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Gordon Cooper

6 declassified cases mention this, always in the body of the document rather than as an official record field. Documented incidents span 1962 to 1965.

A single agency is involved: NASA. The case files here include documents and audio recordings. None of the cases carry visible redactions.

Cases

File IDDateAgencyTypePages readExcerpt
NASA-UAP-D018June 3-7, 1965NASADocument182/224This 224-page NASA file on the Gemini 4 (GT-4) mission bundles several kinds of material. The first part is the Mission Operation Report M-913-65-04 (24 May 1965) with a June 1965 memorandum on added flight activities: an extravehicular act…
NASA-UAP-D019August 2 - September 2, 1965NASADocument219/223Preliminary technical debriefing transcript, Part I, of the Gemini 5 (GT-5) crew — Command Pilot L. Gordon Cooper and Pilot Charles 'Pete' Conrad — recorded August 30-September 1, 1965 at Cape Kennedy following their eight-day, 120-orbit mi…
NASA-UAP-D020August 30 - September 2, 1965NASADocument323/325This is the complete Part II of the preliminary Gemini 5 (GT-5) technical debriefing transcript, prepared by NASA's Spacecraft Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, dated September 2, 1965, from a debrief conducted August 30-Sept…
NASA-UAP-D0105/15/63NASAAudio—This short air-to-ground audio excerpt captures Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr., roughly one hour and 21 minutes into the final and longest Project Mercury flight, describing what he calls "John's fireflies" — a referen…
NASA-UAP-D0115/15/63NASAAudio—This Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) air-to-ground audio excerpt begins with Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr. narrating orbital sunrise — the brilliant blue band of light beneath the atmospheric haze layer as seen from orbit — and reporting small, lumi…
NASA-UAP-D023November, 1962NASAAudio—This is an excerpt from a November 1962 television interview in which journalist Walter Cronkite questions Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper about unidentified flying objects. Cronkite notes Cooper's previously expressed interest in the topic…

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