If a regular Earth-bound person tells you they've seen a UFO, it leaves plenty of room for doubt. Maybe they misinterpreted what they saw, or maybe they were hallucinating after a bad ham sandwich. Like we said – there's lots of room for doubt. If an astronaut tells you they've seen a UFO whilein space, on the other hand, it's a completely different story.

There are allegations that Neil Armstrong did in fact see and report an encounter with UFOs when he landed on the moon. The story goes that Armstrong saw two UFOs 'parked' on the far ridge of a crater. This story was released to the public some time after it happened. It's said to have been made known by Christopher Kraft, a man who had beendecade after Armstrong's crater sighting, a former chief of NASA communication systems, Maurice Chatelain, said:

"The encounter was common knowledge in NASA, but nobody has talked about it until now."

When that transcript was released to the general public, ufologists wrote their congressmen demanding the US government end the coverup. NASA responded to their requests by saying that all astronaut interaction with mission control had been released to the media live, and between 1000 and 1500 media representatives were there on-site as the messages were received – implying there's no way it's a true document, and they've nothing to hide.

That's not the only transcript that's surfaced. This next one is reportedly from the early nineties, and is about a flyby a UFO pulled on the shuttle Endeavour. The astronaut here