Hey, Mr. Spaceman: An Interview With Edgar Mitchell

Edgar Mitchell was the sixth person to walk on the moon. He was on the Lunar Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 flight crew, spending a total of 9 hours on the lunar surface, in the Fra Mauro Highlands. He retired from NASA in 1972. In 1973, he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to probe what he considers to be one of the deepest mysteries of the universe — consciousness itself. His book, The Way of the Explorer, published in 2008, explained his life, his missions, and how he was affected by the experience of being in space.

Over the years, numerous articles about Mitchell have claimed all kinds of things — that he saw aliens during his moon mission; that he received a Pentagon briefing about UFOs. (Both are untrue.) But Mitchell does believe in UFOs, for a lot of different reasons, including first hand accounts from several people who told him privately about their personal involvement in the alleged 1947 Roswell cover-up.

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Once again a new interview with Edgar Mitchell, this time by H+. This one focuses primarily on his UFO research, although it mentions a psychic experiment he performed while in space. He explains his interest in UFOs and gives a few anecdotal stories. He also states once again that he has never been briefed on UFOs, nor did he see any UFOs in space.

reply to post by Xcalibur254

Going to the Moon seems to have been the easy part. Very few of those who went seem to have completed the trip back. Armstrong is still in low Earth orbit in a cabin in the woods somewhere, afraid or unwilling to face the rest of humanity. Aldrin and Mitchell went crazy and never properly recovered. Most of them plunged deep into obsessions of one sort or the other. Alan Bean has spent the rest of his life obsessively painting moonscapes.

I think the trouble was that NASA mostly sent test pilots. They had the mental resources and training to cope with the physical dangers of the trip, but sadly not the depth and breath of intellect and understanding to really connect with the experience and realize the full potential of it. People with a real science background, like Jack Schmidt, fared better -- but they were a concession to science and generally obstructed put down by the macho Deke Slayton, who was in charge of who got to fly in the Apollo programme.