Anyone heard this story about the LLTV and a state trooper?

[Peter B]

Someone on YT (yeah, I know) is claiming this story about the LLRVs/LLTVs:

The trainers also were the cause of a famous project blue book UFO incident,  a State trooper spotted a landing withe astronauts getting out of the vehicle in space suits and reported it, NASA didn't want the location Astronauts were practicing revealed and had the report suppressed until after the moon missions were completed.

I checked it on Snopes and got no hits, and then on Google, and the AI response (yeah, I know) was that it's a bit of space lore.

So I was hoping the Brains Trust here might know something about the story?

Thank you in advance!

Cheers

Peter

[TimberWolfAu]

Sounds like a vary tall tale. Especially with the lack of details.

The trainers operated in very specific location, so it's not likely that a random person, State Trooper or not, would witness one just landing outside their area of operations.
That and the trainers only carried one person, and they didn't wear "spacesuits" but normal flight suits.

The actual training was done at Ellington Airfield, in Texas, ref 'Unconventional, Contrary, and Ugly:The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle' NASA SP-2004-4535

[sts60]

…NASA didn't want the location Astronauts were practicing revealed and had the report suppressed until after the moon missions were completed.

Local station KPRC-TV covered this in June 1969:
https://texasarchive.org/2018_02105

Here’s a New York Times article referring to the 1968 LLTV crash at Ellington:
https://www.nytimes.com/1968/12/11/archives/lunar-craft-crash-under-nasa-study.html?smid=url-share

That’s a couple of minutes of searching.  Whoever is claiming that NASA was trying to cover up where LLRV/LLTV flights were happening is just ignorant and lazy, or lying on purpose.

And even in 1968, it’s not like Ellington was a remote site that anyone in Houston couldn’t have driven to and watched flights from nearby.

It’s possible that someone who paid no attention to the news could have seen a flight and reported a UFO.  The rest is just bunk.  Including astronauts (plural) getting out of a single-seat vehicle.