October 4, 2022
QUOTE
I know other astronauts share my feelings…. And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.
Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this and possess a great deal of evidence. Nevertheless, they remain silent in order not to alarm people. I am dedicated to forcing the authorities to end their silence.
For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public. Why? Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means
A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen) went out there with their cameras toward the UFO…. I had chance to hold (the film) up to the window. Good close-up shots. There was no doubt in my mind that it was made someplace other than on this earth.
--All from the great (and dependable) astronaut Gordon Cooper
BIRTHDAYS
1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States
1861 – Frederic Remington, Painter, sculptor, and illustrator
1911 – Mary Two-Axe Earley, Canadian indigenous women’s rights activist
1923 – Charlton Heston, Actor and director
1956 – Christoph Waltz, Actor
IN MEMORY
1669 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator
1970 – Janis Joplin, Singer-songwriter
1989 – Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter
2004 – Gordon Cooper, Colonel, engineer, and astronaut
IN ON THIS DAY
1602 – Eighty Years’ War and the Anglo-Spanish War: A fleet of Spanish galleys are defeated by English and Dutch galleons in the English Channel.
1795 – Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1941 – Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
1957 – Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
2004 – SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.