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* - ‘ & TWILIGHT -2Ne & | sve ° »- OR im ae s UFO SIGHTINGS BY ASTRONAUTS quickly approaching his capsule. The UFO taped interview by J. L. Ferrando, Major was real and solid, because it was picked Cooper said: "For many years I have lived up by Muchea's tracking radar. with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all Cooper's sighting was reported by the specialists in astronautics. I can now National Broadcast Company which was _ reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar covering the flight step by step; but when instruments capture objects of form and Cooper landed, reporters were told that composition unknown to us. And there are they would not be allowed to question him thousands of witness reports and a quantity about the UFO sighting. of documents to prove this, but nobody Major Cooper was a firm believer in wants to make them public. Why? UFOs. Over ten years earlier, in 1951, he Because authority is afraid that people may had sighted UFOs while piloting an F-86 think of God-knows-what kind of horrible Sabre jet over West Germany. They were invaders. So the password still is: ‘We metallic, saucer-shaped have to avoid panic by al] means.’ discs at considerable alti- "I was furthermore a witness to an extra- tude and could out- ordinary phenomenon, here on this planet manoeuvre all the Earth. It happened a few months ago in American fighter planes. Florida. There I saw with my own eyes a Major Cooper also testi- defined area of ground being consumed by fied before the United flames, with four indentations left by a fly- Nations: “I believe that ing object which had descended in the mid- these extra-terrestrial dle of a field. Beings had left the craft vehicles and their crews (there were other traces to prove this). are visiting this planet They seemed to have studied topography; from other planets. Most they had collected soil samples; and, even- astronauts were reluctant tually, they returned to where they had to discuss UFOs... I did come from, disappearing at enormous have occasion in 1951 to speed. I happen to know that authority did have two days of observa- just about everything to keep this incident tion of many flights of from the press and TV, in fear of a panicky them, of different sizes, reaction from the public." flying in fighter forma- tion, generally from east Ed White and James McDivitt to west over Europe.” In June 1965, astronauts Ed White (the And according to a__ first American to walk in space) and James Major Gordon Cooper Major Cooper was one of the original Mercury astronauts, and the last American to fly in space alone. On 15 May 1963 he shot into space in a Mercury capsule for a 22-orbit journey around the world. During the final orbit, Major Gordon Cooper told the tracking station at Muchea (near Perth, Western Australia) that he could see a glowing, greenish object ahead of him x SEE You've GOT AN OLD GENERATION Ed White and James McDivitt In June 1965, astronauts Ed White (the first American to walk in space) and James 50 ¢ NEXUS OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1995