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368 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
I have never insisted that Scott Carpenter photographed a UFO, but because
of the rumours surrounding the incident I wanted to know the truth.
To me, that seems reasonable. In any event, my friendship towards, and
respect for Scott remains undiminished.
An anonymous source with secret clearance claims that Carpenter told
him that at no time when the astronauts were in space were they alone:
there was constant surveillance by UFOs. And Dr Garry Henderson, a senior
research scientist for General Dynamics, has confirmed that the astronauts
are under strict orders not to discuss their sightings with anyone. Dr
Henderson says that NASA "has many actual photos of these crafts, taken
at close range by hand and movie camera."
In November 1979 Lou Zinsstag and I received an unofficial invitation
to visit the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. The invitation
came from Alan Holt, a physicist and aerospace engineer whose main
work at that time centered on the development of the astronaut and flight
controller training programs associated with the Spacelab. He is also
engaged in theoretical research into advanced types of propulsion for
spacecraft, and has long been involved in an unofficial NASA UFO study
group called Project VISIT (Vehicle Internal Systems Investigative
Team). I asked about photographs and films of UFOs allegedly taken by
astronauts and was simply told that the National Security Agency screens
all films prior to releasing them to NASA.
It may be coincidental that a former Director of the National Security
Agency and Deputy Director of the CIA, Lew Allen, was appointed head
of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in June 1982. JPL runs NASA's
unmanned planetary space programme, whose phenomenal achievements
include the landing on Mars by the Viking probes and, more recently, the
Voyagers which transmitted such spectacular pictures of Jupiter, Saturn
and Uranus. Allen had also been the USAF Chief of Staff, and as one of
the pioneers of aerial espionage served as deputy director for Advanced
Plans in the Directorate of Special Projects of the National Reconnaissance
Office, and later director of the NRO's Office of Space
Systems. NRO—America's most secret intelligence agency—liaises
closely with the CIA, NSA—and of course NASA.
In an interview in 1986, Lew Allen stated that up to a third of JPL's
work was funded by the Department of Defense, but gave details of various
fascinating civilian projects. "One of the most exciting of these future
programs, called Cassini," he said, "is an investigation of Saturn's moon
Titan. Its atmosphere was too dense for the Voyagers to give us any clues
about what lies beneath. The Cassini mission . . . would probe this atmosphere
. . . we've concluded that it is very similar to what the earth's must
have been at the earliest stages of its evolution."