Gordon Cooper Quotes

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• Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.
• Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be…
• I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its…
• I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit…
• I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than…
• Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and…
• I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in…
• Government is afraid that people may think the worst and panic about these creepy horrible invaders. So the idea is: We have to avoid panic…
• While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of…
• A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen) went out there with their…
• Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base Germany, 1951 and we tried to get…
• For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day,…
• I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.
• While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they…
• Who was the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at 'im.
• Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this…
• I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.

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