Astronauts are screened for their mental stability, high intellect, sober personality and experience with aerospace, that makes it extra special when they have seen something they couldn't identify (and sometimes even belief is extra-terrestrial).
There are probably around 8 or so more astronauts who have seen something extraordinary and who have spoken about it, unfortunately many of the alleged statements are difficult to be retrieved from old archives, magazines, radio interviews and such.
Full lists of the alleged quotes http://www.syti.net/UFOSightings.html and www.spaceflare.net
There are probably around 8 or so more astronauts who have seen something extraordinary and who have spoken about it, unfortunately many of the alleged statements are difficult to be retrieved from old archives, magazines, radio interviews and such.
Full lists of the alleged quotes http://www.syti.net/UFOSightings.html and www.spaceflare.net
The most noteworthy statement comes directly from NASA themselves, in 2007 they admitted they 'chased many many many of these things' and were never able to find out what they were:
"I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth."
- Colonel Gordon Cooper (video)
"I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real. It has been covered up by governments for quite some time now."
- Captain Edgar Mitchell (video)
"There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time."
- Dr. Brian O'Leary (video)
"On two of my missions, and I still don't have an answer, I have seen a snake out there, 6, 7, 8 feet long, it is rubbery because it has internal waves in it and it follows you for a rather long period of time. The more you fly in space the more you see an incredible amount of things out there and that sort of brings to you, really a certainty that some living creatures are out there."
- Story Musgrave, M.D. (video)
- Story Musgrave, M.D. (video)
"Yes, during my flight in Gemini 64 I saw an object in space, fairly close to our spacecraft that I could not identify. [...] All of our ground tracking data indicated that there shouldn't have been an object anywhere near us at the time. [...] I know all kinds people who have claim to have seen [UFOs] , some of them are very legitimate."
- Brigadier general James McDivitt (video) |
"It looked like a saucer sitting on an edge, about a 45 degree angle. [...] What ever it was, for what ever reason, just took off climbing at about a 45 degree angle.. and just accelerated and just disappeared. I obviously couldn't follow it with an old piston engine fighter."
- Major Donald K. Slayton (video)
- Major Donald K. Slayton (video)
"I saw next to us, about one and a half kilometers away, and about 1000 meters higher. There is a flying object, it's shape is a perfect right triangle. It was white, a very bright white. I am a pilot, a fighter pilot and know many different type of flying aircraft. It was like nothing I have ever seen.
[Voice over:] 'Ground control could not detect any objects even though the object could be seen by all occupants in the plane.'
It traveled a parallel course, and it's speed -- if we were traveling approx. 1000 kph, it was traveling about 1500 kph, because it passed us rather quickly. In about 30-40 seconds it passed by and overtook us."
- Major General Pavel Popovich (video)
[Voice over:] 'Ground control could not detect any objects even though the object could be seen by all occupants in the plane.'
It traveled a parallel course, and it's speed -- if we were traveling approx. 1000 kph, it was traveling about 1500 kph, because it passed us rather quickly. In about 30-40 seconds it passed by and overtook us."
- Major General Pavel Popovich (video)
"On May 5, 1981, we were in orbit. I saw an object that didn’t resemble any cosmic objects I’m familiar with. It was a round object which resembled a melon, round and a little bit elongated. In front of this object was something that resembled a gyrating depressed cone, I can draw it, it’s difficult to describe. The object resembles a barbell. I saw it becoming transparent and like with a ‘body’ inside. At the other end I saw something like gas discharging, like a reactive object. Then something happened that is very difficult for me to describe from the point of view of physics. I have to recognize that it did not have an artificial origin. It was not artificial because an artificial object couldn’t attain this form. I don’t know of anything that can make this movement.. tightening, then expanding, pulsating. Then as I was observing something happened, two explosions. One explosion, and then 0.5 seconds later, the second part exploded. I called my colleague Viktor [Savinykh], but he didn’t arrive in time to see anything."
- Major-General Vladimir Kovalenok (video)
- Major-General Vladimir Kovalenok (video)
"I think we are not alone in the universe, I belief that someone or something of Extra-Terrestrial origin visited earth.
[Voice over:] 'Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev saw an Unidentified Flying Object turn towards his craft and began tailing it through space.' "It followed us half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side it disappeared completely. It was an engineering structure, made from some kind of metal, approx 40 meters long with inner holes, the object was nearer here and bigger here. Some places had projections like small wings. The object stayed very close to us. We photographed it. Our photos showed it to be 23 to 28 meters away." [Voice over:] 'When the cosmonaut returned to earth he was debriefed, told never to reveal anything he knew and had his cameras and film confescated. Those photos and voice transmissions have never been released.' - Hero of the Soviet Union Viktor Afanasyev (video) |
Recreation of his sighting.
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"I saw something that looked it had broken off the ship, besides that the object was spinning as it was moving away and the intensity of the shine changed. I can't really tell how distant it was. I can only say it wasn't close, because the camera was adjusted to infinity. After I examined the ship, I realized that there was nothing that could have separated, also no alarm went off, everything was calm."
- Colonel Musa Manarov (video)
- Colonel Musa Manarov (video)
Semi-relevant.
"We are the aliens, we just think they are somebody else. Because somebody else had to survive and they came in a little spacecraft and they came here and they landed and they started civilization here. That's what I belief and if you don't belief me go get books on the ancient Sumerians and see what they had to say, they'll tell you right up front." Referring to the ancient alien hypothesis. -Astronaut Alfred Worden (Col, USAF, Ret.) (video) |