From: Stig Agermose <Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 09:34:25 +0100
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 15:39:08 -0500
Subject: "Mitchell On UFO Stories About Astronauts: Pure


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Source: Uri Geller's Weird Web in The Times, November 4.

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INTERFACE

Were they lunar aliens, or was it sheer lunacy?


Senator John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth,
has blasted back into space aboard the shuttle - but could he
experience anything as weird as the cigar-shaped UFO he allegedly saw
and photographed on his original Mercury flight in 1962?

Glenn's incredible picture is reproduced on
http://www.anomalous-images.com/astroufo.html where photos and comments
about alien craft by 17 US spacemen are logged.

The images range from point-like lights captured (supposedly) by Ed
White, the first American to walk in space, to fiery clusters of
orange, "photographed" during the Gemini 11 space flight on September
13, 1966.

Transcripts are also reprinted, including one that, it is claimed, was
picked up by VHF radio hams in 1969, monitoring the exchanges which
were not broadcast between Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon,
and Mission Control in Houston.

Nasa: "What's there? Mission Control calling Apollo 11."

Apollo 11: "These babies are huge, sir! Enormous! Oh my God! You
wouldn't believe it! I'm telling you there are other spacecraft out
there,lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They're on the Moon
watching us!"

And later, during a Nasa symposium, an unnamed professor interviewed
Armstrong:

Professor: "What really happened out there with Apollo 11?"

Armstrong: "It was incredible. Of course we had always known there was
a possibility. The fact is, we were warned off! [by the aliens]. There
was never any question then of a space station or a moon city."

Professor: "How do you mean, "warned off?"

Armstrong: "I can't go into details, except to say that their ships
were far superior to ours both in size and technology. Boy, were they
big! And menacing! No, there is no question of a space station."

Can any of this be true? Last week I spoke to Captain Edgar Mitchell of
Apollo 14, the sixth man on the moon and a serious scientific
investigator of parapsychology. His verdict: "Pure fiction!"

He asked me, "Who's to say why anyone would make up any story? I
haven't heard these stories before, but they are inventions. We
discussed this issue, the other astronauts and I, and they are all pure
fiction. We know exactly what goes on, and these claims just are not
true."

I've known Ed Mitchell a long time, and he is a great hero of mine. His
words pose a huge question - why would anyone go to such lengths to
invent these tales?


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