According to Peter Tremblay of the Canadian National Newspapers, rumors have persisted for years that astronauts may have seen something more on the Moon than just rocks and dust.
According to transcripts of the technical debriefing following the Apollo 11 mission, astronauts Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins told of an encounter with a large cylindrical UFO even before reaching the Moon,” U.S. investigative journalist and researcher Jim Marrs documents Mr. Aldrin further officially presented his encounters with apparent Extraterrestrials on CNN’s Larry King Show.
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Astronauts known to have made public statements about UFOs:
In Gordon Cooper’s own words:
“I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth,” he told a United Nations panel in 1985.
“I feel that we need to have a top-level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the Earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion.”
He added, “For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us.”
In Cooper’s book, written with Bruce Henderson, he relates how he saw his first UFO over Europe in 1951 as an Air Force pilot in West Germany. There, Cooper and his squadron mates were scrambled in their F-86 Sabre jets to intercept what appeared to be several metallic silver and saucer-shaped craft.
Cooper also described an incident at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in which he once looked at film of a crashed UFO in the American Southwest taken in the late 1950s. That film, he writes, was whisked away to the Pentagon never to be seen or heard of again.
Throughout the book, the former astronaut argued for the government to open up its files and come clean about alien visitations and had once testified before the United Nations in 1978 on the topic hoping that the U.N. would become a central repository for accounts of UFO sightings.
“I made the effort to get the U.N. to pick up the ball,” Cooper said at the book signing. “They thought it was a great idea, but they never did anything about it.”
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell - Mitchell has publicly expressed his opinions that he is
“90 per cent sure that many of the thousands of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets” and that UFOs have been the “subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and to create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out.”
Edgar Mitchell’s interests include consciousness and paranormal phenomena. While on the Moon, he is reputed to have conducted private ESP experiments with his friends on Earth. In early 1973, he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences. The aim of the nonprofit Institute is to conduct and sponsor research into areas that mainstream science has ignored, including psychic events. As well as writing academic journals, Mitchell has published Psychic Exploration (ISBN 0-399-11342-8) and the audio-book The Way of the Explorer (ISBN 1-57270-019-X). He is currently the Advisory Board Chairman of the Institute for Cooperation in Space, co-founded by Dr. Carol Rosin.
About Dr. Carol Rosin: Dr. Carol Sue Rosin was born on March 29, 1944 in Wilmington, Delaware and is an award-winning educator, author, leading aerospace executive and space and missile defense consultant. She is a former spokesperson for Wernher von Braun and has consulted to a number of companies, organizations, government departments and the intelligence community. She is the current President of the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) which she co-founded with Alfred Webre. Dr. Rosin has received the support of various prominent individuals such as U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, and Hon. Paul Hellyer, a former Canadian Minister of National Defence. She is also a witness for The Disclosure Project.
Dr. Rosin was the first woman to hold the position of Corporate Manager at Fairchild Industries from 1974 through 1977, where she met the late Dr. Wernher von Braun in early 1974 when von Braun was dying of cancer. According to Rosin’s accounts, Von Braun spent the last years of his life explaining to her his position that space-based weapons are dangerous, destabilizing, too costly, unnecessary, and unworkable, and explaining the available alternatives. He asked Dr. Rosin to be his spokesperson and to appear on occasions when he was too ill to speak. According to Rosin, he also asked her to take on the challenge of promoting the ban of space weapons by educating decision makers and the grassroots about transforming the military industrial complex into a peaceful space exploration industry.
According to Rosin, von Braun also spoke of the existence of “off planet cultures” (extraterrestrials) and government conspiracies to keep the existence of them a secret.
About Wernher von Braun: Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States.
The German scientist, who was pivotal in Germany’s pre-war rocket development program and was responsible for the design and realization of the V-2 combat rocket during World War II, entered the United States at the end of the war through the then-secret Operation Paperclip. Although he had held the honorary SS rank of a Sturmbannführer, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen and worked on the American ICBM program before joining NASA, where he served as director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the United States to the Moon. He is generally regarded as the father of the United States space program. Wernher von Braun received the 1975 National Medal of Science.
Despite all the quotes and evidence above, it comes to mind that out of numerous astronauts who have worked for the US government on NASA space flights, only the few above and maybe two others, if so many, have spoken in public about their belief in the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life. If we do find any more information, we’ll certainly let our readers know.
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