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.

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