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CONVERSATIONS FROM APOLLO MOON MISSIONS PROVE NASA UFO COVER-UP and is highly classified stuff." On NBC Dateline in 1996, Mitchell was even more candid. "I have no first-hand experience, but I have had the opportunity to meet with people from three countries who in the course of their official duties claim to have had personal first-hand encounter experiences...with extraterrestrials," he said. More recently, Mitchell flatly stated that some advanced military craft use technology derived from alien spacecraft that have been collected by the US nt it in a pouch, and send them [sic] by the commanding general's plane to Washington, which I did. And that was the last I've ever heard of the film." It is interesting to note that, despite the continued protests that there is no government secrecy regarding UFOs, there is no public report on this incident. Although the event was listed in the Project Blue Book index, a full report and clear photos are suspiciously absent. Yet Cooper, who reported the UFO landing, was selected as a Mercury astronaut only two years later. In a 1996 interview, Cooper said he discounts any conventional explanation for his experience. Asked his thoughts on UFOs, the astronaut said: "Well, I figured it was somebody coming from some distant place to visit us." So, at least some of America's astronauts have had unexplained experiences and have voiced views radically different from conventional thinking. oo (Source: http://www.ufoevidence.org/ documents/doc501.htm) lhe following are excerpts of actual conversations between Mission Control and Apollo astronauts on and/or above the Moon. APOLLO 11: 16-24 July 1969. With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin, this was the first Apollo mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July. While Collins flew in orbit around the Moon in the command module, Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the lunar module, landing in the Sea of Tranquillity at 4.17 government. Cooper, in a letter read during a 1978 meeting at the United Nations to discuss UFOs, stated: "I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which are obviously a little more advanced than we are here on Earth." Also that year, Cooper wrote a letter to the ambassador of the Mission of Grenada to the United Nations, supporting a UN initiative to study UFOs. In his letter, Cooper stated that astronauts "are very reluctant to even discuss UFOs due to the great numbers of people who have indiscriminately sold fake stories and forged documents abusing their names and reputations without hesitation". "Those few astronauts who have continued to participate in the UFO field have had to do so very cautiously," he wrote. "There are several of us who do believe in UFOs and who have had occasion to see a UFO on the ground, or from an airplane." Cooper's mention of a "UFO on the ground" apparently was a reference to his own experience at Edwards Air Force Base on 2 May 1957. In 1993, Cooper gave this account of the incident [to hear audio, go to http://www.thewhyfiles.net/pilotsightings2. htm]: "I had a crew that was filming an installation of a precision landing system we were installing out on the dry lake bed, and they were there with stills and movies and filmed the whole installation and they came running in to tell me that this UFO, a little saucer, had come down right over them, put down three gear[s], and landed about 50 yards from them; and as they proceeded to go on over to get a closer shot of it, it lifted up, put the gear in, and disappeared in a rapid rate of speed. And so I had to follow my directions as a military... I had to look up the regulations on who I was to call to report this, which I did, and they ordered me to immediately have the film developed, put pm. During the transmission of the landing, two minutes of silence occurred in which the image and sound were interrupted. NASA insisted that this problem was the result of one of the television cameras overheating, thus interfering with the reception. This unexpected problem surprised even the most qualified of viewers, who were unable to explain how, in such a costly project, one of the most essential elements could break down. Some time after the historic Moon landing, Christopher Craft, director of the base in Houston, made some surprising comments when he left NASA. The content of these comments, included in the transcript of conversations below, has been corroborated by hundreds of amateur radio operators who had connected their About the Author: Jim Marrs is a distinguished investigative journalist with a focus on conspiracies including the UFO agenda. He is the author of many books including Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (1989), Alien Agenda (1997), Inside Job (2004; reviewed in NEXUS 11/06) and The Terror Conspiracy (2006; reviewed in 14/01). He can be contacted by email at therealjimmarrs@yahoo.com. Pre semenaitle “Houston, Send an emergency shu up here as soon as possible. “Vere running aut of inlerestiing Gcanversation,.” NEXUS +63 DECEMBER 2007 — JANUARY 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com