Congressional, White House, UFO-related Constituent Correspondence, 1998

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A pollo -I 1 U F O, 19G9. Obroct
hunbh.'\J p .1st wind o w im,nr.d i\Jt•jly
altar A1Jollo p ull~<1 aw ay from
Saturn bo osto r. Metamo rpho-sis
of obvious sp ac:ec:r aft i nsulatlon
l r~qrnon t i nto "odcl•shao od UFO "
is c ourtesy of Bob Barry o f tho
fri nge " 20th Century UFO Bureau" .
Hon> Hotze,·, " Ulonoua" ( 1976)
assigr,s o bject to Joh n Glen n's
flight. invents fictitious c:om mentory
and con tin ues weavi ng myth• un­
lotterod by I ecu.
ground thought it was their S-IV-8
astronauts
decided to ignore
the
··astrcnuut UFO sightings". Besides
booster rocket but quickly calculated
apparently harmless escort and carry
the
three astronauts,
millions of
that it would have been in a different
on with their mission
Americans saw the TV images and
direction. Next, they suggested that
ln lunar orbit. new (or perhaps the
heard the voices of the crewmen
the lights could have been pieces of
same) UFOs dogged the spacemen.
wondering what the objects could be.
the Lunar Module "garage'', called
During the descent to the lunar
They
were obviously unidentified,
"SLA Panels", which are quite large
surface, millions of television watchers
they were flying in space, and they
and highly reflective. Conrad, so the
on Earth saw bright objects crossing
were objects of some sort. Hence, they
UFO story goes, remarked that this
the field of view of the Apollo TV
were UFOs.
was unlikely since one of them had
cameras. Simila.r objects were seen
The "Fawcett List" of space UFOs
suddenly taken off at a high velocity,
during the launch from the moon and
says that the astronauts "said a UFO
something that a piece of space debris
during the final approach to Earth.
accompanied ~hem all the way to
simply could not do. Finally, the .
Here, then, is a major case for
within 132,000_miles of the moon.
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