As alleged UFO footage and declassified CIA files on alien encounters flood the internet’s stratosphere, one ex-NASA top official has revealed exclusively to the Daily Mail that the US Air Force possesses a 20-foot, gravity-defying ‘flying saucer’ – and claims he saw the footage more than 30 years ago.
Former NASA Chief Flight Surgeon and Air Force Major, Dr. Gregory Rogers, who worked with astronauts on several space shuttle missions, says he was shown security footage by another Air Force major in 1992 depicting the exotic craft levitating in a hangar.
He kept the secret for more than 32 years, but following his retirement from the Department of Defense (DoD) last month, he has decided to come forward.
Rogers, 68, said he wanted to back up other recent DoD whistleblowers who have told Congress the military has out-of-this-world spacecraft, reverse-engineered from alien technology.
‘I know exactly what I saw that day, and it was in no fashion a conventional flying vehicle,’ he told the Daily Mail.
‘I have heard a number of members of Congress express their desire to hear more of the experiences of any additional whistleblowers.
‘Therefore, I am presenting my story.
‘I hope that my report may stimulate others to reveal whatever they have similarly witnessed.’
Former NASA Chief Flight Surgeon and Air Force Major, Dr. Gregory Rogers, says he was taken into a room by an Air Force major and shown classified footage of a UFO with US insignia
A satellite surveillance photo taken for an FBI investigation into UFOs, unrelated to Rogers’ case. The ‘flying saucer’ that Rogers saw on CCTV in 1992 was ’20 feet wide, probably 8 to 10 feet tall, and it had a shallow dome on top of it’
In the late spring of 1992, Rogers was stationed at the sprawling NASA facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
It was the heyday of America’s space program, a busy time of regular launches and high-profile space shuttle missions.
He kept the secret for more than 32 years, but following his retirement from the Department of Defense (DoD) last month he has decided to come forward
As chief flight surgeon, Rogers was in charge of safety inspections on the base and medical care for its personnel, including the astronauts. This sometimes involved jumping in a helicopter and fishing them out of the ocean after their capsules splashed down to earth.
One afternoon around April or May of 1992, he was about to go home after inspecting a facility on the base where satellite components were assembled, when a US Air Force (USAF) major approached him in the corridor.
‘He says, “Hey Doc, I got something to show you. It’ll knock your socks off,”‘ Rogers told the Mail.
He didn’t recognize the man, but Rogers’ job involved caring for hundreds of patients, so he said it was not unusual to be approached by servicemen who knew him but whom he had forgotten.
The major ushered him into a room with computers, locked the door and closed the blinds.
‘I’m thinking, “What on earth is this guy doing?”‘ Rogers said. ‘He sits down at the computer console. It takes several minutes, then all of a sudden up on the screen comes this closed circuit television [CCTV] feed.’
A drawing of the ship that Rogers mapped out for the Daily Mail. He said the ship had no apparent antennas or flight control surfaces and had about four horizontal rectangles spaced evenly around the middle
Rogers said he didn’t recognize the Air Force major who showed him the footage ‘against his will’ that day, but said he was a ‘wimpy guy’ who most likely wanted to show off his importance
A recommendation letter for Rogers from the DoD. At the NASA facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where he viewed the footage, he was the chief flight surgeon in charge of safety inspections on the base, as well as medical care for its personnel, including the astronauts
He said the footage showed a standard aircraft hangar, ‘just like’ the one that housed Rogers’ chopper for his work with the 41st Air Rescue Squadron.
‘Except it’s not my helicopter,’ he said. ‘There’s a flying saucer.’
‘I would estimate it was about 20 feet wide, probably 8 to 10 feet tall, and it had a shallow dome on top of it,’ he added.
‘There were no antennas, there were no flight control surfaces. Everything was very smooth and blended. I saw no rivets, no seams, nothing.
‘There was a little area on top which had a stick coming out of it. At the top of it were umbilical hoses, like if you were feeding gasses or electricity into it.
‘Everything was white, but there was a vertical black rectangle at the three o’clock, the six o’clock and the nine o’clock position on the upper half of the vehicle.’
He said there were also four horizontal rectangles spaced evenly around the middle.
‘My mind was going crazy,’ Rogers said. ‘A flying saucer? Are you kidding me?’
He said the footage showed a standard aircraft hangar, ‘just like’ the one that housed Rogers’ helicopter for his work with the 41st Air Rescue Squadron
Rogers said the most jaw-dropping part of the footage was when the ship hovered, remained stationary and then made a 45-degree tilt, suggesting it had some unknown propulsion technology
The ex-NASA doctor said the footage showed several men – some in lab coats, some in hazmat-type bodysuits – busy around the vehicle.
Then on the audio feed, he heard a loud horn-type sound, and the technicians moved out of the shot.
What happened next surprised him.
‘I hear and see these things that look like electromagnetic charges coming off this vehicle. But there’s no devices from which they’re emanating,’ he said.
‘All of a sudden it just lifted up, as smooth as could be.
‘Once it got up maybe 3 feet above the concrete surface, it rotated completely around, clockwise, one revolution, then it revolved counterclockwise, one revolution.’
The rotation revealed writing on one side.
‘It said “US Air Force”, and it had the US flying insignia,’ he said. ‘I’m thinking, this is ours?
Two eerie UFOs have been caught on a US naval camera emerging from the ocean and taking off in a ‘synchronized’ flight off the coast of southern California. The above was captured in 2023, unrelated to Rogers’ incident
‘At some point, I asked the guy, “Why on earth would we design something like this”?
‘He said, “We got it from them,” and he was pointing his thumb up to the sky, which I interpreted as meaning from space.
‘Then something really caught my attention.’
Rogers said the entire craft tipped sideways 45 degrees, but remained stationary, hovering in the air.
He said this one maneuver shocked him the most because it showed the craft used some unknown propulsion technology.
If a helicopter tips forward while hovering, the thrust from its propellers will force it to move forward.
Some military fixed-wing aircraft like the F-35B can take off vertically, but only by using large exterior jets pointed towards the ground, and it would require other jets on its side to stay in place while tipping forward.
Rogers, an experienced Air Force pilot, said there was no sign of any such jets on this smooth, white saucer.
Rogers’ wife Judy holding a picture of her wartime pilot Father Ellis Sappington, a crew member of the aircraft that tailed after the plane that dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima
Rogers’ signed photo from the crew of the 1993 Space Shuttle Mission STS-57. He blew the whistle before when he discovered the space shuttles for the 90s STS space shuttles were unsafe and pleaded to NASA, but was ignored – allegedly leading to the Columbia space shuttle explosion in 2003
‘That blew me away because none of the aircraft we have can do that,’ he said.
Just after the saucer on the video performed its 45-degree tilt, Rogers said there was a knock at the door.
‘Somebody was saying “Hey, what’s going on in there? Why is the door locked?” The moment that happened this major turns off everything,’ Rogers said.
‘Then he leans over to me in a very serious voice and says “Don’t tell anyone that I showed this to you.”
‘He opens the door and this lieutenant colonel and two other guys in blue USAF suits walk in.
‘The major said, “I had a skin lesion, I wanted him to check to see if it’s ok.”
‘My mind was racing – if I’ve seen something classified, that was shown to me illegally,’ Rogers said. ‘I just think, I’ve got to get out of here.
‘So I said, “Yeah, it wasn’t cancer. I’ve got to go back to my clinic.”
Rogers said he hadn’t told his wife about what he had seen for 15 years and that he was breaking his silence publicly due to the influx of disclosures that have come out recently on UAPs
Rogers said he never spoke to the major or visited that facility again, and to this day does not know why the USAF officer chose to show him the shocking video
‘On the way home from Cape Canaveral down to Patrick Air Force Base, 25 or 30 minutes, the whole time I’m thinking, there is no way on earth I can tell anyone that I just saw a flying saucer.
‘This guy trapped me by showing me something I didn’t want to see, but there was not a thing I could do about it.
‘I absolutely resent being a part of the events of that day,’ he added. ‘I didn’t even tell my wife for 15 years.’
Rogers said he never spoke to the major or visited that facility again, and to this day does not know why the USAF officer chose to show him the shocking video.
‘My personal opinion is that he was trying to say, “Look, I’m important,”‘ Rogers said. ‘He seemed like a really wimpy guy.’
The doctor-pilot was used to keeping military secrets, having flown clandestine missions behind Soviet lines from a base in West Germany during the Cold War in the mid-1980s.
But he also has experience blowing the whistle on powerful government institutions.
During testing of the space shuttles used for NASA’s STS missions in the 1990s, it became clear that thermal protection tiles on the orbiter’s wings were vulnerable to damage during its ascent.
During his Air Force career, Rogers flew clandestine missions behind Soviet lines from a base in West Germany during the Cold War in the mid-1980s
The 2003 explosion of the Columbia space shuttle which caused the death of all seven crew members on board
This could cause a deadly disaster during the fiery process of reentering the earth’s atmosphere on its return.
In his safety role, Rogers says he repeatedly pleaded with NASA leadership to put a repair kit on board, allowing astronauts to repair any damage in space before returning home.
He even wrote the 1995 novel Impact about a fictional NASA crew facing this threat.
But, he says he was ignored – until disaster struck on Feb. 1, 2003, when that exact issue caused the explosion of the Columbia space shuttle and the death of its seven crew members.
‘People knew that the danger that I spoke of in ’95 was real. They still decided, “We’re not going to do anything about it, it’s too politically charged,”‘ he said.
Rogers sees the same pattern with UFOs, saying leaders are in denial about what the government calls Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
‘It’s the same mentality,’ he said. ‘We are having videos from FA-18s and from other governmental sources that are showing these things are here.
‘We don’t even have to debate anymore, are UAPs real? We know they’re real.
Rogers’ recommendation letter from NASA. He said some of the astronauts he’s befriended during his time at NASA told him they saw UFOs accompanying their craft flying through space
Photo of an alleged UFO in Tonbridge, Kent, in 2002, unrelated to Rogers’ case. Rogers said the stigma around UFOs has prevented him from naming the astronauts who have seen them on space flights
‘The only thing keeping the government from admitting that is sheer stubbornness at the upper levels. And that gets me as mad as at the NASA engineers.’
Through the publication of his 1995 book, he became friendly with astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon.
He also worked with several other spacewalkers at NASA.
Rogers said some, who he declined to name, told him they saw UFOs accompanying their craft flying through space.
‘Astronauts have discussed UAPs with me,’ he said. ‘Vehicles that were not part of the human space program, as far as we know, being in near location to the spacecraft.
‘Even flying in formation with them is not uncommon. They’ve seen these things.’
He said these incidents occurred during International Space Station missions, Space Shuttle missions, and missions to and from the moon.
But he said the stigma around UFOs prevented him from naming names.
‘If you’re in the astronaut corps and you want to fly on the next mission, you’re not going to improve your odds by telling somebody, “Oh yeah, last time I was up, I saw a flying saucer,”‘ he said.
Rogers says the existence of an Air Force flying saucer program evidenced by the alleged CCTV footage he saw, shows that some in the military are lying to lawmakers.
‘Someone had to design and manufacture the vehicle I saw on that video,’ he said. ‘Someone, somewhere, had to pay for the research and development of this vehicle.
‘I believe that this monetary expenditure should have been identified to Congress since they hold the power of the purse over all military spending.’
Rogers said he was not a UFO enthusiast before his chance experience and recent testimony by whistleblowers.
But now, in his retirement, he has joined the board of Oklahoma-based charity International UFO Bureau (IUFOB) and is helping witnesses investigate alleged encounters.
IUFOB, founded in 1957, says it is the ‘oldest UFO organization in existence’, with a mission ‘to provide comprehensive, data-driven insights that inform public understanding, scientific exploration and global policy.’
Rogers is on the board of the Oklahoma-based charity the International UFO Bureau (IUFOB), which is headed by CEO Mindy Tautfest (pictured)
David Grusch (center) pictured with former pilot Ryan Graves (left) and Navy veteran fighter pilot Commander David Fravor (right) as they were sworn in to give testimony to Congress on July 26, 2023
Led by CEO Mindy Tautfest, the nonprofit is currently compiling databases on UFO incidents and using artificial intelligence to filter information and spot trends.
Rogers now joins a growing number of whistleblowers telling lawmakers that we have recovered and replicated alien spacecraft. He said it was testimony from others that finally persuaded him to come forward.
In 2023, senior DoD intelligence officer David Grusch came forward, telling Congress under penalty of perjury that he ‘was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program to which I was denied access.’
Grusch claims that in his role as National Reconnaissance Office liaison to the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force, he interviewed 40 witnesses within the US government and concluded that the state had captured alien craft and ‘non-human biologics.’
Long a ridiculed subject, support for the serious investigation of UFOs was rekindled in 2017 when the New York Times published videos from 2004 of a white ‘tic tac’ seen by Navy aviators off the California coast. The candy-shaped object was traveling at breakneck speeds and performing maneuvers thought to be impossible for human craft.
‘Other whistleblowers who have learned about UAPs have given their own testimony to Congress, so I am simply adding my voice to theirs in confirming their prior reports,’ Rogers said.
‘As they have led the way by speaking out before me, I hope that my report may stimulate others to reveal whatever they have similarly witnessed.’
