“I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact

that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real,

although it has been covered up by our governments for quite a long time.”

- Edgar Dean Mitchell, Ph.D., retired Apollo 14 Astronaut, on Kerrang! Radio, U. K.

Apollo 14 crew from left: Astronauts Stuart A. Roosa, Alan B. Shepard

and Edgar D. Mitchell, February 1971. Photograph courtesy NASA.

July 25, 2008  West Midlands, U. K.  - In the West Midlands of the United Kingdom this week, Nick Margerrison, host of Kerrang! Radio's The Night Before Team, interviewed retired 78-year-old Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Ph.D., who earned his Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His biography includes these facts: Edgar Dean Mitchell was born September 17, 1930. As the lunar module pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours on February 9, 1971 moonwalking on the lunar Fra Mauro formation, making him the sixth man to walk on the Moon.

Panoramic assembly of the Apollo 14 lander at the Fra Mauro landing site

on February 9, 1971, assembled by Mike Constantine of moonpans.com

Wikipedia reports, “Edgar Mitchell was born in Hereford, Texas. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial management from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1952. The following year he joined the U.S. Navy where he trained as a pilot and flew off the aircraft carriers USS Bon Homme Richard and USS Ticonderoga. Later, he qualified as a research pilot and taught at the Navy's research pilot school. While in the Navy, he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“Mitchell was selected to be an astronaut in 1966 and was seconded from the Navy to NASA. He was backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 10 and flew as lunar module pilot on Apollo 14. Together, with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, he holds the record for the longest ever moonwalking session (9 hours and 17 minutes). Apollo 14 was his only spaceflight. Ed Mitchell remained with NASA until he retired from the Navy in 1972.”

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Ph.D., looks at traverse map during Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA)

on the moon during Apollo 14 crew exploration on February 9, 1971.

Lunar image courtesy NASA.

Kerrang! Radio 105.2  

is broadcast in the West Midlands, U. K.

Kerrang! Radio Host Margerrison was surprised during the radio interview when Dr. Mitchell confidently stated he knows there is other life in the universe, that some visits Earth and that he has been briefed along with others by U. S. government insiders who keep the truth from the public and media.

Entire Transcript of Edgar Mitchell on Kerrang! Radio: 

Copyright © 2008 by Bauer Radio, Kerrang! Radio and MediaSpan.

“Margerrison:  DO YOU BELIEVE IN LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS?

Edgar Mitchell:  Oh, yes. There is not much question at all, but there is life throughout the universe. We’re not alone in the universe at all.

Margerrison:  YOU’RE CONVINCED WE’RE NOT ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?

Mitchell:  Oh, I know for sure we’re not alone in the universe. Now, have we been able to identify for sure where the other (inhabited) planets are? No, we haven’t, certainly not in our solar system. But they have identified quite a number of planets now that very likely could be life-bearing planets.

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real, although it has been covered up by our governments for quite a long time.

Margerrison:  WHOA! WELL, HANG ON A MINUTE. THIS IS BIG. ALL THIS IS QUITE A SHOCK TO ME.

Mitchell:  Well, I’m sorry you haven’t been reading the papers recently. It’s starting to open up quite a bit.

Margerrison:  SO, YOU’RE TELLING ME – THERE’S A LOT OF INFORMATION HERE TO TAKE ON BOARD. HANG ON A MINUTE. LISTEN, I’VE HEARD CRAZY UFO NUTS TELL ME THIS KIND OF THING BEFORE. I’VE NEVER HAD DR. ED MITCHELL, THE SIXTH MAN TO WALK ON THE MOON, A RESPECTED SCIENTIST IN HIS OWN RIGHT, ANNOUNCE TO ME THAT WE’VE BEEN VISITED BY ALIENS FROM OTHER PLANETS AND THAT THEY DEFINITELY ARE OUT THERE. THERE IS NO DEBATING IT.

Mitchell:  Well, this is the first time you’ve ever talked to me, or I would have told you about it before.

Margerrison:  (laughs)  SO YOU BELIEVE THE WHOLE DEAL?

Mitchell:  There’s more nonsense out there about this than there is real knowledge, but it is a real phenomenon and there are a few of us (who know). It’s been covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so. But slowly it’s leaked out and some of us are privileged to have been briefed on some of it. I happen to have grown up in Roswell, New Mexico, where presumably the Roswell incident of 1947 took place and I’m quite knowledgeable about it there since I grew up there. But I’ve also been in military circles and intelligence circles that know below the surface of what has been public knowledge that, yes, we have been visited.

Margerrison:  AND YOU’RE SERIOUS? YOU’RE NOT GOING TO GO, ‘I WAS JUST PULLING YOUR LEG ABOUT THAT?’ THAT IT’S NOT TRUE? I’M WONDERING IF I’VE STUMBLED UPON ASTRONAUT HUMOR AND IN A COUPLE OF MINUTES YOU’RE GOING TO GO, ‘I WAS ONLY PULLING YOUR LEG’?

Mitchell:  No, I won’t do that.

Margerrison:  WOW! SO YOU’VE BEEN BRIEFED ON THE FACT THAT WE’VE BEEN VISITED?

Mitchell:  Well, briefed is one word for it. I have been involved in much of this work – it’s not my main work. It’s not my main interest. But I’ve been deeply involved in certain committees and research programs with very credible scientists and various intelligence people that do know the real inside story and I am not hesitant to talk about it.

Margerrison:  WHAT IS THE REAL INSIDE STORY?

Mitchell:  That’s what I’m telling you: we have been visited.

Margerrison:  IS IT REGULAR CONTACT? OR ONE CRASH? OR?

Mitchell:  Well, no, there is quite a bit of contact going on. I can’t tell you because I don’t know all the extent of it, not all of the inside details because that is not my really main interest.

But the fact that we have been visited, that the (July 1947) Roswell crash is real and a number of other contacts have been real and ongoing is pretty well known to those of us who have been briefed and been close to the subject matter.

Margerrison:  SO, WHY IS IT BEING COVERED UP THEN?  WHY IS IT NOT MAINSTREAM?

Mitchell:  The reason for that goes back to when the main instances started taking place after World War II when in the United States at least – I can’t speak for the European governments or South American governments. All of them recently have started opening their files. This has started to open up and the internet, or look at some of the international press, you’ll start to get the stories that are coming out now.

Margerrison:  BUT I’VE HAD PEOPLE ON THE SHOW TELLING ME THAT GOVERNMENTS ARE MOUNTING TOWARDS DISCLOSURE, TOWARDS SAYING THIS IS THE CASE. DO YOU THINK IT WILL BE THE CASE THAT THERE WILL BE AN ACTUAL DISCLOSURE ON THIS MAYBE THIS YEAR. THAT THE GOVERNMENTS …

Mitchell:  I don’t know whether it will be this year in the United States, but certainly we’ve already had it in the last few years from the Belgium government, from the French government, from the Brazilian government, the Mexican government – they’ve opened their (UFO) files and admitted they had the files.

Margerrison:  OK, LET ME GET MY HEAD TOGETHER. LISTEN, HERE’S WHAT I KNOW. I’VE HAD PEOPLE ON THE SHOW TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS SAID THAT BELIEF IN LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS DOES NOT COMPROMISE YOUR CATHOLICISM.

Mitchell:  Of course, that just happened recently in association, I believe, with a major release from the British government of some of the British files. They were not your deepest files, but they were some files released.

Margerrison:  WHAT’S HAPPENING OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS –ALL OF THE UFO FILES HERE IN THE U. K. ARE BEING RELEASED. DO YOU THINK IT’S THE CASE THAT WE ARE RAMPING UP TO MAYBE THE U. K. ADMITTING?

Mitchell:  I can’t say how fast it’s going to happen, but certainly the public awareness of it is increasing, the public acceptance is increasing. The amount of misinformation, covert and actual attempts to cover up seem to be decreasing. I think we’re headed for real disclosure by some serious organizations moving in that direction.

Margerrison:  YOU’VE HAD A LONG TIME TO THINK ABOUT THIS. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE IMPACT WILL BE ON THE WORLD WHEN IT IS FINALLY MAINSTREAM NEWS THAT THERE ARE ALIEN BEINGS FROM OUTSIDE THIS PLANET?

Mitchell:  Well, I think at this point, it’s probably a whole bunch of ‘What’s new?’ I think that certainly in the United States that well over 70% of the people now accept this as fact. While they do not know all the correct story, they do know there has been – or accept the fact – that there has been visitation and see UFOs in the skies all the time that are very likely alien craft. Now, not all of them (aerial craft) are. I suspect that some of them are homegrown. I suspect that in the past sixty years or so that there has been some back-engineering (of E. T. technologies) and the creation of this type of equipment. But it’s not nearly as sophisticated yet as what the visitors have.

Margerrison:  SO, AS PART OF YOUR KNOWING ABOUT ALL THIS AND ALSO GOING PUBLIC WITH IT, DO YOU WORRY ABOUT YOUR SAFETY WITH THIS KIND OF STUFF? OR …

Mitchell:  Oh, I think those days are gone. That used to be a concern among the people on the inside. But I don’t think they are knocking anybody off (for talking) any more or doing drastic things to them.

Margerrison:  WHAT DO YOU THINK THE INTENT OF THE ALIENS IS? IS IT HOSTILE OR PEACEFUL?

Not at all, it’s not hostile. It’s pretty obvious that if it were hostile, we would have been gone by now.

Margerrison:  (laughs) REALLY?!

Mitchell:  We could have been (gone by now).

Margerrison:  WOW!

Mitchell:  We would have no defense if that’s what their real intent was.

Margerrison:  ARE WE TALKING – WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE?

Mitchell:  You’ve seen some of the pictures. The pictures that I know of, some of them are these little people that look strange to us. As far as I know from my (professional) contacts that have had contact, that’s pretty accurate.

Margerrison:  DO YOU THINK OTHER PEOPLE WHO WERE INVOLVED WITH THE MOON LANDINGS KNOW ABOUT THIS?

Mitchell:  Some of them do. But again, like other people, if you are interested enough to dig into it and want to know about it, you can know about it.

(Cell phone musical sound)

Margerrison:  LISTEN, I KNOW YOU ARE A BUSY GUY AND I HEAR YOUR PHONE.

Mitchell:  Yes, people don’t leave me alone. The phone is ringing all the time and I’m here by myself.

Margerrison:  THIS IS EASILY ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONVERSATIONS OF MY LIFE – UNBELIEVABLE! I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.”

Mitchell:  You bet.

Margerrison:  AND DR. ED MITCHELL, LISTEN – YOU’RE A FRIEND OF THE SHOW, IF YOU WANT TO ACCEPT THAT FRIENDSHIP, AND WOW! WHAT AN INCREDIBLE CONVERSATION. THANKS FOR JOINING US.

Mitchell:  I’m glad you enjoyed it.”

Kerrang! Radio reported at its website:

“Producer Alex contacted NASA to confirm Dr. Mitchell's story, this was their reply:

‘Dear Alex,

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 opinion on this issue.

Thanks for the opportunity to comment.’”

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