In-regard to Mr. Carpenter; he said this also; "At No time, when they were in space, were they alone; there was a constant surveillance by UFOs."
"Above Top Secret," Timothy Good; "Great Mysteries" UFOs" by Robert Jackson, etc. al. ...
Had you bothered to trace this claim back to its original source you'd know how spurious its basis turns out to be.
Good's 1988 citation of the Carpenter quote is footnoted as having been taken from
The Mel Noel Story ("Mel Noel" (alias), 1967, Saucerian Publications). This is the only specific source anyone's ever given for the alleged Carpenter quote.
If any subsequent publication citing the Carpenter quote attributed it to any source other than Good's 1988 book or another source derivative from Good's book I haven't seen it.
"Mel Noel" is a pseudonym used by one Noel Brice Cornwall (sometimes cited as Noall Bryce Cornwall). This fellow is also widely known under another pseudonym - Guy Kirkwood.
For a cursory overview of his multiple forays into the UFO community limelight, see:
https://chasingufosblog.com/2020/04/17/mel-noels-phony-flying-saucer-trip-to-the-stars/
Under the name Mel Noel, he surfaced in 1966 to promote an alleged flying saucer excursion plan. His self-authored / self-published 1967 book(-let) served as window dressing for the scheme.
This entire Mel Noel circus was the subject of an exposé in
UFO Magazine, researched and authored by the magazine's editor Don Ecker:
'The Mel Noel Story'
UFO Magazine
Volume 7 No. 3 May/June 1992
http://ufoupdateslist.com/1997/aug/m29-017.shtml
Ecker would later cite his 1992 article and the whole Noel / Kirkwood / Cornwall circus in bemoaning the cancerous effect such tomfoolery had, and continues to have, on serious UFO research:
https://www.theparacast.com/forum/threads/more-of-the-same-crap.7779/
Good might be forgiven for being fooled by, and citing, Noel's fictions prior to the publication of Ecker's exposé. However, Noel / Kirkwood was confronted and confessed he'd been peddling falsehoods as fact during a TV appearance in October 1969. Good seems to have missed that key follow-on development.
The whole provenance for the alleged quote denied by Carpenter himself boils down to:
- An allegation embedded within, and part and parcel of, a 1967 mass of sheer bullshit;
- A 1988 rehash of the already dismissible allegation via citing the 1967 work without due diligence; and ...
- The usual Chinese Whispers processes disseminating the rehash on the basis of the 1988 citation alone.