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366 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
Neither Gordon Cooper nor Dick Gordon replied to Scott's letter, it seems,
and I have never been able to receive a reply from Cooper, althought he
has spoken publicly of his interest in the subject. In fact, interest in UFOs
was one of the reasons that inspired him to become an astronaut. "I . . .
had the idea that there might be some interesting forms of life out in space
for us to discover and get acquainted with," he wrote in 1962. "As far as
I am concerned there have been far too many unexplained examples of
unidentified objects sighted around the earth ... the fact that many experienced
pilots had reported strange sights did heighten my curiosity about
space . . . This was one of the reasons, then, why I wanted to become an
Astronaut."
In 1978 Cooper attended a meeting of the Special Political Committee
United Nations General Assembly in order to discuss UFOs. Later that
year a letter from Cooper was read at another UN meeting:
... I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting
this planet from other planets, which are obviously a little more
advanced than we are here on earth.
I feel that we need to have a top-level, coordinated program to specifically
collect and analyze data from all over the earth concerning the
type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors
in a friendly fashion.
Also, / did have occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation
... flights of them, of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, from east
to west over Europe. [Emphasis added.]
Cooper said that most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs "due
to the great numbers of people who have indiscriminately sold fake and
forged documents abusing their names and reputations without hesitation."
But he added that there were "several of us who do believe in
UFOs" and who have had occasion to see a UFO on, around, or from an
aircraft. "There was only one occasion from space which may have been
a UFO," Cooper's letter revealed, without elaborating.
A UFO seen on the ground by an astronaut The only reference I have
to such an incident is contained in an article which the late Lou Zinsstag
translated from the French for me in 1973. Unfortunately, I have neither
the name of the paper nor the date, but the article was written by J. L.
Ferrando, based on an interview with an astronaut at a congress in New
York in mid-1973, tape-recorded by Benny Manocchia. The name of the
astronaut None other than Gordon Cooper! The following extracts are
highly significant—if true:
For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all
specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA,