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WHAT ALL DID GORDON COOPER SAY ABOUT UAPS

According to Wikipedia, Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004) was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human space program of the United States. Cooper learned to fly as a child, and after service in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, he was commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1949. After serving as a fighter pilot, he qualified as a test pilot in 1956 and was selected as an astronaut in 1959.

In 1963, Cooper piloted the longest and last Mercury spaceflight, Mercury-Atlas 9. During that 34-hour mission, he became the first American to spend an entire day in space, the first to sleep in space, and the last American launched on an entirely solo orbital mission.

This is what most people know about this famous Oklahoma astronaut. Having worked in the space program myself and also being from this great state, I feel there is much more to learn about  what he personally thought about UFOs/UAPs. I find it most interesting.

Here’s the short version of what Gordon Cooper publicly reported about UAPs/UFOs:

• He believed some UAPs were definitely extraterrestrial. In a 1978 letter connected to the United Nations UFO initiative, Cooper wrote that he believed “extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews” were visiting Earth from other planets and were more technically advanced than humans.

• He wanted a serious international scientific investigation. Cooper urged a top-level, coordinated program to collect and analyze UFO encounter data worldwide and argued the UN had an interest in handling the subject “properly and expeditiously.”

• UAP EVIDENCE

He said he saw a series of UAPs while flying for the U.S. Air Force while stationed in Europe in 1951. Cooper claimed that he repeatedly observed metallic, saucer-shaped objects flying in formations at altitudes higher than his jet fighters could reach, and that they maneuvered faster than conventional aircraft of the era.

He described a 1957 Edwards Air Force Base incident. Cooper said that a camera crew under his supervision filmed a shiny, saucer-shaped craft that hovered, extended three landing legs, landed on a dry lake bed. It then took off, while the crew was filming all of this. He personally arranged for the film to be sent to Washington and he never saw it again.

• He thought governments were withholding evidence. Cooper repeatedly suggested that official agencies had evidence but kept it secret to avoid public alarm or panic.

• He was cautious about astronaut UAP claims. In the 1978 letter, he noted that many astronauts were reluctant to discuss UAPs because fake stories and forged documents had been falsely attached to their names.

• In a 1962 interview with Walter Cronkite, he took a measured stance. Cooper said many “well-qualified” people had reported unexplained objects and that he would not rule out the possibility of life beyond Earth or that some unexplained sightings might be connected to it.