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ufos and astronauts

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by charles lear as one might expect

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astronauts have come upon

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things in space that they were not able

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to readily identify

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in fact astronauts have not only

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reported seeing ufos

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but some most notably gordon cooper and

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dr edgar mitchell have gone so far as to

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publicly advocate for disclosure

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and an end to secrecy regarding the

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subject gordon cooper described having

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encounters with ufos

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as an air force pilot prior to his

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involvement in the space program

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in his 2000 memoir leap of faith an

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astronaut's journey into the unknown

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gordon wrote that he chased

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saucer-shaped craft when he was

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stationed in germany in the 1950s

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and that objects flew over the base

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daily that were faster than known

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he also claimed to have been given a

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film in 1957

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of a saucer that landed at edwards air

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force base which he sent off to the

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pentagon and never saw again

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in spite of his alleged ufo encounters

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in earth's atmosphere

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cooper claimed that neither he nor any

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had seen ufos while in space according

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there was nothing to the well-known

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report that he saw a green glowing

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object approach his craft

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during his final orbit in may 1963

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aboard mercury faith 7 while over

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cooper made a similar claim in a march

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omni magazine conducted by long-time ufo

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researcher lee spiegel

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in that interview cooper stated that of

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all the astronauts involved in the space

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only james mcdivitt might have seen a

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he also remarked that allegations of

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astronaut ufo sightings

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got so bad that there were deliberately

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falsified tapes of communications with

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the astronauts

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where ufo material was simply edited in

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a review of alleged astronaut encounters

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finds that there are

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indeed a lot of poorly supported claims

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james mcdivitt's sighting during gemini

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4 got a lot of attention from not only

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but also the air force on the 20th

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revolution of a four-day space flight

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from june 3rd to june 7 1965

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mcdivitt spotted and photographed a ufo

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he described the episode in a june 29

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according to him fellow astronaut ed

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was asleep and the capsule was tumbling

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as it had been shut down to save fuel

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mcdivot spotted an object that resembled

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thinking that he might be forced to

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maneuver around the object mcdivot

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switched on the circuit breakers on the

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to enable the engines there were two

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and while he waited for the electronics

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to warm up he took a picture of the

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object with each of them

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according to mcdivitt the pictures did

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however a reporter was waiting at nasa

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and he was allowed to go through them

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the reporter picked one that looked like

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a fleet of spaceships that was actually

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mcdivitt stated that the object must

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as he was able to see it and was

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probably a piece of ice that had fallen

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the sighting is discussed in the condon

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report and the writer leaves it

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and includes it with cases not

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adequately explained

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another case in the condom report not

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adequately explained

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is the well-known incident involving

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during their 14-day gemini 7 flight from

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borman reported that they had a bogey at

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capcom in houston asked him to repeat

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houston asked if it was the booster he

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sighting level replied that it was an

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actual sighting

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and that he had the booster in sight at

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one of the more fantastic tales floating

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around is one that involves neil

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according to the story armstrong and

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aldrin were aboard apollo 11 when they

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reported to nasa on a non-broadcast

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frequency that they were seeing huge

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lined up on a crater watching them as

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this oft-repeated tale originated with

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employee otto binder who said that

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and picked up the broadcast on their

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equipment a simple search will reveal

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that otto

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binder was a science fiction writer

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turned comic book writer

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turned ufo writer and that he never

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in a november 14 2002 article in

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from a statement he gave

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presence of journalists

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in response to being asked if he'd seen

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he said i have been asked that question

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unidentified flying objects for sure

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sometimes i looked out the window and i

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could see a metallic thing like a spoon

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the biggest problem in space is that it

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is very hard to judge distance

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it could have been a spoon or a

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spaceship thousands of miles away

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let me tell you one thing i have never

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that most astronauts are very reluctant

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due to the great numbers of people who

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those few astronauts who have continued

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astronauts who were very outspoken and

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less than cautious were gordon cooper

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who followed similar paths on november 9

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1978 cooper wrote a letter to ambassador

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granada's ambassador to the un with the

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following oft repeated quote

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had been urging the un since 1976

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to set up an agency to gather and

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evaluate ufo-related information

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with the help of lee spiegel the meeting

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was arranged to discuss an upcoming

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the un with gordon cooper as one of the

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a meeting was held on july 14 1978

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he had an epiphany according to him i

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realized that the molecules of my body

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and the molecules of the spacecraft have

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been manufactured in an ancient

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generation of stars this had a profound

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effect on him

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and led him to establish the institute

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of noetic sciences

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which called for an examination of the

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universe by means

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other than religion or science mitchell

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regarding what was officially known

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he appeared in james fox's

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out of the blue cooper also appeared in

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with extraterrestrials

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but he stated that he had discussed the

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issue with people who had

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without high-level government oversight

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released emails from the personal

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former counselor to president barack

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two from mitchell regarding a skype

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mitchell mentions eti extraterrestrial

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that are helping the bring zero point

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mitchell emphasized the need to ban

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because they will not tolerate any forms

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on earth or in space the skype

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presentation never occurred

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the subject of astronaut ufo sightings

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begs for dramatic tales such as those

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found throughout ufo literature

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and the internet the truth seems to be

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less dramatic than seeing huge menacing

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but some might argue that that's just