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Gordon Cooper's memoir describes a saucer filmed at Edwards AFB

When: Aug 2000
Sources: 2 public sources

Astronaut Gordon Cooper, whose 2000 memoir described a saucer filmed at Edwards AFB NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper's memoir Leap of Faith, written with Bruce Henderson, says that in 1957 at Edwards AFB camera crew filmed a saucer-shaped craft landing, and that the film was sent to the Pentagon on orders and never heard of again. No official record of it has been confirmed.

Sources

PressLeap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey Into the Unknown (review) (opens in a new tab)Publishers Weekly / 2000-05-29
OtherAstronaut Gordon Cooper Talks About UFOs on Paranormal Borderline (opens in a new tab)The Black Vault

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