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7 Searching For The Truth 7 Searching For The Truth Searching for the Truth Searching for the Truth Astronauts as UFO Witnesses Astronauts as UFO Witnesses By Dennis Balthaser By Dennis Balthaser miles south of Roswell, and was a teenager including photographs, that 61 years after the when the Roswell Incident happened in 1947. crash has not been seen by the public." As far as His family has a long history of cattle ranching an alien body(s) being recovered, Mitchell said, in the area. "I can't prove that, but I certainly know that the Last weekend, (Sunday, July 27, 2008), so-called alien autopsy photographs were the Roswell Daily Record newspaper printed an fakes." exclusive interview with Dr. Mitchell, in which As a researcher after the truth, it is my he stated, "he is certain the 1947 Roswell UFO hope that individuals like Dr. Mitchell will During the many years that I've been crash was a true alien encounter." The interview continue to speak out, and perhaps others will doing this research, I have had the opportunity with the newspaper was quite lengthy and continue to do likewise. to meet a combination of credible, and less than contained what I consider as a researcher, Dr. Mitchell is not the only astronaut credible witnesses, not only about the Roswell important information, some of which I'll share that has either seen UFOs or believes they are Incident, but pertaining to other UFO incidents with you. real and may represent contact with other as well. Credibility and verification of witness's In that interview Dr. Mitchell stated that, worlds. Gordon Cooper, one of our initial information is of utmost importance to me, and "years later, some of the area's old-timers and astronauts was an outspoken believer in UFOs, usually can be determined after several military intelligence officers close to the prior to his death in 2004. Cooper claimed to conversations with the possible witness, or by incident - some facing the threat of severe have first sighted UFOs as a young Air Force checking their credentials based on known or penalties - confided in him." Based on what pilot in Germany in the 1950s, and like Mitchell obtainable information. they told him, "he is convinced the incident was claimed that the government hid the truth from Occasionally a witness comes along that a real encounter, covered up by the government the public. Cooper and Mitchell are joined by has the professional background, credibility, or for over 61 years." After his lunar flight, local others such as Mercury astronaut Donald experience that convinces me to pay attention to Roswell witnesses contacted him, and because (Deke) Slayton, and at least two former Soviet what they are sharing. Several of the witnesses he was a well-known astronaut and a local, he cosmonauts, Yevegni Khrunov, a Soyus-5 pilot, that I've known or interviewed have become thought they felt they could confide in him. and Salyut-6 space station member Maj. Gen. personal friends, such as Jesse Marcel Jr. who Dr. Mitchell also stated in the interview Vladimir Kovalyonok, all claiming at one time handled the debris from the Roswell craft in that, "he happened to have been privileged or another to have seen UFOs, or saying that 1947, and has had outstanding careers as a enough to be in on the fact that we've been they are certain the Earth has been visited by military helicopter pilot and as a physician. visited---and that the UFO phenomena is real." aliens and their spacecraft. Another is Travis Walton of "Fire in the He said, "his belief was confirmed by various Sky" who is one of the most believable sources, including members or former members Other astronaut claims: abductee's I've ever met. There are others such of top-secret military intelligence circles." as airplane pilots, law enforcement officers, etc. Mitchell said, "the UFO story is so In June 1965, astronauts Ed White (first For this article however I want to focus secret that even presidents and top politicians, American to walk in space) and James McDivitt on our astronauts, who for the most part don't including Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and were passing over Hawaii in a Gemini talk much about their experiences with UFO's, former Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, were spacecraft when they saw a weird-looking quite possibly because NASA, which I think denied access to the "black operations files," metallic object. The UFO had long arms stands for, "Never A Straight Answer", has and theorizes that even the government may not sticking out of it. McDivitt took pictures with a advised them it would be best to not discuss the be in control of the information or technology." cine-camera. Those pictures have never been subject, or they have refused to go public, Although Dr. Mitchell has never seen a released. fearing ridicule and condemnation. UFO, his personal interest in UFOs and the In December 1965, Gemini astronauts A notable exception to the astronaut possibility of extraterrestrial life began as a James Lovell and Frank Borman also saw a group that does openly talk about it is former young fighter pilot, when other members of his UFO during their second orbit of their record- Apollo 14 astronaut, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who in squadron began reporting encounters with breaking 14-day flight. Borman reported that he 1971 piloted the Apollo 14 lunar module, with UFOs. When they tried to report the incidents, saw an unidentified spacecraft some distance commander Alan Shepard to the moon's surface. some claimed to have been threatened and were from their capsule. Gemini control, at Cape I've had the opportunity to meet Dr. Mitchell told to shut up, just like the civilian pilots. Kennedy told him that he was seeing the final twice, the first time being several years ago at Mitchell said, "Our pilots would chase them, stage of their own Titan booster rocket. Borman the Aztec, New Mexico symposium. More and they would chase us. There were just too confirmed that he could see the booster rocket recently I met him here in Roswell. I had heard many incidents and reports to deny that there all right, but that he could also see something that he knew something about the Roswell was nothing going on." Mitchell believes the completely different. Incident, so when I had the opportunity in alien visitations should not be considered Many other accounts have been filed by Aztec, to talk to him alone, I asked him, "what hostile, and that "some of the alleged visits" Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts in he knew about the Roswell Incident?" Without were actually "homegrown", linked to our own addition to X-15 test pilots, including films hesitation, he informed me, "that he knew it did super-secret programs. taken of strange objects, but never released to happen, but couldn't tell me anymore." Dr Mitchell knows Jesse Marcel Jr., the the public. I will continue to seek additional son of the Army Air Force intelligence officer information from these astronauts, due to the Mitchell grew up in the Roswell area, attending Jesse Marcel Sr., who was at the crash site credibility they have as our space pioneers, and what is now Berrendo Elementary School in during the Roswell Incident, and knows he was the front row seat they have to many strange Roswell through the seventh grade, then moved convinced that what crashed at Roswell was not objects they have seen, but continually hidden with his family to Artesia, New Mexico, a weather balloon. Mitchell also indicated, "that from the public. graduating from Artesia High School, some 30 there remains strong evidence, possibly www.truthseekeratroswell.com