Astronauts and UFOs

Updated 16.12.2013 A list of space farers - be they astronauts, cosmonauts, taigonauts or any new nomination that might surface as man continues his exploration of outer space. Included their flights, and ideas and experiences of UFOs or other extraterrestrial issues. It is clear that they, as well as airline and fighter pilots - have better than average opportunity to witness UFOs up there, and many have!

 
Afanasyev, Viktor (1948-) Russian cosmonaut. A space veteran of three long-duration missions, he has logged over 545 days in space, and 7 EVAs totaling 38.55 hours. He says: "I think we are not alone, something of extraterrestrial origin has visited Earth. The alien craft turned towards ours, followed us, and flew formation 25 to 29 metres away. We photographed the metallic engineering structure that was 40 metres long. The film was later confiscated." But he made a drawing of the object. - UFO Casebook -
Akiyama,Toyohiro (1942-) Journalist, and the first Japanese in space. 8 days aboard Mir where he made live reports each day documenting life aboard the station. 

Aldrin, Buzz (1930-) 2nd Person On The Moon. Pilot of Gemini 12 in 1966 & Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 11 in 1969. Reticent about the UFO issue. But during the flight Gemini XII he and James Lovell spotted two UFO's approximately 1/2 mile from the spacecraft. They were observed for some period of time and photographs were taken. And then of course during the Apollo Moon landing in 1969, it is said that they were literally surrounded by UFOs. Timothy Good writes that HAM radio operators receiving the VHF signals directly picked up the following message which was screened by  NASA from the public.
Mission Control: "What's there? Mission Control calling Apollo 11."
Apollo 11: "These babies are huge, sir ... enormous....Oh, God, you wouldn't believe it! I'm telling you there are other space craft out there... lined up on the far side of the crater edge... they're on the moon watching us."  - ThinkQuest -
Altman, Scott (1959-) Four Space Shuttle missions - 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2009.

Anders, William  (1933-) Orbiting The Moon. Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 8 in 1968.
Anderson, Michael (1959-2003) Killed during Space Shuttle Columbia reentry Feb 1st, 2003.

Armstrong, Neil (1930-2012) 1st Person On The Moon. Command Pilot of Gemini 8 in 1966 & Commander of Apollo 11 in 1969. If he and Aldrin really did see extraterrestrial crafts on the Moon and then just had to keep quiet about it, that would explain Armstrong's reclusive nature and public reticence in describing his personal experiences there.Why tell anything when you can't tell everything?

Bean, Alan (1932-) 4th Person On The Moon. Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 12 in 1969. 
Beregovoy, Georgy (1921-1995) Soyuz 3 in 1968. He flew 81 times around the Earth.

Bolden, Charles Jr. (1946-) A veteran of four space flights, logged over 680 hours in space between 1986 and 1994. Pilot of STS-61-C (Columbia/1986) and STS-31 (Discovery/1990), and Mission Commander of STS-45 (Atlantis/1992) and in the first US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program STS-60 (Discovery/1994).

Borman, Frank (1928-) Orbiting The Moon. Command Pilot of Gemini 7 in 1965 & Commander of Apollo 8 in 1968. The first to fly around the Moon. Borman saw, together with James Lovell onboard Gemini VII, something that perhaps after all wasn't anything alien, according to ATS. But on Christmas Day 1968 onboard Apollo 8 he and co-pilot Lovell are reported to have witnessed a UFO (a "Santa Claus"), also the day before. An unidentified language was picked up on one of the NASA frequencies used during the mission. - ATS - NasaBio -

Brand, Vance (1931-) Command module pilot of the first U.S.-Soviet joint space flight in 1975, and commander of three space shuttle missions. 

Brown, David (1956-2003) Killed during Space Shuttle Columbia reentry on Feb 1st, 2003.
Carpenter, Scott (1925-2013) Pilot of Mercury 7 in 1962. Carpenter said of UFOs: "At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs." - Syti - UFO Digest -
Cassidy, Chris (1970-) Expedition 36, 2013

Cernan, Eugene "Gene" (1934-) 11th Person On The Moon. Pilot of Gemini 9 in 1966 & Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 10 in 1969 & Commander of Apollo 17 in1972. Cernan became - officially - "the last man on the Moon". In January 1973 he said in a Los Angeles Times article: "I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization". 

Chaffee, Roger (1935-1967) Pilot of Apollo 1 in 1967 - killed at launch.
Chawla, Kalpana (1962-2003) Killed during Space Shuttle Columbia reentry Feb 1st, 2003.
Clark, Laurel (1961-2003) Killed during Space Shuttle Columbia reentry Feb 1st, 2003.
Collins, Eileen (1956-)  Pilot (the first female one) of Discovery on STS-63 in 1995 (first rendezvous with Mir) & the first female commander of a U.S. Spacecraft with Shuttle mission STS-93 in 1999.
Collins, Michael (1930-) Orbiting The Moon. Pilot of Gemini 10 in 1966 & Command Module Pilot of Apollo 11 in 1969. While on orbit, Collins saw a about 7-story high building on the Moon - that piece of transmission was later erased, but according to ATS millions of people heard it. - ATS -
Conrad, Charles  (1930-1999) 3rd Person On The Moon. Pilot of Gemini 5 in 1965, Command Pilot of Gemini 11 in 1966 & Commander of Apollo 12 in 1969.
Cooper, Gordon (1927-2004) Pilot of Mercury 9 in 1963 & Command Pilot of Gemini 5 in 1965. Perhaps the most outspoken of all the astronauts concerning UFOs. Witnessed one in 1951, but never in space.
Cunningham, Walter (1932-) Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 7 in 1968.
Duke, Charles (1935-) 9th Person On The Moon. Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972.
Eisele, Donn  (1930-1987) Command Module Pilot of Apollo 7 in 1968.
Evans, Ronald (1933-1990) Orbiting The Moon. Command Module Pilot of Apollo 17 in 1972.
Ferguson, Christopher (1961-) Pilot of STS-115 Atlantis in 2006, Commander of STS-126 Endeavour and Commander of  STS-135 Atlantis - the final mission of the space shuttle program. Video(47m57s)
Fuglesang, Christer (1957-) Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. STS-116 in 2006.
Gagarin, Yury (1934-1968) Vostok 1 in 1961. The first man in space.

Gibson, Robert L. (1946-) Five missions: Pilot of STS-41-B (Challenger/1984) and Commander of STS-61-C (Columbia/1986), of STS-27 (Atlantis/1988), of STS-47 (Endeavour/1992) and of the third Shuttle-Mir Program STS-71 (Atlantis/1995).

Glenn, John (1921-) Pilot of Mercury 6 in 1962. Became the first American to orbit the Earth, and is also the oldest person to fly in space, aboard the space shuttle Discovery (1998). Conservative views about UFOs which always rhyme well with political ambitions. But in his guest appearance on Frasier (Mar2001), did he or did he not, disclose? Maybe, probably. He did ask the people on "Frasier" to let him be a guest on the show. Thus maybe cleverly finding a way to tell the truth without really risking anything.

Gordon, Richard F. Jr (1929-) Orbiting The Moon. Pilot of Gemini 11 in 1966 & Command Module Pilot of Apollo 12 in 1969. Onboard Gemini 11 together with Charles Conrad  they report to Mission Control that their craft was being observed by a UFO estimated at being about six miles away.  
Grissom, Virgil (1926-1967) Pilot of Mercury 4 in 1961, Command Pilot of Gemini 3 in 1965 & Command pilot of Apollo 1 in 1967 - killed at launch.
Hadfield, Chris (1959-) Canadian astronaut. Mission specialist on STS-74 (Atlantis 1995) and STS-100 (Endeavour 2001). He also spent almost six months onboard ISS as part of Expedition 35 (Soyuz 2012).
Haigneré. Jean-Pierre (1948-) French astronaut. Two missions to the Russian Mir space station (1993 &1999). During the latter mission he took this interesting photograph! Although no official statement has ever been released concerning the mystery object, it has been suggested by some that the anomaly is nothing more than a reflection of a water droplet from inside the Mir. 
Haise, Fred (1933-) Orbiting The Moon. Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 13 in 1970, the unlucky flight.
Hoshide, Akihiko (1968-) 星出 彰彦 - JAXA astronaut. Mission specialist of STS-124 (Discovery) in 2008 and flight engineer of Soyuz TMA-05M in 2012.
Husband, Rick (1957-2003) Killed during Space Shuttle Columbia reentry Feb 1st, 2003.
Irwin, James B. (1930-1991) 8th Person On The Moon. Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 15.
Jarvis, Gregory  (1944-1986) Payload Specialist of 10th Challenger mission. Killed at launch.
Jett, Brent W. Jr. (1958-) Pilot of STS-72 (Endeavour in 1996) and STS-81 (Atlantis in 1997), and commander of  STS-97 (Endeavour in 2000) and STS-115 (Atlantis in 2006). Witnessed three UFOs during the STS-115 flight on Sep 20, 2006. - YouTube:NASAfootage(9m45s/pay attention to audio, and after 5min video) -
Johnson, Gregory C. (1954-) Pilot on STS-125 Atlantis, the final Hubble servicing mission in 2009.
Johnson, Gregory H. (1962-) Pilot of STS-123 in 2008 and of STS-134 in 2011.
Kelly, Mark (1964-) Pilot of STS-108 (Endeavour) in 2001, pilot for STS-121 (Discovery) in 2006, commander of STS-124 (Discovery) in 2008 and STS-134 (Endeavour) in 2011.Kelly believes there is probably life all over the universe, but doesn't think aliens have visited our planet. - CapeTimes2008 -
Komarov, Vladimir (1927-1967) killed on re-entry of Soyuz 1 in 1967.
Kononenko, Oleg  (1964-) ESA mission, 2011
Kubasov, Valeri (1935-) flight engineer of Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (ASTP) and commander of Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme. He was also involved in the development of the Mir space station.
Kuipers, André (1958-) Dutch astronaut.  Soyuz TMA-4 in 2004. ESA mission 2011-2012.
Leonov, Alexey (1934-) Voskhod 2 in 1965. The first human to conduct an EVA (18 March 1965)

Lovell, James A. (1928-) Orbiting The Moon. Pilot of Gemini 7 in 1965, Command Pilot of Gemini 12 in 1966, Command Module Pilot of Apollo 8 in 1968 & Commander of Apollo 13 in 1970 (the unlucky flight). Lovell saw a UFO together with Frank Borman onboard Gemini VII in 1965. Lovell also witnessed an incident during flight Gemini XII in 1966: On November 12 both astronauts are reported to have spotted 2 UFO's approximately 1/2 mile from the spacecraft. They were observed for some period of time and photographs were taken. And then during the flight of Apollo 8 in 1968, as the command module emerged from behind the moon Lovell transmits "We have been informed that Santa Claus does exist!". This occurred on Christmas day so many believed it was just Lovell's sense of humor for the kiddies watching the broadcast - but many  speculate that it was the use of the code word originally employed by Walter Schirra on the Mercury 8 flight. On Christmas Eve Borman and Lovell are reported to have seen a UFO, and an unidentified language was picked up on one of the NASA frequencies used during the mission. - Time video -

MacLean, Steve (1954-) Canadian astronaut. Mission Specialist on STS-115 (Atlantis 2006).

Massimino, Michael (1962-) Mission specialist 5 of  STS-109 Columbia in 2002 and Mission specialist 4 oof  STS-125 Atlantis in 2009. The first person to use Twitter in space (2009).

Mattingly, Ken (1936-) Orbiting The Moon. Command Module Pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972. 
McAuliffe,Christa  (1948-1986) Mission Specialist of 10th Challenger mission. Killed at launch.
McCandless, Bruce II (1937-) Mission specialist of STS-41-B (Challenger) in 1984 and of STS-31(Discovery) in 1990.
McCool, William  (1961-2003) Killed during Space Shuttle Columbia reentry Feb 1st, 2003.
McDiVitt, James (1929-) Command Pilot of Gemini 4 in 1965 & Commander of  Apollo 9 in 1969 . During the Gemini 4 flight he witnessed a UFO twice. Pictures taken, which were released by Nasa in 1985.
McNair, Ronald (1950-1986) Mission Specialist of 10th Challenger mission. Killed at launch.
Misurkin, Alexander (1977-) Russian cosmonaut. Expedition 36, 2013
Mitchell, Edgar (1930-) 6th Person On The Moon. Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14 in 1971, landing in the hilly upland Fra Mauro region. Very outspoken on the issue of UFOs. He says he has proof that the greys are real and that right now aliens are watching us. NasaBio - YouTube(2m27s) - YouTube(4m20s) -
Nespoli, Paolo (1957-) Italian astronaut. Mission specialist aboard Discovery, STS-120 in 2007, and flight engineer aboard Soyuz TMA-20, Expedition 26/27 in 2010. Video(8m46s)
O'Leary, Brian T. (1940-2011) Because of program cancellations, never got to go to space - Wiki -
Onizuka, Ellison (1946-1986) Mission Specialist of 10th Challenger mission. Killed at launch.
Pettit,  Don (1955-) American astronaut. ESA mission, 2011
Popovich, Marina (1931-) Soviet cosmonaut.
Popovich, Pavel (1930-2009) The 4th cosmonaut in space, the 6th person in orbit, and the 8th person in space. Witnessed a very bright, white triangle-shaped UFO not in space but while flying home from Washington D.C. in 1978. - Out of the Blue(at45ms25) -
Ramon, Ilan (1954-2003) Killed during Space Shuttle Columbia reentry Feb 1st, 2003.
Resnik, Judith (1949-1986) Mission Specialist of 10th Challenger mission. Killed at launch.
Roosa, Stuart A. (1933-1994) Orbiting The Moon Command Module Pilot on Apollo 14 in 1971.

Schirra, Walter (1923-2007) Pilot of Mercury 8 in 1962, Command Pilot of Gemini 6 in 1965 & Commander of Apollo 7 in 1968. During the mid-December 1965 flight, he and his Gemini crewmate, Thomas Stafford, unnerved Mission Control when they reported, slowly and in deadpan fashion, seeing some kind of UFO consisting of "a command module and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit" - Santa Claus. - TheDenverPost:Obituary - NasaBio -

Schmitt, Harrison (1935-) 12th Person On The Moon. Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 17 in 1972.
Schweickart, Rusty (1935-) Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 9 in 1969
Scopee, Francis "Dick" (1939-1986) Commander of 10th Challenger mission. Killed at launch
Scott, David (1932-) 7th Person On The Moon. Pilot of Gemini 8 in 1966, Command Module Pilot of Apollo 9 in 1969 & Commander of Apollo 15 in 1971.
Shatalov, Vladimir (1927-) Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz 4 in 1969.
Shepard,  Alan (1923-1998) 5th Person On The Moon.  Pilot of Mercury 3 in 1961(first American in space) & Commander of Apollo 14 in 1971.
Shriver, Loren (1944-) Pilot of STS-51-C (Discovery) in 1985, Commander of STS-31 (Discovery) in 1990 and Commander of STS-46 (Atlantis) in 1992.
Slayton, Deke (1924-1993) The docking module pilot of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project in 1975. He became the oldest person to fly in space at age 51 (that record has since been broken).
Smith, Michael J.  (1945-1986) Pilot of of 10th Challenger mission. Killed at launch
Stafford, Thomas P. (1930-) Orbiting The Moon. Pilot of Gemini 6 in 1965, Command Pilot of Gemini 9 in 1966 & Commander of Apollo 10 in 1969.
Strekalov, Gennadi (1940-2004) Veteran of four space missions (1983, 1984, 1990 and 1994). "On the last two flights (Soyuz TM-10  & Soyuz TM-21 / Mir EO-18 / STS-71) I saw something. During the flight of 1990, I called Gennadij Manakov, our commander, to come to the porthole - but we did not manage to put film in the camera quickly enough. We looked on Newfoundland and the atmosphere was absolutely clear - suddenly a kind of sphere appeared. Beautiful, shiny and glittering - I saw it for 10 seconds - it disappeared. What was it, what size it had? I don't know, there was nothing I could compare with - it was a perfect sphere. - UFO Casebook -
Swigert, Jack (1931-1982) Orbiting The Moon. Command Module Pilot of Apollo 13 in 1970, the unlucky flight.
Tereshkova, Valentina (1937-) Russian cosmonaut, Vostok 6 in 1963. The first woman in space.
Vinogradov, Pavel (1953-) Russian cosmonaut. Expedition 36, 2013
Volynov, Boris (1934-) Soyuz 5 in 1969

Walker, Joseph A. (1921-1966) NASA test pilot. He filmed five or six UFOs during his record breaking fifty-mile-high flight in April, 1962. It was the second time he had filmed UFOs in flight. On May 11th he said that one of his tasks was to detect UFOs during his X-15 flights. But none of those films have been released to the public for viewing. In 1963 he made two X-15 experimental rocket aircraft flights beyond the altitude of 100 kilometers - at the edge of  outer space. These were the first spaceplane flights past that threshold, thus qualifying Walker as an astronaut. - Syti - Wiki -

Wang, Yaping  (ca1980-) The second female taigonaut in space as a member of the Shenzhou 10 spaceship crew, which orbited the earth in June 2013. She told school children through a live video feed system that "through the front windows, we can see the Earth and many other stars, but up till now, we haven't seen any UFOs".

Wetherbee, James (1952-) Pilot of  STS-32 (Columbia 1990) and Commander of  STS-52 (Columbia 1992), STS-63 ( Discovery 1995), STS-86 (Atlantis 1997), STS-102 (Discovery 2001) and STS-113 (Endeavour 2002). The final three missions were dockings with Mir and the ISS. Jim Wetherbee is the only American to have commanded five missions in space.

White, Edward (1930-1967) Pilot of Gemini 4 in 1965 & Senior Pilot of Apollo 1 in 1967.  The first American to walk in space. Witnessed together with James McDivitt a UFO during Gemini 4 flight. Killed at launch of Apollo 1 in 1967.
Williams, Sunita (1965-) 
Worden, Alfred M. (1932-) Orbiting The Moon. Command Module Pilot on Apollo 15.  
Yang, Liu (1978-) First Chinese woman in space onboard Shenzhou 9 in 2012.
Young, John (1930-) 9th Person On The Moon. Pilot of Gemini 3 in 1965 & Command Pilot of Gemini 10 in 1966 & Command Module Pilot of Apollo 10 in 1969 & Commander of Apollo 16 in 1972.

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon  -  Photo by Neil Armstrong

ADDITIONAL LINKS

- Wiki:ListOfSpaceTravelersByNationality -

Miscellaneous

Updated 17.3.2014 A link list of miscellaneous articles without own headline in the Main Features.

- Apollo Lunar Landings - Art Bell Dark Matter - Blurred pictures - Celebrities and UFOs - Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Drones - Explanations Ad Infinitum - Extraterrestrial Languages -  Language Corner - People in this blog - Questionnaire #1 - Science Fiction Movies - Sightings from commercial airplanes - Terminology - Unseen, but still on photo - Ways and ways to hush them up -


Editorials
- Experiences believed - or not - Fear of the Unknown  - Giving credit where credit is due - If  I Had a Superpower - Merry Xmas to You All - My own UFO experience - Space Beings Are We All - The Trauma of Secrecy - Why NOT believe?!


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Explanations Ad Infinitum

Updated 20.12.2013  Here are some of the most common and most ludicrous explanations by outsiders as to what witnesses of UFO sightings must have seen or heard - instead of the real deal. Some of the explanations may hit the point, but most simply don't, but rather are products of fearful and/or closed minds. A UFO sighting is usually such a powerful experience that the person immediately and automatically goes through, while experiencing, an internal checking and double checking before arriving at the definite conclusion: I know what I saw! Hardly any witness takes a sighting - and the analysis of it - lightly, but it is for many a profound and possibly life-changing experience. Thus a later, superficial 'analysis' of it by total outsiders really doesn't have - and should not have - any value. Here are anyway some examples of such 'explanations'. We who do believe/know or have seen/heard/experienced could take these as just something amusing to read if it wasn't for the - triteness...

THE CRAFTS
Roswell crash in 1947 brought this brilliant interpretation of the event: "it was just farm machinery. Maybe a trailer, and the lights and noise were from tractor". Depending upon the shape of the UFO - circular, cigar-shaped, diamond, triangle, rod - a UFO could be instead:
airplane
atmospheric phenonema
balloon
Chinese lantern
drone
flock of birds
helicopter
light aberration
Jupiter
kite
mass hallucination
meteor
model plane
satellite
stars
swamp gas
the Moon
Venus
weather balloon
list continues...

LIGHTS

People have reported seeing white, yellow, red or blue lights, or any mixture of those colors. And the lights can be steady or flickering, and in the shape of beams, or be spreading allover. The lights can seem to emanate from a solid body/craft, or appear as separate from anything solid, and changing in shape and position. No matter what kind, these lights could instead be, according to sceptics:

atmospheric phenonema
Chinese lanterns
Jupiter
light aberration
lighthouse beams
lights of airplane or helicopter
headlights of approaching car
meteor
reflection of other, earthly, lights
reflection of spectacles
stars
Venus
list to be updated...

SOUNDS
Most witnesses say that UFOs don't sound - that they quietly fly or hover in the sky. Still, an argument can be made by the skeptic that what you thought you heard was instead:
airplane
atmospheric phenonema
car
helicopter
trees
wind
list to be updated...

PS. My personal experience started with a sound as there was initially no visual perception of anything unusual going on. Or if no sound was actually heard, it was vibrations in the air that caught my attention. Since sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through some medium (e.g. air), composed of frequencies which are within the range of hearing, the pressure can be sensed as vibrations even if no sound is 'heard'. Wiki:Sound

ALIENS
A somewhat tougher question, and one which perhaps frustrates the most - the inability of most anybody to believe that one really has encountered an extraterrestrial being. But these too can be explained away as:
animals
children
dreams
hallusinations
poor eyesight
shadows
list to be updated....

SCEPTOLOGY

Actually logic is often quite far from the mind of someone ready to dismiss the experiences of another as something less valid or as downright lies. It seems rather that there is a lot of ignorance, fear and intellectual arrogance involved. These are oftentimes people who wouldn't believe themselves if they saw something extraordinary, but would be too easily persuaded to dismiss their own experiences. So how could they respect those of others? Scepticism is a personality trait, not to be confused with logical reasoning.

Mare Moscoviense

Updated 24.1.2014 Mare Moscoviense resides on Moon's far side - one of the few maria on that side, at approximately 27.3 N and 147.9 E. With diameter of 277 km (172 mi.), the size of the area is about  40,000 square kilometers. There are four larger craters there, all named after cosmonauts: Komarov to the southeast of the mare, Titov in the northern region, Tereshkova to the west, and Belyaev to the south.
To get the feeling of the area, look at this wonderful video Mare Moscoviense Flyover provided by JAXA. Makes you almost wonder why provide this service and all this clearly non-airbrushed surface to look at  since there is so much of muddled view on the other side! Especially since we wouldn't be able to see this side by any earthly means - i.e. with a telescope.  

LUNAR ANOMALIES AT MARE MOSCOVIENSE

When you go to Google Earth Moon and start zooming in on Mare Moscoviense, you don't see much anything first. But as you get closer, you start seeing things in earnest! You do need to get to eye altitude 10 km and lower.

This is of course a very large area. The distance from north to south is 265 km (164 mi.). But when you get real close, those white oblong things that are allover this area appear quite long, around 100 meters long. What are they?! There are literally tens of thousands of them and those white dots allover this Sea of Moscow and the surrounding area! This video (18m23s), uploaded by user adityasite, gives a good picture of the anomalies. And this one by  bluebird2011(10m15s)! But even better go there, to Google Earth Moon, yourself and have a look! Thank you NASA, Google Earth & Co. for this service! And thank you for not air brushing this area yet.

Belyaev crater resides south of Mare Moscoviense straight opposite Titov in the north. At approximately 22d42m41s N and 142d34m47s E you will find a V-shaped formation on top of a smaller crater. The sides of this formation are about 90 meters long, and let's hear user adityasite(1m40s) explain further: " From what I can see, this is a 100% perfect V shape consisting of 7 small white orbs estimated to be 8-10 meters in diameter. With the ruler tool on google moon, a rough estimate suggests the whole formation is around 145m in length. The odds of a structure this geometrically perfect happening naturally must be next to impossible". Similar shapes are found also elsewhere in Mare Moscoviense.

Huffington Post wrote an article about this in January 2014 - based on Youtube user wowforeeel's video on this lunar anomaly. And there is yet even more interesting, almost shocking, news in Turner Radio Network and Sunny Skyz! (updated here Jan 24th). Would the seven-dot formation be the craft that NASA had been tracking for months, and last year found landed on Belayev?! 

Or are they just individual pixels from a low resolution image as Metabunk thinks? NASA's LADEE detection in December 2013 of something very large and very different from anything "lunar"  would contradict that! Three NASA rockets were possibly launched January 13-15 in 2014 on a classified Department of Defense Mission.

More interesting coordinates to look at:
39.50.44 N - 147.18.32 E - what do you think that is?
28.11.00 N - 145.34.51 E - the oblong thing is over 200 meters long
23.06.04 N - 146.20.54 E - and more a bit higher up!

LINKS
- bluebird2011 - JAXA - Metabunk - NASA - Scientific Psychic - Wiki - Wiki:Belyaev Crater - WikiSpaces:MareMoscoviense/Pictures -

Newspaper Articles Worldwide

Updated 17.7.2014 This page introduces various articles published in the mainstream media worldwide cornerning the extraterrestrial phenomena and space exploration. Mostly the bigger newspapers, but also some online papers from the entertainment business. The articles are in English as well as other languages. The links to these articles may at some point expire, and some of the links take you to older articles of a newspaper that may not even exist anymore.

This list is chronological with the oldest articles on top. There will be no translation - this is just a service provided for both English-speaking and non-English-speaking countries. Article links are followed by  name of paper, country of publication and the language concerned. Suggestions for new links are warmly welcome.
All the titles are original -  partly reflecting the societal atmosphere at the time of publishing. Some of the articles are subcription based (SB) - to be able to read further, you need to be a subcriber of the newspaper/magazine, or purchase the article. But these too are included for the sake of an overall picture. The largest newspapers and online media go here without country label: BBC(UK), China Daily(China), Der Spiegel(Germany), El País(Spain), HLN(Belgium), Le Monde(France), MBL(Iceland). The American newspapers have no country labels. Below you have the different language labels.
DAN - DUT  - ENG - EST - FIN - FRA - GER - ICE - ITA - JPN - NOR - POR - RUS - SPA - SWE-

In order to better manage the increasing volume of data, there is now an individual page for the decade after the new millennium, and individual pages for each year beginning the year 2010. Chronological order is kept throughout. To pick your chosen language, look for language label after the newspaper title. 

News in the 2000s 

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1865-1019 A Strange Story - Remarkable Discovery (The Missouri Democrat/UFO Casebook)
1878-0125 A Strange Phenomenon (Denison Daily News/Texas/UFO Casebook)
1897-0419 A Windmill Demolishes It (Dallas Morning News/UFO Casebook/Wiki)

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1938-1031 The War of the Worlds (The New York Times) ENG  

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1942-0226 Army Says Alarm Real - about the battle of LA (Los Angeles Times//Rense.com) ENG
1942-0226 Anti-Aircraft Guns Blast at LA Mystery Invader (Glendale News-Press//Rense.com) ENG

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1944-1213 Floating Silver Balls Latest Nazi Weapons - about the Foo Fighters (Associated Press)

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There is a shortage of links to the stories below. Look at the review for more information. Noteworthy is that what became to be known as the more truthful titles change into debunking efforts by the military which the media readily adopted.
1947-0630 'Supersonic flying saucers' in U.S. (The Herald /Australia) ENG
1947-0705 Flying saucers at Creve Couer Lake - headline missing (The St.Louis Post-Dispatch)
1947-0707 'Flying Saucers' to be hunted down - Review (The Argus/Australia) ENG
1947-0707 Persistent 'Disc Saucery' Reports Leave America Guessing (The Sun/Australia) ENG
1947-0708 RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region (Roswell Daily Record) ENG
1947-0709 Harassed Rancher who Located 'Saucer' Sorry He Told About It (Roswell Daily Record) ENG
1947-0709 Army Debunks Roswell Flying Disk As World Simmers With Excitement (Roswell Morning Dispatch) ENG
1947-0709 Officers Say Disk Is Weather Balloon (Roswell Morning Dispatch) ENG 
1947-0709 Disks Baffle Science as Reports Pour In. Saucers Seen by Hundreds in 28 States (Los Angeles Times) ENG
1947-0714 UFOs visit Shenyang and Xi'an - a report of  80+ UFOs seen... (People's Daily/China) ENG 
1947-0719 Transatlantische Sausen - Jeder Erdteil hat seine Untertassen (Der Spiegel) GER

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1950-0318 Huge 'saucer' armada jolts Farmington (Farmington Daily Times/NM//Rense) ENG
1950-0330 Sie fliegen aber (Der Spiegel) GER
1950-0608 At Long Last: Authentic Photographs Of Flying Saucer? (Telegraph-Register/Wiki) ENG

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- 1952 - 

1952-0312 Die Untertassen-Saga (Der Spiegel) GER
1952-0414 Science: Calling All Martians - SB (Time) ENG
1952-0723 Abilene Family Sights Mysterious Flying Object (Abilene, Texas) ENG
1952-0728 Hundreds in state see 'flying saucers' (Indianapolis News) ENG
1952-0729 Jets Told to Shoot Down Flying Discs (Herald News) ENG
1952-0729 Jets on 24-Hour Alert To Shoot Down 'Saucers' (San Fransisco Examiner) ENG
1952-0821 Scoutmaster Tells Of "Flying Saucer" Attack (The Palm Beach Post) ENG
1952-0903 Untertassen-Menschen: Absolut unverletzlich (Der Spiegel) GER
1952-1029 Lachs - oder Kreuzpinnen (Der Spiegel) GER

- 1953 -

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- 1954 -

1954-0421 Besucher aus dem all (Der Spiegel) GER

- 1955 -
- 1956 -

- 1957 -

1957-1103 Russians launch dog into space (BBC) ENG
1957-1104 Fiery object reported in wide area over Texas (Washington Evening Star) ENG

- 1958 -

1958-0217 Science: Easier Moons - SB (Time) ENG
1958-0319 Himmlische Zeichen (Der Spiegel) GER

- 1959 -
- 1960 -

-1961 -

1961-01 Life with Astrochimps: Early Stars of the space race (Life Magazine) ENG

-1966 -

1966-0114 Communications: TV Beacons in Space (Time) ENG
1966-1206 Minot Launch Control Center "Saucer" Cited As... (The Minot Daily News) ENG

- 1967 -

1967-0210 Low Flying Saucer Sighted Thursday Near Darmstadt... (The Marissa Messenger/Illinois)
1967-0417 DA IST ES! ES BEWEGT SICH! (Der Spiegel) GER
1967-1113 Ruf des Planeten (Der Spiegel) GER

- 1968 -

1968-0514 Flying Saucer Fiasco - on the Condon Committee (LOOK) ENG 

- 1969 -

1969-0718 Moon: The Crew: Men Apart - About Apollo 11, soon to make history - SB (Time) ENG
1969-0721 Man takes first steps on the Moon (BBC/UK) ENG 
1969-0725 The Moon: Next, Mars and Beyond -SB (Time) ENG
1969-0801 The Moon: Ground Rules for the Moon - SB (Time) ENG
1969-0926 Space: The Price of Mars - SB (Time) ENG

- 1970 -

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- 1971 -

1971-0628 Saucer Diehards (Time) ENG
1971-1213 Science: Is There Life on Mars? - SB (Time) ENG

- 1972 -

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- 1973 -

1973-1029 Mit Spitzohren (Der Spiegel) GER

- 1974 -

1974-0128 Les enfants voient moins de 'soucoupes volantes' que les adultes (Le Monde) FRA
1974-0211 Des vessies pour des lanternes (Le Monde) FRA

- 1975 -

1975-1008 Un symposium sur les objets volants non identifiés "La phase du doute est dépassée" (Le Monde) FRA

- 1976 -

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- 1977 -

1977-0424 Baby UFO and its Big Mama - a transcribed article in the 2013 edition (The Gazette) ENG
1977-1030 Two County Residents Report UFO Sightings (Union Democrat/California) ENG

- 1978 -

1978-0225 "Rencontres du troisième type", de Steven Spielberg (Le Monde) FRA
1978-0424 Religion: Dabbling in Exotheology - SB (Time) ENG
1978-0424 So wurde die Weltöffentlichkeit getäuscht (Der Spiegel) GER

- 1979 -

1979-0903 M. Carter et le lapin nageur - SB (Le Monde) FRA

- 1980 -
- 1981 -
- 1982 -

- 1983 -

1983-1212 Museum is offering a close encounter with U.F.O. studies (New York Times) ENG

- 1984 -
- 1985 -
- 1986 -

-1987 -

1987-07xx World War II UFO Scare - about the batttle of LA (Fate Magazine//Rense.com) ENG
1987-1027 Our Towns; U.F.O. Stakeout: A Polite Request To Land in Rain (The New York Times) ENG

- 1988 -

1988-1011 Objet volant (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1988-1114 Bruxelles vient d'accueillir tous les traqueurs d'O.V.N.I. (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA

- 1989 -

1989-0918 Britain Around and Around in Circles - SB (Time) ENG
1989-1011 Strange Tale of the 3-Eyed Alien That Zapped a Boy! (The St.Louis Post-Dispatch) ENG
1989-1012 La soucoupe russe interpelle aussi les scientifiques (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1989-1022 Close Encounters of the Soviet Kind (The New York Times) ENG
1989-1027 Glasnost hourra! (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA

- 1990 -

1990-0309 Dans l'espace (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1990-0320 Liège: un ovni pour la Sobeps? (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1990-0417 Chasse aux ovnis: une pièce de choix pour la Sobeps (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA

- 1991-

1991-0124 Les ovnis peuvent inspirer les scientifiques: Il est possible de... (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1991-0814 La dimension mythique des ovnis: Ian Watson seduit par la... (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA

- 1992 -

1992-0707 Secret Underground Facilities: Your Tax Dollars At Work (The Phoenix Liberator) ENG
1992-0813 UFO 'Expert' settles lawsuit with sheriff - about Bob Dean (The Prescott Courier) ENG

- 1993 -

1993-0122 Grilles sur le gril (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1993-0821 "Bons baisers de la planète Mars": Les petits hommes verts... (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1993-1121 For U.F.O. Fans, Question Is Not 'If?' but 'How Was the Trip?' (The New York Times) ENG
1993-1129 Study Finds No Abnormality In Those Reporting U.F.O.'s (The New York Times) ENG
1993-1129 It Came From Outer Space - SB (Time) ENG

- 1994 -

1994-0129 Petits Potins - on a Steven Spielberg film (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1994-0515 John Mack's Abductees (The NewYork Times) ENG
1994-0516 Something Unusual is Going On - SB (Time) ENG

- 1995 - 

1995-0101 A U.F.O., or Is There an Explanation? (The NewYork Times) ENG
1995-0403 Document inédit (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1995-0729 Rencontre du troisième type: à quoi ressemblent nos frères... (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1995-0823 L'extra-terrestre de Roswell de plus en plus mis à mal,... (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1995-0829 Les images du "documentaire secret" accroissent encore la.... (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1995-0906 Petits potins (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1995-0917 The Belgian UFO Wave - about, title not found (Sunday Express) ENG
1995-1023 Le squelette de Roswell débarque a TF 1: Un os que... on TV (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1995-1216 Un ovni à Cuba (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA

-1996-

1996-0822 Un chercheur du Grip repond a la Sobeps et si les ovnis etaint.... (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA

 -1997 -

1997-0402 U.S. Has Stopped Tracking U.F.O.'s (The New York Times) ENG
1997-0609 Les ufologues flamands ne sont pas contents les ovnis du Nord...? (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1997-0616 Happy Birthday, Ufo! (Der Spiegel) GER
1997-0618 UFO Lovers Descend  On 'Crash ' Site (The Moscow Times) ENG
1997-0705 Le cinema americain fete l'Independence Day un 4 juillet, les... (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1997-0723 Did aliens really land? - About Roswell, subscriber based (Time) ENG
1997-0806 La CIA americaine avait menti deliberement les ovnis etaient... (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1997-1119 Chile to investigate reported UFO sightings (BBC) ENG
1997-1207 Close encounters of an extra-terrestrial kind (BBC) ENG

- 1998 -

1998-0630 Taka faglega á fljúgandi furðuhlutum (MBL) ICE
1998-0809 Alien Nation (The New York Times/Book review) ENG
1998-1022 Líf á öðrum hnöttum? (MBL) ICE

- 1999 -

1999-0519 US billionaire funds crop circle research (BBC) ENG
1999-0709 Einn Appolo-geimfaranna látinn - about Charles Conrad (MBL) ICE
1999-0717 Vilja sjá mannaða geimferð til Mars (MBL) ICE
1999-0719 Kona í fyrsta sinn skipherra í geimferðð (MBL) ICE
1999-0723 ET and the eclipse (BBC) ENG
1999-0802 Schwebende Dreiecke - about Art Bell (Der Spiegel) GER
1999-1009 Sciences quand les cometes ont fécondé la terre... (Le Soir/Belgium) FRA
1999-1024 F.Y.I. - Documented Aliens (The New York Times) ENG



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