Andreessen: US government used UFO cover stories to hide stealth aerospace testing
Marc Andreessen · Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS · May 11, 2026 · at 48:50
Marc Andreessen explains to host Erik Torenberg why government secrecy around Area 51 and military aerospace development generated persistent UFO theories.
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“For sure there were class, lots of classified aerospace programs over the years that, that would have had various kinds of cover stories or various kinds of, you know, or let's just say blankets of suppression of information, you know, kind of placed over them because it's like the most, you know, some of the most highly classified information in the government. You know, that would cause people to kind of think that there's information being hidden. I mean, Area-Fifty-One was, of course, the classic example of this for a long time, which was you know, which is the whole Area-Fifty-One thing was around basically these classified test flights for new, new aircraft.”
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