Encounters: The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed!/Encounters - The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed (1995).iso/sighting/sight06.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

---  .
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