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364 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
.. . when I said that I had seen a UFO I was laughed at, attacked, and
surrounded by strange people. ... In desperation I remember I refuted
the statement and said it was a fake. I was counter-attacked, accused
of working with the "Dark Powers". . . or patronizingly "understood" for
following orders from some secret government department.
There was something. It happened a long time ago, and I do not wish
to be drawn into the labyrinth again. Unfortunately the negatives were
stolen and all the prints gone ...
THE ASTRONAUTS
In the early 1970s I had the pleasure of several meetings in Britain and the
United States with the former U.S. Navy test pilot, intelligence officer,
and pioneer astronaut Scott Carpenter, who had reputedly seen UFOs and
photographed one of them during his flight in the Mercury 7 capsule on
24 May 1962. Scott vehemently denied this, and poured scorn on other
reports of sightings by fellow astronauts. I noticed that he appeared to be
ill at ease when discussing the subject, and whenever I produced documentary
evidence for official concern in this area he became visibly nervous.
But in November 1972 Scott kindly wrote on my behalf to astronauts
Gordon Cooper, Dick Gordon, James Lovell and James McDivitt, asking
about reports attributed to them. James Lovell replied as follows:
I have to honestly say that during my four flights into space, I have not
seen or heard any phenomena that I could not explain.... / don't believe
any of us in the space program believe that there are such things as
UFOs.... However, most of us believe that there must be a star like our
sun that also has a planetary system [which] must support intelligent life
as we know it.... I hope this is sufficient information for Tim Good, and I
hope he isn't too disappointed in my answer. [Emphasis added.]
But according to the transcript of Lovell's flight on Gemini 7, an anomalous
object was encountered:
SPACECRAFT:
Bogey at 10 o'clock high.
CAPCOM: This is Houston. Say again 7.
SPACECRAFT: Said we have a bogey at 10 o'clock high.
CAPCOM: Gemini 7, is that the booster or is that an actual
sighting
SPACECRAFT: We have several, looks like debris up here.
Actual sighting.
CAPCOM: . . . Estimate distance or size
SPACECRAFT: We also have the booster in sight . . .