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'We're Not Alone,' Ex-Astronaut Says

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(April 21) -- 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 United States and other governments.
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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."
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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.
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"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."
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A NASA spokesman denied any cover-up.
"NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover-up about alien life on this planet or anywhere else -- period," Michael Cabbage said Monday.
Debates have continued about what happened at Roswell. The U.S. Air Force said in 1994 that wreckage recovered there in 1947 was most likely from a balloon-launched classified government project.
Stephen Bassett, head of the Paradigm Research Group (PRG), which hosted the X-Conference, said that the truth about extraterrestrial life is being suppressed because it is politically explosive.
"There is a third rail [in American politics], and that is the UFO question. It is many magnitudes more radioactive than Social Security ever dreamed to be," Bassett said.
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2009-04-21 09:33:44
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02:28 AMApr 22 2009

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Queenforce

02:26 AMApr 22 2009

DiCoDeXx ---YOU ARE CORRECT. before the 12-21-2012 prophecy shows started, they did have a show yrs ago about the mayans and their sun cycle and they said that there would be a cosmic awareness in the say 5th sun cycle and we either were in it at the time of the show or would be in it around this time. and it was suggested that yes, we would undeniably be encountered with extraterrestrial beings. i haven't seen that show since then, i wish they'd reair it.

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LoveGun0812

02:24 AMApr 22 2009

BENNE841: Actually, if you play the odds, it is much more likely there are other planets with intelligent life than it is that we're alone. I mean seriousy, billions of Stars and billions and billions of planets and you think the chances are slim there's intelligent life out there? You need to watch more shows of space exploration becaue pretty much every scientist believes we will encounter intelligent life some day.

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Gr8bsn

02:23 AMApr 22 2009

If intelligent life exists on other planets (and who is to say that there isn't), then here is something to consider. To even be able to travel to our planet would require technology based in an understanding of physics and engineering beyond what we could even fantasize. According to Einstein, nothing can travel at the speed of light except for light. Even the speed of light wouldn't be fast enough for a practical voyage, intelligent beings would have to find a way to travel at speeds exponentially faster than light. Do you even know what kind of energy this would require? So, if they are this advanced, we are about as interesting to them as worms are to us. If they did have the technology to fly here, I doubt they would crash land or get shot down by Korean War era Mig fighters.

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Queenforce

02:23 AMApr 22 2009

OK, YOU EXPECT ME TO REMEMBER. OTHER SCIENTISTS. THAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH ME WATCHING SHOWS. I CAN'T REMEMBER NAMES OR WHAT SHOW IT WAS IN. I WATCH SO MANY. SORRY FOR THE CAPS, JUST TIRED OF TYPING THE DANG CODES 100 TRILLION TIMES TO THE NTH POWER. PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME THE PURPOSE OF THE STUPID CODE. REALLY?

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Redsoxloverswb

02:23 AMApr 22 2009

"Ladyvenus2:" We don't need your ugly, unintelligent, racist remarks! They have no place in a civilized discussion, so slink back into your bigoted cesspool with them! - That having been said, the fact still remains that our President definitely appears to be an alien: not from another world, but another country. To this day, in spite of his lemming-like followers' and apologists' arguments to the contrary, Obama still refuses to produce an actual birth certificate proving that he was born in the United States and is eligible to be our President. A $750,000,000 campaign fund can certainly buy a key judge or two, along with the few media people who aren't already committed to the Left.

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JasonBelcherhaus

02:23 AMApr 22 2009

a group of people at ohara aiport claimed to have seen ufos flying around,some of them were even air traffic controllers and the government said it was a group hallusenation.how can so many people report incidents like this and be hallucinating?hell I cant even find good acid nomore!!!!

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Rlly294

02:22 AMApr 22 2009

Again, it's possible that there are other civilizations in the Universe, I'm just saying that the odds actually don't favor it. And I like astronomy, and I know human beings are far from perfect, but Carl Sagan always had Earth humans as the most backward moronic imbeciles God ever planted in the Universe, and he always dictated to us that extra-terrestrials were always so enlightened and peaceful, and a zilliion times more intelligent than Einstein, and EVERY extra-terrestrial civilization had technology that makes our space shuttles look like horse-drawn wagons, and our most advanced computers look like wash boards. You'd wonder why aliens would even bother with us from Sagan's description of us.

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Queenforce

02:21 AMApr 22 2009

benne841 ---yeah, ok that's sounds right dark energy. once again obvious i don't know anything about physics, but it doesn't make sense to slow down and then speed up again without something physical causing it like another explosion, i dont' see how dark energy can do that. but going with the big bang theory, why then when it slowed down did it not start to collapse as the theory implies what happened. also, i dont' remember them mentioning any evidence of seeing the universe slowing down.

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Limelightprod

02:21 AMApr 22 2009

Lady Venus, pay no mind to Tinman. He is not the brightest light in this room, he has a real mental problem with his obsession of hate with anyone that is white, it's called, "reverse descrimination". Ignore his ignorant, biased, bigoted raves and rants because of his deep seeded jealosy of anyone who is white. He wouldn't be able to goof off and not work because his free government pay-outs and free foodstamps from the taxes of hard-working white people. If the aliens abducted all the whites, this country would be one big desolate ghetto within weeks.

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