NASA correspondence files

1320.4 Aeronautics:UFO

Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS) INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION ID Number: L/1998-00407 Title: WARD/Sen Snowe fwds ltr from [REDACTED] who's interested in U.F.O. and the recent Mars photo Recipient: L/Heffernan Author: SNOWE Organization: SENATE Date Written: 05/18/…

Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS) INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION ID Number: L/1998-00729 Title: Rothman/UFO Sightings by Astronauts Recipient: L/Heffernan Author: Grassley Organization: Senate Date Written: 08/03/1998 Date Received: 08/31/1998 Date Concurred: Date Su…

L:HR:mtg:L/1998-729f The Honorable Charles E. Grassley United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Grassley: Thank you for your letter of August 3, 1998, on behalf of [REDACTED] who is requesting information about the possible sightings of Unidentified Flying Object…

+ bcc: Z/Roger Launius (with incoming) ; provided info Sent to Sherry Kuntz in the Hill office D/R 9/2/98 9/3/98

ASTRONAUTS & UFOs Since the "astronaut UFO" genre is one of the main pillars of UFO evidence, this study claiming that the entire set of cases is invalid wiil ouviousiy te received with skepticism and criticism from UFO buffs. Rational objections and arguments wiil be printed an…

archives has revealed cases where UFO researchers withheld certain information freely given them by NASA officials, information which would have clearly explained many cases which the authors wanted to appear mysterious. So the time has come to take a new look at this whole pheno…

The "McDivitt UFO", prize-winning astronaut photograph taken on Gemini-4. Actually, McDivitt explained later after the flight that the sun was coming across the window as the spacecraft rolled, the sun rays struck a metal bolt, causing the flares in the camera lens". NASA photo 6…

Artist's rendition of the astronauts' view of the rendezvous evaluation pod after it has been jettisoned from the Gemini adaptor section. Gemini radar locked on to evaluation pod. Scott Carpenter took this photo of a subsatellite balloon jettisoned by his Mercury-7 capsule in 19…

Gemini-4 photo of 30-foot long Titan booster rocket nearby in orbit; Fuzziness (a familiar space photo effect) is due to magnification. McDivitt later saw the booster again but failed to recognize it, giving rise to the most impressive UFO CASE in history. NASA S-65-35452. nobod…

On a recent "UFO recording" released by Columbia, called "UFOs: The Credibility Factor", McDivitt clearly shows how his memories have changed or been changed to enhance the mystery of his experience: "They (NASA) checked NORAD...to see what they had up on radar and there wasn't a…

The author and NASA photo analyst Richard Underwood show "space UFO" photos to Dr. J. Allen Hynek, director of the center for UFO studies, July, 1976. Hynek subsequently endorsed Oberg's conclusions. Saturn booster S-IV-b and four open "SLA" panels. On moon flights the four "pet…

Photo of Gemini-7 from Gemini-6, December 1965. The brightness aura is a common space photo effect and often makes point sources appear to be surrounded by a "force field" or an "exhaust trail". NASA photo S-65-65304. Japanese UFO organization) was take an ordinary photograph of…

a powerful argument against the validity of the rumors. So many ordinary things about the Soviet space program are SECRET (and long prison terms await anyone who even accidentally divulges such data) that it is incredible that so sensitive and significant a fact as a UFO sighting…

"Said to be ranging lights" on Gemini-12, according to Sandler. Compare with earlier photo showing Agena in the sunlight. Deliberate slanting of evidence. reproduced with the caption: "Shot during Gemini XII on November 13, 1966, and said to be Agena Ranging Lights prior to dock…

with four large triangular canted solar panels. (Conrad compared the sight to the strap-on boosters of a Titan-3 rocket.) Even the photographs show this when studied with real Proton-3 photographs close at hand. Astronaut Conrad and the UFO people clashed again over his next spa…

Gemini-11 photo of Proton-3 (arrow) and extreme enlargement of image. UFO magazines often print fuzzy blobs without indicating that object was highly magnified. Film artifacts cause "blobbiness". NASA photo S-66-54661. Let's take a moment to look at the Apollo-12 flight more car…

Apollo 11 UFO, 1969. Object tumbled past window immediately after Apollo pulled away from Saturn booster. Metamorphosis of obvious spacecraft insulation fragment into "odd-shaped UFO" is courtesy of Bob Barry of the fringe "20th Century UFO Bureau". Hans Holzer's "Ufonauts" (1976…

Two objects drifting out of open hatch (lower right) of Gemini-12. Both specks are out of focus and hence are within several feet of camera. -which had a very large depth of field. Object on right, in focus, is a scrap of paper. NASA photo S-66-62871. preceding them all the way.…

Since all the material Harder used to "prove" the existence of the incidents were public information (Harder could have read it in Saga, which is hardly a top SECRET government report), his reference to a coverup and to SECRET inside information were clearly only gimmicks to impr…

Proton satellite shown for the first time at Paris air show, May 1967. Four canted solar panels contributed to bizarre shapes on the Gemini-11 photo. Proton weighed 27,00 lbs. Its outer shroud was 14.8 feet in diameter. I.R.S. 53

Published newspaper story on UFSs captions this photo: "These two UFOs were photographed on July 19, 1969—the day before Apollo's historic moon landing—during Buzz Aldrin's scheduled lunar photo session. Note the similarity to the shot snapped three years earlier during Gemini-12…

EXCLUSIVE NASA PHOTOS These Are The Photos Taken When Your TV Screens Went Blank! This photo was snapped only moments after Aldrin's other Apollo 11 shot. Here the two UFOs have begun their separation and a halo-like force field between the two is clearly shown. pretty obvious…

for this delusion to be generously distributed to UFO buffs, NASA public affairs officers, sensation-seeking news media, and lazy readers. And the "astronaut UFO" genre is not yet complete. Let's return to some more examples. Another example of selective omission of facts occurs…

NASA photo (right) SL3-118-2140 and variations (above and below) as published with erroneous captions. "Fawcett list" of astronaut sightings. George Fawcett is a respected and level-headed UFO researcher in Maiden, North Carolina. But an example of his work gives a different imp…

sensational enough for fictional "fact" writer Frank Edwards: he had two hundred people actually see the object). The source of the story seems to have been an NBC newsman in Australia. But the problem seems to be that Cooper has never heard of it. He has been out of the space p…

sensational enough for fictional "fact" writer Frank Edwards: he had two hundred people actually see the object). The source of the story seems to have been an NBC newsman in Australia. But the problem seems to be that Cooper has never heard of it. He has been out of the space p…

military intelligence. A prompt and energetic investigation was launched. The object looked like a long cylinder with two square paddles resembling solar panels at each end. By measuring its angular size on the negative, analysts were able, to determine that it was about 20 feet…

Clouds of debris surround the Saturn booster rocket following Apollo separation. Blow-up photos of individual pieces of debris inside and outside the cabin have been called "UFOs". NASA photo AS17-148-22687. visited our planet for thousands of years". None of these men claim to…

and intellectually dishonest tactic. Three time space veteran Wally Schirra, who according to UFOlogists saw "glowing masses" (actually lightning-lit clouds, over the Indian Ocean) has written, "I do not know enough about this subject to render an opinion of any kind. The only in…

The AFRO Bull tin (Feb. 1976) continued to generate new astronaut UFO fairy tales with the anonymous revelation from "Mr. X", who heard the Apollo-11 astronauts describe "three dise shaped shadows that were pacing them across the surface of the moon." The best answer to this fabr…

REPLY TO: ☐ 135 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON, DC 20510-1501 (202) 224-3744 TTY: (202) 224-4479 e-mail:chuck_grassley@grassley.senate.gov ☐ 721 FEDERAL BUILDING 210 WALNUT STREET DES MOINES, IA 50309-2140 (515) 284-4890 ☐ 206 FEDERAL BUILDING 101 1ST STREET SE. CEDAR RAP…

Author: [REDACTED] <[REDACTED] > at internet Date: 7/6/98 04:14 PM Priority: Normal TO: chuck grassley at Grassley-DC Subject: Message from a Voter Greetings Honorable Senator Grassley, I have recently encountered a number of new and interesting tidbits of information concerning…

Anything you can do to help in my search for the hidden truth is greatly appreciated. Please help me find out if we do have aliens at Area 51, or even an admission that Area 51 exists. Thanks Much. [REDACTED] Here is a list of Organizations, and places which may be helpful in h…

Author: (b)(6) ,(b)(6) , at internet Date: 7/6/98 04:48 PM Priority: Normal TO: chuck grassley at Grassley-DC Subject: NASA This is a continuation of an e-mail I just sent you. These are some alleged conversations and observations made from NASA Astronauts. If there is ANY truth…

Ed White & James McDivitt In June 1965, astronauts Ed White (first American to walk in space) and James McDivitt were passing over Hawaii in a Gemini spacecraft when they saw a weird-looking metallic object. The UFO had long arms sticking out of it. McDivitt took pictures with a…

According to a former NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed radio hams with their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA's broadcasting outlets picked up the following exchange: NASA: What's there? Mission Control calling Apollo 11... Apollo 11: These "Babies" are huge, Sir…

question then of a space station or a moon city. Professor: How do you mean "warned off"? Armstrong: I can't go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology - Boy, were they big!...and menacing! No, there is no question of a s…

"There ARE things out there! There absolutely is!" NASA Pilot Joseph A. Walker On May 11, 1962 NASA pilot Joseph Walker said that one of his tasks was to detect UFOs during his X-15 flights. He had filmed five or six UFOs during his record breaking fifty-mile-high flight in April…

Shuttle Discovery - Mission 20 The voices of the astronaut and of the amateur radio station WA3NAN Goddard in the Space Center of Greenbelt Maryland. WA3NAN: We are retransmitting the Space Shuttle airground communication from mission 20. This is WA3NAN. Astronaut James F. Buchli…

L:ATW:mtg:L/1998-407f The Honorable Olympia J. Snowe United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Snowe: Thank you for your May 18, 1998, letter on behalf of [REDACTED] regarding Unidentified Flying Objects and his concern over the "authenticity of the recently released…

▲ OLYMPIA J. SNOWE MAINE COUNSEL TO THE ASSISTANT MAJORITY LEADER 250 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING (202) 224-5344 United States Senate WASHINGTON, DC 20510-1903 COMMITTEES: ARMED SERVICES BUDGET COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION CHAIR OF OCEANS AND FISHERIES SUBCOMMITTEE…

L98-407-Sen. Snowe Enclosed is a fact sheet entitled "The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects." As stated in the second paragraph of the Fact Sheet, Congress, in 1993, directed NASA to end its search program. Today the search for extraterrestrials is conducted through T…

L98-407-Sen. Snowe Enclosed is a fact sheet entitled "The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects." As stated in the second paragraph of the Fact Sheet, Congress, in 1993, directed NASA to end its search program. Today the search for extraterrestrials is conducted through T…

ACTION REQUIRED CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY Office of Legislative Affairs NASA Headquarters 300 E Street, SW Washington, DC 20546 DATE: May 26, 1998 PAGES, if faxed: 3 TO: S/Ruth Netting Anne Ward PHONE: PHONE: FAX: FAX: (202) 358-1946 (202) 358-4343 Action assigned to: S/Ruth Netting…

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Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS) INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION ID Number: L/1998-00407 Title: Sen Snowe fwds Itr from [REDACTED], who's interested in U.F.O. and the recent Mars photo Recipient: L/Heffernan Author: SNOWE Organization: SENATE Date Written: 05/18/1998 Dat…

L:ATW:mtg:L/1998-407f The Honorable Olympia J. Snowe United States Senator Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Snowe: Thank you for your May 18, 1998, letter on behalf of [REDACTED] regarding UFO's and his concern over the "authenticity of the recently released Mariner photographs.…

ecc: S/Ruth Netting LB/Barbara Cherry Sent to Mark Berumen @ Hill Office (250 SROB)

Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS) INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION ID Number: L/1998-00494 Title: Ward/White House Referral: UFO Hearings Recipient: A/Goldin Author: [REDACTED] Organization: White House Date Written: 05/17/1998 Date Received: 06/18/1998 Date Concurred: Dat…

L:ATW:mtg:L/1998-494f [REDACTED] Dear [REDACTED] The White House has requested NASA to respond to your May 17, 1998, letter to President Clinton concerning possible hearings on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). We are not aware of any hearings scheduled on UFO. Enclosed is a Fa…

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON MEMORANDUM FOR: FROM: SUBJECT: NASA, 24 SUE J. SMITH DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF AGENCY LIAISON REFERRAL OF CASEWORK IN BULK An unprecedented number of individuals still write the President and the First Lady for help. I know that this has meant a far greater v…

From nobody@www1.whitehouse.gov Sun May 17 17:57:37 1998 Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 17:54:05 -04-00 From: (b) (6) Subject: Inbound-White_House_WWW_MAIL => PRESIDENT Apparently-to: president@WhiteHouse.GOV To: president@WhiteHouse.GOV Errors-to: The Postmaster <postmaster@www1.whiteho…

congress to hold open congressional meetings. What is your positon and intent on this matter? Will you push for open hearings or are you stonewalled as well by MJ-12? Certainly on your appointment as President you were briefed on the existence of UFO's. Please use your Executive…

L:ATW:mtg:L/1998-494f [REDACTED] Dear [REDACTED] The White House has requested NASA to respond to your May 17, 1998, letter to President Clinton concerning possible hearings on UFO's. We are not aware of any hearings scheduled on UFO's. The attached fact sheet, "The US Government…

ecc: S/Ruth Netting LB/Barbara Cherry Sent to Sue J. Smith Director, Office of Agency Liaison Room 6, OEOB The White House Washington, DC 20502

Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS) INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION ID Number: L/1998-00494 Title: Ward/White House Referral: UFO Hearings Recipient: A/Goldin Author: [REDACTED] Organization: White House Date Written: 05/17/1998 Date Received: 06/18/1998 Date Concurred: Dat…

6/17/98 15:54:01 CORRESPONDENCE ACTION STATUS HISTORY Correspondence and Action Tracking System Code A ID Number: A98-01199 Title: WHR BULK: CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON UFO'S Recipient: GOLDIN Organization: A *Other Recipients / Organizations*: Date Written: 05/17/1998 Date Receive…

Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS) INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION ID Number: A/1998-00461 Title: WHR Bulk: Congressional Hearings on UFO's Recipient: A/Goldin Author: [REDACTED] Organization: WHR Bulk Date Written: 05/17/1998 Date Received: 06/17/1998 Date Concurred: Date…

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Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS) INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION ID Number: L/1998-00470 Title: WARD/Rep. Gordon re taxpayers money on space aliens. Recipient: L/Heffernan Author: GORDON Organization: HOUSE Date Written: 06/04/1998 Date Received: 06/15/1998 Date Conc…

L:ATW:mtg:L/1998-470f [REDACTED] Dear [REDACTED] Congressman Bart Gordon has asked NASA to respond to your recent letter to him wherein you enclosed an article on Congress funding the search for extraterrestrials. Enclosed is a fact sheet entitled "The US Government and Unide…

(b) (6) [REDACTED] Representative Bart Gordon House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515-4206

"BART GORDON 6TH DISTRICT, TENNESSEE COMMERCE COMMITTEE SCIENCE COMMITTEE RANKING MEMBER SUBCOMMITTEE ON SPACE Congress of the United States House of Representatives June 4, 1998 Ms. Mary D. Kerwin Deputy Associate Administrator For Legeslative Affairs National Aeronautics and…

MY AMERICA BY ED ANGER Congress blows $120 million I'm madder than R2D2 with a loose bolt that our free-spending Congress is paying 120 million bucks of hard-earned-tax-money on a project to contact space aliens! Let's face it — why the hell are we spending big bucks looking f…

The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects

The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/facts/HTML/FS-017-HQ.html NASA Facts FILE COPY National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Headquarters Public Affairs Office Code P 300 E Street SW Washington DC 20546 FS-1997-01-017-H…

The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects

The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/facts/HTML/FS-017-HQ.html terminated December 17, 1969. Of the total of 12,618 sightings reported to Project Blue Book, 701 remain "unidentified." The decision to discontinue UFO investigations…

The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects

The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/facts/HTML/FS-017-HQ.html Fiction in the New Mexico Desert," a lengthy document providing all of the details available from the Air Force on the Roswell incident, is available for $52 from the US…

L:ATW:mtg:L/1998-470f [REDACTED] Dear [REDACTED] Congressman Bart Gordon has asked NASA to respond to your recent letter to him wherein you enclosed an article on Congress funding the search for extraterrestrials. Enclosed is a fact sheet entitled "The US Government and Unide…

ecc: S/Ruth Netting LB/Barbara Cherry Sent to Patton Lane @ Hill Office (22-01 RHOB)

LA98-00106 Security: U Type: I Written: 03/16/98 Received: 04/23/98 To: Name GOLDIN No. 1 0 0 Organization ADMINISTRATOR From: [REDACTED] 43 0 0 WHR Action/Info: A Topics Keywords Due Date - Current: 05/28/98 Due Date - Original: 05/28/98 Suspense Status: C Date Completed: 05…

L:ATW:mtg:LA98-106f [REDACTED] Dear [REDACTED] The White House has forwarded to NASA for response your letter of March 16, 1998, in which you advocate Congressional Hearings or a Presidential Discussion regarding alien beings and their spacecraft. Enclosed is a NASA Fact Shee…

4/22/98 15:46:44 Correspondence and Action Tracking System CORRESPONDENCE ACTION Code A ID Number: A98-00789 Title: WHR BULK: PUBLIC CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON EXTRATERRESTRIAL EVIDENCE Recipient: GOLDIN Organization: A *Other Recipients / Organizations*: Date Written: 03/1…

Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS) INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION ID Number: A/1998-00310 Title: WHR Bulk: Public Congressional Hearings on Extraterrestrial Evidence Recipient: A/Goldin Author: [REDACTED] Organization: WHR Bulk Date Written: 03/16/1998 Date Received:…

From nobody@wwwl.whitehouse.gov Mon Mar 16 22:19:34 1998 Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 22:16:43 -0500 From: [REDACTED] <[REDACTED]> Subject: Inbound-White_House_WWW_MAIL => PRESIDENT Apparently-to: president@WhiteHouse.GOV To: president@WhiteHouse.GOV Errors-to: The Postmaster <postmast…

and the warmth and good humor you've displayed. I would like to suggest as a way of changing the headlines about sex in the White House, to an area that would give you a real legacy and enlighten the world as to are place in the universe... As a member of CSETI, I support open C…

So... I do hope you receive this e-mail and not just one of the many assistants answering letters for you. This letter can make a difference... and so can you Mr. President. It won't cost millions of dollars to conduct a hearing/investigation of potential huge benefits to so many…

L:ATW:mtg:LA98-106f [REDACTED] Dear [REDACTED] The White House has forwarded to NASA for response your letter of March 16, 1998, in which you advocate Congressional Hearings or a Presidential Discussion regarding alien beings and their spacecraft. Enclosed is a NASA Fact Shee…

Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS) INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION ID Number: L/1998-00415 Title: ROTHMAN/Sen Snowe fwds ltr from [REDACTED], who's interested in U.F.O.'s sightings and abductions Recipient: L/Heffernan Author: SNOWE Organization: SENATE Date Written: 0…

NASA Date: 5/27/98 Time: 2:05 To: Mark Becumen Phone#: Fax#: 224-1946 From: Helen Rothman Director, Congressional Inquiries Division Office of Legislative Affairs Voice#: (202) 358-1943 Fax#: (202) 358-4343 Message: Mark- FACT Sheet per our Conversation Helen Rothman Number…

NASA Facts National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Headquarters Public Affairs Office Code P 300 E Street SW Washington DC 20546 NASA FS-1997-01-017-HQ The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects No branch of the United States Government is currently in- vo…

Since neither NASA nor the Air Force is engaged in day-to- day UFO research, neither one reviews UFO-related articles intended for publication, evaluates UFO-type spacecraft drawings, or accepts accounts of UFO sightings or applica- tions for employment in the field of aerial phe…

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OLYMPIA J. SNOWE MAINE COUNSEL TO THE ASSISTANT MAJORITY LEADER 250 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING (202) 224-5344 United States Senate WASHINGTON, DC 20510-1903 May 13, 1998 COMMITTEES: ARMED SERVICES BUDGET COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION CHAIR OF OCEANS AND FISHERIES SU…

FEBUARY 22 1998 Dear Senitor Olyimpia Snow, My name is [REDACTED] I'm from Portland, Maine. I'm 12 years old. [REDACTED] I heard about the fredom of information act. I would be so grateful it you could get any or all government documents released on the Roswell crash. I'm a U.F.O…

Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS) INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION ID Number: L/1998-00415 Title: ROTHMAN/Sen Snowe fwds ltr from [REDACTED] who's interested in U.F.O.'s sightings and abductions Recipient: L/Heffernan Author: SNOWE Organization: SENATE Date Written: 05…