A NASA insider's old allegation that UFO images were removed from agency photographs before public release has resurfaced after renewed attention on Donna Hare, a former NASA contractor who said a technician told her unusual objects were routinely airbrushed out of pictures bound for the public. Hare said the exchange happened in 1970 or 1971 while she was working at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Hare first took the claim public at the Disclosure Project press conference in Washington in May 2001 and repeated it in later interviews, but the original image, the technician's name and any written NASA policy have never been produced. IBTimes UK could not independently verify Hare's account, so the allegation should be treated with caution.
