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Apollo 14 Astronaut Claims Government UFO Cover-Up

by Tim Stevens on July 25, 2008 at 12:54 AM

Apollo 14 Astronaut Claims Government Alien CoverupDo aliens exist? Most scientists will tell you that it's hard to imagine there not being life somewhere out there, given the vastness of the universe. The more controversial question is whether that alien life is coming to visit us here. According to Dr. Edgar Mitchell, astronaut aboard the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon, not only has alien life been here to Earth, but our government is covering it up.

The 77-year-old Mitchell participated in the longest moon walk in history, over nine hours back in 1971. In a recent radio interview he made some startling claims. "I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet," he said, "and the UFO phenomena is real." He goes on to make some claims about our government's handling of the situation that sound right out of an 'X-Files' episode:
It's been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it's leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it. I've been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes - we have been visited. Reading the papers recently, it's been happening quite a bit
That's quite a claim, and from quite a reputable source, but is it enough? Plenty have been spotted around the world and there's no shortage of believers, but we're thinking it'll still take more than this to convince skeptics. [Source: NEWS.com.au]


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