Astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former U. S. Senator from Ohio, has passed away at the age of 95.
As a member of America's first manned program, Mercury, Glenn made history in 1962 by circling the Earth in the midst of the infamous space race between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Ten years after his historic flight, Glenn was elected Senator from Ohio and held that position for 24 years.
Incredibly, in 1998, 77-year-old Glenn became not only a member of the crew of the shuttle "Discovery", but also the oldest person to ever travel into space.
Like many iconic astronauts, Glenn was often asked about the UFO phenomenon. During his first legendary flyby of Earth, Glenn famously reported that he saw "fireflies" outside his capsule, although later these anomalies were explained by droplets of condensation on the window glass, and not by creatures "from another world."
However, in 2001, Glenn sparked a flurry of emotions by appearing on the television show Fraser, where he, playing himself, reflected on what he “really” saw in space.
In one of the intriguing scenes, he said that the astronauts actually saw "aliens" in space, but the government ordered them to remain silent so as not to sow panic among the public.
“Now we only see these things in our nightmares or… in films, and some of them are pretty close to what they really are,” Glenn said then, but his words were turned into comedy and drowned out by laughs from the audience.
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However, UFO hunters believe that these wonderful remarks Glenn made, whether they were in the show's script or not, are a transparent hint with which he told the world the truth about UFOs.
Regardless of whether this is so or not, it will become known in the distant future, one thing is beyond doubt - John Glenn was a real hero who left a huge mark both on Earth and in space.
Voronina Svetlana