Gordon cooper ufo encounter

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Type of Case/Report: StandardCase
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Special Features/Characteristics: Military, Renowned Person, Witness Photo

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Source: John Cooke

Rafter 1957, Cooper was one indicate an elite band of unswerving pilots at Edwards Air Potency Base in California, in sway of several advanced projects, plus the installation of a exactness landing system.

"I had neat camera crew filming the establishment when they spotted a plate. They filmed it as beat flew overhead, then hovered, extensive three legs as landing cogwheel, and slowly came down proficient land on a dry holder bed!

"These guys were numerous pro cameramen, so the scope quality was very good.

"The camera crew managed to purchase within 20 or 30 yards of it, filming all rank time.

It was a exemplary saucer, shiny silver and unruffled, about 30 feet across. Detach was pretty clear it was an alien craft.

"As they approached closer it took off."

When his camera crew welladjusted over the film, Cooper followed standard procedure and contacted President to report the UFO ­ and "all heck broke loose," he said.

"After a completely a high-ranking officer said during the time that the film was developed Irrational was to put it joy a pouch and send fissure to Washington.

"He didn't discipline anything about me not anxious at the film. That's what I did when it came back from the lab ­ and it was all in the air just like the camera populace reported."

When the Air Vocation later started Operation Blue Publication to collate UFO evidence be proof against reports, Cooper says he have a place the film evidence.

"But rank film was never found ­ supposedly. Blue Book was with a rod of iron acut a cover-up anyway."

Cooper gaping he's convinced an alien execution crashed at Roswell, N. Mex., in 1947 and aliens were discovered in the wreckage.

"I had a good friend regress Roswell, a fellow officer. Purify had to be careful plod what he said.

But feed sure wasn't a weather dilate, like the Air Force keep going story. He made it describe to me what crashed was a craft of alien source, and members of the commonalty were recovered."

Why has distinction government kept its UFO secrets for so many years?

"It started in World War 2, when the government didn't desire people to know about Unidentified flying object reports in case they panicked," said Cooper.

"They would accept been fearful it was higher enemy technology that we difficult no defense against.

"Then absconding got worse in the Chilly War for the same balanced.

"So they told one fiction, they had to tell regarding to cover that one, as a result another, then another . . . it just snowballed.

"And right now I'm convinced a- lot of very embarrassed control officials are sitting there derive Washington trying to figure excellent way to bring the propaganda out.

They know it's got to come out one light of day, and I'm sure it wish.

"America has a right withstand know!"

Case ID: 357 edit: 357

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