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most famous UFO Quotes!
UFO quotes by Astronauts &
Cosmonauts
"At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a
constant surveillance by UFOs." ~ Astronaut Scott Carpenter - Carpenter photographed a UFO while in orbit on
May 24, 1962. NASA still has not released the photograph to the public.
"If, in fact, we are able to find life or to answer the question 'Are we alone?' then that certainly is grand enough and noble enough to be the enduring legacy of our civilization." ~ NASA, October 1999.
"...I've been asked about
UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other
civilization. ~ Commander Eugene Cernan, Commanded the Apollo 17 Mission - The
quote is from a 1973 article in the Los Angeles Times.
"The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and that
indeed an alien craft did crash and that material was recovered from that crash
site," says Dr. Ed Mitchell Apollo 14
Astronaut, who became the sixth man on the
moon. Mitchell doesn't say he's seen a UFO. But he says he's met with
high-ranking military officers who admitted involvement with alien technology
and hardware.
"I have been over the
years very skeptical like many others. But in the last ten years or so, I have
known the late Dr. Alan Hynek - who I highly admire. I know and currently work
with Dr. Jacques Vallee. I've come to realize that the evidence is building up
to make this a valid and researchable question. Further, because my personal
motivation has always been to understand our universe better, and my own
theoretical work has convinced me that life is everywhere in the universe that
has been permitted to evolve, I consider this a very timely question... By
becoming more involved with the serious research field, I've seen the evidence
mount towards the truth of these matters. I rely upon the testimony of contacts
that I have had - old timers - who were involved in official positions in
government and intelligence and military over the last 50 years. We cannot say
that today's government is really covering it up - I think that most of them
don't know what is going on anymore than the public..." ~ Dr. Ed
Mitchell Apollo 14 Astronaut, MSN Interview 10/98.
Cooper told a U.N. committee recently, "Every day in the U.S.A., our radar instruments capture
objects of form and composition unknown to us.", Cooper speculates that public skepticism
toward UFOs will shift dramatically. ~ Astronaut Gordon Cooper and Ed Mitchell in a recent
interview.
Los Angeles Times (1973) -- Eugene Cernan was the commander of Apollo 17 that flew to the moon. On the subject of UFOs: "I've been asked [about UFOs] and I've said publicly I thought they [UFOs] were somebody else, some other civilization." -- Astronaut Commander Eugene Cernan
More Quotes by Astronauts Here
The Vatican
is interested in UFOs?
Since
When?
ROME (2001) -- Monsignor Corrado Balducci, an insider close to the Pope has gone on national Italian television five times in recent months to proclaim: Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The prelate announced that the Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios (embassies) in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela. Monsignor Balducci said that he is on a Vatican commission looking into extraterrestrial encounters, and how to cope with the emerging general realization of extraterrestrial contact. Balducci provided the Roman Catholic Church's analysis of extraterrestrials, emphasizing that these encounters "are NOT demonic, they are NOT due to psychological impairment, they are NOT a case of entity attachment, but these encounters deserve to be studied carefully." Since Monsignor Balducci is a Vatican expert exorcist, and since the Catholic Church has historically demonized many new phenomena that were poorly understood, his proclaiming the Vatican's non-censure of these encounters is all the more remarkable. Balducci revealed he is closely following this phenomenon.
Current
U.S. 'President' George Dubya Bush
In a brief passage titled "Where Are
the Real Space Aliens?" Mr. Bush's budget document says that several
important scientific discoveries in the past decade indicate that
"habitable worlds" in outer space may be much more prevalent than once
thought.
The passage acknowledges that hard evidence of alien life has yet to emerge.
"Despite all the space aliens that appear in science fiction movies and
books, we have yet to find conclusive evidence for life, even microbes, anywhere
in the universe besides Earth," it reads, but then adds, "Researchers
have found life in very harsh environments on Earth, which expands the possible
kinds of places where life might exist."
"Perhaps
the notion that 'there's something out there' is closer to reality than we have
imagined." ~ The president's fiscal 2004 budget
Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan
To the Students of Fallston High School in Fallston, Maryland (12/4/1985) -- "I couldn't but -- one point in our discussions with General Secretary Gorbachev -- when you stop to think that we're all God's children, wherever we may live in the world, I couldn't help but say to him, just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We'd forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries and we would find out once and for all that we really are all human beings on this earth together. "Well, I don't suppose we can wait for some alien race to come down and threaten us...."
To the 42nd General Assembly of the U.N. (9/21/1987) -- "In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?"
"In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomenon". Former President Gerald Ford 28th March 1966
General Douglas MacArthur
You now face a new world, a world of change. We speak in strange terms, of harnessing the cosmic energy, of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy." "The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets. ~ General Douglas MacArthur - Oct. 8, 1955
Former CIA Director Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter
Signed Statement to Congress (8/22/1960) -- "It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.... I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about unidentified flying objects."
USAF Chief of Staff General George S. Brown
DoD Transcript of Press Conference in Illinois (10/16/1973) -- "I don't know whether this story has ever been told or not. They weren't called UFOs. They were called enemy helicopters. And they were only seen at night and they were only seen in certain places. They were seen up around the DMZ in the early summer of '68. And this resulted in quite a little battle. And in the course of this, an Australian destroyer took a hit and we never found any enemy, we only found ourselves when this had all been sorted out. And this caused some shooting there, and there was no enemy at all involved but we always reacted. Always after dark. The same thing happened up at Pleiku at the Highlands in '69."
Former Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the CIA Victor Marchetti
How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon, Second Look, Vol. 1, No. 7, Washington, D.C. (5/1979) -- "We have, indeed, been contacted -- perhaps even visited -- by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public."
Deputy Chief of the Royal Belgian Air Force Major-General Wilfred de Brouwer
"Postface" in SOBEPS' Vague d'OVNI sur la Belgique - Un Dossier Exceptionnel, Brussels: SOBEPS (1991) -- "In any case, the Air Force has arrived to the conclusion that a certain number of anomalous phenomena has been produced within Belgian airspace. The numerous testimonies of ground observations compiled in this [SOBEPS] book, reinforced by the reports of the night of March 30-31 [1990], have led us to face the hypothesis that a certain number of unauthorized aerial activities have taken place. Until now, not a single trace of aggressiveness has been signaled; military or civilian air traffic has not been perturbed nor threatened. We can therefore advance that the presumed activities do not constitute a direct menace."
"The day will come undoubtedly when the phenomenon will be observed with technological means of detection and collection that won't leave a single doubt about its origin. This should lift a part of the veil that has covered the mystery for a long time. A mystery that continues to the present. But it exists, it is real, and that in itself is an important conclusion."
Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command During the Battle of Britain, Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding
LONDON, Sunday Dispatch (7/11/1954) -- "More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any "scientific" explanation... I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on Earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial source."
Chief of Defense Staff, Ministry of Defense, Great Britain (1973); Chairman, Military Committee of NATO (1974-77), Lord Hill-Norton
Foreword to "Above Top Secret" (1988) -- "The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical force or effect known to our scientists, seems to me to be overwhelming... A very large number of sightings have been vouched for by persons whose credentials seem to me unimpeachable. It is striking that so many have been trained observers, such as police officers and airline or military pilots. Their observations have in many instances... been supported either by technical means such as radar or, even more convincingly, by... interference with electrical apparatus of one sort or another...."
Commanding General of the French Air Forces; General Air Defense Coordinator of the Allied Air Forces of NATO, General Lionel M. Chassin
Foreword to "Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery" (1958) -- "The number of thoughtful, intelligent, educated people in full possession of their faculties who have "seen something" and described it, grows every day... We can... say categorically that mysterious objects have indeed appeared and continue to appear in the sky that surrounds us."
French Minister of Defense M. Robert Galley
Radio Interview by Jean-Claude Bourret (2/21/1974) -- "I must say that if listeners could see for themselves the mass of reports coming in from the airborne gendarmerie, from the mobile gendarmerie, and from the gendarmerie charged with the job of conducting investigations, all of which reports are forwarded by us to the National Center for Space Studies, then they would see that it is all pretty disturbing."
"I believe that the attitude of spirit that we must vis-à-vis this phenomenon is an open one, that is to say that it doesn't consist in denying a priori, as our ancestors of previous centuries did deny many things that seem nowadays perfectly elementary."
Founder and First Director of GEPAN (the UFO Investigative Office Under the French Government's National Center for Space Sciences) Dr. Claude Poher, Ph. D. in Astronomy
GEPAN Report to the Scientific Committee, Vol. 1, Chapter 4 (6/1978) -- "Taking into account the facts that we have gathered from the observers and from the location of their observations, we concluded that there generally can be said to be a material phenomenon behind the observations. In 60% of the cases reported here, the description of this phenomenon is apparently one of a flying machine whose origin, modes of lifting and/or propulsion are totally outside our knowledge."
Minister of Defense, Hungary, George Keleti
Ask a Question to the Minister of Dense: George Keleti, Are You Afraid of a UFO Invasion?, by Attila Lenart, Nepszava, BUDAPEST (8/18/1994) -- "Around Szolnok many UFO reports have been received from the Ministry of Defense, which obviously and logically means that they [UFOs] know very well where they have to land and what they have to do. It is remarkable indeed that the Hungarian newspapers, in general newspapers everywhere, reject the reports of the authorities."
Commander-in-Chief of the Indonesian Air Force, Air Marshall Roesmin Nurjadin
Letter to Yusake J. Matsumura (5/5/1967) -- "UFOs sighted in Indonesia are identical with those sighted in other countries. Sometimes they pose a problem for our air defense and once we were obliged to open fire on them."
Prime Minister, Japan, Toshiki Kaifu
Letter to Mayor Shiotani of Hakui City, Endorsing an Upcoming Space and UFO Symposium (6/24/1990 -- "First of all, I told a magazine this past January that, as an underdeveloped country with regards to the UFO problem, Japan had to take into account what should be done about the UFO question, and that we had to spend more time on these matters. In addition, I said that someone had to solve the UFO problem with far reaching vision at the same time. Secondly, I believe it is a reasonable time to take the UFO problem seriously as a reality... I hope that this Symposium will contribute to peace on Earth from the point of view of outer space, and take the first step toward the international cooperation in the field of UFOs."
Former Commander of Spain's Third Aerial Region, General Carlos Castro Cavero, Spanish Air Force
Interview with J. J. Benitez, La Gaceta del Norte, Balboa, SPAIN (6/27/1976) -- "I believe that UFOs are spaceships or extraterrestrial craft... The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data. Maybe when this group of nations acquires more precise and definite information, it will be possible to release the news to the world."
Former Head of the U.S. Navy's Guided-Missile Program, Admiral Delmer S. Fahmey
NEW YORK TIMES, Page 31 (1/17/1957)
-- "No agency in this country or Russia is able to duplicate at this time
the speeds and accelerations which radars and observers indicate these flying
objects are able to achieve... there are objects coming into our atmosphere at
very high speeds."
"I
believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this
planet from other planets which obviously are a little more advanced than we
are." -- Colonel L.
Gordon Cooper, Mercury 7 Astronaut, in a letter to the United Nations, 1978.
Origin of the term
Flying Saucer:
'The first reported modern-day sighting of flying saucers occurred on June 24,
1947. A private pilot, Kenneth Arnold, spotted nine disk-shaped objects flying
in formation over the Cascade Mountains in the state of Washington. Based on
this sighting the term flying saucers was born. A reporter coined the term,
after hearing Arnold describe the disks as "what a saucer would look like
skipping across water." The following July 29, 1947, Arnold saw
approximately twenty-five more disks that flew within 400 yards of his plane.'
(H. Burt. Flying Saucers 101)
Title 14, Section 1211 under the Code of Federal Regulations in the United States deems it illegal for citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles. Go figure....
Miscellaneous Quotes
"The
pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service."
- Albert Einstein
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