X-15 Rocket Plane - UFO Encounters on the Edge of Space

Hat Tip to LunaCognita for this great presentation which focuses on a pair of reported UFO incidents that occurred in 1962 during the X-15 Rocket Plane Research Program. Both these encounters, one during an April, 1962 X-15 flight by NASA test pilot Joseph Walker and the other during a July 1962 flight by USAF test pilot Major Robert White, took place at extremely high altitudes, right on the fringe of space.
During Major White's high-altitude test flight, while at apogee he reported sighting and visually tracking an unidentified object "for a full five seconds before it moved away". Two frames of film from the X-15's rear-facing "wing and empennage" stop-motion 16mm camera appear to capture an object (or objects) that seem to match Major White's visual description of the UFO he saw.
Several months earlier, during NASA test pilot Joe Walker's X-15 high-altitude flight, cameras aboard captured what Walker later described as being "five or six disc-shaped or cylindrical objects" near his aircraft.
During a May 11th, 1962 lecture at the "Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space Research" in Seattle, Washington, Joe Walker also claimed that one of his mission objectives during his April 1962 flight in the X-15 was to detect and film UFOs at high altitude.
During the lecture, Walker showed several photographs to the audience of these UFOs captured on film, although NASA has since only ever made one of these frames public.
Here is the link to the online version of the August 3, 1962 issue of LIFE Magazine that is referenced in this presentation, where Major Robert White describes the UFO he saw out the window during his record-breaking July 17, 1962 high-altitude hop in X-15-3.



Here are some more interesting encounters which happened during these missions - a test pilot narrowly saved from death:-


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Space Travel UFOs and Human Advances

Narrated by Jeri Ryan (Star Trek, Voyager), this program features stunning visualizations, state-of-the-art animation, and interviews with the top experts in the field of science, technology and UFOology - including a talk with Jill Tarter (the real-life inspiration for the book and film Contact). Initially broadcast on The Learning Channel, UFOs & Aliens includes clips from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Orson Welles in his War of the Worlds prime. Based on factual evidence and explored with flair, this collection provides an entertaining and exciting examination of UFO sightings, alien encounters, and our efforts to contact and communicate with potential extraterrestrial life and interstellar space.

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