Roster / Experiencers and claimants

Gordon Cooper

Mercury and Gemini astronaut · 1927 to 2004

Astronaut who wrote that he saw UFOs as a fighter pilot in the 1950s.

Cooper flew the last Mercury mission and Gemini 5. He wrote that as a fighter pilot in Germany in 1951 he saw formations of unknown objects, and that in 1957 a film crew under his command at Edwards Air Force Base filmed a landed disc, which he said was sent to Washington and never returned.

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