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- From: titan@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Titanium Knight)
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- Subject: * UFO Sightings by Astronauts 1/2 (request)
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- Date: 31 May 93 09:43:22 GMT
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- File: astronauts.txt
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- UFO Sightings by Astronauts
- UFO Joe, February 17, 1993
-
- 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
-
- --- .
- Titan|um Knight ( titan@sys6626.bison.mb.ca )
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- The articles I post may not reflect my opinions on the UFO subject. I'm
- just posting the info. for general interest. Believe what you want.
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