After retiring from NASA in 1970, he went to work for Disney as a vice president for research and development. He later worked as a high-tech consultant and aircraft designer. Since 1989, he has been a partner in an aeronautical design firm in Van Nuys, California. Now a retired Air Force colonel living in Los Angeles, he is campaigning to have the government open the books on UFO research. To really deny that something is going on and deny that they definitely exist we need a little more explanation.
Government officials say there is nothing to cover up about UFOs.
He was also the last American to fly in space alone. On that journey, almost 40 years ago, he did not find extraterrestrial intelligence, but he did find a deeper sense of personal faith. As David Asman uncovered in the afternoon edition of Fox News Live, many untrue reports came out about Cooper and his extraterrestrial sightings in space. We didn't know what Russia was doing with airplanes so it could have been an advance airplane they were building or it could have been a UFO vehicle. Ever since that flight, Cooper has had an unshakable belief in extraterrestrial intelligence.