UFOs in Space - UFOlogy: Science of UFOs UFOlogy: Science of UFOs Rohn DeSilva Russians Encounter UFOs in Space Ever since our first venture into space the UFOs and their occupants have kept close watch on our progress into space. In October 4th, 1957 the Russian launched the first probe/satellite, Sputnik I, into space. Seven years before this historic event, in 1949 the famed astronomer Clyde Tombough who discovered Pluto officially reported that he had tracked "Mysterious Satellites" orbiting the earth. The first radar detection was in April 1949, by Naval Commander Robert McLaughlin, a rocket expert. "Aviation Week" report ("Satellite Scare," Aug. 23, 1954) stated that Dr. Lincoln La Paz (a government expert on meteors) had discovered of two large satellites orbiting at 400 to 600 miles out. After the announcement Adler Planetarium in Chicago successfully tracked this satellite. Then only three months before launch of Sputnik I, the Italian press reported that their astronomers had tracked a large mystery satellite.

Navy's Space Surveillance Radar tracked a satellite in retrograde orbit from late 1959 to mid 1960. This was photographed by Grumman Aircraft Company's tracking camera. It was traveling in an east to west direction at incredible speed of 25,000 mph. Satellites launched by earth travels in an eastwardly direction thus taking advantage of the earth's spin. It requires an unbelievable velocity for a satellite to travel in the opposite direction as this did and maintain 25,000 mph speed. Then in 1960 N.A.A.D.S. (North American Air Defense System) spotted a satellite orbiting the earth on polar orbit. They knew that it didn't belong to the Russians since their satellites orbited close to the equator inclined at 65 degrees. NAADS estimated that it had an estimated mass of 15 metric tons and traveled three times faster than any known satellites. They tracked it for three years before vanishing it as suddenly as it had appeared. On April 12th, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space on board Vostok I.

Yuri Gagarin stated that a UFO kept pace with his rocket through the entire journey. He is know to have said, "UFOs are real, they fly at incredible speeds and that he would tell more about what he had seen in orbit - provided he be given permission to do so." Major Yuri Gagarin actively involved himself in the study of UFOs. But in March 27th, 1968 he was killed when his MIG-15 crashed while on a routine training flight near Moscow. It has never been proven (and this author is incline to believe the official reason due to lack of proof), but the conspiracy theorists believe that his MIG crashed when he encountered a UFO. In 1964 Voskhod I was launched on a 5 day mission, but lasted barely 24 hours. The exact circumstance behind the abrupt termination of the mission is unclear and has never being released to the public. A German newspaper reported that they have evidence that indicate, Voskhod I was constantly buzzed by a UFO at extremely high speed. As the UFO repeatedly overtook Voskhod I, their powerful magnetic fields struck the craft with violent shattering blows.

The story goes on to say that the crew panic and aborted the mission. Only a year latter Voskhod II crew reported a peculiar shaped object close to their craft. Moments later all communication with ground control was severed and remained so for several hours. In another mission in the early day of their flight, a pair of Russian cosmonauts was lost without any trace. An intercepted message claimed the following exchange: "It's closing on us ..... it is truly massive...if we don't get back the world will never know of this". At this point transmission was abruptly severed and the story has it the pair was never heard from again! Most of this information emerged out of Russia after the fall of the communist regime and the open policy adopted thereafter (glasnost). The amazing extent of their intelligence gathering became evident when many of the UFO report that took place in the US space program came to light from the Russian sources rather than American. The true story of the ill-fated Apollo 13 which came out of Russian UFO researchers is a perfect example of their excellent intelligence gathering; which I will fully describe later.

Mercury Missions and UFOs It has being more than 40 years since Allan Sheppard ventured into space into space in Mercury 3 (names Freedom 7) on a 15 minutes and 28 second sub orbital hop. But it was recently that Jeff Challender noticed the UFO trailing the spacecraft while studying the films of the Mercury3 descent. Upon closer examination, it displays the "saucer skipping on water" behavior as reported by Mr. Kenneth Arnold of his UFO sighting of 24th June 1947. Some have suggested that it was a bird but this is absurd since the altitude at which this object was sighted (3km above the earth's surface) is well above the ability of any bird known to us today. On 20th February 1961 John Glen became the first American to orbit earth on aboard the Mercury 6 (named Friendship 7). He piloted his ship three time around earth, and it was while over Hawaii that he sighted 3 objects follow him and then overtake him at varying speed. At first NASA assumed that Mercury 6 had lost its heat shield. This was proved to be wrong after NASA examined the spacecraft after its return.

The sighting remains unexplained till today. Almost a month later Scott Carpenter went into space piloting Mercury 7 (Aurora 7). During his orbit around he photographed a round shaped UFO. When Scott Carpenter was asked about UFOs, he replied "At no time, when the astronauts were in space where they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs" There are unconfirmed rumors that Scott Carpenter have radioed Houston and said, ï¿½It is true they exist. They are here, let Glenn Knowï¿½. During Mercury 7 return flight, when he used manual control, he made an error of four hundred kilometers (402km to be exact) with the radio off. The official reason was that he was distracted while watching the "fire flies" or the UFOs that were following him. UFOlogists had suggested that he made this error from panic and fear of the UFOs that came too close to his spaceship. This might be the real reason especially when considering what happened next and what Carpenter have rumored to have uttered as the hatch to the capsule was opened. When he finally landed on sea, and as the exit opened, he shouted, "Who are you? Where do you come from?".

In April 2001 Scott Carpenter said to a newspaper journalist in Cincinnati, "UFOs absolutely do exist". The during the next mission Mercury 8 (Sigma 7), only a few months after Mercury 7, astronaut Wally Schirra spotted a green glowing object over the India ocean. James Oberg have suggested that he saw night time lightning clouds. Meanwhile Condon Report that studied the case explained it as a "tropical airglow". Neither explanation explained what Wally Schirra saw, since the object he saw stars underneath the object. This means the object was well above clouds or well above the 250km where airglow phenomenon takes place. Thus this also remains explained so far. Wally Schirra also coined the code name "Santa Claus" to indicate a UFO near their spacecraft. Gordon Cooper was one of the best trained US astronauts having flown on Mercury 9 and Gemini 5. Yet he was not selected to fly an Apollo mission. It is speculated that Cooper did not play the game correctly when it comes to the UFO situation. A fellow officer once said of Cooper. "We all knew where Gordon was going to end up in ten years.

He was going to be Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff. (what happened that he didn't?) Major Gordon Cooper was one of the original seven mercury astronauts. He was also the youngest and as Wally Schirra pointed out, "the most cockiest" member. On May 15th and 16th of 1963 Major Gordon Cooper piloted the Faith 7 Mercury capsule thus becoming the last person to travel into space alone and the last of the Mercury missions. While making his fourth pass (of 22-orbit mission) over Hawaii, Cooper claims he heard strange voices transmissions which he described as being "unintelligible foreign language". Later these tapes were analyzed by the world's best linguistic experts and none of them could identify it any known language. Then on his final orbit around the Earth he was over the Muchea Tracking Station near Perth, Australia when he spotted a strange greenish looking object approach.

Sworn letter of testament was written and sent to HBCC UFO Research by an individual that claimed that his father and others had witness a formation of three UFOs on May 16th of 1963 (same day the Faith 7 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean) while on aboard the Carrier USS Kearsarge which was used for the recovery of Faith 7 mercury capsule and astronaut. Gemini Missions The Mercury missions were followed by 12 Gemini mission. According to the astronauts every one of the Gemini missions into space was followed by a UFO or more than one UFO. In 1964 Gemini I, the first unmanned spacecraft was sent into orbit. During the first orbit of this unmanned spacecraft it was joined by four apparently controlled objects. The RCA tracking station observed two objects take up station above Gemini I, with one behind and one below. These relative positions were maintained for one orbit after which they sped off into space. In his recent book "The UFO Evidence" Clark McClelland states that the RCA tracking team was ordered by NASA to recheck to be certain they weren't ghost images.

NASA and the Martin-Marietta who built the Titan II were puzzled, and after much discussion the intelligent determination was that we had other physical objects up there with our Gemini capsule. On June 3rd 1965, Gemini IV lifted piloted by James McDivitt and Ed White. Edward White became the first American to walk into space with a 20 minutes EVA (extra vehicular activity). During their 62 orbit around the earth, they were two separate UFO sightings. The Gemini IV capsule was over Hawaii when James McDivitt (Whitet was sleeping at this time) saw a cylindrical object with arms sticking out. When was unable to determine the exact size of the object he saw. The object was silvery and according to McDivitt it was closing in on Gemini very fast. He grabbed one of the free floating cameras and snapped a picture and then prepared to evasive action. At that time Gemini IV was drifting free in space with all the engines shut down. After making appropriate maneuvers to avoiding hitting the object, again looked through the window and the object was gone. The film was sent to NASA and reviewed by NASA technicians.

One of them selected what he thought was what McDivitt saw before he had chance to review it. It was not the picture, it was the picture of the sun reflecting on the window. To this day James McDivitt is adamant that the NASA released the wrong picture. In 1975 McDivitt adds, "It was something I definitely couldn't identify". NASA at first explained that what he saw was Pegasus. UFO researcher quickly dispelled this explanation after studying the McDivitt conversation with control. Capcom: roger, could you give us an estimate as to how far that satellite was from you yesterday? Gemini IV(McDivitt): 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? 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 wasnï¿½t 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. As we can seem from the conversation between NASA and the astronauts, the object sighted by McDivitt was not a satellite since the nearest one was about 1,200 miles away. The second UFO was observed by both White and McDivitt while they were over the Caribbean Islands. The object was an egg shaped object with a comet like trail or glow coming out of it and yellow-white in color, which had being dubbed the "tadpole" by UFOlogists. Gemini V lifted off the launch pad on August 21st 1965 on 120 orbital mission lasting 7 days, 22 hours and 55 minutes piloted by Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad.

Only 3 days into their mission, Houston reported that they were tracking another object next to their spacecraft and asked the astronauts to look for this object. Capcom: Gemini 5, Gemini 5, this is Houston. Over. Cooper (Gemini V): . . . Houston, Gemini 5. Capcom: Roger, Gemini 5, this is Houston. Be advised that we tracked another object with you on your pass across the States. Range was 2 to 10,000 yards from the spacecraft. You might look around and see if you can see anything. Unfortunately, I can't tell you which direction to look. Cooper: What time is this? Capcom: Did you say what size or what time? Cooper: Time. Capcom: Well, it seems to be going right along with you. So we're tracking it right with you. Cooper: Roger. Capcom: We're going to lose you here shortly but if you see anything, why don't you let us know at the next station. Cooper: Okay. Capcom: The radar return was approximately the same as yours as far as magnitude. Cooper: Roger.

On December 4th 1965 James Lovell and Frank Borman was on aboard the Gemini VII on a record breaking 14 day flight. One of their mission goals was to "station keep", fly in formation with the Titan II booster. During this flight they spotted a cigar shaped UFO, bogey at 10 o'clock, and photographed it. The photos has never being released to the public. Frank Borman later said in an interview years later, "We were flying formation and taking photographs and infrared measurements and I started calling it a "bogey,' which is an old fighter pilot term. Well, a lot of the UFO freaks on the ground picked this up and said we had seen a UFO because we had referred to our booster as a bogey." This seems to contradict with what his fellow Gemini 7 astronaut, James Lovell, is quoted in saying during the actual space mission. Lovell: Bogey at 10 o'clock high. Capcom: This is Houston. Say again 7. Lovell: Said we have bogey at 10 o'clock high. Capcom: Gemini 7, is that the booster or is that an actual sighting? Lovell: We have several ...

actual sightings. Capcom: ...Estimated distance or size? Lovell: We also have the booster in sight ... According to the NASA transcripts, booster can be ruled out as the UFO since they spotted both the booster and the UFO at the same time. During their flight the Lovell is reported to have taken photographs of two mushroom shaped UFOs. The pictures seem to show the glow of a propulsion system on the underside. The pictures were taken at a range of several hundred yards. Originally the Gemini IX was scheduled for May. The flight was canceled due to what was claimed as ï¿½interferenceï¿½ with the radio hook-up. This position was later changed, with NASA admitting that astronauts had seen unidentified flying objects on several occasions. So Gemini IX took of on June 3rd 1966, piloted by Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan, many on the ground that watched the capsule take off saw the UFO spacing the craft. The astronauts inside the capsule also reported the same UFO spacing them next to their craft. Once Gemini IX attained orbital altitude the UFO speed of into space, again reported by the astronauts and confirmed by NASAï¿½s tracking station.

The mission was prematurely canceled due to what was claimed as ï¿½interferenceï¿½ with the radio hook-up. This position was later changed, with NASA admitting that astronauts had seen unidentified flying objects on several occasions. A day after the lunch of Gemini X piloted by John W. Young and Michael Collins, on July 19th 1965 reported by disc shaped object traveling together in orbit with their craft. The two astronauts also photographed a large cylindrical shaped object. Again the this photographed in never released to the public. Here is the dialog between Gemini X and Houston. Gemini X: This is 10, Houston. We have two bright objects up here in our orbital path. I donï¿½t think they are stars ï¿½ 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 bearing, maybe we can track them down. Gemini X: They Just disappeared guess they were ï¿½guess they were satellites of some kind.

Later in the flight another UFO sighted. Gemini X: To the east we have an extremely bright object. I believe itï¿½s too bright to be a planet. Itï¿½s north of Orion about six or eight degrees. Right now itï¿½s 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. Itï¿½s aï¿½ Mission Control: Do you notice anything moving relative to the stars? Gemini X: Possible. I havenï¿½t 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 ï¿½ sun starting to come up." On their next mission, Gemini XI, the astronauts Richard Gordon and Charles Conrad spotted a large UFO only on their second day (September 12, 1966). NORAD first claimed that it was Soviet PROTON 3 but it turns out that that satellite would have been over 350 miles away at the time of observation.

Three pictures were taken by the astronauts. 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! While the astronauts claimed that the fuzzy picture released by NASA doesn't look like what they sighted visually. Gemini XII mission was launched on November 11 1966 and carried James Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. One of their mission objectives was to perform rendezvous and docking with the Agena target vehicle. On November 12, The two astronauts spotted three glowing UFOs about 1/2 mile from their spacecraft. Buzz Aldrin took fifteen photographs in a three-minute period. The objects were observed for considerable period of time. 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. Apollo Missions and Moon As Apollo 8 lifted off the launch pad on December 21 1968 piloted by 3-man crew of Frank Borman, James A. Lovell and William A. Anders, it became the second Apollo mission.

Apollo 8 mission objectives were to travel to the moon, orbit around it and return home safely. Numerous hardware, software and technical aspect of the actual moon missions later to follow was conducted flawlessly. Apollo 8 became historic flight since they became the first human to leave earthï¿½s orbit and the first to travel to moon. Between December 24 and December 25 the Apollo 8 crew completed a total of 10 moon orbit. During their orbit around the NASA decided to broadcast live feed from inside the Apollo 8 to rest of the world. It became the most watched broadcasts of all time. During the broadcast Lovell decided to read from the Bible, "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 ï¿½". They were emerging from the moon as he read when they spotted "disc shaped object" swooping by them several times and a ï¿½blinding lightï¿½ glaring into their eyes. They also claimed they felt a "wave of internal heat within the space capsule" and they estimated the size of the object to be about ten square miles.

When Lovell saw the UFO he said for everyone to hear, "We have been informed that Santa Claus does exist!ï¿½. Since it was Christmas many misunderstood the real meaning behind his word. It was a code name Schirra used on Mercury 8 flight in order to indicate any UFO they spotted. The astronauts also heard strange language and it was picked up by one of the NASA frequencies used during the mission. The next trip to the Moon was the Apollo 10 mission that took place between 18th ï¿½ 26th The task for astronauts Thomas P Stafford, John W Young and Eugene A Cernan (right), was to test the lunar landing vehicle in the skies above the moonï¿½s surface and duplicate every maneuver that the subsequent Apollo 11 would carry out, except the landing itself. They achieved lunar orbit on 22nd May 1969 and descended to within nine miles of the lunar surface. As they dropped down, an object suddenly rose vertically from directly below them. 16mm movie footage in addition to still photographs were taken of this event. A UFO was also seen on the homeward bound trip.

Many have dedicated chapter and book to the UFO sightings that were reported by the astronauts and the Apollo 11 mission. The Apollo 11 mission took off from the Cape Canaveral in Florida on exactly 12:32 UTC on July 16, 1969 . Apollo 11 mission was destined to full Presidents Kennedyï¿½s expectation of landing a man on the moon and bringing them back safely. Apollo 11 was commanded by Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Lunar module pilot, and Michael Collins, command module pilot. Only a day after leaving earth they spotted they first UFO, an unusual object between them and the moon. At first they thought it was the Saturn V booster rocket, however after calling Houston for a confirmation, they were advised that the booster was 6000 miles away in the opposite direction. The technical debriefing held after the astronauts returned home clearly indicates that what they saw wasnï¿½t the Saturn V booster rocket, S-IVB. During the debriefing Collins also indicated that they felt a bump as the UFO buzzed past them.

Aldrin: The first unusual thing that we saw I guess, was one day out or something pretty close to the moon. It had a sizeable dimension to it, so we put the monocular on it. Collins: Howï¿½s we seen this thing? Did we just look out of the window and there it was? Aldrin: Yes, and we weren't sure but what it might be the S-IVB. We called the ground and were told the S-IVB was 6000 miles away. We had a problem with the high gain about this time, didn't we? Collins: There was something. We felt a bump or maybe I just imagined it. Armstrong: He was wondering whether the MESA had come off ï¿½ It should be noted that Aldrin commenced the interview by referring to the "first unusual thing that we saw." And sure enough, there was more to come. It should be also noted that the crew was wary of reporting anything unusual in space.

In an interview latter Buzz Aldrin was asked about this UFOs and he said, "Now, obviously, the three of us were not going to blurt out, 'Hey Houston we got something moving along side of us and we don't know what it is, you know, can you tell us what it is?'. We weren't about to do that, cause we know that those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and who knows what somebody would have demanded that we turn back because of Aliens or whatever the reason is, so we didn't do that but we did decide we'd just cautiously ask Houston where, how far away was the S-IVB?ï¿½ Dr. David Baker (Apollo 11 Senior Scientist) states that the NASA knew every little about the object spotted by the astronauts. As Apollo 11 approached the moon the astronauts, like their predecessors on Apollo 8 and 10, also began hear strange voices that interfered with the space communication hook up. The mission controlled even asked, "Are you sure you donï¿½t have anybody else up there with you?" On July 19, the Apollo 11 entered into a Lunar orbit around the moon.

The astronauts witnessed circular object streaking across the surface of the Moon the day before Armstrong was to place man's foot on the Moon for the first time. NASA photograph, catalogue number 11-37-5438 (above) suggests that something at least was with them above the lunar surface. The same object was later captured on film by astronauts of the Apollo 12 mission. Then exactly at 10:56PM ( Florida time) on Sunday 20th 1969 Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the Moon with the historic words "thatï¿½s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Shortly after being joined on the surface by Aldrin, they unveiled a plaque inscribed with the words "Here men from the planet earth first set foot on the Moon, July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind." It is reported that 2 saucer shaped UFO hovered over them as Armstrong prepared to step down the ladder of the LEM at the Sea of Tranquility . Aldrin is reported to have taken several pictures of them. Modern People magazine published some of these photographs in their June 1975 issue.

During the live broadcast the Canadian network, unlike the American TV networks, discussed these UFOs in detailed. Their analysis was unable to explain them thoroughly. During their 2 hours 31 minutes and 40 seconds EVA on the moon, Armstrong and Aldrin reported even more bizarre UFO encounters. Shortly after the astronauts returned to earth, a bootleg "tape" and voice transcript of what was really said on the moon has been circulating clandestinely in UFO circles. National Bulletin magazine in September 29, 1969 carried a story stating that Apollo 11 discovered an alien base under the moon. The article went on to state that during these 2 minutes the following astonishing conversation was picked up by ham radio operators that had their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA's broadcasting outlets. At this time, the live television broadcast was also interrupted for two minutes due to a supposed "overheated camera", but the transmission below was received loud and clear by hundreds of ham radio operators. This unexpected problem surprised even the most qualified of viewers who were unable to explain how in such a costly project, one of the most essential elements could break down.

Some time after the historic Moon landing, Christopher Craft, director of the base in Houston, made some surprising comments when he left NASA. Richard Watson in his book "Celestial Raise" confirmed this mysterious 2-minute interruption that NASA has not explained satisfactorily till this day. Author and ex-NASA worker, Sam Pepper, released top secret transcripts of the conversation between Houston and the Apollo 11 astronauts that has now known as the "moon conversations". Otto Binder, who was a member of the NASA space team, confirmed these transcripts when he stated in his book that hen the two moon-walkers, Aldrin and Armstrong were making their rounds some distance from the LEM, Armstrong clutched Aldrin's arm excitedly and exclaimed: Armstrong: What was it? What the hell was it? That's all I want to know!" Mission Control: What's there?... malfunction (garble) ... Mission Control calling Apollo 11 ... Apollo 11: These babies were huge, sir!... Enormous!... Oh, God! You wouldn't believe it! ... I'm telling you there are other space-craft out there ... lined up on the far side of the crater edge! ...

They're on the Moon watching us! Here is reproduced completely the dialogue between the American astronauts and Control Center: Armstrong & Aldrin: Those are giant things. No, no, no - this is not an optical illusion. No one is going to believe this! Houston (Christopher Craft): What ... what ... what? What the hell is happening? What's wrong with you? Armstrong & Aldrin: They're here under the surface. Houston: What's there? (muffled noise) Emission interrupted; interference control calling 'Apollo 11'. Armstrong & Aldrin: We saw some visitors. They were here for a while, observing the instruments. Houston: Repeat your last information! Armstrong & Aldrin: I say that there were other spaceships. They're lined up in the other side of the crater! Houston: Repeat, repeat! Armstrong & Aldrin: Let us sound this orbita ... in 625 to 5 ... Automatic relay connected ... My hands are shaking so badly I can't do anything. Film it? God, if these damned cameras have picked up anything - what then? Houston: Have you picked up anything? Armstrong & Aldrin: I didn't have any film at hand.

Three shots of the saucers or whatever they were that were ruining the film Houston: Control, control here. Are you on your way? What is the uproar with the UFOs over? Armstrong & Aldrin: They've landed here. There they are and they're watching us. Houston: The mirrors, the mirrors - have you set them up? Armstrong & Aldrin: Yes, they're in the right place. But whoever made those spaceships surely can come tomorrow and remove them. Over and out. In 1979 Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems confirmed that Armstrong had indeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater. "The encounter was common knowledge in NASA," he revealed, "but nobody has talked about it until now." Maurice Chatelain also confirmed that Apollo 11's radio transmissions were interrupted on several occasions in order to hide the news from the public. Before dismissing Chatelain's sensational claims, it is worth noting his impressive background in the aerospace industry and space program. His first job after moving from France was as an electronics engineer with Convair, specializing in telecommunications, telemetry and radar.

In 1959 he was in charge of an electromagnetic research group, developing new radar and telecommunications systems for Ryan. One of his eleven patents was an automatic radar landing system that ignited retro rockets at a given altitude, used in the Ranger and Surveyor flights to the Moon. Later, at North American Aviation, Chatelain was offered the job of designing and building the Apollo communications and data-processing systems. A certain professor, who wished to remain anonymous, was engaged in a discussion with Neil Armstrong during a NASA symposium. Professor: What REALLY happened out there with Apollo 11? Armstrong: It was incredible, of course we had always known there was a possibility - the fact is, we were warned off! There was never any 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 space station. Professor: But NASA had other missions after Apollo 11? Armstrong: Naturally - NASA was committed at that time, and couldn't risk panic on Earth.

But it really was a quick scoop and back again. The soviet scientist also confirmed these incidents on the moon. "According to our information, the encounter was reported immediately after the landing of the module," said Dr. Vladimir Azhazha, a physicist and Professor of Mathematics at Moscow University. According to another Soviet scientist, Dr. Aleksandr Kazantsev, Buss Aldrin took color movie film of the UFOs from inside the module, and continued filming them after he and Armstrong went outside. Dr. Azhazha claims that the UFOs departed minutes after the astronauts came out on to the lunar surface. It was also Dr. Vladimir Azhazha that first broke the mystery of the Apollo 13 incident. And I later confirmed his story using NASA's own data and simulation software written by me. This will be covered in more details later in the section titled, What Really Happned to Apollo 13. The second manned moon mission to moon was Apollo 12 commanded by Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean. Apollo 12 lifted off the Kennedy Space Center on November 14th, 1969.

The couple of months prior to lift off was quiet period in term on UFO activity in the Southern United States . But there was lot of UFO activity in Russian and in the northern part of Europe . Almost 30 years later we would learn that a UFO crashed in Russia and was recovered by the Russian military. Although this incident has not direct connection to Apollo 12 or the NASA space program, it is a good indication of what is happening in 1969 in the field of UFOs. Less than a minute after blast off, NASA reposted that a bolt of lightening struck the spacecraft. As result Apollo 12 lost virtual all it’s electronic equipment for 3 minutes. After three minutes all the power was mysteriously restored. Till this day the bolt of lightening remain a mystery and has never being adequately explained by NASA. Cirro- or cirrus cloud which are high altitude clouds forms at approximately 3 km to 5 km above sea level. In another words for Apollo 12 to be struck by lightening, the spacecraft would have to be between 3 to 5 km above earth.

Even if Apollo 12 was struck by lightening after one minute of take off, the spacecraft would be well cumulonimbus clouds. Many UFO researchers has dismissed this incident as nothing more than an unusual event. But when we compare this incident to what happened to Apollo 13, we see a ominous similarity between the two incidents. The second manned moon mission to moon was Apollo 12 commanded by Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean. Apollo 12 lifted off the Kennedy Space Center on November 14th, 1969. Couple of months prior to lift off was quiet period in term of UFO activity in the Southern United States . But there was a lot of UFO activity in Russia and in the northern part of Europe . Almost 30 years later we would learn that a UFO crashed in Russia and was recovered by the Russian military. Although this incident has not direct connection to Apollo 12 or the NASA space program, it is a good indication of what is happening in 1969 in the field of UFOs. Less than a minute after blast off, NASA reposted that a bolt of lightening struck the spacecraft.

As result Apollo 12 lost virtual all it’s electronic equipment for 3 minutes. After three minutes all the power was mysteriously restored. Till this day the bolt of lightening remain a mystery and has never being adequately explained by NASA. Cirro- or cirrus cloud which are high altitude clouds forms at approximately 3 km to 5 km above sea level. In another words for Apollo 12 to be struck by lightening, the spacecraft would have to be between 3 to 5 km above earth. Even if Apollo 12 was struck by lightening after one minute of take off, the spacecraft would be well cumulonimbus clouds. Many UFO researchers have dismissed this incident as nothing more than an unusual event. But when we compare this incident to what happened to Apollo 13, we see an ominous similarity between the two incidents. Up till this mission, Apollo crew were a mixture of civilian and military astronauts. However Apollo 12 was strictly a Naval affair, compromising of 3 naval fighter pilots.

This is the same branch of the military that captured a down UFO in 1947 and tried to invade the Antarctica in order to capture "flying objects which could fly from pole to pole at incredible speeds." Am hour after Apollo 12 journey got underway, observatories from all over Europe began reporting that they had sighted two bright flashing unknown objects in the spacecraft’s vicinity, and that these objects could even be sighted through large telescopes. One of the objects appeared to be following Apollo 12, the other in front of it. Both objects appeared to be blinking on and off rapidly. The day following their launch, and 132,000 miles into their mission, the astronauts reported to mission control: "We have had an object which is in the same place all the time and appears to be tumbling. We have had it with us ever since yesterday and it just seems to be tagging along with us ... Its usually out our center hatch window when our roll angle is about 35 ... maybe that will give you a clue and somebody can figure out what we are really looking at." No solution was forthcoming, and the journey to the Moon continued. The Apollo 12 and Mission Control discussed the sighting further.

Apollo 12: OK. I wonder what that could be then? Mission Control: OK. We’ll go back to the drawing board. Apollo 12: The object is very bright and it is obviously something that is tumbling. It is tumbling one and one-half revs per second or at least it is flashing us about that. Dick is going to tell you what star it is nearing. Later in the same conversation; Mission Control: … it’s kind of tough to say just what the heck that could be Apollo 12: We’ll assume its friendly anyway, OK? As was during Apollo 11 and other previous missions, Apollo 12 picked up strange noises and recorded it in the log. Alan Bean: Do you hear a lot of background noises Pete? Pete Conrad: Kind of static and things? Alan Bean: I keep hearing a whistle. Pete Conrad: That’s what I hear. Okay. Dick Gordon: (Ten minutes later) Hey, Houston , do you hear this constant beep in the background? Mission Control: That’s affirmative. We’ve heard it now for about the past 45 minutes. Dick Gordon: That’s right, so have we. What is it?

No cause for the noise was ever publicly released, if indeed it ever became known. What is known, however, is that the astronauts not only encountered white orbs speeding across the lunar surface but they also saw a strange orange object or light over the Moon’s surface. They were able to take a photograph of this anomaly as it ‘hovered’ over the lunar landscape. (NASA Catalogue No. AS 12-51 –7553.) Another object was photographed from the command module of Apollo 12, the ‘Yankee Clipper.’ On the original NASA print the object is very small, however, an enlargement highlights what appear to be control panels and lights. On their return to Earth, the following transmission was made in respect of a bright red object flashing below them over India : Apollo 12: Also right in the centre of the Earth, now we have some real bright light shining, staying on that, Dick is looking at it with binoculars. It’s real bright. Mission Control: Roger. Understand. Does it appear to be coming from your nadir point, which should be just off the eastern coast now? Apollo 12: Yes.

It looks like its coming just about out of the centre of what we’re looking at. I would say down from Burma and east of India. Mission Control: We can’t either. We’re checking the possibilities. Apollo 12: (As checks were being carried out.) It’s a steady light and it appears in size to be as big as any of the thunderstorms flashing. Mission Control: Roger. Understand. Apollo 12: Its hard to tell if it is exactly in the centre of the Earth or not. It’s pretty close to being right in the centre. Maybe just a little bit to our right – whatever that means. Just a little to the side that the Sun did not go behind the Earth on." Yet again, the space program had encountered something it could not explain; this time something as large as a thunderstorm flashing up at the spacecraft from lower down in the Earth’s atmosphere. Again, no solution has ever been publicly forthcoming. On November 20, 1969, the Apollo 12 crew jettisoned the lunar module ascent stage causing it to crash onto the moon.

The LM’s impact (about 40 miles from the Apollo 12 landing site) created an artificial moonquake with startling characteristics—the moon reverberated like a bell for more than an hour. This phenomenon was repeated with Apollo 13 (intentionally commanding the third stage to impact the moon), with even more startling results. Seismic instruments recorded that the reverberations lasted for three hours and twenty minutes and traveled to a depth of twenty-five miles, leading to the conclusion that the moon has an unusually light—or even no—core. It was this fact (whether the moon is hollow) that Apollo 13 tried to verify. What Really Happned to Apollo 13 On Saturday April 11th 1970 exactly at 13:13 CST Apollo 13 lifted off Cape Canaveral on its way to the moon. The crew consisted of Jim Lovell, the commander, Jack Swigert, command module pilot and Fred Haise, lunar module pilot. Approximately 8:30pm, a few minutes after Kennedy Space Center handed over to Houston this conversation between Apollo 13 and Houston was overheard, Apollo: "We have company."

Question: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first two men to walk on the moon in 1969, but which fellow American became the third man to achieve this feat on November 19th 1969 along with fellow astronaut Alan Bean in the Apollo 12 mission?
Answer: CHARLES CONRAD