographs.
The files were released last year but just resurfaced after the CIA wrote a tweet about the documents using the acronym ‘ICYMI’ – which means ‘in case you missed it’.
Now, you might think there’s something a bit weird about an intelligence agency tweeting declassified information like it was a trending content website sharing a story about some poor unfortunate chap trapping his penis in a tube station turnstile.
And you’d be right, of course.
‘We dug up some long lost tips on how to take photographs of UFOs,’ the CIA wrote.
‘That begs the question: Did CIA really investigate UFOs?’
The photography tips were aimed at making sure images could be debunked or confirmed easily and advise ET hunters to keep negatives, take shots of the background and try to snap UFOs from several different angles.
And if you’re wondering if the CIA did investigate UFO sightings, the answer is: yes.
Last year, the CIA finally made millions of pages of highly secret documents freely available online.
The data includes UFO sightings and records of ‘psychic experiments’ such as the Stargate programme, where the CIA worked with people such as Uri Geller.
Details of a flying saucer spotted over Sheffield were also published in these ‘X Files’.
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The world is full of blurry, grainy and probably fake photos which claim to show alien spaceships zooming through the sky.
But the CIA wanted to see the best possible shots of unidentified flying objects and even offered advice on how to snap the best possible images, it has emerged.
During the 20th century, spooks handed out documents which allowed extraterrestrial investigators to record their findings and showed them how to take detailed photographs.
The files were released last year but just resurfaced after the CIA wrote a tweet about the documents using the acronym ‘ICYMI’ – which means ‘in case you missed it’.
Now, you might think there’s something a bit weird about an intelligence agency tweeting declassified information like it was a trending content website sharing a story about some poor unfortunate chap trapping his penis in a tube station turnstile.
And you’d be right, of course.
‘We dug up some long lost tips on how to take photographs of UFOs,’ the CIA wrote.
‘That begs the question: Did CIA really investigate UFOs?’
The photography tips were aimed at making sure images could be debunked or confirmed easily and advise ET hunters to keep negatives, take shots of the background and try to snap UFOs from several different angles.
And if you’re wondering if the CIA did investigate UFO sightings, the answer is: yes.
Last year, the CIA finally made millions of pages of highly secret documents freely available online.
The data includes UFO sightings and records of ‘psychic experiments’ such as the Stargate programme, where the CIA worked with people such as Uri Geller.
Details of a flying saucer spotted over Sheffield were also published in these ‘X Files’.
MORE: Has a UFO visited your hometown? Find out using this interactive alien sightings map
MORE: Alien lifeforms travelled to Earth on a stream of space dust, scientists claim
