UFO SIGHTINGS BY ASTRONAUTS
 

"I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their
crews are visiting this planet from other planets"
MAJOR GORDON COOPER TO THE U.N.

1952:  "FLYING SAUCERS EXIST"
 
 

UFO SIGHTINGS
BY ASTRONAUTS
 

UFO images are randomly placed on this page - and
do not relate to the specific encounter reports.
 
 

MAJOR GORDON COOPER

Major Gordon cooper was 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,
he 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-manoeuvre
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.
 

Conversation 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:  What's 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 thirty 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, Washington, 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.   [ED: How unusual!]
 
 

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."

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."
 
 

You have a right to know
 
 

"...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."
 

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UFO images are randomly placed on this page - and
do not relate to the specific encounter reports.
 

Sources (from Joe):

Great Mysteries: UFOs by Robert Jackson

Above Top Secret by Timothy Good

The UFO Encyclopedia by John Spencer

Genesis Revisited by Zacharia Sitchin
 

1952:  "FLYING SAUCERS EXIST"