‘Aliens prevented nuclear war on Earth’: Former NASA astronaut makes unexpected claim
Edgar Mitchell, an astronaut on the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, says peace-loving aliens visited our planet during weapons tests at US missile bases and the famous White Sands Proving Ground in the New Mexico desert – where the world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945.
“White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons – and that’s what the extra-terrestrials were interested in,” the 84-year-old told Mirror Online. “They wanted to know about our military capabilities.”
He added that the extraterrestrials were “attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.”
Mitchell also says that other officers support his claims.
“I have spoken to many Air Force officers who worked at these silos during the Cold War,” he said. “They told me UFOs were frequently seen overhead and often disabled their missiles.”
“Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft,” he added.
While the claims may seem out-of-this-world, they’ve become somewhat expected from Mitchell, who has been outspoken about his belief in aliens since landing on the surface of the moon.
Mitchell has previously stated that aliens looks quite a lot like the stereotypical image – a small body with a large head and eyes.
He also adamantly maintains that aliens landed in Roswell, New Mexico, nearly 70 years ago, claiming that some of them were captured alive.
He believes the US government has covered up the landing ever since, fearing its superior technology would find its way into the hands of Soviet Russia, the Daily Express reported in May.
“The best course of action was to just lie about it, and keep it to themselves. They labeled it ‘above top-secret’, and that created the long running iron curtain separating a secret group within the government, and the American public,” he said.
However, NASA released a statement in 2008 which said that “NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe.”
The space agency added that “Dr. Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue.”
Following the NASA statement, Mitchell clarified to Fox News that his comments did not involve NASA, but cited unnamed sources who told him that the Roswell incident did involve alien spacecraft. He also says he has received confirmation from an unnamed intelligence officer at the Pentagon.
In 2004, the former astronaut told the St. Petersburg Times that a “cabal of insiders” in the US government was studying alien bodies, and that this group had stopped briefing US presidents about their progress after John F. Kennedy.
Mitchell also claimed in 1996 that the US government has benefited from extraterrestrials’ “sonic engineering secrets.”
But despite all his claims, he told AskMen last year that he had never actually seen a UFO.
The sixth person to walk on the moon, Mitchell spent nine hours on the lunar surface in 1971, in the Fra Mauro Highlands region.
The US and Russia had over 1,700 nuclear tests, aliens suck.
There was an Deputy Sec. of State under Reagan that stated, when asked what was his biggest regret during office, he regretted not telling the country about aliens (extraterrestrials).
Going from memory – read it some time ago.
I believe in space travel. My grandkids were born on another planet and transported here.
The huge, ginormous hole in their whole argument about aliens intervening to prevent us from destroying ourselves during the Cold War is this:
WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO DO THAT?
The last thing a technologically advanced, space faring race wants is to allow a another race to evolve to their level of technology and be a challenge.
(See The Fermi Paradox, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox )
Getting in a tin can and sitting on a rocket to get into space takes ginormous balls of steel. Only an aggressive and invasive species, ie a predator, is going to even conceive of leaving “the nest and the herd” to explore and conquer completely hostile and dangerous places such as outer space and other planets.
As to those naked, big eyed, small bodied “aliens” that are always posted – no fucking way. It is COLD in space, no advanced culture EVER runs around naked, their low body mass creates all kinds of problems in a zero gravity environment, and they are ALWAYS shown unarmed. Sheesh.
If such a species came to Earth, they would wipe us out in a NY minute and take all the goodies for themselves.
Hey, wait a minute. Mebbe they have already been here and this explains liberal progressivism, the Universal Death Cult.
Seriously, if and when we meet “aliens”, they will either be carbon based life forms like us or something like a Velociraptors. They most certainly will NOT be doe-eyed, gentle, unarmed and they will most certainly not be singing the alien version of kumbaya.
Better be glad we live in a nice quiet corner of our Galaxy.
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Bullshit ! distraction!
Z- This is complete crap………you will love the big show when Project Blue Beam goes live.
As unlikely as it sounds, on a clear night, almost every clear night, you can see ufo type objects where I live. Last night, around 10 pm there was what I would guess sizewise to be an 8 ft wide circular dish 100 to 200 feet off the ground moving slow over my next door neighbors house and property. While I dont know mitchel, and his stories may seem far fetched, I could believe aliens exist. Though far more probable is they were and are here for millenia, perhaps millions or billions of years. They may be us evolved. I think people somewhere know the truth of it all. Mitchel is not one of them, nor am I.
@klyde: Dude, in an era where people have 8 pixel color cameras in their freaking phones, tell me why all the “UFO” pix are so blurry and difficult to see.
In 2014, the number of cell phones exceeded the number of human beings on the planet. Are you telling me that NOT ONE CLEAR PHOTO or VIDEO of UFO activity has been captured?
@Bea: Project Blue Beam is already live. How do explain Barack Obama otherwise…..
On another, but completely unrelated note, I scored some killer LSD yesterday. Not all the great chemists are gone.
Nothing he says is actually verifiable to any degree.
That old man’s mind is fucked up. Probably too much radiation from the moon walk.
In a serious note, here’s the reason there is no possibility of interstellar travel:
Proven without a doubt Einstein is correct that there is a space / time correlation limited by the speed of light. The observation leads to the statement: moving clocks run slow.
Interstellar travel would have to be at or near the speed of light. Thus the occupants would leave earth, travel (say four light years – Alpha Centuri our closest star – and back – 8 light years total) when lhey return to earth, time on earth would be 1000’s of years in the future. This is a law of physics. No matter if you’re a human or alien.
Additionally, they would have no way of communicating with their ‘home planet’ since electro-magnetic waves travel at the speed of light – there would be 100’s of years of delay between receipt of a message, and the star ship receiving it’s response.
@Dutchman: You analysis is correct only IF Einstein’s TOR is correct. Current research in quantum physics indicates that it may not be…..
Your analysis is correct, Dutchman, if one only considers Special Relativity. General Relativity, however, allows for all types of faster-than-light travel…warping if space (spacetime), wormholes, etc.
I agree that the Engineering of such vessels is way beyond humans and perhaps fundamentally impossible, but the physics of faster-than-light travel is well-established.
@Hope – you make a lot of assumptions that may or may not be true. Also, velociraptors are/were very much carbon based…all life on Earth is Carbon based…so we have no other type of life to compare it to. From what we know of biology, life can only be carbon or silicon based. BUT…we really don’t know much do we. We have specimens from one tiny planet in a Cosmos too vast to even begin to imagine, let alone comprehend. Life elsewhere (if it exists at all–I have no idea) could be radically different–physiologically, psychologically, sociologically.
That said, I fully believe sentient aliens have never visited Earth. Period. Space is just too fucking big. The issue no on ever brings up is this: How would they find us? Sure, we have Voyager 1 and we have been broadcasting messages into space for a few decades…but that’s EXACTLY the point: we have been broadcasting for a few decades into a cosmos that is BILLIONS of light-years across. In other words, such aliens would have to be virtually next door for our messages to be heard…unlikely in the extreme. And we can’t even be sure there are sentient beings ANYWHERE else in the Cosmos.
Aliens do exist. There are 6 of them right now mowing my neighbors lawn.
@Drud: I meant either a humanoid form or something like a Velicoraptor, yes I know both are carbon based. Space is fucking BIIIGGGGG..
Either there are no aliens out there – AND WE ARE THE FIRST SENTIENT LIFE FORMS IN THE UNIVERSE – OMG!!!
Or they haven’t found us yet.
Or we are too insignificant and primitive to bother with.
I have to say, though, that the prehistoric megaliths scatter all over the Earth and the common thread of stories from all over the world, of “visitors from the sky” coming to Earth and bestowing their knowledge, perhaps interbreeding with humans, is a bit worrisome….
What if Earth is some kind of “seed colony” and perhaps someday the beings that “seeded” Earth will come back to see what has grown????
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That made me laugh out loud.
@Hope – I figured that was what you meant. We always picture aliens as humanoids, because we find it hard to picture anything else.
Also, were you speaking of Quantum Relativity in your earlier post or something else? The search goes ever on for a Grand Unified Theory…
Have you seen Jupiter Ascending, then? That is exactly the story.
This just in to The Burning Platform newsroom:
JAPS ASK WHERE THE FUCK WERE THESE ALIENS ON AUGUST 6TH AND 9TH, 1945?
Klyde, considering that you see these things on most clear nights, has it ever occurred to you to hire a pro to video and photograph them in high resolution? You could be rich and famous! I’ll bet that once the weed wears off you forget all about it until the next time you’re high. Hiring a professional photographer is difficult at two in the morning when you’re too stoned to move…or give a fuck.
If he lied about walking on the moon, why shouldn’t he lie about space aliens?
Paul Hellyer, former Canadian defense minister, says UFOs are real and backs up what Edgar Mitchell says:
I personally have seen 6 or 7, photographed only 2, but I can tell you something strange is in our skies. The government has done a consistent job with considerable effort to debunk UFOs ever since Roswell, so that should tell you something.
Regarding the comment about why are they out of focus, etc. Some believe this to be caused by some sort of field surrounding the craft, but it’s not always present. A security guard in Greece was testing out his new semi-pro 3 chip camera and on a series of nights caught what are some of the clearest videos of UFO’s. Run it up to about 4:30 and you’ll see what I mean:
Last but certainly not least, the famous “Phoenix Lights” event witnessed by 1,000’s including Fife Symington, former GOP gov of AZ who initially tried debunking the sighting and made fun of it, then later realized his mistake and apologized:
The truth about UFOs is our nation’s greatest secret, and a lot of the black budget projects stem from alien technology, which is why the Pentagon can’t account for Trillions of our tax dollars. Of course someone in government “knows” where these funds are flowing, but it’s on a need-to-know basis. If you really want to educate yourself on how all this ties together I highly recommend “UFO’s and the National Security State” by historian Rich Dolan. As he says, it’s no longer a question of “do they exist” it’s more a question of why are they here and what are their intentions.
Look, it wasn’t aliens, it was Joos pretending to be them. Joos saved the world!
Who the fuck saved the world in the movie Independence Day. It was a Joo. I rest my case.
Maybe aliens brought down Building 7?
Just askin’ ….
Attention, earthlings, your data tech is quite impressive, while we did not have telemetry to your dish antenna, he tracked us like Billy hunting gophers.
I knew El Butt Hurt was a female alien.
Are you stalking me, dangling participle?
Look, you dickless chihuahua, I only asked because La Mags said unequivocally that you were sporting a fold out book. I didn’t even want to use the female pronoun in reference to you. Ugh. I need to take a bath, I feel so dirty now, knowing I was friends with a fem.
El Taco- I once had a year long dust up/ bleed out with a poster. HE DID NOT WIN. Don’t blame Maggie as you started it.
Peace pipe or bleed out, your choice. Clue, you will not win.
Dang. I never win anyway. Really I don’t understand your beef. I could go back and re-read everything but I suspect you got mad because I said you had joined the prudes, Westy got mad as well but he got over it.
Look at my friend Billy if you want to know how to get over shit, you just ignore it, I don’t have the energy to fight over a whole year. Fuck it. I tried.