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This 1998 NASA file holds UFO-related letters from constituents that were forwarded by members of Congress, together with NASA's handling records. Senator Olympia Snowe forwarded letters from Maine residents, including a 12-year-old who asked for Roswell documents and listed a number of reported sightings. Senator Charles Grassley forwarded a question about astronaut UFO sightings. NASA's reply says it has no UFO program and has not withheld anything. The reply enclosed a NASA fact sheet and James Oberg's article, which explains the Gemini-4 McDivitt object as the spacecraft's own booster.
From the source: Release of 2026-06-12 Released with redactions. This collection of documents, primarily from 1998, contains draft and final correspondence from the White House and the offices of members of Congress responding to constituent inquiries about Unidentified Flying Objects, or “UFOs.” These inquiries cover a diverse range of topics, including alleged UFO sightings by NASA astronauts, questions regarding the authenticity of photos collected during U.S. missions to Mars, alleged improper withholding of information by the U.S. Government, questions regarding the appropriateness of “UFO-related” governmental spending, and calls for congressional hearings regarding the nature and existence of “UFOs.” The official responses consistently state that, circa 1998, the U.S. Government is not aware of evidence supporting the existence of extraterrestrial technology, and that NASA does not actively investigate “UFOs.” The collection includes references to materials of both confirmed and unconfirmed authenticity, as provided by constituents, as well as references to historical, scientific literature addressing specific “UFO” sighting claims.
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On a recen t "U FO rncorcli:ig''
rrll-asrd by Columbia, calt.:d "UFOs:
The Credibility Facto r", :VlcDi\·itt
clrarly shows h ow h is mcmorirs have
ch:u1ged o r bc,m cl1a11g(•d to enhance
the mystery ot' hi3 C'Xpcricnce: "They
(NAS.-\) chcck,'d :'iOR..\D... to sec
what they had up on radar ancf there
w:isn 't anything within very close
range of us." Readers can measure the
credibility of this statcm~nt against .
the facts.
If McOivitt was fooled by his own
booster ten years ago, is it too much
to expect him to admit it now? What
would that do to all of his public
assertions of mystery? There is an
easier way out, and i'vlcOivitt took it
when I sent him an advance copy of
my manuscript. After keeping it two
months, he wrote back, "[ was not
able to read it very thoroughly and I
cannot offer any ext~nsive comments.
I do not foresee the opportunity for
me to provide any further re~w."
There weren't any errors in my
analysis, he implied, but it woulc! be
better kept quiet.
NASA never had any real doubts.
"We believe it to be a rocket tank or
spent second stage of a rocket," wrote
a high space official on July 1, 1965.
NORAD officials, confronted with my
scenario, endorsed it: "Your
comments on the NORAD role related
to the case appear to pe logical,"
wrote NORAD Public Information
Officer D.W. Kindschi on Feo. 23,
1976.
So the "~lcDivitt case" is closed.
The best space UFO case has now been
identified. Do not expect to see any
change in the UFO press, however.
Such results are simply ignored.
Photographs made in space show
negative effects, such as the "McDivitt
UFO" aura, often. Spacecraft ·and
astronauts may be engulfed in a
strange aura caused by overexposure
to sunlight brighter than ever seen on
Earth. Blowups of photographs of
known space objects show them
appearing as "blobs" due to the
enlargement process and to the·
courseness of the grain. Ordinary space
pictures are full o f clouds o f debris,
constellations of man-made starlike
points fluttering through space.
The Condon report was fascinated
with the ~lcOi\·itt casst)archers nor the
average reader had ever had all the
facts. Now people can m:ike up thei r
own minds. I havl' ''" d ,iub~ th;,t
~lcl)i\"itl w:i~ ~ th•!
appearance of an artifici.!l earth
satellite, and that is e~:actly wh:it
\kDivitt thought it \•:.:s. There is no
information to suggest it w.:_s anything
else.
Another Condon favorite is a
Gemini -7 case. The report of sightings
of a cloud of debris right at the
moment of boostt•r separation (these
particles included frozen fuel droplets,
the booster itself. assorted insulation
and structural fragments from where
the explosive bolts were fired, and
other smaller objects never identified
and never cared about) is not very
impressive. The crew, on their first
space mission, saw a few pieces they
had nol expected (the pilot guessed
wrongly-that they "were in polar
orbit"). Only a partisan digging for
evidence, and desperate to find such
evidence, would make much of this
common event.
But a sign of desperation is indeed
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tryi:1~ t rJ m:t~:;f:-,.-:- tu:c1 cou ni .~rf,.i,
"astrnnaut L:FO" ce:s;a,y if th~
" rt'al" L: FO evidence w~rC' as
persuasive as many thint.
It involves :i photograph showing
two very strange glowing ocjects. Each
is he:,agonal in shape, ~·:ew!c'd at an
angle, ~nd supported by ;;. dazzling
"force field" below it. A cloud
covered earth is se.?n in the
background. s~~ p\cd~ ~1 ~ :l.8
This photograph h as appeared in
books, magazines, newspapers, and
pamphlets. It is part of the travellina
slide show of UFO lectur~rs from th;
Mutual UFO Network (i\!VFON) and
elsewhere. I have heard it described
as •\showing a typical UFO force field
propulsion system", and "similar to
other UFO photograph taken on
Earth the same year".
The photograph is a forgery. It is a
hoax. What the anonymous counter
feiter did (I have reason to suspect a
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