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.
The biggest problem with UFOs is that it's a difficult area to bring the scientific process into any kind of study. They are not repeatable, so they are not subject to scientific study per se. But Cooper is undeterred in his UFO beliefs . In his book, written with Bruce Henderson, Cooper tells how he saw his first UFO over Europe in 1951. Cooper also describes an incident at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in which he once looked at film of a crashed UFO in the American Southwest taken in the late 1950s.