Astronauts and Cosmonauts We have quotes from 10
Astronauts and cosmonauts about UFOs
\NASA and the CIA
instructed the American astronauts to "never use the word UFO upon sighting the
UFO (s) while broadcasting or transmitting from outer space. Instead, the code
and secret name 'Santa Claus' is to be exclusively used upon encountering flying
saucers."
This, was confirmed by the US astronauts in person and in writing.
In any field of investigation
eyewitness testimony is invaluable. What better witness to have in a
criminal investigation than a police officer, who actually saw the crime
committed? It is so with UFO investigation, as well. Astronauts and
cosmonauts are chosen and highly trained to observe anything and everything in
their environment to prevent possible collisions from space debris and other
space equipment. Almost a score of these space travelers have gone on
record as having encountered unidentified flying objects during their flights
and walks on the Moon. Although NASA and other government agencies have
tried, very hard, to keep this from the public, these brave pioneers have
stepped forward to tell their story. Here, we present irrefutable proof
from the best trained observers in the world of the existence of UFOs.
These testimonies, alone, prove the fact that intelligent beings piloting high
tech vehicles in close proximity to Earth, positively.
Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev
"It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and
when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely. It was an engineered
structure, made from some type of metal, approximately 40 meters long with inner
hulls. The object was narrow here and wider here, and inside there were
openings. Some places had projections like small wings. The object stayed very
close to us. We photographed it, and our photos showed it to be 23 to 28 meters
away." Afanasyev commenting on a UFO sighting that occurred while en route to the
Solyut 6 space station in April of 1979.
Buzz Aldrin
NASA: What's there?
Apollo11: These "Babies" are huge, Sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You wouldn't
believe 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! Transmission from Apollo 11 on the Moon on July 21, 1969
"Now, obviously, the three of us were not going to blurt out, 'Hey Houston we
got something moving along side of us and we don't know what it is,' observed
Aldrin. "We weren't about to do that, cause we know that those transmissions
would be heard by all sorts of people and who knows what somebody would have
demanded that we turn back because of Aliens or whatever the reason is, so we
didn't do that but we did decide we'd just cautiously ask Houston where, how far
away was the S-IVB? And a few moments we decided that after a while of watching
it (UFO), it was time to go to sleep and not to talk about it anymore until we
came back and (went through) debriefing." Aldrin, commenting after the
Apollo 11 flight.
Neil Armstrong
"We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have
available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that ... other life probably
exists out there and perhaps in many places..." From a statement in October 1999.
"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 question then
of a space station or a moon city. 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.? Neil Armstrong on encounters woth extraterrestrial life during the Apollo 11
Monn Landing.
Scott Carpenter
"At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a
constant surveillance by UFOs." Carpenter photographed a UFO while in orbit on May 24, 1962. NASA still has
not released the photograph.
Eugene Cernan
"...I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were
somebody else, some other civilization." Cernan commanded the Apollo 17 Mission-The quote is from a 1973 article in
the Los Angeles Times.
Colonel L. Gordon Cooper
"I wanted to convey to you my views on our
extra-terrestrial visitors popularly referred to as ' UFOs,' and suggest what
might be done to properly deal with them." "I
believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this
planet from other planets which obviously are a little more technically advanced
than we are here on Earth. I feel that we need to have a top level, coordinated
program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the earth
concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with
these visitors in a friendly fashion. We may first have to show them that we
have learned to resolve our problems by peaceful means, rather than warfare,
before we are accepted as fully qualified universal team members. This
acceptance would have tremendous possibilities of advancing our world in all
areas. Certainly then it would seem that the UN has a vested interest in
handling this subject properly and expeditiously.
"If the UN agrees to pursue this project, and
to lend their credibility to it, perhaps many more well qualified people will
agree to step forth and provide help and information." Cooper, addressing a UN panel discussion on UFOs and ETs in New York in 1985.
The panel was chaired by then Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim.
"For many years I have
lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I
can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects
of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness
reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them
public." Cooper testifying to a U.N. committee.
"As far as I am
concerned, there have been too many unexplained examples of UFO sightings around
this Earth for us to rule out the possibilities that some form of life exists
out there beyond our own world."
"I know other astronauts
share my feelings, and we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of
UFOs!"
"We thought they could
have been Russian we regularly had MiG-15s overflying our base. We scrambled our
Sabre jets to intercept and got to our ceiling of 45,000 feet . . . and they
were still way above us traveling faster than we were. These vehicles were in
formation like a fighter group, but they were metallic silver and saucer-shaped.
Believe me, they weren't like any MiGs I'd seen before! They had to be UFOs." Cooper said he first encountered UFOs as a military pilot in Germany in the
early 1950s, when unidentified craft were spotted over an air base.
"I had a camera crew
filming the installation when they spotted a saucer. They filmed it as it flew
overhead, then hovered, extended three legs as landing gear, and slowly came
down to land on a dry lake bed! These guys were all pro cameramen, so the
picture quality was very good. The camera crew managed to get within 20 or 30
yards of it,filming all the time. It was a classic saucer, shiny silver and
smooth, about 30 feet across. It was pretty clear it was an alien craft. As they
approached closer it took off." When his camera crew handed over the film,
Cooper followed standard procedure and contacted Washington to report the UFO
and "all heck broke loose," he said. "After a while a high-ranking officer said
when the film was developed I was to put it in a pouch and send it to
Washington. He didn't say anything about me not looking at the film. That's what
I did when it came back from the lab and it was all there just like the camera
crew reported." When the Air Force later started Operation Blue Book to collate
UFO evidence and reports, Cooper says he mentioned the film evidence. "But the
film was never found supposedly. Blue Book was strictly a cover-up anyway." In 1957, Cooper was one of an elite band of test pilots at Edwards Air Force
Base in California, in charge of several advanced projects, including the
installation of a precision landing system.
"I had a good friend at Roswell, a fellow officer. He had to be careful about
what he said. But it sure wasn't a weather balloon, like the Air Force cover
story. He made it clear to me what crashed was a craft of alien origin, and
members of the crew were recovered." Cooper revealed he's convinced an alien craft crashed at Roswell, N. Mex., in
1947 and aliens were discovered in the wreckage.
"It started in
World War 2, when the government didn't want people to know about UFO reports in
case they panicked," said Cooper. "They would have been fearful it was superior
enemy technology that we had no defense against. Then it got worse in the Cold
War for the same reason. So they told one untruth, they had to tell another to
cover that one, then another, then another . . . it just snowballed. And right
now I'm convinced a lot of very embarrassed government officials are sitting
there in Washington trying to figure a way to bring the truth out. They know
it's got to come out one day, and I'm sure it will. America has a right to
know!" A statement when asked why has the government kept its UFO secrets for so
many years? Cooper was a Mercury 9 and Gemini-5 astronaut.
"I should point out that I am not an experienced UFO professional researcher. I
have not yet had the privilege of flying a UFO, nor of meeting the crew of one.
I do feel that I am somewhat qualified to discuss them since I have been into
the fringes of the vast areas in which they travel. Also, 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.
They were at a higher altitude than we could reach with our jet fighters of that
time."
"I would also like to point out that most astronauts are very reluctant to even
discuss UFOs due to the great numbers of people who have indiscriminately sold
fake stories and forged documents abusing their names and reputations without
hesitation. Those few astronauts who have continued to have participation in the
UFO field have had to do so very cautiously. There are several of us who do
believe in UFOs and who have had occasion to see a UFO on the ground, or from an
airplane. There was only one occasion from space which may have been a UFO.
"Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at
great altitudes over the base, and we tried to get close to them, but they were
able to change direction faster than our fighters. I do believe UFOs exist and
that the truly unexplained ones are from some other technologically advanced
civilization. From my association with aircraft and spacecraft, I think I have a
pretty good idea of what everyone on this planet has and their performance
capabilities, and I'm sure some of the UFOs at least are not from anywhere on
Earth."
Omni, Vol. 2, No. 6, March 1980.
John Glen
"I believe certain reports of flying saucers
to be legitimate."
Yevegni Khrunov
"Is the presence of extraterrestrial civilizations conceivable? Of course.
Before the uniqueness of the earth is demonstrated, this assumption should be
taken as quite legitimate. As regards UFOs, their presence cannot be denied:
thousands of people have seen them. It may be that their source is optical
effects, but some of their properties, for instance, their ability to change
course by 90 degrees at great speed, simply stagger the imagination."
Sputnik, "UFOs Through the Eyes of Cosmonauts," December 1980. Yevegni
Khrunov was the Soyuz-5 spacecraft pilot in 1969.
Major General Vladimir Kovalyonok
"On May 5, 1981, we were in orbit [in the Salyut-6 space station]. I saw an
object that didn't resemble any cosmic objects I'm familiar with. It was a round
object which resembled a melon, round and a little bit elongated. In front of
this object was something that resembled a gyrating depressed cone. I can draw
it, it's difficult to describe. The object resembles a barbell. I saw it
becoming transparent and like with a ' body' inside. At the other end I saw
something like gas discharging, like a reactive object. Then something happened
that is very difficult for me to describe from the point of view of physics.
Last year in the magazine Nature I read about a physicist... we tried together
to explain this phenomenon and we decided it was a ' plasmaform.' I have to
recognize that it did not have an artificial origin. It was not artificial
because an artificial object couldn't attain this form. I don't know of anything
that can make this movement... tightening, then expanding, pulsating. Then as I
was observing, something happened, two explosions. One explosion, and then 0.5
seconds later, the second part exploded. I called my colleague Viktor [Savinykh],
but he didn't arrive in time to see anything."
"What are the particulars? First conclusion: the object moved in a suborbital
path, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to see it. There were two clouds, like
smoke, that formed a barbell. It came near me and I watched it. Then we entered
in to the shade for two or three minutes after this happened. When we came out
of the shade we didn't see anything. But during a certain time, we and the craft
were moving together."
Videotaped interview with Giorgio Bongiovanni in the village of Kosnikov,
near Moscow, 1993.
Dr. Jerry Linenger
"In five months in space, I have seen unidentified flying objects for sure.
Sometimes I looked out of the window and I could see a metallic thing like a
spoon flying methodically."
Dr. Linenger was a NASA astronaut and during five months in he logged 50
million miles - the equivalent of over 110 round trips to the moon, travelling
at an average speed of 18,000 miles per hour. Dr. Linenger was in Dubai to speak
at the BurJuman Retail Conference at the Emirates Towers Hotel.
James Lovell
Lovell: Bogey at 10 o'clock high.
Capcom: This is Houston. Say again
7.
Lovell: Said we have a bogey at 10
o'clock high.
Capcom: Gemini 7, is that the
booster or is that an actual sighting?
Lovell: We have several...actual
sightings.
Capcom: ...Estimated distance or
size?
Lovell: We also have the booster in
sight...
James Lovell in conversation with
mission control during his flight on Gemini 7.
"Mission Control, please be informed, there
is a Santa Claus." James Lovell, who was commander of the ill-fated Apollo-13 mission, made this
transmission after coming around the far side of the moon on the Apollo-8
mission on or around Christmas in 1968 with Frank Borman and William Anders.
Although it was Christmas time, this statement has caused considerable
controversy as "Santa Claus" was apparently a codeword used to indicate a UFO or
other unusual sighting.
