Case file · Sighting
Gordon Cooper's Edwards landing film
Astronaut Gordon Cooper later said that in 1957, while he was a test pilot at Edwards AFB, a camera crew filmed a saucer landing on the dry lakebed and that the film was sent to Washington and never returned.
1957 CE · 34.91, -117.93 · status: claim
The account
Cooper repeated the story in a 1985 statement to the United Nations and in his memoir 'Leap of Faith' (2000). He did not see the object himself; he said he saw the film.
The sceptical view
No film or record has surfaced, and the account was given decades later.