Donna Hare

NASA Career and Position

Donna Hare worked as a design illustrator draftsman and photo-technician for NASA through the contractor Philco Ford Aerospace from 1967 to 1981. During this fourteen-year period, she held a secret clearance and specialized in the creation of launch slides, landing slides, and projected plotting boards for lunar mapping. Her work placed her inside NASA's Johnson Space Center, with access to some of the most sensitive imagery processed by the agency during the Apollo era.

The Photo Lab Incident

Hare's most significant testimony centers on a single moment inside a restricted photo laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center. A technician pointed out an anomaly in a mosaic of satellite photographs depicting Earth—specifically, a round white dot with sharp lines extending from it. When Hare asked what it was, the technician matter-of-factly explained that it was a UFO. The technician then revealed that such features were routinely airbrushed from photographs before they were released to the public, a standard part of his job. Hare took this disclosure seriously and later came forward publicly with the account.

Secondhand Accounts and Broader Claims

Beyond her own observation, Hare also recounted secondhand reports from colleagues. A security guard allegedly told her of witnessing a UFO in restricted photographs at NASA, only to face repercussions afterward. More dramatically, she cited accounts from individuals who claimed to have been in contact with Apollo astronauts during their post-mission quarantine; these astronauts allegedly described UFO sightings on the Moon, though they were bound by orders of secrecy not to disclose them publicly.

Disclosure Project Testimony (2001)

On May 9, 2001, Hare testified at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, as part of Steven Greer's landmark Disclosure Project briefing. She stood alongside over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate, and scientific witnesses to present evidence of extraterrestrial vehicles, non-human life forms, and recovered advanced technologies. Hare's credibility as a longtime NASA insider lent significant weight to the proceedings, and she publicly declared her willingness to testify under oath before Congress regarding her observations.

Legacy

Hare's testimony remains one of the most direct accusations of systematic UFO evidence suppression at NASA. While her primary evidence—the actual airbrushed photographs—has never been produced at high resolution for independent analysis, her account aligns with broader patterns of government compartmentalization and classification. Hare passed away in 2021, but her testimony endures as a centerpiece in disclosure narratives focused on institutional coverup.