James McDivitt
"At one stage we even thought it might be necessary to take evasive action to
avoid a collision." James McDivitt commenting on an orbital encounter he and Ed White had with a
"weird object" with arm-like extensions which approached their capsule. Later in
the flight they saw two similar objects over the Caribbean.
Edgar D. Mitchell
"We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from?" From a statement in 1971
"I've talked with people
of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their
stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the public. And that
got my attention very, very rapidly.... The first hand experiences of these
credible witnesses that, now in advanced years are anxious to tell their story,
we can't deny that, and the evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real
incident, and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was
recovered from that crash site."
"The U.S. Government
hasn't maintained secrecy regarding UFOs It's been leaking out all over the
place. But the way it's been handled is by denial, by denying the truth of the
documents that have leaked. By attempting to show them as fraudulent, as bogus
of some sort. There has been a very large disinformation and misinformation
effort around this whole area. And one must wonder, how better to hide something
out in the open than just to say, 'It isn't there. You're deceiving yourself if
you think this is true.' And yet, there it is right in front of you. So it's a
disinformation effort that's concerning here, not the fact that they have kept
the secret. They haven't kept it. It's been getting out into the public for
fifty years or more."
"I have been over the
years very skeptical like many others. But in the last ten years or so, I have
known the late Dr. Alan Hynek, who I highly admire. I know and currently work
with Dr. Jacques Vallee. I've come to realize that the evidence is building up
to make this a valid and researchable question. Further, because my personal
motivation has always been to understand our universe better, and my own
theoretical work has convinced me that life is everywhere in the universe that
has been permitted to evolve, I consider this a very timely question... By
becoming more involved with the serious research field, I've seen the evidence
mount towards the truth of these matters. I rely upon the testimony of contacts
that I have had - old timers - who were involved in official positions in
government and intelligence and military over the last 50 years. We cannot say
that today's government is really covering it up - I think that most of them
don't know what is going on anymore than the public..." From an interview with MSN 1998.
"The evidence
points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and that indeed an alien
craft did crash and that material was recovered from that crash site," says
Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
Mitchell doesn't say he's seen a UFO. But he says he's met with high-ranking
military officers who admitted involvement with alien technology and hardware.
Captain Mitchell was an Apollo 14 Astronaut.
Storey Musgrove
"Statistically it's a certainty there are
hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe
they're so advanced they're even doing interstellar travel. I believe it's
possible they even came here."
"I try to communicate with the life that's
out there. I'm serious. It is not that far out. When I'm circling around out
there, I try in whatever ways I can to get them to come down here and get me."
The Houston Post, December 1, 1993. Story
Musgrave was the Space Shuttle astronaut who flew on the repair mission of the
Hubble Space Telescope.
Dr. Brian O'leary
"We have contact with alien cultures."
Major General Pavel Popovich
"Today it can be stated with a high degree of
confidence that observed manifestations of UFOs are no longer confined to the
modern picture of the world... The historical evidence of the phenomenon...
allows us to hypothesize that ever since mankind has been co-existing with this
extraordinary substance, it has manifested a high level of intelligence and
technology. The UFO sightings have become the constant component of human
activity and require a serious global study... The scientific study of the UFO
phenomenon should take place in the midst of other sciences dealing with man and
the world." Popovich, P., MUFON 1992 International
Symposium Proceedings.
"The influence the UFO has on people, as well
as the effects it produces, should become the items of special research. The
UFO's interaction with the environment, the behavior that it motivates, and its
genesis, also present interesting areas for concentrated study. Today, many
specialists have come to the opinion that [UFO] phenomenon research should be
taken up along with understanding and comprehension of other unexplained
phenomena... The development of new approaches for the identification and study
of energy and information processes will allow for an enthusiastic move toward
the comprehension of the phenomenon. The results of these studies should aid the
survival of the people on earth...
"It's necessary to carry out the popular
ufological enlightenment, since the probability for a meeting of a person with a
UFO exists, and this person should be ready for this event. Precautionary
measures are especially important. It's necessary to tell the truth, which has
been distorted previously by the politically engaged sciences and most recently
by ufological dilettantes. The main purpose of the primary local groups, that of
controlling the ufological situation, mustn't be forgotten. The ufologists
should know all the UFO's landing places and contacts in their regions. They
should have relations with the local authorities, and in particular, with the
police, the civil defense bodies, as well as information, scientific, and
medical organizations."
Popovich, P., "Ufology in the Commonwealth of
Independent States: Organization Problems," in the MUFON 1992 International UFO
Symposium Proceedings. Major General Popovich was a pioneer Cosmonaut, "Hero of
the Soviet Union", and President of All-Union Ufology Association of the
Commonwealth of Independent States.
Donald Slayton
"I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was
at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object
was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high. As I got closer
it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as
soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It
looked like a saucer, a disk. About the same time, I realized that it was
suddenly going way from me-and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour.
I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took
off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just
flat disappeared." Donald Slayton, Mercury astronaut, in a 1951 interview.
Joseph Albert Walker
"I don't feel like speculating about them. All I know is what appeared on the
film which was developed after the flight."
Joseph Walker from May 11, 1962 commenting during a lecture at the Second
National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space Research in Seattle,
Washington after he had filmed five or six UFOs, (he stated one his tasks was to
detect UFOs), during his record breaking fifty-mile-high flight in April, 1962
while piloting an X-15.
Major Robert White
"There ARE things out there! There absolutely is!" White exclaiming over the radio about a UFO encounter taking place on a 58
mile high X-15 flight onJuly 17, 1962.
"I have no idea
what it could be. It was greyish in color and about thirty to forty feet away."
Major Robert White, on July 17, 1962
during his fifty-eight-mile high flight of an X-15. Al Worden "And a literal translation
describes very clearly a spacecraft with the ability to land vertically and
take-off vertically, and it was an object that looked very much like the Lunar
Module that we used on the Moon; and if it's going to land vertically and
take-off vertically, it had to come from some place and go back some place." Worden discussed his views that Earth was
probably visited in the past by extraterrestrial explorers. He began by
commenting on the well known "UFO interpretation" of the vision of the prophet
Ezekiel in the Bible.
"In my mind the universe has to be cyclic, so
that in one galaxy if there is a planet maybe that has arrived at the point of
becoming unlivable, you will find in another part of a different galaxy a planet
that has just formed which is perfect for habitation. I see some kind of
intelligent being, like us, skipping around the universe from planet to planet
as, let's say, the South Pacific Indians do on the islands, where they skip from
island to island. When the first island blows up due to a volcano, they will
have their progeny on all these other islands and they will be able to continue
the species. I think that's what the [alien] space program is all about.
"I think we may be a combination of creatures
that were living here on Earth some time in the past, and having a visitation,
if you will, by creatures from somewhere else in the universe, and those two
species getting together and having progeny. I am not at all convinced that we
are not the result of that particular union some many thousands of years ago. If
that is the case in fact, a very small group of explorers could land on a planet
and create successors to themselves that would eventually take up the pursuit
of, let's say, inhabiting the rest of the universe." Excerpts from his interview in the
documentary "The Other Side of the Moon," produced by Michael G. Lemle, and
broadcast by PBS in July 1989. Al Worden was an Apollo 15 astronaut who later
became a poet.
Unidentified Cosmonauts
Female Cosmonaut: "I'll take it and hold it
with my right hand. Look out the peephole! I have it!" Male Cosmonaut: "There is
something! If we do not get out the world will never know about this!" From the final transmission of a pair of
Cosmonauts whose scheduled seven-day mission was interrupted by a malfunction of
unknown origins. This piece of conversation was recorded on February 24, 1961
while they were trying to repair the damage. The two Cosmonauts were never heard
from again. UFO comments by the world's top military leaders
