退役阿坡罗宇航员说，与外星人接触的真相被隐瞒了

这篇新闻报道发表于2008年7月24日的澳大利亚每日电讯报。艾德加·米切尔的揭密发生在英国。全球很多传媒都有报道。之所以在此转载澳大利亚每日电讯报的报道是因为该报算是大一点的报纸。大多主流传媒还是比较忌讳发此类消息的。

艾德加·米切尔是阿波罗14的宇航员。他说外星人访问过地球多次，但六十年来，消息被政府掩盖了。艾德加·米切尔本人并没见过外星人，但消息来源于宇航局见过外星人的人。那些小个子外星人与我们所知的大头大眼的样子差不多。他说，外星人的技术与我们不是差了一点；如果他们有敌意的话，我们现在大概已经不存在了。

美国宇航局对艾德加·米切尔的回应是：“宇航局并没有跟踪UFO；宇航局也没有掩盖如何外星人生活在地球上或宇宙其他地方的事。米切尔博士是一个伟大的美国人，但在这点上我们不同意他的观点。”

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Alien contact covered up, says Apollo veteran Edgar Mitchell

FORMER NASA astronaut and moonwalker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens do exist.

And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.

Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.'

He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.

Chillingly, 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".

Dr Mitchell, along with with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.

"I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real," Dr Mitchell said.

"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."

Dr Mitchell, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics claimed Roswell was real and similar alien visits continue to be investigated.

He told the astonished Kerrang! radio host Nick Margerrison: "This is really starting to open up. I think we're headed for real disclosure and some serious organisations are moving in that direction."

Mr Margerrison said: "I thought I'd stumbled on some sort of astronaut humour but he was absolutely serious that aliens are definitely out there and there's no debating it."

Officials from NASA, however, were quick to play the comments down.

In a statement, 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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