"Aliens Are Here to Save Us From Nuclear War" Claims Edgar Mitchell

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"Aliens Are Here to Save Us From Nuclear War" Claims Edgar Mitchell

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The sixth man to walk on the surface of the moon has made the astonishing
claim that aliens came to Earth to stop a nuclear war between America and
Russia.
Edgar Mitchell, a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, told Mirror
Online that top-ranking military sources spotted UFOs during weapons tests.
The astronaut has been outspoken about his belief in aliens ever since he
landed on the surface of the moon, becoming one of the most prominent
figures in the worldwide UFO community.
He told us military insiders had seen strange crafts flying over missile
bases and the famous White Sands facility, where the world's first ever
nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945.
Mitchell grew up in New Mexico near both the bomb testing zone and Roswell,
where believers think one of the world's most famous UFO encounters took
place.
"You don't know the area like I do," he said in an interview with Mirror
Online.
"White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons - and that's what the
extraterrestrials were interested in.
"They wanted to know about our military capabilities.
"My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been
attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth."
Mitchell also suggested he had heard similar stories from people who manned
missile bases during the most tense parts of the 20th century.
"I have spoken to many Air Force officers who worked at these silos during
the Cold War," he continued.
"They told me UFOs were frequently seen overhead and often disabled their
missiles.
"Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test]
missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft.
"There was a lot of activity in those days."
We asked Nick Pope, a former Ministry of Defence UFO researcher, whether he
believed Mitchell's claims.
"Edgar Mitchell is an honourable and truthful man, who I've had the
privilege of meeting," he said.
"But so far as I'm aware, most of his information on this issue comes not
from things he's experienced himself, but from things he's been told by
others.
"Clearly, because of who he is, he's had access to government, military and
intelligence community personnel at the highest level, but because - quite
understandably - he won't name his sources, we can't be certain these people
were being straight with him, or indeed that they were privy to any
classified information about UFOs."
Pope said the "idea that peace-loving extraterrestrials are here to warn
humanity about our destructive ways" is popular with those who take a New
Age view of the UFO phenomenon.
"It's a nice thought, but if I'm being sceptical, I'd point out that it's
almost exactly the plot of the classic 1951 sci-fi movie The Day the Earth
Stood Still," he continued.
"There have certainly been some intriguing UFO sightings around nuclear
facilities, and around military bases more generally, but an alternative
explanation is that some of these sightings are attributable to espionage
activity involving secret spy planes or drones.
"Given that the Universe is around 14 billion years old, if we're being
visited, it's unlikely we're dealing with a civilisation just a few hundred
years ahead of us, so stories of aliens managing to disrupt a few of our
weapons tests are far-fetched.
"Chances are they'd be millions of years ahead of us and could do anything
they wanted to."