AudioBlog: A UFO Landing at Edwards AFB?

by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer
Investigators.”Gordon Cooper, youngest of the original Mercury
astronauts, often spoke publicly about his UFO sightings and
beliefs. He appeared in documentaries such as James Fox’s 2003
film Out of the Blue, and famously wrote
a letter dated November 9, 1978, to Ambassador of Grenada
to the United States George Ashley Griffith calling for the
scientific collection and analysis of data taken from UFO
encounters in order to “determine how best to interface with these
visitors in a friendly fashion.” In Out of the Blue, he
is heard telling a story about a flying saucer with three
retractable legs that was filmed landing in 1957 at Edwards Air
Force Base. He didn’t claim to have witnessed the landing himself,
but did say he saw the footage. There was an incident involving the
filming of a UFO at Edwards that year, and there is a Project Blue
Book file on the case. James McDonald found the witnesses
and interviewed them in the late 1960’s and wrote a report.
Cooper’s name is not mentioned by McDonald and the incident as
described by McDonald and in the Blue Book file didn’t involve a
landing. Brad Sparks and Jan Aldrich, both heavily
involved in UFO research for many years, had an email exchange
discussing this, and a record of it can be found at
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