James Alton McDivitt joined the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1951 during the Korean War. He became a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in 1959 and joined the Manned Spacecraft Operations Branch in 1962, the same year he was selected by NASA to be part of Astronaut Group 2 – McDivitt, Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Pete Conrad, Jim Lovell, Elliot See, Tom Stafford, Ed White, and John Young. This became a prestigious group of astronauts -- six of them flew to the Moon (Lovell and Young twice), and Armstrong, Conrad, and Young walked on the Moon. McDivitt orbited the Moon in 1969 as part of the Apollo 9 crew, but his UFO encounter came earlier in 1965 on the flight of Gemini 4.
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