UFOs are real?
Dan Same
Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent
I don't know if I believe in UFOs. I certainly don't believe that governments are covering up the existence of UFOs, especially since it's pretty hard for more than one person to keep a secret, 
but I found this article interesting. It may be significant or it may be utterly meaningless. I leave that to you to decide:
We are not alone, claims NASA astronaut Edgar
FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens do exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.
Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.'
He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.
Chillingly, he claimed our technology is "not nearly as sophisticated" as theirs and "had they been hostile", he warned "we would be been gone by now".
Dr Mitchell, along with with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.
"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," Dr Mitchell said.
"It's been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it's leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.
"I've been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes - we have been visited. Reading the papers recently, it's been happening quite a bit."
Dr Mitchell, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics claimed Roswell was real and similar alien visits continue to be investigated.
He told the astonished Kerrang! radio host Nick Margerrison: "This is really starting to open up. I think we're headed for real disclosure and some serious organisations are moving in that direction."
Mr Margerrison said: "I thought I'd stumbled on some sort of astronaut humour but he was absolutely serious that aliens are definitely out there and there's no debating it."
Officials from NASA, however, were quick to play the comments down.
In a statement, a spokesman said: "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.
'Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue.'
but I found this article interesting. It may be significant or it may be utterly meaningless. I leave that to you to decide:We are not alone, claims NASA astronaut Edgar
FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens do exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.
Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.'
He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.
Chillingly, he claimed our technology is "not nearly as sophisticated" as theirs and "had they been hostile", he warned "we would be been gone by now".
Dr Mitchell, along with with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.
"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," Dr Mitchell said.
"It's been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it's leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.
"I've been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes - we have been visited. Reading the papers recently, it's been happening quite a bit."
Dr Mitchell, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics claimed Roswell was real and similar alien visits continue to be investigated.
He told the astonished Kerrang! radio host Nick Margerrison: "This is really starting to open up. I think we're headed for real disclosure and some serious organisations are moving in that direction."
Mr Margerrison said: "I thought I'd stumbled on some sort of astronaut humour but he was absolutely serious that aliens are definitely out there and there's no debating it."
Officials from NASA, however, were quick to play the comments down.
In a statement, a spokesman said: "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.
'Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue.'
"He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
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The problem with Mitchell and all the other people who've spouted stories about extra-terrestrial visitations is that for all their rhetoric, they cannot point to one single piece of hard, physical evidence to back up their claims.
From a philosophical point of view, I would hope that we are not the only intelligent life in the cosmos - that would be a sad realization and a tremendously incalculable waste of space. But if and when we're visited by aliens, we'll all know about it (and hopefully, we'll be around afterwards to talk about it).
Stories like this remind me of a comment Arthur C. Clarke when asked about UFO's: "They tell us absolutely nothing about intelligence elsewhere in the universe, but they do prove how rare it is on Earth."
I've seen people like that in Scotland, but they weren't aliens. They were from Dundee.
Yup, definitely from Dundee. They must have been on holiday in the US, he's seen them walking up the street and jumped to the wrong conclusion.
If I'd gone on that mission, I would have come down and totally made stuff up. "Seriously guys, there's a golf course up there. It's only nine holes though." Why wait thirty years to announce you believe in aliens? I suspect the old geezer is on the wind-up and he's sitting in his favourite armchair laughing at NASA having to come out and reject his claims.
As for government cover-ups, well our government isn't capable of doing that. The MoD has apparently had something like 800 computers stolen in recent years. Unless the aliens took the computers. Hmmm. Maybe there is something in this.
The existence of Aliens are another matter though...now that would be considered something tangible. I'd just like to see ONE person show concrete evidence that they saw an alien in a 7-11 buying a Big Gulp or asking the attendant for directions. For alien civilizations to be far more technologically advanced than ours, why would they fear to be seen?
At the same time, I'd like to think that we aren't the absolute hierarchy of existence in such a vast universe- some parts that haven't even been explored yet. That would really be a waste of time IMO.
I also think that everyone who has claimed to have been abducted or chased by spacecraft at one point or another aren't all blowing smoke up our chutes either...
This is one of those subjects, like religion & ghosts, that people will always be divided on. I don't discount any of them but I don't have any proof to sway naysayers either (not enough to satisfy most) . But the possiblities of such things existing for me are at the very least comforting and I'm happy with that.
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