Interview Excerpt with Astronaut Gordon Cooper, 1962
NASA-UAP-D023 · Release 03 (6/12)
Agency
NASA
Document type
Audio
Incident date
November, 1962
Release
Release 03 (6/12)
Evidence tier
Tier 1 · Primary sensor/visual record
What the document says
In November 1962, journalist Walter Cronkite interviewed astronaut Gordon Cooper. In this excerpt from that interview, Cronkite asks Cooper about his views regarding the nature of unidentified flying objects, having previously expressed an interest in the subject. Cooper opines that “a large number of exceptionally well-qualified people have seen objects” without a “logical explanation” and speculates on the existence of other planets with “a livable atmosphere” and that maybe there are “some type of human life” out there. Interview was conducted in November 1962.
Context
This is one of 33 NASA records in the declassified archive. It was published in Release 03 (6/12).
Evidence tiers describe the type of record (sensor capture vs. written report vs.
administrative file) · not a claim about its conclusions. UFO Papers reports only what the documents state.