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Edgar Mitchell: A Flying Saucer Crashed at Roswell

An exclusiv interview with the Apollo about ESP, UFO and MJ 12. The interview was made by UFO-Sweden’s Clas Svahn in November 2005 and first published in Swedish in UFO-Sweden’s magazine UFO-Aktuellt 4/05. Edgar Mitchell died on February 5th 2016, 85 years old. Copyright UFO-Sweden. The Journey to the Changed Ed Mitchell’s Life

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Photo: CLAS SVAHN (left) and NASA (above) Ed Mitchell in front of a copy of the six meter high cliff painting from Tassili in the Sahara desert that has come to be called “The Great Martian God”, here in Mystery Park, Switzerland. The picture above shows Ed Mitchell on the surface of the Moon photographed by . On February 5th 1971 Edgar Mitchell became the sixth human to have set foot on the Moon. His experiences during the space flight came to change his life. Aboard he conducted a telapathic experiment together with Swedish medium Olof Jönsson and after landing on Earth Mitchell decided to explore the unknown abiliti - es of man. UFO-Sweden’s Clas Svahn met the man who was born in Hereford, Texas September 17th 1930 and grow up in Roswell, , for a sex hour conversation about ESP, UFO and his experiences in space.

UFO-Aktuellt 4/05, Box 175, 733 23 SALA 3 “An Alien Spaceship The man sitting opposite me is one of only twelve people to ever have walked the surface of the moon. Not only that, he’s also certain that a top-secret American organization is co-operating with extraterrestrials and that a saucer really did crash in Roswell in July 1947. – If I wasn’t sure I’d never say the things I say.

By Clas Svahn, UFO-Sweden Translated by Stefan Isaksson

ur meeting takes place in the small town of Interlaken, Switzerland, Owhere cows peacefully graze a patch of grass the size of a soccer-field in the middle of the city. What starts out as an half-hour discussion over breakfast at the Hotel Oberland will eventually turn out to be a six hour long talk about everything from journeys to the moon and UFOs to the inner essence of man and the experience Dr Ed Mitchell, here together with Erich von Däniken, explains that not a single one of that came to change the entire adult life of the he knows have seen a real UFO in space. Photo: CLAS SVAHN Ed Mitchell. ous as ever of life and mankind’s role in it. turn every two minutes. The rotation made Ed Mitchell’s maternal grandfather’s Apparently, the spark that was lit onboard the earth, the moon, and the sun visible paternal grandfather was a sea captain and Apollo 14 as it travelled through the through the cabin windows. A 360 degree lived in Stockholm. Mitchell himself grew vacuum of space refuses to go out. panorama of the sky. Wow! To see the up to be a and in time became the earth as nothing but a small planet without sixth man out of a total of twelve to have A feeling of ecstasy borders, being a part of ourselves, was truly ever walked another celestial body. In – As soon as we’d finished our work on the an amazing experience. February, 1971, Mitchell set foot on the moon’s surface and were safely on our way Ed Mitchell’s first really strong experience moon, proclaiming “Man, that was one home my job was more or less finished, Ed took place within an hour after take-off long step” after his jump down to the surfa - says as we sit comfortably in the dining- from the moon. Apollo 14 had left its orbit ce had turned out to be a little longer than room of the hotel. After all, I was responsi- and pilot , commander Alan expected. ble for the lunar module and all scientific Shepard, and Ed Mitchell took the oppor - Edgar Dean Mitchell is an Apollo astro - work that took place on the surface, and tunity to get some rest. “To just sit and naut, with a little more than 216 hours in once we’d begun our journey home I had think”, as Mitchell describes it. space out of which 33 were spent on the time to look out through the windows and – It was when I saw this amazing panora - surface of the moon. He lives in a house get a closer look at what space looked like. ma taking place outside the shuttle that I with five living-rooms and a large library And it was the most amazing sight you experienced some sort of connection with and office in south . This is also could ever imagine. The entire spacecraft my inner cosmos. Actually, it’s really not where he keeps his space-collection. rotated in order for us to keep an even tem - possible to explain it. The insight that we’re – I still have the control I used to land the perature, and in that way we rotated one all connected to the cosmos was followed by lunar module on the moon, the camera we a feeling of ecstasy, of blessing, and of joy. I used and the score cards I kept for our ESP- was able to feel this way several experiments (see separate article). For a long afterwards, the feeling was that strong. time I kept all this stuff in boxes in the attic, – When I returned home I couldn’t stop the basement, and in the closet, but these thinking about what’s really going on inside days I keep them in three separate safes in our heads when you get that kind of feeling the house. just by looking out on a panorama the way I When he’s not at home, Mitchell travels did. I’d experience the same thing that mys - all over the world lecturing, even if his tem - tics had done thousands of years before me, po has been somewhat slower the last few and I realized that every civilization have years. After all, he’s 75 years old, and the asked the same questions: What are we? How did we get here? Where’s everything summer of 2005 he underwent a complica - Isolated after the landing. Roosa, She - going? What is my relationship to cosmos? ted bypass operation. However, he’s as curi - pard and Mitchell takes a look. Photo: NASA

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”I have been on the Moon!” signed by Edgar D Mitchell. The former Apollo 14 astro - naut is used to questions implicating that the moon program was just a fake. Here he gives the conspiracy believers his reply. Photo: CLAS SVAHN Did you tell your fellow astronauts about understand how the human psyche really you experience? works. “So-called experiences – No, at least not right away. It was too are actually perfectly normal experiences deep, too strange… I felt that I had to that take place within ourselves, even within understand it myself first. Only later did I animals”, he says. understand that almost everyone else who’ve – I wanted to understand what had hap - been in space have felt similar things and pened to me onboard Apollo 14. I realized doesn’t mean there has to be something that had similar experiences but interpreted them that paranormal phenomena were indeed designed it. Perhaps information appears differently. Me, I was a scientist, and there - real phenomena and that it would be a great spontaneously out of the vacuum of space, fore I asked myself: What’s going on? Some error not to research them through science. which would make the entire cosmos con - of my colleagues came from a religious back - My own experience gave me no other alter - nected through this information, this quan - ground, and described the whole thing as native. I just had to investigate what they tum holographic information. Every single “looking at the face of God”. I was able to hell had happened to me. part can in this way contain the plan for the see that inbetween our science and their cos - entire universe. mology human existed as Information out of vacuum – However, I don’t believe the universe to some sort of bi product to something else. What Ed Mitchell thinks he’s able to see, be deterministic. We do, after all, have free Anyone who’s had a transcendental experi - after thirty years of research, is how under - will. There are always alternative solutions ence starts looking at things differently. For neath the layers of energy flowing through to be found. A terrible amount of possibiliti - the longest time, we in the West have belie - cosmos strains of information can be found, es that only is limited by quantum physics. ved body and soul to be two separate things, patterns that are ready to be interpreted. It’s But you’re always only able to make one that the physical and the spiritual belong to not a question of signals in the traditional single choice. As a human being it’s not two different aspects of reality. We’ve left sense of the word, but patterns that just as possible to test them all. our consciousness to be dealt with by reli- well can be found within us since man too is – That’s true. In case the world is irrever - gion. But these days, quantum physics has a product of the universe. He calls this a sible then you’re only able to make one sing - begun to teach us how body and soul are quantum hologram, of which parts – just le choice. two aspects of the same reality, and that they like a normal hologram – contains the entire So in one way, the world really is determi - do indeed co-operate. image. So what happens, then, if meaningful nistic, or at least it’s not possible to prove After his trip to the moon Mitchell remai - information was indeed to be found within that it’s not. ned on earth for good, and in 1972 he left ourselves or the strains of energy that are – That’s true, too. Just like you’ll never be NASA. The mind-boggling experience he present throughout the universe? Does that able to prove or refute the existence of God. had in space resulted in him founding the mean there’s an intelligent design behind it And it’s thoughts like these that take up research institute Noetic Science in 1973, all? Ed Mitchell’s time. To try to find the infor - where he still spends much time trying to – Even if we do find the information it NEXT PAGE

UFO-Aktuellt 4/05, Box 175, 733 23 SALA 5 ESP on the Way to the Moon Three before Apollo was to To the left the somewhat damped sheet leave earth, Ed Mitchell decided to with Ed Mitchells notes of his transmis - do a thought-reading experiment sions from Apollo 14 and above the while onboard. This was an experi - three items that allegely tele - ported to Stanford Research Institute in ment that came to draw much front of Ed Mitchell and others. attention when information about Photo (left): “ESP protocol used by astronaut Ed- it was leaked to the media by one gar Mitchell during Apollo 14’s lunar trip” by Fia of the participants, Olof Jönsson, a Backström. Photo (above): Edgar Mitchell. Swede living in Chicago. ten down a number of sequences in his of, the result was one in 12 000. That’s logbook (since he wasn’t allowed to bring even better. By Clas Svahn, UFO-Sweden along the cards), and randomly he started To an outsider, these results might seem Translated by Stefan Isaksson “transmitting” – star, cross, circle, star… difficult to make sense of. Back on earth, During 6–7 minutes he transmitted 25 Olof Jönsson had picked up 150 signs – d Mitchell’s thought-reading experi - symbols to the receivers back on earth. On even though Mitchell only had been able ments ended up in media all over the the fourth day of the journey he found the to transmit 100. Swedish journalist Eugen Eworld. However, the idea behind them time to do it again, shortly before Apollo Semitjov, who’d met both Jönsson and was strictly personal, and if it had been up to entered the moon’s orbit and on the return Mitchell after the landing and gone over all Mitchell himself the tests would never have home he did it twice more. their transmissions, concluded that the test reached the public at all. that had been prepared on earth had an – I did the experiments both on the way The results are put together accuracy of about 30 percent, while the there and on the return trip home, says Ed – Afterwards we sent the results to para- ones done from space were at 37,5 percent. Mitchell. Two of them each way. They psychologist J. B. Rhine and another one If all had been according to chance, Jöns - weren’t planned by NASA. Instead I’d from New York, Karlis Osis, in order to son’s results would have been around 20 developed them myself with assistance control the outcome. This way we were percent. from two friends who were Doctors of able to have two controls, independent of Mitchell’s interest was aroused. Medicine, doctors Boyle and Maxie, who one another. They put together the results I understand you also were impressed were both interested in . It was in two different ways. Partly using the raw with how Uri Geller performed during decided that we should give it a try, and results, and partly considering that I only the experiments you later helped put Jönsson and one more were recrui - “transmitted” on four different occasions, together at Stanford Research Institute ted. while the receivers back on earth assumed (SRI). Two weeks before take-off, Ed Mitchell it to be six. They also noted the fact that – That’s correct. He does what he says spoke to Jönsson for the first time, and we’d been delayed forty minutes at take- he does. I myself witnessed psychokinetic together they did a number of attempts off, something the receivers had never happenings. The experiments that took over the telephone, with Mitchell at Cape taken into consideration. So when these place in the lab were not at all as impressive Kennedy and Jönsson 2 000 kilometres corrections were made we got better as those that took place on the outside. away in Chicago, using the traditional results. The raw results, without correc - Laboratories are always hampering envi - displaying star, wave, cross, tions, gave a scenario that should have hap - ronments to paranormal individuals. The square, and circle. The first attempt was pened once in 3 000 attempts, which was necessary skeptical attitude present in those done on the second day of the journey to damn good. But then when we corrected places has a negative influence on the the moon. Mitchell had beforehand writ - the anomalies the receivers were unaware results. The empathy between two people, mation he believes if hidden within the UFO-related questions that divide the UFO- most sober ufologists have a hard time energy of cosmos. The UFO enigma, on the logists into two different camps, but it’s also taking the whole thing seriously. other hand, is something he merely happe - two questions where Mitchell claims to have – There is an “executive order” signed by ned to come across, and it soon becomes real information from people who were there. president Truman that says this organiza - clear to me as we sit in his austerely fur - It’s his contacts in Pentagon that has con - tion, called Majic 12, is to deal with ques - nished hotel room that the 75-year old for - firmed to Ed Mitchell that a top-secret tions like these. This organization, it turned mer astronaut doesn’t really know a whole cover-up exists, carried out by a group of out, was given more authority that it was lot about UFOs, and probably hasn’t read people not even the president knows about. supposed to get, which was a great mistake. very many books about it. However, two A group that within the UFO community MJ-12 became an organization where exis - things really do concern him: The Roswell goes under the name of MJ-12. To Ed Mit - ting members were able to choose who Incident and MJ-12. In other words, two chell the group is indeed real, even though could join and who couldn’t. They chose to

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ting arrow mounted over a longhorn brought his hand several times over my sheep’s head. I looked at it, held it up high, clenched fist where the ring was before he and said “Gentlemen, this looks just like a asked me to open it. The ring was squeezed part of a tie bar I once had.” It had been in together, and I was unable to put it on! I a small box I lost about one earlier when I never asked him to fix it. was commuting between Houston and Ed Mitchell is convinced that teleporta - Cape Kennedy. We laughed, and the mat - tion and psychokinetic works. Even on hematician started calculating what the macro level. While we’re sitting talking probability was that something like that about this it becomes apparent how he lea - should end up in Uri Geller’s ice-cream ves his analytical abilities in favor of a while we were doing psychokinetic experi - worldview he believes he’s constantly see - ments. ing proofs of. A world where everybody has Uri Geller and Ed Mitchell Stanford – We then returned to the lab, and I was the same inherent powers he believes Uri university in California. Here Geller in the inner lab room in order to prepare Geller has. faced problems with what he called some things for the afternoon’s work while After my return to Sweden I read how “a sceptic atmosphere” that hampe - the others were outside talking. I then Mitchell describes the events at SRI in his red him in getting results in the labo - heard a noise from the floor next to me. I book “The Way of the Explorer”. And ratory. When critical researcher pro - looked out the door just to see what was even if most details are the way he told fessor Russell Targ, did not attend happening, and saw how Harold Puthoff them, one important fact is missing. When Geller’s results improved... bent down in order to pick some-thing the third object appears in the lab, the tie from the floor. “What’s this?”, he said and pin Mitchell was given by his brother, he the resonance that sets in, is crucial to the gave it to me. It turned out to be another told me a flash appeared in the corner of outcome of the experiment. part of the same tie bar. Even the fracture his eye. Strangely enough, this flash is What happened when Geller had left the was the same. Now two of my things had never mentioned in the book. When I put lab? appeared! some pressure on him regarding this he – Let me give you an example. We were – Me and Puthoff entered the lab to answers vaguely, and instead says that he doing a series of experiments at Stanford, continue our preparations. While we stood caught a “glimpse” of something appearing but Uri wasn’t very pleased since he never there I something flash in the corner of my in the air. It’s hard to disregard the idea got the results he wanted due to the scepti - eye and fall down on the carpet. This time that Uri Geller somehow had come across cism present in the lab. Uri complained I bent down and picked up the object that Mitchell’s box, and when the experiments that he couldn’t do psychokinetic demon - seemed to have originated out of nowhere in the lab did not go so well decided to put strations there, and so I asked him if he before it fell to the floor. When I held it up on a little show outside the controlled envi - could do some teleportation. I’d left a Has - I realized that it resembled a tie pin with a ronment. No matter what, it’s interesting selblad camera on the moon, and I asked if pearl added to it that my brother had given how Mitchell, being the well-educated sci - he could return it to earth. Since NASA me for Christmas. It came from the same entist, never considers this possibility. Nor had its serial numbers it’d be an easy mat - box, and looked just like the one I’d lost in the book nor during our meeting. ter to check if it was the same camera. one year earlier. However, Geller’s claims that extraterre - Right after I told him this I could almost strial visitors gave him his abilities are see how his brain worked to get it back Ring gets squeezed nothing Mitchell takes very seriously. “I where we were seated at a table in the cafe - – Now here we were with three things I’d don’t know. I wasn’t there”, he says laug - teria at SRI. We were about ten people lost but reappeared within one hour. Tele - hing. “I don’t deny his experience, but I do present, and right after lunch, when we portation. The funny thing about this is deny his interpretation of the experience.” were rising to go back to the lab, Uri – that I directly afterwards returned to In other words, he doubts it. who sat next to me – told me he wanted Houston where I met Norbu Chen, and In his home in Florida, Mitchell keeps a ice-cream for dessert. Since I was the one man who like Uri Geller was able to do great number of objects, among others a paying the bill I said “OK, Uri, OK”. So extraordinary feats. When I told him what few spoons bent by children using psycho - the waitress brought him a bowl of ice-cre - I’d experienced he simply said “Uri Geller, kinetic, and he’s willing to confess that the - am. ha!”, “Psychokinetic, oh”! He then asked se objects, including the ruined ring and – He ate a few spoonfuls and then sud - me if I wanted to see some psychokinetic, the teleported tie bars, are much more denly started screaming in pain and remo - and I said yes. He asked me to remove a valuable to him personally than any expe - ved some ice-cream from his mouth. heavy gold ring I’d been given by my fat - riment done in a laboratory. When I rinsed it off in my glass of water I her. “Hold it in your hand”, he said and “Still, they’re not really scientific,” he found what looked like a miniature hun - that I did. And without touching me he concludes. keep presidents out of times throughout the should be present in a democratic society. the loop. Not even ”MJ-12 is for real but I years, but according It’s about a group using official money to they knew what was to the latest informa - engage in a totalitarian control. going on. How the do not know the name tion that I’ve been Ed Mitchell stresses that his information organization managed given the group is still about MJ-12 comes from a “very high-ran - to get away with it is of it today” very much active. I’ve king military” in the Pentagon. When I ask a mystery to me. had that confirmed to him if he’s ever asked this source straight out According to Ed Mitchell it’s all about me. I don’t know what its name is these whether or not the MJ-12 exists he says yes. power and control, two traditional ingredi - days, but I do know that it still has the same – But first my source didn’t know any- ents in all conspiracy theories. autonomous control and it still funded by thing about it. “But I should know. I’m in – MJ-12 has changed their name several black budget money. This is nothing that NEXT PAGE

UFO-Aktuellt 4/05, Box 175, 733 23 SALA 7 the kind of position where I should have – When it comes to Roswell I unfortuna - his son who was a brigadier-general when we something to say about the whole thing,” tely have no first-hand knowledge, but I’ve met about ten years ago. It was through him he said. And when he later came back to me spoken to people who either were there or that I later was put in touch with people who he simply said: “You’re right. That’s it. who participated in the investigation. They claimed to have first-hand knowledge. Before Keep your mouth shut!” And this is all I were all bound to secrecy, but still wanted we talked to them we checked their back - know. to talk about it before they passed away. I grounds, where they’d been at the time, and Ed Mitchell is also positive that German spoke to them independently. It was people what position they had had. They all offered rocket scientist and the man responsible for who contacted me after they learned about the same story, more or less. taking the U.S. to the moon in 1969, my participation in National Institute for – I knew about some of these people, but Wernher von Braun, knew that the military Discovery Science, NIDS, which I worked I never knew any of them personally. They had captured a crashed extraterrestrial spa - with back then. did talk to us, however somewhat reluctant - cecraft and that negotiations with extrater - Ed Mitchell started taking an active ly. But we never taped our conversations, restrials were taking place. interest in UFOs in 1992–1993, and beca - simply because they didn’t want us to. One – I knew von Braun quite well. I’ve tal - me fully involved in 1996 when multi-mil - of them was Philip Corso, who later wrote ked to the officer who was the German lionaire Robert Bigelow started funding the the book “Beyond Roswell”, but unfortuna - rocket scientists’ contact, and he confirmed questions that NIDS was dealing with. tely his book was compromised. Personally some of this to me. Wernher was one of Bigelow gathered a team that worked toget - I believe it was sabotaged. According to those who were informed about but never her for more than five years, and it was both him and his son some changes were actually became a member of MJ-12. during that time that Mitchell first came made to the final version, changes he him - In public von Braun came off as a harsh into contact with military personnel who self never knew about. We’ve seen enough critic of everything related to UFOs and fly - had been involved with the Roswell Inci - of these disinformation attempts when it ing saucers, and in several interviews for dent. comes to UFOs, but I can only guess who’s major papers he ridiculed the whole thing. – Some people say it was one crash, and behind them and why. UFOs was the last thing he believed in. others say it was two, he says when I ask – Well, so it seems, Ed Mitchell says and him what he thinks really happened. Never discussed UFOs laughs. Many with him were forced to assu - Roswell was one of these, but it appears to All in all, Mitchell says he has about seven me this role. Astronomer Carl Sagan was have been an additional one, but so far I’ve or eight independent sources who all con - one of them. I don’t know how Carl be- been unable to gain any real clarity of what firm that it indeed was an extraterrestrial came involved or what his part in eve - happened. My sources tell me it involves spacecraft that went down in the desert. rything was, but he was included in the dis - one alive [E.T.] and several deceased ones. – They’ve made me so convinced that information campaign. I bet it wasn’t easy Other sources tell me that later on both an I’m able to go out and talk about this in the for them to keep their mouths shut. I knew exchange and cooperation with E.T. were open. But there are more people out there Carl from my astronaut training, and back launched, but I don’t know where this took possessing interesting knowledge. But me, then he was already very cautious when it place. I’ve never seen any UFOs or any extraterre - came to UFOs. He basically denied all Ed Mitchell himself has personal ties to strials. The closest thing I’ve ever had to a knowledge about it. It was not until later Roswell. It’s true that he was born in Texas, close encounter was when me and Alan that I found out that he had been involved. but he attended school in Roswell, but as a Shepard had been on the moon for almost 17-year old he left town when everything 34 hours and returned to dock with the Cooperation with E.T. happened in the summer of 1947. Friends command module which was in orbit To most UFOlogists this whole MJ-12 and relatives stayed behind, but he remem - around the moon. We knocked on the door thing feels like a red herring. The “executive bers the incident clearly. in order for Stu Roosa to open it for us, and order” Mitchell talks about was discovered – My parents were ranch-owners and far - he said “Who is it?” to be a hoax years ago. Truman’s signature mers. My paternal grandfather, who was a How much time do you devote to UFO has been copied from another document. cattle-farmer, knew Mac Brazel who found research? But Mitchell is still convinced, and he the debris, so my family knew his family. – Not very much, since it’s not my pri - claims that no president in almost fifty years But we never followed the story very closely mary interest. I’m more devoted to pure sci - has been informed about the MJ-12. back then. When the Air Force entered the ence and investigating the mysterious pro - – I believe Eisenhower was the last one to scene and put a lid on everything we simply blems we’ve already talked about. How can be informed. Kennedy probably suspected a stopped talking about it. we create a society, a civilization, that does whole lot, but he was never allowed into the – It’s not until later years that I’ve returned not live beyond its means? That’s a question inner circle, much due to the fact that he and started asking I’ve been pondering for more than thirty and J. Edgar Hoover didn’t get along. John - questions. These years. But people have more personal pro - son, Nixon, and Ford were all kept in the days the Roswell blems at hand. First and foremost you have dark. Museum is making to pay the rent, and perhaps after that you – These people cooperate with E.T. and a tremendous deal can start thinking about other things. control the world’s largest superpower. out of it all, but According to Mitchell UFOs were never They have unlimited funds, so why allow a that whole thing is talked about amongst the astronauts. Every - president to come and mess things up? mostly for tourists one was fully focused on the training for the After all, presidents come and go. and things like that. task ahead, and he finds it hard to believe The secret group was, according to Mit - Still, major Jesse that NASA would have been collecting chell, put together after an extraterrestrial Marcel brought UFO reports regularly. spacecraft crashed in the desert outside some of the debris – No. That was never discussed within Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947. So it’s back home with Solar wind instru - the astronaut program. And we never saw quite obvious that Mitchell became him. I never met ment – the first anything in space we couldn’t explain. Eve - interested in the incident. him, but I did meet lunar javelin. rything that’s been said and written about

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Apollo astronaut Ed Mitchell is convinced that a secret group has recovered a crashed flying saucer and entered into a technical co- operation with a group of aliens. Here he is giving a lecture at a conference in Interlaken. Foto: CLAS SVAHN that is a lie. Sure, some things were obser - almost ripped the roof of one of his houses, covered in darkness: ved, but they were later found to be mista - to how human perception perhaps is able to – It’s probably the blackest of black you’ll kes, and when they later became written sto - go beyond the six senses we know of today. ever find. The stars shine bright, but wit - ries the sightings were exaggerated and dis - He looks tired when I ask him what he hout the light from the sun and the lights torted. I know all astronauts up until Skylab thinks about all those who don’t believe from earth the depth becomes tremendous. [1973], and none of them has ever seen a Mitchell and his colleagues went to the Down on the surface the work schedule UFO in space. Or on the moon. Despite all moon. During our days together he’s asked was extremely tough, but together with the amazing stories that Richard Hoagland, that question repeatedly by people, and he Alan Shepard Ed Mitchell participated in among others, have come up with. always refers to the site what was to become the first lunar Olym - – A few of them, for www.badastronomy.com which deals with pics. example, talked about his conviction. Deke these myths. – It was pretty improvised. Alan had Slayton was another, but he never really tal - – The strongest argument is that if it brought along the blade from a golf club, ked that much about it. A few Air Force indeed had been a hoax the Russians would and when we were done with all our work and commercial pilots that I’ve spoken to never have been able to keep quiet about it! he took it and attached it to a worn out have had experiences, but I never had any. I he finally says. There was a race to the instrument, tried a few swings, and finally was in the military in 1952, and back then moon going on, and they’d never let us get managed to hit the ball. I then borrowed quite a few sightings were reported by away with such a hoax. the staff that we’d used for an instrument to pilots, both civilian and military, but they It’s easy to understand why it irritates measure the solar wind, and used it as a quickly learned to keep their mouths shut him. Here he is, one of a handful of brave javelin and threw it after the ball. That was about them since talking about them would men who’ve undergone an historical jour - the entire Olympics! A few swings with the only mean trouble. They simply stopped ney, while at the same time there are people golf club and a javelin throw. I came a few reporting them. out there who have doubt it ever happened. inches ahead of Shepard, which means I’m “All this points to a cover-up”, he tells me the first lunar Olympic champion! while we’re leaving the hotel for a walk in The first lunar Olympics When our paths finally are separated it town. Mitchell is also convinced that the enti - There are many episodes, besides the has become time for a Q&A with the inha - re Project Blue Book was one big cover-up. breath-taking panorama view on his way bitants of Interlaken. Many have come to For an hour we stroll along a slightly home, which Ed Mitchell will never forget. have a chat with a real astronaut, and chilly Interlaken, while discussing eve - Such as the time when Apollo 14 circles the obviously he’s asked if he really did go to rything from the latest hurricane which moon and entered its dark side, completely the moon. And yes, he did.

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