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.
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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