- Comment made by Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon
- He says UFO stories from high-ranking military officials back up claim
- 'Test missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft,' he said
Aliens came to Earth to stop a nuclear war between America and Russia, according the bizarre claim of a former astronaut.
Edgar
Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, says high-ranking military
officials witnessed alien ships during weapons tests throughout the
1940s.
The
UFOs, he says, were spotted hovering over the world's first nuclear
weapons test which took place on July 16, 1945 in the desolate White
Sands deserts of New Mexico.
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Edgar
Mitchell (left), the sixth man to walk on the moon, says high-ranking
military sources witness alien ships hovering during weapons tests. The
UFOs, he says, were seen during the world's first nuclear weapons test
which took place on July 16, 1945 in the desolate White Sands deserts of
New Mexico
The
Nasa veteran has regularly spoken about his belief in aliens ever since
he landed on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 14 mission in
1971.
'White
Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons - and that's what the
extra-terrestrials were interested in,' the 84-year-old Texan told Mirror Online.
'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.'
Dr Mitchell says stories from people who manned missile bases during the 20th Century back up his claims.
![Edgar Mitchell, a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, says stories from people who manned missile bases during the 20th Century back up his claims. 'Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft,' he said](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/08/12/19/2B4F195D00000578-3195416-image-a-6_1439404532904.jpg)
Edgar Mitchell, a veteran of the
Apollo 14 mission in 1971, says stories from people who manned missile
bases during the 20th Century back up his claims. 'Other officers from
bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently
shot down by alien spacecraft,' he said
'Other
officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles
were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft,' he said.
He previously said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.
He
claimed our technology is 'not nearly as sophisticated' as theirs and
'had they been hostile', he warned 'we would be been gone by now'.
Nick
Pope, a former Ministry of Defence UFO researcher, told DailyMail.com
that Dr Mitchell's comments are all based on second-hand reports.
'Even where Mitchell's sources are genuine, how do we know they have access to classified information about UFOs?' asks Pope.
'White Sands was a testing ground for
atomic weapons - and that's what the extra-terrestrials were interested
in,' the 84-year-old told Mirror Online. '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.'
UFO
believers say it's no coincidence that aliens showed up very shortly
after we'd developed atomic weapons and rocket technology, as this is
when they were alerted to the threat we pose to the wider cosmos.
'Ironically,
governments have sometimes secretly promoted belief in UFOs, because if
someone sees a secret prototype aircraft or drone, it's much better to
have it reported as a flying saucer than recognised for what it is,'
said Pope.
'None
of this is to say that there haven't been some genuinely fascinating
and unexplained UFO sightings around nuclear facilities and military
bases, but just because a UFO sighting is unexplained, it doesn't follow
that it's extraterrestrial.'
'In
a final irony, the very conspiracy theorists who believe Edgar Mitchell
when he talks about aliens don't believe him when he talks about his
moon mission, because they think it was all done on a film set.'
This image was taken during the Apollo
14 mission in February 1971 of US astronauts Alan Shepard (left) and
Edgar Mitchell (right). The Apollo XIV mission, the third mission to
land on the moon, was launched on January 31, 1971 and landed on the
moon on February 5, 1971
Dr
Mitchell, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical
engineering and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and
Astronautics also says the Roswell cover up was real.
'This
is really starting to open up,' he told a radio show several years ago.
'I think we're headed for real disclosure and some serious
organisations are moving in that direction.'
Officials from Nasa were quick to play the comments down.
In
a statement at the time, a spokesman said: 'Nasa does not track UFOs.
Nasa is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this
planet or anywhere in the universe.
'Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue.'
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