Edgar Mitchell: “Our destiny … is to become a part of the planetary community.”
April 21st, 2009I have no idea what to make out of this. What do you think?
Loading ...Via: CNN:
Earth Day may fall later this week, but as far as former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell and other UFO enthusiasts are concerned, the real story is happening elsewhere.
Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, asserted Monday that extraterrestrial life exists, and that the truth is being concealed by the U.S. and other governments.
He delivered his remarks during an appearance at the National Press Club following the conclusion of the fifth annual X-Conference, a meeting of UFO activists and researchers studying the possibility of alien life forms.
Mankind has long wondered if we’re “alone in the universe. [But] only in our period do we really have evidence. No, we’re not alone,” Mitchell said.
“Our destiny, in my opinion, and we might as well get started with it, is [to] become a part of the planetary community. … We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.”
Mitchell grew up in Roswell, New Mexico, which some UFO believers maintain was the site of a UFO crash in 1947. He said residents of his hometown “had been hushed and told not to talk about their experience by military authorities.” They had been warned of “dire consequences” if they did so.
But, he claimed, they “didn’t want to go to the grave with their story. They wanted to tell somebody reliable. And being a local boy and having been to the moon, they considered me reliable enough to whisper in my ear their particular story.”
Roughly 10 years ago, Mitchell claimed, he was finally given an appointment at Pentagon to discuss what he had been told.
An unnamed admiral working for the Joint Chiefs of Staff promised to uncover the truth behind the Roswell story, Mitchell said. The stories of a UFO crash “were confirmed,” but the admiral was then denied access when he “tried to get into the inner workings of that process.”
The same admiral, Mitchell claimed, now denies the story.
“I urge those who are doubtful: Read the books, read the lore, start to understand what has really been going on. Because there really is no doubt we are being visited,” he said.
“The universe that we live in is much more wondrous, exciting, complex and far-reaching than we were ever able to know up to this point in time.”
A NASA spokesman denied any cover-up.
He has been saying this stuff for years and I’ve been following- he is sincere.
Look into his very futuristic Institute of Noetic sciences- they are up on all the future shit.
When he made these statements last summer to a British Radio Host and they made headlines around the world- Nasa’s Clark McClelland stepped up to the plate to back him by stating that he once witnessed a nine foot tall ET talking with an astronaut on one of the shuttle platforms.
P.S. There are at least 3 other NASA astronauts who have come clean on the ET issue.
Mitchell, IMHO, is a longtime fruitcake with an active imagination. Consider: he conducted personal ESP experiments during his Apollo 14 mission, encourages people to “read the lore” as a means of understanding the UFO phenom, and, according to wiki, believes “a teenage remote healer who lives in Vancouver and uses the pseudonym Adam Dreamhealer [lol] helped him heal of kidney cancer at a distance.” Please.
No doubt NASA is happy about it, though. NASA must have known of his fruitcake leanings when he was in the space program, and they may have been an influence on his selection for Apollo.
This guy pretty much defines ‘Sincere, but unknowingly spreading disinformation’
I saw this guy in In the Shadow of the Moon. The bit at the end where he goes on about his moonride epiphany (being “one with creation, or whatever it was) helped convince me that he’s just a harmless flake (it was the ESP experiment nonsense that clinched it). I suspect this stuff is his substitute for religion (and face it, folks, UFOolgy is just more effing religion).
That’s a good movie, by the way, makes a great double feature with For All Mankind.
when will they figure out theirs other intelligent life right here on earth?
Since the universe is virtually infinite and since one frequently reads mainstream stories about discoveries of cellular life on Mars, and a probably abundance of life-bearing planets, there probably is intelligent extra-terrestrial life.
Whether it comes to Earth or not is another story.
There have been plenty of intricate hoaxes, no doubt.
One thing seems probable; we could probably expect the thugs who pretend to govern us to lie about an ETs that do come to Earth.
This guys sounds like a disinformation artist. What does say? Nothing except for vague pronouncements. We’ve been hearing vague pronouncements for years now, and that goes double if you’re in some religious cult. The point is to keep people a captive audience, waiting with baited breath for the next little crumb to be thrown out.
I love reading how the UFOlogists constantly fawn all over the ex-mil/intel types begging to be lied to and fucked with. Its like looking at a bunch 12-year olds begging to hang out with their older brothers who happen to have cars and access to booze.
@remrof and skeevie,
No doubt the entire UFO phenomenom as experienced by Mitchell can easily be catagorized as a person with ” an active imagination,” or that his experiences are a “substitute for religion.”
I can’t imagine what I would say if I encountered an alien being, no matter how tall they were, and whether I would relay my experience to another person for fear of being categorized as a whack-a-zoid.
Or for that matter, how my belief system would have been shaped if I grew up in Roswell, NM.
I compare believing in UFO’s with my Catholic upbringing. I was taught that Christ died on the cross, and rose from the dead on the third day. (I had to imagine and then BELIEVE this scenario because I wasn’t a first hand witness). I was then taught that I was going to a place called HELL if I didn’t believe what the Catholic church taught me (and I had to imagine what hell was as well). The whole Catholic imagination thing got pretty hard for me to hold fast to as I got older. I still believe in the Christ, but the rest of it as it concerns the church and what they want me to imagine the scenario re the meaning of our lives are about, is something I tossed off about 30 years ago. Not without sorrow. I felt sad for the little girl in my life who suffered all those poundings about not being “good,” e.g. not believing what I was told to.
I have only in the last few years come to hold more faith in the fact that there are sentient beings from other planets (also an belief that requires imagination). I for one enjoy that this is associated with having an active imagination that isn’t tainted by the thoughts of the aliens being pedophiles, that history about ET’s has only currently ( in the last 100 years being overwritten with lies and falsehoods) and that someone like Mitchell hasn’t yet been crucified by his peers by those of us in the blogosphere for xpressing his experience. @ltcolonemo- Yep – it is highly probable that the thugs who pretend to rule us (or think they do) lie about ETS that do come to earth. D’ya think they would lie to us?
Yah. Read re Forrestal. He committed “suicide” just after he did not want to go along with the government story that there were no ETs.
whether knowingly or not, i must consider this disinformation considering the source (=cnn)
@ remroff
Was Mitchell a ‘fruitcake’ when he got his Phd. from MIT? Was he a fruitcake when he became a captain in the NAVY or flew the lunar module- or walked on the moon?
Are SRI and Princenton anomly research fruitcake organizations that have spent decades refining psycho-technology?
You do know that at least 10 other NASA employees several being astronauts have whislteblown regarding the ET situation right…
I guess everyone is a fruitcake unless the MSN says otherwies. Kevin- you need to get emoticons because I wanted to pump in about 30 eyerolls right *HERE
@es
I would venture to call your line of reasoning faulty only because CNN isn’t really the source. Edgar has been saying these things for many many years.
Unintentional fraud is out of the question because he goes into many allegedly factual details; he’s either lying or telling the truth. I say it’s intentional disinformation; you don’t get to be a NASA astronaut and have his biography and continuing relations with power and the media, if you’re a “fruit-cake.” Look at all the shit on the internet trying to suck you in, divert you and render you politically inert: the reptiles, the stupid “Rense” pictures of “obvious” pieces of wood on Mars, etc. etc. Go away asshole, I’m trying to keep my neighborhood from turning into a warlord controlled wasteland, and the socity into a totalitarian plantation, prisoncamp. I don’t time for this shit.
I posted the video yesterday on my blog and got a good comment from Kenny at Kenny’s Sideshow. This is what he said:
Rockefeller Initiative, Clintons…..hmmm
I suppose if Obama or Sarkozy reveals ET’s presence there will be only be one thing to do. We must unite as one world, under one government, using a global currency and build a world security system just in case some ET want to start some shit.
This would be way too big for a bunch of squabbling nations to handle. We would need one voice, one heart, one brave leader to speak for the world. A messiah to lead us into the promised land of the galaxies and tell us all what to do.
Knowing that we are not alone would cast doubts about current religions. I think we should have a new universal religion to embrace our new found neighbors and show world unity and peace.
Tithing required.
We can reach out to the ET’s and become a popular tourist stop in their travels. Of course we may have to reduce our population by a few billion and clean up the place a little. No tourist wants to stay in a slum.
This new revelation would be just what we need. A new world….
I feel better already.
🙂
http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/main.html
Look into the current Gary Mckinnon case- the hacker that got into some pentagon/nasa computers and is being extradited to the US for prosecution.
The coolest part about what he found is NEVER in the news reports- he found lists of officers in an ‘off world transfers’ list- pretty dope imo.
@realitydesign
Mckinnon found a roster of a officers for space-based military unit.
It’s an open secret that space is militarized and/or being increasingly militarized.
If someone actually has knowledge of ETs visiting Earth, then wouldn’t they take the time to gather detailed information, and then put it together into a comprehensive package, like a text-book? Said material would be like reading a detailed history or fact-book about a given subject, it would contain scores of vocabulary words pertaining to the ET race, going into detail about their technology, their ideologies, their home-world, etc. If one reads good science/speculative fiction, one often finds more convincing depictions of aliens than when reads materials disseminated by UFOlogists, who often talk about aliens who originated from gaseous planets and who all suspiciously resemble hollywood cliches.
@itcolonelnemo
Such information no doubt exists but is highly comparmentalized and no one has the full story because the full story is labrinthine like for example earth’s geopolitics. Various groups like the Navy, Airforce, CIA, and guru corporations all have fragments. There is competition among them as well so they probably only share information when necassary.
There are likely between 20 and 50 races that have engaged earth since they started trying to keep track. Apparently many are in fact humanoid and look just like us.
Gary didn’t find anything detailed or if he did he isn’t talking about it. But ‘off world ship transfer officers’ is enough for me. It corroborates what scores of other insiders have leaked.
How do you tell an alien abduction from a military abduction (MILAB)?
During a Milab you’ll spot some dude in the background sipping coffee! lol