James Fox

I got invited to go to Russia and I got invited to meet with Mercury astronaut, Gordon Cooper.

Well, Gordon Cooper was an iconic figure of my dad's generation.

He was an amazing man.

Oh yeah.

Last American astronaut to orbit the planet alone and little tin can and

And I thought, well, you know, normally I would travel with my father on assignment.

This time I said, dad, how would you like to come with me and meet Gordon Cooper?

So he came with, we got his wheelchair van, loaded it up, me and a couple people, got my camera gear.

I did all my own audio and camera then.

And we did this interview and my dad was looking in the eyes of Gordon Cooper and he was like, son of a bitch, what is, why would this guy lie?

had a landing at Edwards Air Force Base that was filmed.

He talked about processing the film footage.

He'd seen the film footage.

Of course, as with all film footage, two men in suits showed up in a courier jet from Washington, D.C.

It was never to be seen or heard from ever again.

And then on top of that, he had the sighting of these disks in the 50s over Germany in these planes.

And my dad just walked away from that going,

This guy's not selling his story.

He's not selling a book.

He's iconic figure of my generation.