Gordon Cooper Quotes

• I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.

  Gordon Cooper

  Government, Feelings, Sitting

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• 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.

  Gordon Cooper

  Intelligent, Order, Our World

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• Who was the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at 'im.

  Gordon Cooper

  Pilots, Saws, Great Aviation

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• I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster.

  Gordon Cooper

  Airplane, Desire, Normal

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• 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

  Gordon Cooper

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• 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.

  Gordon Cooper

  Doubt, Mind, Cameras

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• I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its wings. It's a magical feeling to climb toward the heavens, seeing objects and people on the ground grow smaller and more insignificant. You have left that world beneath you. You are inside the sky.

  Gordon Cooper

  Airplane, Sky, Wings

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• Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base Germany, 1951 and we tried to get close to them, but they were able to change direction faster than our fighters. I do believe UFOs exist and that the truly unexplained ones are from some other technically advanced civilization.

  Gordon Cooper

  Believe, Civilization, Groups

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• Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.

  Gordon Cooper

  Military, Information, Flying Saucers

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• While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of a strange disc object that flew in over their heads and landed on a dry lake nearby. A camera crewman approached the saucer, it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known aircraft.

  Gordon Cooper

  Lakes, Air, California

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• 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.

  Gordon Cooper

  Usa, Nasa, Form

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• I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth.

  Gordon Cooper

  Believe, Earth, Littles

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• I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

  Gordon Cooper

  Europe, Two, Flying

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• Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

  Gordon Cooper

  Thank You, Father, Able

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• While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.

  Gordon Cooper

  Flying, Germany, Pilots

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• Government is afraid that people may think the worst and panic about these creepy horrible invaders. So the idea is: We have to avoid panic by all means.

  Gordon Cooper

  Mean, Thinking, Government

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