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According to a report from the Daily Mail, a former NASA contractor with top-secret security clearance has revived longstanding allegations that the agency routinely airbrushes unidentified flying objects out of satellite and other imagery before releasing it to the public.
Donna Hare, who worked as a graphics illustrator for NASA contractor Philco Ford Aerospace between 1967 and 1981, claimed she witnessed this practice firsthand during her time at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Her assertions, first made publicly more than two decades ago, have resurfaced amid renewed scrutiny of NASA’s handling of potential extraterrestrial imagery.
In interviews, Hare described an incident in 1970 or 1971 while visiting a restricted photo lab. A technician showed her a striking image featuring a round white object with sharply defined edges hovering above a field of pine trees. Unfamiliar with such an anomaly, she asked if it was a UFO. The technician replied, “I can’t tell you that.”
Hare pressed further, inquiring what would happen to the image. According to her account, the technician responded: “Well, we always have to airbrush them out before we sell them to the public.” She interpreted his initial refusal as confirmation that the object was indeed an unidentified aerial phenomenon, but that protocol demanded its removal from any version made available to the public.
Hare, who passed away in 2021, first brought her story to wider attention in May 2001 during a Disclosure Project press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. She maintained her testimony in subsequent interviews over the following years, though neither the original photograph nor the technician’s identity has ever been publicly produced.
Beyond the photo lab claims, Hare alleged that a NASA employee involved in astronaut debriefings and quarantine procedures confided in her that nearly every Apollo astronaut had reported seeing alien craft during their missions, including on the lunar surface.
“This particular man was in quarantine with them and was part of their debriefing,” she recalled in one interview. “He said that a lot of them talked about their experience and seeing these craft follow them. I believe there were three on the moon when they landed.”
She further claimed astronauts were instructed to remain silent for reasons of national security and required to sign nondisclosure agreements backed by threats of imprisonment.
While NASA and the U.S. government have consistently stated there is no evidence of extraterrestrial visits or life, some Apollo astronauts, including Edgar Mitchell—the sixth man to walk on the moon—later voiced public belief in UFOs and extraterrestrial activity.
The claims have drawn fresh attention in 2026 following criticism of NASA’s imaging of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, which some suggested could represent advanced technology. Released Pentagon files related to UFO encounters contain no confirmation of photo alteration by NASA, though they do include images from Apollo missions showing unexplained lights and shapes.
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