Now back to our regularly scheduled program…
Salt Creek: 26 July 2008 11:53 AM
“…we do not require a supernatural explanation for them. For stuff that can only be “explained” supernaturally, “I don’t know” is a better response.”
…I must agree. This simple statement (“I don’t know”) is the beginning of all good science. Problems arise when there is a genuine “don’t know” and those who can “know,” don’t bother. It comes down to one of these three: 1) They’re making it up, 2) They’re fucking crazies, or 3) What they say happened, happened. Good science has to consider all three.
As for the woo or wow factor, either the government has spent countless millions training demented, psycho, testosterone poisoned lunatic flyboys with the “wrong stuff” to be bivouacked across the zenith, or we’re missing one of (if not) the greatest stories in the history of civilization…
Scott Carpenter, Mercury 7 astronaut…
“At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.”
Colonel L. Gordon Cooper, Mercury and Gemini Astronaut, testifying before the United Nations in 1985 after announcing that he had seen and chased UFOs over Germany in the 1950s. Cooper also reported a greenish object, which passed by his capsule going east to west (opposite normal man-made orbits) while in orbit in May of 1963…
“I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets… Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth. I feel that we need to have a top level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion. . . . For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public.
“I was furthermore a witness to an extraordinary phenomenon, here on this planet Earth. It happened a few months ago in Florida. There I saw with my own eyes a defined area of ground being consumed by flames, with four indentations left by a flying object which had descended in the middle of a field. Beings had left the craft (there were other traces to prove this). They seemed to have studied topography, they had collected soil samples and, eventually, they returned to where they had come from, disappearing at enormous speed. . . . I happen to know that authority did just about everything to keep this incident from the press and TV, in fear of a panicky reaction from the public.”
Eugene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17, In a Los Angeles Times article in 1973 he said, about UFOs…
”...I’ve been asked (about UFOs) and I’ve said publicly I thought they (UFOs) were somebody else, some other civilization.”
Donald Slayton, one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, revealed in an interview he had seen UFOs in 1951…
“I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high. As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn’t look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk.
“About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me — and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.”
Maurice Chatelain
In 1979 NASA’s Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems confirmed that Armstrong had indeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater. Chatelain believes that some UFOs may come from our own solar system — specifically Titan…
“The encounter was common knowledge in NASA, but nobody has talked about it until now. . . . all Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin - flying saucers, or UFOs, if you want to call them by that name. Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who then ordered absolute silence.”
Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev commenting on a UFO sighting that occurred while en route to the Solyut 6 space station in April of 1979…
“It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely. It was an engineered structure, made from some type of metal, approximately 40 meters long with inner hulls. The object was narrow here and wider here, and inside there were openings. Some places had projections like small wings. The object stayed very close to us. We photographed it, and our photos showed it to be 23 to 28 meters away.”
Victor Marchetti, former Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the CIA, in an article written by him for Second Look entitled “How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon Vol 1, No 7,” Washington, DC, May, 1979…
“We have, indeed, been contacted-perhaps even visited-by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.”
