UFO Reports by Astronauts
Part 1
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."
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