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From: Stig Agermose <Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:34:42 +0200
Fwd Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:44:47 -0400
Subject: Aliens Exist - Just Ask The Man On The Moon
Source: The Sunday Times
Stig
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Sunday October 11 1998
WORLD: UNITED STATES
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Lending credence: former astronaut Edgar Mitchell supports claims that
the truth about UFOs has been covered up
Photograph: Nasa
Aliens exist - just ask the man on the moon
by Tom Rhodes
New York
THERE are no little green men on the moon. Edgar Mitchell knows this
because in 1971 he became the sixth man to walk on it. He is positive,
however, that aliens have landed on Earth.
Sharing the podium at a conference in Connecticut yesterday with "alien
abductees" and others who claim to have had contact with unidentified
flying objects (UFOs), the former Nasa astronaut intensified his
campaign to persuade Washington to acknowledge life beyond our skies.
Mitchell argues that life is almost certain to exist on any other
planet with a supportive environment. Some physicists, he points out,
now believe it is possible to travel faster than light, even if humble
earthlings have yet to achieve it.
He is 90% certain that many of the thousands of UFOs recorded since the
1940s belonged to visitors from another planet. Although some have been
delusions and others natural phenonema, too many remain unexplained, he
said. "This suggests there are humanoids manning craft which have
characteristics not in the arsenal of any nation on earth that we know
of. That is very alarming," he said.
It was a startling departure for a scientist who, up to now, has been
wary of appearing with ufologists widely regarded as cranks.
"Until recently I was very cautious about such conferences," Mitchell,
68, admitted before the opening of an annual convention entitled the
UFO Experience. "But now I believe there is sufficient circumstantial
evidence to warrant a scientific understanding in this area."
Mitchell, who holds a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, does not fit easily into the ranks of the UFO fanatics.
Although he acts as a consultant to The X Files, the cult television
series, he is scornful of "disinformation" about aliens and flying
saucers that emanates from the Internet and marginal UFO organisations
in America.
"The notion that there are structures on Mars or the moon is bonkers,"
Mitchell said. "I can certainly attest to the latter - I've been there.
We saw no structures at the landing site and none was reflected in my
helmet, as has been alleged."
Mitchell bases his credo on established cosmology - in which he became
closely involved after gazing at his tiny, distant planet from the
command module of Apollo 14. He felt "an overwhelming sense of
universal connectedness and perceived the universe as in some way
conscious".
In the early 1970s, after leaving Nasa, he founded the Institute of
Noetic Sciences in California. Dedicated to the study of psychic and
spiritual phenomena, it subjected luminaries such as Uri Geller, the
Israeli spoon bender, to scientific scrutiny.
Mitchell says his research - including conversations with people who
have worked in intelligence agencies and military groups - has
convinced him that the American government has covered up the truth
about UFOs for 50 years. He is trying to persuade Congress to grant his
sources immunity to tell "the real story" of events such as the
so-called Roswell incident - the alleged crash of a flying saucer in
New Mexico in 1947.
"Many of these folks were under high-security clearances, they took
oaths and they feel they cannot talk without some form of immunity,"
Mitchell said. "It takes a brave person to come out on something like
this."
A poll by Time magazine last year suggested that 22% of the population
share Mitchell's conviction that other planets have been in contact
with humans; 17% said intelligent life had abducted humans to
experiment on them.
The high level of interest has encouraged other speakers at this
weekend's conference. They include Robert Wood, a retired aerospace
engineer from California, who claims to have new evidence of the
existence of MJ12, a clandestine military unit trained in recovery and
disposal of aliens and their craft.
The true believers could hardly conceal their delight at the former
astronaut's endorsement. Walter Andrus, international director of the
Mutual UFO Network, the largest organisation of its kind in America,
said: "There's no doubt in my mind that Ed Mitchell gives us all
credibility."
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