There are a lot of photos in the past 100 years that have never been released to the public… Until now. From WWII planning to NASA training, they finally released some of the more “civilian friendly” photos to share. Some of these are truly shocking.
Bizarre UFO
The CIA ended up declassifying tons of different images of UFO saucers that were found over the years. Naturally, there was no explanation behind them…
Gigantic Chinese Telescope
China claims that this huge structure is the world’s strongest telescope. They claim that is has the ability to detect all different kinds of radio signals… Even some that are thousands of light years away. Some conspiracy theories say that it can manipulate the weather!
Secret US Facility
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex has been called the largest secret facility of the US government. Apparently, the underground bunker has tons of highly-classified things and only top officials can enter.
Pentagon 9/11 Photo
This is a real photo post-9/11 of the Pentagon. You can see the damage that the plane had done to all three levels of the building.
FBI Official Alien Documentation
Back in 1963, the government reportedly encountered a UFO in Nevada. They wrote down, in detail, the experience and it went into classified files. Naturally, they redacted a lot of things.
Osama Bin Laden
This is a photo of Osama Bin Laden with his family while on vacation in Germany. Obviously, this was before he became the truly evil villain that he was. It was said that he already had those radical views that family members didn’t agree with.
Family on the Moon
Charlie Duke left a family photo on the moon during his landing. It’s probably still in the same spot!
Practice Landings
Astronauts were trained to land in a body of water in a nearby pool. They wanted to make sure that they would be ready for any type of situation.
Crazy Bunker
This bunker in North Dakota was used to measure the weather and seismic waves. It was also used as a national missile defense system at one point.
Old Hitler?
Of course, this is just a conspiracy theory… The photo of the man on the left is apparently Hitler much older, living in Argentina.
Early Mount Rushmore
This is the first ever draft of Mount Rushmore. By the looks of it, there were a bit more pieces that went along with the original vision, but they had to simplify it a bit!
Secret Nuclear Bunkers
This may just look like a jumble of rocks, but it’s actually a US nuclear bunker in a Virginia forest.
Pablo Escobar At the White House
At the time, Escobar was one of the most wanted persons in the world. Somehow, he managed to take his kid on a little tour of Washington D.C.
Bonnie and Clyde’s Car
This is the car of the infamous bank-robbing couple Bonnie and Clyde. They were shot out by police in May of 1934.
Military Queen
The Queen of England did military service for the English government. She reported to the Women’s Auxiliary service.
The First Nuclear Bomb
This photo was taken back in 1945 in the desert of New Mexico. The Trinity project took place deep in the desert with no American citizens knowing that a nuclear bomb was in their midst…
Nuclear Explosions
This is a photo of the first test of a thermonuclear device being blown up in a top secret place on November 1st, 1952.
Another Military Base
These bases were known as strategic strike locations during the Cold War. The US government claims that the bases are no longer in operation, but of course, who can really believe that?
Roswell Crash Site
This is a real photo of the actual UFO Roswell crash site. Obviously, it’s hard to tell what this really is, but this does count as proof that something happened here…
Nuclear Waste Site
This is where America’s nuclear waste is stored. It looks like something in Star Wars!
Highway Near Area 51
That’s a pretty suspicious oversized load! Kind of looks like they’re transporting some type of flying saucer of sorts…
The “Fat Man”
This is the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 by the United States. It’s eerie to see it in its full state…
Area 51 Airplane
This is a plane that was based at Area 51. It’s a huge reason why the rumors of UFO’s started, as this design is very futuristic. It’s actually a SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane.
Taking John McCain
This was the moment when John McCain’s plane was shot down and landed in a Hanoi body of water in Vietnam. Locals saw him as the enemy and took him to prison.
Area 51 Aircraft
This was an experimental aircraft made by the US Air Force. Obviously, this was another source of the ‘flying saucer’ controversy.
Fighting Off Pilot Fatigue
This is how pilots trained to battle fatigue. They tried this way out for a bit, bit ultimately chucked it.
Pacific Ocean Airbase
The government made sure that this base was extremely secretive. This photos, which were recently declassified, shows the process and goings-on of this base.
Possible UFO Crash Site
A UFO crashed near Roswell again, this time leaving more scattered debris. This photo was released, but all other documents behind the photo have been heavily redacted.
Right Before JFK’s Murder
This photo was taken on the very same motorcade that JFK was in before he got shot.
Casual Disneyland Cafeteria
Even characters have to eat! After a long days work, these Disney characters went right to dinner.
Baby Cage
This is where babies were put when the parents were too busy working to pay attention to them. Okay… Sure.
A Real Spaceship
This is a photo of military personnel loading this bizarre shaped UFO onto a truck. Some people who have seen this photo note the weather balloon on the top right corner of the photo. They think that this weird ship has something to do with weather reporting… Yeah, okay.
The First-Ever Slide
Apparently, the first-ever slide was a wooden one. That sounds… Fun!
The First Divers Suit
The US kept this secret so that no one else will steal the idea. They were working on a patent for it. Honestly, it looks hilarious.
Operation Highjump
This is a photo of US military going towards their highly secret military facility in the Arctic. They used this to spy on Russia.
Chemical Weapons Warehouse
The two men pictured here are actually Russian soldiers in a warehouse full of chemical weapons during the Cold War era. Naturally, the CIA obtained this photo and kept it secret until the panic of the Cold War ended. This is not a photo that citizens would want to see…
Early Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was first constructed from scratch materials back in 1961. It was the start of the Cold War. The wall was taken down in 1961.
Controversial Moon Landing
This was the first, and last, mission to the moon. People think it’s pretty odd that we haven’t been back, especially since technology as expanded. Some people think it’s all fake.
Fat Man Pt 2
Here’s another photo of the Fat Man atomic bomb that wrecked Nagasaki. The technician is doing a final check on it before it’s dropped.
The 1974 Project
It’s no secret that the Air Force has a lot of secrets. This is one of them. The image above was a plan for a supersonic flying saucer. It’s not clear what the use was for…
The Schienenzeppelin
This was supposed to be Germany’s first ever high-speed train. Allegedly, it could travel up to 143 miles per hour.
Capturing Saddam Hussein
This is a photo of when US forces captured Saddam Hussein and ended his reign of terror.
Area 51 Secrets
This is yet another savvy, futuristic air craft from the Air Force.
Hiroshima Citizen
This child was a victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. He is a living reminder of the horror that the US inflicted on innocent civilians.
Sending It Off
This was Fat Man’s counterpart, Little Boy. This was another atomic bomb that they were prepping to drop.
Google As a Start-Up
This was Google before it literally ran the world! I wonder if they had any government ties…
UFO Research
It seems that the CIA were dipping their toes into some research… What was their plan?
The Ejection Seat
This was during some CIA tests of the ejected seat. This was supposed to save pilots during crash landings.
Tsar Bomba
The Tsar Bomba was the largest detonated bomb in the world. This photo is from that day in 1961.
Terror’s of War
This petrified reindeer was trying to run for cover during the dog fighting in the sky. A lot of animals perished during the war was well.
Bomb Dummies
This paints a very eerie photo of atomic bombs… The US would use human-like dummies to try and figure out the effects of the bomb.
Titanic Survivors
Someone, someone was able to snap a photo of folks in the Titanic getting into a lifeboat.
Escaping Saigon
Folks were trying to escape South Vietnam during the war. It was extremely hard to get out through transportation, which is why this photo is so hectic.
Jimi Hendrix
This photo was taken just a short time before his drug overdose death.
Statue of Liberty
Construction on this iconic statue was completed on October 28th, 1886. It took two years to build since it was so massive, with tons of people working on it.
Normal Osama Bin Laden
It’s hard to imagine Osama Bin Laden before his reign of terror. Apparently, he was just a normal dude with some horrific views on the world.
First-Ever All-Terrain Vehicle
Henry Ford tried creating an all-terrain vehicle by modding out the model T. Obviously, this didn’t really catch on…
Hindenburg
This is the Hindenburg a year before it crashed, passing through New York. Obviously, this was a Nazi carrier at the time due to the Swastika’s. It was traveling from Frankfurt Germany. A year later, it crashed in New Jersey and killed 97 passengers.
Artillery Queen
This was taken back in 1993. The Queen decided to try out a L85 battle rifle just for some fun.
The Soviet Spacecraft
The Soviet’s decided to construct this spacecraft in response to Nixon’s 1972 speech that the US was going to build a new spacecraft. It was completed in 1982, but failed to work during its first launch in 1988.
Graf Zeppelin
This was taken in 1928 when a German commercial airship flew over Washington DC. It was reportedly a frightening site, as many people didn’t know what this ship was capable of.
Lunch Break
Yeah, R2D2 was actually operated by a guy inside of it.
Bye, Hitler
This was taken in 1945. An American soldier is reclaiming Germany from Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler.
Johnny Cash
Cash is seen performing for inmates at Folsom Prison in 1968.
Corsair Crash
The Vought F4U Corsair was photographed crashing on the runway. It was supposedly one of the fastest planes out there. It’s unknown if the pilot died or not in the crash.
The Titanic
This is the last known photo of the Titanic before it sunk.
The Millenium Falcon
This is how they filmed those crazy fight scenes on the Falcon!
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
It’s weird to see these too just hanging out. The rebel and the dictator decided to just have a day out.