Cooper believes the government is holding back information on UFOs.
One of America's first astronauts claims that the government has withheld information that alien spacecraft have visited Earth. NASA Mercury astronaut, Gordon Cooper, flew a single-seat capsule in 1963. The last of the Mercury astronauts to be lofted into space, Cooper was blasted into orbit atop an Atlas rocket in May 1963. He circled Earth for 22 orbits in his Faith 7 capsule, becoming the first American to stay in space for a day. Cooper returned to space in August 1965 with the late Pete Conrad on the Gemini 5 mission.