Gordon Cooper

Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. (Colonel, USAF, Ret.), was born on March 6, 1927, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to parents Leroy Gordon Cooper, Sr. (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) and Hattie Lee (Herd) Cooper. Cooper's first flight began on May 15, 1963, when he was launched as the pilot of MA-9, the last Mercury mission. Cooper, in his Faith 7 capsule, orbited the Earth 22 times and logged more time in space than all five previous Mercury astronauts combined.

Astronaut Gorden Cooper had personal encounters with UFOs. For him it began in 1951 while flying for the US airforce, there Cooper and other pilots witnessed an incident that has never been officially explained. A vast armada of UFOs flying in formation at extremely hight altitudes passed above Cooper's squadron of jets. Cooper and other pilots in his squadron viewed hundreds of UFOs that day. Cooper stated that the jet that he was flying could not get anywhere near the altitude of these UFOs. A message was sent to the authorities about the sighting and the response was that they were probably high flying seed pods. Cooper stated publicly that the official explanation was not logical.

There was a large group of hundreds UFOs, that were flying at a very high altitude above his squadron. This experience took place in 1951. Gorden even approached the United Nations with a proposal to form a committee that would investigate UFOs.

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. The vehicle was filmed and that film was sent to Washington DC. See the youtube video Gordon's first experience with UFOs came when he was a pilot flying F-86's to learn more about his experience, click here