Subject: IUFO: UFO Sightings by Astronauts
UFO Sightings [PleiadianBeamship.jpg] by Astronauts
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Major Gordon Cooper
Donald Slayton
Major Robert White
Joseph A. Walker
Commander Eugene Cernan
Ed White & James McDivitt
James Lovell and Frank Borman
Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin
Maurice Chatelain
Scott Carpenter
Major Gordon Cooper
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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."
[conerouge.gif] read also: "Pioneering astronauts sees UFO",
Area 51 and Gordon Cooper's confiscated Camera", and "No
Mercury UFO"
Donald Slayton
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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, grey 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."
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!"
Joseph A. Walker
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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.
Eugene Cernan
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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."
Ed White & James McDivitt
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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.
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source: Ed White and James McDivitt talk about UFOs
James Lovell and Frank Borman
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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 Aldrin
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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 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.
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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.
Maurice Chatelain
[MauriceChatelain.jpg] 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?
[conerouge.gif] on the web: Maurice Chatelain talk about
UFOs
et en français: Maurice Chatelain et les OVNIS
Scott Carpenter
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"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