UFO Sightings by Astronauts 1/2
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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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