They boldly went where no man has gone before, exploring the greatest frontier of our times, and apparently saw some extraordinary things while doing so. UFO reports by astronauts are not uncommon, yet because they are NASA employees we can be certain that the reports they filed remain classified and kept hidden from the public eye.
What's true to all ex-officials reporting their knowledge and experience regarding UFOs is that it's their own courage and integrity to speak out that made it possible for us to hear to full story. If it was up to the government to decide, we would never know anything about it, which leaves us wondering how many of these men still remain silent with some of the greatest stories ever not to be told.
Leroy Gordon Cooper (March 6, 1927 – October 4 2004), an American aeronautical engineer and a test pilot who became part of Project Mercury, the first manned space effort by the US. Cooper was the first American to sleep in space, and broke several other space flight records during his active Astronaut career.
In 1951, while stationed Landstuhl Air Base in West Germany, Cooper had his first encounter with a UFO craft. During one of his routine flights over European skies, Cooper saw a number of UFOs flying above his plain in what he describes as the same formation as the one the US Air Force planes were in, but much faster and way higher in altitude. Saucer in shape, and metallic looking, the UFOs performed maneuvers that were impossible for man made aircrafts to perform. He also mentioned that these kind of sightings were not uncommon for pilots to report during those days.
In 1957, Cooper was assigned o the Fighter Section of the Experimental Flight Test Engineering Division at Edwards Air Force Base in California, were he acted as a project manager and test pilot.
On May 3rd of the same year he send two men crew under his command to install sophisticated precision landing system cameras on a dry lake bed, meant to take pictures at one frame per second as aircraft landed, using both motion and still cameras. Later that day the crew reported to Cooper with an astonishing story, they encountered a “strange looking saucer” on the test site.
They told Cooper of the craft that hovered over them, pulled out three landing gears and landed 50 yards away from them but made absolutely no sound. They immediately approached to get some more pictures of the saucer, this time from close up, when the UFO took off.
Cooper looked through the regulation book in order to find who he needs to call in order to file such a report, and found the special Pentagon number for incidents of this kind. He was eventually instructed by a General to have the film developed but make no prints of it, and send it right away to Washington. As he was not ordered to refrain from looking at the negatives before sending them away he did so. What he saw he describes as good quality images, as would be expected by the accomplished photographers that took them, that contained exactly what his crew men described. He did not see the movie film before it was all sent away to Washington by airplane.
Cooper expected to be questioned again about the incident, assuming that the Air Force would conduct an official investigation to the matter, but to his surprise there was no further contact with any Air Force Officer regarding that incident.
An unidentified Flying Object landed in the middle of a top secret US Air Force flight test base and there was no official investigation what so ever, imagine that.
Cooper also mentioned he had not seen any UFOs during his time as a Mercury and Gemini space program. In 1976 he wrote a letter to the UN, asking assistance in making the UFO issue known to citizens of the world.
'There is a cabal of insiders that stopped briefing presidents about extraterrestrials after President Kennedy'. Well, that's a truly fantastic claim, but when it comes from Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell (born 1930) it might get some people to consider its seriousness. (The St. Petersburg Times, 2004)
Mitchell, himself a Navy pilot and an aeronautical engineer had the honor of being the 6thman to walk the surface of the moon, tells of what he calls 'credible sources' within the pentagon and foreign countries that shared their knowledge of the UFO phenomenon. He claims that not only that UFOs are visiting, the US and other governments have made contact with them and are studying alien technology and physiology, while conspiring to hide the existence of the visitors.
Dr. Mitchell is not the usual NASA Astronaut type, an epiphany he had on the way back to earth from his Apollo moon mission made him more likely to share his UFO (and other new-age) knowledge publicly, a striking realization of our existence looking down on earth from outer space could put things back in proportion, I guess.
The most interesting of all testimonies was given by former Astronauts Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin (born 1930). The Second man to step on the Moon's surface is by no means a UFO buff, from time to time he is still doing public relations work for NASA, still well connected to the system he was once part of he had no intention becoming a whistleblower of any sort. His testimony was given during an interview he made to a documentary film titled First on the Moon: The Untold Story, Aldrin described an Unidentified object that travelled along Apollo 11 as it is headed to the moon, it was close enough to be seen be the naked eye, and when fellow Astronaut Mike Powell decided to examine the object through the telescope he described it to be metallic and 'L' shaped in appearance.
According to Aldrin the Astronauts decided amongst themselves not to report this back to mission control. “We weren’t about to do that, cause we know that those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and who knows what somebody would have demanded that we turn back because of Aliens or whatever the reason is...” The Astronauts eventually reported the incident while they debriefed back on earth after accomplishing their mission.
Aldrin was probably trying to cooperate with the director as much as he could and seemingly didn't realize at the time what impact such a story might have, If an object is able to travel along Apollo 11 that would mean it was an intelligently controlled craft, this would also confirm that NASA is conspiring to hide this information from the public. Aldrin later tried to revert back from this statement and while making an appearance in 'Larry King Live' on CNN he claimed the object in question is 99% the 'S-IVB' (the final stage of the rocket Apollo 11 was launched by) that the astronauts asked mission control about, but in First on the Moon: The Untold Story Aldrin had a much different version of things:
“They told us it (the S-IVB) was something like it was 6000 miles away... we didn't think we were looking at something that was that far away”.
Major Donald 'Deke' Slayton (1924-1993) was an American bomber and test pilot, who was originally selected to the Mercury missions, the first manned space effort by NASA. He was part of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz space mission.
Slayton had a UFO encounter in 1951, during one of his many test flight.
"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 realized that no kite is gonna [sic] 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 disc. About that same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me - and there I was, running at about 300 miles an hour. I tracked it for a little while, and then all of sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45-degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared. A couple of days later, I was having a beer with my commanding officer, and I thought, 'what the hell, I'd better mention something to him about it.' I did, and he told me to get on down to intelligence and give them a report. I did, and I never heard anything more on it." (National Enquirer, October 23, 1979.)
Two thoughts that came to mind after going through all the information on this subject.
1. Why isn't the main stream media demand straight answers after such critical evidence and testimonies are presented?
2. Our tax payer funded space programs seem to hold out the information they have (quite easy when there is no real public and media pressure). We paid for it, we deserve to know.
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