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1320 4 Aeronautics UFO's

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The Honorable Charles E.  Grassley
United States Senate
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## Title: Rothman/UFO Sightings by Astronauts (cont.)

Dear Senator Grassley:

Thank you for your letter of August 3, 1998, on behalf of (b) (6) who is requesting information about the possible sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) by NASA astronauts.

Over the years there have been many objects sighted by the astronauts during space missions. Most of these items were later identified by photographs or NORAD records as material from launch vehicles or spacecraft or were such items as water droplets. No unidentified materials were seen on missions tothe moon. TheAirForce,in the interest of national security, received and investigated all reports for many years but has discontinued this activity. NASA has no program for investigating UFOs and has not withheld information on sightings.

In 1976, James Oberg thoroughly researched the UFO/astronaut allegations and published an article about it in SEARCH magazine. We are enclosing that article for (b) (6) information. In addition, enclosed is a NASA Fact Sheet which summarizes the current status of NASA's involvement in UFO investigations.

We trust this information will aid you in responding to (b) (6) inquiry.

Sincerely,

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Edward Heffernan
Associate Administrator
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# ASTRONAUTS & UFOs

File Copy

Since the "astronaut UFO" genre.
is one of the main pillars of UFO
avidence, this study claiming that
the entire set of cases is invalid
will Ouviously be received with
skepticism and criticism from
UFO buffs. Rational objections
and arguments will be printed and
answered in a subsequent issue of
this magazine. Critics are urged to
raise specific points not addressed
in the study, or to cite and
document facts which might
modify or invalidate conclusions
in the study.

# The Whole Story!

James E. Oberg

Associate Editor

"Space World" magazine

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SEARCH magazine
WINTER 1976 (Issue #129)
PALMER PUBLICATIONS
AMHERST, LUI SC. 54406
Single copy price $125

Space flight has opened many mysteries. True, scientists prefer to list the puzzles solved and unknowns discovered, but as men venture beyond the earth it is inevitable that new mysteries will be encountered.

Somewhere out there, many observers believe, are intelligent species with technological civilizations far more advanced than that of Earth. Perhaps they are sending us radio signals we have not recognized. Perhaps they have left artifacts of past visits for us to find. Perhaps they are even now keeping the earth under surveillance.

If they are out there, someday we will meet them. As illustrated in science fiction, this meeting will probably occur in space.

Have such meetings already occurred? Have astronauts and cosmonauts already seen alien spacecraft? The UFO literature is full of tales of "space UFOs". Are any of them valid? What can a careful study reveal?

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Harmy a UFO book or movie is complete without the standard assertion that "astronauts have seen UFOs too". While critics may attack the character or intelligence of many UFO witnesses, they cannot use these tactics on American and Russian space pilots. Where UFO photographs can be accused of distortion and forgery, photographs taken by astronauts and processed by NASA must be of the highest trustworthiness. Hence, most UFO scholars consider the family of astronaut UFO sightings to be one of the strongest bodies of evidence in the past thirty years.

The best of these cases include astronaut James McDivitt's sighting of of an "unidentified spacecraft" near his Gemini-4 space capsule in 1965, a curious photo of a pair of UFOs with glowing propulsion fields taken by the Gemini-7 astronauts, reports of nearby objects from X-15 and Mercury spacecraft, tales of how the 1968-1969 Apollo moon shots were followed by UFOs on their way to the moon, and reports and photographs of objects seen by crewmen on the Skylab space station. Last year, the National Inves-

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tigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) selected the "McDivitt UFO" photo as one of the four best photographs ever taken.

The "astronaut UFO" sightings must appeal to many serious researchers for a number of reasons. The witnesses and the photographs are unimpeachable as to honesty and authenticity. The conditions of the space missions can be calculated and recorded, and every object near the spacecraft can be determined by con- sulting the giant space radars of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), headquartered inside Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. Extensive crew debriefings and on-board tape recorder transcripts may be available to obtain direct eye- witness testimony.

With all these facts and assumptions in mind, and mindful of the numerous 'unsolved' cases which might tell much about the UFO phenomenon, I began a special research program into this particular body of evidence. As an aerospace writer, historian, and re- searcher, I felt that my experience with astronautics, computers, Air

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archives has revealed cases where UFO researchers withheld certain informa- tion freely given them by NASA officials, informaation which would have clearly explained many cases which the authors wanted to appear mysterious. So the time has come to take a new look at this whole phenomenon. What is the truth about "astronaut UFOs"?

The first step in any research might be with the Condon report. thought by many to have been commissioned as a "whitewash" of the UFO phenomenon. UFO enthusiasts are accustomed to hearing harsh criticism of almost all aspects of this study, but my own objections to the "astronaut UFO" section is from a novel angle.

My own research suggests that the Condon investigator, far from being the best man for the job, was clearly unqualified to evaluate the difficult cases. He was not familiar with the terminology of space flight or the basics of orbital flight trajectories, as I am. As a result, he ignored possible explanations while incorrectly eliminating other possible answers.

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In other words, far from being a coverup, this chapter of the Condon report is superficial. It is entirely worthless as an endorsement of the unexplained and unexplainable nature of several astronaut sightings which I will discuss. I can prove this remark- able assertion to any investigator serious enough to consider all the evidence, much of which has never before been published.

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The Condon report does give some details about the environment of astronaut sightings, but even here does not go far enough. More stress needs to be put on the visual and photo- graphic limitations of space flight: the windows are far smaller than popularly realized (about half the size of this open magazine at arm's length), and for many years were subject to obscuration and smudging by seepage of sealant and by contamination by rocket fuel. At various points in the flight, the spacecraft was surrounded by clouds of debris (leaking fuel, dumped water, chipping paint, fraying insulation, ejected equipment, and more), while the inside of the weight- less cabin was usually plagued with floating particles of dust and debris which often passed in front of cameras pointing out windows. Other satellites should have been visible, since few. people realize that on any clear night

Despite the persistent rumors of 'secret space pictures', all photographs taken by NASA in space are in the public domain. That is, any picture taken by un astronaut or an earth resources satellite is available to anyone who wants to pay for it.

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There are four tiers of photograph availability, but two are reserved for newsmen only. The structure is as follows:

A. The most popular space photographs taken are lithographed for general free distribution to anyone who asks for them. Several dozen new photographs are added to this list every year. Cost to NASA is a few cents per print.

B. The NASA Public Information Offices at various centers and at headquarters prints glossy photographs of timely news stories for distribution to the news media. Hundreds of these photographs are released every year, but only certified newsmen can receive them for free.

C. Many thousands of other photographs and drawings may be of interest to the news media and are therefore filed at public information offices, but stock copies are not kept. Each request must be filled by actual photo lab orders, which costs NASA about one dollar per photograph.

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D. Any citizen who wants copies of any photograph listed in 'B' or 'C' above can get it, but it is entirely reasonable for NASA to expect him to pay for it. News bureau photographs, along with all other flight photography-stills and movies can be ordered from Bara Studios, P.O. Box 486, Bladensburg, MD 20710. The cost of any photograph ordered by stock number is several dollars apiece. Any cross-referencing or researching will also cost money.

Some ground photographs of astronaut accidents, autopsies, and medical examinations are not releasable for publication. On several Gemini flights, special photographic experiments were undertaken for the DoD, but these involved special cameras and exclusively earth surface targets. In neither case would it be possible to withhold any hypothetical UFO photographs from the public.

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Astronaut photographs are indexed by a code which specifies year taken and frame number. S66-12387, for example, would be a NASA photo (not necessarily a space photo) taken in 1966. Beginning with Apollo, space photos were also indexed with a mission code, roll number and frame number (neither of which were repeated on later flights). For example, AS16-108-13005 was taken on the Apollo-16 flight, with the 108th roll of the Apollo project flight film. Movie film is indexed per magazine with similar numbers.

Every photograph ever taken by American astronauts for NASA is on file with Bara Studios and can be obtained by anyone willing to pay for them. Writers who produce 'secret NASA UFO photographs' which they claim are being hidden from the American public are doing a gross disservice to one of the most open and cooperative public information offices of any federal agency.

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an o bserver on Earthcan see a number of orbiting objects with only half an effort. Out or this "backg?oundnoise", can we separate the "signal" which will indicate the existence of UFOs?

These problems all are of interest to space officials, and numerous studies have been made. Fragments might imply a structural failure (a rescue ship was almost sent to Skylab-3 because of the crew's observation of leaking fuel droplets). Debris inside the cabin can irritate eyes and damage the electronic gear behind the instrument panels. Other satellites might be dangerous due to the potential of collision or they might be of intelligence interest if they are from some other nation. Therefore, any mysterious space sighting might as easily be vital for

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NASA to know about as it might be a true UFO. Careful investigations are called for.

What are some of the most famous cases, and what are the facts? Interpre- tations may differ, but productive thinking can only be done when all the information is at hand. Some of it is hard to find or understand; other information, available to some researchers, may have been deliberate- ly withheld. Some classical cases may consist of made-up fantasies. You can soon judge for yourself.

Has there been any attempt to "cover up" space sightings (a common plea when no evidence is available, even in this age of sieve-like government secrecy)? Are astronauts "muzzled" about UFOs? Has fifteen.

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**Key Information:**
*   **Object:** "McDivitt UFO" (initially) / Lens flares (actual)
*   **Source:** Gemini-4 mission
*   **Photographer:** McDivitt
*   **Explanation:** Sunlight reflecting off a metal bolt within the spacecraft.
*   **NASA Photo ID:** 65-H-1013

The "McDivitt UFO", prize-winning astronaut photograph taken on Gemini-4. Actually, McDivitt explained later after the flight that the sun was coming across the window as the spacecraft rolled, the sun rays struck a metal bolt, causing the flares in the camera lens". NASA photo 65-H-1013.

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years of manned spaceflight uncovered any evidence at all which even remotely suggests that Earth is being visited and observed by advanced spaceships from another world? Let's look at the evidence.

On June 3, 1965, rookie astronauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White blasted off from Cape Kennedy (now again Cape Canaverai), squeezed into their Gemini-4 capsule. The two youngest- ever American spacemen were to spend four days in orbit, tripling the previous US record. They would be the first American space crewmen to have time to sightsee in space, once major experiments like a booster rendezvous and a walk in space were completed.

Approximately thirty hours into the flight (while White was asleep), McDivitt reported that he had seen an object in space near his space capsule. It appeared to be cylindrical with "an arm sticking out", possibly on a collision course. Interested NASA officials in Houston asked NORAD which other space satellites were near Gemini-4 at the time of the sighting, and NORAD came up with a list of about a dozen objects. All of them were pieces of tiny debris or small scientific satellites except one: the giant, "winged" meteor satellite, Pegasus-2. It seemed to fit the descrip- tion radioed down by Mc Divitt, so

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NASA announced that the object had
been identified.

But Pegasus had been more than a thousand miles away, and McDivitt clearly saw an object much closer, much more detailed, and in an orbit very close to his own ("Collision course" to a pilot means that the relative angle of sight is unchanging, which would not be the case for any satellite crossing McDivitt's orbit). The object became a UFO when nobody could identify it. It has remained a UFO up until today, but not any longer.

McDivitt's hasty attempt to take a photograph of the object through his smeared window was apparently fruit- less, since the object's motion combined with the slow stabilization spin of the spaceship carried it into the glare of the sun after about 30 seconds. The astronaut later recounted how he went through all the films of the flight (every roll of film is accounted for on a flight manifest, so they do not disappear) and found many over- exposed or blank. This mission had been the first flight in which space photography was a major experiment, and the glaring sunlight of space had invalidated many pre-flight exposure settings. McDivitt did not find any. thing which looked like "his UFO".

What was it he saw? Why has it become such a prominent UFO case?

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And if the pictures did not turn out, where did NICAP get its "top four" photograph (which shows, not a winged cylinder, but a smeared blob)? We can answer these questions at last.

The first hint as to the true identity of this space UFO can be found in McDivitt's own words, given at a press conference a week after the flight when his memory was fresh: "It looked a lot like an upper stage of a booster". Gemini does have a booster just like it, and McDivitt had been. carrying out maneuvers near it early in the flight. Why didn't the list from NORAD include the Gemini-4 booster rocket?

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Artist's rendition of the astronauts" view of the rendezvous evaluation pod after it has been jettisoned from the Gemini adaptor section. Gernini radar locked on to evaluation pod.

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ScottCarpentertook th is photoof a

s ubs atellit e balloon jettisoned by h is Mercury-7 capsule in 1963. Balloon did not inflate and looked like a limp sleeve. Compare with photo S65-45672. UFO researcher George Fawcett has convinced many that this actually shows a "classical domed UFO" accompanied by smaller scout craft; fictional state- ments by astronaut Carpenter have been quoted.

See plate 21
for full photo blowup

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Gemini-4 photo of 30-foot long Titan booster rocket nearby in orbit; Fuzziness (a familiar space photo effect) is due to magnification. McDivitt later saw the booster again but failed to recognize it, giving rise to the most impressive UFO case in history. NASA S-65-35452.

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nobody thought to ask about it! The list was incomplete!

What we do know from the complete Gemini-4 transcripts (including the on-board tape recorder as well as space-to-ground links), is that the UFO appeared at the same point in the Gemini orbit where the booster had been repeatedly spotted earlier in the flight. McDivitt had once described seeing his booster with straps hanging from it. Furthermore, on at least one occasion on the first day, Mc Divitt had at first been unable to recognize the booster when he saw it because it was close to the glare of the sun! This had been at a range of less than ten miles..

Yet another important factor unknown to the Condon report was that McDivitt was complaining to the flight surgeon about his eyesight during this phase of the flight. His eyes

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were red and teary due to a reaction with the cabin atmosphere and an accidental massive urinespill."I didn't think I was going to be able t~ hack it", McDivitt later had radioed to Earth.

This famous UFO case now becomes that of a pilot with watering eyes catching sight of an object in parallel orbit, an object which he had already misidentified a few hours earlier. As to the photograph, an inves- tigator must go through all the film of the flight to realize how common such blobs of light (overexposures, reflections, glare, etc.) were. Both NASA and McDivitt have agreed that the sequence of movie frames are a view out the window, showing sunlight reflecting off a belt against the dirty window glass. NICAP thinks differently because of the back of its copy of the photo is a handwritten.

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On a recent "UFO recording" released by Columbia, called "UFOs: The Credibility Factor", Mc Divitt clearly shows how his memories have changed or been changed to enhance the mystery of his experience: "They (NASA) checked NORAD...to see what they had up on radar and there wasn't anything within very close range of us." Readers can measure the credibility of this statement against. the facts.

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If Mc Divitt was fooled by his own booster ten years ago, is it too much. to expect him to admit it now? What would that do to all of his public assertions of mystery? There is an easier way out, and Mc Divitt took it when I sent him an advance copy of my manuscript. After keeping it two months, he wrote back, "I was not able to read it very thoroughly and I cannot offer any extensive comments. I do not foresee the opportunity for me to provide any further relew." There weren't any errors in my analysis, he implied, but it would be better kept quiet.

NASA never had any real doubts. "We believe it to be a rocket tank or spent second stage of a rocket," wrote a high space official on July 1, 1965. NORAD officials, confronted with my scenario, endorsed it: "Your comments on the NORAD role related to the case appear to be logical," wrote NORAD Public Information Officer D.W. Kindschi on Feb. 23, 1976.

So the "McDivitt case" is closed. The best space UFO case has now been identified. Do not expect to see any change in the UFO press, however. Such results are simply ignored.

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Photographs made in space show negative effects, such as the "McDivitt UFO" aura, often. Spacecraft and astronauts may be engulfed in a strange aura caused by overexposure to sunlight brighter than ever seen on Earth. Blowups of photographs of known space objects show them appearing as "blobs" due to the enlargement process and to the courseness of the grain. Ordinary space pictures are full of clouds of debris, constellations of man-made starlike points fluttering through space.

The Condon report was fascinated with the McDivitt case, and few UFO enthusiasts have not heard of it. But neither the Condon researchers nor the average reader had ever had all the facts. Now people can make up their

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own minds. I have no doubt that McDivitt was seeing his own Titan booster stage.

Dr. Roach was also fascinated with another McDivitt sighting, that of a point of light crossing the sky. The object sounded just like the appearance of an artificial earth satellite, and that is exactly what McDivitt thought it was. There is no information to suggest it was anything else.

Another Condon favorite is a Gemini-7 case. The report of sightings of a cloud of debris right at the moment of booster separation (these particles included frozen fuel droplets, the booster itself, assorted insulation and structural fragments from where the explosive bolts were fired, and other smaller objects never identified and never cared about) is not very impressive. The crew, on their first space mission, saw a few pieces they had not expected (the pilot guessed- wrongly-that they "were in polar orbit"). Only a partisan digging for evidence, and desperate to find such evidence, would make much of this common event.

But a sign of desperation is indeed

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found in connection with the Gemini- 7 UFO case. It is not the desperation of government officials trying to cover up the truth about UFOs. Rather, it is the desperation of some outsider trying to manufacture counterfeit "astronaut UFO" evidence, an activity which should not be necessary if the "real" UFO evidence were as persuasive as many think.

It involves a photograph showing two very strange glowing objects. Each is hexagonal in shape, viewed at an angle, and supported by a dazzling "force field" below it. A cloud- covered earth is seen in the background. See plates 27 & 28

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The author and NASA photo analyst Richard Underwood show "space UFO" photos to Dr. J. Allen Hynek, director of the center for UFO studios, July, 1976. Hvnek subsequently an. dorsed Oberg's conclusions.

Saturn booster S-IV-b and four open "SLA" panels. On moon flights the four "petals.. fly free and, together with the empty boost- er, tumble through space a few miles from the Apollo capsule. They were often seen as bright flashing lights as they reflected the powerful sunlight. On Apollo-12, astronaut descriptions of these fragments were mis- interpreted by UFO buffs and metamorph- ized Into alien spacecraft.

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Photo of Gemini-7 from Gemini-6, December 1965. The brightness aura is a common space photo effect and often makes point sources appear to be surrounded by a "force field" or an "exhaust trail". NASA photo S-65-65304.

Japanese UFO organization) was take an ordinaryphotographoC Earth made Crom the Gemini-7 spaceship on December 4, 1965. The nose of the spacecraft fills the lower part of the frame, and on the nose, catching the glare of the sun, is a pair of roll · control rocket thrusters used to acijust the attitude and spin rate of the Gemini. The original photo (NASA S65-63722, which I have personally

examined) was then retouched by the unscrupulous hoaxter to eliminate the edge of the nose from view, so the dark surface of the spaceship merged into the dark Earth beneath. This left the two now mysterious lights seemingly suspended in space, as it were. A normal space tourist photo was turned into convincing UFO evidence, and thousands of people were fooled.

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a powal acum.nt agit the validity of the runo. So mong ordinar, things about the Soviet space program are secret (and long prison terms await anyone who even accidentally divulges such data) that it is incredible that so sensitive and sig nificant a fact as a UFO sighting could ever leak out, even if such a thing had really happened.

The rules of evidence have been stretched and broken by UFO partisans. It is not up to me to "prove" that these sightings never took place. Nobody has as yet seen any evidence apart from simple statement of fact that the sightings did take place. I will be happy to consider evidence when it becomes available.

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Let's examine more of cnese "cosmonaut UFOs". In UFOs From Behind The Iron Curtain, the UFO magazine 'Clypeus' is quoted about an object seen by both Vostok-5 and Vostok-6, a fleet of disks seen by Voskhod-1, and "strange cylinders in space which were perfectly formed and had no apertures" seen by Voskhod-1, Voskhod-2, and Gemini-4 (sic!). UFOs have even been blamed for the malfunction of the Voskhod-2 autopilot. As I have said, these "reports" are hardly evidence, and can be far more easily manufactured than refuted.

Surely one of the most specious
and ghoulish "space UFO" stories
deals with the Soyuz-11 flight, on
which the crewmen perished during
their return to Earth. UFO literature
has recently been circulating a
"transcript" between the cosmonauts
and ground control. The crewmen
describe several glowing red objects
and discuss them with flight
controllers.

To anyone familiar with typical
space-to-ground communications, this
"transcript" is patently counterfeit.
Someone's vivid imagination,
emboldened by the knowledge that
the men were dead and could not
argue, must have created the entire
incident.

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Without further evidence, the entire class of "cosmonaut UFOs" must be rejected. Deliberate attempts to "muddy the waters" and to manufacture fantasies are common in this UFO genre, as in others.

In investigating photographic
evidence of UFO sightings by
American astronauts, I worked closely
with Richard Underwood at the NASA
Johnson Space Center (formerly the

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Manned Spacecraft Center) near Histon. Underwood is an experi- eticed photointerpreter who has examined every single photograph brought back from orbit and beyond, and his incredible memory can identy a decade old photograph, describe the situation, and find the citation in the old record books within minutes. The office of this photogra metric engineer is full of stacked film .cans, light tables, world and local maps, and piles of letters from ex-astronauts and ordinary citizens alike.

Has he seen any UFOs? Underwood answered that with a smile: "I've never found anything in these pictures that puzzled me for long, and I'm kind of disappointed. It would be terribly exciting to find evidence for someone else's spaceship!" When UFO writers hint broadly about a "NASA coverup" or "space censorship", they are essentially calling Dick Underwood and his colleagues a pack of liars.

Distortion and withholding of the truth is not a stranger to Underwood's

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office, however. When 3 UFO researcher named Alan Sandler was working on a book and a movie ("UFOs: Past. Present and Future", to he advertised as a "documentary) he visited Underwood's office and looked through dozens of rolls of film, writing down orders for prints of anything that looked interesting. This is a standard service provided by NASA to journalists.

Sandler chose a set of photographs for his movie, photographs which Underwood advised him probably only showed dust particles in front of the camera, debris outside the spacecraft, or glare on the windows (this was easy enough to prove by looking at pictures ahead of and behind the shots in question). Two photographs were particularly upsetting.

They both showed a black back- ground with a string of lights in the middle of the photograph. In the book (with the same name as the movie," although written by another author, Robert Emeneggar) the two shots are

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"Said to be ranging lights" on Gemini-12, according to Sandler. Compare with earlier photo showing Agena in the sunlight. Deliberate slanting of evidence.

reproduced with the caption: "Shot during Gemini XII on November 13, 1966, and said to be Agena Ranging Lights prior to docking". The erroneous implication of these twisted words is that this is another NASA excuse for some remarkable UFO photographs. Said to be ranging lights, indeed, sneers the book!

"That's exactly what they were!" Underwood told me plaintively. "They are part of the complete sequence of twenty photographs showing the Agena as it moves from the sunlit side of Earth into the shadow".

As Underwood and I stood in the photo laboratory inside building No. 8 at the historic Houston space center, the sequence was right there in front of our eyes on the glowing viewing board. How did the "UFO researcher" react to this explanation, I asked?

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He continued to explain: "I took
the whole sequence with me to
Hollywood along with other films
which NASA was providing. I showed
the sequence to Sandler. He wasn't
interested. Unfortunately he went
ahead and used the photographs
anyway". Thousands more people
were deceived.

The flight of Gemini-11 began a long battle between astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad and UFO believers. The astronauts had taken three even more remarkable photographs. "Pete" Conrad had spotted a moving object outside his window and had snapped off a few frames of film, varying the exposure on each shot in an attempt to get at least one good view which would show something.

Per a request from NASA, NORAD soon reported that the object had been

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a Russian cosmic ray laboratory calien Proton 3. According to Air Force. computers, it would have crossed Gemini's orbit several hundred miles behind the spacecraft. Yet this object was in a different direction and was nuch too close. It was a UFO!

Despite these objections, NORAD was right for the wrong reasons. The object was indeed Proton-3, even though the Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization (APRO) and its research director, Dr. James Harder, has made much of the discrepancy and considers this the best Gemini UFO ever seen. (see plates 17,18,19,23,24)

Few researchers have noticed. and none had recognized the significance of the fact, that the Proton-3 satellite was only hours away from burning up in the atmosphere. As its orbit. decayed toward a fiery doom, it circled Earth faster and faster, running ahead of the schedule predicted by NORAD.

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The simple truth, often ignored or distorted by many writers, is that NORAD does not "track everything in space" like the radar screens of some air traffic control center. Instead, objects which pass through the beams of a handful of worldwide radar sites (at a range of a thousand miles or less) are observed and catalogued, and their orbits are calculated. These calcula- tions are then projected forward in time (the mathematical term is "extra- polated") to plot where the spacecraft should be if its orbit hasn't been changed.

Gemini's orbit had been changed by a rendezvous rocket firing. Proton's orbit was changed by its decay. I ordered microfilm copies of the last few NORAD predictions from the Tracking Reports Section at the NASA Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and as soon as I read them I knew the answer.

The predictions were off by several hundred miles per day! Each new projection made a correction to the previous one. Using a combination of these figures, a new altitude difference between Gemini and Proton could easily be computed. It was entirely close enough to coincide with the astronauts' sighting.

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with four large triangular canted solar panels. (Conrad compared the sight to the strap-on boosters of a Titan-3 rocket.) Even the photographs show this when studied with real Proton-3. photographs close at hand.

Astronaut Conrad and the UFO people clashed again over his next space mission, Apollo-12. According to the Research Director of APRO, Dr. Harder, Conrad reported that he was being followed by a UFO on the way. to the moon. Conrad claims that it was just a joke about the large panels which enclose the lunar module during launch but are jettisoned later in the flight and which tumble through space a few miles from the Apollo all the way to the moon. Harder says that Conrad, under pressure from a secret government agency, is lying.

These are Conrad's words: "They've been after me for years because we were followed by a UFO on the way to the moon. That, of course, was untrue. The guy who came up with it was going by our transcript where we saw debris from our own rocket and we were joking with the ground crew about it. He took this out of context...I called the ground and said, 'hey, gang, we're being followed, there's some flashing object out there'. Some scandal sheet took that and

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Fragment in focus at range
of 3 to 5 feet-Sandler calls
it "unidentifiable", and
Mallan and Barry also use it.
(enlarsinent of 16)

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

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Blowups of Gemini-11 photos of
Proton-3. Sun glare and extreme.
magnification contribute to
bizarre appearance.

made a helluva story out of it. But it was nothing like anything I was connected with". Conrad has left NASA and lives in Denver, presumably beyond the reach of any NASA censors. He describes a phenomenon common to all Apollo moon flights; the claim that he saw a UFO is also common, but hardly as valid.

Conrad confirmed these quotations in a letter to me dated April 12, 1976. "I hope your paper is widely printed,' he added. Referring to Harder's claim. of coverup, Conrad could only say: "I think you have more than your share of Kooks."

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Gemini-11 photo of Proton-3 (arrow) and extreme enlargement of image. UFO magazines often print fuzzy blobs without indicating that object was highly magnified. Film artifacts cause "blobbiness". NASA photo S-66-54661.

Let's take a moment to look at the Apollo-12 flight more carefully. It probably rates as one of the most "UFO-ridden" space flights ever made, and probably did more than any Apollo mission to encourage the stories of astronaut sightings of UFOs. What lies behind all these stories? Who started them? What is the "official" NASA position?

Apollo-12 was launched on November 14, 1969, on the second moon landing mission. The crew consisted of Gemini-11 veterans "Pete" Conrad and Richard Gordon, and space rookie Alan Bean (Conrad

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

had also flown into space on Gemini-5.) Taking off during a thunderstorm, the craft was twice hit by lightning which threatened to abort the mission.

Instead, the flight proceeded successfully to the first pinpoint moon landing four days later. Astronauts Conrad and Bean flew their Lunar Module in to a precision touchdown near the Surveyor-3 automatic moon probe. During a scheduled moon walk, the men retrieved samples from the robot craft. The return on Earth was "routine", if fights to the moon can ever be considered routine.

On the outbound leg, Conrad had radioed to Earth that the Apollo was "being followed". This message, trans- mitted over the open radio link, was heard by hundreds of newsmen and by millions of Americans. It immediately gave rise to new UFO stories.

According to the account best known to UFO believers (published in Saga magazine, May 1970, entitled "Apollo 12's Mysterious Encounter with Flying Saucers", written by T.G. Beckley and H. Salkin), the astronauts watched two flashing lights near their Command Module about 150,000 miles out from Earth. At first, the

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Apollo 11 UFO, 1969. Object
tumbled past window immediately
after Apollo pulled away from
Saturn booster. Metamorphosis
of obvious spacecraft insulation
fragment into "odd-shaped UFO"
is courtesy of Bob Barry of the
fringe "20th Century UFO Bureau".

Hans Holzer's "Ufonauts" (1976)
assigns object to John Glenn's
flight, invents fictitious commentary
and continues weaving myths un-
fettered by facts.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

ground thought it was their S-IV-B booster rocket but quickly calculated that it would have been in a different direction. Next, they suggested that the lights could have been pieces of the Lunar Module "garage", called "SLA Panels", which are quite large and highly reflective. Conrad, so the UFO story goes, remarked that this was unlikely since one of them had suddenly taken off at a high velocity, something that a piece of space debris simply could not do. Finally, the

astronauts decided to ignore the
apparently harmless escort and carry
on with their mission

In lunar orbit, new (or perhaps the same) UFOs dogged the spacemen. During the descent to the lunar surface, millions of television watchers on Earth saw bright objects crossing the field of view of the Apollo TV cameras. Similar objects were seen during the launch from the moon and during the final approach to Earth.

Here, then, is a major case for
PRINTING FLAW

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Two objects drifting out of open hatch (lower right) of Gemini-12. Both specks are out of focus and hence are within several feet of camera. -which had a very large depth of field. Object on right, in focus, is a scrap of paper. NASA photo S-66-62871.

preceding them all the way." The origin of that mileage figure is obscure, but it lends unwarranted authenticity to the report.

Observatories in Europe also watched the two UFOs, cther sources reveal. Embellishing the story, another UFO source claims that "Next day, the 15th, at 21.15 hours, one bright

revolving light approached the Apollo
12 spacecraft." Fawcett, not to be
outdone, also claims that the
astronauts photographed the UFO (or
UFOs).

One of the loudest proponents of the Apollo-12 UFO is APRO research director Dr. James Harder. At a UFO symposium at the University of

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the key Apollo-12 UFO encounter and try to determine just who is confused.

Since all the material Harder used to "prove" the existence of the incidents were public information (Harder could have read it in Saga, which is hardly a top secret government report), his reference to a coverup and to secret inside information were clearly only gimmicks to impress the news media with the value of his "information".

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

NASA, meanwhile, says that no such UFO event took place. The lights, according to Dale Myers (Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight: quoted in a letter dated Feb. 5, 1973 to Mr. Donald Ratsch of APRO), were spacecraft fragments: "During all of our Apollo lunar missions, objects have been sighted by the various crews. Subsequent to the crew sightings, the flight controllers determined the observations were probably either the S-IVB booster, the spacecraft lunar adapter (SLA) panels, or smaller objects such as mylar foil particles. Because of their large size and highly reflective surfaces, the S-IVB and SLA panels should be visible at great distances in the space environment..."

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Astronaut Conrad, as quoted earlier, claimed that the flashing lights were obviously SLA panels but that he was joking with the ground. He denounced the Saga story explicitly and gave his opinion that Harder was a "kook". Astronaut Gordon has publicly stated that he has never seen a UFO on any space flight. Alan Bean, the only one of the three still on active NASA duty, issued a statement soon after Harder's latest charges went out over the news media late in 1975. In a UPI dispatch:

"Astronaut Alan Bean...said that at no time during his mission did he ever see an unidentified object. Bean said that there were some metallic parts which floated behind their space. craft after the Apollo-12 lunar module lifted off from the moon. He said these small pieces were visible until they (the astronauts) made an engine burn The metallic objects were parts of the insulation which came off the lunar module during the launch phase and lunar orbital phase. 'At no time did we see anything which was not of our spacecraft, either during lunar orbit or during the voyage to and from the moon,' Bean stated."

To Harder and his "NASA coverup". these statements are just more lies designed to confuse the American public. So let's go back to

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Late on November 15th, 1969, about 150,000 statute miles from Earth, the Apollo crew was talking to capsule communicator astronaut Gerd Carr about some lights they were watching out their window.

Apollo: The object is very bright and it is obviously something that is tumbling. It is tumbling (at) one and one half rev(olution)s per second, or at- least it is flashing at us (at) about that (rate)...

CAPCOM: Roger. We are standing
by.

CAPCOM: (Apollo) 12, (this is)
Houston.

Apollo: Go ahead.

CAPCOM: As best we can tell, looking at things down here, on those SLA panels, we assume they weren't imparted with any great amount of delta-V (velocity change)-like anything more than one or so feet per second when they separated (thirty-three hours ago). Your SLA panels would probably be only about 300 (nautical) miles (345 statute miles) away from you right now.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

**** The following reply by Conrad has been claimed by UFO believers to indicate that the lights (the so-called "SLA panels") have suddenly pulled away from the Apollo, something that a tumbling piece of debris could not do. To clarify the meaning, punctuation and a few extra parenthetical words have been added by the UFOlogists:

Apollo: That could be true, but gee whiz, when I (just) turned around I saw one of those "SLA panels" leaving the area at a high rate of speed, and it looked to me like it was leaving us pretty (fast) at a pretty rapid clip, like it got a lot more than a foot per second or so.

CAPCOM: Well, since we d on't really have any idea how they left, or what th eir trajectory could be, it's kind of tough really to sayjustwhat theheck thatcouldbe.

Apollo: Okay. We'll assume it's
friendly anyway, OK?

The UFO reasoning, as worded by APRO member Brad Sparks, goes as follows: "After the SLA panels separated and the S-IVB's tanks were emptied (on Nov. 14) they could not change their velocity simply because they had no form of propulsion to do so. But Conrad saw one of the "SLA panels" (on Nov. 15th) suddenly leave

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

its position at a "high rate of speed". an impossibility, unless it really was a maneuverable spacecraft of some sort. But where does one find a maneuverable spacecraft nearly 150,000 miles from the earth? The answer: (excepting Apollo 12 itself) in November of 1969 there weren't any. The conclusion is inescapable: One (possibly two) maneuverable spacecraft not of man-made origin were following our Apollo 12 on November 14 and 15, 1969."

To anyone familiar with the flight plan of an Apollo moon flight, Conrad's words imply nothing of the sort. Two facts must be brought to mind. First, Apollo and the Capcom were discussing the present position of the SLA panels based upon their initial separation velocities from the spent S-IVB rocket stage. Second, the SLA panels break free after the Apollo pulls off from the booster; the astronauts then perform a maneuver called the "turnaround" the Command Module returns to the booster to dock with the now-exposed Lunar Module, before pulling the LM free from its "garage".

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Striking the UFOlogist's punctua
tion and clarifying words from the
communication, and putting it in
proper perspective, what Conrad was
saying was:

Apollo: That could be true (that the SLA panels were flying off at one or so feet per second), but gee whiz, when I turned around (right after they flew free, thirty-three hours ago) I saw one of those SLA panels leaving the area (of the LM "garage") at a high rate of speed, and it looked to me that it was leaving us pretty...at a pretty rapid clip, like it got a lot more than a foot per second or so.

The UFO believers' reasoning-and the entire basis for Harder's and for the Saga article's Apollo-12 UFO sighting-is phony. The most generous description of it would be a mistake, a misreading of the transcript's meaning in an attempt to "prove" a UFO incident that never really happened outside of the fertile imaginations of certain UFO believers. Conrad's statement, Gordon's statement, Bean's statement, and the NASA letter must stand validated on this case: Apollo-12 was not followed by a UFO on its to the moon.

But how about on the way back?
"A light of indistinct shape" was
spotted just prior to re-entry,

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**Image 1:**
*   **Entity:** Proton satellite
*   **Event:** First appearance at Paris Air Show, May 1967.
*   **Features:** Four canted solar panels, 27,000 lbs weight, 14.8 ft diameter outer shroud.

**Image 2:**
*   **Entity:** Proton satellite (detail showing "CCC" marking)

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**Key Information:**

*   **Subject:** Two unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
*   **Date Photographed:** July 19, 1969.
*   **Context:** This was the day before Apollo's moon landing, during Buzz Aldrin's scheduled lunar photo session.
*   **Comparison:** The caption notes a similarity to a shot taken three years earlier during Gemini-12.
*   **Source:** Published newspaper story from UFSS.
*   **Image Notation:** The number "(25)" is circled in the bottom right corner.

Published newspaper story on UFSS captions this photo:"These two UFOs were photographed on July 19, 1969-the day before Apollo's historic moon landing-- during Buzz Aldrin's scheduled lunar photo session. Note the similarity to the shot snapped three years earlier during Gemini-12."

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

according to UFO sources. Saga reports that "...at 11:47 a.m. on November 24th, the spokesman for Apollo 12 reported in a startled voice that they were all watching a bright red object flashing brilliantly against the earth." This incident was carefully analyzed by Brad Sparks of APRO (I am indebted to his letter to Saga of August 28, 1970, a letter Saga editor never bothered to answer), who objects that "the astronauts did not. report that the object they were seeing was red, and they stated specifically that 'it's a steady light', not flashing." It was seen between them and the dark earth, somewhere off the coast of India by a guess of the crewmen. Perhaps it was a ship's searchlight, perhaps a fire, perhaps a violent lightning storm...there is no reason to suspect that it was a craft in space. The astronauts lost sight of the light as they turned the Apollo to take a series of photographs of the sunrise.

The wild fantasies printed in Saga do not end here. Beckley and Salkin claim that the astronauts had been "startled by unaccountable seismic disturbances on the lunar surface." This event never occurred; there were no such earthquakes during their visit.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Beckley and Salkin refer to "a mysterious blue halo encircling one of our spacemen." Sparks of APRO considers this to have been lunar dust kicked up while the crewmen were walking around. Photo analyst Dick Underwood suggested that it is a defect in the development of the photo caused by the vivid solar glare off of a highly reflective surface: Underwood quickly located half a dozen similar "haloes" on other space

photos taken during the 1960s. Whatever it was, this "halo" appeared only in the photo, and was neither seen nor remarked on by the astronauts.

Houston radio commentator and UFO enthusiast Frank Haley has his own theory about why the Apollo-12 TV camera did not work on the moon (NASA says Bean accidentally pointed it toward the sun). Says Haley, "The camera was intentionally shut off to avoid showing something on the moon that disturbed the astronauts" ("Haley's Comment" newsletter, Mar. 22, 1976). It is only a matter of time before this nonsense is absorbed into the lore of the "Apollo-12 UFOs".

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

But Apollo 12 did see some unidentified flying objects, and NASA engineers were justifiably concerned that they could have been debris from important spacecraft systems which might indicate unexpected failures, or which might interfere with other spacecraft equipment. Hence, the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston (now the Johnson Space Center) gave a contract to Lockheed to study the objects seen on the TV pictures and on some movie film.

The Lockheed report was quietly issued on March 18, 1970, about the same time that the sensationalized and fictionalized Saga story was being printed. Titled "Unidentified Visual Phenomena Associated with Space Flight" (NASA Contract NAS 9-5191, LEC/HASD No. 671-80-013), the report documents the "moon pigeons" (a term "coined by NASA engineers to describe unexpected objects seen in operational photography that defy positive identification") of Apollo-12.

Contract engineers were F.D. Beatty
and J.G. Baron.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

"Unidentified visual phenon:ena associated with space flight were rather common operationally," reveal the authors," but..little or по documentation of past events has been marie." Before UFO believers jump up and down with confirmation of a whole new family of "astronaut sightings of UFOs", the authors announce their intention of demonstrating that "such events were spacecraft debris associated with an earlier pyrotechnical operation, or ice, or window reflections. Cases for each of these theories have been presented and exhibits of similar occurences are included. Positive identification was not possible... The quality of the imagery precludes a precise definition of the object under question... In general, it takes much more information to identify an object that it does to detect it."

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Sixteen millimeter color magazine 1165M, exposed on Apollo-12, shows three objects, called "A", "B", and "C". The objects appeared during the LM jettison maneuver in lunar orbit. "A" is believed to be a small segment of the docking channel; "B" was identified by engineers as a portion of the docking ring, possibly the fiberglass seal; "C" was probably part of the electrical harness. All were near the spacecraft and were tumbling. From this and other examinations, Beatty and Baron concluded that "most moon pigeons' have as their source a programmed pyrotechnic event and are the normal debris associated with such an incident. They are often spectacular... The main thing to be learned from this study is that the event (in question) was, in all probability, a normal result of routine spacecraft operations... These data will undoubtably be of use to the engineering, scientific, and public. relations communities." The closing reference clearly indicates that Beatty and Baron were aware of the "Apollo- 12 UFOs" controversy and felt that their study would be useful in demolishing any UFO buffs' wild rumors.

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- **Top Left Overlay:** "EXCLUSIVE NASA PHOTOS" is printed diagonally on a black band.
- **Bottom Overlay:** A framed box reads "These Are The Photos Taken When Your TV Screens Went Blank!"

The central image is largely indistinct, showing a circular, halo-like feature. The surrounding text indicates this is a photograph related to UFOs and Apollo 11, suggesting a claimed extraterrestrial encounter during the moon landing.

This photo was snapped only moments after Aldrin's other Apollo 11 shot. Here the two UFOs have begun their separation and a halo-like force field between the two is clearly shown. 126

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pretty obvious implications for UFO reports. NASA apparently decided to let the UFO writers spread their rumors, hoping that the stories would fade away if ignored.

What had happened, though, was a
new shot in the arm for "astronaut
UFO cases". The explanations could
never catch up with the misinterpreta-
tions and wrong impressions
engendered by the overheard
conversations and viewed images from
Apollo-12. Millions of Americans were
practically eyewitnesses to a "space
UFO", and were suitably impressed.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

"Exclusive NASA Photos" and NASA cnsorship is another part of myth. These Apollo-11 spots are highly magnified window reflections in Lunar Module deep in space (Aldrin turned the camera on by accident while checking equipment).

When presented with the Saga story and with APRO's (and MUFON's) account of the "maneuvering alien spacecraft at 150,000 miles from Earth", the average citizen could only assume that it might indeed be true. If NASA was denying it, well then, the government has been known to lie to us in the past.

It is a vain hope to imagine that the truth will ever catch up to the Apollo- 12 and other CEOs. As detailed here, the Apollo-12 UFO never existed. Somehow, millions of people believe that it did. There is sufficient blame

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for this delusion to be generously distributed to UFO buffs, NASA public affairs officers, sensation- seeking news media, and lazy readers. And the "astronaut UFO" genre is not yet complete. Let's return to some more examples.

Another example of selective omission of facts occurs in the

Gemini-7 photo of sunlight glinting off roll thruster rockets on nose. Photo forgers airbrushed the nose/Earth bound- ary out, making the two lights appear to be floating in space. NASAphoto S35-63722.

PHOTO ALSO REVERSED

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Forgery can be reprinted in spite of coDY- right regulations because this is a NASA photo, Even retouched, it cannot be copyrighted.

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NASA photo (right) SL3-118-2140 and variations above and below) as published with erroneous captions.

"Fawcett list" of astronaut sightings.
George Fawcett is a respected and
level-headed UFO researcher in
Maiden, North Carolina. But an
example of his work gives a different
impression:

"Gemini-XII: Jim Lovell and Edwin Aldrin saw four UFOs linked in a row. Both spacemen said the objects were not stars" (quoted from The Edge of Reality, Hynek & Vallee, 1975, page 64).

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

From the GT-12 Astronaut Debriefing, page K/3,4, Lovell relates: "During the last EVA we discarded, in addition to the ELSE (life support system), three bags. About 2, maybe 3 or possibly 4, orbits later at sunrise condition, we looked out again and saw 4 objects lined up in a row and they weren't stars I know. They must have been these same things we tossed overboard."

The original distortion of this
entirely ordinary event, according to
the Condon Report, is the
responsibility of UFO writer, John
Keel, Fawcett took it and embellished
it.

Another of Fawcett's favorites is
Mercury-7: "Scott Carpenter reported
that he had what looked like a good
shot of a saucer." Elsewhere he
claimed that Carpenter "took a
photograph of a classical saucer-shaped
UFO with dome that followed his
capsule." See plate 21

In fact, the photographs show an entirely ordinary object: a space balloon ejected from the capsule for

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sensational enough for fictional "fact"
writer Frank Edvards: he had two
hundred people actually see the
object).

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

The source of the story seems to have been an NBC newsman in Australia. But the problem seems to be that Cooper has never heard of it. He has been out of the space program for seven years, and talks freely about UFOs to reporters, to the Columbia "UFO recording"., to Mike Douglas, to friends and associates. Somehow he knows nothing about "his" space UFO and he has no reason to be silent. His space UFO never existed.

Confronted by this evidence, Fawcett (letter of May 10, 1976) insists that "I sincerely believe some of the astronaut sightings are bonafide, based on some of my sources of information." John Keel, too, recalls (letter of March 26, 1976) that "ex- NASA engineers have told me all kinds of fascinating UFO tales..." Always these writers fall back on "secret reports" and "private information" when their published reports and open articles disintegrate in the face of the truth.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

On October 18, 1973, the famous Mansfield, Ohio UFO sighting occurred, for which Captain Lawrence Coyne and his helicopter crew later were to receive the 'Best UFO Case of the Year" award (and check) from a weekly tabloid's 'blue-ribbon panel' of UFO experts. A few months later, Coyne said he was told by the panel chairman, J. Allen Hynek, (the respected head of the Center for UFO Studies) that Skylab astronauts had photographed the same UFO from space. (Hynek ultimately denied this.) A reputable magazine, "Army Reserve" published the story with an intriguing photograph it had received from NASA and which it labeled "NASA: Skylab", clearly indicating that this was the astronaut photograph which had buzzed Coyne.

It would have been a neat trick for the Skylab astronauts to have photo- graphed anything on October 18th, since they weren't even on board the space station. The previous crew had returned to Earth a month before and their relief crew was not scheduled to blast off for another three weeks. The photograph printed in the magazine was clearly labeled on its backside as taken by Scott Carpenter on Mercury.

7 more than ten years before. It plate
showed a limp balloon Carpenter had 24 again!

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sensational enough for fictional "fact"
writer Frank Edvards: he had two
hundred people actually see the
object).

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

On October 18, 1973, the famous Mansfield, Ohio UFO sighting occurred, for which Captain Lawrence Coyne and his helicopter crew later were to receive the 'Best UFO Case of the Year" award (and check) from a weekly tabloid's 'blue-ribbon panel' of UFO experts. A few months later, Coyne said he was told by the panel chairman, J. Allen Hynek, (the respected head of the Center for UFO Studies) that Skylab astronauts had photographed the same UFO from space. (Hynek ultimately denied this.) A reputable magazine, "Army Reserve" published the story with an intriguing photograph it had received from NASA and which it labeled "NASA: Skylab", clearly indicating that this was the astronaut photograph which had buzzed Coyne.

It would have been a neat trick for the Skylab astronauts to have photo- graphed anything on October 18th, since they weren't even on board the space station. The previous crew had returned to Earth a month before and their relief crew was not scheduled to blast off for another three weeks. The photograph printed in the magazine was clearly labeled on its backside as taken by Scott Carpenter on Mercury-

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

military intelligence. A prompt and
energetic investigation was launched.

The object looked like. a long cylinder with two square paddles resembling solar panels at each end. By measuring its angular size on the negative, analysts were able, to determine that it was about 20 feet long a mile away or 2000 feet long a hundred miles away.

A careful investigation revealed the surprising answer. the UFO was actually thousands of feet in length, but its altitude was zero! It was an airstrip in the Brazilian jungles! Further checking showed that the objected appeared at the same spot in Skylab photos taken months later; the airfield was also found on an inter- national aviation chart.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Recent UFO books and articles have resurrected the X-15 rocket plane sightings of fifteen years ago. This has prompted the NASA Headquarters Public Affairs Office to reissue a photograph taken by a belly camera of the spacecraft at an altitude of about 60 miles (photo 76-H-139). plate 3

Published reports speak of "fleets of UFOs" at a range of 30 feet from the X-15. But even a casual reader with any familiarity with spacecraft systems will recognize the effect for what it was: "fireflies". This is a phenomenon seen by many Mercury, Vostok, and later spacemen, as flecks of paint chipped off the spacecraft. On the X-15, it was flecks of ice clinging to the liquid oxygen tanks. The pilot clearly describes the pieces as being close-in, small, tumbling, and drifting along with his vehicle through the vacuum.

Considering these cases as I have described them (and there are other lesser ones which I have also investi- gated to a successful conclusion), what can we now say about authors who present such evidence of "astronaut UFOs"? While speaking ominously about a NASA coverup and of secret agencies which muzzle space- men, these same researchers list such quotations as:

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Clouds of debris surround the Saturn booster rocket following Apollo separation. Blow-up photos of individual pieces of debris inside and outside the cabin have been called "UFOS". NASA photo AS17-148-22687.

visited our planet for thousands of
years".

None of these men claim to have seen UFOs in space. By now it should be obvious to open-minded investiga- tors that no other astronaut claims to have seen any either. Suggestions that they have really done so are either misconceptions, misrepresentations, or frauds on the part of UFO writers.

Yet another case in point has just been given, and it deals with the John

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Young quotation. Young, in Seattle in 1973, said that the chances were good that there were intelligent civilizations on other planets (AP, Nov. 27, 1973). The newsman started the article with the lead, "John Young says that the odds are that Unidentified Flying Objects do exist", even though none of Young's quoted words indicated that at all. Before you could say "UFO flap", the UFO writers had a new authority:

John Young says, "Odds are UFOs
exist".

It seems clear that astronauts as a

class orthe population do n otpossess any specia l knowledge about CFO:; which they may have gained from their own experiences. Theyareabout as well informed (or more truthfully. as badly misinformed) as the anirage citizen. To quote them as above with the sugiiestion tha t they are special authoritit>s on UFOs is a misl eading

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and intellectually dishonest tactic. Three time space veteran Wally Schirra, who according to UFOlogists saw "glowing masses" (actually lightning-lit clouds, over the Indian Ocean) has written, "I do not know enough about this subject to render an opinion of any kind. The only information I have. is that which has been released to the public through the years by the various news media". UFO writers would have us believe that this is part of a vast conspiracy of lies which only they can penetrate. Accilo 12

The actual answer to the "shapeless light" mystery illustrates the way NASA faces real space mysteries. The crew was puzzled by the sighting but reported it to space officials who made no effort to conceal the incident. If NASA were trying to cover up actual UFO sightings by astronauts, this was a good candidate for one-and it would never have been publicized.

Astronaut Dick Gordon revealed to me the unpublicized solution to the publicized mystery. In a letter dated

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

September 15, 1976, Gordon wrote: "I vividly recall the incident which occurred when a light of indistinct shape and size was spotted on our return to earth... (it) did appear to be in the Indian Ocean. In our discussions and debriefings that occurred later. Rusty Schweikart provided the answer. He simply said, 'how about the moon's reflection?' and, of course, that is what it was... How often those of us in aviation have seen the moon's reflection on the water in the course of a normal flight. We simply did not put it together in returning from lunar distance, where we had the black back- ground of space, the dark night of the earth, and the moon behind us."

Other spacemen have been asked to answer these questions). They have been forthright in their denials: "I never have personally seen anything I could identify as a UFO", says John Glenn, now a Senator from Ohio. Astronauts Grissom and Young said, "We have never seen any UFOs". Richard Gordon, who was with

A common source of space and other UFOs is shown here. The aura and the lens-shaped disc is actually a sunrise photographed from Skylab. NASA photo SL3-118-2177.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

The AFRO Bulletin (Feb. 1976) continued to generate new astronaut UFO fairy tales with the anonymous revelation from "Mr. X", who heard the Apollo-11 astronauts describe "three dise shaped shadows that were pacing them across the surface of the moon." The best answer to this fabrication is in a letter from NASA Assistent Administrator for Legislative Affairs Robert F. Allnutt, to Congressman Bob Casey, dated January 29, 1970: "Conversation between the Apollo 11 crew and Mission Control were released live during the entire Apollo 11 mission. There were between 1000 and 1500 representatives of the news media. present at the Houston News Center. listening and observing, but not one has suggested that NASA withheld any news or conversations of this nature."

The evidence is clear. There is, out of all the dozens of "reports of astronaut UFO sightings", no residue of authentic cases, no 20% or 5% or even 0.01% of "true UFOs" behind all the "noise". My research is compelling in its conclusion: after fifteen years of manned space voyages including space stations and landing on the moon, spacemen have brought back not a shred of evidence-verbal, photo- graphic, or otherwise-for the existence of extraterrestrial spacecraft, or "UFOs".

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

That evidence, if it exists at all, must be sought elsewhere. The performance and standards of conduct of the UFO groups and of UFO writers cannot be cause for optimism that such evidence, if it exists, will be recognized and correctly evaluated. The lesson of the "astronaut UFOs", then, teaches us nothing about UFOs, but a lot about UFO investigators.

Scientific Study of Unidentified
Flying Objects (Condon Report),
Bantam Edition, 1969, Chapter 6:
Visual Observations Made by
Astronauts/Franklin E. Roach. Pages
176-209, with bibliography through
1967. Good background material
including unpublished valid solutions
to a number of cases. Incorrect
solution to Gemini-XI case.
Inadequate analysis and unjustified
endorsement of Gemini-IV case.

The Edge of Reality, by Hynek and Vallee. Henry Regnery & Co., 1975. Page 63-64 in a section called "The

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Scientists at Work", we find the phony Fawcett list. List has incorrect dates and many nights out of sequence. On July 1, 1976. Dr. J. Allen Hynek reviewed my evidence and endorsed it, and repudiated the Fawcett list, which he reported that he included in his book as a curiosity only. That is, just because he presented it as fact to thousands of readers was no reason for anyone to conclude he thought it was true. This appallingly irresponsible attitude towards rules of evidence seems to infect the whole UFO field.

Sightings by 26 Astronauts Confirm: UFOs Spied on Skylabs (sic) Many Other Space Shots-UFOs Watch Every Move NASA Makes, Say Astronauts Who Were Tailed on Space Shot, "National Tattler", March 17, 1974. This is an embellished version of the same Fawcett fantasies. Weekly tabloid newspaper "conformed to the highest standards of modern reporting. Tattler and its staff are dedicated to total, truthful coverage..." In fact, staffer Robert Abborino made no effort to check any of Fawcett's outrageous claims.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

UFOs Past, Present and Future, by
Robert Emenegger, research by Alan
Sandler. Ballantine, 1974. Chapter 15,
"Nasa", pages 100-106. Extensive
transcripts of space communications
cover up the fact that Sandler
carefully selected evidence and must
have knowingly omitted information
which would have explained many
cases. An excellent photo section is
included.

UFO Report, People Press, 1975. "NASA Hiding UFOs From You", by Robert D. Barry, pages 4-10. Barry is associated with Carl Mcintyre's fundamentalist Christian group, and is one of the wilder UFO writers. Even the mass media has learned to disregard his fictional descriptions of non-events. Here, he explains "why NASA called in the CIA to keep these photos secret", without explaining how, in that case, he got copies. He uses the forged Gemini-7 photo proudly.

Flying Saucers-Here and Now!, by Frank Edwards, Lyle Stuart, New York. 1967. Astronaut fantasies wholly or in part created in the fertile (and unlimited by reality) mind of newsman' Frank Edwards are found on pages 13. 180, and 197. Through such entries a journalism student can trace the actual growth of the myth. APRO Bulletin, March-April 1970

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

and February 1976 and others. This
flying saucer club newsletter best
typifies the disregard for impartial
investigation of evidence which
provided the climate in which the
myth of "astronaut UFOs" could grow
and flourish.

The Star, March 2. 1976. page 7. Sequence of headlines: On the front page, "Astronauts Say: We Saw UFOs in Space". On page 7. "Top Astronauts Confirm: We spotted two UFOs". In the article, McDivitt talks. of his UFO, and Cooper discusses his experiences as a fighter pilot in Germany and makes no mention of the space UFO associated with his. name. The headlines, as can be expected in such a newspaper, are deliberately misleading.

SAGA magazine, May 1970:
Classified TOP SECRET-Apollo
Astronauts Reported Two UFO
Sightings, by Beckley and Salkin, p. 13
ff. Complete story of Apollo-12 UFOs,
plus enough false information to
"discredit" the true explanation.
Quotes "space expert Gary
Henderson", another active spreader.
of the myth. Refers to long-discredited
stories of "secret dead Russian
cosmonauts" probably created by
Frank Edwards.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Houston Post, Nov. 30, 1975, page
1D: "Just One Astronaut Claims
Seeing UFO", by Jim Maloney. This
sensible and sane investigation
(McDivitt stuck to his story) clearly
did not excite the national news media
and was relegated to the obscurity of a
local newspaper.

Science and Mechanics, June 1969. Cover Story: "This UFO I was photographed by astronaut Gordon on Gemini 11 flight" (the cover photo shows a tremendously enlarged out of focus image of a piece of insulation floating a few inches in front of the camera). Page 44, Lloyd Mallan: "Are UFO Space Crews Spying on our Astronauts?" Description of the late L. Mallan's interviews on Gemini 2. provides some new information but cements some old misconceptions. Also embellishes Condon Report "unknowns".

Lockheed-NASA Contract NAS
9.5191 (March 1970), "Technical
Report: Unidentified Visual
Phenomena Associated with Space
Flight", F. Beatty and J. Baron.
Discusses the fragments seen and
photographed on Apollo-12, and
traces them to spacecraft effects.

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[page 33]
Author: (b) (6) <(b) (6) > at internet
Date: 7/6/98 04:14 PM

Priority:  Normal

TO: chuck grassley at Grassley-DC

Subject: M essage from a Voter

Greetings Honorable Senator Grassley,

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

I have recently encountered a number of new and interesting tidbits of information concerning letters I have previously written to you in regard of the UFO phenomenon that seems to be happening in the United States as well as the rest of the world. I greatly appreciate all the information you have led me to through our past correspondence. I am hoping you can help me track down a few more specific things. Here is a something I heard from someone I was corresponding with:

"On Sunday, August 10, 1997 at around 9:45am CDT, I was watching TV and switched to the NASA channel for news of the ongoing shuttle mission. At the time, they were broadcasting a nighttime view of Earth. As I watched, I was surprised to see a light rising vertically from the bottom of the screen where Earth was displayed. As it continued to rise vertically (relative to the TV screen), the shuttle camera clearly began to track the light and kept the picture centered on it.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

"After it rose well above the horizon of Earth, the light made an apparent 90-degree turn to the right (again relative to the screen) and continued off in that direction. The shuttle camera continued to track the object and began to zoom in for a closer look. At that point NASA cut off the feed from the external camera and displayed the Houston space center instead. Unfortunately, I wasn't prepared to record this on my VCR. The entire episode lasted less than a minute, so I was unable to get the VCR ready in time."

I am also interested in any information that can be relayed about the Groom Lake Area, also know as Area 51, or Dreamland, and an area known as Area S-4. The media has stated that these areas in the Nevada desert are testing grounds for US "Black Projects". I believe that vehicles such as the SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-117 Stealth Fighter where tested here.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

The gov ernment to date denies the existence of such places, even though I have in my possession of several videotapes, pictures, and e ven a Russian satellite image showing the area. Does such a place exist? Or at leas t , are you, the Air Force, or NASA, whoever happens to be in cont ro l of the site w illing to tell us that is does exist. It is my understandi ng that the Nellis Air Force Base surrounds Area 51, so I imagine that t he Air force is the one who has jurisdic tion over the Area.

M any peop le including Bob Lazar, Bill Uhouse, and the father of a guy I work wi t h all claim to have w orked in th is secret area, and have seen a nd worked on craft of an alien origin.

Bill Ohouse claims tha t both President Nixon, and Bush visited the Area 51 facility to examine the progress of recreating alien technology. He also claims that the pro ject was going on with the aid of an alien "gray " known as Jarod (JAY -rod ).

If there is any truth to the i r claims and the claims of many

others, I woul d wonder why such a spectacular secret w ould be kept from us, and why the aliens w ould not have made themselves known to the general populace of Eart h .

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Anything you can do to help in my search for the hidden truth is greatly appreciated. Please help me find out if we do have aliens at Area 51, or even an admission that Area 51 exists.

Thanks Much.
(b) (6)
<empty>

Here is a list of Organizations, and places which may be helpful in helping track down some information:

Organizations - Military groups and civilian contractors.

* Nellis Air Force Base - Controls the land surrounding Area 51.

- Nevada Test Site - Borders base on the west. Initially "owned" Area 51.

- Security Anonymous "Cammo Dudes" patrolling base perimeter.

* "Janet" Aircraft - Official EG&G "airline" ferrying workers to
Groom Lake

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Author: (b) (6) <(b) (6) 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 tru th to this, there is a big sha~e shame, on NASA. If you could contact NASA on my behalf about these incidences·r would be very grateful.

(o) (6)

(b) (6)

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 wo rl d. During the final orbit, Major Gordon Cooper to ld 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.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

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 -terres trial 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:

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

Ed White & James McDivitt

In June 1965, astronauts Ed White (first American to walk in space) and James McDivitt were passing over Hawaii in a Gemini spacecraft when they saw a weird -looking metallic object. The UFO had long arms sticking out of it. McDivitt took pictures with a cine-camera . Those pictures have never been released.

James Lovell and Frank Borman

In December 1965, Gemini astronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman also saw a UFO during their second orbit of their record-breaking 14 day flight. Borman reported that he saw an unidentified spacecraft.some distance from their capsule. Gemini Control, at Cape Kennedy told him that he was seeing the final stage of their own Titan booster rocket. Borman confirmed that he could see the booster rocket all right, but that he could also see something completely different.

During  James  Lovell's  flight  on  Gemini  7:

Borman:

ER GEMINI 7, HOUSTON HOW DO YOU READ?

Control: Loud and clear 7 go ahead.

Borman: GOT A BOGEY AT 10 O'CLOCK HIGH.

Control: This is Houston. Say again 7.

Borman: SAID WE HAVE A BOGEY AT 10 O'CLOCK HIGH.

Control: Roger

Control: Gemini 7, is that the booster or is that an actual sighting? Borman: WE HAVE SEVERAL...ACTUAL SIGHTINGS.

Control:

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

. .. Estimated distance or size?

Borman: WE ALSO HAVE THE BOOSTER IN SIGHT ... Further controller cuts in: Gemini control here again, the reference in that conversation was er bogey. It was er Borman who reported sighting the bogey. Er this is Gemini control Houston at er 4 hours 24 minutes into the flight.

Ironically, itwas Lovell who ma de the classic statemen t "Please be informed that there is a Santa Claus". This was during his Apollo 8 flight on Christmas day in 1968 - some people believe there's a deeper meaning to these words, although the scep tic s belie ve that this w as little more than American humour. However, Walter Schitta, who was aboard Mercury 8, reputedly used Santa Clause as a code-name for a UFO presence, adding some w eight to the argument that Lovell w as experiencing another sighting.

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According to a former NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed radio hams with their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA's broadcasting outlets picked up the following exchange:

NASA: What's there?

Mission Control calling Apollo 11...

Apollo 11: These "Babies " are huge , Sir! Enormous!

OH MY GOD! You wouldn't belie ve it! I'm telling you there are other spacecraft out there,. Lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They're on the Moon watching us!

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

The two astronauts, talking to the NASA base in Houston. Text of the conversation: Astronaut 1: Ha! What is it? Astronaut 2: We have some explanation for that? --BEEP-- Houston: We have (not), don't worry, continue your program! --BEEP-- Astronaut 1: Oh boy it's a, it's, it, it is really something (similar to) fantastic here, you, you could never imagine this! --BEEP-- Houston: Roger, we know about that, could you go the other way, go back the other way! --BEEP-- Astronaut 1: Well it's kind of (rigged) ha, pretty spectacular god... what is that there? --BEEP-- Astronaut 1: It's (hollow), what the hell is that? Houston: Go Tango, Tango! --BEEP-- Astronaut 1: Ha! There's kind of light there now! --BEEP-- Houston: Roger, we got it, we (watched it), lose communication, Bravo Tango, Bravo Tango, select Jezebel, Jezebel! --BEEP-- Astronaut 1: ya, ha! but this is unbelievable! Houston: (we call you up Bravo Tango, Bravo Tango)! A certain professor, who wished to remain anonymous, was engaged in a discussion with Neil Armstrong during a NASA symposium.

Professor:

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

What REALLY happened out there with Apollo 11?

Armstrong: It was incredible, of course we had always known there was a possibility, the fact is, we were warned off!(by the Aliens). There was never any

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question then of a space station or a moon city.

Professor:

How do you mean "warned off"?

Armstrong:

I can't go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours.both in · size and technology - Boy, were they big! ... and menacing! No, there is no question.of a space station.

Professor:

But NASA had other missions after Apollo 11?

Armstrong:

Naturally  -

NASA was committed at that time, and

couldn't risk panic on Earth. But it really was a quick scoop and back again. According to a Dr. Vladimir Azhazha: "Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large, mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. But this message was never heard by the public -- because NASA censored it." According to a Dr. Aleksandr Kasantsev, Buzz Aldrin took color movie film of the UFOs from inside the module, and continued filming them after he and Armstrong went outside . Armstrong confirmed that the story was true but refused to go into further detail, beyond admitting that the, CIA was behind the cover -up.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

## Donald Slayton

Donald Slayton a Mercury astronaut revealed in an interview he had seen UFOS in 1951:

"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 I realized that no kite is gonna 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 disk.

About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me -- and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared."

Major  Robert  White

On July 17, 1962 Major Robert White reported a UFO during his

fifty-eight-mile high flight of an X-15. Major White reported: "I have no idea what it could be. It was grayish in color and about thirty to forty feet away." Then according to a Time Magaz ine article, Major White exclaimed over the radio:

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"There ARE things out there! There absolutely is!"

NASA Pilot Joseph A. Walker

On May 11, 1962 NASA pilot Joseph Walker said that one of his tasks was

to detect UFOs during his X-15 flights. He had filmed five or six UFOs during his record breaking fifty - mile - high flight in April, 1962. It was the second time he had filmed UFOs in flight. During a lecture at the Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space Research in Seattle, Washington he said : ..

"I don't feel like speculating about them. All"I know i:s what appeared

on the film which was developed after the flight." - Joseph Walker To date none of those films has been released to the public for viewing.

Commander  Eugene  Cernan

Eugene Cernan was commander of Apollo 17. In a Los Angeles Times article

in  1973  he  said,  about  UFOs:

"...I've been asked (about UFOs) and I've said publicly I thought they (UFOS) were somebody else, some other civilization."

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

## NASA's Maurice Chatelain

In 1979 Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems

confirmed that Armstrong had indeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater. Chatelain believes that some UFOs may come from our own solar system -- specifically Titan.

"The encounter was common knowledge in NASA, but nobody has talked about

it  until  now.11

"...all Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin - flying saucers, or UFOs, if you want to call them by that name. Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who then ordered absolute silence."

## Pilot Walter Schirra

"I think that Walter Schirra aboard Mercury 8 was the first of the astronauts to use the code name 'Santa Claus • to indicate the presence of flying saucers next to space capsules. However, his announcements were barely noticed by the general public.

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

## James Lovell

It was a littledifferent when James Lovell on board the Apollo 8

command module came out from behind the moon and said for everybody to hear: ' PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS.' Even though this happened on Christmas Day 1968, many people sensed a hidden meaning in those words."

The rumors persist. NASA may well be a civilian agency, but many of its programs are funded by the

defense budget and most of the astronauts are subject to military security regulations. Apart from the fact that the National Security Agency screens all films and probably radio communications as well. We have the statements by Otto Binder, Dr. Garry Henderson and Maurice Chatelain that the astronauts were under strict orders not to discuss their sightings. And Gordon Cooper has testified to a United Nations committee that one of the astronauts actually witnessed a UFO on the ground. If there is no secrecy, why has this sighting not been made public?

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Shuttle Discovery - Mission 20

The voices of the astronaut and of the amateur radio station WA3NAN

Goddard in the Space Center of Greenbelt Maryland . WA3NAN: We are retransmitting the Space Shuttle airground communication from mission 20 . This is WA3NAN . Astronaut James F. Buchli ... Astronaut: Houston, this is Riscovery, we still have the alien spacecraft under observance ...

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JUN 24 1998

L:ATW:mtg:L/1998-407f

The Honorable Olympia J.  Snowe
United States Senate
Washington,DC 20510

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

## James Lovell (cont.)

Dear Senator Snowe:

Thank you for your May 18, 1998, letter on behalf of (b)(6) regarding Unidentified Flying Objects and his concern over the "authenticity of the recently released Mariner photographs."

There are no recently released Mariner photographs. We assume (b)( 6  is
referring to the images taken from our Mars Global Surveyor (MGS). NASA does not
tamper with images received from MGS. These images are received on Earth in digital
format,meaning "O  and  1" .  NASAmerelytranslates these  digital  images,using
computer processing, into actual images. All images and other instrument data is
deposited  in  a publicly accessible archive within six months after receipt where they are
available to everyone. All the images currently released can be found on the Internet at
http: //photojournal.jp1.nasa.gov.

We appreciate your interest in these matters, and trust this information will be helpful to you in responding to (b) (6)

Sincerely,
Bard by
byan W. Meninger

Edward Heffernan
(Acting) Associate Administrator
for Legislative Affairs

ecc:
S/Ruth Netting
LB/Barbara Cherry

Sent to Mark Berumen @ Hill Office (250 SROB)

6/22/98 aw
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6/22/98

[page 42]
OLYMPIA J. SNOWE
MAINE

COMMITTEES:

250 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
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ARMED SERVICES

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CHAIR OF
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SUBCOMMITTEE

SMALL BUSINESS

May 18, 1998

Mr. Lawrence E. Medway
Director, Congressional Inquiries Division
National Aeronautic and Space Administration
300 E. Street, SW
Washington, D.C. 20546

Dear Mr. Medway:

Dear Mr. Heaway,

I am writing to you regarding the concerns of my constituent, (b) (6)
(b) (6) [REDACTED], of Stonington, Maine.

(b) (6) [REDACTED] is interested in U.F.O.'s and the recent photos of
Mars which were recently released. (b) (6) [REDACTED] is not
convinced with the authenticity of the recently released Mariner
photographs. Further, he questions the authenticity based on the
picture only having 75 shades of grey, rather than the 256 it is
supposed to have. Any information you could provide which would
help me address his concerns would be appreciated.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Sincerely,
<signature>
OLYMPIA J. SNOWE
United States Senator

# The Whole Story! (cont.)

## L98-407 Sen. Snowe

Enclosed is a fact sheet entitled "The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects." As stated in the second paragraph of the Fact Sheet, Congress, in 1993, directed NASA to end its search program. Today the-search for extraterrestrials is conducted through The Search for. Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI Institute) in Mountain View, CA.

As for your interest in the recent photos of Mars taken from our Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), not the Mariner, these images are received on Earth in digital format, meaning "0 and 1". NASA does not tamper with these images. However, the images do require computer processing before they are suitable for public viewing. All images and other instrument data obtained from the MGS will be deposited in a publicly accessible archive, and they will then be available to everyone, scientists and citizens alike, who wants to examine them and draw their own individual conclusions. You can access all the images currently released from the following website: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/

We appreciate your interest in this matter and trust this information will be useful to you.

[page 44]
L98-407 Sen. Snowe

Enclosed is a fact sheet entitled "The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects." As stated in the second paragraph of the Fact Sheet, Congress, in 1993, directed NASA to end its search program. Today the search for extraterrestrials is conducted through The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI Institute) in Mountain View, CA.

As for your interest in the recent photos of Mars taken from our Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), not the Mariner, these images are received on Earth in digital format, meaning "0 and 1". NASA does not tamper with these images. However, the images do require computer processing before they are suitable for public viewing. All images and other instrument data obtained from the MGS will be deposited in a publicly accessible archive, and they will then be available to everyone, scientists and citizens alike, who wants to examine them and draw their own individual conclusions. You can access all the images currently released from the following website: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/

We appreciate your interest in this matter and trust this information will be useful to you.

[page 45]
# ACTION REQUIRED

[page 46]
# < CONFIRMATION REPORT >

05-26-1998 (TUE) 10:26

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Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)

# INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION

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The Honorable Olympia J. Snowe
United States Senator
Washington, DC 20510

# ID Number: L/1998-00407 (cont.)

Dear Senator Snowe:

Flying Unidentifid
objects faces)
Stet

Thank you for your May 18, 1998, letter on behalf of (b) (6) regarding UFO's and his concern over the "authenticity of the recently released Mariner photographs."

The attached fact sheet, "The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects," gives a brief history of NASA's investigations into UFO's. However, neither NASA or any other branch of the government is currently investigating UFO's.

There are no recently released Mariner photographs. We assume (b) (6) is referring to the images taken from our Mars Global Surveyor (MGS). NASA does not tamper with images received from MGS. These images are received on Earth in digital format, meaning "0 and 1". NASA merely translates these digital images, using computer processing, into actual images. All images and other instrument data is deposited in a publicly accessible archive within six months after receipt where they are available to everyone. All the images currently released can be found on the Internet at http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov.

We appreciate your interest in these matters, and trust this information will be helpful to you in responding to (b) (6)

Sincerely,

[page 49]
ecc:

S/Ruth Netting
LB/Barbara Cherry
Sent to Mark Berumen @ Hill Office (250 SROB)

[page 50]
Aeronca UFO's

Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)

# INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION
ID Number: L/1998-00494

## Title: Ward/White House Referral: UFO Hearings

Recipient: A/Goldin
Author: (b) (6)
Organization: White House

Date Written: 05/17/1998
Date Received: 06/18/1998
Date Concurred: <empty>
Date Submitted: <empty>
Date Signed: 06/26/1998
Date Closed: 06/26/1998
>>>Current Due Date: 07/15/1998<<
Original Due Date: 07/15/1998

Action Office: L/Ward:S
Status: Closed
Signature Office: L/Heffernan
Info Offices: L/Heffernan, L/Heninger, L/Kerwin

Abstract:
White House Correspondence from (b) (6) who supports having congressional hearing regarding the existence of UFO's.

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JUN 24 1998

L:ATW:mtg:L/1998-494f
(b) (6)
Dear (b) (6)

The White Househasrequested NASAtorespondtoyourMay 17, 1998, letter to President Clinton concerning possible hearings on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).

Wearenot aware of any hearings scheduled on UFO. Enclosed is a Fact Sheet, "The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects," which gives a brief history of NASA's investigations into UFO.

We appreciate your interest in this matter and trust this information will be helpful to yo u.

Sincerely,

Edward Heffernan
(Acting) Associate Administrator
for Legislative Affairs

Enclosure

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LB/Barbara Cherry

Sent to Sue J. Smith
Director, Office of Agency Liaison
Room 6, OEOB
The White House
Washington, DC 20502

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6/22/98

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# THE WHITE HOUSE

# WASHINGTON

DATE: 6-4-98

MEMORANDUM FOR: NASH , 24
FROM: SUE J. SMITH <signature>
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF AGENCY LiaISON
SUBJECT: REFERRAL OF CASEWORK IN BULK

An unprecedentednumber of individualsstillwrite the President and

the First Lady for help. I know that this has meant a far greater volume of mail for your agency than ever before. I appreciateyour continuingcooperationi n our efforts to be a ·s respons ive as possible.

The attached letters have not received a White House Staff response. I am forwarding this correspondence to your agency for any appropriate action.

Please return the original incoming letter, along with a copy of any written or telephone response, to me at the address below. I also would appreciate your sending a copy of your agency's log of the names and addresses of these individuals. Any misreferrals should be returned to my office. If you have questions you can reach me at 456-7486.

Sue J. Smith
Director, Office of Agency Liaison
Room 6, OEOB
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20502

Again, thank you for your continuing help.

A/1998-00461

A98-01199

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Dear Mr. President, It is my understanding that you, Mrs. Clinton, Vice-President Gore and heads of Congress, including the CIA director, members of the Senate and House, the Executive Branch and senior military reps in the Pentagon were briefed in or around December of 1997 by Dr. Steven Greer, International Director of CSETI( The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Basically, he calls on you and other members of

[page 54]
congress to hold open congressional meetings. What is your positon and intent on this matter? Will you push for open hearings or are you stonewalled as well by MJ-12? Certainly on your appointment as President you were briefed on the existence of UFO's. Please use your Executive power to report and open the truth to the American people. It is time. Your personal reply is respectfully requested. Thank you.

Sincerely,
(b) (6)

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(b) (6)
Dear (b) (6)

The White House has requested NASA to respond to your May 17, 1998, letter to President Clinton
concerning possible hearings on UFO's.
U.S. Department of Defense

We are not aware of any hearings scheduled on UFO's. The attached fact sheet, "The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects," gives a brief history of NASA's investigations into UFO's. However, neither NASA or any other branch of the government is currently investigating UFO's.

Weappreciate your interest in this matter and trust t is information will be helpful to you.

Sincerely,

Edward Heffernan
(Acting) Associate Administrator
for Legislative Affairs

Enclosure

•Enclosed

La

Fact Sheet "Tike. "

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LB/Barbara Cherry

Sent to Sue J. Smith
Director, Office of Agency Liaison
Room 6, OEOB
The White House
Washington, DC 20502

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Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)

# INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION

# ID Number: L/1998-00494

## Title: Ward/White House Referral: UFO Hearings

Recipient: A/Goldin
Author: (b) (6)
Organization: White House

Date Written: 05/17/1998
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Action Office: L/Ward:S
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Status: Open
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Abstract:
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Comments:
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Enclosures: White House Memo
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# CORRESPONDENCE ACTION STATUS HISTORY

Correspondence and Action Tracking System
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(b) (6)
Dear (b) (6)

Congressman Bart Gordon hasasked NASA to respond to your recent letter tohim wherein you enclosed an article on Congress funding the search for extraterrestrials.

Enclosedis a fact sheet entitled "The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects." Asstatedinthesecond paragraph ofthe Fact Sheet , Congress, in1993, directed NASAto end its search program.

Today the search for extraterrestrials is conducted through The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI Institute) in Mountain View, CA.

We appreciate your interest in this matter and trust this information will be useful to you.

Sincerely,
Lynn W. Heninger

Edward Heffernan
(Acting) Associate Administrator
for Legislative Affairs

Enclosure

CC:
The Honorable Bart Gordon

ecc:
S/Ruth  Netting
LB/Barbara Cherry

6/15/98 Sent to Patton Lane @ Hill Office (2201 RHOB) же
6/16/98

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Representature Bart Hardon
House of Representatures
Washington, TC, 20515-4206

[page 63]
BART GORDON
6TH DISTRICT, TENNESSEE

COMMERCE COMMITTEE

2201 RAYBURN BUILDING
WASHINGTON, DC 20515-4206
(202) 225-4231
FAX: (202) 225-6887

RANKING MEMBER
SUBCOMMITTEE ON SPACE

SCIENCE COMMITTEE

106 SOUTH MAPLE STREET
P.O. BOX 1986
MURFREESBORO, TN 37133
(615) 896-1986
FAX: (615) 896-8218

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MI AMERICA – Bу ED ANGER

# Congress blows $120 million 4646-74

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# Congress blows $120 million 4646-74 (cont.)

MY AMERICA MY AMERICA MY AMERICA
MY AMERICA

I'm madder than R2D2 with a loose bolt that our free-spending Congress is paying 120 million bucks or hard- earned tax money on a project to con- tact space aliens!

trying to talk to
extraterrestrials

Let's face it-why the hell are we spend- ing big bucks looking for space aliens when they land here all the time?

All the eggheads at NASA have to
do is look out the window on a clear
night and they'd see
more UFOs than you
could shake a stick
at.

800

& TAXPAYERS ARE FOOTING THE BILL

But no, they'd rath-
er waste tons of tax
payers cash

Dr. Ruth Jones Ham-
er is the scientific
queenpin behind this
Stupid Search for Extra
terrestrial Intelligence
project that is expected
to cost a whopping $120
million over the next 10
years.

Scientist wants
to talk to E.T.
for smart aliens Search to start
of Search for Extraterrestrial year to locate them. trusted her with $120 million this traterrestrials seriously. Dr. Ruth Jones Hamer takes ex- For the next 10 years Hamer She has to. Congress has en- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-

# Congress blows $120 million 4646-74 (cont.)

But what makes me
so pig-biting mad is
that we're aiming all
these high-tech elec
tronic listening devices
at stars where only the
most dimwitted aliens
live

IT'S a waste of taxpayers' hard-earned money trying to contact space aliens, says Ed Anger, Inset, newspapers from around the world report on NASA's funding for Dr. Ruth Jones Hamer's project.

That's right, folks

# Congress blows $120 million 4646-74 (cont.)

| stupid aliens.                 | stupid aliens.                   | line is that smart aliens are all                                    | can about space creatures                                   | Earth and make humans into                                     |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| If they were smart, they would | If they were smart, they would   | ready here and the only ones                                         | who are already here, for                                   | slaves, that's why.                                            |
| have already have              | contacted us,                    | we'll contact by radio waves                                         | Pete's sake!                                                | So I've got a better way to                                    |
|                                | wouldn't they?<br />Or at least  | are so dumb they'll never an-<br />Swer us anyway.                   | Those are the light-bulb<br />heads we have to worry about  | spend 120 million bucks<br />let's spend it on alien trans     |
|                                | buzzed Earth                     | In fact, even if we did make                                         | I've said it before and I'll say                            | We could batem with                                            |
|                                | in one of those<br />UFOS people | contact with these half-cock-it<br />roach, half-fish civilizations, | again, the only good space<br />alien is a dead space alien | whatever these bug-eved rep-<br />tiles eat and end this alien |
|                                | are seeing all                   | what the hell are we going to                                        | If these suckers are so                                     | threat to Earth once and for                                   |
|                                | the timer<br />The bottom        | learn from em how to live<br />under rocks                           | damn smart, don't you ever<br />wonder why the hell they    | all                                                            |
|                                |                                  | Why the hell don't                                                   | haven't gone public?                                        | Ed Anger                                                       |
|                                | SCIENTIFIC                       | QUEENPIN: WE get stand try                                           | Because most of them are                                    |                                                                |
|                                | Dr. Ruth Jones                   | Hamer. to learn everything                                           | welevil and want to colonize the                            |                                                                |

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The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/facts/HTML/FS-017-HQ.html

# NASA Facts FILE COPY

National Aeronautics and
Space Administration

NASA Headquarters
Public Affairs Office
Code P
300 E Street SW
Washington DC 20546

NASA Headquarters
Public Affairs Office
Code P
300 E Street SW
Washington DC 20546

FS-1997-01-017-HQ

FS-1997-01-017-HQ

The US Government and Unidentified

# NASA Facts FILE COPY (cont.)

## Flying Objects

Nobranch of the United States Government is currently involved

with or responsible for investigations into the possibility of alien life on other planets or for investigating Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO's). The USAir Force (USAF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have had intermittent, independent investigations of the possibility of alien life on other planets; however, none of these ha s produced factual evidence that life exists on other planets, nor that UFO's are related to aliens. From I947 to 1969, the Air Force investigated UFO's; then in 1977, NASA was asked to examine the possibility of resumingUFO investigations. After studying all of the facts available, it was determined that nothing would be gained by further investigation, since there was an absence of tangible evidence.

# NASA Facts FILE COPY (cont.)

## Flying Objects (cont.)

In October 1992, NASA was directed by Congress to begin a

detailed search for artificial radio signals from other civilizations under the NASA Towards Other Planetary Systems (TOPS)/High Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS) program (also known as the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project). Congress directed NASA to end this project in October 1993, citing pressures on the US Federal budget. The HRMS did not detect any confirmed signal before it was stopped. How ever, similar work will continue in a more limited manner through efforts of private groups and through academic institutions. The Search for Extraterrestrial Int elligence Institute (SETI Institute) in Mountain View, CA, effectively replaced the Government project, borrowing the signal processing system from NASA. The SETI Institute is a nonprofit corporation conducting research in a number of fields including all science and technology aspects of astronomy and planetary sciences, chemical evolution, the origin of life, biological evolution, and cultural evolution.

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The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/facts/HTML/FS-017-HQ.html

# NASA Facts FILE COPY (cont.)

## Flying Objects (cont.)

terminated December 17, 1969. Of the total of 12,6 18 sightings reported to Project Blue Book, 701 remain "unidentified."

The decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based on an evaluationof a report prepared by the University of Colorado entitled, "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;" a review of the University of Colorado's report by the National Academy of Sciences; previous UFO studies; and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during the 1940's, '50's and '60's. As a result of experience, investigations, and studies since 1948, the conclusionsof Project Blue Book were: (1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force was ever a threat to our national security; (2) there was no evidence submitted to, or discovered by, the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modem scientific knowledge; and (3) there was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" were extraterrestrial vehicles.

# NASA Facts FILE COPY (cont.)

## Flying Objects (cont.)

With the termination of Project Blue Book, the USAF regulation establishing and controlling the program for investigating and analyzing UFO's was rescinded. Documentation regarding the former Project Blue Book investigation was permanently transferred to the •Modem Mili tary Branch, National Archives and Records Service, in Washington, DC 20408, and is available for public review and analysis.

Since the termination of Project Blue Book, nothing has occurred that would support a resumption of UFO investigations by the USAFor NASA. Given the current environment of steadily decreasing defense and space budgets, it is unlikely that the Air Forceor NASA will become involved in this type of costly project in the foreseeable future.

Since neither NASA nor the Air Force is engaged in day-to-day UFO research, neither one reviews UFO-related articles intended for publication, evaluates UFO-type spacecraft drawings, or accepts accountsof UFO sightings or applications for employment in the fieldof aerial phenomena investigation.

# NASA Facts FILE COPY (cont.)

## Flying Objects (cont.)

UFO Points of Contact

1. For further information on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, please contact the SETI Institute, 2035 Landings Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043, (415) 960-4530.

2. News media requiring Project Blue Book files should contact the National Archives Public Affairs Office, (202) 501 -5525. Public queries should be addressed to the Project Blue Book archivistat (202) 501-5385. For queries not related to Project Blue Book, contact the National Archives receptionist at (202) 501-5400. Documentation is available from: Modem Military Branch, National Archives and Records Service, Eighth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408.

3. The Air Force publication, "The Roswell Report: Fact vs.

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06/16/1998 10:35 AM

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The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/facts/HTML/FS-017-HQ.html

Fiction in the New Mexico Desert," a lengthy document

providing all of the details available from the Air Force on the Roswell incident, is available for $52 from the US Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop: SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-9328.

4. There are a number of universities and professional scientific

- organizations that have considered UFO phenomena during periodic meetings and seminars. A list of private organizations interested in aerial phenomena may be found in Gale's Encyclopedia of Associations.

5. Persons wishing to report UFO sightings are advised to

- contact  law  enforcement agencies.

Responsible NASA Official: Elsie Weigel - [email protected]

Web Page Curator: Woody Smith - woody.s [email protected] WebDesigner: Pamela Sams

Revised: February 14, 1997

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## 13204 Aeronautics: U. FO

LA98-00106
Security: U
Type: I
Written: 03/16/98
Received: 04/23/98

To:
Name: GOLDIN
No.: 1
Organization: ADMINISTRATOR

From: (b) (6)
No.: 43
Organization: WHR

No.: 0
No.: 0

Action/Info: A

Due Date - Current: 05/28/98
Due Date - Original: 05/28/98
Suspense Status: C
Date Completed: 05/01/98

Action Office: L/S WARD
Info Copy: AI, EH, LH, MDK
Signature Office: HENINGER
Enclosures: N
Clerk: JM

Interim Replies
Dates: <empty>
Comments: <empty>

Response Progress: <empty>

Topics
Keywords
(b) (6)
WHITE
HOUSE
CSETI
HEARING
PUBLIC
UFO
EXTRATERRESTRIAL
EVIDENCE

Rel'd records: A98-00789
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WHITE HOUSE REFERRAL: (b) (6), MEMBER OF CSETI, SUPPORTS OPEN CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS, OR A PRESIDENTIAL DISCUSSION, REGARDING EVIDENCE AS TO THE EXISTENCE OF ALIEN BEINGS AND SPACECRAFT.

Referred From:
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Organization <empty>
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Organization <empty>
No. 0
Organization <empty>

Public Hearings on U.S.O.

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(b) (6)

Dear (b) (6)

The White House has forwarded to NASA for response your letter of March 16, 1998, in which you advocate Congressional Hearings or a Presidential Discussion regarding alien beings and their spacecraft.

Enclosed is a NASA Fact Sheet entitled "The U.S. Government and Unidentified Flying Objects." This Fact Sheet gives a brief outline of NASA's research into U FO's and will give you other pointsof contact you may wish to pursue.

We appreciate your interest in this matter.

Orgy Sincerelyd by Lynn W. Meninger

Edward Heffernan

(Acting) Associate Administrator
for Legislative Af fairs

Enclosure This letter came to us via the White House Bulk Mail

5/1/98aw
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Title: WHR Bulk: Public Congressional Hearings on Extraterrestrial
Evidence

Recipient: A/Goldin
Author: (b) (6)
Organization: WHR Bulk

Date Written: 03/16/1998
Date Received: 04/22/1998
Date Concurred: <empty>
Date Submitted: <empty>
Date Signed: <empty>
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Action Office: L/Heffernan
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Abstract:
WHR Bulk: (b) (6) Minneapolis, MN, Member of CSETI, supports open Congresional Hearings, or even a Presidential discussion, regarding evidence as to the existence of alien beings and spacecraft in our Government's possession.

Comments: <empty>

Enclosures: None

Related Records: A98-00789

Keywords: WHR Bulk Open Congressional Hearings Alien Beings ET's spacecraft CSETI File Plan: Analyst: VCoates

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STREET-ADDRESS: (b) (6)
CITY: Minneapolis
STATE-PROVINCE: MN
ZIP-CODE: 55405
COUNTRY: USA

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and the warmth and good humor you've displayed. I would like to suggest as a way of changing the headlines about sex in the White House, to an area that would give you a real legacy and enlighten the world as to are place in the universe...

As a member of CSETI, I support open Congressional Hearings or even a Presidential Discussion - public - regarding evidence as to the existence of alien beings and spacecraft in our government's possession. Last April members of your staff were present during Congressional Hearings in private with people who were in someway connected with knowledge about alien beings, ET technology, spacecraft. Did those discussions make you more interested to know more or are you being advised not encourage any more meetings with CSETI?

# Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)
INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION
ID Number: A/1998-00310 (cont.)

## [Message Information] (cont.)

Sometimes, sir ... you have to take a positive risk on matters that can change the world for the better. The Richard Helms and Strom Thurmond types must be dealt with firmly. Whether it's opening Cuba to economic trade or a healthy discussion on a matter that will be far more remembered than whom you may or may not have had sex with, standing up to these dinosaurs and people like them, will go a long way in the American public's and historians recognition of you as a leader to another level.

I do not have CSETI's telephone number in order for you and your staff to coordinate hearings with Dr. Steven Greer. But, his website address is: www.cseti.org

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So... I do hope you receive this e-mail and not just oneof the many ~sistants answering letters for you. This letter can make a difference... and so can you Mr. President. It won't cost millions of dollars toconduct a hearing/investigation of potential huge benefits toso many.

Best Regards,
(b) (6)

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1320.4 Heronculics. UFO

Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)

# INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION

# ID Number: L/1998-00415

Title: ROTHMAN/Sen Snowe fwds ltr from (b) (6) , who's interested in U.F.O.'s sightings and abductions

Recipient: L/Heffernan
Author: SNOWE
Organization: SENATE

Date Written: 05/13/1998
Date Received: 05/27/1998
Date Concurred: <empty>
Date Submitted: <empty>
Date Signed: 05/27/1998
Date Closed: 05/27/1998
>>>Current Due Date: 06/17/1998<<
Original Due Date: <empty>

Action Office: LD/Rothman:P

Status: Closed

Signature Office: L/Heffernan
Info Offices: L/Heffernan, L/Heninger, L/Kerwin

Abstract:
SEN SNOWE FWDS LTR FROM (b) (6) WHO'S INTERESTED IN UFO'S SIGHTINGS AND
ABDUCTIONS.

Comments:
Helen spoke w/staffer referring him to Air Force; fwded fax sheet on UFOs.

Enclosures: YES LTR
Related Records:

Keywords: (b) (6)
File Plan: 1320.4

U.F.O. SIGHTINGS ABDUCTION

Analyst: BMoore

05/27/1998

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Date: 5/27/98
Time: 2:05

To: Mark Berumen
<empty>
<empty>

Phone#: <empty>
Fax#: 224-1946

From: Helen Rothman
Director, Congressional Inquiries Division
Office of Legislative Affairs
Voice#: (202) 358-1943
Fax#: (202) 358-4343

Message: Mark- FACT Sheet per our
Conversation
<signature>

Number of Pages <empty> including cover

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NASA Facts

National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

NASA Headquarters

Public Affairs Office
Code P
300 E Street SW
Washington DC 20546

**Key Information:**
*   **Organization:** NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
*   **Logo Elements:** A circle with stars, the word "NASA" in white, and a swoosh representing a spacecraft.

**Additional Text:**
*   **Office:** Public Affairs Office
*   **Code:** Code P
*   **Address:** 300 E Street SW, Washington DC 20546
*   **Reference Number:** FS-1997-01-017-HQ

FS-1997-01-017-HQ

The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects

# ID Number: L/1998-00415 (cont.)

No branch of the United States Government is cwrently in

volved with or responsible for investigations into the possi bility of alien life on other planets or for investigating Uni dentifiedFlyingObjects (UFO's). The US Air Force (USAF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have had intennittent, independent investigations of the possibility ofalien life on other planets; however, none of these has produced factual evidence that life exists on other planets, nor that UFO's are related to aliens. From 1947 to 1969, the Air Force investigated UFO's; then in 1977, NASA was asked to examine the possibility of resuming UFO investigations. After studying all of the facts avail able, it was determined that nothing would begainedby further investigation, since there was an absence of tangiole evidence.

# ID Number: L/1998-00415 (cont.)

In October 1992, NASA was directed by Congress to begin

a detailed search for artificial radio signals from other civi lizations under the NASA Towards Other Planetary Systems (TOPS)/High Resolution Microwave Swvey (HR.MS)pro gram (also known as the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelli gence project). Congress directed NASA to end this project in October 1993, citing pressures on the US Federal budget The HRMS did not detect any confmned signal before it was stopped. However, similar work will continue in a more limited manner through efforts of private groups and through academic institutions. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intel ligence Institute (SETI Institute) inMountain View, CA, effectively replaced the Government project, borrowing the signal processing system from NASA: The SETI Institute is a nonprofit corporation conducting research in a number of fields including all science and technology aspects of as tronomy and planetary sciences, chemical evolution, the ori gin of life, biological evolution, and cultural evolution.

During several space missions, NASA astronauts have re

ported phenomena notimmediately explainable; however, in every instance NASA determined that the observations

# ID Number: L/1998-00415 (cont.)

could not be tenned "abnormal" in the space environment.

The 1947 to 1969 USAF investigations studied UFO's un derProject Blue Book. The project, headquartered at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, was terminated December 17, 1969. Of the total of 12,618 sightings reported to Project Blue Book, 701 remain "unidentified."

# ID Number: L/1998-00415 (cont.)

The decision to discontinue UFO investigations wasbased

on an evaluation of a report prepared bythe University of Colorado entitled, "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;" a review of the University of Colorado's report by the National Academy of Sciences; previous UFO studies; and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during the 1940's, '50's and'60's.As a result of experience, inves tigations, and studies since 1948, the conclusions ofProject Blue Book were: (1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force was ever a threat to our national security; (2) there was no evidence submitted to, or discov ered by, the Air Force that sightings categorized as "uniden tified" represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modem scientific knowledge; and (3) there was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" were extraterrestrial vehicles.

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Since neither NASA nor the Air Force is engaged in day-to day UFO research, neither one reviews UFO-related articles intended for publi cation, evaluates UFO-type spacecraft drawings,or accepts accounts of UFO sightings or applica tions for employment in the field of aerial phenomena inves tigation.

# ID Number: L/1998-00415 (cont.)

## UFO Points of Contact

1. For further infonnation on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, please contact the SETI I~itute, 2035 Land ings Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043, (415) 960-4530.

2. News media requiring Project Blue Book files should con tact the National Archives Public Affairs Office, (202) 501- 5525. Public queries should be addressed to the Project BlueBook archivist at (202) 501-5385. For queries not related to Project BlueBook, contact the National Ar chives receptionist at (202) 501-5400. Documentation is

[page 82]
# < CONFIRMATION REPORT >

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# < CONFIRMATION REPORT >

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OLYMPIA J. SNOWE
MAINE

COUNSEL TO THE ASSISTANT
MAJORITY LEADER

COMMITTEES:

ARMED SERVICES

BUDGET

250 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
(202) 224-5344

# United States Senate

May  13,  1998

WASHINGTON, DC 20510-1903

COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND
TRANSPORTATION
CHAIR OF
OCEANS AND FISHERIES
SUBCOMMITTEE

SMALL BUSINESS

Mr. Lawrence E.  Medway
Director, Congressional Inquiries Division
National Aeronautic and Space  Administration
300 E. Street, SW
Washington, D.C. 20546

Dear Mr. Medway:

I am writing to you regarding the concerns of my constituent, (b) (6) of
Portland, Maine.

___ __, is interested in U.F.O. sightings and abductions. Ihave enclosed a copy of his correspondence for yourreview. Anyinformation youcould provide which would help me answer his questions would be appreciated.

Thankyoufor your time and attention.

OJS:mjb

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SUITE 7B
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IN MAINE CALL TOLL-FREE 1-800-432-1599

PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER

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APR  O1 1998

FEBUARY 22 1998
Dear Senitor Olympia Snow,

TIME- 9:11  am

My name is (b) (6) I'm from Portland, Maine. I'm 12 years
old. (b) (6) . I heard about the fredom of
information act. I would be so grateful it you could get any or all
government documents released on the Roswell crash. I'm a U.F.O.
researcher. I have heard about the following U.F.O. sightings and
abductions:

1. LAS LUNAS, NEW MEXICO LATE JUNE1977 11:30A.M.

2. SHIROYAMA, KAWANOE CITY JAPAN FEB/2/ 75 16:00MILITARY TIME

3. WAIKI KI BEACH, HONOLULU, HAWAII MARCH/1 5/93 12:00P.M.

4. COLFAX, WISCONSIN APRIU1 9/ 78 13:30 MILITARY TIME

- 5.DENVER, COLARODO  MAY/1991  AFTERNOON

6. BARCELONA, SPAIN JUNE/1978 SUNDOWN

- 7.MONTEMORELOS,NUEVA LEON, MEXICOSUMMER OF 1994AFTERNOON

- 8.VANCOUVER, B.C.  CANADA OCTOBER/17/1992

9. GULF BREEZ, FLORADA SEPTEMBER/24/1994 18:50 MILITARY TIME

10. ZACATELCO, TLAXCALA, MEXICO OCTOBER /31 /199 1

- 11.VIBORG, JUTLAND, DENMARK NOVEMBER/17/74 9:00A.M.

12. COCOYOC, MORELOS, MEXICO NOVEMBER/3/739:00A.M.

13.  BELJUM  MIDNIGHT

14. MT. KIDTARDIN, MAINE MIDNIGHT 3 CAMPERS WERE ABDUCTED

- 15.GROOM LAKE NEVADA AREA 51 FREQUNTLY

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# INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION

ID  Number: L/1998-00415

Title: ROTHMAN/Sen Snowe fwds ltr from (b) (6) who's interested in U.F.O.'s sightings and abductions

Recipient: L/Heffernan
Author: SNOWE
Organization: SENATE

Date Written: 05/13/1998
Date Received: 05/27/1998
Date Concurred: <empty>
Date Submitted: <empty>
Date Signed: <empty>
Date Closed: <empty>
>>>Current Due Date: 06/17/1998<<
Original Due Date: <empty>

Action Office: LD/Rothman:P
Status: Open

Signature Office: L/Heffernan
Info Offices: L/Heffernan, L/Heninger, L/Kerwin

Signature Office: L/Heffernan
Info Offices: L/Heffernan, L/Heninger, L/Kerwin

Abstract:
SEN SNOWE FWDS LTR FROM (b) (6) WHO'S INTERESTED IN UFO'S SIGHTINGS AND ABDUCTIONS.

Comments: <empty>

Enclosures: YES LTR

Related Records:
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4/946

<signature>
Beromen
Staff W
(Hill)

Keywords: (b) (6) U.F.O. SIGHTINGS ABDUCTION
File Plan: <empty>
Analyst: BMoore

05/27/1998

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