Rare book and document dealer Ed Wilson joins Bobby Fera to share the investigation that began when he purchased an archive containing hundreds of original NASA photographs from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. What started as an effort to authenticate and catalog the collection led him to an unusual Gemini 11 lithograph, declassified intelligence records, missing and degraded photographs, and documents describing how spaceflight film was processed, reviewed, classified, and in some cases physically removed before material reached the public archive. Ed walks Bobby through the evidence he has collected, his research into NASA and National Reconnaissance Office records, the role of astronaut Gordon Cooper, newly uncovered Apollo 6 documentation, and why he believes the story of missing UFO imagery may be buried within the government’s own paper trail. His message throughout is simple: don’t take his word for it. Read the documents and decide for yourself.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Ed’s challenge: study the evidence
00:22 The Curiosity Project
00:53 Meet Ed Wilson
02:05 How a document dealer ended up investigating UFOs
05:04 Discovering the Emily Erdle NASA archive
11:11 The strange Gemini 11 lithograph
14:34 Authenticating the document
16:40 Taking the research to Washington
20:05 The documents Ed presented to Congress
22:34 Who controlled NASA space photography?
27:12 Gordon Cooper and the intercepted film
30:30 Missing and degraded NASA photographs
35:32 Richard Underwood and NASA’s photo laboratory
40:30 Believe the documents, not Ed
42:37 Matching the Gemini 11 imagery
46:33 What is a sanitized briefing document?
51:28 Comparing the lithograph to archival footage
55:07 The Cold War origins of space secrecy
1:01:03 Why UFO photos could disappear from the archive
1:03:43 A newly uncovered Apollo 6 document
1:07:43 How the original film was handled
1:10:22 NASA film was as thin as Saran Wrap
1:12:01 Classified review and the removal of frames
1:14:45 The connection Ed sees to Immaculate Constellation
1:21:06 Be willing to change your mind
1:22:57 Closing
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