UFO
Sightings by Astronauts
UFO
Joe, February 17, 1993
Contents:
Major
Gordon Cooper
One
of the original Mercury Astronauts and the last American
to fly in space alone. On May 15, 1963 he shot into
space in a Mercury capsule for a 22 orbit journey
around the world. During the final orbit, Major Gordon
Cooper told the tracking station at Muchea (near Perth
Australia) that he could see a glowing, greenish object
ahead of him quickly approaching his capsule. The
UFO was real and solid, because it was picked up by
Muchea's tracking radar.
Cooper's sighting was reported by the National Broadcast
Company, which was covering the flight step by step;
but when Cooper landed, reporters were told that
they would not be allowed to question him about
the UFO sighting.
Major Cooper was a firm believer in UFOs. Ten years
earlier, in 1951 he had sighted a UFO while piloting
an F-86 Sabrejet over Western Germany. They were
metallic, saucer-shaped discs at considerable altitude
and could out-maneuver all American fighter planes.
Major Cooper also testified before the United Nations:
"I
believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and
their crews are visiting this planet from other
planets... Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss
UFOs."
"I
did have occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation
of many flights of them, of different sizes, flying
in fighter formation, generally from east to west
over Europe."
And according to a taped interview by J. L. Ferrando,
Major Cooper said:
"For
many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy
imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can
now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar
instruments capture objects of form and composition
unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness
reports and a quantity of documents to prove this,
but nobody wants to make them public.
Why? Because authority is afraid that people may
think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders.
So the password still is: We have to avoid panic
by all means."
"I
was furthermore a witness to an extraordinary phenomenon,
here on this planet Earth. It happened a few months
ago in Florida. There I saw with my own eyes a defined
area of ground being consumed by flames, with four
indentions left by a flying object which had descended
in the middle of a field. Beings had left the craft
(there were other traces to prove this). They seemed
to have studied topography, they had collected soil
samples and, eventually, they returned to where
they had come from, disappearing at enormous speed...I
happen to know that authority did just about everything
to keep this incident from the press and TV, in
fear of a panicky reaction from the public."
Ed
White & James McDivitt
In
June 1965, astronauts Ed White (first American to
walk in space) and James McDivitt were passing over
Hawaii in a Gemini spacecraft when they saw a weird-looking
metallic object. The UFO had long arms sticking out
of it. McDivitt took pictures with a cine-camera.
Those pictures have never been released.
James
Lovell and Frank Borman
In
December 1965, Gemini astronauts James Lovell and
Frank Borman also saw a UFO during their second orbit
of their record-breaking 14 day flight. Borman reported
that he saw an unidentified spacecraft some distance
from their capsule. Gemini Control, at Cape Kennedy
told him that he was seeing the final stage of their
own Titan booster rocket. Borman confirmed that he
could see the booster rocket all right, but that he
could also see something completely different.
During James Lovell's flight on Gemini 7:
Lovell: BOGEY AT 10 O'CLOCK HIGH.
Capcom: This is Houston. Say again 7.
Lovell: SAID WE HAVE A BOGEY AT 10 O'CLOCK HIGH.
Capcom: Gemini 7, is that the booster or is that an actual sighting?
Lovell: WE HAVE SEVERAL...ACTUAL SIGHTING.
Capcom: ...Estimated distance or size?
Lovell: WE ALSO HAVE THE BOOSTER IN SIGHT...
Neil
Armstrong & Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
According
to the NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong the Aliens have
a base on the Moon and told us in no uncertain terms
to get off and stay off the Moon.
According to hitherto un-confirmed reports, both
Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin saw UFOs
shortly after that historic landing on the Moon
in Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969. I remember hearing
one of the astronauts refer to a "light" in or on
a crater during the television transmission, followed
by a request from mission control for further information.
Nothing more was heard.
According to a former NASA employee Otto Binder,
unnamed radio hams with their own VHF receiving
facilities that bypassed NASA's broadcasting outlets
picked up the following exchange:
NASA: Whats there?
Mission Control calling Apollo 11...
Apollo11: These "Babies" are huge, Sir! Enormous!
OH MY GOD! You wouldn't believe it!
I'm telling you there are other spacecraft out there,
Lined up on the far side of the crater edge!
They're on the Moon watching us!
A certain professor, who wished to remain anonymous,
was engaged in a discussion with Neil Armstrong during
a NASA symposium.
Professor: What REALLY happened out there with Apollo 11?
Armstrong: It was incredible, of course we had always known
there was a possibility, the fact is, we were
warned off!(by the Aliens). There was never any
question then of a space station or a moon city.
Professor: How do you mean "warned off"?
Armstrong: I can't go into details, except to say that their
ships were far superior to ours both in size and
technology - Boy, were they big!...and menacing!
No, there is no question of a space station.
Professor: But NASA had other missions after Apollo 11?
Armstrong: Naturally - NASA was committed at that time, and
couldn't risk panic on Earth. But it really was a
quick scoop and back again.
According to a Dr. Vladimir Azhazha:
"Neil
Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control
that two large, mysterious objects were watching
them after having landed near the moon module. But
this message was never heard by the public -- because
NASA censored it."
According to a Dr. Aleksandr Kasantsev, Buzz Aldrin
took color movie film of the UFOs from inside the
module, and continued filming them after he and
Armstrong went outside.
Armstrong confirmed that the story was true but
refused to go into further detail, beyond admitting
that the CIA was behind the cover-up.
Donald
Slayton
Donald
Slayton a Mercury astronaut revealed in an interview
he had seen UFOs in 1951:
"I
was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I
spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet
on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the
object was a kite, then I realized that no kite
is gonna fly that high."
As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon,
gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon
as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like
a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk.
About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly
going away from me -- and there I was, running at
about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little
way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just
took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn
and accelerated and just flat disappeared."
Major
Robert White
On
July 17, 1962 Major Robert White reported a UFO during
his fifty-eight-mile high flight of an X-15. Major
White reported:
"I
have no idea what it could be. It was grayish in
color and about thrity to forty feet away."
Then according to a Time Magazine article, Major
White exclaimed over the radio:
"There
ARE things out there! There absolutely is!"
NASA
Pilot Joseph A. Walker
On
May 11, 1962 NASA pilot Joseph Walker said that one
of his tasks was to detect UFOs during his X-15 flights.
He had filmed five or six UFOs during his record breaking
fifty-mile-high flight in April, 1962. It was the
second time he had filmed UFOs in flight. During a
lecture at the Second National Conference on the Peaceful
Uses of Space Research in Seattle, Washigton he said:
"I
don't feel like speculating about them. All I know
is what appeared on the film which was developed
after the flight." - Joseph Walker
To date none of those films has been released to
the public for viewing.
Commander
Eugene Cernan
Eugene
Cernan was commander of Apollo 17. In a Los Angeles
Times article in 1973 he said, about UFOs:
"...I've
been asked (about UFOs) and I've said publicly I
thought they (UFOs) were somebody else, some other
civilization."
NASA's
Maurice Chatelain
In
1979 Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications
Systems confirmed that Armstrong had indeed reported
seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater. Chatelain
believes that some UFOs may come from our own solar
system -- specifically Titan.
"The
encounter was common knowledge in NASA, but nobody
has talked about it until now."
"...all
Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at
a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by
space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin - flying
saucers, or UFOs, if you want to call them by that
name. Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed
Mission Control, who then ordered absolute silence."
"I
think that Walter Schirra aboard Mercury 8 was the
first of the astronauts to use the code name 'Santa
Claus' to indicate the presence of flying saucers
next to space capsules. However, his announcements
were barely noticed by the general public. It was
a little different when James Lovell on board the
Apollo 8 command module came out from behind the
moon and said for everybody to hear: 'PLEASE BE
INFORMED THAT THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS.' Even though
this happened on Christmas Day 1968, many people
sensed a hidden meaning in those words."
The rumors persist. NASA may well be a civilian
agency, but many of its programs are funded by the
defence budget and most of the astronauts are subject
to military security regulations. Apart from the
fact that the National Security Agency screens all
films and probably radio communications as well.
We have the statements by Otto Binder, Dr. Garry
Henderson and Maurice Chatelain that the astronauts
were under strict orders not to discuss their sightings.
And Gordon Cooper has testified to a United Nations
committee that one of the astronauts actually witnessed
a UFO on the ground. If there is no secrecy, why
has this sighting not been made public?
NASA's
Scott Carpenter
"At
no time, when the astronauts were in space were they
alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs."
Sources
- Great
Mysteries: UFOs by Robert Jackson
- Above
Top Secret by Timothy Good
- The
UFO Encyclopedia by John Spencer
- Genesis
Revisited by Zacharia Setchin
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