Apollo Astronaut, Edgar Mitchell, Claims UFO Cover Up

From The New York Times:

Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, appeared on a British radio show to say that he was "privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the U.F.O. phenomena is real."

Mitchell, a member of the Apollo 14 team, has long held these beliefs despite the fact that he himself has never seen neither an alien or a U.F.O. The Times' story has an excellent collection of more information on Mitchell's beliefs.

Mitchell's resurgence in the media was prompted by a radio interview that he did yesterday with a British radio show. Audio of the show is available below.

Past videos of Mitchell:

Comments

[tjkreidler]

It is the ultimate human conceit to think we are alone and unique in the Universe. It all goes back to our religious beliefs, that a god created the Universe and our humble little planet for its own amusement. With billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars and therefore trillions of planets, life has to have evolved on countless others, besides our own. And statistically, half of the inhabited planets in the Universe will be more advanced than ours and half less advanced. So it is entirely possible that some other civilizations are technologically capable of visiting other planets, including Earth. To deny this is absurd.

[Marlyn]

"it is entirely possible that some other civilizations are technologically capable of visiting other planets, including Earth. To deny this is absurd." ???

I DENY THIS. It is absurd to believe that we or any other living beings could visit each other. We are ALL too far apart. We couldn't even communicate. Right now we are sending all sorts of "messages" at the speed of light out into the universe. But HOW LONG would it be before the message reached another planet that had intelligent life that could receive our signal? LIGHT YEARS!!!!!!!! Then if they sent back a response, it would take more LIGHT YEARS before "we" got the message.

[protagonia]

Thank you Marlyn for settling this issue!

I will always take your word over some ignorant astronaut's thoughts on a topic.

[clifflyon]

Marlyn,

Your denial is dependent on the speed of travel. If it possible to travel faster than the speed of light, then what do you say?

Your denial is also dependent on the idea that we are the most intelligent life form. This of course would require only an average level of human arrogance.

[SlinkyTWF]

You're assuming you know more than "they" do about the universe. If you'd seen one ignore Newtonian physics, you might ponder the the following:

1. Distance: There are a whole bunch of star systems within 50 "light years" of Earth. If someone figured out how to travel very very fast, then this is less than a human lifetime.
2. Time: It is possible that other beings (just theorizing) might have longer lifespans than humans. It is also possible that what people think they have been seeing (if they are extraterrestrial, and not just some still unknown natural phenomena) could be robotic probes. Indeed, if WE could explore something 50 or more light years away, how would WE do it?
3. Just because no one responds to our signals doesn't mean no one heard them. Maybe they are screening their calls.
4. Just because we do not hear signals from others does not mean that signals could not exist. What if a nearby civilization (within a hundred or so LYs), had already developed communications systems that did not rely on electromagnetic waves to carry a signal as we do? We would never hear the old signals because they may have been using something different from before the time when we discovered wireless radio communication.

People should expect some proof before accepting anything, but the arguments about Time and Distance being serious impediments to a more advanced civilization are also absurd. We still don't really know what causes gravity.

[OnTheCusp]

Time is just a construct.­..it isn't "real." Duh!

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Traveling or sending messages at the speed of light is so retro. I'm sorry. The Powers That Be have really twisted your head around. You have bought the lie, hook, line and sinker.

[CrisOmg]

"To deny this is absurd."

Just because something is "entirely possible" doesn't mean that it's even remotely probable, which is significantly more important. Something that is "possible in principle" should be very skeptically examined before it is taken as "possible in fact". It's "possible in principle" that God did create the Universe and our humble little planet for his own amusement. There is no way to disprove it. But that doesn't automatically make it possible in fact.

It is very probable that there is some sort of life besides ours in the universe. And I agree with you that some of those lifeforms would possibly be advanced far beyond anything we can imagine. But "statistically, half of the inhabited planets in the Universe will be more advanced than ours and half less advanced" just isn't true. Without any extraterrestrial forms of life to compare ourselves to, every piece of information used to determine a statistic like that is a guess. It's possible that we are the absolute pinnacle of intelligence - and our artifacts are the absolute pinnacle of technology.

Take a look at the Drake equation and make the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space really small, like one over a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillon, and the probability of it happening becomes all but impossible.

[RTIII]

Don't forget that probabilities changed based upon what you know.

Take 100 coin flips, when you get to the 99th one and they're ALL head's up, the odds that the NEXT one will be up is pretty darned small, but the NEXT toss is STILL 50/50...
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[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

tjkreidler is correct. Drake was wrong. Sorry!

There is no need to fear.

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

You are so correct! Here is a very wise person!

[infinity]

And it isn't a conceit that a technologically advanced "intelligent" life form has an interest in us? What do we offer that would be attractive to such entities? If "they" have the ability to travel space at the speed of light, or better, than our "measurable" time is meaningless and so would be our existance.

[Axolotl]

Alien space ship lands and head creature deplanes. Meets John McCain and gives a formal greeting. The next thing creature hears is, "Well, didn't the Surge work just great?"

[manualfordemocracy]

Look, I am not a big conspiracy guy nor an Area 51 Martian supporting guy either but, when a creditable person, with a military background, and a former astronaut speaks about a cover-up… it does not lend ANY credibility to the story if Huffingtonpost places a silly, humorous, photo of two people mugging for the camera wearing ET masks.

You’re mocking the messenger right off the bat, making his statements appears silly as opposed to objectively reporting on his story.

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

You are so correct. Sadly, even HuffPo feeds the "Laughter Curtain" (And they are so good on the other political matters!) Go figure!

[AERO]

There is a very good book by Ivan T. Sanderson called "Invisible Residents". It was originally published over 30 years ago and is based on official reports by military and police around the world. The book tells about unidentified craft seen rising out of the water and flying away by naval personnel and others over the last few hundred years. I was especially intrigued by the book because as a navy patrol pilot with over 3200 hours, I have on two occasions witnessed numerous fireballs coming up from the ocean surface and continuing up to very high altitude, presumably into space. This was an open ocean area with no shipping traffic. I don't think these are from another planet, but there's something strange happening out there, that's for sure.

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Excellent! It would appear that a lot of these advanced craft can travel as easily through water as they can through planetary atmospheres, as they can through the vacuum of space. Think about it. If you were to visit a primitive planet that didnt know about "the others" and it was 75% ocean it would be logical to have your bases under water in the middle of the most remote open ocean areas. From everything you describe, alien craft are the most logical and sanest explanation for what you saw since we obviously have no technology capable of this!

[WorkingClass]

If aliens sent a probe here they would conclude there is no intelligent life on earth.

[AnnArky]

An alien probe to Earth is known, in the martian community, as a Cosmic Suppository.

[Marlyn]

Edgar Mitchell says "They've identified quite a number of planets now, that very likely could be life bearing planets."

Is this true? I know that some stars have been shown to have planets, but none of these planets have been identified as able to support life. Since life exists on Earth, it seems most likely that there are other life bearing planets in the universe, but we haven't located any yet, have we?

[protagonia]

You are so convinced, it's practically convincing.

But you're trying to hard.

Oops.

Over-doing it is the problem. Nobody actually pushes the topic that much when they believe said topic is incorrect. Only when they fear the topic is true.

You showed your hand.

[RTIII]

We don't know, but very possibly, yes. We have identified several star systems with planet at roughly the right range of orbit that we think could do it.

BTW, there's another body in our own solar system that we think COULD possibly support life - it's not a planet, but a moon... I'll leave finding out which one as an exercise for the reader! (hint, if using google, use the site: tag in the search so you get only good scientific hits - just pick the right sites!)
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[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Europa, for one--but there are several in our star system! But wait till you get a load of what NASA finds on Mars (if they ever grow the cajones to tell us)!

[TheImpaler]

Given the vastness and the approximate age of the universe it would be naïve to think that live could or did evolve only on this tiny chunk of rock. I can also see why the governments would like to keep something like that secret. What I don’t get is why far more advanced species would want to have anything to do with us. Unless, THEY WANT TO SERVE HUMANS!!!.­..... IT IS A COOKBOOK!!!!

Cheers!

[Cowtippin]

Trust me they are out there. Besides there is a reason that Truman signed the National Security Act on July 26th 1947. Which was 19 days after the Roswell Crash. This formed the CIA and the NSC and the Marshall Plan/ Truman Act were part of the cover up. Why would Truman sign these bills on his airplane. I'll tell you why its because he was terrified not of Russia but of what happened in Roswell. Call me crazy but do your own research and make your own conclusions. On that note, If it were just a weather ballon why would the US Gov't have over 100,000 documents relating to a weather ballon. If you do your own snooping you'll discover there are more documents relating to this event that the assignation of JFK

[Axolotl]

i now call you crazy.

[Marlyn]

Tell me more about the assignation of JFK.

[CharlieMarlowe]

I think that should be assignations! Can't have just one

[LintLass]

Well, there were these rumors about Marilyn Monroe....­. :)

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Part 1
Exactly. I lived for over a decade in New Mexico and spent some time in Roswell. I met some of the people involved in the case--they were as credible as the day is long! The weather in that area can be pretty fierce, with wicked electrical storms. I think craft got knocked out of the sky by lightening. Immediately after WWII the US government was on edge over what they had discovered about Nazi and Russian technology. At first, they werent entirely sure who the hell was visiting us. There were so many UFOs checking out that area in the 40s because of the nearby White Sands Proving Ground where the first atomic weapons were developed & tested and because the only military flying group trained and qualified to deploy nuclear weapons (they flew the Enola Gay and dropped the Nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki) were based in the town of Roswell. Yeah, we really put ourselves on the aliens' map when we split the atom and started detonating nukes willy nilly. UFOS were and still are seen often in Nevada, too, near the Nuclear Test Site near Area 51.

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Part 2
Everywhere in the world where Nukes are detonated or stored are visited. We dont yet fully understand Nuclear Physics and what the full consequences are of splitting the atom are. It causes perturbations and rents "holes" in the fabric of space/time/gravity. It is very dangerous as we use it today. I think they are very concerned, no so much for us, as for themselves and this region of space. Just like on this planet, everything "out there" is connected to everything else--this causes shock waves on interdimensional levels. If you pull the wrong thread, the whole thing can unravel. Will we wake up and quit this nonsense in time?

[bavb63]

Wouldn't it be a hoot if the aliens were Black?

[AnnArky]

They are Black, what are you talking about? In fact, Black people are really Space Aliens, soon to awaken to their true nature and take over the world.

[deevee]

Actually, we are dark green.

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Yeah! Heh! (But dont tell anyone!) Obama is the advance guard!

[protagonia]

Or white.

Gray/white.

[SlinkyTWF]

I saw that episode.

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Ever see George Clinton and Parliament­-Funkadeli­c?

Me thinks you have Fear of a Black Planet!

Better sharpen up yor groove thang, White boy!

[Moka11]

Oh great...ju­st what we need....."­radical alien extremists­"....we'll have to write in Kucinich in November!

[olivia]

There are billions of planets. Why would there not be some kind of life on another one of them?

[Marlyn]

Agreed. But they are all so far away that we will NEVER be able to communicate with them, much be visited by aliens from another world. PURE SCI-FI.

[blindjester]

Kucinich doesn't deserve to be the butt of these jokes.

He didn't claim he saw aliens. He saw a UFO. So have tens of millions of other people. The term doesn't mean "aliens." It just means they saw something in the air they couldn't identify.

Most people, including Kucinich, understand that it could have been a satellite or something.

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

You must be blind, Jester! Isnt that just what I said "Kucinich had his own sighting" and nothing more. Sigh, alas, it is you who jumped the gun and brought up "aliens" and "jokes". Get smart! Personally, I love Kucinich, much better than Obama, particularly his articles of Impeachment and his political platform AND his UFO sighting since this subject is a love of mine for 45 years... and I wish he was our candidate. Sadly, no one will take him seriously because he does not have the Hollywood flash and razzle-dazzle and comes off like so much wallpaper paste. It breaks my heart since I have been a fan since the mid 90s!

[protagonia]

Nya, nya, nya!

Here come the bullies!

LOL!

Aliens scare the s**t out of control freaks.

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

So true!

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Actually, Kucinich would be just our man, since he had his own UFO sighting once.

[mergina]

"Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the universe without a doubt does exist. In the vastness of the universe, we are NOT ALONE."...­.........A­lbert Einstein

[Marlyn]

Yes, but are they here?

[mergina]

Every minute of every day. It's all in the handbook..­.;)

[Titonwan]

Shhhhhhh!.­... Don't look now, but there's one right under you! (a little to your right).

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Here, there and everywhere!

[BigFootJesus]

I don't recall who said it first but I agree with the following statement. "The best proof that intelligent life exists on other planets is that they have not contacted us".

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Excellent! That pretty much sums it all up!

[HamletsMill]

It does sound like something George Carlin would say, so we may as well give him the credit for it! Very well said. That sums it up perfectly. We are a planet of total complete idiots who are a danger to themselves and each other. It is just amazing that we have gotten this far. A planet of true mental cases. But we all just have to try to make the best of it!

[MissingAmerica]

It seems extremely arrogant to believe that in this vast universe, the infinite cosmos, we are the only planet with life form. I believe there is intelligent life on other planets, although they are undoubtedly looking at what we are doing to this planet and referring to us as anything BUT intelligent! We needn't worry about being destroyed by an alien attack as long as we have the GOP who seem bent on doing the job for them!

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

So true! I much more fear wacko humans than I would any aliens!

[LaurenceFlorida]

I'd like to know why all the aliens look like Warren Christopher in a jumpsuit. Are we really supposed to believe it's just *coincidence*?

[zendem1]

That would explain reality television

[Scott1560]

The reality format was back-engineered from recovered Betamax video tapes. Betamax didn't lose to VHS, it was pulled from the market to keep the rest of us from knowing the truth.

[Marlyn]

heh

[Titonwan]

Oh! So you're one of THEM that think their small tape is better because they use better technique! Well, us with our large equipment know how to service the recorder slot too!