Mission control, We have a UFO pacing our position…

Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do…

— Gene Kranz

I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself on the shuttle.

— Julie Payette

“Her work would inform mission control if the first American satellite would be a success or a crushing failure.”

— Nathalia Holt

Mission Control in Houston receives our e-mails through a satellite and then sends them out to our family and friends. Likewise, any e-mails written…

— Sunita Williams

With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short…

— Donald Keyhoe

Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance…

— Seth Shostak

“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are…

— Bill Bryson

In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone!

— Charles Camarda

A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we are indeed…

— Michael Hesemann

Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.

— David Pilbeam

In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend…

— Gerald R. Ford

I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in…

— J. Edgar Hoover

For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea.…

— Carl Sagan

In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the days before…

— Seth Shostak

Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered…

— Seth Shostak