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ASTRONAUT GORDON COOPER SPEAKS OUT In April 1995 at an Arkansas conference, astronaut Gordon Cooper declared that when he was a USAF officer, a four-man Air Force crew was filming a plane landing-gear test at Edwards Air Force Base in 1957 when a UFO swooped down and landed at the base while the Air Force cameras were rolling. The shocked USAF camera crew later brought the film to Edwards AFB Headquarters. Gordon Cooper personally viewed the film, EAFB commanding officers thereafter shipped it to Washington, Nothing has been heard of since about the film. Astronaut Cooper is expected to make this revelation in a televi- sion documentary to be broadcast imminently. He has been coop- erating with Irish film producer Jackie Dunn who is working with a Canadian film production company on this major UFO docu- mentary film. Cooper, also a former Air Force Colonel, granted a second interview to Sam Sherman, of Independent-International Pictures Corporation, who is producing a film, titled Beyond This Earth, to be released in early 1996. In it, Cooper says that he "had worked on a UFO system with someone who had been in touch with extraterrestrials and was able to gain some knowledge." This per- son had made a small UFO prototype, and was working on a 50- foot model, with financial backing from an Arab country, when he died. Cooper also talked about the Center for Advanced Technology which no longer exists. They were apparently involved in back-engineering some kind of alien technology. Cooper also talked about a friend who saw the ET bodies at Roswell. Forum on New Science in Fort Collins, Colorado. Dr O'Leary said that "For nearly 50 years, the secrecy apparatus within the United States Government has kept from the public UFO and alien contact information." He flatly stated that "We have contact with alien cultures...". As for the non-disclosure of these facts, Dr O'Leary said, “The suppression of UFO and other extraterrestrial intelligence information for at least 47 years is probably being orchestrated by an elite band of men in the CIA, NSA, DIA and their like. This small group appears able to keep these already- hard-to-believe secrets very well. ...Those who have investigated this hydra-headed beast believe that the Cosmic Watergate of UFO, alien, mind-control, genetic engineering, free-energy, anti- gravity propulsion and other secrets will make Watergate or Irangate appear to be kindergarten exercises.” THE ROCKEFELLER CONNECTION In 1993, Laurance Rockefeller, long an interested follower of the UFO phenomenon, assisted by his ‘point man' on UFO matters, Cdr Scott Jones, Ph.D., USN-ONI (Ret.), former career intelli- gence officer, began a campaign, dubbed the "White House Initiative", to get the current administration to reveal to the public promptly, yet responsibly, what the government knows about UFOs and ET visitation. Rockefeller and Jones met with Clinton White House Science Adviser Dr John Gibbons in March 1993 and presented a "Matrix of UFO Belief” analysis monograph. A follow-up visit by Mr Rockefeller took place with Dr Gibbons at the White House on 4th February 1994, Thereafter, it is reliably reported that President Clinton gave initial agreement to the White House Initiative. Subsequently, White House Science Adviser Gibbons was tasked to find out everything about UFOs. A recent Freedom of Information Act request directed to Dr Gibbons yielded a cache of UFO-related correspondence between Dr Gibbons and Laurance Rockefeller, Dr Scott Jones, US Air Force officials, former French Government UFO investigations office (GEPAN) official Dr Jacques Vallee, and former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. Defense Secretary Laird is the official who also authored a letter (which I have seen) to incoming Clinton Administration Defense Secretary Les Aspin, offering to brief him about UFO matters. Dr Jacques Vallee, in April 1995, briefed White House Science Adviser Gibbons on his knowledge of the UFO phenomenon. On the weekend of 19th-20th August 1995, Laurance Rockefeller had President Clinton as his guest at his Wyoming ranch in the Grand Tetons. The New York Daily News reported that Rockefeller has been pressing the Clinton Administration to open the government's UFO files. The News has obtained corre- spondence from Laurance Rockefeller to White House Science Adviser Dr John Gibbons, in which Rockefeller stated that the government must put an end to over 40 years’ denial of UFOs. Mr Rockefeller recently funded a study on UFO activity, which involved the help of three former astronauts. This study is expect- ed to be presented to the White House in early 1996. NASA's MOON COVER-UPS In a published article in April 1995, former NASA Director of Communications Maurice Chatelain dropped the bombshell reve- lation that the Apollo Moon Mission found "several mysterious geometric structures of unnatural origin” on the Moon. Donna Tietze, a former photo technician at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston during the Apollo Moon missions, revealed during a 6th May 1995 radio interview on WOL-AM in Washington, DC, that the job of a co-worker in a restricted area was to airbrush out UFOs from photos from the Moon before NASA sold those photos to the public. Another former astronaut, Dr Brian O'Leary, on 18th September 1994 made the following declarations publicly at the International THE WHITE HOUSE When he first took office, President Carter tried to learn what the government knew about UFOs. President Carter was denied access to UFO information which the CIA had, by then-CIA Director George Bush who told the President he did not have clearance for that information. In similar fashion, President Clinton is not satisfied with the briefings he has gotten from the CIA on UFOs because the CIA information conflicts with the information which the President's Science Adviser Jack Gibbons has independently acquired. APRIL-MAY 1996 60 * NEXUS