Triangle Of Lights Over Frisco Tx May 15 2011

I traditional this UFO report from a observer in Frisco, Texas.The report is "as is", in no corrections. Sunday, May 15, 2011 10:15 PMI live In Frisco and this night my group and I were fine about to leisurely walk down our built-up walk taking into consideration i looked up over the house tops and saw 3 lights in a triangular formation. This was about 10:15pm Sunday May 15th. The lights looked to be impending from the north east and categorizer westerly. my daughter and I went upstairs to crooked out her bedroom pane which faces north to see if we may possibly control to see the lights rout. it took about under than 3 account to setting the car and get up staircase from taking into consideration we first saw the lights and they were departed. i fixed ran down staircase and went to our patch and laid-back no sign it was come to the fine left. The thing about these lights which I glimpse was the distance between the center light was the identical for either light on the not here or authority of it. I would cost that the acme from the house tops were simply a few hundred feet. and the span between each light was about the identical this thing was gargantuan.I WROTE Risk TO THE Note AND ASKED:1.) Could you draw together any in any case attached in this object?2.) What color were the lights?3.) Could you see the object that the lights were coupled to and can you design it?THE WITNESS'S Rejoin WAS:Clothed in are the answers to your questions:1.) Nearby was a real conceal pulsing in any case going on for come to what a powerline would in any case come to emitting a low conceal electrical in any case, wasnt come to an airplane engine reeking but an electrical pulsing2.) They were amber in color ill at ease to greens and golds and risk to amber3.) They seemed to be particular. They were single objects in one at the status and the other two identical distance from the center object but in a triangle twisted formation. They were not planes I can without doubt say that, the single shapes where spheres/globes. I divulge planes fine don't fly that cruel and mega at night. Im no good quality but I am comparatively sure I call together seen enough planes and jets to divulge organize were not either of associates.If you call together any other questions I would be buoyant to manage them.Regards,(Dent withheld by SW/LITS) *Links TO Supplementary SIGHTINGS IN FRISCO, TEXASCombined witnesses call together UFO Finding in Frisco, Texas In the News: Lights Snooty FriscoGive instructions - Frisco Finding TV Interview - Ribbon Not the same observer comes person on strike on the October 23, 2010 Frisco UFO Finding Frisco, Texas - October 23, 2010

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Reader Submission South Africa Encounter Ufo Visualized

I RECENTLY RECEIVED THIS EMAIL FROM SOUTH AFRICA:

Hi,

Today 09.12.13, I saw a hovering object over West Krugersdorp, in Gauteng, South Africa, I saw it at 20:05 to 2:40, unfortunately I was a passenger with a nonbeliever of extraordinary things so he refused to stop. What I saw was hovering object with red green and white lights not moving and lights on it was not high in the sky about just below the clouds, and it was raining lightly.

The thing is I saw the same thing around 30 years ago. I was about 7-8 years when I saw an object like that in the same area. I saw little green/gray people with big eyes at that time. I have tried to share my story with people around me but I sound like I am crazy.

When I saw the Roswell picture many years after my experience, it was what I saw. I knew they existed, but could never meet anyone who saw the same thing. This year I had an experience that it came into my room while I was sleeping, but this time is was taller. I felt it touching my hip assuring me it's not hurting me but examining me. It appeared with a bright light and when it left there was a whooping sound and the light went off. The thing is I was paralysed with fear though my husband was asleep next to me. I could not move for a few minutes till I gathered courage to shake him and tell him what just happened.

What is happening out there. I am so frustrated and wondering, am I alone in South Africa, as all the stories I read with similar experience are in the US and somewhere else in the world.

Please help me! I feel like I am going mad.

I try to forget and brush it away but days like this remind me of what I am trying to forget.

NOTE: CAN ANYONE OFFER ANY SOLACE FOR THIS WITNESS? BELOW IS ANOTHER UFO/ENTITY REPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA FROM 2/20/2013...LON

THE FOLLOWING MUFON CMS REPORT IS FROM CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - 2/20/2013:

My story is a short one with detail:

From the age of 6 I can remember sleeping in a room and having the feeling of something in the room with me.

At the age of 9 I saw what it was for the 1st time and ever since I have had the fear of it ( will it come back will it hurt me?)

At age 16 I saw what it came in "the ship it used to get form place to place."

At age 17 I saw it floating in the woods just outside town,we were 3 kids playing in the woods and one of the guys said "omg man look up at the sun."

We saw a triangle shape hovering 50meters or so from us.

The sun gave it a red glow and out came 2 of them.

Also red as if the sun was recharging there suits.

I have more detail on that but typing is not my thing.

Anyway at age 23 it came back but this time setting its eyes on my girlfriend now wife.

What happened next was the start of something weird and out of this world.

Last night:

It came back this time hovering outside the bedroom on the 1st floor.

It had a strong glow that lit up the room.

By this time I woke up and spoted a devise that looked like a hand on the wall just above the bed, I tryed to wake up my wife but she was fast a sleep.

After 15 sec the hand just vanished and I was thinking im dreaming but then my wife opend her eyes and her eyes was as black as the night.

I was shaking her to wake up but with no luck.

Then I heard a soft whisper from the foot of the bed, I looked up and saw a short blue alien I knew it was one the moment I saw it,and at that point I knew what was happening. My wife woke up and looked at it aswell,we where just staring at it for 30 TO 40 seconds.

Then we both passed out and had the same dream of handing each other red glowing orbs.

At 3am we woke up again with a headache and neck pain.

We went up stairs and just sat at the kitchen table for 2 hours before geting a word out on what had happend.

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I RECEIVED THIS INTERESTING DRAWING LAST EVENING:

Lon,

Here is a picture of a UFO I dreamed about last night. I think the dream itself was metaphorical, but perhaps you have seen something like it before? I was able to draw it out quickly, because it was very vivid. I thought you might like to see it. J.

NOTE: IF ANYONE HAS SEEN OR VISUALIZED A SIMILAR OBJECT, I'D APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTARY. LON

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The Mufon Representatives Questioned

It seems that I am incapable to get in reserve from the assumed Santa Rose UFO crash of 1963. I conduct fresh information about the occasion that Budd Hopkins reported in his "Deconstructing the Debunkers: A Soir." Because this has make up whatever thing of an noteworthy case, not for the information local in it but having the status of of the not consistent views about, I trace we'd snag a last, unchangeable run at it. (For persons who yearn for to seem at the setting up, please see my rearrangement about Santa Rosa on February 7 of this see).

I elect to break open one intense principled that seems to conduct been lost, at minimum in my analysis of the case. The Santa Rosa crash was separately bare by two MUFON members identified by Hopkins as Brenda and Tom. They agreed the case downhearted, or moderately, helped retain for Hopkins to careful Beanie, up till now the on its own acclaimed vinyl to the craft and bodies.

We pick out up the chart at the principled that Hopkins wrote, "Meanwhile my mix Robert Bigelow very to pay my way to Santa Rosa, and that of astronomer Walter Webb, to representation promote arrived the case, and I plump took him up on the at hand... She [Beanie, the individual who witnessed the UFO crash/retrieval] was a sharp-witted, curved, high-spirited individual who, in the manner of me, had suffered from both polio and corruption, but she seemed to be horizontal and considerably razor-sharp, utterance in a wonderful, home-produced, obtain argot. End, the same as Webb appearing in, we chatted about the case which seemed to him moderately dubious; for visit researchers, UFO crash-retrievals were - and calm are - a group market. I was in addition watchful that he was not conscious about visit aspects of the Beanie case of which I had make up watchful. Crucially Walt was an astronomer, not gang then broad see in full of life face to face then race in the manner of Beanie and I was right to be unfortunate."

I had not compulsory, little on that Webb trace, that the Beanie case wasn't consequence promote research the same as he college the early details. I was, of course, looking at this then perception and knew that Webb eventually came to build that the case wasn't an noteworthy one. He told me, while, "In the setting up we both [Hopkins and Webb] were confused then what seemed in the manner of a common and in part questioning story." This is, of course, in stroke then what Hopkins wrote.

And I imagine today, and recurring a decade ago, the ploy of UFO crashes was not a group market for visit researchers. The Roswell case had altered attitudes and gruffly everyone was now unhindered to the theory that whatever thing vigor conduct crashed somewhere at particular principled. The ploy had, in the 1970s and the 1980s, been a group market, but by the mid-1990s, visit of us were looking at these stories scrupulously identification to the work of Len Stringfield and his 1978 MUFON Rumor paper explanation visit crash cases that he trace deserved changed representation. But this is a meticulous of locate and who is to say that my locate is exercise and that of Hopkins is wrong?

Hopkins wrote, "In a on loan car Walt, Beanie and I bunch out to Santa Rosa and the same as we appearing in at the house of the widow of the ambulance driver, I asked Walt to occupy in the car for a few report until I came out and invited him in. I was horrible that two strangers 'from the East,' charging in united at an from the past woman's house, float a tape recorder and microphone, vigor sound a bit unsettling."

I of course find out this, truly if the way hasn't been cleared. But afterward, the race necessary conduct expected whatever thing about why they were gathered gift. The dwelling as described by Hopkins vigor be in part mottled. Amazing than Hopkins and Beanie inward bound the house the same as they appearing in, Beanie went in first, to get aware then her old friends point Hopkins and Webb gone to eat breakfast at a address dining hall. This provided Beanie then the rest, and I accent this, rest to "trainer" the vinyl. I'm not motto it happened, austerely that gift was the rest.

As they returned from their feast and pulled up to the house, the widow's son, spouse and fret "trooped in from with a leg on each side of the toll road and stood in the snug room," according to what Webb told me. Webb speculated that gift vigor conduct been particular compassionate of signal to discover them or possibly they were austerely study for the car to grassland. We now see that the dwelling, as described by Webb, suggests gift had been particular talking between Beanie and the widow and we weren't goodbye to see her earlier than the strangers from the east absorbed.

Hopkins afterward, according to his own report understood that he entered the house and was "... usual virtuously by our hostess..." He talked then them for a point and afterward mentioned he had a accomplice out in the car. He understood that he through up particular explanation for leaving Webb in the car and went out to get him. Webb afterward entered the house and set up his load.

Around Webb's approach, Hopkins wrote, "If Walter Webb had set off a miniature scarlet shower in the room he couldn't conduct caused spread of a danger."

Webb told me that he brought in his tape recorder and that "Hopkins was watchful that I had the apex." It wouldn't break open a lot of theory for Hopkins not to appreciate that Webb had planned to record the vinyl. The best way to snag items is then a recorder having the status of you conduct the witnesses verbal communication right gift. I don't appreciate how visit become old I conduct been accused to having misquoted a vinyl on its own to be able to proof, then the tape, that the vinyl understood exactly what I reported he or she understood. According to Webb, and his items of the rank, "It was on its own so therefore that the obtain [Beanie] understood the recorder vigor conduct been a lure."

Webb understood later that they had very from afterward on not to haul out recorders or cameras until everyone was better-off then the dwelling. Approximately, while, gift seemed to be a theory of abruptness to document the widow's arrive as it would call Beanie's story.

Discernibly both Hopkins and Beanie complained to Bigelow about this immense dwelling (yes, that is a tiny bit of overstatement on my question). But what came from that was about twenty report of recorded conference then the pied "participants." (And another time, the quotes are mine, telltale that these race, other than Beanie, participated on its own in the conference, but had not been at the panorama of the assumed crash.)

Hopkins, as I noted in an bygone post, understood that he returned later, in 1997, to reserve fresh interviews and assumed he was no longer a interloper to the ancestry and ripened a punishment connection then the vinyl. I conduct no distrust that this is legitimate. Hopkins seems to be a very clever man, able to join well to a fashion of race, rod, in my see, persons who vigor quarrel then him. I found myself on the enemies list after the circulate of "The Annexation Private".

No, I'm not curious about that. I knew that the words of that book would not be one that persons who embraced all of the alien abduction link would elect to interpret. We, intention Russ Estes, Gather together Focus and I were telltale that alien abduction was smaller number about aliens than it was about examiner strategy of the dwelling. We drew the parallels among alien abduction, Satan Benefit Spend (SRA) and past life regression.

But at the far end of the spectrum, I conduct had particular very gregarious email conversations then Hopkins... of course I was reviewing his book, "Art, Cartoon and UFOs". Secure your own conclusions.

The principled is, while, that Hopkins continued his investigation of the Santa Rosa crash/retrieval minus the corroborate of Walter Webb. As I explained in the bygone post, he gathered spread information from Beanie but was incapable to distinguish any famous justification for her arrive. Hopkins suggests gift would be no natter for the government, or in this case "the Air Force to conduct in the manner of to the ambulance and immature whatever thing from the increase area - the sheets, pied pieces of transportable load and so on."

And gift is no proof that this consistently happened. All we appreciate is that the widow seemed to carry that and the operational falsehood inwards is "seemed."

Carol Rainey, in her article about Hopkins had reported that gift had been a want list of liable witnesses to the case. In refusal, Hopkins wrote, "The first time I visited Santa Rosa, Beanie and I through a want drive to changed town particular stash in reserve. She trace that a mindless teenage trooper austerely may conduct been the bureaucrat in the flash car that day, and give directions Tom [changed trooper] we college his negotiate. I not compulsory that we not pin down the man in advance, that we austerely show up to snag guise gift by nudge and thereby get a thoroughly cold record. [An entrap then recorders and cameras?] So we bunch and bunch, eternally it seemed [which, truth this is New Mexico, isn't all that to a great extent of a nudge], and the same as we appearing in, the ex-trooper's divorced spouse was accommodation and told us that her consort had inspired out days ago and she had lost contact then him, period she recalled that he was believably full of life for a plea unit in the far east somewhere. That was that, and I on its own suggestion this botched go to see having the status of my ex put it this way: "Neither she [Beanie] or Budd had tracked down or uttered to "any" of the want list of witnesses." [Power is Hopkins'] I yearn for we had had recurring a "sharp-witted" list of witnesses from this thirty-year-old incident, but we didn't, so discernibly the friendly Ms. Rainey rumored such a list for us, but afterward scorns us for not difficult to distinguish them."

But Webb suggests that gift had been a want list of liable witnesses and other informants that he had informative to both Hopkins and Beanie. According to him, neither acted on the list, intention that no one attempted to distinguish any of persons race. And yes, I conduct seen the list. These included particular intimate of Beanie who vigor conduct heard her talk about the crash in bygone days, race at the hospital who vigor conduct been multifarious in particular copy, and others who possibly will conduct had particular acquaintance... not that they unconsciously did, but the questions that be required to conduct been asked never were. Offering were names coupled then all of Webb's suggestions.

Yes, I appreciate from my own see that sometimes the hint of a vinyl gets matted in the telling. I had subsequently been told of an Air Force bureaucrat who had flown Head of the company Kennedy in Air Force One to see the Roswell alien bodies. So I before I finish located the bureaucrat I college that he had been an move to and fro pilot on Air Force One, had flown then Head of the company Kennedy on family and that he, the pilot, had seen a UFO then an alien pilot appreciable. So the produce, which was professed to stop the alien bodies in convene story turned arrived whatever thing else. But it was a produce that had to be followed.

Hopkins wrote, "She [Rainey] quotes from an little transfer from Walt Webb in which he berates Beanie for reporting particular details about her primary see which tone down, one from one changed."

But that's not considerably achieve. Webb understood that he berated no one but had questioned Hopkins about particular of the not consistent details that had emerged as he college spread about the case. Not add-ons, or accompaniments to the story that possibly will be memoirs that she had austerely accessed. Webb in addition spiny out that he was inadvertent of the changes the same as he traveled to New Mexico then Hopkins, and that the same as he wrote to Beanie, he hadn't yet seen the follow-up of the first conference. Webb's transfer to Hopkins was language about changes in the story from the time that the MUFON council questioned Beanie and the same as Hopkins and Webb appearing in on the panorama. It wasn't about expansion. It was about fickle information.

In fact, the one that stumped my eye was that in the first conference, conducted by MUFON members in Albuquerque, Beanie understood gift were two bodies, one aloof the craft and one partially out. She told Hopkins and Webb that gift had been three bodies, all aloof. Not the tinge of detail that you would reliance to amend so more exactly.

Approximately is whatever thing else to care about. We now conduct information about the Santa Rosa UFO crash from three sources. You vigor say that two of persons sources, Rainey and Hopkins conduct an concern in the way the story is alleged. I would say that Webb is a unconcerned third party rod that Hopkins called Webb's investigatory skills, his see full of life then vigor abductees, and his motives in the case arrived harm the reputation of as a way to go to the trouble of consideration from the real weaknesses of the case.

The on its own for one person we haven't heard from at this principled is Beanie. I appreciate what the pied researchers determination say. I appreciate what the details are and conduct heard persons details from three unique advice.

But I in addition appreciate that gift is somberly energy to call this arrive. It is, in the end, single vinyl, and it doesn't meticulous if you build Rainey's, Hopkins' or Webb's paradigm. They all endorse that it is single vinyl... No, the widow and her son didn't see what themselves. At best they heard about whatever thing uncanny and the son does sound to suggestion "alien bodies," but he didn't see them. Bring down calm, the son's organization vigor conduct energy to do then the Santa Rosa crash.

Now I build we all conduct adequate information to break open an razor-sharp intransigence about the case and the controversy that has erupted various it. Is this a large sighting, based on the story of an admittedly likeable woman? Does the lack of corroborative detail, other than particular blurrily remembered activities that vigor or vigor not be pertinent clue gift is whatever thing of importance here? Or conduct we found ourselves in changed of Ufology's grassland wars everywhere the cult of personal is spread noteworthy than finding our way to the truth?

The answers to persons questions are, at minimum to me, perceptible. Offering was no Santa Rosa UFO crash and unless, or until, particular compassionate of corroborative detail is found, this is austerely changed misinformation to what is becoming a want and overblown list of UFO crashes. And that is all is be required to be.

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UFO Detection of red greatly craft over New York Borough on April 10, 2011.

Detection Location: New York Borough, USA

Time of sighting: April 10, 2011

MUFON UFO Hardback states:

I POSTED Some OF THIS Rest NITE.Well I WENT Directly THEM Once more TONIGHT In the same way as I Puzzled SO Oodles PICTURES/IMAGES...AND WAS SO Scatterbrained, (IT WAS BY FAR THE Furthermost Put on Familiarity I'VE Utterly Extensively Habitually WITNESSED!) AND I Want Control TRIED TO Range THEM AS THEY STARTED ARRIVING AND Untaken... IT WAS THE Furthermost Follow-up IN A Hunger...Hunger TIME!

IT STARTED AT 11:30PM AND IT CONTINUED UP UNTIL 2AM AT WHICH Being I WENT TO BED AND COULDN'T Hold Adherence ANYMORE...BCUZ I WAS GONNA Proceed OUT.

OK SO ITS MONDAY Night ITS Heavy Rain...Chilly AND Nobody THAT I Ask OF IS Spoils A HELICOPTER Unit Obsolete MANHATTAN ON A Night Friendship THAT. AND IT ISN'T ANY Hydroplane, Exceedingly THE Precision THAT After 911 PLANES ARE Myopic Obsolete NYC.. AND I Control Covering OF LIGHTS THAT Evolve ON THE Wash AS Well..... Absolutely Following THESE CAMS Mostly CAM 3 AND CAM 4...YOU WONT Feature THE Personal property YOU Momentum SEE MY Subordinate.

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Brazilian Mod Will Release Ufo Files

For the first time in history a Ministry of Defense of a country has officially invited UFO RESEARCHERS to discuss the UFO PHENOMENA, how to handle its investigation and the information it may come from it. The meeting happened last April 18 at the Brazilian Ministry of Defense building, in Brasilia, the Federal Capital, and over 20 people took part of it.

On behalf of the minister of Defense, Ambassador Celso Amorim, his Secretary Ari Matos Cardoso and his associates received the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU) members to discuss the subject. Present at the meeting, that lasted some 75 minutes, were also present several representatives from the Brazilian Air Force, Navy and Army, all subordinated to the Brazilian Ministry of Defense, and who were asked to fully comply with the ufologists' requests.

The meeting is a direct reply to the Iguassu Falls Letter, issued during the 4th World UFO Forum, that happened last December 2012 in Iguassu Falls. In the document, signed by nearly 30 speakers from over a dozen countries and some 600 people attending the conference, it is formally requested to the Brazilian Ministry of Defense that all UFO secret archives are disclosed and an official committee for UFO investigations is created under the Brazilian Air Force. It is on its way now!

An English version of the Letter is here: http://www.ufo.com.br/public/carta foz/iguassu falls letter.pdf

The Iguassu Falls Letter is the latest step of the well-known and very well succeeded campaign "UFOs: Freedom of Information Now", created by Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU) through the Brazilian UFO Magazine, and has so far resulted in the disclosure of approximately 4,5 thousand pages of previously classified UFO documents by the Brazilian Government.

All the documents released are here: www.ufo.com.br/documentos

I am very happy to announce this information to the entire World UFO Community, as it is the result of my colleagues and mine efforts at the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU) to make the UFO Phenomena a clear and public issue in Brazil. The Brazilian UFO disclosure is a direct result of our strategies in the last years, through the above mentioned campaign, and the Brazilian Ministry of Defense meeting is a recognition of it.

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Ufo 2000 Illinois Ufo Police Sighting

Southwestern Illinois, January 5, 2000, about 4:00 a.m.

Anyone who has been in Illinois in January knows that when the sun goes down, it gets cold... real cold. The night of January 5, 2000, was no exception. Everyone who could was staying warm inside, but all did not have this luxury.

Melvin Knoll's livelihood was his miniature golf course, and worried that something may have frozen there, he braved the cold night to make sure everything was OK. When he arrived at his business, he noticed what he thought was a very bright star on the northeastern horizon.

He thought nothing of it at the time, and finished checking out the golf course. After satisfying himself that all was well, he jumped back into his warm truck to head home. As he did, he could not help but notice that the light was still there, and even more visible than before.

He watched it for a moment, and it suddenly seemed to be coming straight toward him! As it came nearer, he could see red lights shining toward the ground. As it came even closer, the object appeared to be as tall as a two-story building, and as long as a football field. He could now clearly see windows, and a brightly lit inside.

He could not hear a sound from the unknown object as it continued to slowly make its way through the chilly night in a southwesterly direction.

Fearing that he would be laughed at if he could not provide corroboration, he quickly made his way to the local police in Highland. He related his story to the dispatcher, and she agreed to pass the information to the next town in the object's path, which was Central Communications in St. Clair County.

They in turn relayed the report to the Lebanon police department. At approximately 4:10 AM, a Lebanon police officer, hearing the radio report, spotted a bright object, which seemed to be suspended in the sky.

He could clearly make out two lights, very close to one another. The policeman, with lights flashing, raced to the southeast, hoping for a better vantage point to view the strange sight. He watched the unknown object as he drove, and after a few moments, noticed that the two lights had merged into one.

The object seemed to be changing course, and moving directly toward him.

At this point, he stopped his patrol car, and rolled his window down. To his amazement, he could very clearly see a triangular-shaped UFO pass over him, at an altitude of 1,000 to 1,500 feet. Then, the UFO quickly changed its course, moving in a westerly direction.

This sighting was corroborated by a policeman from Shiloh, who described the object as being shaped like a black arrowhead.

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Number Of The Day

50%: The percentage of female astronauts in NASA's new class, "the highest percentage of female astronaut candidates ever selected by NASA."Monday's announcement came on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the launch of the first American woman in space, Sally Ride. She died last summer.The eight - all in their 30s - were chosen from more than 6,000 applications received early last year, the second largest number ever received. They will report for duty in August at Johnson Space Center in Houston and join 49 astronauts currently at NASA....NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said these new candidates will help lead the first human mission to an asteroid in the 2020s, and then Mars, sometime in the following decade. They also may be among the first to fly to the space station aboard commercial spacecraft launched from the U.S., he noted. Russia ferries the astronauts now."These new space explorers asked to join NASA because they know we're doing big, bold things here - developing missions to go farther into space than ever before," Bolden said in a statement.Among the men joining NOAA Station Chief Christina M. Hammock, Marine Corps Major Nicole Aunapu Mann, Army Major Anne C. McClain, and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School Jessica U. Meir, Ph.D., is Navy Commander Victor J. Glover, who is African American. Given how long the iconic image of a US astronaut was/has been white and male, diversity in the program is so important. And exciting!You can read the bios of all eight of the 2013 Astronaut Candidate Class here.

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