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abort-sensing and implementation system (ASIS), 25

Advanced Technology Group, 216-17, 224-25, 227-32, 234, 257-61

Africa, 133, 140-45

Air Force, U.S., 24, 67, 77, 101, 103-4, 110, 179, 182-83, 245

UFO sightings in, 80-86, 88-91

Air Force Experimental Flight Test School, 82

Air Force Institute of Technology, 22, 82

Air Force One, 133, 140

Alaska, Post-Rogers crash in, 99-100

Albuquerque Regional Flight Control, 77

Aldrin, Edwin (Buzz), 76, 173, 177

Allen, Paul, 78

alpha state, 244

Anders, Bill, 171

Apollo, 33, 47, 72, 119, 127, 135, 142, 158, 161-73, 178

extra-vehicular activity and, 156-57

near cancellation of, 166-67

post-fire review of, 167-68

spacecraft design for, 169-70

stages in, 170-71

Apollo 1, 161-66, 168, 229, 231

Apollo 7, 171, 179

Apollo 8, 171-72

Apollo 9, 172

Apollo 10, 172, 177, 179

Apollo 11, 172-73

Apollo 12, 267

Apollo 13, 177-79, 181

Apollo 14, 181

Apollo 18, 265

Apollo Review Board, 163-64

Apollo-Soyuz, 181

Area 51, 131-32

Arizona, USS, 64

Arlington National Cemetery, 165-66

Armstrong, Neil, 76, 109, 173, 179

Army, U.S., 148, 152

Army Air Corps, 94

Army Ballistic Missile Agency, U.S., 155

Army National Guard, 93

Army Redstone Arsenal, 22-23, 148, 152

Army ROTC, 102, 103

Askania-camera precision landing system, 82-85

astronaut-pilots, NASA qualifications for, 9-10, 15-16

Atlas rockets, 9, 22, 118, 248

in Faith 7

flight, 41, 43-45

tests of, 2-3, 4, 19, 28, 31, 156

Titan compared with, 119

Atomic Energy Commission, 237

Aurora 7, 35

automatic direction finder (ADF), 98

B-l bombers, 101

backup systems, 25-26

Backus, Peter, 79

balloon experiment, 47

balloons, weather, UFOs as, 83, 90, 91

Barnes, Pancho, 100-101

Bassett, Charles, II, 177-78

Bean, Alan, 267

Beechcraft, 106

Belyaev, Pavel, 134-40

Beregovoy, Georgiy, 139

Bergman, Jules, 264-65

biocosmic transducer, human as, 243

Bittick, James, 82-85

Blanchard, William, 83

Bonanzas, 105-6

Borman, Frank, 76, 171

brain, ELF waves and, 243-45

Brand, Vance, 181

Braun, Maria von, 150

Braun, Wernher von, 23, 147-60, 171, 265

in Germany, 147, 149-52

lobbying of, 167, 175

Mars and, 148, 174

post-NASA career of, 159-60

Brooks Air Force Base, 159

Buckley, Charles, 178

Buhler, Walter, 202-4

Bush, George, 113

Bykovsky, Valery E, 127

By Rocket to Space (Oberth), 149

Cape Canaveral, 1-6, 64, 114, 140, 152

as Cape Kennedy, 161-62, 168

Hangar S at, 1-2, 37, 38, 118

JFK’s visits to, 70, 158-59

carbon dioxide, 53, 55, 59

Carpenter, Malcolm S. (Scott), 2-4, 17, 20-21, 61, 67, 119

space flight of, 35, 49

Carter, Jimmy, 192-93

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 220

centrifuge, 23-24, 27, 34, 42-43, 44

Cernan, Eugene, 172, 178

Chaffee, Roger, 163-65

Cheops Pyramid, 244

cherrypicker, emergency, 117, 118

chimpanzees, launching of, 11, 27-28, 33, 57

China, Communist, 124-25

Choko Indians, 111-13

Close Encounters of the Second Kind, 197

cockpit layout, 21, 42, 120

Collins, Michael, 172, 173

Colorado, University of, 88

Commandaire biplanes, 94-95

communications, 20, 98, 164, 215, 218-19

blackout periods in, 51, 60-61, 121, 128

of Faith 7, 42, 51-52, 53, 55, 57-63

Faraday experiments and, 220-22

telepathic, 218-23, 227-30, 236, 237, 251-52

wireless, 235-36, 240-46

Condon, Edward, 88

Congress, U.S., 9, 24, 72, 78, 89, 114, 167, 237

Cooper’s speeches to, 64-70, 134

opposition to space program in, 174-76

Conrad, Charles (Pete), 105-6, 109-31, 267

“8 Days or Bust” and, 113-15, 129

goodwill mission of, 133-45, 181

Conrad, Jane, 141

Conrad, Nancy, 267

Constantine II, King of Greece, 134

control system, 20, 22

cooling system, 46, 53, 59

of space shuttle, 227, 229-32

Cooper, Camala (daughter), 15, 64, 103, 107, 141, 266

Cooper, Colleen (daughter), 202, 266

Cooper, Elizabeth (daughter), 202, 266

Cooper, Hattie Lee Herd (mother), 71, 93-97, 100, 102, 103, 107

Cooper, Janita (daughter), 16, 64, 103, 107, 141, 266

Cooper, Leroy Gordon, Sr. (father), 93-98, 101-4

cancer and death of, 106-8

Cooper, L. Gordon, Jr.:

auto racing of, 178, 266

backup assignments of, 177-82

called to Washington, D.C., 7-8, 10-12

as CapCom, 119

centrifuge training of, 23-24, 42-43, 44

chosen for Project Mercury, 14-16

Congressional speeches of, 64-70, 134

dangerous flight situations of, 66, 105-6

at Disney, 211-15, 225, 266

early flying of, 94-97

education of, 22, 61,81, 82, 96, 97, 102-3

“8 Days or Bust” and, 113-15

enlistment of, 101-2

extraterrestrial spacecraft ride promised to, 254-55, 259

family background of, 69, 71, 93-97

famous flyers met by, 97-101

first flight of, 94

flight training of, 103-4

goodwill mission of, 133-45, 181

in “launch day in the life of an astronaut” TV segment, 5

on launch mornings, 4-6, 115-17, 119-20

marriages and marital problems of, 15-16, 17, 71, 103, 202

in NASA, 1-6, 15-39, 41-53, 55-72;

see also Faith 7;Gemini 5

NASA’s testing of, 11-14

near bumping of, 37-39

in Panama, 109-13

photography of, 48, 49-50, 129-31

in Presidential Honor Guard, 102

press conferences of, 16-18, 64-66

religious background of, 69-70

retirement of, 182-83, 202

space endurance record of, 126-27

sports interests of, 102, 106-7

as test pilot, 7-8, 11, 14, 22, 82

treasure hunting of, 185-90

Cooper, L. Gordon, Jr. (cont.)

U-2 and, 7, 14, 132

UFO sightings of, 80-81, 85, 194, 248

UN testimony of, 198-99

Cooper, Marcus F., 8

Cooper, Mrs. Phillip Henry (grandmother), 71

Cooper, Phillip Henry (grandfather), 71

Cooper, Suzan (second wife), 202, 254-55, 266

Cooper, Trudy (first wife), 15-16, 17, 64, 72, 103, 107, 141, 202

as pilot, 16, 103, 202

Cooper patch, 115

cosmonauts’ U.S. tour, 139-40

creative visualization, 236-37

Cronkite, Walter, 264-65

Dana, Bill, 21

Debus, Kurt, 153

defecation in space, 125

Defense Department, U.S., 84-85, 87

defibrillator units, 239

digital electronic flight controls, 223

Disney Imagineering, 211-15, 225, 266

Dobrynin, Anatoly, 163

Donlon, Charles, 15

Dornberger, Walter, 150

drogues, 62, 139

Earhart, Amelia, 97-98, 100

Edge of Reality, 76

Edison, Thomas, 233, 234, 240

Edwards Air Force Base, 7-8, 11, 14-15, 22, 38, 132, 223

Happy Bottom Riding Club at, 100, 101

UFO sightings at, 82-86, 90-91

“8 Days or Bust,” 113-15, 129

Einstein, Albert, 258

Eisele, Donn, 179-80

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 57, 152

electricity, 239

AC vs. DC, 233-34

electromagnetic propulsion system, self-generating, 257-58

energy technology, 214, 216, 233-35, 237-46

England, 141, 143, 185, 257

UFO sightings in, 88

in World War II, 151, 153-54

Enola Gay, 83

Enos (chimpanzee), 33

Epcot Center, 213

escape towers, 4, 25, 28, 31, 43, 116, 117, 118

Ethiopia, 140-42

Explorer I, 152

extra-sensory perception (ESP), 243

extra-vehicular activity (EVA; space walk):

Soviet, 134, 136-37

U.S., 119, 156-57, 177, 267

extreme-low-frequency (ELF) waves, 242-46

F-8 Crusaders, 21

F-84 Thunderjets, 80

F-86 Sabrejets, 80-81, 193-94

F-102 fighters, 7, 14, 24-25, 38

F-106 fighters, 7, 14, 31-32, 192

Faith 7, 37, 41-53, 126

clock of, 43, 53

communications system of, 42, 51-52, 53, 55, 57-63

cooling system of, 46, 53, 59

countdown and liftoff of, 41-43

Earth objects distinguished from, 46, 47-48, 66, 124

experiments performed on, 47, 49-50

false report of UFO sighting during, 75-76

manual reentry of, 56-64, 73

negative 34-angular-degree of, 45, 60

oxygen consumption on, 50, 53

panel light problems of, 51-52

parachutes of, 61-62

sleep period on, 48, 49-50, 65

total power failure on, 52-53, 55-56

Faraday, Michael, 221, 240

Faraday cages, 220-22, 245

Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), 95-96, 168

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 246

Feoktistov, Konstantin, 139

fire extinguishers, 164-65

“fireflies,” 46-47, 65

First Global Conference on the Future, 261

fishing, 97, 106-7

509th Bomb Group, 83

525th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 80-81

flashing light experiment, 47

flight simulators, 23, 26, 35, 43, 55-56

food, 50, 63-64, 110-11, 112

Ford, Gerald, 163

Frederica, Queen Mother of Greece, 134-35

Freedom 7, 30

Freeman, Theodore, 178

Friendship 7 33-34

Fry, Dan, 247-54, 259

fuel cells, 120-24, 144, 213

Fulton, Jim, 24

Galaxy Aviation, 266

Gargarin, Yuri, 28

Geller, Uri, 220

Gemini, 33, 47, 72, 105, 135, 153

Mercury compared with, 109, 116, 120, 124, 125, 128, 138

Gemini 3 (Molly Brown), 118-19

Gemini 4, 77-78, 119, 199

Gemini 5, 109-33,213,267

delay in launching of, 115-17

“8 Days or Bust” and, 113-15, 129

film confiscated from, 130-32

fuel cell of, 120-24

launching of, 119-20

meteorite shower during, 125-26

onboard radar in, 120, 125

Panama training for, 109-13

reentry and recovery of, 127-29

wing of, 116-17

Gemini 9-A, 178

“Gemini Nine,” 109

Gemini 11, 267

Gemini 12, 177

General Accounting Office, 83

General Electric, 213, 234

General Motors (GM), 2, 140, 213

German rocket scientists, 5, 22-23, 147-60

see also Braun, Wernher von

Germany, West, Cooper in, 80-81, 148

Germany Rocket Society, 149

Gettys, Jack, 82-85

G-forces, 43, 44, 59, 60, 87

Gilmore (lion cub), 99

Gilruth, Robert, 26-27, 66-68, 114, 115, 122, 180-81

Glenn, John H., Jr., 2-4, 17-18, 21, 27, 33, 67, 72, 105, 119

Faith 7 reentry and, 57-60

“fireflies” of, 46-47, 65

1962 mission of, 4, 33-34, 35, 46-47, 49, 179

as politician, 21, 119

in return to space, 264

Glennan, T. Keith, 16-17

Goddard, Rob, 149

Goldwater, Barry, 193-94

Gordon, Richard, 267

Greece, 133-39, 181

Grenada, 196

Grissom, Betty, 165

Grissom, Mark, 165-66

Grissom, Scott, 165-66

Grissom, Virgil I. (Gus), 2-4, 17, 18, 22, 27, 159

Apollo 1 and, 161-66, 168

in Gemini mission, 118-19

in second suborbital mission, 30-33, 152, 179

gymnasts, considered for space travel, 56-57

Haile Selassie, 140-42

Ham (chimpanzee), 27-28

Hangar S, 1-2, 37, 38, 118

Hansen, Dowd, 242-46

happily-married requirement, 15-16, 71, 179

Happy Bottom Riding Club, 100, 101

Harz Mountains, 151

Hastie, B. J., 86

Hawaii, 61, 64

Hawaii, University of, 61, 102-3

heat shield, 34, 45, 60

Herd, George Washington, 69

Herd, Hattie Lee, see Cooper, Hattie Lee Herd

Herd, Mrs. George Washington, 71

Hewlett, William, 78

Himmler, Heinrich, 150

Hitler, Adolf, 150-51

Holmgren, Scott, 202

House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 24, 237

“How to Build a Tesla Transmitter” (King), 237

“Huntsville Gang,” 153

Hynek, J. Allen, 194-98, 200

Imboten, Otis, 186

Ingersoll, J. L., 87

“In Search of Gordon Cooper’s UFOs,” 75-76

instrument panels, 21, 42, 43, 50, 51-52, 62, 123-24

inventors, amateur, 211-13

ionosphere, 241, 242

Jacobs, Al, 228

James, Bennett, 231-32, 262

Johnson, Lady Bird, 113

Johnson, Lyndon B., 72, 114, 131, 133, 141, 153, 163, 167

Johnson Space Center, 265

Judge Advocate General (JAG), 94, 101

Junkers bombers, 153-54

Jupiter missiles, 148

Kearsarge, USS, 61-64, 70

Kennedy, John F., Jr., 99

Kennedy, John F. (President), 26, 39, 70-71, 158-59, 161

death of, 131, 159

Moon landing and, 30, 71, 121, 152-53, 159, 162, 173

Kenya, 143-45

Kenyatta, Jomo, 143-44

Keutner, Joaquin (Jack), 153-55

KGB, 133, 139

Kiko Rock, 143

Korean War, 152

Kraft, Chris, 58-59, 123

Kranz, Gene, 165, 183

Lady Bird, 113

Lake Champlain, USS, 129

land recoveries, Soviet, 137-39

Langley Air Force Base, 15, 19-27

Launch Control, 114, 116, 164, 165

LeMay, Curtis, 182-83

Leonov, Aleksey, 134-40, 181

Liberty Bell 7, 31-33, 118

Life, 67, 71

Lindbergh, Charles A., 69, 71, 167

Linde, Greg, 201, 208

Loring Air Force Base, 191, 192

Lovelace Clinic (later Mayo Clinic), 12-13

Lovell, Jim, 76, 171-72, 177

Lowe, Nancy, 19-20

MacArthur, Douglas, 89

McClellan Air Force Base, 86

McDivitt, James, 77-78, 119, 172

McDonnell, Jim, 122

McDonnell Aircraft, 8, 41-42, 122

McNab, Robert, 86-87

Malmstrom Air Force Base, 191, 192

manned missions, U.S., 67

delay of, 27-28

first, 28-30, 32, 38

Manned Space Center, 114, 177

Marconi, Guglielmo, 235, 240

Mariner 4, 174

Marines, U.S., 63, 67, 179

Cooper’s enlistment in, 101-2

Mars, 148, 174-75, 263-64

Marshall Space Flight Center, 147-48

Masai warriors, 144

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 51

Mau Mau uprising, 143

Mayflower (presidential yacht), 93

mechanical astronauts, 28

Mercury (winged messenger), 10

Mercury Control Center, 25, 36

Faith 7 flight and, 41-43, 45, 47, 49, 52-60, 72

Mercury Project, see Project Mercury

“Mercury Seven,” 2-4, 16-39, 119

as CCGGSSS, 2

control system debate of, 20

defense contractors visited by, 19

jobs divided up by, 20-23

Mercury spacecraft:

backup systems in, 25-26

Ham’s problems in, 27-28

window in, 45-46

Mercury stamp, 19

meteorites, 125-26

Mexico, undersea treasure hunting in, 185-90

MIG-15s, 80

Minot Air Force Base, 192

Miramar Naval Air Station, 87

Mission Control Center, 114, 116, 121, 125, 128

Moon landing, 109, 263

Apollo program and, 72, 119, 158, 162, 169-73, 179

JFK and, 30, 71, 121, 152-53, 159, 162, 173

national debate about, 166-67

Moonport, 158, 159

Morgan, J. P, 235

movies, 3-D, 212-13

Muchea Tracking Station, 75-76

Multiple Wave Oscillator, 258-59

N-l rockets, 172

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1-6, 129, 131, 134, 152, 155-59, 263

astronaut-pilot qualifications of, 9-10, 15-16

Congressional opposition and, 174-76

Cooper’s departure from, 182, 183, 202

F-102s loaned to, 24-25

flight schedule advanced by, 35-36

House investigation of, 24

innovations of, 19

JFK’s prediction of Moon landing and, 30, 121

Marshall Space Flight Center of, 147-48

public relations of, 5, 34, 71

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (cont.) space shuttle transmission and, 230-32, 262

UFOs and, 78-79

Washington headquarters of, 10-12

National Space Institute, 159-60

Naval Academy Prep School, 102

navigation, 98, 190

in space, 51, 57, 127, 128, 190

Navy, U.S., 12, 35, 67, 129, 179, 243

first U.S. satellite launching attempted by, 8-9

pressure suit of, 21

Nazi Germany, 150-51

NBC radio, 75, 76

Neal, Roy, 264-65

Nelson, George, 202-4

Neubiberg Air Force Base, 80-81

neutrinos, 258

New Republic, 69

news media:

Grissom’s treatment from, 31-33

“Mercury Seven” introduced to, 16-18

Newsweek, 90

New York City, German bombing planned for, 154

New York Times, 32

Nikolayev, Andrian G., 70

Noonan, Fred, 98

North American, 122-23

North American Aerospace

Defense Command (NORAD), 191, 192

Nuclear Nerva, 175

Oberth, Hermann, 149, 155

Olmec, 188-90

oxygen consumption, 50, 53, 59

oxygen pressure, in Gemini 5, 120-21, 123

Packard, David, 78

Panama, 109-13

parades, 70, 71-72

Paynter, Bill, 193

Peace-in-Space Treaty, 162-63

Peenemunde rocket team, 150-55

Peking Peggy, 124

personality inventory, 12

photography:

confiscation of, 130-32

from space, 48-49, 51, 124, 125, 129-32, 254, 255

UFOs and, 82-86, 90

physical examinations, 12-13

physiological stress tests, 13-14

Point Concepcion, Calif., UFO sighting in, 86

Post, Wiley, 99-100

prayer, space, 68-69

Presidential Honor Guard, 102

pressure suits, 5, 14, 21, 25, 42, 99

last minute alteration of, 37, 39

Soviet, 136

temperature inside, 46, 53, 59

Project Adam, 158

Project Blue Book, 85-90, 194-96

Project Mercury, 2-6, 10-39, 41-53, 55-72, 153

Atlas tested for, 2-3

closing of, 72-73

coming-out party of, 16-18

first orbital mission in, 33-34

flight plans for, 3-4, 34, 45, 63

flying neglected in, 24, 27

Gemini compared with, 109, 116, 120, 124, 125, 128, 138

goals of, 10, 34, 36-37, 72

and launch pad emergencies, 117-18

manned suborbital flights in, 28-33, 45

naming of, 10

one-day flight of, 36-39, 41-53

second orbital flight of, 34-35

selecting of participants for, 10-16

selecting of prime pilot for, 26-27

training for, 23-24, 26, 42-43, 44, 55-56, 107

what-if factor in, 25-26

see also “Mercury Seven”;Mercury spacecraft

Proxmire, William, 174-76

psychological tests, 12

Puharich, Andrija, 219-22, 236, 244

radar, 120, 124, 125, 238

radio, 75, 76, 234-35, 240, 241

Ramey, Roger, 83

Randall, Bo, 111

Ransone, Valerie, 214-22, 224-25, 227-32, 247-48, 254-55, 259-62

first “contact experience” of, 217-18

Tesla technology and, 234-41

Rathmann, Jim, 105, 106

Reagan, Ronald, 193

recovery teams, recovery, 21, 32, 34, 56, 128-29

in Soviet Union, 137-39

Redstone rockets, 3, 9, 22-23, 28, 153

Regan Airport, 94, 96, 97

religion:

“Mercury Seven” on, 18

science and, 69-70

remote viewing, 220, 237

retro rockets, 56-60, 117, 138

Riedel, Walther, 155

Right Stuff, The (movie), 33

rocket boosters, 22-23

see also Atlas rockets Rockwell, 123

Rogers, Will, 99-100

Romero, Pablo Bush, 188

Roswell Air Force Base, 83

Roswell Daily Record, 83

“Roswell incident” (1947), 83-84

rudder pedals debate, 20

Sabotage Alert Team, 192

Sanford, John, 87

satellites, 8-9, 47

Saturn I, 158

Saturn V, 159, 170, 172, 175-76, 265

Scheer, Julian, 65, 134

Schirra, Walter M., Jr. (Wally), 2-4, 6, 17, 20,21-22, 33, 67, 76

in Apollo 7, 171

Cooper’s competition with, 61, 63

crew assignments and, 181-82

Faith 7 and, 42, 43

in Gemini mission, 119, 182

Sigma 7

flight of, 35-36, 65

smoking of, 50

Schweickart, Russell, 172

Scott, David, 172

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), 78-79, 223

See, Elliot, 177-78

Senate, U.S., 114

Space Committee of, 72

Shepard, Alan B., Jr., 2-4, 12, 17, 21,67,119

as CapCom, 49, 50

in first U.S. manned launch, 28-30, 32, 38, 117, 152, 179

flight crew assignments and, 176-82

as prime pilot, 27-30

return to space sought by, 38, 176, 180, 181

Shuttle Operations, 178

Sigma 7, 35-36, 65

16th International Astronautical Congress, 134

Skylab, 178

Cooper’s speech and, 66-68

at Edwards Air Force Base, 7-8, 22

flight crew assignments and, 176-82

grounding of, 34-35, 119, 176

Slayton, Donald K. (Deke) (cont.) in Project Mercury, 2-4, 15, 17, 20, 22, 34-35, 38, 66-68, 73

sleep period, 48, 49-50, 65

smoking, 50

solder balls, errant, 19

Sonoma, Calif., UFO sighting in, 86-87

South Africa, flashing lights in, 47

Southern Pacific Land Company, 201

Soviet Union, 4, 37, 70, 110, 250

ELF and, 243, 245-46

German scientists and, 151-52, 153

space losses of, 136

Sputnik launched by, 8, 9, 152

U-2 shot down over, 132

U.S. competition with, 5, 8, 19, 28, 81, 113, 133, 135, 152, 153, 156, 157, 158, 162, 171, 172

U.S. truce with, 133-40

“Woodpecker” signals of, 242

Soyuz, 139, 172, 181

space kids, 219-22, 236, 237

space program, U.S.:

depersonalizing of, 113-15, 118

long delay in, 166-68

water launch in, 114

space shuttle, 116, 227-32, 237, 262

space stations, 48, 263-64

space walk, see extra-vehicular activity

Spain, 185, 186

Spence, Robert, 91

Sputnik, launching of, 8, 9, 152

Stafford, Thomas, 172, 178, 181

Stargate, 220

Star Wars, 246

State Department, U.S., 80, 133

Strategic Air Command, 191

Supreme Court, U.S., 240

T-6s, 103-4

T-38s, accidents of, 177-78

telepathy, 218-23, 227-30, 236, 237, 251-52

television, space program and, 4, 8-9, 36

temperature inversions, 87-88

Tesla, Nikola, 233-43, 245, 246, 257-58

Tesla tower, 235, 237, 240

test pilots, 4, 10

at Edwards Air Force Base, 7-8, 11, 14, 22, 100

Thant, U, 196

three-axis control stick vs. rudder pedals, 20

Titan II rocket, 110, 119

tornadoes, 106

treasure hunting, undersea, 185-90

Truman, Harry S., 89, 102

Turner, Roscoe, 98-99

U-2s, 7, 14, 132

UFOs, 75-91, 155-56, 191-209, 215, 222, 223

Cooper’s sightings of, 80-81, 85, 194, 248

false reports of, 75-76

Fry’s experience with, 248-54

McDivitt and White in sighting of, 77-78, 199

NASA and, 78-79

1975 sightings of, 191-92

presidential sightings of, 192-93

Project Blue Book and, 85-89, 194-96

UN hearing on, 194, 196-200

U.S. Air and, 76-77

Welling and, 201-9

United Nations (UN), 194, 196-200

Universal Intelligence Consortium (UIC), 218

Universal Magnetic Field (UMF), 243

urination, 29-30

urine analysis, 36

U.S. Air, UFO sightings and, 76-77

V-1 (Flying Bomb), 151, 153-54

V-2 rockets, 22-23, 151, 152, 154, 156

Vanguard rockets, 8-9

Versailles, Treaty of, 149

Vostok I, 28

Vostok III, 70

Vostok V , 127

WAC Bumper, 152

Waldheim, Kurt, 196

“Washington merry-go-round,” 87-88

Washington Post, 200

weather balloons, UFOs as, 83, 90, 91

weather problems, 106, 116

Webb, James E„ 72, 113-15, 118

weightlessness, 30, 34, 36, 44-45, 63, 107, 119, 129

weight reduction program, 36

Welling, Elsie, 209

Welling, Wendell, 201-9, 266

Wendt, Guenter, 4-5

Westinghouse, 239

Westinghouse, George, 234

White, Ed, 77-78, 119, 163-65

White Sands, N. Mex., 152, 156, 248

Williams, Walt, 37-39, 64

Wilson, Woodrow, 93

Winnie Mae, 99

wireless power system, 234-35

World War I, 93, 102, 149

World War II, 94, 101-2, 148, 150-51, 153-55, 238

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 13-14, 85

Wurtsmith Air Force Base, 191, 192

X-2s, 86

X-rays, 239

yaw, control of, 20, 57, 60

Yeager, Chuck, 57

Young, John, 118, 172

zero-yaw star, 57

zodiacal light, 51