"I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then realised that no kite is gonna fly that high. As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, grey and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn’t look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disc. About the same time, I realised that it was suddenly going away from me – and there I was, running at about 300 miles an hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared. "A couple of days later I was having a beer with my commanding officer, and I thought, ‘what the hell, I’d better mention something to him about it’. I did, and he told me to get on down to intelligence and give them a report. I did and I never heard anything more on it." (1) The first astronaut to definitely observe anomalous phenomena in orbit around the Earth was Major Gordon Cooper during the May 15th 1963 Faith 7 Mercury flight mission. Whilst making his fourth pass over Hawaii, Cooper claims he heard strange voices transmissions which he described as being "unintelligible foreign language" (2).
Keyoe also claims he received his information from several scientists who were tracing the flight of GT-1 on radar from Cape Kennedy. These scientists reported that the four objects continued to follow the spacecraft, shadowing it for a complete orbit before suddenly streaking off and disappearing. In June 1965, Major James McDivitt (above) and America’s first space walker, Major Edward White, saw and photographed a glowing egg shaped object (above), which approached the Gemini IV (3rd June –7th June 1965) capsule in which they were orbiting the Earth.
The footage shows an egg shaped structure giving off a fan like glow, with a long tail of light. The following is the actual Mission Control report on the sighting: "This is Gemini Control. We are now 30 hours and 9 minutes into the mission. Spacecraft Gemini 4 has just completed a pass over the state on its 20th orbit." In voice communication with Gus Grissom, spacecraft communicator, Command Pilot Jim McDivitt reported that he had sighted another object in space. He described it only as an object that appeared to have big arms sticking out. He said he had taken some motion pictures of the object, but was having some difficulty because of the sun." (6)
McDivitt answered, "no, I’ve lost it. It had been arms sticking out of it… I only had it for just a minute, I got a couple of pictures of it with the movie camera and one with the Hasselblad. But I was in free drift and before I could get the control back, I drifted into the sun and lost it." (7) Mission control later approached the Space Detection and Tracking System seeking to identify the unknown object, however they were advised that the closest object was more than 1200 miles away. Mission Control later questioned the astronauts about the ‘sighting’: Capcom: Roger, could you give us an estimate as to how far that satellite was from you yesterday? Gemini 4: I couldn’t really tell, it looked like quite a large object. It looked like I was approaching it rather rapidly. I’d say ten miles or so. Capcom: Ten miles? McDivitt: That would be only a guess. It was close enough that I could see…. Capcom: See what? McDivitt: [garbled transmission.] Capcom: You’re coming off pretty bad there. I couldn’t read that. McDivitt: OK. Capcom: That came through good. McDivitt: All right. I said I got close enough to…. Capcom: Close enough to it … to what? The nearest we can tell, there wasn’t anything that close to you. Pegasus was about 1200 miles away. McDivitt: No, not that close. That far away. Capcom: Pretty good eyeball, all right. McDivitt: I took a picture. I just hope it comes out. Capcom: So do we. (8)
The Condon report makes the following observation on this sighting. "The general reconstruction of the sighting … is that in addition to the booster travelling in an orbit similar to that of the spacecraft there was another bright object together with many illuminated objects. It might be conjectured that the bogey and particles were fragments from the launching of Gemini 7, but this is impossible if they were travelling in a polar orbit as they appeared to be doing." (13) The following transmission took place on the Gemini X mission (18th-21st July 1966) of 18th July 1966 when astronauts John Young and Mike Collins photographed a large cylindrical object: Gemini X: This is 10, Houston. We have two bright objects up here in our orbital path. I don’t think they are stars – they look like we are going right along with them. Mission Control: Roger. 10, Houston. Gemini X: 10: 10, go. Mission Control: Where are the objects from you? Gemini X: Roger. Mission Control: If you can get us a bearing, maybe we can track them down. Gemini X: They just disappeared. I guess they were - guess they were satellites of some kind. (later in the flight…) Gemini X: To the east we have an extremely bright object. I believe it’s too bright to be a planet. It’s north of Orion about six or eight degrees. Right now it’s approximately eight degrees. Is it Gemini VIII Agena? Over. Mission Control: Roger, we copy. Stand by. Gemini X: Picture that it makes just about an equilateral triangle with the belt stars in Orion and with Pleides. It’s a… Mission Control: Do you notice anything moving relative to the stars?Gemini X: Possible. I haven’t noticed any movements so far and unfortunately the starts are disappearing now and I can only see this object and one or two other first magnitude … sun starting to come up." (14)
Two months later, Gemini XII (11th –15th November 1966) photographed an object (right) on their second day out, however the NASA Photo Evaluation lab claims that this is actually rubbish that had been discarded from the spacecraft itself. If so, it is remarkably large and bright rubbish!
Little were they expecting to see a "disc shaped object" swooping by them several times and a ‘blinding light’ glaring into their eyes. They also claimed they felt a "wave of internal heat within the space capsule" (15) and they estimated the size of the object to be about ten square miles. They also heard strange radio noises, which they described as either being "intolerably high frequency noises" or "weird garble". (16) TAGS:UFOs, NASA UFOs, NASA Space Agency, Space Anomalies, NASA Astronauts, NASA Unexplained Sightings
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NASA has never actually denied that its astronauts have witnessed
anomalies in space; the organisation merely maintains that any such anomalies
should not automatically be viewed as ‘extra-terrestrial phenomenon’. The
organisation has even published photographs of such unidentified aerial objects:
each of the photographs on this page was taken by NASA and simply labelled
‘unknown object’ without any attempt to explain what the sighting might be.
hypothesis. Together
with information given by astronauts themselves, it appears that there is at
least a case to answer.
Secondly, although NASA is a civilian agency, it is
actually financed in part by the US Department of Defense, and in the past, most
astronauts were active duty military officers on detached status to NASA.
the depths of the
Cold War. Today, society is more open, and an increasing number of those ‘who
know’ are coming forward with accounts of their knowledge and experiences. (It
should also be remembered that the National Security Agency monitors all NASA
transmissions and screens all footage taken on missions – another method to
prevent information leaking into the public domain.)
Yet, as noted, many credible witnesses have come forward to
confirm that something is going on ‘out there’ that cannot be accounted for by
natural or terrestrial phenomena. The story starts in 1951 when former Mercury astronaut Donald ‘Deke’
Slayton (left) claimed that he had observed an unknown object whilst test
flying aircraft for the American military. He revealed the following in an
interview for the ‘National Enquirer’ in 1979;
The Mercury missions were followed by the Gemini space
flight series, and, according to some researchers, every astronaut in all twelve
space missions of this series saw one or more unexplainable objects in space.
NASA continued to claim such ‘encounters’ had never occurred. 
Major Donald E. Keyoe, former head of the National
Investigative Committee on Ariel Phenomena (NICAP), verified NASA’s statement.
He claimed that the very first unmanned flight in the Gemini series detected
anomalous phenomena, stating that he believed four such objects in orbit had
followed the spacecraft. 
The following day the astronauts another unknown object
from their spacecraft window and reported that the object was first above them
and then below. It appeared to be a cylindrical "silvery" light that seemed to
be "closing in" on the Gemini craft (left). The astronauts made preparations to
take evasive action "to avoid collision" and McDivitt took footage of the object
with his movie camera, taking five frames of film which show the object as it
made its flyby. 
A few moments later, Grissom (right) asked whether
McDivitt was still watching "that thing out there." 
In the following Gemini XI mission between 12th - 15th
September 1966, astronauts Pete Conrad and Richard Gordon described a cluster of
objects next to their craft as ‘large and very bright’. 
This Gemini XII mission encountered other strange
phenomena. Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin photographed what appear to be three glowing orbs
in space. In a three-minute period he took fifteen photographs showing the
objects moving. NASA, however, claimed that the objects or lights were merely
reflections from the instrumentation lights on a nearby docking vehicle, however
this is hardly plausible and somewhat discourteous to Aldrin’s intelligence.
The Apollo programme that led to the first known human
landings on the moon followed the Gemini missions. Astronauts Lovell, Anders and
Borman (Apollo 8 – 21st-27th December 1968) read from the
Bible as they made man’s first recognised orbit of the Moon; "In the beginning
God created the heavens and the Earth. And the Earth was without form and void,
and darkness was upon the face of the deep …"
