Astronaut: Aliens Are Real
By Tom Shoop | Friday, July 25, 2008 | 10:16 AM
By Tom Shoop | Friday, July 25, 2008 | 10:16 AM
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)
Comments
We 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 | Monday, August 04, 2008 | 10:21 AMNo intellegent life in the universe, that goes for earth too!!
lilfsh | Friday, August 01, 2008 | 05:58 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 | Monday, July 28, 2008 | 12:34 PMduh, of course we exist... who do you think sends all that spam ?
ET | Monday, July 28, 2008 | 12:17 PMHere is what I cant figure out...
If there really IS intellegent life in the universe, why are they coming HERE ?
Confused | Monday, July 28, 2008 | 11:05 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 | Monday, July 28, 2008 | 09:39 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 | Monday, July 28, 2008 | 09:14 AMI believe Dr. Mitchell. Too much evidence has surfaced to believe otherwise.
Beto | Monday, July 28, 2008 | 09:01 AMCoincidental this is released at the same time as the new X-Files movie. Hmm, sounds like a conspiracy to me.
Mr. X | Monday, July 28, 2008 | 07:17 AMI 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 | Monday, July 28, 2008 | 07:16 AMInvestigative 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 | Sunday, July 27, 2008 | 11:27 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 | Saturday, July 26, 2008 | 12:44 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.
YouTube:
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 | Friday, July 25, 2008 | 01:40 PM
This 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 | Friday, July 25, 2008 | 01:18 PMOkay, now you've done it!
My Fox Mulder and Doubting Thomas are at war!!
Tip Off | Friday, July 25, 2008 | 11:57 AMWith 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 | Friday, July 25, 2008 | 11:38 AMABOUT THIS BLOG
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