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OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
placed in different locations. The unexplained explosion of an oxygen
tank in the service module of Apollo 13 on its flight to the
moon, according to rumors, was caused deliberately by a UFO
that was following the capsule to prevent the detonation of the
atomic charge that could possibly have destroyed or endangered
some moon base established by extraterrestrials. Well, there was
a lot of talk and there still is.
It was also said that during their flights our astronauts frequently
felt as if some external force were trying to take over
their minds. They experienced strange sensations and visions.
What seems almost certain is that some of the astronauts did
have pychological problems and changes of personality after
their missions in space. Some turned deeply religious, some
seemed to develop mental trouble—facts that of course could be
ascribed to pure coincidence v^thout particular significance.
The experiments in telepathy carried out in space by some astronauts
have been discussed and even published.
Special symbol
cards of geometric figures were used to transmit thought
from the participant in orbit around the moon to the correspondent
on the surface of the earth. Most of these experiments
were successful, much more so than similar telepathic experiments
conducted on earth, which generally had a lower score.
Then there is the case of astronaut Gordon Cooper that
arouses curiosity for more than one reason. He was the pilot of
Mercury 9 in 1963 and of Gemini 5 in 1965, and he was unquestionably
one of our most skilled space pilots, yet he never flew an
Apollo. Gordon Cooper, now manufacturing skydiving parachutes
after having quit the space program, has never told anybody
outside NASA what he saw in space. But there are those
who think NASA may have removed him from the Apollo flights
because he had seen too much.
It is also curious that this man, who is not only an astronaut
but also a scientist, has now become a firm believer in extraterrestrial
life and civilizations and is convinced that space visitors
to earth have been around for a long time, from the most
distant past up to this very day. Not long ago Gordon Cooper
participated in an archaeological expedition to South America
that discovered the remnants of a very old and very advanced
civilization dating back more than five thousand years. Pottery,