Taken from Newsletter Issue 4 - August 2003

The following statement is based on an interview with Donna Tietze Hare on WOL-AM radio Station (Washington DC) on 5/6/95.

Donna, whilst employed by NASA, was a female slide technician and received numerous space awards including 1969 Apollo Achievement award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1973 Skylab award, a medallion for success on the Skylab-Suez Test project. Other awards for her skill as a technical Artist include a 1994 recommendation by Texas Governor Ann Richards to the Advisory Committee of Psychology Associates. Donna has spent most of her professional life involved in the Space Program as a technical illustrator. She drew lunar maps, landing Slides and worked in the photo lab, Precision Slide Lab. Her job was to reduce art work to one inch by one inch drawings. She drew launch sites, landing sites and was employed as a sub-contractor to NASA for over 15 years. She worked on flight manuals for astronauts and has the wonderful ability to put words into images but uniquely, learn to do everything backwards, including mathematical computations, the writing of words, to put it simply, this woman has seen just about all the different kinds of images one could see that are used in Space Programs today.

Donna Stated that during the Apollo mission I worked at NASA throughout those Apollo Missions and I did leave NASA at the time the space shuttles began. I worked hi building eight in the photo lab. I had a secret clearance so I thought I could go anywhere in the building. And I did go into one area that was a restricted area. In this area they developed pictures taken from satellites and also all of the missions, the Apollo missions, flight missions. I went in and I was talking to one of the photographers and developers and he was putting together a mosaic which is a lot of photos, smaller photos into a larger photo pattern. And while I was hi there I was trying to learn new methods and new things about the whole organization and I was looking at the pictures and he directed my attention to one area, he said, Look at that. I looked and there was a round oval shaped, well it was a very white circular shape of a dot and I, it was black & white photography, so I asked him if that was a spot on the emulsion and he said, “Well I can’t tell you, but spots on the emulsion do not leave round circles of shadows.

I noticed that there were pine trees, now I don’t know where this area was or what, you, pretty close to the ground what I saw but I didn’t see outline of the continent. But I did notice that there was shadow under this white dot and I also noticed that the trees were casting the shadows in the same direction as this shadow of the circle of this aerial phenomena because it was higher than the trees but not too much higher than the trees but it was close to the ground and it was spherical but slightly elongated, not very much but slightly. I then said, is it a UFO? And he said, “Well I can’t tell you.” And then I asked him, “What are you going to do with this piece of information?” And he said, “Well we have to airbrush these things out before we sell these photographs to the public.” So I realized at that point that there is a procedure set up to take care of this type of information from the public.

There is another incident with a guard that I would like to convey too that’s very important. This man that I had dated was in quarantine with the astronauts when they had come back from the moon and I had talked to him about seeing this saucer (satellite photos) and asked him if he had heard anything about that and he told me that every astronaut, every moon trip had been followed by craft, by saucers, that every one of them, every astronaut that went to the moon, now I don’t know about other sites but they all had seen it and all had been told to keep quite about it and they were threatened with jail and their whole retirement, everything taken away from them. Donna maintained that every NASA mission to the Moon was monitored by an alien presence, she said “They (the aliens) also didn’t want that craft to investigate the part of the moon that they were going to, we were told not to go but we ignored it. Now that’s what I’ve heard. I guess they didn’t want us to see something back there, I don’t know, I don’t know that part”.