Gordon Cooper, Faith 7, and the Later UFO Claim: Mission Record vs. Retelling
NASA’s Faith 7 transcript records Gordon Cooper seeing greenish ‘fireflies’ that appeared to come from the spacecraft. It does not record the later story of a green UFO tracked near Australia—and Cooper himself denied seeing a UFO on his Mercury flight.
[ PRIMARY CITATION // NASA RECORD · CTD-0119 ]
WITNESSES & UNITS
Col. L. Gordon CooperSENSORS & EVIDENCE
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