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 "slug": "usg-uap-d001",
 "title": "USG-UAP-D001 Congress-WhiteHouse-UFO-Correspondence 1998",
 "agency": "US Government",
 "year": "1998",
 "page_count": 86,
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   "text": "1320 .4 Aeronautics:UFO"
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   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p02.jpg",
   "text": "Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)\nINCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION\nID Number: L11998-00407\n.\n(b) (6)\nTitle: WARD/Sen Snowe fwds ltr from\nU.F.O. and the recent Mars photo\nwho's interested in\nRecipient:\nUHeffernan\nAuthor:\nOrganization:\nSNOWE\nSENATE\nDate Written:\nDate Received:\nDate Concurred:\n05/18/1998\n05/26/1998\nAction Office:\nStatus:\nUWard:S\nClosed\nDate Submitted:\nDate Signed:\nDate Closed:\n>>Current Due Date:\nOriginal Due Date:\n06/24/1998\n06/24/1998\n06/18/1998<<\nSignature Office:\nUHeffernan\nInfo offices:\nUHeffernan, UHeninger, L/Kerwin\nAbstract:\nSEN SNOWE FWDS LTR FROM (b) (6)\nOF STOCKINGTON, MAINE, WHO'S\nINTE:RESTED IN U.FO.'S AND THE RECENT PHOTOS OF MARS WHICH WERE RECENTLY RELEASED.\nComments:\nEnclosures:\nNO\nRelated Records:\nKeywords: (b) (5)\nMAINE U.F.O. MARS\nFile Plan: 1320.4\nAnalyst: BMoore\n06/24/1998\nPage 1 of 1"
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   "text": "Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)\nINCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION\nID Number: L/1998-00729\nTitle: Rothman/UFO_Sightings by Astronauts\nRecipient:\nUHeffernan\nAuthor:\nGrassley\nOrganization:\nSenate\nDate Written:\n08/03/1998\nDate Received:\n08/31/1998\nDate Concurred:\nDate Submitted:\nDate Signed:\n09/04/1998\nDate Closed:\n09/10/1998\nAction Office:\nLD/Rothman:P\n>>Current Due Date:\n08/22/1998<<\nOriginal Due Date:\n08/22/1998\nStatus:\nClosed\nSignature Office:\nUHeffernan\nInfo Offices:\nUHeffernan, UHeninger, UKerwin\nAbstract:\nSenator Grassley forwards letter from (ts) (S)\nwho is requesting information on UFO sightings by\nAstronauts.\n-­\nComments:\nEnclosures:\nletter\nRelated Records:\nKeywords: (6J (o)\nUFO,astronauts,sightings\nFile Plan: 1320.4\nAnalyst: JMassey\n09/10/1998\nPage 1 of 1"
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   "text": "---\nyeAtoGU\nSEP - 4 1998\nL:HR:mtg:L/1998-729f\nThe Honorable Charles E. Grassley\nUnited States Senate\nWashington, DC 2051 0\nDear Senator Grassley:\nThank you for your letter of August 3, 1998, on behalf of(b <5)\nwho\nis requesting information about the possible sightings of Unidentified Flying\nObjects (U FOs) by NASA astronauts.\nOver the years there have been many objects sighted by the astronauts during\nspace missions. Most of these items were later identified by photographs or\nNORAD records as material from launch vehicles or spacecraft or were such\nitems as water droplets. No unidentified materials were seen on missions to the\nmoon. The Air Force, in the interest of national security, received and\ninvestigated all reports for many years but has discontinued this activity. NASA\nhas no program for investigating UFOs and has not withheld information on\nsightings.\nIn 1976, James Oberg thoroughly researched the UFO/astronaut allegations and\npublished an article about it in SEARCH magazine. We are enclosing that\narticle for (b) (6)\n)nformation. In addition, enclosed is a NASA Fact Sheet\nwhich summarizes the current status of NASA's involvement in UFO\ninvestigations.\nWe trust this information will aid you in responding to(b) 6)\ninquiry.\nSincerely,\nEdward Heffernan\nAssociate Administrator\nfor Legislative Affairs\nEnclosures"
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   "text": "+\nbee:\nZ/Roger Launius (with incoming) ; provided info\nSent to Sherry Kuntz in the Hill office"
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   "text": "S,ncc tho ··auron.iut UFO\" genre\nis one of rhe m13in pillolrs o f VFO\novidcr1ce. thi5 study clafmlng !hat\nthe entire set of C .)Scs i1 inv.,..lid\nW 1if 0U 1110U 5iy\nCC\nfCCl.?1\"18<J\nt..Vlth\n15eeptic. ism\nand\ncri ticism\nfrom\nUFO buffs. Aation~I objections\nand arguments wiH bo printed and\nanswered in a subseQuent is'5ue of\nthis magazina. Critics are urged to\nraise specific points not address°'d\nin tho study. or to cite and\ndocum.ant\nfacts\nwhich\nmight\nmodify or invalidate conclusions\nin the study.\nJames E. Oberg\nAssociate Editor\n\"Space World\" magazine\nStory!\nSGM{q~ f'\\~9 ~\\?-j ,1{\nWiNT~R 1<;46 ( 1H~~ ij,J?_'lJ\nP/\\LM~ fvBL\\CA'11ou s\nf\\l''\\1-\\~ f\\<;T.) l-Ji ~c... S~Y OG\nSu\\1\\e C.1.1f7 pr:c~ ._f1,25'\nSpace flight has opened many mysteries. True, scie11tists prefer to list tlie\npuzzles solved and u11knoums discovered, but as men venture beyond the\nearth it is inevitable that new mysteries will be encountered.\nSomewhere out there, many obsen:ers believe, are intelligent species with\ntechnological civilizations · far more advanced tha,z that of Earth. Perhaps\nthey are sending us radio signals we have not recognized. Perhaps they have\nleft artifacts ofpast visits for us to find. Perhaps they are even_ now keeping\nthe earth under surveillance.\nIf they are out there, someday we will meet them. As illustrated in science\nfiction, this meeting will probably occur in space.\nHave such meetings already occurred? Have astronauts and cosmonauts\nalready seen alien spacecraft? The UFO lite!ature is full of tales of \"space\nUFOs\". Are any ofthem valid? What can a careful study reveal?\nH\nardly a UFO book or movie is\ncomplete without the standard\nassertion that \"astronauts have seen\nUFOs too\". While critics may attack\nthe character or intelligence of many\nUFO witnesses, they cannot use these\ntactics on American and Russian space\npilots. Where UFO photographs can be\naccused of distortion and forgery,\nphotographs taken by astronauts and\nprocessed by NASA must be of the\nhighest trustworthiness. Hence, most\nUFO scholars consider the family of\nastronaut UFO sightings to be one of\nthe strongest bodi~s of evidence in the\npast thirty years.\nThe best of these cases include\nastronaut James McOivitt's sighting of\no( an \"unidentified spacecraft\" near\nhis Gemini-4 space capsule in 1965, a\ncurious photo of a pair of UFOs with\nglowing propulsion fields taken by the\nGemini-7 astronauts. reports of nearby\nobjects\nfrom\nX-15\nand\nMercury\nspacecraft. tales of how ~he 1968-1969\nApollo moon shots were followed by\nU.FOs on their way to the moon, and\nreports and pbutographs of objects\nseen by crewmen on the Skylab space\nstation. Last year, the National Inves­\ntigations\nCommittee\non\nAerial\nPhenomena\n(NICAP)\nselected the\n\"McDivitt UFO\" photo as one of the\nfour best photographs ever taken.\nThe \"astronaut UFO\" sightings\nmust\nappeal\nto\nmany\nseriou:i\nresearchers for a number of reasons.\nThe witnesses and the photographs are\nunimpeachable as\nto honesty and\nauthenticity. The conditions of the\nspace missions can be calculated and\nrecorded, and every object near the\nspacecraft can be determined by con­\nsulting the giant space radars of the\nNorth\nAmerican\nAir\nDefense\nCommand (NORAD), headquartered\ninside Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado.\nExtensive\ncrew\ndebriefings\nand\non-board tape recorder transcripts may\nbe available to obtain direct eye­\nwitness testimony.\nWith all these facts and assumptions\nin mind, and mindful of the numerous\n'unsolved' cases which might tell much\nabout the lJFO phenomenon, I began\na special research program into this\nparticular body of evidence. As an\naerospace writer. historian, and re­\nsearcher, I felt that my experience\nwith\nastronautics,\ncomputers,\nAir\nForce operations, and space miss:ons\nmight give me new insights into this\nmost puzzling series of cases. I was not\ndisappointed, and my results were\nstartling.\nThe basic\ntruths behind these\nsightings seems lately to have gathered\nan\naccretion\nof\nexaggeration,\nconfusion, and outright fiction. The\n1968 \"Condon Report\" on UFOs\n(conducted by the\nUniversity of\nColorado for the U.S. Air Force)\nfound itself unable to penetrate three\nspecific cases, which the analyst felt\nwere • a \"challenge\" to any serious\ninvestigator.\nStories\nlater\nbegan\ncirculating about sightings of lunar\nsurface lights and structures, and the\ndiscovery of artifacts on the moon,\nabout near approaches of structured\nobjects, and about attempts at radio\ncontact between Apollo capsules and\nUFOs. Recent books on UFOs give\nlists of astronaut sightings which are\nout of numeric sequence, misdated,\nmispeUed, and otherwise distorted.\nMy research has revealed a few\nexamples of deliberate photo forgeries\nby UFO buffs or opportunistic authors.\nMy\ninvestigations\nin\nthe\nNASA\n38"
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   "text": "~\n-·-·- ·-·----- - -\n--\n----- -\n- - - - - -- - - - -\n- - - ·-\n-·-\n-·\n-\n\"\n-\n·\n-\n- - -\n- - --\n-\narch,n•s has fl'\\\"l•aled ca..~es whcrl' UFO\nrt•~c:irchrr; withheld Cl•rtain informa­\ntion frl'cly gi,·1•n them by N:\\SA\nofficials. infori:tation which would\nhave clearly explained m;my cases\nwhich the authors wantt•d to appear\nmysterious. So the time has come to\ntake\na\nne\\\\'\nlook at this whote\nphenomenon. What is the truth about\n\"astronaut lirOs\"?\nThe first step in any research might\nbe with the Condon report. t:-iought\nby many to have been commissioned\nas\na\n\"whitewash\" of\nthe\nUFO\nphenomenon.\nUFO enthusiasts are\naccustomed to hearing harsh criticism\nof almost all aspects of this study. but\nmy own objections to the \"astronaut\nUFO\" section is from a novel angle.\nMy own research suggests that the\nCondon investigator, far from being\nthe best man for the job, was clearly\nunqualified to evaluate the difficult\ncases. He was not familiar with the\nterminology of space flight or the\nbasics of orbital flight trajectories, as I\nam. As a result, he ignored possible\nexplanations\nwhile\nincorrecUy\neliminating other possible answers.\nIn other words, far from being a\ncoverup, this chapter of the Condon\nreport is superficial. It is entirely\nworthless as an endorsement of the\nunexplained and unexplainable nature\nof several astronaut sightings which I\nwill discuss. I can prove this remark­\nable\nassertion to any investigator\nserious enough to consider all the\nevidence, much of which has never\nbefore been published.\nThe Condon report does give some\ndetails about the environment of\nastronaut sightings, but even here does\nnot go far enough. More stress needs\nto be put on the visual and photo­\ngraphic limitations of space flight: the\nwindows are far smaller than popularly\nrealized (about half the size of this\nopen magazine at arm's length), and\nfor many years\nwere subject to\nobscuration and smudging by seepage\no( sealant and by contamination by\nrocket fuel. At various p_oints in the\nflight, the spacecraft was surrounded\nby clouds of d~bris (leaking fuel,\ndumped water, chipping paint, fraying\ninsulation, ejected equipment. and\nmore). while the inside of the weight•\nless cabin was usually plagued with\nfloating particles of dust and debris\nwhich often passed in front of camt!ras\npointing out windows. Other satellites\nshould have been visible, since few\npeople realize that on any clear night\n·-•--\n•\n~\n-\n-+s\n_\n_ ,.,\n-\n,e-- ....... ,., ,+- ............ ,., _\nall\nfor\n,., • .., ....\n...... -«•\nDc:sµitc\nthe\npt!r.~istl'11t\nrumo rs of '.,;ccrct space pict'\"rcs •.\npho /nJ!rupl1s tahl'll by .V,\\S.-\\ i11 space arc i11 tlie public domui11. That is.\nany p icture tuhc:,: by 1.111 astro11a111 or 011 earth resource, satellite is\nai:ailablr. to anyo11c who wants to pay fur i t.\nThere are foi:r tiers of plwto,;:-:iph Ji·cilcbility. but two a:-e rescri:ed\nfor 11ewsme11 only The ~/ructurc is us folluws:\nA . The most popular space photographs /alien arc lithographed for\ngeneral free di.,;tributiCJ11 to anyone who asr.s for them. Seueral dozen\nnew photographs are added to this list eucry year. Cost to .VAS,\\ is a\nfew ce11ts per print.\n8 . The N.-lS.-l Public Information Offices at uarious centers and at\nheadquarters prints gfossy photographs of timely news stories\ndistribution\ntu the news media. Hundreds of these photographs are\nreleased euery year. but only crrtified newsmen can receiue them for\n~~\n.\nC. .\\!any thousands of other photographs and drawi11gs may be of\ninterest to the news media and arc therefore fifad at public i11formatio11\noffices. but stock copies are not kept. Each request must be filled by\nactual photo lab orders. which co:;ts NASA about one dollar per\nphotograph.\nD. A,1y citizen who wants copies of any photograph listed in 'B' or\n'C' aboue con get it, but it is entirely reasonable for NASA to expect\nhim to pay for it. News bureau photographs. along with all other (light\nphotography-stills and mouies-can be ordered from Bara Studios, P.O.\nBox 486, Bladensburg, MD 20710. The cost ofany photograph ordered\nby stock number is seueral dollars apiece. A ny cross-referencing or\nresearching will also cost money.\n.\n•\nSome ground photographs of astronaut accidents, au topsies, and\nmedical examinations are not releasable for publication. On seueral\nGemini {lights, special photographic experiments were undertaken for\nthe DoD, but these inuolued special cameras and exclusiuely ear th\nsurface targe{s. In neither case would it be possible to withhold any\nhypothetical UFO photographs from the public.\nAstronaut photographs are indexed by a code which specifies year\ntaken and frame number. S66-12387, for example, would be a NASA\nphoto (not necessarily a space photo) taken in 1966. Beginning wi th\nApollo, space photos were also indexed w ith a mission code, roll\nnumber and frame number (neither of which were repeated on later\n{lights). For example, ASJ6·108-13005 u•as taken on the Apollo-16\n{light, with the 108th roll of the Apollo project (liglit film. Mouie film\nis indexed per magazine with similar numbers.\nEuery photograph euer taken by American astronauts for N ASA is\non file w ith Bara Studios and can be obtained by anyone wifling to pay\nfor them. Writers who produce 'secret NASA UFO photographs' which\nthey claim are being hidden from the American public are doing a gross\ndisseruice to one of the most open and cooperatiue public information\noffices of any federal agency.\nan o bserver on Earth can see a number\nof orbiting objects with only half an\neffort. Out or this \"backg?ound noise\",\ncan we separate the \"signal\" which\nwill indicate the existence of UFOs?\nThese problems all are of interest to\nspace officials, and numerous studies\nhave been made. Fragments might\nimply a structural failure (a rescue ship\nwas almost sent to Skylab-3 because of\nthe crew's observation of leaking fuel\ndroplets). Debris inside t!1e cabin can\nirritate eyes and damage the electronic\ngear behind the instrument panels.\nOther satellites might be dangerous\ndue to the potential of collision or\nthey might be of intelligence interest if\nthey are frcm somt! other nation.\nTherefore,\nany\nmysterious\nspace\nsighting might as easily be vital for\n39\n♦--­\nNASA to know about as it might be a\ntrue UFO: Careful investigations are\ncalled for.\nWhat are some of the most famous\ncases, and what are the facts? Interpre­\ntations may differ, but productive\nthinking can only be done when all the\ninformation is at hand. Some o( It is\nhard to find or understand; other\ninformation,\navailable\nto\nsome\nresearchers, may have been deliberate­\nly withheld. ·some classical cases may\nconsist of made-up fantasies. You can\nsoon judge for yourself.\nHas there been any attempt to\n\"cover up\" space sightings (a common\nplea when no t!Vidence is available,\neven\nin\nthis\nage\nof\nsieve-like\ngovernment secrecy)? Are astronauts\n\"muzzled\" about UFOs? Has fifteen\n-■---­"
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   "text": ",,..~ 1.~~-·••·---.'\",....:\"-r-•':·\"\"'\"\n,.\nf\n'\nI\ni !\nt1-~f ' .~\n• ~\n. ...:\n•\n· ~'{~,;t't( ✓\"~•'·-:..,........,:-.,:-,::,\"?\\~-.\"':,~~\"\"t\".:~..-~~,.-,r-•r·,r•..,-~~•·,~-•l\"\"\"'-..,.,,\n.: ;,_<..-:::~~-'\n. ~~\nThe \"McOivitt UFO\", prize-winning astronaut photograph taken on Gemini-4. Actually, McOivitt_axplained later after tho flight that\nthe sun was coming across the window as the_ spacecraft rolled, the sun rays struck a metal bolt, causing the'Cilares in the camera lens''.\nNASA photo 65-H-1013.\nyears of manned spaceflight uncovered\nany\nevidence at all\nwhich even\nremotely suggests that Earth is being\nvisited and observed by advanced\nspacesliips from another world? Let's\nlook at the evidence.\nOn June 3, 1965, rookie astronauts\nJim McDivitt and Ed White blasted\nof( from Cape Kennedy (now again\nCape Canaveral), squeezed into their\nGemini-4 capsule. The two youngest•\never. American spacemen were to\nspend four days in orbit, tripling the\nprevious US record. They would be\nthe first American space crewmen to\nhave time to sightsee in space, once\nmajor experiments like a\nbooster\nrendezvous and a walk in space were\ncompleted.\nApproximately thirty hours into\nthe flight ( while White was asleep) ,\nMcDivitt reported that he had seen an\nobject in space near his space capsule.\nIt appeared to be cylindrical with ·'an\narm sticking out\", possibly on a\ncollision course.\nInterested\nN AS.-\\\nofficials in Houston asked NORAD\nwhich other space satellites were near\nCemini--1 at the time of the sighting,\nand NORAD came up with a list of\nabout a dozen objects. All of them\nwere pieces of tiny debris or small\nscicntit\"ic satellites except one: the\ngiant,\n\" winged\"\nmeteor\nsatC'llitc,\nPegasus-2. It seemed to iit the descrip­\ntion radioed down by McDivitt, so\nNASA announced that the object had\nbeen identified.\nBut Pegasus had been more than a\nthousand miles away, and McDivitt\nclearly saw an object much closer,\nmuch more detailed, and in an orbit\nvery close to his own (\"Collision\ncourse\" to a pilot means that the\nrelative angle of sight is unchanging,\nwhich would not be the case for any\nsatellite crossing McDivitt's orbit). The\nobject became a UFO when nobody\ncould identify it. It has remained a\nUFO up until today, but not any\nlonger.\nMcDivitt's hasty attempt to take a\nphotograph of the object thrqugh his\nsmeared window was apparently fruit•\nless,\nsince\nthe\nobject's\nmotion\ncombined with the slow stabilization\nspin of the spaceship carried it into the\nglare of the sun after about 30 seconds.\nThe astronaut later recounted how he\nwent through all the films of the flight\n(every roll of film is accounted for on\na flight manifest, so they do not\ndisappear) and found many over­\nexposed or blank. This mission had\nbeen the first night in which space\nphotography was a major experiment,\nand the glaring sunlight of space had\ninvalidated many pre-flight exposure\nsettings. :\\lcDivitt did not find any­\n• thing which looked like \"\"his UFO\".\nWhat was it he ,aw? Why has it\nbecome such a prominl•nt UFO case?\nAnd if the pictures did not turn out,\nwhere did NICAP get its \"top four\"\nphotograph (which shows, not a\nwinged cylinder, but a smeared blob)?\nWe can answer these questions at last.\nThe first hint as to the true identity\nof this space UFO can be found in\nMcDivitt's own words, given at a press\nconference a week after the flight\nwhen his memory was fresh: \"It\nlooked a lot like an upper staie of a\nbooster\". Gemini does have a booster\njust like it, and McDivitt had been\ncarrying out maneuvers near it early in\nthe flight. Why didn't the -list from\nNORAD include the Gemini-4 booster\nrocket?\nNORAD had been tracking the\nobjects, but NASA had not asked\nabout Gemini-4 and its own associated\ndebris- it had asked about Gemini--!\nand\nany\nother\nearlier\nsatellites.\nAnyone familiar with computerized\ninformation systems (one of my\nprofessional specialities)\ncan guess\nwhat happened: the computer was\ngiven a \"query\" which told it to\ncompare Gemini--t\nwith the other\nsatellites. The computer never knew\nwhere the Gemini booster was relati\\•e\nto the spacecraft, since it had not been\nasked.\n:\\lcDivitt had been visually\ntracking the thirty foot long cylind1r\nat a range of only 75 miles a few hours\nearlier, but this large satellite never\nmade\nthe \"NORAD list\" because\n40"
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   "text": "Arti1t', ronrlition o t thu ,ntron,,u1s·\nt> --.,.-~r..-~•r·~\n~\n.-:---•'\n...\n•• •\"t'\"':•~·r-n-·'\"-]\nl\n•\n. .\n.\n.\nvlow o f 1ho rondo.r0 0 u <J ovatv a:ion\npod after it hai boon jotti1oncd from\nthe Gemini adaptor ioct iun. Gorn,ni\nr;,dar locked o n to evaluation pod.\nScott Carpenter took this photo of a\nsubsatellit e balloon jettisoned by h is\n(\n.\n'\n' .\ni\n.\n.\n,\n•\n• .. -·\n.. .., . . cJ . • : .,\n.....--..:- _,..Js...:'11, . :.l• • ' ...-\"...\nt·\n--.,-..\n. ', '\n·,· ... ., .­\n£' . .\nance and even make it look like two\nobjects. The potato-shaped grey b lob\nis the pod's insulation blanket.\nT h i• sequence of p ictures illustrate• the problem o f\nIdentifying photographs of objects in tho glare o f space.\n41"
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   "n": 10,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p10.jpg",
   "text": "~--' ·-·. -•-,,-- • C ~\n- ~=- ,.....,--.,•·-•~----.··.•-c-,,.--~··o,•:·,1\n.... .. ..\n.-J\n--.1\n. -~1\n. !\nI\n•' ;.·\n;\n~1•\n'\n. .\n.,-\n+\n'\n•.. ..,.,\n~\n. . .;,\n1\n· 1\n......-\n~:·\n1•;) .i. .\n...'-I\n.,.\nt\nr\nt··\nnobody thought to ask about it! The\nlist was incomplete!\nWhat\nwe do know\nfrom the\ncomplete\nGemini-4\ntranscripts\n(including the on-board tape recorder\nas well as space-to-ground links), is\nthat the UFO appeared at the same\npoint in the Gemini orbit where the\nbooster had been rept-3tedly spotted\nearlier in the flight. '.\\fcDi\\•itt had once\ndescribed\nseeing his booster with\nstraps h~nglng from it. Furthermore,\non at least one occasion on the first\nday, McDivitt had at first been unable\nto recognize the booster when he ·saw\nil because it was close to the glare of·\nthe sun! Thi5 had been :it a range of\nless than ten miles.\nYet\nanother\niniport:int\nfactor\nunknown to t!1e Cr1nciL•11 report w:i,\nthat '.\\leDivin •.•::t.; C\\J1:1p!:iini:1i;: ro thl-'·\nni~ht surgt:on\nabou 1.\nhis t'Yl'$ight\nduri1\\g this pho~c of th:) tli~ht. Hi:; eyes\nwere red and teary due to a reaction\nwith the cabin atmosphere and an\naccidental massive urine spill. \"I didn't\nthink I was going to be able t~ hack\nit\", McDivitt later had radioed to\nEarth.\nThis\nfamous\nUFO\ncase\nnow\nbecomes that of a pilot with watering\neves catching sight of an object in\np~rallel orbft, an object which he had\nalready misidentified a\nfew hours\nearlier. As to the photograph, an inves•\ntigator must go through all the film of\nthe night to realize how common such\n. blobs-\nof\nlight\n(o\\·ere.'<posures,\nr~tlccti0m. glare. etc. ) ll'erc.\nBoth\nNAS.-l. and ;\\lc:Di\\·itt han• agrel.'d that\ntl-ie sc,qucnCI.' ot' mo\\·ie irames are a\n,iew out t!u: winc.uw. showit\\~ sunlii::ht\nr~tl~·cti11~ off a br\\t. a~ain:;~ the dirty\nwindow\n~la~s.\n'.~!C..\\F'\nthinks\ndii'forently b,:c:tu~e <)t t!ll' b:!tk of its\ncop,· of th<! ph,Ho is a handwritten\n-. .\n,.\n·...~..\nnote (nobody known\nby\nwhom)\nstating that McDivitt {nobody• knows\nwhen) had communicated .{nobody\nknows how) the fact that the picture\nshowed \"his UFO\". (This was made\nclear by a telephone conversation\nbetween the author and Jack Acuff of\nNICAP on March 5, 1976).\nWhy has this case achie\\'ed such\nnotoriety'? It probably resulted from\nthe enthusiasm of UFO believers. the\nnaive\nopenness\nof\nNASA\npublic\nrelations officials, and the publicity­\nseeking opportunism of some of the\nprincipals.\n\\lcDivitt himself did little to clear\nthe case up. instead using it as a ticket\nonto natil•nal TV talk shows and news\ninterviews\n(especially\nafter\nhis\nrr.tirement in 19~. To add to the\nmystPry. th~ former spaceman assl'rts.\n\"I have never bcrn ablt- to it.:entify it,\nand I don't think anyone ever will.\"\n42"
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   "n": 11,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p11.jpg",
   "text": ".\n·--:a:.::-.;\nOn a recent \"UFO rncorcli:ig''\nrrll-asrd by Columbia, calt.:d \"UFOs:\nThe Credibility\nFactor\",\n:VlcDi\\·itt\nclrarly shows how his mcmorirs have\nch:u1ged or bc,m cl1a11g(•d to enhance\nthe mystery ot' hi3 C'Xpcricnce: \"They\n(NAS.-\\) chcck,'d :'iOR..\\D...to sec\nwhat they had up on radar ancf there\nw:isn't anything within very close\nrange of us.\" Readers can measure the\ncredibility of this statcm~nt against .\nthe facts.\nIf McOivitt was fooled by his own\nbooster ten years ago, is it too much\nto expect him to admit it now? What\nwould that do to all of his public\nassertions of mystery? There is an\neasier way out, and i'vlcOivitt took it\nwhen I sent him an advance copy of\nmy manuscript. After keeping it two\nmonths, he wrote back, \"[ was not\nable to read it very thoroughly and I\ncannot offer any ext~nsive comments.\nI do not foresee the opportunity for\nme to provide any further re~w.\"\nThere\nweren't any errors in my\nanalysis, he implied, but it woulc! be\nbetter kept quiet.\nNASA never had any real doubts.\n\"We believe it to be a rocket tank or\nspent second stage of a rocket,\" wrote\na high space official on July 1, 1965.\nNORAD officials, confronted with my\nscenario,\nendorsed\nit:\n\"Your\ncomments on the NORAD role related\nto the case appear to pe logical,\"\nwrote NORAD Public Information\nOfficer D.W. Kindschi on Feo. 23,\n1976.\nSo the \"~lcDivitt case\" is closed.\nThe best space UFO case has now been\nidentified. Do not expect to see any\nchange in the UFO press, however.\nSuch\nresults are simply\nignored.\nPhotographs made in space show\nnegative effects, such as the \"McDivitt\nUFO\" aura, often. Spacecraft ·and\nastronauts may be engulfed in a\nstrange aura caused by overexposure\nto sunlight brighter than ever seen on\nEarth. Blowups of photographs of\nknown space objects show them\nappearing as \"blobs\" due to the\nenlargement\nprocess\nand\nto\nthe·\ncourseness of the grain. Ordinary space\npictures are full of clouds of debris,\nconstellations of man-made starlike\npoints fluttering through space.\nThe Condon report was fascinated\nwith the ~lcOi\\·itt cas<', and fe\\\\· UFO\nenthusiasts have not heard of it. But\nn,:itlwr the Condon r£>st)archers nor the\naverage reader had ever had all the\nfacts. Now people can m:ike up their\nown minds. I havl' ''\" d,iub~ th;,t\n~lcl)i\\\"itl w:i~ ~<!l'i:1g his ow11 Til.::n\ntJCJostrr stage.\nOr. Roach wa~ also fasd n:•l•~cl wi t!t\nanother :,.1coi,itt si~foiti'.11}, that uf a\npoint of light ::rc:,i:::·::; the ; k·: . The\nobject\nsoundr.,j\nj•.1.,l\nIii-:<>\nth•!\nappearance of an\nartifici.!l\nearth\nsatellite, and that is e~:actly wh:it\n\\kDivitt thought it \\•:.:s. There is no\ninformation to suggest it w.:_s anything\nelse.\nAnother Condon\nfavorite\nis\na\nGemini-7 case. The report of sightings\nof a cloud of debris right at the\nmoment of boostt•r separation (these\nparticles included frozen fuel droplets,\nthe booster itself. assorted insulation\nand structural fragments from where\nthe explosive bolts were fired, and\nother smaller objects never identified\nand never cared about) is not very\nimpressive. The crew, on their first\nspace mission, saw a few pieces they\nhad nol expected (the pilot guessed­\nwrongly-that they \"were in polar\norbit\"). Only a partisan digging for\nevidence, and desperate to find such\nevidence, would make much of this\ncommon event.\nBut a sign of desperation is indeed\n. ....·.\n.·.;~~.: ~~\n.\\1\":,:;:\n'f~~v·~•.~~-...,:..\n~·. - · • ·• ,) : :.:\n····-. . ... ... ...\n. - .....-. ... .\nh /V◄ i ,\n•• • • ••••• g ,Cla:: t ,an\n,.. ,,,\nround in 1'1)1111:•ction l'.'isli Lill! t,;~mi!! i·\nI GFO ca~t'. It is not th~ clc::1wra•.i1a~\n0f gtn·criun•_•nl oflici, I:; t~yi11!{ to c:ur••r\nup t.he truth ahoul GfU:;. R;,hrr, it :s\nthr dl'spernlion of some outsider\ntryi:1~\nt rJ\nm:t~:;f:-,.-:-tu:c1\ncouni .~rf,.i,\n\"astrnnaut L:FO\" <?videnc~. Jn acli·. ;r.\\·\nwhich should not be nc>ce:s;a,y if th~\n\" rt'al\"\nL: FO\nevidence\nw~rC'\nas\npersuasive as many thint.\nIt involves :i photograph showing\ntwo very strange glowing ocjects. Each\nis he:,agonal in shape, ~·:ew!c'd at an\nangle, ~nd supported by ;;. dazzling\n\"force field\" below it. A cloud­\ncovered\nearth\nis\nse.?n\nin\nthe\nbackground. s~~ p\\cd~ ~1 ~ :l.8\nThis photograph has appeared in\nbooks, magazines, newspapers, and\npamphlets. It is part of the travellina\nslide show of UFO lectur~rs from th;\nMutual UFO Network (i\\!VFON) and\nelsewhere. I have heard it described\nas •\\showing a typical UFO force field\npropulsion system\", and \"similar to\nother UFO photograph taken on\nEarth the same year\".\nThe photograph is a forgery. It is a\nhoax. What the anonymous counter­\nfeiter did (I have reason to suspect a\n43"
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   "n": 12,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p12.jpg",
   "text": "·--·:®\nJ\nThe outhor .>nd NASA photo an.:ilvn Richard\nl Undorwood show \"•p~ce UFO\" photos to Or.\nJ. Allun Hynok, dirolctor o f the center for UFO\nn udios. July. 1976. t l vn4k -subsuquPn';'fy ,.,.,_\ndorscd Ob0rLJ'S conclusions.\nSaturn booner S-IV-b and four open \"SL.A\"\npanels. On moon flights tho four \"petals.'.'\nfly free and, together with the empty boo:<t­\n•r. tum.ble through spaca a faw miles from\nthe Apollo capsule. They were often seon as\n·bright flashing lighn as they reflected tho\npowerful sunlight . On Apollo-1 2 , astronau t\ndesc riptions of theH fra;imonts wore m i s­\nInterpreted by UFO buffs and metamorph­\nized Into alien spacecraft.\n®\n\"Mysterious\" bulls aye object\nwen and photographed by Gam­\nlnl-6 astronauts I n December, 1965.\nUnfortunately for flying 1aucer\nbuff~, It Is not• UFO; it Is an out of\nfocus photo of the approaching\nGemlnl-7 spaceship, noH on.\nNASA photo S 0 65-65296.\n. . ·,·-··· ~....\n... - :~­\n. ,,,_.\n''--:·\n..\n44"
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   "n": 13,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p13.jpg",
   "text": "~\n: ~......1n~,~r..c.•~1:-~-~t~\nt-.\\~ :-·.-..:-~~l::;...~~\"-·•·.....· •~ •..;.Jl'ti., .... , ..~., ';.••t••.;..•,'\\:·~··• ·........•-.,'.:.+' .. •1\n.... : .\n: .. ' . ·.:. . . .... . .\n~ .._~: . . . • . .\n'• ·. ' ..\n:.; . .\n' . . ·.\n..- . , -:• • . ••'\nr\n~ . l\n·•(,\n.. , ..\n}il\nPhoto of Gemlnl-7 from G..,mini-6, December 1965. The brlghtnus aura is a common space photo effect and often makes\npoint 1ourcH appear to be surrounded by a \"force field\" or an \" exhaust i:rail\". NASA photo S-65-65304.\nJapanese UFO organization) was take\nan ordinary photograph oC Earth made\nCrom\nthe Gemini-7\nspaceship on\nDecember 4, 1965. The nose of the\nspacecraft fills the lower part of the\nframe, and on the nose, catching the\nglare of the sun, is a pair of roll\n·control rocket thrusters used to acijust\nthe attitude and spin rate of the\nGemini. The original photo (NASA\nS65-63722, which I have personally\nexamined) was then retouched by the\nunscrupulous hoaxter to eliminate the\nedge of the nose from view. so the\ndark surface of the sp!lct-ship merged\ninto the dark Earth beneath. This left\nthe\ntwo\nnow\nmysterious\nlights\nseemingly suspendt:d in space, as it\nwere. A normal space touri.,t photo\nwas\nturned into conrincing UFO\nevidence, and thousands of people\nwere fooled.\n45\nAmerican spacemen are not the\nonly ones reporting UFOs, according\nto the popular press. Stories that\nallegedly come from Moscow tell\nabout UFOs following Soviet manned\nspacecraft in the Vostok and Voskhod\nseries ten years ago. But such secrecy\nsurrounds the entire Soviet space\neffort that these stories cannot be\nchecked out.\nThat very secrecy. however, is itself"
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   "n": 14,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p14.jpg",
   "text": "!l\npn\\·:•·, ( ..I\nt11·;.:~1n1. 1i l\n;i_! :~iu ,i\n,;,.;\nvahdit:1\nof th·! ru,:iu. •. Sn r,1.,n'.)\nor<!ir:JI'_' th:,:,:-; Jl,v11L lhc So·.ic~ sp:.;;,J\npro1rJ1n a:.: Sl' Crcl (and 1011g pri~on\nterms\na,·. ;.it\n:i11yo11c\nwho\neven\n:icc:idc 11l:ll!y cin,l;:es .-.uclr ,fatal thal it\ni,; inc:·l•ciit:1,· lh:tt ; o .,cn, tdr:: :i,1d .;i~­\nnit:ca•ll:, fa.:L as a (.;fl) , i,:htin;: rould\nerer leak ou~. evcn if su.:h a thing had\nreally har,p~ned.\nThe rule,; of ~\\·id,rncc hari? been\nHretched\nand\nbrokt?n\nby\nI.JFO\npartisans. It i.; not up to me to \" prn,;e\"\nthat these sightings ne\\·er took place.\nNobody has a.; y~t s£:en any P.\\'idcnce\napart from a simp:c slat .?ment of fact\nthat th.: .sightings did ta!,e place. I will\nbe happy lo consider evidence when it\nbecomes a\\'ailahl<!.\nLet's\nexamine\nmore\nof\ncnese\n\"cosmonaut UFO;;\". Ir, UFOs From\nBehina The Iron Curtain, the UFO\nmagazine 'Clypeus' is ouoted about an\nobject seen by both Vostok-5 and\nVostok-6, a fleet of disks seen by\nVoskhod-1, and \"strailge cylinders in\nspace which were perfectly formed\nand had\nno apertures\"\nseen by\nVoskhod-1, Voskhod-2, and Gemini-4\n(sic!). UFOs have even been blamed\nfor the malfunction of the Voskhod-2\nautopilot.\nAs\nI have said, these\n\"reports\" are hardly evidence, and can\nbe far more easily manufactured than\nrefuted.\nSurE:ly one of the most specious\nand ghouli~h \"space UFO\" 3tories\ndeals with the Soyuz-11 flight, on\nwhich th~ crewmen perished during\ntheir retur., to Eal'th. UFO literature\nhas\nrecently\nbeen\ncirculating\na\n\"transcript\" between the cosmonauts\nand grc,und control. The crewmen\ndescribe several glowing re·d objects\nand\ndiscuss\nthem\nwith\nflight\ncontrolle:-s.\nTo anyone familiar with typical\nspace-to-ground communications, this\n\"transcript\" is patently counterfeit.\nSomeone's\nvivict\nimagination,\nembold,med by th·e knowledge that\nthe men were dead and could not\nargue, must have creat£:d the entire\nincide11c.\nWithout further evidenct), the entire\ncla.53 of \"cosmonaut UFOs\" must be\nrejected.\nD~liberate\nattc•mpts\nto\n\" muddy\ntht?\nwaters''\nJnd\nto\nmanuf..ct'..lr!:.' iancasies are common in\nthis LiFO genre, :,.; in othen;.\nIn\nin\\'e~tigatiu~\npll1Ho~rat-1hic\n:.-..:nt.v i\n~p;, ..,•,·r.lfl\nCcnl,·r)\n1i.-ar\nli,,,i,t,,r,.\nU 11cl,•f\\\\'111h 1\n1s an cXfl'Jl'i•\ner.-:,•u\npilotuintrrp,cter\nv:hu\nh;,s\nc:,:iminl•d\n,J\\'cry\nsi11;:lc pholo1;r.1ph\nbYuu;;ht b.:cl; from orbit :ind beyond,\na111.l\nh1;;\nincredible\nmemory\ncan\niJL·1, ,: 1y\na d:?rad,J old p:1otc.i:n1µh,\ndl·~cribe tr.l! si .:.uation. and find th~\ncitJLio;1 in :i,<' old record books within\nminutes. 'rile oflicc oi this photogra­\nmc-lric engir;c,el' is full of slacked iilm\ni.:ans, light t.ibles, world and le.cal maps,\nand piles of letters from ex-astronauts\nand ordinary citizens alite.\nHas he ser:n any UFO,;? Underwood\nanswered lhat with a smile: \"I've nt?n!r\nfound anything in these pictures that\npuzzled me for long, and I'm kind of\ndisappointed. It would be terribly\nexciting to find evidence for someone\nelse's spaceship!'' When UFO writers\nhint broadly about a \"NASA coverup\"\nor \"space\ncensorship»,\nthey\nare\nessentially calling Dick Underwood\nand his colleagues a pack of liars.\nDistortion and withholding of the\ntruth is no t a stranger to Underwood's\noflicc,\nho wever.\nWht!n\na\nliFO\nresearcher named Al;i11 Sandler was\nw•irkin!l on a book and a mo\\'ic\n(\"lffOs: Past. l~csenl and F'ularc\". lo\nhe ad·,ert1sed as ;i \"documentarv•') he\n\\\"isited Underwood's of[ir.c and looked\nthrough do7.ens of rolls of lilm. wriling\ndown ordt!rs for prints of :inything\nthat looked interesting. This is a\nstandard service provided by NASA to\njournalists.\nSanrllP.r rhose a set of photographs\nfor his movie, pnotographs which\nUnderwood advised him probably only\nshowt?d dust particles in front of the\ncamera, debris outside the spacecrail,\nor glare on the windows (this was easy\nenough to prove by looking at pictures\nahead of and behind the shots in\nquestion).\nTwo photographs\nwere\nparticularly upsetting.\nThey both showed a black back•\nground with a string of lights in the\nmiddle o( the photograph. In the book\n(with the same name as the mo\\·ie. •\nalthough written by another author,\nRobert Emeneggar) the two shots are\n.\n.,\n®\n;>r,o ~~ ,:,r Ag,, t>.:• 12 f ro m Go-nlr,;. 12 . T h ;, ,, pan of a seQuenc:e o f photos w h ,ch ta~~• trio\nevid,Jn,:<'\no f\nt; FQ\n~i;;htirt,;~\nbr\nA-;en t1 fr~m l1tJnt 11.tu d .lrk . After o ..1rk , o n ly t h e runn ing lighu are v•i•b le. One r e,oarchet\nAm~rican :i.;trnn.iuts, I 11'.>ri,~d clu:icly\nh:,s w,aorv pubh•hcd th •S IJ 1tcr p hoto grap h as a \" UFO\". .,, a ,d by N AS A te> be Agena trac:k •\nwith Hich:ird Cndrrw,h)d at thL• NASA\ning 1;9hts\" . NASA p t,oto S 6 6 -63101.\nJohnson Sp:ice c~•11t~r (forrn,•rly rnc\n. · - - ·-- -- ---- · ·- -- .~ -·"
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   "n": 15,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p15.jpg",
   "text": ".\n~\n.\nI\n. . .\n..\n. ..\n,;. •\n• ,, -~,;\n. .\n'\n....\n. ; - .\n.\n·•\n·-\n..• . ·=·. ~' .'·~·:. ;;:.,.... /~--.--: ~.-...~..:.:,·.\"~.;,./•-~ . ..\n\"Said to be ranging lights\" on Gemini-12, according to Sandler. Compare with\nearlier ph.:ito showing Agena in the sunlight. Deliberate slanting of e•1idence.\n... . '\n.....\n·:..~\n;f\nreproduced with the caption: \"Shot\nduring Gemini XII on Novamber 13,\n1966, and said to be Agena Ranging\nLights\nprior\nto\ndocking\".\nThe\nerroneous implication of these twisted\nwords is that this is another NASA\nexcuse for some remarkable UFO\nphotographs. Said to be ranging lights,\nindeed, sneers the book!\n\"'that's exactly what tney were!\"\nUnderwood told me plaintively. \"They\nare part of the complete sequence of\ntwenty\nphotographs\nshowi11g\nthe\n• Agena as it moves from the sunlit\nside of Earth inLo the shadow\".\nAs Underwood anJ l stood in the\nphoto laboratory inside buildini,: No. 8\nat the historic Hou$ton sµac.:e center.\nthe 1;equence was rii:ht thcrt) in fro11t\nof our eyes 011 the gluwin~ viewing\nboard. How did the '·UFO rcscarc.:hcr\"\nreact to this expl:rnalion, [ asked°!\nHe continued to explain: \" I took\nthe\nwhole sequence with me to\nHollywood along with other films\nwhich NASA was providing. I showed\nthe sequence to Sandler. He wasn't\ninterested.\nUnfortunately he went\nahead and used\nthe phot_ographs\nanyway\". Thousands\nmore people\nv.-ere deceived.\nThe flight of Gemini-11 h:5an a\nlong battle between astronattt Ch:irles\n\"Pete\" Conrad and UFO belieVPI\". The\nastronauts had taken three even more\nremarkable\nphotogr::iphs.\n\"Pete\"\nConrad had spotted a morir.g ubj..-ct\noutside his ·sindow and had s.1apped\noff a few frames of film, varying the\n.:xpo:;ure on t•ach sh,H in an :.ittempt\nto get at least 011t) ~oud ,ic·v which\nw<rnld show ;omclhin~.\nPt-r a rcque,;t from NASA, NORAD\nsoon reported th:it the object had b~en\n47\n:1 ;~;,._b;i:Ll t;4..., 111i,; r:t;, ::::),)i\":lil•i':-· c•.:;;._.,J\nI'.'<.>tull .:;_\n:\\ci;()r:]ti,;_;\nLO\n.\\i I°\nr\\,, l\"'::\nc:0111 pulet,. it ·soul:I ha,,~\n.::; ,~-;,;.:(J\nGemini's orhil s~v,.-ral l111 i1d;-_,J r,1;ks\nt,,-ilind Lh,• $p,,,:<;crart. Yet titis c,bj..-.:!\nwa~ in .i diftc'<cnt di:c·<.:tinn ;i ,1d\n1•. a.,\nnt\\l('h l;)O do•;C. It ','/a_; :I lir O'.\nDt)spilc these, objc.::tio.1.,. NOR ..\\D\nwJ,; right i;:ir the wro11g re:1.,cns. T ;:l'\nobject w,:s indeed\nP1:otor.-3, Hen\ntJ1ot,6h\ntlt•J\nAeri:tl\nPhe,:om,mo:':\nResearch Organizatiur, (APRO) and it~\nresearch directo,·, Dr. James Harder, has\nmade much of the cfocrepa,:cy and\nconsid1m this the h\\?st Gemini l=FO\never seen. c~(:_ plttf-5 11~1g~1q >1.'3,~\\f')\nFew researchers hJ\\\"P. noticed. a;1d\nnone had recogniz,,d the significacce\nof the fact, that the Proton-3 sateIiite\nwas only hours away from burning up\nin\nthe atmosphere.\nAs its orbit\ndecayed toward a fiery doom, it\ncircled Earth fastPr and faster, run-r.ing\nahead of the schedule predicted by\nNORAD.\nThe simple truth, oft2n ig11ored or\ndistorted by many writers, is that\nNORAD does not \"track e\\'erything in\nspace\" like the rada:.- screens of sor.1e\nair traffic control center. Inste:!d,\nobjects which pass through tha beatt15\nof a handful of worldwide radar sit<'s\n(at a range of a thousand miles or Jess)\nare observed and catalogued, a:id their\norbits are calculated. These calcyla­\ntions are then projected for'.'.'ard in\ntime (the mathematical term is ··extra­\npolated\") to plot where the spacecr:11t\nshould be if its orbit hasn't been\nchanged.\nGemini's orbit had been changed by\na rendezvous rocket firing. Proton's\norbit was changed by its decay. I\nordered microfilm copies of the la.;t\nfew NORAD predictions from the\nTracking Reports Section at the NASA\nGoc!dard Space Center in Greenbelt,\nM;u-yland, and as soon as I read them l\nknew the answer.\nThe predictions were off by Se\\·eral\nhundred miles per da~: ! Each new\nprojection made a correction to the\nprevious one. Using a combination of\nthese figures, a new dtitude difference\nbetween Gemini and Proton could\neasily be compul.:?d. It 11·:is entirdy\nclose enough to coincide with th.­\nastron:.iuts' sighting.\nFurthermore, th.i astronaut~ r.ad\nmade a visual :.is ·,1·1.'ll ;i~ a i:;hoto5rJ,1hic\nrecord. Their\nt• y c11 i1,·,.:-.;s lestin:,>ny\ndcscrib.:s a sat,)lliw that looks [;;.e\nProton-3 look.-d. a.-; shown by exhibit.;\nin Rus.,iail muse11111:;: a stubbv cyli.itkr"
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   "n": 16,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p16.jpg",
   "text": "----- -\n.\n•••\n•\nwith four lar::e triantlular canted solar\nt...\np.,nrb. (Conract compared lhc sight to\nOul>ris from open\nthe strap-on lwosters of a Titau•3\nhatch on G omini• t 2.\n...........\nrocket.) F:vcu the photographs show\nthis when ~ludicd with real Proton-3\nphotographs close at hand.\nA~trn:::?:.:~ Co::~::d ~:-:d th:! l.iFO\npeople clashed again ov~r his. next\n;..\nspace mission. Apollo•12. According\nt\nlO the Research Director of A.PRO, Dr.\nltn\n~-··.\nHarder, Conrad reported that he was •\nf\nbei11g followed by a UFO on the way .\nto the moon. Conrad claims that it was\njust a joke about the large panels which\nenclose\nthe lunar module during\nlaunch but are jettisoned later in the\nflight and which tumble through space\na few miles from the Apollo all the\nway to the -moon. Harder says that\nConrad, under pressure from a secret\ngovernment agency, is lying.\nThese\nare\nConrad's\nwords:\n\"They've been after me for years\nbecause we were followed by a UFO\non · the way to the moon. That, of\ncourse, was untrue. The guy who came\nup with it was going by our transcript\nwhere we saw debris from our own\nrocket and we were joking with the\nground crew about it. He took this out\nof context. . .I called the ground and\nsaid, 'hey, gang, we're being followed,\nthere's· some flashing object out there'.\nSome scandal sheet took that a.,d\nFragment in focus at range\nof 3 to 5 feet-Sandler calls\nit\n0 unidentiflabJe'', and\nMalian and Barry also use It. ra?'\\\ne11lo.~zx..,1..t-0, 16)\n~\nt.::\n' .' \"'.. ·:--- ... .....\n.....\n.\n.....,\n• ...,,.,,.,, •\nwcc:r::a-.• ..,,,..y;..,·,._.,_,.\"',,..•..__._\"..,.e..•...,•....:..J.•.r\"-·- ·..,.....,..___:;,,•·...___~__._________...\n48\n···--...- . .\nBlowups of Gemini-11 photos of\nProton-3. Sun glare and el<treme\nmagnification contribute to\nbizarre appearance,\nmade a helluva story out of it. But it\nwas nothing like anything I was\nconnected with\". Conrad has left\nNASA and lives in Denver, presumably\nbeyond the reach of any NASA\ncensors. He describes a phenomenon\ncommon to all Apollo moon flights;\nthe claim that he saw a UFO is also\ncommon, but hardly as valid.\nConrad confirmed these quotations\nin a letter to me dated April 12, 1976.\n\"I hope your paper is widely printed.·•\nhe added. Ref,ming to Harder's claim\nof coverup, Conrad could only say: \"I\nthink you have more than your share\nof Kooks.\""
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   "n": 17,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p17.jpg",
   "text": ",\n<\nl\n;\nf\n1\nI\n. , .\n• . ' ..· :;:·..\nr\n· .•\n.....\nt,\n'\n,\n~\n~· ~--.·-,.·. ~ .\n~.:.\\..®\n.\nGeminl-11 photo of Proton-3 (arrow) i nd extreme enlargement of image. UFO magazines often pront funv blobs without indicating\nthat object w as h ighly magnified. f; llrn ertlf,icts cause \"blobblneu\". NASA photo S-66-54661.\nLet's take a moment to look at the\nApollo--12 flight more ca·re(ully. It\nprobably rates as one of the most\n\"UFO-ridden\" space flights ever made,\nand ·probably did more than any\nApollo\nmission\nto encourage the\nstories o( astronaut sightings of UFOs.\n. What lies behind all these stories? Who\nstarted them? What is the \"official\"\nNASA position?\nApollo-12\nwas\nlaunched\non\nNovember 1-l, 1969, on the second\nmoon landing\nm1ss1on.\nThe crew\nco;'ISisted\no(\nGcmini-11\nveterans\n\"Pete\" Conrad and Richard Gordon,\nand space rookie Alan Dean (Conrad\nhad\nalso\nnown\ninto\nspace\non\nGemini-5.)\nTaking\noff\nduring a\nthunderstorm, the craft was twice hit\nby lightning which threatened to\nabort the mission.·\nInstead,\nthe\nnight\nproceeded\nsuccessfully to the first pinpoint moon\nlanding four days later. Astronauts\nConrad and Bean flew their Luna.r\nModule in to a precision touchdown\nnear the Surveyor-3 automatic moon\nprobe. During a scheduled moon walk,\nthe men retrieved samples from the\nrobot crnft. The return on Eanh was\n\"routine\", if f?ights to the moon can\never be considered routine.\n49\nOn the outbound leg, Conrad had\nradioed to Earth that the Apollo was\n\"being followed\". This message, trans­\nmitted over the open radio link, was\nheard by hundreds of newsmen and by\nmillions of Americans. It im:nediately\ngave rise to new UFO stories.\nAccording to the account best\nknown to UFO believers (published in\nSaga magazine, May 1970, entitled\n\" Apollo l 2's ~Jysterious Encounter\nwith Flying Sauct'rs\", written by T.G.\nBeckley and H. Salkinl. the astronau~,;\nwatched Lwo nashing lights near ch~ir\nCommand\nModule about 150,000\nmiles out from Earth. At first, the"
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   "n": 18,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p18.jpg",
   "text": "-\n' A •' '\n:-'_.:~--\\~ ~\n••\nA pollo -I 1 U F O, 19G9. Obroct\nhunbh.'\\J p .1st wind o w im,nr.d i\\Jt•jly\naltar A1Jollo p ull~<1 aw ay from\nSaturn bo osto r. Metamo rpho-sis\nof obvious sp ac:ec:r aft i nsulatlon\nl r~qrnon t i nto \"odcl•shao od UFO \"\nis c ourtesy of Bob Barry o f tho\nfri nge \" 20th Century UFO Bureau\" .\nHon> Hotze,·, \" Ulonoua\" ( 1976)\nassigr,s o bject to Joh n Glen n's\nflight. invents fictitious c:om mentory\nand con tin ues weavi ng myth• un­\nlotterod by I ecu.\nground thought it was their S-IV-8\nastronauts\ndecided to ignore\nthe\n··astrcnuut UFO sightings\". Besides\nbooster rocket but quickly calculated\napparently harmless escort and carry\nthe\nthree astronauts,\nmillions of\nthat it would have been in a different\non with their mission\nAmericans saw the TV images and\ndirection. Next, they suggested that\nln lunar orbit. new (or perhaps the\nheard the voices of the crewmen\nthe lights could have been pieces of\nsame) UFOs dogged the spacemen.\nwondering what the objects could be.\nthe Lunar Module \"garage'', called\nDuring the descent to the lunar\nThey\nwere obviously unidentified,\n\"SLA Panels\", which are quite large\nsurface, millions of television watchers\nthey were flying in space, and they\nand highly reflective. Conrad, so the\non Earth saw bright objects crossing\nwere objects of some sort. Hence, they\nUFO story goes, remarked that this\nthe field of view of the Apollo TV\nwere UFOs.\nwas unlikely since one of them had\ncameras. Simila.r objects were seen\nThe \"Fawcett List\" of space UFOs\nsuddenly taken off at a high velocity,\nduring the launch from the moon and\nsays that the astronauts \"said a UFO\nsomething that a piece of space debris\nduring the final approach to Earth.\naccompanied ~hem all the way to\nsimply could not do. Finally, the .\nHere, then, is a major case for\nwithin 132,000_miles of the moon.\n.\nnf'~.,,.,.,\"~ Ft.>.•:J\n~~4\":C-,!6S'Jr,~1Jffe»%ffifl ~ ¾4'\"\"~\n}4:t¢.:7f~\n-,\n•\n., . t:o(';.\n\\\nI('\n• •\n• •• •r. \";'\" •••.:-.:•i ••,,;\n~•·----~ •C\\:--.••::-;•:~•·--•:t~;~ ',?~•,~•~•'.:'• •·~~ :::\\;•••'~\nl\n• ·: ,· •. -·. •. ·-\n. •\n•\n:-\n,... -·,\n•. .•\n.:· -_.,.\n-~- :f\n·-~ !\n.·,\n- ·:\n...\n-\n• · ·,: \".*# ,- -· -· ·\nI\n•\n•\n.-·..•..\n~-:.. .~.\n.. ... :.\nM ercury,~. \" (.',:,n -e..i ~•FO \" on Sco u C·a,o en :..,,, flight i n 19 6:3. Smeors and glaro, c hanQo from @)\non-9 1r:ime l O ~he no\"t r v1ti1h, a~tronn:ct \"\"tl~ ~napping p ic tures o f linip bllloon sub•,atellite .\n::,tq, plirt,,. ?..)'3./ +, S\n50\n____.._.,..__ - . ­"
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   "n": 19,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p19.jpg",
   "text": ".\n. .\n.. . '\n:,,.;.\nI\n..\nJ ◄\n~-.,., .\n•·/ 7\n•\nJI\n._!' ~.\n\"'1\n,..,·.·\n..,\n~\n,,;r.1_( J~; .•..,.- . .:.; ._ - .. ~. . • _•• /\n• • ~\n(?-2)\nT wo obiecu drifting out of open hatch (lowe, r ight) of Geminl-12. Both spe_cks are out of focus and hence are within sevoral feet of camera.\n-which h ad• very large depth of field. Object on right, in focus, i• a scrap of paper. NASA photo S-66-62871.\npreceding them all the way.\" The\norigin of that mileage figure is obscure,\nbut it lends unwarranted authenticity\nto the report.\nObservatories\nin\nEurope\nalso\nwatc:ied the two UFOs. ether sources\nre\\'eal. Embellishing the story. another\nUFO source claims that \"Next day,\nthe 15th, at 21.15 hours, one bright\nrevohing light approached the Apollo\n12 spacecraft.\" Fawcett, not to be\noutdone,\nalso\nclaims\nthat\nthe\nastronauts photographed the UFO (or\nUFOs).\nOne of the loudest proponents of\nthe Apollo-12 UFO is APRO research\ndirector Or. James Harder. At a UFO\nsymposium\nat\nthe\nUniversity\nof\nCalifornia at Santa Cruz on November\n8, 1975, Harder claimed that one CFO\n\"followed Apollo l'.! on three orbits\naround the moon\". Further, \"N,\\SA\nsuppressed the UFO incident~ for fonr\nof p,1nic\", but Harder was ahle to\ndiscover the si~hting~ b\"cau$e it \" was\ndisclosed by a member of the space\nteam\" who he refused to id1:ntif:: .\n51"
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   "n": 20,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p20.jpg",
   "text": "!.iinc:l' all thf\" m:ill.'riill ll;m.lcr used to\n..prove\" the r xistcncc Qf the inddcnts\nwerl.' public information ( Harder could\nhave read it in Saga, which is hardlr a\ntop scc;rrt )!O\\'crnmcnt r:!port), his\nrdcrcnce to a co\\·eruµ and to sr.cret\ninside informatiu,1 were clearly only\ngimmicks t\\1 impre~r; the news, media\nwith the value of his •'information\".\nNASA, meanwhile, says that no\nsuch UFO event took place. The lights,\naccording to Dale Myers (Associate\nAdministrator\nfor\nManned\nSpace\nflight: quoted in a letter dated Feb. 5,\n1973 to Mr. Donald Ratsch of APROj,\nwere spacecraft fragments: \"During all\nof our Apollo lunar missions. objects\nhave been sighted by the various\ncrews.\nSubsequent\nto\nthe\ncrew\nsightings,\nthe\nflight\ncontrollers\ndetermined\nthe\nobservations were\nprobably either the S-IVB booster, the\nspacecraft lunar adapter (SLA) panels,\nor smaller objects such as mylar foil\nparticles. Because of their large size\nand highly reflective surfaces, the\nS-IVB and SLA panels should be\nvisible at great distances in the space\nemironment...\"\nAstronaut\nConrad,\nas\nquoted\nearlier, claimed that the flashing lights\nwere obviously SLA panels but that he\nwas 'joking with the ground. He\ndenounced the Saga story explicitly\nand gave his opinion that Harder was a\n\"kook\".\nAstronaut\nGordon\nhas\npublicly stated that he has never seen a\nUFO on any .;pace flight. Alan Bean,\nthe only one of the three still on active\nNASA duty, issued a statement soon\nafter Harder's latest charges went out\nover the news media late in 1975. In a\nUPI dispatch:\n\"Astronaut Alan Bean...said that\nat no time during his mission did he\never see an unidentified objecL Bean\nsaid that there were some metallic\nparts which floated behind their sp:>r.e­\ncraft after the Apollo-12 !Uf'l.?r module\nlifled off from t~•• r:~oon. He said\nthese small p:.-<'::.; were visible until\nthey (tht> ... •!:onauts) made an engine\nburn 'f':c: metallic objects wer~ parts\ner <!\",e insulation which came off the\nlunar module during the launch phase\nand lunar orbital phase. 'At no time\n•did we see anything which was not of\nour spacecraft, either during lunar\norbit or during the voyage to and from\nthe moon,' Bean stated.\"\nTo\nHarder\nand\nhis\n\"N,\\SA\ncuv~rup\", these statements are just\nmore lies designed to confuse the\nAmerican public. So let's go back lo\nthe key r\\pnll 11-l 2 LlFU c111:ountcr and\ntry lo determine just wh:1 is confused.\nLale on No,.·embcr 15th. 1969,\nabout 150,000 statute mi!es from\nEarlh. the Apollo crew was talking to\ncilDSllle\ncommunicator\nastronaut\nGer~rJ C:m about SQmc lights they\nwere watching out their wir.dow.\nApollo: The object is very bright\nand it is obviously something that is\ntumbling. It is tumbling (at) one and\none half rev(olution)s per second, or at.\nleast it is flashing at us (at) about that\n(rate)...\nCAPCOM: Roger. We are standing\nby.\nCAPCOM: (Apollo) 12, (this is)\nHouston.\nApollo: Go ahead.\nCAPCOM: As best we can tell,\nlooking at things down here, on those\nSLA panels, we assume they weren't\nimparted with any great amount of\ndelta-V\n(velocity\nchange)-like\nanything more than one or so feet per\nsecond\nwhen\nthey\nseparated\n(thirty-three hours ago). Your SLA\npanels would probably be only about\n300 (nautical) miles (345 statute\nmiles) away fro m you right now.\n**** The\nfollowing\nreply\nby\nConrad has been claimed by UFO\nbelievers to indicate that the lights\n(the so-called \"SLA panels\") have\nsuddenly\npulled\naway\nfrom\nthe\nApollo, something that a tumbling\npiece of debris could not do. To\nclarify the meaning, punctuation and a\nfew extra parenthetical words have\nbeen added by the UFOiogists:\nApollo: That could be true, but gee\nwhiz, when I (just) turned around I\nsaw one of those \"SLA panels\" leaving\nthe area at a high rate of speed, and it\nloo ked to me like it was leaving us\npretty (fast)-at a pretty rapid clip,\nlike it got a lot more than a foot per\nsecond or so.\nCAPCOM: Well, since we don't\nreally have any idea how they left, or\nwhat their trajectory could be, it's\nkind of tough really to say just what\nthe heck that could be.\nApollo: Okay. We'll assume it's\nfriendly anyway, OK?\nThe UFO reasoning, as worded by\nAPRO member Srad Sparks. goes as\nfollows:\n''After\nthe\nSLA\npanels\nseparated and the S-IVB's tanks were\nemptied (on No\\·. U) they could not\nchange their ·,t>locity simply because\nthey had no form of propulsion to do\nso. But Conrad saw one of the \"SLA\npanels\" (on Nov. 15th ) suddenly leave\nits position at a \"high rate of sµccd ...\nan i:11;,ossib1lity, unless it really was a\nm.lal!uvcrable spacecraft of some ::-ort.\nnut\nwhere\ndocs\none\nfind\na\nmaneuverable\nspacecrait\nnearly\n150,000 miles from the earth? The\n:inswer: (excepting ,\\ pollo 12 itself) in\nNovember of 19C9 th~re weren't any.\nThe conclusion is inescapable: One\n(possibly\ntwo)\nmaneuverable\nspacecraft not of man-made origin\nwere following our Apollo 12 on\nNovember 14 and 15, 1969.\"\nTo anyone familiar with the flight\nplan of an Apollo moon flight,\nConrad's words imply nothing of the\nsort. Two facts must be brought to\nmind. First, Apollo and the Capcom\nwere discussing the present position of\nthe SLA panels based upon their initial\nseparation velocities from the spent\nS-IVB rocket stage. Second,. the SLA\npanels break free after the Apollo pulls\noff from the booster; the astronauts\nthen perform a maneuver called the\n\"turnaround\" the Command Module\nreturns to the booster to dock with\nthe\nnow-exposed\nLunar\nModule,\nbefore pulling the LM free from its\n\"garage\".\nStriking the UFOlogist's punctua­\ntion and clarifying words from the\ncommunication, and putting it in\nproper perspective, what Conrad was\nsaying was:\nApollo: That could be true (that\nthe SLA panels were flying off at one\nor so feet per second), but gee whiz,\nwhen I turned around (right after they\nflew free, thirty-three hours ago) I saw\none of those SLA panels leaving the\narea (of the LM \"garage\") at a high\nrate of speed, and it looked to me that\nit was leaving us pretty...at a pretty\nrapid clip, like it got a lot more than a\nfoot per second or so.\nThe UFO believers' reasoning-and\nthe entire basis for Harder's and for\nthe Saga article's Apollo-12\nUFO\nsighting-is phony. The most generous\ndescription of it would be a mistake, a\nmisreading of the transcript's meaning\nin an attempt to \"prove\" a UFO\nincident that never really happened\noutside of the fertile imaginations of\ncertain\nUFO\nbelievers.\nConrad's\nstatement, Gordon's statement. Bean ·s\nstatement. and the NASA letter must\nstand validated on this case: Apollo-12\nwas not followed by a t;FO on its\nto the moon.\nBut how about on the way back?\n\"A light of indistinct shape\" was\nspotted\njust\nprior\nto\nre-en try,\n52"
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   "n": 21,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p21.jpg",
   "text": "- ~---__ )· _:-_·-····-··~ ~\n~ · -·· --•-..._,'\n,.\n,.-:·.\n1\n......_____"
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   "n": 22,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p22.jpg",
   "text": "l\n··-.. . :- . ...\n• ... !\"'... • •• ••\n.:\n. . ·•\nl·.\n' . ...\n: >:,;;,_;; ~.~: : ..>ct-'. :'.:,·.'. _: \\ . .\n.w~.:.~~:,. ~ -.....,-;;; ;~·,!<~-~--~ ~- :·,::: :~ J::.s:,:,.£.,.:·,,·~~i«~-;c :+,21~-==.: .. , ;­\n\"\"\nPublisned n~wsp!per story on UFSs captions this p11oto:\"Theso two UFOs wo, u\nphotographed on July 19, 1969-the day before Apo:lo's historic: moon landing­\nduring Buzz Aldrin'• scheduled lunar photo session. Noto the similarity to the\n•hot snapped throo years oarlier during Gcminl-12.\"\naccording\nto\nUFO sources. Saga\nphotos\ntaken\nduring\nthe?\n1960s.\nreports that \"...at 11:47 a.m. on\nWhatever it was, this \"halo\" appE'ared\nNovember 24th, the spokesman for\nonly in the photo, and was n«?ither\nApollo 12 reported in a startled voice\nseen\nnor\nremarked\non\nby\nthe\nthat they were all' watching a bright\nastronauts.\nred object flashing brilliantly against\nHouston radio commentator and\nthe earth.\" This incident was carefully\nUFO enthusiast Frank Haley has his\nanalyzed by Brad Sparks of APRO (I\nown theory about why the Apollo-12\nam indebt£:ci to his letler to Saga of\nTV camera did not work on the moon\nAugust 28, 19i0, a letter Saga editor\n(NASA says Bean accidentally pointed\nne\\'er\nbothered\nto answer),\nwho\nit toward the sun). Says Haley, \"The\nobjects that \"the astronauts did not\ni::amera was intentionally shut off to\nreport that the object. they were seeing\navoid showing something on the moon\nwas red, and they stated specifically\nthat\ndisturbed\nthe\nastronauts\"\nthat 'it's a steady light', not flashing.\"\n(\"Haley's Comment\" newsletter, Mar.\nIt was seen between th\"'m and the dark\n22, 1976). It is only a matter of time\nearth, somewhere off the coast of\nbefore this nonsense is absorbed into\nIndia by a guess of the cr\"'wmen.\nthe lore of the \"Apollo-12 UFOs''.\nPerhaps it was a ship's searchlight,\nBut Apollo 12 did see some\nperhaps a fire, perhaps a violent\nunidentified flying objects, and NASA\nlightning storm...there is no reason to\nengineers were justifiably concerned\nsuspect that it was a craft in space.\nthat they could have been debris from\nThe astronauts lost sight of the light as\nimportant spacecraft systems which\nthey turned the Apollo to take a series\nmight indicate unexpected failures, or\nof photographs of the sunrise.\nwhich might interfere with other\nThe wild fantasies printed in Saga\nspacecraft\nequipment.\nHence,\nthe\ndn not end here. Beckley and Salkin\nManned Spacecraft Center in Houston\nclaim that the astronauts had been\n(now the Johnson Space Center) gave\n\"startled by unaccountable seismic\na contract to Lockhe£:d to study the\ndisturbances on th.:- lunar surface.\"\nobjects seen on the TV pictures and on\nThis event never occurred; there were\nsome movie film.\nno such earthquakes during their visit.\nThe Lockhc-ed report was quietly\nBeckley and Salkin refer to \"a\nissued on March 18, 19i0, about the\nmysterious blue halo encircling one of\nsame time that the sensationalized and\nour spacemen.\" Sparks of APRO\nfictionalized Saga story was being\nconsicfors thi:; lo ha,·c bE't?ll lun3r dust\nprinted. Titled \"linidcntifhid Visual\n•kicked up •.,·h1le thu crcwmt',l were\nPhenomena Associated with Space\nwalkii;g around. Photo analyst Dick\nFlight\" (:-.iA$A Contract '.'i .\\S 9-5191.\nlind,,r·.rood sutgestect that it is a\nLEC; HASO\nNo.\n071-80-013),\nthe\ndefect in the denilopmeut of the\nreport documents tlw \"moon pigc:Qns\"\nphoto cuusE>d h,· thl' , l\\'id solar i:larc\n(a term \"coi11E:d by :'\\.\\S.-\\ enl:{inc:t.'r.; lo\noil' oi' a lii~hly ,Hl~cti,·e s11fi·ace:\ndcscribu UIH!Xpcctcci 1Jbjccls seen in\nUndt•rwood quil'kly located half a\noperational photo1:r:iphy that ddy\ndo1.e11 ~imilar \"ltalou5\" on other space\npositive identification\") of .-\\polio• 12.\nl'o11f.r:1rl t.'lll!i111•1•r:; wen• F.D. Ul•att~\nand ,I.G. !l:nrm .\n\"Unidenlirkd\n\\'bua!\nplwnon:C':1.1\nas~oci:ilcd\nwith\nspace flight were\nrather common opc,,:tionally.\" rcn,aJ\nlhe\nauthors.\"\nbut. ''. .little\nor\nno\nclo~u111clllJli1111 ll1 p,1,~ cvc11t.; has i,e..-11\nmacie.\" Rcfore UF'O bclle,·crs jump uµ\nand d1Jw11 with confim~a,ion of a\nwhole\nnew\nfamily\nof ''astronaut\nsightings\nof\nUFO3'',\nthe authors\nannounce?\ntheir\nintention\nof\ndemonstrating that 1'such evenl~ were\nspacecraft debris associated with an\nearlier pyrotechnical operation, or ice,\nor window reflections. Cases for each\nof these theories have been presented\nand exhibits of similar occurenccs are\nincluded. Positive identifi~ation was\nnot possible. . . The quality of tile\nimagery precludes a precise definition\nof the object under question. . . In\ngeneral,\nit\ntakes\nmuch\nmore\ninformation to identify an object that\nifdoes to detect it.\"\nSixteen millim~ter color magazine\n11651\\1, exposed on Apollo-12. shows\nthree objects, called \"A\", \"B\", and\n\"C\". The objects appeared during the\nLl\\·l jettison man«?uver in lunar orbit.\n\"A\" is believed to be a small segment\nof the docking channel; \"B\" was\nidentified by engineers as a portion oi\nthe\ndocking\nring,\npossibly\nthe\nfiberglass seal; \"C\" was probably part\nof the electrical harness. All were near\nthe spacecraft and were tumbling.\nFrom this and other examinations,\nBeatty and Baron concluded that\n\"most 'moon pigeons' have as their\nsource a programmed pyrotechnic\nevent and are the normal debris\nassociated with such an incident. They\nare often spectacular. . . The main\nthing to be learn«?d from this study is\nthat the event (in question) was, in all\nprobability, a normal result of routine\nspacecraft operations. . . These data\nwill undoubtably be of use to the\nengineering, scientific,\nand\npublic\nrelations communities.\" The closing\nreference clearly indicates that Beatty\nand Baron were aware of the \"Apollo•\n12 UFOs\" controversy and felt that\ntheir study\nwould\nbe useful\nin\ndemolishini: any\nUFO buffs' wild\nn1mor;.\nunfortunately. tht? ·'moon pigeons\"\nrrport seems to ha\\·e been tiled a\\\\ ay\nin the :--i..\\S.-\\ archi,·C's. Baron. who still\nwurks at the Joh11,;011 Space Cerlll'r,\ntold me early in H)i6 that ht! ne\\ l!r\ngot any feedback on his report, e,·t'n\nthoui:h it was fun doini,: it and it had\n5.i"
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   "n": 23,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p23.jpg",
   "text": "...\n· '·\n~ -..\n>}{\nThis photo was snapped only moments after Aldrin's other Apollo 11 shot. Here the two UFOs\nhave begun their separation and a halo-like force field between the two is c/ea,/y shown.\n~\npretty obvious implications for UFO\nreports. NASA apparently decided to\nlet\nthe\nUFO\nwriters spread their\n;-umors, hoping that the stories would\nfade away if ignored.\nWhat had happened. though. was a\nriew shot in the arm for ·'astronaut\nUFO cases\". The explanations could\nnever catch up with the mi~inlerpreta•\ntions\nand\nw1ong\nimpressions\nengendered\nby\nthe\nonirlteard\nconversations and l'iewt'd i111a).(r~ (mm\nApollo-12. :\\lillions of ,\\meric..ins were\npractically eyewitnesses to a \"space\nUFO\", and were suitably impressed.\n\"E x clusive NASA Photos\" and NASA\ncJ nsorship is another part of myth . Theso\nApollo-11 spots are highly magnified\nwindow reflection, in Lunar Module dee~\nin ,pace (Aldrin turned the .:amer.> on by\nacc ident w hile check ing equ ipment) .\nWhen presented with the Saga story\nand with APRO's (and MUFON's)\naccount of the \"maneuvering alien\nspacecraft at 150,00u miles from\nEarth\", the a\\·erage·citizen could only\nassume that iL might indt\"'d be true. If\nN.-\\SA was denying it, '.l'e!l then, the\ngovernment has bcl'n kno\\'/,1 to lie to\nus in the pa~t.\nIt is a vai:i hop<! to im:.gine that the\ntruth will ever .:.1tc:h up co the Apollo­\n12 a11<l oth,•r C[· Os..-\\ s clL-c:iilc<l here,\nth.:: Apollo•I:! CFD 1H•rcr e:-..istt!d.\nSomc,how, milliuns or pl•oplc beli£:Vc\nthat il did. There is s,1ffi<:icnt blame\n55"
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   "n": 24,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p24.jpg",
   "text": "( .\n-r---· ,?\n.\n.,,,\n;.-,., -t,.~i\n'-·\n~\n-~. ~·\n(\n.\n\\\nt\nt\n~\nLP,,r•\n~\n··•(?;\n'\n~~\n.....~ ··:\n• . z._...,.,,\nl' -\n.\n.. .\n.\n.\n~ •••' vn tu, ,#,.£+,.·· ., Mi·+ r+::b·\n~t-\n~_.__,i,I,_~~~\nForgl!ry c.>n oo \"'ttnr,nt1t•J ,n 1r.•tt..t or c:oov­\nroghl ,09ula11ons oecauso ,,.,,. ,s a N~SA\nphoto, Evon ro\\ouch ed, it cannot bv\nCOPV\"9hl8d.\n56\nfor this delusion lo be :.ien( rously\ndislributed\nto UFO buffs, ~AS.-\\\npublic\naffairs\nofficers,\nsc1ii:ation­\nsceking news media, and lal.y readers.\nAnd the \"astronaut UFO\" ge11r•: is not\nyet complrtc. Let's return to some\nmore examples.\nAnother\nexample\nof\nselective\nomission of facts\noccurs\nin\nthe\nGemtnl-7 photo of sunlight glinting oft\nroll thruster rockots on nose. Photo\nforgers airbrushed the nose/Earth bound•\nary out, making tt,e two lights appear to\nbe float ing in sp:ice. NASAphoto SGS-63722.\nf H-1iO ALSO ~!:V2~~E'b\nQR)\n.. ·\" ~-ip.,~P:&,~4!•_:-.~~ '\n-♦ •\n: '.~\n. '\n. .\n: .\n... ,..\n. - -· .. ....- .- ·--·- - - - - ­"
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   "n": 25,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p25.jpg",
   "text": ". ~\nt S(t'if. J .\n,_,.. ..\nf7..~~T-. ... I ··\"'\"\"11':\",~'t.jv\"·.--·.'\"\n1\n~,,...~, -7\n!\n'l\n'I\n1\n~\n-~\nj\n!\n\\\nI\nI\n-; ..,,'~.<~';;~:~=~::.::~~~=~:\n.;'(\n..\nand below) as published with erroneous captions.\n\"Fawc:dt list\" of astronaut sightings.\nGeori;e t·awcett is a respected and\nlevel-headed\nUFO\nresearcher\nin\nMaiden,\nNorth\nCarolina.\nBut an\nexample of his work gives a different\nimpression:\n\"Gemini-XII: Jim Lovell and Edwin\nAldrin saw four UFOs linked in a row.\nBoth spacemen said the objects were\nnot stars\" (quoted from The Edge of\nReality, Hynek & Vallee, 1975, page\n64).\nFrom\nthe\nGT-12\nAstronaut\nDebriefing, page K/3.4, Lovell relates:\n\"During the last EVA we discarded, in\naddition to the ELSE (life support\nsystem), three bags. About 2, maybe\n3 or possibly 4, orbits later at sunrise\ncondition, we looked out again and\nsaw 4 objects lined up in a ro,v and\nthey weren't stars I know. They must\nhave been these same things we tossed\noverboard.\"\nThe\noriginal distortion of this\nentirely ordinary event, according to\nthe\nCondon\nReport,\nis\nthe\nresponsibility of UFO wnter, John\nKeel, Fawcett took it and embellished\nit.\nAnother of Fawcett's favorites is\nM~rcury-7: \"Scott Carpenter reported\nth<1t he had what looked like a good\nshot of a saucer.\" E!sPwhere he\nclaimed\nthat\nCarp,rnter\n\"look a\nphotograph of a classical saucer-shaped\nUFO with dome that followed his\ncapsule.\"\n~(._ pla.t,;:, J,l\nIn fact, the photographs s!iow an\nentirr.ly ordinary object:\na space\nballoon ejected from the capsule for\ntracking practice. The balloon did not\ninflate but spun in a limp oblong sack.\nThe flight schedule and the voice\ntransmissions confirm this unexciting\nexplanation-and confirm Fawcett's\nfantasizing.\nAn example of the difficulty of\n\"disproving\"\nan\n\"astronaut\nUFO\nsighting\" is the Mercury-9 case in\n1963. Well established in the UFO\nlore, the story claims that on the 15th\norbit, over Muchea, Australia, the\nastronaut (Gordon Cooper) saw a\ngreen object. More than one hundred\npeople at the tracking station saw the\nbogie on a radar screen (this wasn't\nShot during Sky Lab Ill second manned Sky Lab\nFlighl 263 day of 1973-1645 Zulu Time.\nNASA Photo =sLJ-118-2140 (4 shots taken)\nListed as unrden1,r.ed ob1ect or satellite by NASA\nPho to E,·aluat,on Lab\n;(f.!C,;ii!P.l!'f!';H!¥,\"\"\"\n,\n-\n•• ~\n-, . :.\n• :\n·\nr\n· , \"\n•\ni!\\\":i;-':.\n~\n-. ,..\n'-' -\n,.\n•\n<\n•\n·\n:.,.\n•\n•\n,,\n~ . ·.\nrt\n.\nI\nt\nlI\n.\nt\n-~L\nliio.t.'.1io-t.~\n....:..-~\n.;...~-:::....~0 .:s.::·, : :...ii\n.,....,._...~~~....~\n@\n57\n. - ·••\n3A\n. · •-"
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   "n": 26,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p26.jpg",
   "text": ".\n'\nscn~:itinnal rn•.•'ll(h for rir:tional •'far.t\"\n·,l\"riln\nFr•111 ;.; Ed·: ar-1;: hi) had two\nhundrf'rl\npeopll•\nar.luatl)i\nme\nLhc\nohjt·ct.).\nThe source of the story secll!S to\nhave\nbren\nan\nNBC\nnewsm:t!l in\nAustralia. But the prob:crn ~ecms tll b.:\nth:it Cooper has nc,.·er heard of it. He\nhas b-:cn out of tile spat'e program for\nSP.Ven years. and talks freely about\nurus lo reporters, to the Columbia\n\"UFO recording·•.. to Mike Douglas,\nto friends and associates. Somehow he\nk:iows nothing about. \"his\" space\nUFO-and he has no reason to be\nsilent. His space UFO never existed.\nConfronted\nby\nthis\nevidence,\nFawcett (letter of May 10, 1976)\ninsists that \"I sincer<?ly believe some of\nthe ashonaut sightings are bonafide,\nbased on some of my sources of\ninformation.\" John Keel, too, recalls\n0etter of .March 26, 19i6) that \"ex•\nNASA engineers have told me all kinds\nof fascinating UFO tales.. .\" Always\nthese write~s fall back on \"secret\nreports\" and \"private information''\nwhen their published reports and open\narticles disintegrate in the face of the\ntruth.\nOn October 18, 1973, the famous\nMansfield,\nOhio\nUFO\nsighting\noccurred, for which Captain Lawrence\nCoyne and his helicopter crew later\nwere to receive the 'Best UFO Case of\nthe Year\" award (and check) from a\nweekly tabloid's 'blue-ribbon panel' of\nUFO experts. A few months later,\nCoyne said he was told by the panel\nchairman,\nJ.\nAllen\nHynek,\n(the\nrespected head of the Center for UFO\nStudies) that Skylab astronauts had\nphotographed the same UFO from\nspace. (Hynek ultimately denied this.)\nA\nreputable\nma~azine,\n\"Army\nReserYe\" published the story with an\nintriguing photograph it had received\nfrom NASA and which it labeled\n\"NASA: Skylab\", clt>arly indic;iting\nthat this was the astronau t photograph\nwhich had buzzed Coyne.\nIt would ha\\'e been a neat trick for\nthe Skylab astronauts to have photo·\ngraphed anything on October 18th.\nsince they weren·t even on board the\nspace station. The prc\\'ious crew had\nreturned to E:irth a 111011th before and\ntheir relief ere·.\\· was not sr.lwduled to\nblast off for anothl·r thrPe weeks. The\nphotograph prin!rd in the rn:il(a7.ine\nwas clearly labt•lt·rl rm its backsidl' as\nr.j,•('fNI\nfrnm hi, spaf'(•cr;1rt in an\n:lll!.'lllpl Lo gl't. \\\"isual lrackilll'. pr:tctic,:\n(11:is photo is often referred to :is the\n\"cl:issical domed UFO\" shnt). UfO\nre$c:Jrchers anrl mai;azine edi tors had\ndearly not made Hen a minia1u111 of\neffort to verify\nthes•?\ntransparent\nerrors and mistakes. but instr:ad p.!ssed\n011\nthe false data to the public.\nThOU$ands more were dcceivr.d.\nLall' in 197:J, ;i strange ob!c••:t did\nappNtr in Skylab sp,,Cl' photograph,.\nTakrn on Conrad's Skylab fl ight i11\nJune, Lhe objcct was not 11oticE'rl bl·\nUFO researchers but bv govE>rnmcn·t\nphoto analysts.\npl..t~ '33 •\nRather than ·•swP.ep thc t;FO under\nthe rug\", the officials look the other\ntack: it might be a mysterious So,·itit\nSatP.llite and could be of great value to\n, .\n.:.:. •.\n';'-,·\n. . -·\n. ,, . ..\n. .: ..\n.._'(' ,.\n.-·~··\n,._\n..\n...\n.\n..\n...... .\n,,\n.\n.\n.\n....\nj• • .; :··\n• '• • /-\"':\"::. -.,\"1-·/,-:;;..\"..-':,....,(;-':.,.::,~,!~--~~i'-:i...-.., ... ~\n~Joi~~~---..:.6'~,(;A»~~~-®\n.:..~­\n.-\n..--:,\n6.::>\n\"UFO.. -seen fro,n Skyloh-2. Tho e1O,1901tcd ou,~ct i, actually an air1:lrip\ntakrn hy S.:,>tl C:irp,.•u(,•r Oil .\\ll'rcury-\nin the Bra:d,an 1un9,.,~. Enlargomont of NASA photo SL2-16-1 09,\n7 morn than t1•n years before. II c-fl,t~ .\nshow,•d a limp ballnon C:irp<'nter had\n\")..\\ c..a-...\"\" !\n58"
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   "n": 27,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p27.jpg",
   "text": "'\nsen~Jlinnal l'll••'l~h for fii:tillnal \"far.t\"\nwrit,•r Fi ·1n;_ !~d·: ;wl;: hr. had two\nhundrrri\np<?oplt•\nar.tually ree\nthe\nohjt-ct.).\nThe sourec c,f the ~tory seems to\nhave\nbren\nan\nNBC newsman in\nJ\\t15tralia. But th,:, problem ,;eems to b.:\nthat Cooper h:is nc•:er hc-ard of it. Hr.\nhas b<:>cn out of ti1e spat•e program for\nSP.Ven yrars. and t;ilks freely about\nUr us lo reporters, to the Columbia\n\"UFO recording''., to ~.·Jike Douglas,\nto friends and associates. Somehow he\nknows nothing about, \"his\" space\nUFO-and he has no reason to be\nsilent. His space UFO never existed.\nConfronted\nby\nthis\nevidence,\nFawcett (letter of May 10, 1976)\ninsists that \" I sincerP.ly believe some of\nthe ashonaut sightings are bonafide,\nbased on some of my sources of\ninformation.\" John Keel, too, recalls\n(letter of .March 26, 1976) that \"ex­\nNASA engineers have told me all kinds\nof fascinating UFO tales.. . \" Always\nthese writers fall back on \"secret\nreports\" and \"private information\"\nwhen their published reports and open\narticles disintegrate in the face of the\ntruth.\nOn October 18, 1973, the famous\nMansfie!d,\nOhio\nUFO\nsighting\noccurred, for which Captain Lawrence\nCoyne and his helicopter crew later\nwere to receive the 'Best UFO Case of\nthe Year\" award (and check) from a\nweekly tabloid's 'blue-ribbon panel' of\nUFO experts. A few months later,\nCoyne said he was told by the pa11el\nchairman,\nJ.\nAllen\nHynek,\n(the\nrespected head of the Center for UFO\nStudies) that Skylab astronauts had\nphotographed the same UFO from\nspace. (Hynek ultimately denied this.)\nA\nreputable\nma~azine,\n\"Army\nReserYe\" published the story with an\nintriguing photograph it had received\nfrom NASA and which it labeled\n\"NASA: Skylab\", clt>arly indic;1ting\nthat this was the astronaut photograph\nwhich had b1Jzzed Coyne.\nIt would ha\\'e been a neat trick for\nthe Skylab astronauts to have photo•\ngraphed anything on OC'tobcr 18th,\nsince they weren't even on board the\nspace station. The prerious crew had\nreturned to E:irth a 111011th bl'fore and\ntheir relief crP.w was not schl'ouled to\nblast o ff for ano!hl•r thrre weeks. The\nphotogr:iph prin!t·d in the magazine\nw<1s clt>arly labl'll·rl 1m its backsidl• as\nt<1hn hy S-:<itt <:.::iq.>ent<•r on ~lt>rcury­\n7 morl' than tPn years before. It t-pl,{q_\nr.ji•rlt•d\nfC'.lrn hi, spac·1·cr:ifl in\na11\n.1ttc111pt to g1·1 \\·isual tr.ic:kin~! pr:1c:tic1?\n(!Lis photo is often referred to ;is the\n\"cl.issical domed UFO\" sht>lJ. UFO\nresearchers anri ma::azine edilors had\ndearly not made e\\·en a minimum of\neffort to verify thew transparrn t\nerrors and mistakes. but instead 1nssed\n011\nthe false data to the public.\nThou~ands more were decei\\·rd.\nLate i11 197'.l, a str;in~e objr,;t did\naµpt'a r in Skrlab sµ,11:t' photograph~ .\nTakl'n on Conrad's Skylab flight i11\nJune, lhe object was not 11oliced b\\·\nUFO researchr1s but by go\\'ernm.:n·t\nphoto :111alysts.\npl,t._ '33\nRather than ·•swi?ep the lJFO under\nthe rug\", the officials look the other\nt.ick: it might be a mysterious So,·iet\nSatellite and could lie of great value to\n... :. . .\n. .\n,• •\n...'\n•: ...: '\n... •·.\nl r t\n-.-..•·\n.,.\ni.\n·.,.\n,.,\n··., ·:--.·.• .. ;'-..:. ~:... ..-_,;_,,: _,;.._' • .,•.,,., :::.,~ ..,;~;.,_,,_/ ~ ~...;i~._~;,,..;.r, ..+.,_;.~~@-\n..:·-~­\n33\n..UFO.. 1ee,n fro,n Skvlot,.:?. The '!tongatcd ou,\"ct i1 actually an a,rstrio\n. '\" the 8r~:il,a\" 1ur,91.i,. ElllMgomo\"t of NASA photo SL2-16-109.\n.. ! ..\nshow,•d a limp balloon Carp<'nter had\n')..\\ \"'a'';\" !\n58"
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   "n": 28,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p28.jpg",
   "text": ".\n.... ........:.. ....... .\nrn;lit:1ry i11t1·lli~cncc. /\\ prompt and\n<?ncrg1•Lic investigation was launched.\nThe object looked like a long\ncylinder with\nl\\\\'O square\np:tddlcs\nrr.srmbliug sol:ir panels at each end.\nily 11ac,,:-.u1i11~ its ,-tiigu:at 5i;:c on ~~o\nnegative,\nanalysts\nwere\nable.\nto\ndeter'.nine that it wa!> about 20 feet\nlong a mile away or 2000 feet long a\nhundred milrs away.\nj r.\nA careful investigation revealed the\nsurprising\nanswer.\nthe\nUFO\nwas\nactually thousands of feet in length,\nbut its altitude was zero! lt was an\nairstrip\nin\nthe\nBrazilian\njungles!\nFurther checking showed that the\nobjected appeared at the same spot in\nSkylab photos taken months later; the\nairfield was also found on an inter­\nnational aviation chart.\nRecent UFO books and articles\nh:ive resurrected the X-15 rocket plane\nsightings of fifteen years ago. This has\n..,\nprompted the NASA Headquarters\nPublic Affairs Office to reissue a\nphotograph taken by a belly camera of\nthe spacecraft at an altitude of about\n60 miles (photo 76-H-139). v\\o:\\-'!. 34\nPublished reports speak of \"fleets\nof UFOs\" at a range of 30 feet from\nthe X:15. But even a casual reader\nwith any familiarity with spacecraft\nsystems will recognize the effect for\nwhat it was: \"fireflies\". This is a\nphenomenon seen by many Mercury,\nVostok, and later spacemen, as flecks\nof paint chipped off the spacecraft. On\nthe X-15, it was flecks of ice clinging\nto the liquid oxygen tanks. The pilot\nclearly describes the pieces as being\nclose-in, small, tumbling, and drifting\nalong with his vehicle through the\nvacuum.\nConsidering these cases as I have\ndescribed them (and there arc other\nlesser ones which [ have also investi­\ngated to a successful conclusion),\nwhat can we now say about authors\nwho\npresent\nsuch\nevidence\nof\n:,\n\"astronaut UFOs\"? While speaking\nf\nominously about a NASA coverup and\nof secret agencies which muzzle space•\nmen, these same researchers list such\nquotations as:\nJohn Young: '.'Odds are UFOs\nexist\".\nEdgar '.\\-litchell: \"\\Ve all k'now UFOs\nare real\".\nEugene Ceman: \"I believe UFOs\nbelong to someone else and that they\narc from some other civilization\".\nCordon Cooper: \" [ brlieve that\nUFOs, under i11telligcnt control, have\n,;-.. .. _. - .· .\n.. .\n'\n:·. - . ·....\"\n-,/\n..\n,... .... : . . '\n. .... ·•.\nFlake of ice floating off of the X-15 rocket plane. Somo invcsti g:,1or~\ncall thi• a \" large UFO\". NASA photo 76-H-139.\n59"
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   "n": 29,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p29.jpg",
   "text": ",\n..-V--~~..,......,,,.,,,,,,~~~.....\n___~ _\n••· .. ,.~~to,~J,._<.,.Q.\"\"'\n..,....._~,...,,, . ..\nf ► OJ, 11:'C ♦ l♦IJ .\"!\" \"-~--:\"1\\i\n.,,,--:-__,_...\n--\n.\n•\"\"'\"W.~\nl\n,\nf\n•\nI\nJ\n,;\n,.\nClouds of debris surround the Saturn booster rocket following Apollo ,operation. Blow-up photos ot individual\npieces ot debris inside and outside the cabin have been called \"UFOs\". NASA photo AS17- 148-22687.\nvisited our planet for thousands of\nyears\".\nNone of these men claim to ha\\·e\nseen UFOs in space. By now it should\nbe obvious to open-minded im·estiga­\ntors that no other aHronaut claims to\nha\\·e seen any either. Suggestions that\nthey have rt>ally done so are either\nmisconceptions. mi; repn•s1•ntalions. or\nfrauds on the part of L: FO writers.\nYt>t another cast: in poi!lt has just\nbt>en given, and it deals with the John\nYoung quotation. Young, in Seattle in\n1973, said that the chances were good\nthat there were intelligent civilizations\non other planets (AP, Nov. 27, 1973).\nThe newsman started the article with\nthe lead, \"John Young says that the\nodds are that unidentiiied Flying\nObjects do exi$t'', even though none\nof Young's quoted words indicated\nthat at all. Beforr. you could say\n\"UFO tlap·•. th~ l.iFO writers had a\nnew authority:\nJohn Young says, \" Odds are UFOs\nexist\".\nIt seems clear that astronauts as a\nclass or the population do not possess\nany special knowledge about CFO:;\nwhich they may have gained from\ntheir own experiences. They are about\nas well informed (or more truthfully.\nas badly misinformed) as the anirage\ncitizen. To quote them as above with\nthe sugiiestion that they are special\nauthoritit>s on UFOs is a misleading\n60\n.\n• • w.--•--· -· ...\n- --\n-\n- ~"
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   "n": 30,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p30.jpg",
   "text": "and inll•llectually dishonest tactic.\nThree ti llll' space veteran Wally ::ichirra,\nwho according to lffOlogisls saw\n\"glowing masses\"( actually lightning-lit\nclouds, over the Indian Ocean) hos\nwritten. \"I do not know enough about\nthis subject to render an opinion of\nany kind. The o!lly information l ~ave\nis that which has been released to the\npublic through the years by the\nvarious news media\". UFO writers\nwould ha,·e us belieH~ that this is part\nor a ,·ast conspiracy of lies which only\nthey can penetrate.\n,Accil~ t:l.,.\nThe actual answi!r to the \"shapeless\nlight\" mystery illustrates the wa~·\nNASA races real space mysteries. The\ncrew was puzzled by the sighting but\nreported it to space officials who made\n• no effort to conceal the incident. If\nNASA were trying to co,·er up actual\nUFO sightings by astronauts, this was\na good candidate for one-and it\nwould never have been publicized.\nAstronaut Dick Gordon revealed to\nme the unpublicized solution to the\n..,\npublicized mystery. In a letter dated\nSeptemhcr 15. 1976, Cordon wrote:\n\" I ,•i\\'idly re..:a!I the incident which\noc.:11rrcd when a light of indistinct\nshape and size was spolled on our\nreturn to earth... (it) did appear lo be\nin the Indian Ocean. ln our discussions\nand debriefings that occurred l:iter.\nRusty\nSchwcikart\nprovided\nthe\nanswer. He simply said, 'how about\nthe moon's reflection?' and, of course,\nthat is what it was... How often those\nof us in aviation have seen the moon's\nreflection on the water in the course\nof a nom1al flight. We simply did not\nput it together in returning from lunar\ndistance, where we had the black back­\nground of space, the dark night of the\nearth. and the moon behind us.\"\nOther spacemen have been asked to\nanswer these questions). They have\nbeen forthright in their denials: \"I\nnever ha\\'e personally seen anything I\ncould identify as a UFO\", says John\nGlenn, now a Senator Crom Ohio.\nAstronauts Grissom and Young said,\n\"We have never seen any UFOs\".\nRichard\nGordon,\nwho was\nwith\nA common sourco of space and othor UFOs\nis shown hore. The aura and the lens-shaped\ndisc Is actually a sunrise photographed from\nSkylab. NASA photo SL3-118,2177.\nConrad on Gcmini-11 and Apollo-12.\nwrites that \" I never s:iw a l.Jf'O\".\nAstronaut \"Dcke\" Sla}·tor, claims t!1at\n\"[ don't recollect anyone u,porting\nany UFOs on any of our nights''.\n\"'Buzz\" Ald rin went to the moon\non Ai,ollo-11, on which the l.iFO\npress lists at least three separate UFO\nincldenls.\nThere were no\nUFOs:\n\"There are people who say there's a\ngo\\\"ernment conspiracy to covu up the\n• existence of flying saucers.\" Aldrin\ntold a\nReuters reporter in 1973,\n\"That's a lot of hogwlsh.\"\nThe L.M pilot on the next fligh~.\nApollo-'12, was Alan Bean. Following a\nnew press conference in 1975 when\nJames Harder repeated his stories of\nApollo-11 and Apollo-12 UFOs, Bean\ntold UPI that at no time during his\nmission did he ever see an unidentified\nobject. \"At no time did we see\nanything which was not of our\nspacecraft, either during lunar orbit or\nduring the voyage to and from the\nmoon,\" Bean stated.\n61"
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   "text": "Th:.: AH:CJ ll1dl ·t111 \\ Fdi. l!J ioJ\nc:011li1n1c<l to g1•111•r,1t..:\nllt.:W ;JSlClJll;JUt\n(;Fl) f-1iry IJlcs with tile rinony111011s\nrcH•l;,tinn from \"Mr. X\", who hL·,.irtl\nthe\nApt>II,>-I l\n,htrn11:iuts\ndescribe\nHthre•: di::,· ::h:.!:J•.•\\! s h:-u:l,:-i•.•:5 tl1;,t \\.V' •n-•\npaci11~ them ::icr-i,:; th.: :;urfc1cc of the\nmoon.'' The best answer\nl.'o\nthi.;\nf:tbrir.ltivn is in a I! tler from ;--:ASA\nAssistcnt Administrator for Legislative\nAfiairs\nRob(;rt\nF'.\nAllnutt,\nto\nCongr<)s;:nan\nBob\nCasey,\ndated\nJanuary\n29,\n1970:\n''Conversation\nbetween the Apollo 11 c,·ew :ind\n~·Jission • Cont,ol were released live\nduring the entire Apollo 11 mission.\nThere were betwel)n 1000 and 1500\nrepresentati\\·es of the news media\npresent at the Houston News Cl)nter\nlistening and observing, but not one\nhas suggested that NASA withheld any\nnews or conversations of this nature.\"\nThe evidence is clear. There is, out\nof all the dozens of \"reports of\nastronaut UFO sightings\", no residue\nof authentic cases, no 20:o or 5% or\neven 0.01% of \" true UFOs\" behind all\nthe \"noise\". My research is compelling\nin its conclusion: afler fifteen year3 of\nmanned space voyages including space\nstations and landing on the moon,\nspacemen have brought back not a:\nshred\nof evidence-verbal,\nphpto•\ngraphic,\nor\notherwise-for\nthe\nexistence of extraterrestrial spacecraft,\nor \"UFOs\".\nThat\" evidence, if it exists at all,\nmust\nbe\nsought\nelsewhere.\nThe\nperformance and standards of conduct\nof the UFO groups and of UFO writers\ncannot be cause for optim;sm that\nsuch evidence, if it exi;;ts. will bP.\nrecognized and correctly ~valuated.\nThe lesson of the \"astronaut UFOs\",\nthen, teaches us nothing about UFOs,\nbut a lot about UFO investigators.\nII\nScientific Study nf Unidentified\nFlying Objects\n(Condon\nReport},\nBant_am Edition, 1969, Chapter 6:\nVisual\nObservations\n:\\lade\nbv\nAstronauts/Franklin E. Roach. Pag;s\n176-209, with bibliography through\n1967.\nGood\nbal\"k;;round\nm:itNial\nincluding unpublish<'d 1·alitl solutinns\nto a\nnumbL'r of c;isrs.\nIncorrect\nsolution\nto\nGemini-:--~ I\ncase.\nlnad..-4uat<-\nanal_.-~b and u1,j11stificd\nencinr,;l)nH•nt ot f:,,r,;ini-1 ',- ca.,,·.\nThi: £,!;;,: o/ Uc:ul,l_\\', b} fl:,-n,·k and\nVallee. Hl'nry H,•:,:1ll'ry & Co., 1975.\nPa;:l· G:!,6-1 111 ::i S1.·ctit>11 cnllt·ci ..The\nSl.'!,·nlbl~ :it \\\\',,.-1;\". \\,L• fi,id tl1c phony\nFa1u·..tt li.,t. Li.; L l;a~ incorn:cl dales\nand 111a11y lli;.:hi.:; nul ,if ~•H1ur11cc. On\nJuly I, 1~7Li. lk J . .-\\lk-11 Hyne k\nrc,:i,\".\\\"£•d 111 y ,,,·it.lean, and cndors,·d it,\nanrl n•p11:l'.11,·ci I hr. F'awcctt li, t. which\nhe ;·L'port,·d tl1,1t lw inr:luded in his\nbook as a ru,i1.>sity Olily. That is, just\nbecau~e ht' pre,t'nted it a~ fact to\nthousands ot' ro:adt'rs '.\\·as no reason for\nanyone to concl11 dl.! he thought it was\ntrue. This appallingly irresponsible\nattitude towards rules of e\\·idcnce\nseems to infer.t the whole UFO field.\nSightings\nby\n26\nAstronauts\nCo11iirm: UFOs Spied 011 Sl:ylabs (sic)\nJla11y Other Space Shots-UFOs Watch\nEvery\ntlo\\'e\nNASA\n;\\Jakes,\nSay\nAstronauts Who Were Tailed on Space\nShot, \" National Tattler\", March 17,\n1974. This is an embellished version of\nthe same Fawcett fantasies. Weekly\ntabloid newspaper \"conformed to the\nhighest standards of modern reporting.\nTattler and its staff are dedicated to\ntotal, truthful coverage...\" In fact,\nstaffer Robert Abborino made no\neffort to check any of Fawcett's\noutrageous claims.\nUFOs Past, Prese11t and Future, by\nRobert Emenegger, research by Alan\n. Sandler. Ballantine, 1974. Chapter 15,\n\"Na:;a\", pages\n100-106.\nExtensive\ntranscripts of space communications\ncover\nup\nthe\nfact\nthat Sandler\ncarefuily selected evidence and must\nhave knowingly omitted information\nwhich would have explained . many\ncases. An excellent photo section is\nincluded.\nUFO Report, People Press, 1975.\n\"NASA Hiding UFOs From You\", by\nRobert D. Barry, pages 4-10. Barry is\nassociated\nwith\nCarl\nMcintyre's\nfundamentalist Christian group, and is\none of the wilder UFO writers. Even\nthe\nmass\nmedia\nhas learned\nto\ndisregard his fictional descrip tions of\nnon-events. Here, he explains \"why\nNASA called in the CIA to keep these\nphotos secret\", without explaining\nhow, in that case, he got copies. He\nuses\nthe\nforg.cd\nGemini-7\nphoto\nproudly.\nFlying Saucers-Here and ,Vow', by\nF'rank\nEdwa rd,,,\nLyle Stuart. >iew\nYork.\n1967.\nAstruna~1t\niar.ta~il's\nw h()lly ur in part creatrd in the fortile\n(and unlimill)d by w,ilily) mind of\n·11,-11-;man' l·'ra11l- Ed1\\Jrd,; :ire iound\non p:1ge$ t :L l HO. an<1 l!l'i. Tltrnui,:h\ns11d1 entriL'$ :i j,>11rnalis111 studt\"nl can\ntrace thl· adual i::r,,wth of the myth.\n,\\ /'l:U Hui/din, :\\l.1rd1-:\\pril 1970\n6:!\nand l-'dJru.iry 197:; a11<! nthc•,~- T l11,\nnyi11g saucer club llt'w.,;lettL•r b·,l\nt:. pifit s the dlsn•gard for i1:1p,,.·ti:tl\ni11ws1i;,:atio11\nof\ncvid~•nc~\nwhid1\nprtH·id1)d the climatr in wh:ch the\nmylh ot' --astronaut liFOs\" co11IJ g-101\\·\nand tluu nsh.\nThe Star, :Vfan.:h ~- 1976. pa;:,• 7.\nSequence or headlines: On the front\npage, ''Astronauts Say: We Saw L:FOs\nin\nSpace\".\nOn\npai::e\n7,\n--Tc-iJ\nAstronauts Confirm: We spotted l\\\\'O\nUFOs\". lll the article, ;\\!cDi·:itt ta!k5\noi his UFO, and Cooper discusses his\nexper:ences\nas\na\nfighter pilot in\nGermany-and makes 110 mention of\nthe space UFO associated with his\nname.\nThe\nheadlines, as\ncan be\nexpected in such a newspaper, are\ndeliberately misleading.\nSAGA\nmagazine,\nMay\n1970:\nClassified\nTOP\nSECRET-Apollo\nAstronauts\nReported\nTwo\nUFO\nSightings, by Beckley and Salkin, p. 13\nrr: Complete story of Apollo-12 UFO;.\nplus enough\nfalse information to\n\"discredit\"\nthe\ntrue\nexplanation.\nQuotes\n\"space\nexpert\nGary\nHenderson\", another active spreader\nof the myth. Refers to long-discredited\nstories\nof\n\"secret\ndead\nRussian\ncosmonauts\" probably created\nby\nFtank Edwards.\nHoustvn Post, Nov. 30, 1975. page\n1D:\n\"Just One Astronaut Claims\nSeeing UFO\", by Jim ;\\laloney. 1his\nsensible\nand\nsane\ninvestigation\n(i\\lcDivitt stuck to his story) clearly\ndid not excite the national news media\nand was relegated to the obscurity of a\nlocal newspaper.\nScience and .\\lechanics, June 1969.\nCover\nStory:\n\"This\nUFO\nwas\nphotographed by astronaut Gordon on\nGemini 11 flight\" (the co\\·er photo\nshows a tremendously enlarged out of\nfocus image of a piece of insulation\nfloating a f.:w inches in front of the\ncamera). Page -1-1, Lloyd '.\\.lallan: ··.-\\re\nliFO Space Crews Spying on our\nAstronauts?\" Description of the late\nL. ~lallan's inter\\'iews on Gemini-l ;.\nprovides some new informaLion but\ncements some old misconceptirrns.\nAlso\nembellishes\nCondon\nReport\n\"unknowns\".\nLockhced-~.-\\S.-\\\nContract\n;\\ .-\\ S\n9-5 191\n(.\\larch\n1970),\n·'T1:ch:1kal\nReport:\nL'nid1.•11tified\nVi,;uJI\nPh1.•11<1mena\n...\\ssoc;ated wilh\nSp:icl'\nfli:,:ht''.\nF.\nHL•atty\nand J. R:.iron.\nDis<.:tb :ic•s\nthe\nfr,1i,:1ne11ts\n~<',· 11\n:111d\nphotographt'd\non\n,\\ pol!•J· 12,\nand\ntraces them\nt,> spacc,cr:ift effct·r;;."
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   "text": "------------\n~\nREPL,Y To:\nREPLY To;\n0 135 HART SENATE OfFICE 8UtLOlNG\nQ 103 FEDERAL COURTHOUSE BUILDING\nWASHINGTON, 0C 20510-1501\n3206THSTREET\n(2021 224-3744\nSioux CITY, IA 5 1101- 124A\n0\nTTY: (2021 224-4479\ne-mail:ehucLgrassley@grassley.senate.gov\n721 FEDERAL BUILDING\ntlnitEd ~totes ~rnotr\nQ\n(71 21 233-1860\n210 WATERLOO B UILDING\n531 COMMERCIAL STREET\n210 W ALNUT $',-REET\nDES M OINES. IA 50309- 2140\nCHARLES E. GRASSLEY\nWATERLOO, IA 50701-5497\n(3191232-6657\n(5151284-4890\n0 206 FEDERAL BUILDING\nWASHINGTON, DC 20510-1501\n0\n116 FEDERAL BUILDING\n131 E. 41H S TREET\n101 1S1 STREET SE.\nCEDAR RAP10S. IA 52401 - 1227\n(319) 363--6832\nAugust 3, 1998\nDAVENPORT, IA 52801 - 15 13\n(3191322-4331\n0\n307 Fl!DEHAL B UILDING\n8 SOUTH 6TH STREET\nCOUNCIL BLUFFS, IA 51501-4204\nMs . Mary D. Kerwin\n(7121322-7103\nDeputy Assoc. For Legislative Affairs\nNational Aeronautics & Space Administration\n300 E Street, S . W.\nTwo Independence Square, Room 9L33\nWashington, DC 20546\nDear Ms . Kerwin:\nEnclosed please find a communication from (6) (6)\nregarding several concerns about the space program.\nI woul d appreciate any assistance you could provide pertaining to\nthis matter.\nPlease mark your return corre spondence to the\nattention of Sherry Kuntz when responding to my office .\nThank you for your attention to my request .\nD\nCharles E. Grassley\nUnited St ates Senator\nCEG/sk\nEnclosure\nCommittee Assignments:\nFINANCE\nAGRICULTURE\nCHAIRMAN,\nJUDICIARY\nBUDGET\nSPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING\nPRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER"
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   "text": ". (\nAuthor:\n(b)(o)\n<(b) (6)\n~ at internet\nDat_e~\n7/6/98\n04:14 PM\nPriority: Normal\nTO: chuck grassley at Grassley-DC\nSubject: Message from a Voter\nGreetings Honorable Senator Grassley,\nI have recently encountered a number of new and interesting\ntidbits of i nf ormation concet\"oing letters T hovo previ~unJy written to\nyou i n regard of the UFO phenomenon that seems to be happeni ng in the\nUnited State s as well as the rest of the world.\nI greatly appreciate\nall the i nformation you have led me to through our past correspondence .\nI am hoping you can help me track down a few more specific things.\nHere is a something I heard from someone I was corresponding with:\n110n Sunday, August 10, 1997 at around 9:45am CDT, I was wat-ching\nTV and switched to the NASA channel f or news of the ongoing shuttl e\nmission . At the time, they were broadcasting a nighttime view of Earth.\nAs I watched, I was surprised to see a light rising vertically from the\nbottom of the screen where Earth was displayed. As it continued to rise\nvertically (relative to the TV screen), the shuttle camera clearly began\nto track the l i ght and kept the picture centered on it .\n\"After it rose well above the horizon of Earth, the light made\nan apparent 90 -degree turn to the r ight (again relative to the screen)\nand continued off in that direction . The shuttle camera continued to\ntrack the object a nd began to zoom i n for a closer l ook. At that point\nNASA cut off the feed from the external camera and displayed the Houston\nspace center instead. Unfortunately, I wasn't prepared to record this on\nmy VCR. The entire episode lasted l ess than a minute, so I was unable to\nget the VCR ready i n time.\"\nI am also interested in any information that can be relayed\nabout the Groom Lake Area , also know as Area 51, or Dreamland, and an\narea known as Area S-4.\nThe media has stated t hat these areas in the\nNevada desert are testing grounds for US \"Black Projects\".\nI believe\nthat vehicles such as the SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-117 Stealth Fighter\nwhere tested here.\nThe gove rnment to date denies the existence of such places, even\nthough I have in my possession of several videotapes, pictures, and even\na Russian satellite image showing the area.\nDoes such a place exist?\nOr at least , are you, the Air Force, or NASA, whoever happens to be in\ncontrol of the site willing to tell us that is does exist. It is my\nunderstanding that the Nellis Air Force Base surrounds Area 51, so I\nimagine that t he Air force is the one who has jurisdiction over the\nArea.\nMany people including Bob Lazar, Bill Uhouse, and the father of\na guy I work wi t h all claim to have worked in this secret area, and have\nseen and worked on craft of an alien origin .\nBill Ohouse claims that both President Nixon, and Bush visited\nthe Area 51 facility to examine the progress of recreating alien\ntechnology.\nHe also claims that the project was going on with the aid\nof an alien \"gray\" known as Jarod (JAY-rod).\nIf there is any t ruth to thei r claims and the claims of many\nothers, I woul d wonder why such a spectacular secret would be kept from\nus, and why the aliens would not have made themselves known to t he\ngeneral populace of Eart h .\nPlease do not just send me another list of Project Blue Book\ndocuments, and I have already seen the censored files released by the\nCIA.\nThese documents have been censored so all that they do is bring\nmore suspicion toward the government, and they just make me think even\nmore that someone is hiding something.\nThe thing I can \"t figure out is\nwhy."
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   "text": "Anything you can do to help in my search for the hidden truth is\ngreatly appreciated.\nPlease help me find out if we do have aliens at\nArea 51, or even an admission that Area 51 exists.\nThanks Muc~he-..:..· -------,\n(b) 16)\nHere is a list of Organizations, and places which may be helpful in\nhelping track down some information:\nOrganizations\n- Military groups and civilian contractors.\n•\nNellis Air Force Base\n- Controls the land surrounding Area Sl.\n*\nNevada Test site\n- Borders base on the west. I nitially \"owned\"\nArea Sl.\n*\nSecurity Anonymous \"Cammo Dudes\" patrolling base perimeter.\n*\n\"Janet\" Aircraft - Official EG&G \"airline\" ferrying workers to\nGroom Lake\n*\n~ir Force Flight Test Center -\nAgency that controls Area 51.\nBased at Edwardo Air Force Base.\n•\nEG&G Special Projects -\nGeneral contractor at Area 51.\n*\nBechtel -\nGeneral contractor at Nevada Test Site, with some\nprojects at Area 51.\n*\nTonopah Test Range\n-\n\"Semi-secret\" aircraft testing base\nnorthwest of Area 51\n•\nLo ck.heed- Martin\n- Aircraft manufac turer for whom the base was\nbuilt.\n*\nJohnson Controls - Contractor at Nevada Test Site, possibly also\nat Area 51.\n*\nWackenhut Security - Security contractor at Nevada Test Site\nPlaces\n*\nRachel, Nevada - Nevada's \"UFO capital\", the closest town to\nArea 51\n*\nBasecamp Airfield\n- \"Secret\" airfield in plain sight\n*\nGreen River Launch Complex, Utah- According to \"Popular\nMechanics\" the site of the \"new Area 51\"\n*\nPapoose Lake - Site of Lazar's \"Area S-4\" south of Groom Lake\n•\nTikaboo Peak\n- Last accessible viewpoint into Area 51\n.."
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   "text": "--------\nAuthor: {~ (6)\n<(o) (6)\nat internet\nDate:\n7/6/98\n04 :48 PM\nPriority: Normal\nTO: chuck grassley at Grassley-DC\nSubject : NASA\nThis is a continuation of an e-mail I just sent you.\nThese are some\nalleged conversations and observations made from NASA Astronauts.\nIf\nthere is ANY truth to this, there is a big sha~e shame, on NASA.\nIf you\ncould contact NASA on my behalf about t hese incidences ·r would be very\ngrateful.\n(o) (6)\nMajor Gordon Cooper\nOne of the original Mercury Astronauts and the last American to fly in\nspace alone. On May 15, 1963 he shot into space in a Mercury capsule for\na 22 orbit journey around the world. During the fina l orbit, Major\nGordon Cooper told the tracking station at Much (near Perth Australia)\nthat he could see a glowing, greenish object ahead of him quickly\napproaching his capsule. The UFO was real and solid, because i t was\npicked up by Muchea's tracking radar .\nCooper's sighting was reported by the National Broadcast Company, which\nwas covering the flight step by step; but when Cooper landed, reporters\nwere told that they would not be allowed to question him about the UFO\nsighting.\nMajor Cooper was a firm believer in UFOs. Ten years earlier, in 1951 he\nhad sighted a UFO while piloting an F-86 Sabrejet over Western Germany.\nThey were metallic, saucer-shaped discs at considerable altitude and\ncould out-maneuver all American fighter planes.\nMajor Cooper also testified before the United Nations:\n\"I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are\nvisiting this planet from other planets ... Most astronauts were\nreluctant to discuss UFOs.\"\n\"I did have occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many\nflights of them, of different sizes, flying in fighter formation,\ngenerally from east to west over Europe . \"\nAnd according to a taped interview by J. L. Ferrando, Major Cooper said:\n\"For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all\nspecialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the\nUSA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition\nunknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity\nof documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public.\nWhy? Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what\nkind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have t •o avoid\npanic by all means.\"\n\"I was furthermore a witness to an extraordinary phenomenon, here on\nthis planet Earth. It happened a few months ago in Florida . There I saw\nwith my own eyes a defined area of ground being consumed by flames, with\nfour indentions left by a flying object which had descended in the\nmiddle of a field. Beings had left the craft (there were other traces to\nprove this). They seemed to have studied topography, they had collected\nsoil samples and, eventually, they returned to where they had come from,\ndisappearing at enormous speed .. . I happen to know that authority did\njust about everything to keep this incident from the press and TV, in\nfear of a panicky reaction from the public.\""
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   "text": "Ed White & James McDivitt\nIn June 1965, astronauts Ed White (first American to walk in space) and\nJames McDivitt were passing over Hawaii in a Gemini spacecraft when they\nsaw a weird-looking metallic object. The UFO had long arms sticking out\nof it. McDivitt took pictures with a cine-camera . Those pictures have\nnever been released .\nJames Lovell and Frank Borman\nIn December 1965, Gemini astronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman also\nsaw a UFO during their second orbit of their record-breaking 14 day\nflight. Borman reported that he saw an unidentified spacecraft .some\ndistance from their capsule. Gemini Control, at Cape Kennedy told him\nthat he was seeing the final stage of their own Titan booster rocket.\nBorman confirmed that he could see the booster rocket all right, but\nthat he could also see something completely different .\nDuring James Lovell's flight on Gemini 7:\nBorman:\nER GEMINI 7, HOUSTON HOW DO YOU READ?\nControl:\nLoud and clear 7 go ahead.\nBorman:\nGOT A BOGEY AT 10 O'CLOCK HIGH.\nControl:\nThis is Houston. Say again 7.\nBorman:\nSAID WE HAVE A BOGEY AT 10 O'CLOCK HIGH.\ncontrol:\nRoger\nControl:\nGemini 7, is that the booster or is that an actual sighting?\nBorman:\nWE HAVE SEVERAL... ACTUAL SIGHTINGS.\nControl:\n. ..Estimated distance or size?\nBorman:\nWE ALSO HAVE THE BOOSTER IN SIGHT...\nFurther controller cuts in: Gemini control here again, the reference in\nthat conversation was er bogey. It was er Borman who reported sighting\nthe bogey. Er this is Gemini control Houston at er 4 hours 24 minutes\ninto the flight.\nIronically, it was Lovell who made the classic statemen t \"Please be\ninformed that there is a Santa Claus\". This was during his Apollo 8\nflight on Christmas day in 1968 - some people believe there's a deeper\nmeaning to these words, although the sceptics believe that this was\nlittle more than American humour. However, Walter Schitta, who was\naboard Mercury 8, reputedly used Santa Clause as a code-name for a UFO\npresence, adding some weight to the argument that Lovell was\nexperiencing another sighting.\nNeil Armstrong & Edwin \"Buzz\" Aldrin\nAccording to the NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong the Aliens have a base on\nthe Moon and told us in no uncertain terms to get off and stay off the\nMoon .\nAccording to hitherto un-confirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and\nEdwin \"Buzz\" Aldri n saw UFOs shortly after that historic landing on the\nMoon in Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969. I remember hearing one of the\nastronauts refer to a \"light\" in or on a crater during the television\ntransmission, followed by a request from mission control for further\ninformation. Nothi ng more was heard."
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   "text": "A<a:c,;ord i a9 Lo a f.ormer NASA emp.1.oye~ ott q lii nder1 unnam,ed ra,di o j,arps wit j.1\nI\ntheir own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA' s b r o a dcasting\noutletc pic k e d u p t h e follo wing exchange:\nNASA:\nWhat's there?\nMission Control calling Apollo 11...\nApollo 11: These \"Babies \" are huge , Sir! Enormous!\nOH MY GOD! You wouldn't believe it!\nI'm telling you there are other spacecraft out there,.\nLined up on the far side of the crater edge!\nThey ' re on the Moon watching us!\nThe two astronauts, talking to the NASA base in Houston.\nText of the conversation:\nAstronaut 1: Hal What is it?\nAstronaut 2: We have some explanation for that?\n--BEEP-­\nHouston: We have (not), don't worry, continue your program!\n--BEEP-­\nAstronaut 1: Oh boy it ' s a , it's, it, it is really something (similar\nto)\nfantastic here, you, you could never imagine this!\n--BEEP-­\nHouston: Roger, we know about that, could you go the other way, go back\nthe other way!\n--BEEP-­\nAstronaut 1: Well it's kind of (rigged) ha, pretty spectacular ..... .\ngod . . . what is that there? ··,\n--BEEP-­\nAstronaut 1: It's (hollow), what the hell is that?\nHouston: Go Tango, Tango!\n--BEEP-­\nAstronaut 1: Ha! There's kind of light there now!\n--BEEP-­\nHouston : Roger, we got it, we (watched it), lose communication,\nBravo Tango, Bravo Tango, select Jezebel, Jezebel!\n--BEEP- ­\nAstronaut 1: . ..... ya, ha! .... . . but this is unbelievable!\nHouston: (we call you up Bravo Tango, Bravo Tango)!\nA certain professor, who wished to remain anonymous, was engaged in a\ndiscussion with Neil Armstrong during a NASA symposium.\nProfessor:\nWhat REALLY happened out there with Apollo 11?\nArmstrong:\nIt was incredible, of course we had always known\nthere was a possibility, the fact is, we were\nwarned off! (by the Aliens). There was never any"
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   "text": "question then of a space station or a moon city.\nProfessor:\nHow do you mean \"warned off\"?\nArmstrong:\nI can't go into details, except to say that their\nships were far superior to ours.both in ·size and\ntechnology - Boy, were they big! ...and menacing!\nNo, there is no question.of a space station.\nProfessor:\nBut NASA had other missions after Apollo 11?\nArmstrong:\nNaturally -\nNASA was committed at that time, and\ncouldn't risk panic on Earth. But it really was a\nquick scoop and back again.\nAccording to a Dr. Vladimir Azhazha:\n\"Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large ,\nmysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon\nmodule. But this message was never heard by the public -- because NASA\ncensored it .\"\nAccording to a Dr. Aleksandr Kasantsev, Buzz Aldrin took color movie\nfilm of the UFOs from inside the module, and continued filming them\nafter he and Armstrong went outside .\nArmstrong confirmed that the story was true but refused to go into\nfurther detail, beyond admitting that the, CIA was behind the cover- up.\nDonald Slayton\nDonald Slayton a Mercury astronaut revealed in an interview he had seen\nUFOs in 1951:\n\"I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object.\nI was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought\nthe object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that\nhigh. II\nAs I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three\nfeet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't\nlook like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk .\nAbout the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me\n- - and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it\nfor a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off .\nIt pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat\ndisappeared.\"\nMajor Robert White\nOn July 17, 1962 Major Robert White reported a UFO during his\nfifty - eight-mile high flight of an X-15. Major White reported:\n\"I have no idea what it could be. It was grayish in color and about\nthirty to forty feet away.\" Then according to a Time Magazine article,\nMajor White exclaimed over the radio:"
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   "text": "\"There ARE things out there! There absolutely is!\"\nNASA Pilot Joseph A. Walker\nOn May 11, 1962 NASA pilot Joseph Walker said that one of his tasks was\nto detect UFOs during his X-15 flights. He had filmed five or six UFOs\nduring his record breaking fifty-mile-high flight in April, 1962. It was\nthe second time he had filmed UFOs in flight. During a lecture at the\nSecond National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space Research in\nSeattle, Washington he said : ..\n\"I don't feel like speculating about them. All\"I know i:s what appeared\non the film which was developed after the flight.\" - Joseph Walker\nTo date none of those films has been released to the public for viewing.\nCommander Eugene Cernan\nEugene Cernan was commander of Apollo 17. In a Los Angeles Times article\nin 1973 he said, about UFOs:\n\"· .. I've been asked (about UFOs) and I 've said publicly I thought they\n{UFOs) were somebody else, some other civilization.\"\nNASA's Maurice Chatelain\nIn 1979 Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems\nconfirmed that Armstrong had i ndeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim\nof a crater. Chatelain believes that some UFOs may come from our own\nsolar system -- specifically Titan .\n\"The encounter was common knowledge in NASA, but nobody has talked about\nit until now. 11\n\" ... all Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and\nsometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial\norigin - flying saucers, or UFOs, if you want to call them by that name.\nEvery time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who\nthen ordered absolute silence .\"\nPilot Walter Schirra\n\"I think that Walter Schirra aboard Mercury 8 was the first of the\nastronauts to use the code name 'Santa Claus • to indicate the presence\nof flying saucers next to space capsules. However, his announcements\nwere barely noticed by the general public.\nJames Lovell\nIt was a little different when James Lovell on board the Apollo 8\ncommand module came out from behind the moon and said for everybody to\nhear: ' PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS.' Even though this\nhappened on Christmas Day 1968, many people sensed a hidden meaning in\nthose words.\"\nThe rumors persist. NASA may well be a civilian agency, but many of its\nprograms are funded by the\ndefense budget and most of the astronauts are subject to military\nsecurity regulations . Apart from the fact that the National Security\nAgency screens all films and probably radio communications as well.We\nhave the statements by Otto Binder, Dr. Garry Henderson and Maurice\nChatelain that the astronauts were under strict orders not to discuss\ntheir sightings. And Gordon Cooper has testified to a United Nations\ncommittee that one of the astronauts actually witnessed a UFO on the\nground. If there is no secrecy, why has this sighting not been made\npublic?"
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   "n": 40,
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   "text": "Shuttle Discovery - Mission 20\nThe voices of the astronaut and of the amateur radio station WA3NAN\nGoddard in the Space Center of Greenbelt Maryland .\nWA3NAN: We are retransmitting the Space Shuttle airground communication\nfrom mission 20 . This is WA3NAN .\nAstronaut James F. Buchli ...\nAstronaut: Houston, this is Riscovery, we still have the alien\nspacecraft\nunder observance..."
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   "n": 41,
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   "text": "JLJN 2 Lt /999\nL:ATW:mtg: U1998-407f\nThe Honorable Olympia J. Snowe\nUnited States Senate\nWashington, DC 20510\nDear Senator Snowe:\nThank you for your May 18, 1998, letter on behalf of (b) (6} __\nregarding\nUnidentified Flying Objects and his concern over the \"authenticity of the recently\nreleased Mariner photographs.\"\nThere are no recently released Mariner photographs. We assume (b) (6\nis\nreferring to the images taken from our Mars Global Surveyor (MGS). NASA does not\ntamper with images received from MGS. These images are received on Earth in digital\nformat, meaning \"O and 1\". NASA merely translates these digital images, using\ncomputer processing, into actual images. All images and other instrument data is\ndeposited in a publicly accessible archive within six months after receipt where they are\navailable to everyone. All the images currently released can be found on the Internet at\nhttp://photojournal.jp1. nasa.gov.\nWe appreciate your interest in these matters, and trust this information will be helpful to\nyou in responding to {6) (6)\nSincerely,\n.,d\"1J\n• ... , . • ieninaer\nEdward Heffernan\n(Acting) Associate Administrator\nfor Legislative Affairs\necc:\nS/Ruth Netting\nLB/Barbara Cherry\nSent to Mark Berumen @ Hill Office (250 SROB)\n((J/22-- ltc8 w.1"
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   "n": 42,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p42.jpg",
   "text": "-----a\nCOMMnTEES:\n~ OLYMPIA J. SN OWE\nMAINE\nARMED SERVICES\nCoUNSEL TO THE AsslSTANT\nBUDGET\nMA..K.,:1TV LEADER\nCOMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND\n250 RUSSELL S ENATE OFFICE 8UILD1NG\nTRANSPORTATION\n(202) 224-5344\nCHAIR OF\nOCEANS ANO ASHERIES\nWASHINGTON, DC 20510-1903\nSUBCOMMITTEE\nSMALL BUSINESS\nMay 18, 1998\nMr. Lawrence E . Medway\nDirector, Congressional Inquiries Division\nNational Aeronautic and Space Administration\n300 E . Street, SW\nWashington, D.C. 20546\nDear Mr. Medway :\nI am writing to x ou regarding the concerns of my constituent, (o (6)\n(b) (6)\n_:_:.:.:--- of Stonington, Maine.\n(~~)\nis interested in U.F . O. 's and the recent photos of\nMars which were recently released.\n(o) (6)\n___\nis not\nconvinced wi th the authenticity of the recently released Mariner\nphotographs .\nFurther, he questions the authenticity based on the\npicture only having 75 shades of grey, rather than t he 256 it is\nsupposed to have.\nAny information you could provide which would\nhelp me address his concerns would be appreciated .\nThank you for your time and attention.\nlticerel~ , 1\n~t. -~\nuni~\ntes senator\nOJS:mjb\nA UGUSTA\nBtDDEFORO\nPORTUINO\nPRESOUE ls~e\nTwo GAEAT FALLS Pt.Av.\n68 SEWALL STI1EET, SUITE 101C\nONE CUMBERLAND PLACE, SUITE 306\n231 M AIN Smerr. Su1TE 2\n3 CANAL PtAZA, SUITE 601\n169 ACAOfMV STI1fe1', Sum 3\nSu1Te 78\nAUGUSTA, ME 04330\n0ANGOA, ME 04401\n8100,•0RO, ME 04005\nP,O. Box 188\nP•Fsoue is, e. ME 04769\nA UBURN, ME 04210\n(207) 622-8292\n(207) 945--0432\n(207) 282--4144\nPOATLANO, ME 04112\n(207) 764-5124\n(207) 786-2451\n(207) 874'\"°883\nM AINE RELA'< SERVICE\nTOO 1\"955-,3323\nAUBURN\nBANGOR\nPRINTEO ON RECYCLED PAPER\nIN MAINE CALL TOLL-FREE l -800-432- 1599"
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   "n": 43,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p43.jpg",
   "text": "L98-407 - Sen. Snowe\nEnclosed is a fact sheet entitled \"The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects.\" As\nstated in the second paragraph ofthe Fact Sheet, Congress, in 1993, directed NASA to end its\nsearch program. T~r-extraterrestfials is conduetee-through-Ibe.Seatch..for:.\nE~teHigenee-I-nsHtute-(-SET+Institute) in-Mountain View, CA.\n(_\nAs for your interest in the recent photos of Mars taken from our Mars Global Surveyor (MGS),\nnot the Mariner, these images are received on Earth in digital format, meaning \"O and l\". NASA does\nnot tamper with these images. However, the images do require computer processing before they are\nsuitable for public viewing. All images and other instrument data obtained from the MGS will be deposited\nin a publicly accessible archive, and they will then be available to everyone, scientists and citizens alike,\nwho wants to examine them and draw their own individual conclusions. You can access all the images\ncurrently released from the following website: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/\nWe appreciate your interest in this matter and trust this information will be useful\nto you."
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   "n": 44,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p44.jpg",
   "text": "L98-407 - Sen. Snowe\nEnclosed is a fact sheet entitled \"The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects.\" As\nstated in the second paragraph ofthe Fact Sheet, Congress, in 1993, directed NASA to end its\nsearch program. Today th@ searoh :fer-extratertEtrials is condttst«l-through..Ihe-Sear:ch.ior.\nE~rate11esli ial fotemgenee-Ins-t1-tute-(-SffFHnstitute) in-Mountain View, CA.\n(___\nAs for your interest in the recent photos ofMars taken from our Mars Global Surveyor (MOS),\nnot the Mariner, these images are received on Earth in digital format, meaning \"0 and I\". NASA does\nnot tamper with these images. However, the images do require computer processing before they are\nsuitable for public viewing. All images and other instrument data obtained from the MGS will be deposited\nin a publicly accessible archive, and they will then be available to everyone, scientists and citizens alike,\nwho wants to examine them and draw their own individual conclusions. You can access all the images\ncurrently released from the following website: http://photojoumal.jpl.nasa.gov/\nWe appreciate your interest in this matter and trust this informatio n will be useful\nto you."
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   "n": 45,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p45.jpg",
   "text": ".___\nACTIONREQUIRED\nCONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY\nOffice of Legislative Affairs\nDATE: May 26, 1998\nNASA Headquarters\nPAGES, if faxed: 3\n300 E Street, SW\nWashington, DC 20546\nTO:\nS/Ruth Netting\nAnne Ward\nPHONE:\nPHONE:\n(202) 358-1946\nFAX:\nFAX:\n(202) 358-4343\nAction assigned to: S/Ruth Netting\nDue date: June 9, 1998\nInformation copies:\nAction number/ Member: L98-407- Sen. Snowe\nINSTRUCTIONS:\nPlease prepare a draft reply to the attached Congressional inquiry and send it\nvia electronic mail to the following address: Anne.Ward@hq.nasa.gov\nor send a copy of your reply on a diskette to the attention of Anne Ward.\nIf you need clarification of this assignment or additional time to prepare this\nreply, please contact Anne Ward.\nMESSAGE:\nRuth, If you answer this before June 1, please send answer to me.\nThanks.\nHelen"
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   "n": 46,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p46.jpg",
   "text": "< CONFIRMATION REPORT>\n05-26-1998(TUE) 10:26\nC\nTRANSM IT J\nNO.\nDATE\nTIME\nDESTINATION\nPG.\nDURATION\nMODE\nRESULT\n18502\n5-26 10:25\nNASA HQTS\n2\n0°00'52\"\nNORMAL\nOK\n2\n0·00•52\""
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   "n": 47,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p47.jpg",
   "text": "-,\nHegClqYarters Action l racKing '5ystem (HATS)\nINCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION\nID Number: L/1998-00407\nTitle: Sen Snowe fwds ltr from _________\n(b) (6)\n_, who's interested in U.F.O.\nand the recent Mars photo\nRecipient:\nAuthor:\nOrganization:\nAction Office:\nStatus:\nUHeffernan\nSNOWE\nSENATE\nLD/Rothman:P\nOpen\nDate Written:\nDate Received:\nDate Concurred:\nDate Submitted:\nDate Signed:\nDate Closed:\n>>Current Due Date:\nOriginal Due Date:\n05/18/1998\n05/26/1998\n06/18/1998<<\nSignature Office:\nUHeffernan\nInfo Offices:\nUHeffernan, UHeninger, UKerwin\nAbstract:\nSEN SNOWE FWDS LTR FROM (o) (6) ___\nOF STOCKINGTON, MAINE, WHO'S\nINTERESTED IN U.FO.'S AND THE RECENT PHOTOS OF MARS WHICH WERE RECENTLY RELEASED.\nComments:\nEnclosures:\nNO\nRelated Records:\nKeywords: {b) (6) __STONINGTON, MAINE U.F.O. MARS\nFile Plan:\nAnalyst: BMoore\n05/26/1998\nPage 1 of 1"
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   "n": 48,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p48.jpg",
   "text": ",o~\n1 _t\nDRAFT\n0~\n{;\nL:ATW:mtg:U1998-407f\n/ 7/;> y\n~\nhe Honorable Olympia J. Snowe\nUnited States Senanns \\..,\nWashington, DC 20510\nDear Senator Snowe:\nThere are no recently released Mariner photographs. We assume(6>l 6)\nis\nreferring to the images taken from our Mars Global Surveyor (MGS). NASA does not\ntamper with imageveceived from MGS. These images are received on Earth in digital\nformat, meaning \"0~nd 1\". NASA merely translates these digital images, using\ncq_mputer processing, into actual images. All images and other instrument data is\ndeposited in a publicly accessible archive within six months after receipt where they are\navailable to everyone. All the images currently released can be found on the Internet at\nhttp://photojournal.jp1. nasa.gov.\nWe appreciate your interest in these matters, and trust this information will be helpful to\nyou in responding tol 6) (6)\n________.\nSincerely,\nEdward Heffernan\n(Acting) Associate Administrator\nfor Legislative Affairs"
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   "n": 49,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p49.jpg",
   "text": "..\necc:\nS/Ruth Netting\nLB/Barbara Cherry\nSent to Mark Berumen @ Hill Office (250 SROB)"
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   "n": 50,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p50.jpg",
   "text": "5\nHeadquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)\nINCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION\nID Number: L/1998-00494\nTitle: Ward/White House Referral: UFO Hearings\nRecipient:\nA/Goldin\nAuthor:\nOrganization:\n(15) (6)\nWhite House\nDate Written:\nDate Received:\nDate Concurred:\nDate Submitted:\n05/17/1998\n06/18/1998\nAction Office:\nStatus:\nUWard:S\nClosed\nDate Signed:\nDate Closed:\n>>Current Due Date:\nOriginal Due Date:\n06/26/1998\n06/26/1998\n07/15/1998<<\n07/15/1998\nSignature Office:\nUHeffernan\nInfo Offices:\nUHeffernan, UHeninger, UKerwin\nAbstract:\nWhite House Correspondence from (6) (6)\nwho supports having congressional hearing regarding the\nexistence of UFO's.\n----­\nComments:\nNote: Vanessa needs letterhead copy of signed/dated response.\nEnclosures:\nWhite House Memo\nRelated Records:\nA/1998-00416\nKeywords: (b} (6)\nJ UFO, hearings\nFile Plan: 1320.4\nAnalyst: JMassey\n06/24/1998\nPage 1 of 1"
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   "n": 51,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p51.jpg",
   "text": "JUN 2 4\nL:ATW:mtg:U1998-494f\n(6) (6)\nDear (b) (6)\nThe White House has requested NASA to respond to your May 17, 1998, letter to\nPresident Clinton concerning possible hearings on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).\nWe are not aware of any hearings scheduled on UFO. Enclosed is a Fact Sheet, \"The\nUS Government and Unidentified Flying Objects,\" which gives a brief history of NASA's\ninvestigations into UFO.\nWe appreciate your interest in this matter and trust this information will be helpful to\nyou.\nSincerely,\nEdward Heffernan\n(Acting) Associate Administrator\nfor Legislative Affairs\nEnclosure\necc:\nS/Ruth Netting\nLB/Barbara Cherry\nSent to Sue J. Smith\nDirector, Office of Agency Liaison\nRoom 6, OEOB\nThe White House\nWashington, DC 20502\n&l-alt:ii ltt.LY }J.12\n' I i ~lr:;y"
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   "n": 52,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p52.jpg",
   "text": "THE W HITE HOUS E\nWASHINGTON\nl:\nI\nDATE\nMEMORANDUM FOR:\n'\nJ\nFROM :\nSUE J. SMITHc;f'x1\nDIRECTOR, OFFfd[ OF AGENCY LIAISON\nSUBJECT:\nREFERRAL OF CASEWORK IN BULK\nAn unprecedented number of individuals still write the President and\nthe First Lady for help.\nI know that this has meant a far greater\nvolume of mail for your agency than ever before.\nI appreciate your\ncontinuing cooperation i n our efforts to be a ·s responsi ve as\npossible.\nTh e attached l ett ers have not received a White House Staff response.\nI am forwarding this correspondence to your agency f or any\nappropriate action.\nPlease return the original incoming letter, along with a copy of any\nwritten or telephone response, to me at the address below.\nI also\nwould appreciate your sending a copy of your agency ' s log of the\nnam~§ and adclr@&&@B of 1:h@Be :iFidivielual9. Any misr ~farralg should\nbe r e ttirn.ed -C9 my o.r:.i:u;~,\ni.i: yg~ 11.§V~ qy~etiQns you can reach me at:\n4 56 - 7486.\nSu e J . Smith\nDirector, Office of Agency Liaison\nRoom 6, OEOB\nThe White Ho u se\nWashi ngton, D.C.\n20502\nAgain, t hank you for your continuing help.\nA98'- 0 I I C,'f"
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   "n": 53,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p53.jpg",
   "text": "From nobody@wwwr.-wrutehouse.gov Sun May 17 17:57:37 l998\nDate: Sun, 17 May 1998 17:54:05 -0400\nFrom: (6) (6)\nSubject: InboW1d-White_House_WWW_MAIL => PRESIDENT\nApparently-to: president@WhiteHouse.GOV\nTo: president@WhiteHouse.GOV\nErrors-to: The Postmaster <P,Qstmast~I.whitehouse.gov>\nReply-to: {6) (6)\n<(b) (6)\n>\nMessage-id: <199805l72154.RAA07723@www1.whitehouse.gov>\nKeywords: WWW-Correspondence; ; Ask a specific question regarding\nAdministration policy; Science or Technology; Private Citizen;\nComments: Forwarded from White House WWW\nComments: This message scanned by SCAN version 0. 1 jms/960226\n[Connection Infonnation]\nCLIENT:\nww-trD2.proxy.aol.com(l52.163.201.136]\nBROWSER\nMozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; AOL 3.0; Wmdows 95; Sony\nURL:\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Mail/html/Mail_President.html\n[Sender Infonnation]\nPERSONAL-NAME: {6) (6)\nEMAlL-ADDRESS:\nORGANIZATION:\nRELATIONSHIP:\nSTREET-ADDRESS:\n(6) (6)\n---------i\n01Y:\nVentura\nSTA1E-PROvrnCE:\nCa\nZIP-CODE:\n93004\n~Q1.JNTR.Y;\nl Sf}\n[Message Information)\nPURPOSE:\nAsk a specific question regarding Administration policy\nTOPIC:\nScience or Technology\nAFFILIATION:\nPrivate Citizen\nSUBJECT:\nUFOs\n[Message)\nDear Mr. President,\nIt is my understanding that you, Mrs. Clinton, Vice-President\nGore and heads of Congress, including the CIA director,\nmembers of the Senate and House, the Executive Branch and\nsenior military reps in the Pentagon were briefed in or around\nDecember of 1997 by Dr. Steven Greer, International Director\nof CSETI( The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial\nIntelligence). Basically, he calls on you and other members of"
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   "n": 54,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p54.jpg",
   "text": "congress to hold open congressional meetings. What is your\npositon and intent on this matter? Will you push for open\nhearings or are you stonewalled as well by MJ-12? Certainly on\nyour appoinonent as President you were briefed on the\nexistence of UFOs. Please use your Executive power to report\nand open the truth to the American people. It is time. Your\npersonal reply is respectfully requested. Thank you\nSincerely,\n(b) (6)"
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  {
   "n": 55,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p55.jpg",
   "text": "L:ATW:mti;,:U1998-494f\n(bf (o)\nDear lb) (o)\nThe White House has requested NASA to respond to your May 17, 1998, letter l'\"o ~:QC:: Jot.i:!41..:f-. ( ;;~\nconcerning possible hearings on t1FQ!s.\n. -\n~ r-- .\n.\n,\n(\nf ')\n0 I)\n~lll\\,cl•Cl.f\\+.v~ '\"'.'' ''~ a lOJ <.?d-.,.\nu\n~\nWe are not aware of any hearings scheduled on U£f)\\ -t-.T-he-att-aeAed-fact\"Sflea,\"The\nUS Government and Unidentified Flyin Objects,\" iv~ abrief history of NASA's\ninvestigations into UFd~. llo\\t1e!~f.i\ner\nbe:--.\nge-vemment is curFently inve&tl~aling UFO's.\nWe appreciate your interest in this matter and trust t\nSincerely,\nEdward Heffernan\n(Acting) Associate Administrator\nfor Legislative Affairs\nEnclosure\nis information will be helpful to you."
  },
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   "n": 56,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p56.jpg",
   "text": "ecc:\nS/Ruth Netting\nLB/Barbara Cherry\nSent to Sue J. Smith\nDirector, Office of Agency Liaison\nRoom 6, OEOB\nThe White House\nWashington, DC 20502"
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   "n": 57,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p57.jpg",
   "text": "Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)\nINCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION\nID Number: U1998-00494\nTitle: Ward/White House Referral: UFO Hearings\nRe cipient:\nA/Goldin\nAuthor:\n'.@.36)\nOrganization:\nWhite House\nDate Written:\n05/17/1998\nDate Received:\n06/18/1998\nDate Concurred:\nDate Submitted:\nDate Signed:\nDate Closed:\nAction Office:\nL/Ward:S\n>>Current Due Date:\n07 /15/1998<<\nOriginal Due Date:\n07/15/1998\nStatus:\nOpen\nSignature Office:\nUHeffernan\nInfo Offices:\nUHeffernan, L/Heninger, UKerwin\nAbstract:\nWhite House Correspondence from 6) (6)\nwho supports having congressional hearing regarding the\nexistence of UFO's.\nComments:\nNote: Vanessa needs letterhead copy of signed/dated response.\nEnclosures:\nWhite House Memo\nRelated Records:\nA/1998-00416\nKeywords:\nUFO, hearings\nFile Plan:\nAnalyst: JMassey\n06/18/1998\nPage 1 of 1"
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   "n": 58,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p58.jpg",
   "text": "L\n6/17/98\n15:54:01\nCORRESPONDENCE ACTION STATUS HISTORY\nPage\n1\nCorrespondence and Action Tracking System\nCode\nA\nID Number:\nA98-01199\nTitle:\nWHR BULK: CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON UFO'S\nRecipient:\nOrganization:\nGOLDIN\nA\n*Other Recipients/ Organizations*:\nAuthor:\nOrganization:\n(6J (6)\nWHR BULK\n•other Authors I Organizations\":\nDate Written:\nDate Received:\nOriginal Date Due:\n>> Current Date Due:\nSubmitted for Signature:\nDate Signed:\njDate Completed:\n05/17/1998\n06/17/1998\n07/15/1998\n07/15/1998 <<\nAction Office:\nL\nSignature Office:\nL\nAction Officer:\nHEFFERNAN\nSignature Officer:\nHEFFERNAN\nStatus:\nOpen\nSecurity:\nPublic\nPriority:\nNormal\nIn/Out:\nIncoming\nInfo Copies:\nA,P\nAbstract: WHR BULK: VIA E-MAIL,(6) (6)\n, VENTURA, CA, SUPPORTS HAVING CONGRESSIONAL\nHEARINGS REGARDING THE EXISTENCE OF UFO'S.\nEnclosures: NONE\nComment:\nKeywords;\nWHR BULK CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS UFO'S ET'S\nRelated Records:\nFile plan:\n1320-1 G\nAd Hoc:\nA/1998-00461\nClerk:\nvc"
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   "n": 59,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p59.jpg",
   "text": "Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)\nINCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION\nID Number: A/1998-00461\nTitle: WHR Bulk: Congressional Hearings on UFO's\nRecipient:\nA/Goldin\nAuthor:\nOrganization:\nWHR Bulk\nAction Office:\nUHeffernan\nStatus:\nOpen\nDate Written:\nDate Received:\nDate Concurred:\nDate Submitted:\nDate Signed:\nDate Closed:\n>>Current Due Date:\nOriginal Due Date:\n05/17/1998\n06/17/1998\n07 /15/1998<<\n07/15/1998\nSignature Office:\nUHeffernan\nInfo Offices:\nA/Goldin, P/WILHIDE\nAbstract:\nWHR Bulk: Via E-mail,(b) <6>ventura, CA, supports having congressional hearings regarding the existence\nof UFO's.\nComments:\nEnclosures:\nNone\nRelated Records:\nA98-01199\nKeywords: WHR Bulk California Congressional Hearings UFO's\nFile Plan: 1320-1 G\nAnalyst: VCoates\n06/17/1998\nPage 1 of 1"
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   "n": 60,
   "image": "https://wearenotalone.space/transcripts/usg-uap-d001/p60.jpg",
   "text": "Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)\nINCOMINGICORRESPONDENCE ACTION\nID Number: U1998-00470\nTitle: WARD/Rep. Gordon re taxpayers money on space aliens.\nRecipient:\nUHeffernan\nAuthor:\nOrganization:\nAction Office:\nStatus:\nGORDON\nHOUSE\nL/Ward:S\nClosed\nDate Written:\nDate Received:\nDate Concurred:\nDate Submitted:\nDate Signed:\nDate Closed:\n>>Current Due Date:\nOriginal Due Date:\n06/04/1998\n06/15/1998\n06/18/1998\n06/18/1998\n07/06/1998<<\nSignature Office:\nUHeffernan\nInfo Offices:\nUHeffernan, L/Heninger, UKerwin, LO/Rothman\nAbstract:\nREP. GORDON WRITES ON BEHALF OF (6) (6)\nRE TAXPAYERS MONEY BEING\nSPENT ON SPACE ALIENS.\nComments:\nEnclosures:\nYES LTR\nRelated Records:\nKeywords: (b) (6) SPACE ALIENS TAXPAYERS MONEY, UFO\nFile Plan: 1320.4\nAnalyst: BMoore\n06/18/1998\nPage 1 of 1"
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   "text": "J N I 8\nL:ATW:mtg: U1998-4 70f\n(o) (6)\nDeadb) (6)\nCongressman Bart Gordon has asked NASA to respond to your recent letter to him\nwherein you enclosed an article on Congress funding the search for extraterrestrials.\nEnclosed is a fact sheet entitled \"The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects.\"\nAs stated in the second paragraph of the Fact Sheet, Congress, in 1993, directed\nNASA to end its search program.\nToday the search for extraterrestrials is conducted through The Search for\nExtraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI Institute) in Mountain View, CA.\nWe appreciate your interest in this matter and trust this information will be useful\nto you.\nSincerely,\nI.\nlYnn W.~He;in~ar\nEdward Heffernan\n(Acting) Associate Administrator\nfor Legislative Affairs\nEnclosure\ncc:\nThe Honorable Bart Gordon\necc:\nS/Ruth Netting\nLB/Barbara Cherry\nSent to Patton Lane@ Hill Office (2201 RHOB)\n~ls\\cei ~\nUn it ("
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   "text": "I\nIII I, lll,11 ,I ,I, ..,II ,I, I, ,I.. I,, I, 111, ..,II 11, I11,1\nrll)(o)) ____________\n, ,•\n..\n'(? PM\n• )\nI ' ·:1\n;\nL •' •\n--~ ✓"
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   "text": "'201 AAVBURN BUILOING\nWASHINGTON. DC 2051~206\n~BAft'f GORDON\n6TH DISTRICT. TENNESSEE\n12021225-4231\nFAX: 1202l 22S-6887\nCOMMERCE COMMITTEE\nSCIENCE COMMlffiE\n106 SOUTli MAPLE STREET\nPO. BOX 1986\nRANKING MEMBER\nMURFREESBORO, TN'.31133\nSUSCOMMITitE dNSPACE\nl615l89e-1986\nFAX: {815) 896--8218\n<trongress of tbe Wniteb ~tates\n17 SOUlH JEFFEflSON STI\\EET\nP.O. 8OX 1U0\n~ouse of l\\epresentatibes\nCOOKEVILLE. TN 38501\n1'93l J528-5907\nJune 4, 1998\nMs . Mary D. Kerwin\nDeputy Associate Administrator For Legeslative Affairs\nNational Aeronautics and Space Administration\nTwo Independence Square, Room 9L33\n300 E St., SW\nWashington, D. C. 20546\nDear Ms . Kerwin,\nI am writing to you on behalf of my constituent , (6) (6)\n(6) (6)\n, and have enclosed a copy of her inquiry .\nI would\nappreciate i t if you woul d respond directl y to my constituent, as\nwell as send a copy to me for record keeping .\nI look forward to\nreceiving your response.\nThank you in advance for your time and consideration in this\nmatter .\nPlease cal l if you need more information or have further\nquestions .\nStay in touch,\nBART GORDON\nMember of Congress\nBJG/pl\nemail: bart.gordon@mail.house.gov\nInternet: http://www.house.gov/gordon/"
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   "text": "The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects\nhttp://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/facts/HTM L/FS-017-HQ.htm I\n'\n.\nNASA Facts fIL£ COPY\nNational Aeronautics and\nSpace Administration\nNASA Head(1Jares\nPublic A f0. irs Offce\nCcdeP\n300 E Street SW\nwashington DC 2054 6\nFS-1997-01-017-HQ\nThe US Government and Unidentified\nFlying Objects\nNo branch ofthe United States Government is currently involved\nwith or responsible for investigations into the possibility ofalien life\non other planets or for investigating Unidentified Flying Objects\n(UFO's). The US Air Force (USAF) and the National Aeronautics\nand Space Administration (NASA) have had intermittent,\nindependent investigations ofthe possibility ofalien life on other\nplanets; however, none of these has produced factual evidence that\nlife exists on other planets, nor that UFO's are related to aliens.\nFrom I 947 to 1969, the Air Force investigated UFO's; then in 1977,\nNASA was asked to examine the possibility of resuming UFO\ninvestigations. After studying all ofthe facts available, it was\ndetermined that nothing would be gained by further investigation,\nsince there was an absence of tangible evidence.\nIn October 1992, NASA was directed by Congress to begin a\ndetailed search for artificial radio signals from other civilizations\nunder the NASA Towards Other Planetary Systems (TOPS)/High\nResolution Microwave Survey (HRMS) program (also known as the\nSearch for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project). Congress directed\nNASA to end this project in October 1993, citing pressures on the\nUS Federal budget. The HRMS did not detect any confirmed signal\nbefore it was stopped. However, similar work will continue in a\nmore limited manner through efforts ofprivate groups and through\nacademic institutions. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence\nInstitute (SETI Institute) in Mountain View, CA, effectively\nreplaced the Government project, borrowing the signal processing\nsystem from NASA. The SETI Institute is a nonprofit corporation\nconducting research in a number offields including all science and\ntechnology aspects ofastronomy and planetary sciences, chemical\nevolution, the origin oflife, biological evolution, and cultural\nevolution.\nDuring several space missions, NASA astronauts have reported\nphenomena not immediately explainable; however, in every instance\nNASA determined that the observations could not be termed\n\"abnormal\" in the space environment. The 194 7 to 1969 USAF\ninvestigations studied UFO's under Project Blue Book. The project,\nheadquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, was\n1 of3\n06/16/ 1998 10:35 AM"
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   "text": "l'he US dovemment and Unidentified Flying Objects\nhttp://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/facts/HTML/FS-017-HQ.html\n.\n.\nterminated December 17, 1969. Ofthe total of 12,618 sightings\nreported to Project Blue Book, 701 remain \"unidentified.\"\nThe decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based on an\nevaluation ofa report prepared by the University ofColorado\nentitled, \"Scientific Study ofUnidentified Flying Objects;\" a review\nofthe University ofColorado's report by the National Academy of\nSciences; previous UFO studies; and Air Force experience\ninvestigating UFO reports during the 1940's, '50's and '60's. As a\nresult ofexperience, investigations, and studies since 1948, the\nconclusions of Project Blue Book were: (1) no UFO reported,\ninvestigated, and evaluated by the Air Force was ever a threat to our\nnational security; (2) there was no evidence submitted to, or\ndiscovered by, the Air Force that sightings categorized as\n\"unidentified\" represented technological developments or principles\nbeyond the range of modem scientific knowledge; and (3) there was\nno evidence indicating that sightings categorized as \"unidentified\"\nwere extraterrestrial vehicles.\nWith the termination ofProject Blue Book, the USAF regulation\nestablishing and controlling the program for investigating and\nanalyzing UFO's was rescinded. Documentation regarding the\nformer Project Blue Book investigation was permanently transferred\nto the •Modem Military Branch, National Archives and Records\nService, in Washington, DC 20408, and is available for public\nreview and analysis.\nSince the termination of Project Blue Book, nothing has occurred\nthat would support a resumption ofUFO investigations by the\nUSAF or NASA. Given the current environment ofsteadily\ndecreasing defense and space budgets, it is unlikely that the Air\nForce or NASA will become involved in this type ofcostly project\nin the foreseeable future.\nSince neither NASA nor the Air Force is engaged in day-to-day\nUFO research, neither one reviews UFO-related articles intended for\npublication, evaluates UFO-type spacecraft drawings, or accepts\naccounts of UFO sightings or applications for employment in the\nfield ofaerial phenomena investigation.\nUFO Points ofContact\n1. For further information on the Search for Extraterrestrial\nIntelligence, please contact the SETI Institute, 2035 Landings\nDrive, Mountain View, CA 94043, (415) 960-4530.\n2. News media requiring Project Blue Book files should contact\nthe National Archives Public Affairs Office, (202) 501-5525.\nPublic queries should be addressed to the Project Blue Book\narchivist at (202) 501-5385. For queries not related to Project\nBlue Book, contact the National Archives receptionist at (202)\n501-5400. Documentation is available from: Modem Military\nBranch, National Archives and Records Service, Eighth Street\nand Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408.\n3. The Air Force publication, \"The Roswell Report: Fact vs.\n2 of3\n06/16/1998 10:35 AM"
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   "text": "l'hc US Clovemment and Unidentified Flying O bjects\nhttp://www.hq.nasa .gov/officc/pao/ facts/l lT ML/FS-O I ?- HQ.html\n.\n\"\nFiction in the New Mexico Desert,\" a lengthy document\nproviding all ofthe details available from the Air Force on the\nRoswell incident, is available for $52 from the US\nGovernment Printing Office, Superintendent ofDocuments,\nMail Stop: SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-9328.\n4. There are a number of universities and professional scientific\norganizations that have considered UFO phenomena during\nperiodic meetings and seminars. A list ofprivate\norganizations interested in aerial phenomena may be found in\nGale's Encyclopedia ofAssociations.\n5. Persons wishing to report UFO sightings are advised to\ncontact law enforcement agencies.\nResponsible NASA Official: Elsie Weigel - eweigel@hg.nasa.gov\nWeb Page Curator: Woody Smith - woody.smith@hq.nasa.gov\nWeb Designer: Pamela Sams\nRevised: February 14, 1997\n3 of3\n06/ 16/1998 10:35 AM"
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   "text": "-\nL:A 1W:mtg:U1998-470f\n(6} (6)\nDear 'Cb) (6)\nCongressman Bart Gordon has asked NASA to respond to your recent letter to him\nwherein you enclosed an article on Congress funding the search for extraterrestrials.\nEnclosed is a fact sheet entitled \"The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects.\"\n~\n¥01:1 will Aete-.tAaHl'l the secenEI paragrc1~ -'1Ae Congress in 1993 directed NASA to end\n~\n~ ~\n·its-search tore~\n,;\n~\n1-J.s'\\\\\\\n<;,,Q_ ~\nToday the search for extraterrestrials is conducted through The Search for\n\\\n.\n~ -\nExtraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI Institute) in Mountain View, CA.\nX'.t.\n0\n\\i Q!. ~-...)\n' \\J\n1\n~\n..J J\\--e.\nWe appreciate your interest in this matter~~ ~ k v-:-'f- f ~\n1<:>_,,.\n( ~< +\nSincerely,\nIs\n1>-1} ~\n•\n)'~\n~~\n~ - ~~\n~\n,/\n·v\\.,~\n'f\n~\nEdward Heffernan\n~~\n(Acting) Associate Administrator\nfor Legislative Affairs\n~\nEnclosure\n~9.\ncc:\nThe Honorable Bart Gordon"
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   "text": ".....\necc:\nS/Ruth Netting\nLB/Barbara Cherry\nSent to Patton Lane @ Hill Office (2201 RHOS)"
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   "text": "LA98-00106\nSecurity: U\nName\nTo:\nGOLDIN\nAction/Info: A\nDue Date - Current: 05/28/98\nDue Date - Original: 05/28/98\nSuspense Status: C\nDate Completed: 05/01/98\nAction Office: L/S\nWARD\nInfo Copy: AI,EH,LH,MDK\nSignature Office: HENINGER\nEnclosures: N\nClerk: JM\nInterim Replies\nDates:\nComments :\nResponse Progress :\nRel'd records: A98-00789\nFile plans : 1320.4\nType: I\nNo.\nOrganization\n1\nADMINISTRATOR\n0\n0\n43\nWHR\n0\n0\nTopics\nWritten : 03/16/98\nReceived: 04/23/98\n!Keywords\nWHITE\nHOUSE\nCSETI\nHEARING\nPUBLIC\nUFO\nEXTRATERRESTRIAL\nEVIDENCE\nStorage Location:\nSummary of Contents:\nWHITE HOUSE REFERRAL : (o) (B)\n, MEMBER OF CSETI, SUPPORTS OPEN CONGRESSIONAL\nHEARINGS, OR A PRESIDENTIAL DISCUSSION, REGARDING EVIDENCE AS TO THE EXISTENCE\nOF ALIEN BEINGS AND SPACECRAFT.\nReferred\nNo.\nOrganization\nFrom :\n0\n0\n0"
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   "text": "AY\nL:A TW:mtg:LA98-106f\n(6) (6)\nDear(Df(o)\nThe White House has forwarded to NASA for response your letter of March 16, 1998, in which\nyou advocate Congressional Hearings or a Presidential Discussion regarding alien beings and\ntheir spacecraft.\nEnclosed is a NASA Fact Sheet entitled \"The U.S. Government and Unidentified Flying Objects.\"\nThis Fact Sheet gives a brief outline of NASA's research into UFO's and will give you other\npoints of contact you may wish to pursue.\nWe appreciate your interest in this matter.\nEdward Heffernan\n(Acting) Associate Administrator\nfor Legislative Affairs\nEnclosure\nThis letter came to us via_the White House Bulk Mail\n5lih1cw;✓\n113(\nc#t\n~-; I /7 l\n5\"/11w"
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   "text": "4122/98\n15:46:44\nCorrespondence and Action Tracking System\nCORRESPONDENCE ACTION\nCode A\nID Number:\nA98-00789\nTitle:\nWHR BULK: PUBLIC CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON EXTRATERRESTRIAL EVIDENCE\nRecipient:\nGOLDIN\nOrganization: A\n•other Recipients / Organizations•:\n,(6\\ (6)--,\nAuthor:\n, '\n'\nI\nOrganization: WHR BULK\n•other Authors/ Organizations*:\n/\nDate Written:\n03/16/1998\nDate Received:\n04/22/1998\nOriginal Date Due:\n05/28/1998\n>> Current Date Due:\n05/28/1998 <<\nSubmitted for Signature:\nDate Signed:\njDate Completed:\nAction Office: L\nAction Officer: HEFFERNAN\nInfo Copies:\nA. AB,S, P\nSignature Office:\nSignature Officer:\nL\nStatus: Open\nIn/Out: Incoming\nPriority: Nonnal\n*Responsible Office I Responsible Officer (Due Date)*:\nWHR BULK: (6) (S)\n_( MINNEAPOLIS, MN, & MEMBER OF CSETI, SUPPORTS OPEN\nAbstract: CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS, OR EVEN A PRESIDENTIAL DISCUSSION, REGARDING\nEVIDENCE AS TO THE EXISTENCE OF ALIEN BEINGS AND SPACECRAFT IN OUR\nGOVERNMENT'S POSESSION.\nEnclosures:\nNONE\nComments:\nClerk:\nvc\nAd Hoc:\nI"
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   "text": "Headquarters Action Tracking System (HA TS)\nINCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION\nID Number: A/1998-00310\nTitle: WHR Bulk: Public Congressional Hearings on Extraterrestrial\nEvidence\nRecipient:\nA/Goldin\nAuthor:\nOrganization:\nWHRBulk\nDate Written:\n03/16/1998\nDate Received:\n04/22/1998\nDate Concurred:\nDate Submitted:\nDate Signed:\nDate Closed:\nAction Office:\nUHeffeman\n>>Current Due Date:\n<<\nOriginal Due Date:\nStatus:\nOpen\nSignature Office:\nUHeffeman\nInfo Offices:\nA/Goldin, AB/Heffernan, PJWILHIDE, S/HUNTRESS\nAbstract:\nWHR Bulk: (o) (S)\nMinneapolis, MN, Member of CSETI, supports open Congresional Hearings, or\neven a Presidential discussion, regarding evidence as to the existence of alien beings and spcecraft in our\nGovernment's posession.\n•\nComments:\nEnclosures:\nNone\nRelated Records:\nA98-00789\nKeywords: WHR Bulk Open Congressional Hearings Alien Beings ET's spacecraft CSETI\nFile Plan:\nAnalyst: VCoates\n04/22/1998\nPage 1 of 1"
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   "text": "From nobody@wwwl.whitehouse.gov Mon Mar 16 22: 19:34 1998\nDate: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 22:16:43 -0500\nFrom:(6J (S)\ndo) (6)\n_J>\nSubject: Inbound-White_House_ WWW _MAIL => PRESIDENT\nApparently-to: president@WhiteHouse.GOV\nTo: president@WhiteHouse.GOV\nErrors-t<?: The Postmaster <postmaster@www 1. whi~~e.gov>\n~ ­\nReply-to: (b) (6)\n<(o) 6)\n~\n~\\:i,VOftf;J .\n.-? •\nMessage-id: <! 998031703 I 6. W AA!4!32@wwwl.whittJ(J.,j{fJ,l,fif0,4L. .\nKeywords: WWW-Correspondence; ; Ask a specific question regJfn~iS\nAdministration policy; Science or Technology; Private· Citizen;\nComments: Forwarded from White House WWW\n~ t,,A.,.}.. c-'\nComments: This message scanned by SCAN version 0.1 jms/960226\n-\"!\nr l....~-~~j .\n[Connection Information]\n~1;J-­\nCLIENT:\n206.147.215.243[206.147.215.243]\nBROWSER:\nMozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.02; Windows 3.1)\nURL:\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Mail/html/Mail_Fresident.html\n[Sender Information]\nPERSONAL-NAME: (5) (6)\nEMAIL-ADDRESS:\nORGANIZATION:\nCSETI\nRELATIONSHIP:\nmember._________\nSTREET-ADDRESS: (b) (6)\nCITY:\nMinneapolis---------~\nSTATE-PROVINCE:\nMN\nZIP-CODE:\n55405\nCOUNTRY:\nUSA\n[Message Information]\nPURPOSE:\nAsk a specific question regarding Administration policy\nTOPIC:\nScience or Technology\nAFFILIATION:\nPrivate Citizen\nSUBJECT:\npublic congressional hearings on extraterrestrial evidence\n(Message)\nDear Mr. President:\nDuring these trying days in your Presidency, I want to let\nyou know and appreciate the work you have done as President\nA/1<11S--·ao 31()\nA'IB-tJO 78'1"
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   "text": "and the warmth and good humor you've displayed. I would like\nto suggest as a way ofchanging the headlines about sex in the\nWhite House, to an area that would give you a real legacy and\nenlighten the world as to are place in the universe ...\nAs a member of CSETI, I support open Congressional Hearings\nor even a Presidential Discussion - public - regarding\nevidence as to the existence ofalien beings and spacecraft\nin our government's possession. Last April members ofyour\nstaff were present during Congressional Hearings in private\nwith people who were in someway connected with knowledge\nabout alien beings, ET technology, spacecraft. Did those\ndiscussions make you more interested to know more or are you\nbeing advised not encourage any more meetings with CSETI?\nSometimes, sir ... you have to take a positive risk on\nmatters that can change the world for the better. The Richard\nHelms and Strom Thurmond types must be dealt with firmly.\nWhether it's opening Cuba to economic trade or a healthy\ndiscussion on a matter that will be far more remembered than\nwhom you may or may not have had sex with, standing up to\nthese dinosaurs and people like them, will go a long way in\nthe American public's and historians recognition ofyou as a\nleader to another level.\nI do not have CSETI's telephone number in order for you and\nyour staff to coordinate hearings with Dr. Steven Greer. But,\nhis website address is: www.cseti.org\nI've heard early in your Presidency you asked former\ncolleage Webster Hubbel to investigate what is\nknown about UFO's. I think compared to past presidents, you\nhave been kept in the dark about ET\nmatters. Well, I hope that your interest in the topic hasn't\ntotally diminished. Scientists, engineers, former astronauts,\nmilitay personnel and just plain citizens would like to speak\nup and discuss what they know. The American public's attitude\nwould tum from initial cynicism to enlightenment. Even if it\nmeans we are not on good terms with are alien visitors, or\nwe are not the smartest or strongest intelligent power out\nthere, we can handle it."
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   "text": "So ... I do hope you receive this e-mail and not just one of\nthe many ~sistants answering letters for you. This letter can\nmake a difference ... and so can you Mr. President. It won't\ncost millions of dollars to conduct a hearing/investigation\nofpotential huge benefits to so many.\nBest Regards,\n(o) (6)"
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   "text": "..\nL:ATW: mtg:LA98-106f\nDRAFT\n) (6)\nThe White House has foiwarded to NASA for response your letter of March 16, 1998, in which\nyou advocate Congressional Hearings or a Presidential Discussion regarding alien beings and\ntheir spacecraft.\n., ~ ·\n~\nEnclosed is a NASA Fact Sheet entitled 1he U.S. Government and Unidentified Flying Objects.\nThis Fact Sheet gives a brief outline of NASA's research into UFO's and will give you other\npoints of contact 0A;;f:~ou may wish to pursue.\nWe appreciate your interest in this matter.\nSincerely,\nEdward Heffernan\n(Acting) Associate Administrator\nfor Legislative Affairs\nEnclosure"
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   "text": "Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)\nINCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION\nID Number: U1998-00415\nTitle: ROTHMAN/Sen Snowe fwds ltr from <5) (5)\nwho's interested in\n,,_________\nU.F.O.'s sightings and abductions\nRecipient:\nL/Heffernan\nAuthor:\nSNOWE\nOrganization:\nSENATE\nDate Written:\n05/13/1998\nDate Received:\n05/27/1998\nDate Concurred:\nDate Submitted:\nDate Signed:\n05/27/1998\nDate Closed:\n05/27/1998\nAction Office:\nLD/Rothman:P\n>>Current Due Date:\n06/17/1998<<\nOriginal Due Date:\nStatus:\nClosed\nSignature Office:\nUHeffernan\nInfo Offices:\nUHeffernan, UHeninger, UKerwin\nAbstract:\nSEN SNOWE FWDS L TR FROM (o) (6)\nWHO'S INTERESTED IN UFO'S SIGHTINGS AND\nABDUCTIONS.\n--------­\nComments:\nHelen spoke w/staffer referring him to Air Force; fwded fax sheet on UFOs.\nEnclosures:\nYES LTR\nRelated Records:\nKeywords: (b) (6)\nU.F.O. SIGHTINGS ABDUCTION\nFile Plan: 1320.4\nAnalyst: BMoore\n05/27/1998\nPage 1 of 1"
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   "text": "-------\nDate: ~&1 /ji\nTime: c) '. os\nPhone#:\nFax#: !l~Ll - \\9\\/ '4,\nFrom:\nHelen Rothman\nDirector, Congressional Inquiries Division\nOffice ofLegislative Affairs\nVoice#: (202) 358-1943\nFax#: (202) 358-4343\nMessage: Gl\\c.u )2 -\nCAc::r'. ~\nf a-i, ru,\" J\nClf'<'\\V&6~\nNumber of Pages __ including cover"
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   "text": "NASA Facts\nNational Aeronautics and\nSpace Administration\nNASA Headquarters\nPublic Affairs Office\nCode P\n300 E Street SW\nWashington DC 20546\nFS-1997-01-017-HQ\nThe US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects\nNo branch ofthe United States Government is cwrently in­\nvolved with or responsible for investigations into the possi­\nbility ofalien life on other planets orfor investigating Uni­\ndentifiedFlyingObjects (UFO's). The US Air Force (USAF)\nand the National Aeronautics and Space Administration\n(NASA) have had intennittent, independent investigations\nofthe possibility ofalien life onother planets; however, none\nof these has produced factual evidence that life exists on\nother planets, nor that UFO's are related to aliens. From\n1947to 1969, the Air Force investigated UFO's; then in1977,\nNASA was asked to examine the possibility of resuming\nUFO investigations. After studying all of the facts avail­\nable, it was determined that nothing would be gained by\nfurther investigation, since there was an absence oftangiole\nevidence.\nInOctober 1992, NASA was directed by Congress to begin\na detailed search for artificial radio signals from other civi­\nlizations under the NASA Towards Other Planetary Systems\n(TOPS)/High Resolution Microwave Swvey (HR.MS) pro­\ngram (also known as the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelli­\ngence project). Congress directed NASA to end this project\ninOctober 1993, citing pressures on the US Federal budget\nThe HRMS did not detect any confmned signal before it\nwas stopped. However, similar work will continue ina more\nlimited manner through efforts ofprivate groups and through\nacademic institutions. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intel­\nligence Institute (SETI Institute) in Mountain View, CA,\neffectively replaced the Government project, borrowing the\nsignal processing system from NASA: The SETI Institute\nis a nonprofit corporation conducting research in a number\noffields including all science and technology aspects ofas­\ntronomy and planetary sciences, chemical evolution, the ori­\ngin of life, biological evolution, and cultural evolution.\nDuring several space missions, NASA astronauts have re­\nported phenomena not immediately explainable; however,\nin every instance NASA determined that the observations\ncould not be tenned \"abnormal\" in the space environment.\nThe 1947 to 1969 USAF investigations studied UFO's un­\nderProject Blue Book. The project, headquartered atWright­\nPatterson Air Force Base, Ohio, was terminated December\n17, 1969. Ofthe total of12,618 sightings reported to Project\nBlue Book, 701 remain \"unidentified.\"\nThe decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based\non an evaluation of a report prepared by the University of\nColorado entitled, \"Scientific Study ofUnidentified Flying\nObjects;\" a review ofthe University ofColorado's report by\nthe National Academy of Sciences; previous UFO studies;\nand Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during\nthe 1940's, '50's and '60's. As a result ofexperience, inves­\ntigations, and studies since 1948, the conclusions ofProject\nBlue Book were: (1) no UFO reported, investigated, and\nevaluatedby the Air Force was ever a threat to our national\nsecurity; (2) there was no evidence submitted to, ordiscov­\nered by, the Air Force that sightings categorized as \"uniden­\ntified\" represented technological developments orprinciples\nbeyond the range of modem scientific knowledge; and (3)\nthere was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized\nas \"unidentified\" were extraterrestrial vehicles.\nWith the termination ofProject Blue Book, the USAF regu­\nlation establishing and controlling the program for investi­\ngating and analyzing UFO's was rescinded. Documentation\nregarding the former Project Blue Book investigation was\npermanently transferred to the Modem Military Branch,\nNational Archives and Records Service, in Washington, DC\n20408, and is available for public review and analysis.\nSince the termination ofProject Blue Book, nothing has oc­\ncwred that would support a resumption of UFO investiga­\ntions by the USAF or NASA. Given the cwrent environ­\nment ofsteadily decreasing defense and space budgets, it is\nunlikely that the Air Force or NASA will become involved\nin this type ofcostly project in the foreseeable future."
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   "text": "Since neither NASA nor the Air Force is engaged in day-to­\nday UFO research, neither one reviews UFO-related articles\nintended for publication, evaluates UFO-type spacecraft\ndrawings, or accepts accounts ofUFO sightings orapplica­\ntions for employment in the field ofaerial phenomena inves­\ntigation.\nUFO Points ofContact\n1. Forfurther infonnation on the Search for Extraterrestrial\nIntelligence, please contact the SETI I~itute, 2035 Land­\nings Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043, (415) 960-4530.\n2. News media requiring Project Blue Bookfiles should con­\ntact the National Archives Public Affairs Office, (202) 501­\n5525. Public queries should be addressed to the Project\nBlue Book archivist at (202) 501-5385. For queries not\nrelated to Project Blue Book, contact the National Ar­\nchives receptionist at(202) 501-5400. Documentation is\navailable from: Modem Military Branch, National Ar­\nchives and Records Service, Eighth Street and Pennsyl­\nvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408.\n3. The Air Force publication, \"The Roswell Report: Fact\nvs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert,\" a lengthy docu­\nment providing all of the details available from the Air\nForce on the Roswell incident, is available for $52 from\nthe US Government Printing Office, Superintendent of\nDocwnents, Mail Stop: SSOP, Washington, DC 20402­\n9328.\n4. There are a nwnber of universities and professional sci­\nentific organizations that have considered UFO phenom­\nena during periodic meetings and seminars. A list ofpri­\nvate Oiganizations interested inaerial phenomena may be\nfound in Gale's Encyclopedia ofAssociations.\n5. Persons wishing to report UFO sightings are advised to\ncontact law enforcement agencies.\n2"
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   "text": "< CONFIRMATION REPORT>\n05-27-1998(WED) 13:57\n[\nTRAN S MIT\nJ\nNO.\nDATE\nTIME\nDESTINATION\nPG .\nDURATION\nMODE\nRESULT\n18529\n5-27 13:55\n202 224 1946\n3\n0°01'31\"\nNORM .E\nOK\n3\n0°01'31\""
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   "text": "< CONFIRMATION REPORT >\n05-27- 1998(WEO) 13:57\n[\nTRANS MIT J\nNO.\nDATE\nTIME\nDEST! NATION\nPG.\nDURATION\nMODE\nRESULT\n18529\n5-27 13:55\n202 224 1946\n3\n0°01 '31\"\nNORM . E\nOK\n3\n0° 01 '31\""
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   "text": "OL VMPIA J SNOWE\nMAINE\nCoUNSEL TO THE AsSIS'l\"ANT\nMAJOftllY l.EAoEA\nCOMMITTEES:\nARMED SERVICES\nBUDGET\nCOMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND\n250 RUSSELL SENATE Orn« BUILDING\nTRANSPORTATION\n(202) 224-5344\nCHAIR OF\nOCEANS AND FISHERIES\nWASHINGTON, DC 20510-1903\nSUBCOMMITTEE\nMay 13, 1998\nSMALL BUSINESS\nMr. Lawrence E. Medway\nDirector, Congressional Inquiries Division\nNational Aeronautic and Space Administration\n300 E. Street, SW\nWashington, D.C. 20546\nDear Mr. Medway:\nI am writing to you regarding the concerns of my constituent, (5) (S)\nof\nPortland, Maine.\n_____,is interested in U.F.O. sightings and abductions. I have enclosed a copy\nof his correspondence for your review. Any information you could provide which\nwould help me answer his questions would be appreciated.\nThank you for your time and attention.\nOJS:mjb\nA UBURN\nAUGUSTA\nBANGOR\n8IOOEFORO\nPORTlANO\nPRESQUE ISLE\nTwo GREAT FALLS P1.AlA\n68 SEWALL STREET, SUITE 101C\nONE CuM8EALA.NO PLACE, SUnE 306\n231 M AIN STReer, SUITE 2\n3 CANAL Pl.A2A, Sum, 601\n169 ACAOcMY STREET, Sum 3\nSurre 78\nAVGUSTA, ME 04330\nBANGOR, ME 04401\n810DE.FORD, ME 04005\nP.O. Sox 188\nPa£SOUE ISt.E, ME 04769\nAu8UAN, ME 04210\n1207) 786-2451\n(207) 622-8292\n(207) 945-0432\n(207) 282-4144\nPORTI.AND, ME 04112\n(207) 874--0883\n(207) 764-5124\nMAINE RElAY SERVICE\nTOO 1-955--3323\nIN MAINE CALL TOLL-FREE 1- 800-432- 1599\nPRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER"
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   "text": "~\ni-;J 7953\n(r'l ?C{\nAPR O1 1998\nFEBUARY 22 1998\nTIME- 9:11 am\nDear Senitor Olyimpia Snow,\nMy name is <6H6>\nI'm from Portland, Maine. I'm 12 years\nold. (6) (6)\n__ __ __\n. I heard about the fredom of\ninformation act. I would be so grateful it you could get any or all\ngovernment documents released on the Roswell crash. I'm a U.F.O.\nresearcher. I have heard about the following U.F.O. sightings and\nabductions:\n1. LAS LUNAS, NEW MEXICO LATE JUNE1977 11 :30A.M.\n2. SHIROYAMA, KAWANOE CITY JAPAN FEB/2/ 75 16:00 MILITARY TIME\n3. WAIKIKI BEACH, HONOLULU, HAWAII MARCH/1 5/93 12:00 P.M.\n4. COLFAX, WISCONSIN APRIU1 9/ 78 13:30 MILITARY TIME\n5. DENVER, COLARODO MAY/1991 AFTERNOON\n6. BARCELONA, SPAIN JUNE/1978 SUNDOWN\n7. MONTEMORELOS, NUEVA LEON, MEXICO SUMMER OF 1994 AFTERNOON\n8. VANCOUVER, B.C. CANADA OCTOBER/17 /1992\n9. GULF BREEZ, FLORADA SEPTEMBER/24/1994 18:50 MILITARY TIME\n10. ZACATELCO, TLAXCALA, MEXICO OCTOBER/ 31 /199 1\n11. VIBORG, JUTLAND, DENMARK NOVEMBER/17/74 9:00 A.M.\n12. COCOYOC, MORELOS, MEXICO NOVEMBER/3/73 9:00 A.M.\n13. BELJUM MIDNIGHT\n14. MT. KIDTARDIN, MAINE MIDNIGHT 3 CAMPERS WERE ABDUCTED\n15. GROOM LAKE NEVADA AREA 51 FREQUNTLY\nAs you have read ldo know alot aboout U.F.O'S. I also knoew in RIGHT\nPATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO THERE KEEPING ALIENS AND CRAFT IN\nHANGER 18. THERE IS ALSO A GOVERNMENT AGENCY CALLED M.J.12.\nI know that U.F.O'S visit america frequntly and our government knows\nabout it. Soon every political persons are going to get a pitition from a\nhigh school in New Hampshire to have information on the Roswell crash\nreleased to th~ public. I have heard roomers that at HULAMAN AIR FORCE\nBASE A U.F.O. LANDED AND THE HIGH RANKING PERSON AT THE BASE TALKED\nTO THE ALIEN. The government made a big mistake by letting Aliens\ninto the country and can do nothing about it.\nsincerly,\n(6) (6\")~ --~----­\nP.S.\nI'm including my address, phone number, and P.O. box.\nAPR O 7 1998\n1\nt"
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   "text": "-------\nHeadquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)\nINCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION\nID Number: L/1998-00415\nTitle: ROTHMAN/Sen Snowe fwds ltr from (o) (5)\nwho's interested in\nU.F.O.'s sightings and abductions\nRecipient:\nAuthor:\nOrganization:\nAction Office:\nStatus:\nUHeffernan\nSNOWE\nSENATE\nLD/Rothman:P\nOpen\nDate Written:\nDate Received:\nDate Concurred:\nDate Submitted:\nDate Signed:\nDate Closed:\n>>Current Due Date:\nOriginal Due Date:\n05/13/1998\n05/27/1998\n06/17/1998<<\nSignature Office:\nUHeffernan\nInfo Offices:\nUHeffernan, UHeninger, UKerwin\nAbstract:\nSEN SNOWE FWDS L TR FROM (6f{SJ\nWHO'S INTERESTED IN UFO'S SIGHTINGS AND\nABDUCTIONS.\nComments:\nEnclosures:\nYES LTR\nRelated Records:\nKeywords: (b) (6)\nU.F.O. SIGHTINGS ABDUCTION\nFile Plan:\nAnalyst: BMoore\n05/27/1998\nPage 1 of 1"
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