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

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Author: {~ (6)
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at internet
Date:
7/6/98
04 :48 PM
Priority: Normal
TO: chuck grassley at Grassley-DC
Subject : NASA
This is a continuation of an e-mail I just sent you.
These are some
alleged conversations and observations made from NASA Astronauts.
If
there is ANY truth to this, there is a big sha~e shame, on NASA.
If you
could contact NASA on my behalf about t hese incidences ·r would be very
grateful.
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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 fina l orbit, Major
Gordon Cooper told the tracking station at Much (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 i t 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 t •o 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."