Astronaut: Aliens Are Real
Well, the conspiracy had to crack sometime.
Edgar Mitchell, an astronaut on Apollo 14 and the sixth man to walk on the moon, told Kerrang! Radio this week that we're not alone in the universe and the government knows all about it.
"I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real," he said.
Mitchell is more than just a famous astronaut and a scientist. He grew up in Roswell, N.M., site of a famous alleged UFO landing. And, he said, "I've been in military circles and intelligence circles that know beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge that yes, we have been visited. ...I have been deeply involved in certain committes and certain research programs with very credible scientists and intelligence people that do know the real inside story."
"There's been quite a bit of contact going on," Mitchell added. "The Roswell crash was real and [the fact that] a number of other contacts have been real and ongoing is pretty well known to those of us who have been briefed and have been close to the subject matter."
So who exactly are the visitors? "Some of them are these little people that look strange to us," Mitchell said. "As far as I know from my contacts that have had contact, that was the reaction."
NASA politely suggests Mitchell doesn't know what he's talking about. "NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe," the agency told the radio station. "Dr. Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinion on this issue."
Oh really? If Mitchell's crazy, how do you explain the fact that he got the agency's Ambassador of Exploration award just a couple of years ago?
Here's Mitchell in his heyday, by the way:
(Hat tip: BoingBoing)
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With this astronaut's story and the intense serious coverage of Larry King and others such as the Catholic Pope's recent statement on aliens, one could speculate that we are being tested and perhaps prepared for disclosure. The governments of the world have kept too many things from us for far too long. Governments are not and should not be mind police. They should be honest representatives of the people they serve and lay-it-on-the line.
Mel Hatfield Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 11:38 AMOkay, now you've done it!
My Fox Mulder and Doubting Thomas are at war!!
Tip Off Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 11:57 AMThis is really the tip of the iceberg. Not only has Mitchell come forward, but former Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper stated that an alien spacecraft landed at Edwards Airforce Base while he was on duty there.
In addition, the former Governor of Arizona, Fife Symington, said that the object hovering over Phoenix in 1997 was an 'alien spacecraft':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMfEV5qATrY
Eric Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 1:18 PMYouTube:
1) Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14, UFOs on the Moon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82RGdEuZp4I
2) Top Secret UFO NASA Tapes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9runNgtTb0&feature=related
3) UFO confirmed in NASA Control Room:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Zj_hrB_l8&feature=related
4)Details
*** http://youtube.com/watch?v=f5WnuRekG4s
*** http://www.australia.to/story/0,25197,23040466-937,00,00.html
Hercolubus Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 1:40 PMDr. Mitchell is not the only one that has come forward. Remarkable evidence is available proving that UFOs and ETs have visited our planet. See (www.disclosureproject.com and www.freedomofinfo.org).
Solid testimony from over 500 corporate and military witnesses has been accumulated by two disclosure initiatives. These disclosure witnesses have openly stated they are willing to testify, under oath and before Congress about their direct encounters with UFO crash site investigations, secret UFO documents, UFO photographic evidence, radar reports and recovered crashed ET vehicles.
As an Attorney, I can attest that the jurisprudential evidence of this quality does not get any better, especially when witnesses possess the ranks of Brigadier Generals, Commander of ICBM Launch facilities, Senior FAA Crash Site Investigators, astronauts, pilots and officers with above top secret clearance. Men have been executed in this state on less evidence.
Other governments have started releasing previously classified data on ETs and UFOs. France was the first, in March 2007 the French National Space Agency placed 1600 previously classified UFO sighting reports into the public domain for examination; beginning the process of full disclosure of non-Earth origin craft. Similarly, the United Kingdom in May 2007 began a disclosure initiative. Other countries have started to follow suit. It is time for the United States to do the same.
In my personal experience, I was a U.S. Army Major and held a top secret clearance. My awards include the Bronze Star Medal for leadership in combat as well as others. As a result of my positions other officers have confided in me and I have no doubt that there is something to this enigma.
It is imperative that this issue receive media and elected official attention. It has been acknowledge by the U.S. military and other federal organization, through freedom of information requests, that files on the subject remain classified. It is time for the country to move toward full disclosure. People have the right to know the whole story.
Franklin D. Fields, Jr. Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 3:56 PMIt's funny how, in the 16th century, scientists were excommunicated and even executed for suggesting that the earth might not be the center of the universe, or that life might exist elsewhere. Now, we have religionists and others who the powers call crackpots saying that life exists elsewhere, and the authorities/ government are pooh-poohing it. Funny how things change.
Religion vs science Posted Saturday, July 26, 2008 12:44 PMInvestigative journalist Gus Russo, author of "Brothers in Arms," has written about some of the UFO intelligence connections alluded to by Edgar Mitchell:
http://starpod.org/inside_the_spy_game.htm
"Now the most intense debates involve subjects with names like Project Beta, SERPO, Project Camelot, Operation Snow White, and Star Gate. And weaving in and out of all these alleged controversies, especially in the UFO internet chat rooms, are at least three senior intelligence analysts and one retired Air Force Special Investigator: “Tom” (pseudo.), a MASINT specialist (Measures and Signals Intelligence) with a PhD in chemistry and Paul, an aeronautics scholar interested in “breakthrough propulsion and gravity-modification technologies,” work down the hall from each at the Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI) headquarters in Washington. “Jim” (pseudo.), a physician and former CIA officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, maintains his security clearance, and travels back to Washington often to work on classified psychological studies. Richard “Rick” Doty, a longtime friend and colleague of Jim, was an investigator assigned the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).
What has been confounding UFO buffs for years is the regular presence of these well-informed “spooks” (and others less active) in both the physical UFO world and the world of cyberspace saucers.
Gary Bekkum Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:27 PMI love these comments from "knowledgeable sources" that have medals and "should know these things". We appreciate your service, but this information would be in a classification above "top secret," if it existed and very few people in very specific jobs and with a need to know, would have access to it. If you weren't in one of those jobs, I don't want to hear from you. If you were...well, you violated your access and should (probably would) be in jail right now. Coffee mess discussions don't count.
Many people give the government and the military too much credit. They couldn't keep a secret like this for long. You can't study something without an Appropriation and if congress were involved (who you couldn't keep out of it for almost 70 years paying the bill), there is no way that creditable evidence like this could have been kept secret. We are just not that competent.
I enjoy the X-files stuff, like a lot of other Sci-Fi geeks out there and hope that life does exist elsewhere...but constant alien visitation and government coverups? Sorry, ufo's are just that..unidentified.
Rob Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 7:16 AMCoincidental this is released at the same time as the new X-Files movie. Hmm, sounds like a conspiracy to me.
Mr. X Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 7:17 AMI believe Dr. Mitchell. Too much evidence has surfaced to believe otherwise.
Beto Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 9:01 AMIf there are ETs or aliens, that doesn't fundamentally change our situation. It doesn't change our capacity for evil behavior, or the necessity for us to confront evil behavior in ourselves and others and deal with it, or the necessity to treat others well, or the existence of eternity. As long as those things don't change, aliens and ETs are strictly secondary to the things that count.
Would I like to know? Sure, but I'm not going to waste a lot of time wondering.
arclight Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 9:14 AMThis is a sad coda to an otherwise outstanding career. The British UFO organization recently shut down for lack of anything to do and now an elderly astronaut who's apparently "lost it" comes forward and the nuts come out of the woodwork again.
Debunking doesn't convince these people, because they always have another, less-documented, "sighting" to point to and say,
"what about that?"
Think about it: if all unidentified aerial sightings are caused by alien spacecraft, why are not all unsolved murders caused by aliens (and I don't mean those from the South)? It's the propensity for ascribing anything unknown to the modern version of boogeymen that should be disturbing, not the statement of the occasional crackpot like Symington.
Gary Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 9:39 AMHere is what I cant figure out...
If there really IS intellegent life in the universe, why are they coming HERE ?
Confused Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 11:05 AMduh, of course we exist... who do you think sends all that spam ?
ET Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 12:17 PMYa know? It's no wonder the public is not provided the truth. Just take a look at many of the comments since Dr. Mitchell's interview. I bet the "powers that be", look at this, and say... Yup these people are nowhere ready to know the truth. It is sad, because when you really, I mean really gather all the KNOWN facts, facts like YES many CREDIBLE witnesses over many years have made statements of having experienced something whether it be a UFO or an apparent adbuction, whatever?, and when you look at how all of a sudden how the technology on the earth has increased at light speed and is still increasing, technology like going from gas tubes to the micro chip right after the supposed Roswell crash, and the arrival of the micro wave oven, right up to personal computers and cell phone technology, it is to me COMMON sense that something interfered with human technological advancement from the 50's and onward. As for Dr.Mitchell, he has NO reason, at least that I can think of, to make up such a claim. It just seems many of the nay sayers are people that you'll find who do not want to have their "comfort zones" invaded. I say open up and let the TRUTH in. And a HUGE thanks to Dr. Mitchell for speaking out.
Al Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 12:34 PMNo intellegent life in the universe, that goes for earth too!!
lilfsh Posted Friday, August 1, 2008 5:58 PMWe should at least be free thinking enough to not depend on any governmental, religious, scientific, or any other particular institution to limit our abilities to perceive the truth. Most instutional knowledge has us trapped in believing we are the bodies we inhabit. Even a child can tell you there is no such thing as "I" hand or "I" foot; there is my hand or my foot. Therefore, who am I? When I leave I leave a dead body. When I am here I give dead matter the semblance of being alive. There is “no” place where life does not exist. We just want life to be gross and it is not, it is subtle. Looking for love in all the wrong places - still!
William H. Bell Posted Monday, August 4, 2008 10:21 AMMy name is Rick Carter (previously aka "Orthelion" on AOL). I spent my entire life getting ready to answer this question (among others), and then I spent six long years on AOL putting "The Truth" out there in public (between 1999 and 2005). For the most part, I absolutely do know what Roswell was all about. This is because I spent two years of my early life living together with my grandparents at Wright Patterson Air Force base in Ohio (1951 to 1953). My grandfather, Colonel Charles Faulkner Carter, was one of the top commanding officers there at that time, and he was personally involved in the background investigation into the Roswell Incident. Even though my grandfather ultimately hoped to make general before he retired (may of his close friends in the military had) he nevertheless courageously followed his own personal line of investigation into this issue regardless of where the truth ultimately led, even though his line of investigation ultimately led him into a veritable minefield of religious issues, any one of which could have 'blown up' in his face and potentially ended his military career. This Roswell incident turned out to be so loaded (fraught) with religious overtones, that eventually my grandfather could no longer discuss this issue with his military peers, many of whom had become very attached to their own personal religious beliefs in the course of making it through World War II. Because of this, my grandfather had to ultimately turn to his own wife (Dorothy, my grandmother) as his main confidant in this Roswell investigation. I was living there with them at the time because I had been born with a congenital birth defect which needed surgical repair, and since they did not have good anesthetics and analgesics back then for very young children, I had to wait until I was old enough to be operated on, and following that, until I had fully recovered from my surgery. Throughout this time I had to be constantly in my grandmother's presence 24/7, since if I started crying it could have led to potential serious medical complications. It was during this time that my grandfather was turning to my grandmother as his main confidant in the Roswell investigation, and as a result of that I basically had a 'front row seat' to the Roswell investigation. The Roswell Incident happened because these ETs were doing a post WWII recon of our nuclear facilities in the southwestern United States, for the purposes of conducting a baseline study of our future WMD capability. These ETs probably set up a base camp somewhere up north in Canada or Alaska, and then a formation of UFOs proceeded down the Pacific seaboard in 1947 to conduct this baseline study recon. They were spotted numerous times by reputable people on the way down the Pacific seaboard in 1947, beginning in Washington state. They were interested in the Roswell area because Roswell Air Field was located there, and the 509th Bomber Group was also based there as well. The 509th Bomber Group was the only bomber group in the entire world which was authorized to carry nuclear weapons at the time. To make a long story short, the military had already concocted a cover up story in case a U.S. bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed on U.S. soil. The American public was still coming to terms with the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and if a bomber crashed carrying nuclear weapons crashed on U.S. soil and the public got wind of it, it would most likely be very damaging to our long term national security interests when it came to the development of nuclear weapons, especially since we already knew the Soviets were aggressively pursuing their own nuclear weapons development. As it turned out, they ended up using a modified version of this bomber crash coverup story (the Mongol balloon story) to cover up the crash of two alien UFOs outside of Roswell. These ETs were conducting this baseline study of our WMD capability because they needed this data to ultimately influence/predict the final triggering of the PWMD, or Program Weapon of Mass Destruction, which they had installed into our world over a period of several thousand Earth years. The critical components of this PWMD took the form of the three ET installed Abrahamic belief systems, which are intended to eventually crash and explode our emerging human world in a final cataclysm of global warfare fueled with WMDs, known as the Christian Apocalypse, or World War III. This PWMD is trying to go off now, since we are in the 33 year window of opportunity intended for the End Time program fulfillment of this ET installed PWMD known as the Christian Apocalypse or World War III. These offensive totalitarian ETs are hoping to create an eminent domain pretext for military intervention into our human world. They want to move in and take over our extremely valuable celestial real estate, and eventually take it away, while once more masquerading as Divinity toward humanity, this time as the returning Christ or Messiah. These ETs repeatedly masqueraded as Divinity toward humanity over a period of several thousand Earth years in the process of serially installing all three of the corrupt Abrahamic belief systems into our world. These ETs are currently in eminent domain control of our sector of the Milky Way galaxy, and they have been compelled to take this covert approach at territorial conquest in our Milky Way galaxy because there are Free Galaxy powers elsewhere in our Milky Way galaxy which currently stand in the way of overt territorial conquest on a stellar level. These ETs want to eventually take away our extremely valuable celestial real estate, after supposedly trying for a thousand intervening years following the supposed return (second Advent) of the militant Christ or Messiah, to salvage or redeem mankind from their "hopelessly violent ways". Please understand that it will not be the Christ or Messiah "coming in the clouds" militarily at the end of the Christian Apocalypse or World War III. It will be offensive totalitarian ETs coming in the clouds, and one of the first things they will do is throw all unbelievers into the biblical "Lake of Fire" (a supervolcano eruption which will be part of the Apocalypse). This is how their thousand year totalitarian reign will be inaugurated here on Earth (read Revelations). If mankind does not listen to me, then mankind is on the very brink of future extinction at the hands of these outside offensive totalitarian ETs. Please understand that our human world has been under biocybernetic warfare attack now for thousands of years by these totalitarian ETS, and they are not about to change their ways now that they are on the very brink of potential success. Please understand that they are a cultural singularity under the control of an extremely advanced but delusional ET/AI system which suffers from a God complex, or more specifically, a "Son of God" complex, primarily as a consequence of sharing the same language as God, which is the language of Mathematics. It was actually this God complex which enabled this advanced ET/AI system to circumvent its prime directives intended to prevent it from taking over this ET civilization (there is more to this story). I have put out a great deal more out in public on AOL about all of this during that previous six year period (1999 - 2005) when I made all of this public, but time and space does not allow me an opportunity here to go into all of this now. These ETs are poised right now to invade our human world once this 'black hole' "End Time" program finally plunges our human world into an "End Time" apocalypse. Please listen, everyone, before it is too late !!!
Sincerely,
Rick Carter (previously aka "Orthelion" on AOL)
Rick Carter Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:00 PMRick - good to see you're in good form. Important family news - brief contact only required.
Susan Harwood Posted Friday, July 24, 2009 6:17 PM