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Congressional, White House, UFO-related Constituent Correspondence, 1998

U.S. Government · 1998 · 86 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 6 …of o( an "unidentified spacecraft" near his Gemini-4 space capsule in 1965, a curious photo…
  • p. 8 …Why didn't the -list from NORAD include the Gemini-4 boost er rocket? NORAD had…
  • p. 10 …What we do know from the complete Gemini-4 transcripts (including the on-board tape recorder…
  • p. 13 …oC Earth made Crom the Gemini-7 spaceship on December 4, 1965. The nose of the…
  • p. 25 …But an example of his work gives a different impression: "Gemini-XII: Jim Lovell and Edwin…
  • p. 31 …Barry, pages 4-10. Barry is associated with Carl Mcintyre's fundamentalist Christian group, and is…
  • p. 36 …Er this is Gemini control Houston at er 4 hours 24 minutes into the flight. Ironically…
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.
According to a Dr. Vladimir Azhazha:
"Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large ,
mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon
module. But this message was never heard by the public -- because NASA
censored it ."
According to a Dr. Aleksandr Kasantsev, Buzz Aldrin took color movie
film of the UFOs from inside the module, and continued filming them
after he and Armstrong went outside .
Armstrong confirmed that the story was true but refused to go into
further detail, beyond admitting that the, CIA was behind the cover- up.
Donald Slayton
Donald Slayton a Mercury astronaut revealed in an interview he had seen
UFOs in 1951:
"I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object.
I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought
the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that
high. II
As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three
feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't
look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk .
About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me
- - and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it
for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off .
It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat
disappeared."
Major Robert White
On July 17, 1962 Major Robert White reported a UFO during his
fifty - eight-mile high flight of an X-15. Major White reported:
"I have no idea what it could be. It was grayish in color and about
thirty to forty feet away." Then according to a Time Magazine article,
Major White exclaimed over the radio:

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