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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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This photo was snapped only moments af ter Aldrin's other Apollo 11 sho t . Here the two UFOs
have begun their separation and a halo-li ke force field between the two is c/ea,/y shown. ~
p retty o bvious implications for UFO
repor ts. NASA apparently decided to
le t the UFO writers spread their
;-umors, hoping that the stories would
fade away if ignored.
Wh at had ha ppened. though. was a
riew shot in the arm for ·'astronaut
UFO cases". The explanations could
never catch up with the mi~inlerpreta•
tions and w1ong impressions
engendered by the onirlteard
conversations and l'iewt'd i111a).(r~ (mm
Apollo-12. :\lillions of ,\meric..ins were
practically eyewitnesses to a "space
UFO", and were suitably impressed.
"E x clusive NASA Photos" and NASA
cJ nsorship is another part of myth . Theso
Apollo-11 spots are highly magnified
window reflection, in Lunar Module dee ~
in ,pace (Aldrin turned the .:amer.> on by
ac c ident w hile c hec k ing equ ipment) .
When presented with the Saga story
and with APRO's (and MUFON's)
account of the "maneuverin g alien
spacecraft at 150,00u m iles from
Earth", the a\·erage· citizen could only
assume that iL might indt"'d be true. If
N.-\SA was denying it, '.l'e!l then, the
government has bcl'n kno\'/ ,1 to lie to
us in the pa~t.
It is a vai:i hop<! to im :.gine that the
truth will ever .:.1tc:h up co the Apollo-
12 a11<l oth,•r C [· Os..-\ s clL-c:iilc<l h ere,
th.:: Apollo•I:! C FD 1H•rcr e:-..istt!d.
Somc,how, milliuns or pl•oplc beli£:Vc
that il did . There is s,1ffi<:icnt blame
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