Donna Hare: the NASA contractor employee who described detailed UFO photographs
In filmed testimony at the 2001 Disclosure Project event, Donna Hare said she saw a round object in an aerial photograph at a NASA laboratory. She alleged that a technician told her such objects were removed before public distribution. Her account is presented with the context of her work.
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Who was Donna Hare?
Hare said she worked for Philco Ford Aerospace from 1967 to 1981. Her duties included launch and landing slides, planning boards and lunar maps. That background explains access to photographic working environments without establishing access to every classified NASA collection.
Inside the photographic laboratory
According to her account, she entered a photographic laboratory in Building 8 at Johnson Space Center between assignments. A worker pointed out a circular object in an aerial Earth photograph. Hare described visible trees and shadows, saying the object’s shadow suggested something above the ground rather than a mark on the film.
The allegation of image removal
She attributed the most unusual claim to the technician: objects like this were removed before photographs were sold or distributed publicly. She also repeated accounts from others about destroyed photographs and space crew reports. Those secondhand claims must be distinguished from what she said she personally saw.
Why the recording remains useful
Hare names a workplace, period and conversation with another employee. The recording distinguishes the photograph she says she saw from the removal of objects she says she was told about. It does not show that removal taking place.
A photograph without an archive identifier
Her filmed Disclosure Project testimony gives her description of the photograph. An image number, mission name or identified employee would permit a specific archive search; those details are absent from the attached material.
Sources and context
Hare spoke publicly at the National Press Club in Washington in 2001. She described work as a technical illustrator and drafter for Philco Ford, a space programme contractor, and access to parts of Johnson Space Center.
The original photograph, documentation of its alleged alteration and names of the workers she quoted were not published with her testimony. The recording establishes her account rather than the underlying photographic file.