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Eric — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:26:42 GMT

Sounds like the cover up begins

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Lynwood Thompson, South Bend, IN — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:27:27 GMT

Although Mr. Mitchell does not profess first hand knowledge, his testimony is nevertheless creditable. What makes this story relevant is the timing. We are in the midst of any energy crisis which has had an adverse affect on food prices as well as many other things. Should Mr. Mitchell's accounts prove to be true (I've no doubt that they are) then the question of why the continued cover-up begs to be answered. If, as many have claimed, we already have working technologies to end our reliance on fossil fuels thus cleaning up the environment, then why aren't we? If these wars of aggression to keep the oil flowing are truly no longer necessary, then why are soldiers still being deployed. I suspect that terrorism would end virtually overnight if this kind of withholding would come to an end. Finally, I think that the greater lesson to be had from our supposed visitors is what we can achieve as a species when we truly choose peace for ourselves and others.

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Darren Pope, Little Rock, AR — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:40:12 GMT

Psssh... Aliens are too busy probing unsuspecting trailer park house-wives in curlers and moo moos to be dealing with our government. That's exhausting business. Don't believe me? Try listening to their never ending tale of that tornado that hit in ought six.

That's always made me wonder: Why would creatures with technology infinitely surpassing ours come so far to do things so stupid. "Yeah, we learned how to warp the space-time continuum, but kind of crash-landed on Earth after turning a bunch of cows inside out... We don't have any ants to burn on our planet."

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Fadda Eart — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:40:37 GMT

OK...I confess...born 7.5.47...Roswell wasn't the only location.
The obvious reason for staying quiet is mankind's predeliction to shoot first and ask questions later.
Given the current Global Climate, and the respectability factor provided by Mitchell, here's an opening into our purpose.
Show signs of overcoming your predeliction, and I'll tell you some real secrets.
Click on the name below to learn more.
It'll be OK, by the way.

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Tom Liberman — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:42:22 GMT

Is he hawking a book by any chance?

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Matt, Lincoln, NE — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:44:35 GMT

Does anyone really think the US Government could cover up something like this? Thousands apon thousands of people, from janitors up to brass, mountains of documents, witnesses from coast to coast? And, it wouldnt just have to be our government. Everyone in power over the whole world would have to be in on it.

Seems unlikely to me. The governments of the world cant even agree to stop dumping poison into the water and air, dispite the evidence it is killing us. I think it would take some of that Advanced Alien Tech to keep it all quiet, but that is just circular logic.

I bet something and someone is out there. The universe is just too big for us alone. But, if they are watching us, I think they must be smart enough not to let us know it! :)

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Irene Klotz — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:48:41 GMT

The thing that struck me most after interviewing Edgar Mitchell for the Discovery piece is why -- let alone how -- a "secret" like this would be kept for so long. Exactly who decides what is "good" for people to know? Perhaps I've gone soft (hard?) from my summer reading binge (picked up Ayn Rand's masterpiece Atlas Shrugged and couldn't put it down, as the laundry pileup will attest to) but really, is this country REALLY as controlled as what would be necessary to keep a secret as profound as extraterrestrial life visiting Earth ?

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Sonny Crockett, Miami, Florida — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:52:33 GMT

While I respect Mr. Mitchell's exploits as an astronaut, his subjective belief in UFOs based on what other people may have told him doesn't impress me much. Mitchell also 'practices' ESP and remote healing, and believes in other paranormal and psychic phenomena. NASA has politely distanced itself from Mr. Mitchell's comments.

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Joe, Kalispell, Montana — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:59:13 GMT

I worked with a Sr manager at Rockwell who insisted that since the Roswell incident we have been in contact with an alien race. It was his belief that some of the basic technical challenges of the 50's and 60's were solved by this contact with race.

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Harold Chattaway, Ashby, MA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:04:52 GMT

Seeing as how the most private of goings in the White House can't be kept secret (i.e Clinton/Lewinsky and all the leakers in the Iraq war) along with the fact that NASA has to go begging for money, and our technology does not involve warp drive, and that no "close encounter" ever involved anyone of any credibility, has never occurred over a population center, etc, etc, etc... these latest "revelations" carry no more credibility than all the others...Geez... If that wasn't enough, they are the most unimaginative and boring stories possible... I would also think that if aliens just broke the laws of physics in traveling trillions of miles, they would have the ability to navigate and seek out significant locations here on Earth... As Carl Sagan said "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."

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J Shupe, Layton, Utah — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:05:37 GMT

The ideal that terrorism would end once we are no longer dependant on oil is extremely naïve, and laughable. I suspect it will be worse than it is now. Once we don't need oil, the economies that are dependant on oil revenue will crash. Those people; instead of taking responsibility for not diversifying their economy when they had the chance; will blame us for making them dependant on oil revenue, and then taking that revenue away. They will hate us even more, as the people who instigated their misery. That will result in more, not less, terror attacks on the West.

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snake wilson — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:08:48 GMT

people will beleive any thing some one tells them.
there will never be any aliens visting this planet.
we will never visit one either.no one can live that
long to make either trip here or there. use your brain and do the math figger it out how it wont happen. no body can travel from light years away toget here. dream on,it wont happen,

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Michome, wisconsin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:09:32 GMT

With a billion billion billion stars out there and as many galaxies, we are be so off base to think we are alone. As good as our telescopes are they are terrible and no wonder we cant see a earth out there Neptune and Pluto are blurry blobs in our own solar system. I for one hope aliens are here.

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Skeptical — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:16:33 GMT

He is protecting NASA. Why... no idea.. pension maybe? I don't know.. I believe he was an eyewitness, but signed some sort of disclosure to prevent him from saying so.

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Robert Arrington, Youngsville, NC — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:23:36 GMT

Reply to L. Thompson: If you accept that Mr. Mitchell's information is valid (which I am not currently accepting OR rejecting), there remains a huge gap between his statements and your assumption that alien technology will release us from out dependance on fossil fuels. For one, there is nothing in the reports to indicate that the aliens are willing to SHARE their technology; Mr. Mitchell simply asserts that they have capabilities well in advance of our own. Nor is there any certainty that we could reproduce their technology with the means at our disposal - it would not surprise me to learn that such technology, if it exists, would require quantum leaps in our materiels science. In short, we would do far better to work out or own problems rather than look to alien super science for solutions.

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TheFallibleFiend, LORTON, VA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:24:24 GMT

"... in follow-up interviews with Discovery.com and BlogTalkRadio, Mitchell acknowledged that his evidence is essentially hearsay."

Nice summary of the UFOlogy movement.

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Jason — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:24:39 GMT

Interesting questions Lynwood. In my opinion the reason none of that has come to pass points to the most simple answer: Because there aren't advanced alien technologies available on earth. There aren't little gray men hidden in a secret gov't facility in the desert. There isn't a vast cover-up orchestrated by world governments. The support for those stories just isn't there. I would have to think that some irrefutable evidence would have come to light by now if there was truth to these legends. But so far, nothing.

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Doug Fingles, Warner Robins, GA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:30:25 GMT

If anyone thinks the "wars of aggression" are bad now, just introduce an energy source that replaces the oil-based world economy. Overnight, at least a half-dozen governments would fall and most markets would collapse, sparking an economic depression and conflicts on at least a regional and possibly global basis. If such a source were available, it must needs be introduced in a very gradual manner, allowing the world to very slowly wean itself from oil dependency. That is, of course, if such a technology exists.

Frankly, I don't think extra-terrestrials have visited or made contact with anyone on Earth, as the odds against it are so large as to make it near impossible, let alone improbable. Just the odds against intelligent life arising are huge, let alone being able to leave their planet, then their solar system, then even find us among a hundred billion or so stars in the Milky Way. What would be the benefit to them of traveling here if they are so advanced? Souvenirs? Unless our planetary wages are so low that we are really making parts for aliens (with "Manufactured on Earth" labels) and just don't know about it. Perhaps the story of garbage in the Pacific from lost shipping containers could be a cover for the alien trade...

Lastly, I would have no respect for aliens that can't seem to control their craft or themselves as they keep crashing (Roswell, NM and RAF Bentwaters, England), destroying crops (why don't they land in parking lots instead of costing farmers their crops?), and flying dangerously close to airliners, etc. As for their prowess in destruction, let's just say my respect is fairly low for a trans-galaxy traveling species that can get themselves shot down by 1940's military hardware over Roswell.

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FC, Atl, GA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:31:42 GMT

This is nothing new, we've always known extraterrestrials exist, but once again the goverment is up to the same old thing can anyone say cover up.....

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JB Warren MI — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:33:31 GMT

It is Clearly a case of Too Much Solar Radiation.

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N/A — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:34:17 GMT

Preach it brotha! The Government cares only about its own agenda, not the people. "People shouldnt be afraid of its government, the governemnt should be afraid of its people." -V

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I. Jovanovich, Seattle, WA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:36:24 GMT

I met Mr. Mitchell in 1999 at a UFO conference in Port Townsend, WA where he was appearing in a panel discussion with Robert Anton Wilson, Dr. David Mack and others. He was quite credible. A great uncle of a friend of mine is a retired SETI scientist, a man great intelligence not given to frivilous statements, and he once mentioned that NASA was privy to knowledge that the general public is "not ready for". He couldn't elaborate due to secrecy but he wished to impart upon us that what we consider "reality" is just a small part of a much larger picture. I have no reason to disbelieve either of these men.

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Phil, Long Island NY — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:39:31 GMT

I personally wish that I could know if there was validity to this. If we are being visited by "powerful aliens" who arent interested in wiping us out, why not embrace them as friends? Surely there's a lot we could learn from each other.

On the other hand, if it's all bunk, then perhaps nothing should change. If it is all bunk, at least we wind up with something interesting to read in the news.

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Troy Boyle, Elsmere, KY — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:47:24 GMT

Balooney.

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Keith Imel Juneau Alaska — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:51:25 GMT

This is no surprise to me. I have thought that our goverment was covering up the extaterrestrials since before Rosswell. I do not believe they have a right to cover it up. We the People have a right to know! When this all finally comes out in the open the people responsible for the coverup need to be identified and prosecuted for their crimes.

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J Henson, Washington, DC — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:55:15 GMT

So instead of focusing and researching the basis of what a noted astronaut has now brought to light, the media devoted the majority of it's effort's in discrediting him. No wonder big media continues to lose it's audience base- agendas are no longer working in their favor. Investigate the story for what it IS, not what is it ISN'T.

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Billy - Los Angeles, CA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:57:43 GMT

The ancient Kabbalistic text known as the Zohar, a 2000 year old commentary on the Torah, described a round earth before science, a ten dimensional universe before superstring theory, and bad fats/plaque in the arteries as the cause of heart disease, all some 20 centuries before medical science. Read the Zohar and it is there in black and white. Anyway, the Zohar also spoke of alien intelligences that originate not from other planets, but from other dimensions. It describes them as short, big head, no nose, but tiny holes, big eyes etc. It says they sometimes cross over into our dimension. There are many more details that are explained. The Zohar also reveals the origins of Christianity and other truths. The fact that the Zohar has not been made public, is the only true "cover up". The truth is never what you expect and never found in conspiracy theories. If only it were that easy.

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Gordie — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:04:38 GMT

Anyone that thinks 'we' are the only race of beings smart enough, or clever enough, to entertain the thought or act of space travel is way to self-centered. A 'Creator' didn't just bring about one work of art, we are among many works of art. It is time to accept that and start living like we were ment to. As part of the much larger 'family' and not so much me,me,me and no others. 'They' don't want to harm or destroy us, maybe just say howdy if 'we' let them.

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Zagrut, Cygnus x-1 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:08:03 GMT

Folks....It's called HEARSAY for a reason.

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Little Green Man, Way Out There, Beyond the Milky Way — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:14:30 GMT

We can't must enough faith to believe in God, but we are CONVINCED that little green men are real. I LOVE this planet!

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Geoff, Lancaster, SC — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:15:16 GMT

The first commercial radio transmissions on Earth started in 1907 by Marconi. Assuming they had enough power to cross interstellar space, and the Roswell Incident happened in 1947, then any aliens capable of receiving and understanding those transmissions would have to be 40 light years (or less) from Earth AND have the capability of FTL travel.

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R. Davis, DC — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:15:19 GMT

The reason we don't/won't implement super technologies is because they would utterly destroy the world's economies. Imagine what would happen to energy markets if portable cold fusion suddenly made oil, natural gas, and electrical industries obsolete. What would these all these displaced workers do for a living? Same thing for health workers with the introduction of a universal antidote. Star Tek style transporters are a commuter's wet dream, but can you even begin to fathom the number of peeps that would be rendered destitute if we no longer needed our transportation infrastructure? And where would governments get their taxes from if these industries disappeared?

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Michael — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:15:40 GMT

No Extra-Terristrial intelligent life would/should come here.

Why would intelligent life come here when the dominant species ........
..... kills each other
..... kills -> dissects -> learns -> kills some more -> dissects some more, what it doesn't understand. Then when it does figure out what it is, it tries to determine whether it's food or fuel.
..... has no problem killing itself as long as it takes you w/ it.

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Berny Rathmell, Columbus, Oh — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:23:20 GMT

I don't think knowledge of visitation necessarily endows us with the knowledge of the technology, should it exist. Finding scraps and accomplishing reverse engineering is difficult, but if the knowledge exists of new power technology, such might power an extraterestrial craft, you can bet the "Band of Brothers" are doing their best to put it to use.
I suspect no one int he world believes the cover story of Roswell and other such incidents, it's unfortumate that some of the tales are so outrageous that it becomes next to impossible to separate fact from fiction.

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Erica H, Indianapolis, IN — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:25:14 GMT

You have to consider that there are hundreds of thousands of (known) galaxies, each with BILLIONS of stars, each with orbiting planets. There's definitely life out there somewhere. The question that begs to be asked is, "why the government cover-up?" I speculate that it is because governments realize that if people knew, with certainty, that alien life exists, we would finally see past our differences (race, religion, etc.) and unite as a species, as man-kind. With that kind of unification, governments would be unnecessary and there would be a whole lot of unhappy (and unemployed, unpaid) beurocrats...

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Lyle La Faver, Middletown, California — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:33:02 GMT

Never seen litle green men or a flying saucer. However, I was involved in a UFO situation in the mid-1950s, while in the Air Force. We had an airborne target picked up performing maneuvers human kind reportedly is not capable of. The object was tracked by more than one ground radar station and several aircraft. We were ordered not to list the object as a UFO.

Because of Mr. Mitchell's direct association with NASA, etc., I see some credibility here. I also am aware that military and commercial pilots have been ordered not to report UFO sightings, particularly if they want to keep being pilots.

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Mike Columbus Ohio — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:35:53 GMT

I'm sure there is intelligent life out there somewhere. They may even be visiting us, but I don't know for sure. Until something more than "I saw..." or "I heard..." materializes, we must remain somewhat doubtful, all the while maintaining hope.
People aren't ready to deal with the truth (if it exists) of aliens visiting. Some people still think women/blacks aren't 'real people'; people still think that God created the world in 6 days...people just aren't ready. Maybe in time, but not now.
Will they ever be ready though? I think the more important question is "Are people really ready?", not "Do aliens really visit earth?".

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Jack Butcher, Monticello, Ia, — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:37:00 GMT

I absolutely beleive Mr Mitchell's views on UFO'S and Alien's! He has walked on the moon and has extremely high knowledge of what the goverment and Nasa have been hiding for years. He is a highly intelligent man and would not be one to put his self up for ridicule or say things which would damage his reputation. Anyone who believes we are the only living things in the whole universe have been living under a rock. They are even written in the Bible..

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Joe, Ohio — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:37:26 GMT

Why does our government spend billions of dollars on radio telescopes? The cost to design them, build them, run them and maintain them are extraordinary. And for what? To listen to the stars? Most likely to communicate with E.T.s instead.

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Idgad — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:39:39 GMT

All those questions and scores of others that are predicated on alien contact of so intimate a nature are very insightful. How is it that so relatively omniscient and omnipotent and, apparently ubiquitous according to this latest evidence, beings could be so easily frustrated by scores and scores of mendacious egomaniacs? If not hostile, then they must be ambivalent. Why are they wasting their time here among us? Obviously, these beings are as capricious and essentially irresponsible as humanity and, thus, of little import to our human condition. Thus, why are we wasting our time speculating about them? Let's get to work on our problems. Humanity should emulate Voltaire’s advice to tend to our garden.

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David Hays, Liverpool NY — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:42:37 GMT

I have very little doubt that life is able to and does exist on other planets. The potential in our Galaxy alone is huge for host planets. Have they visited us? Who knows?

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Dan Hranek, Ashburn, Va — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:48:29 GMT

Will people EVER get tired of these fairy tales? Once again we get, "I didn't see it myself, but 'reliable' sources have told me about it. If we are really being visited by aliens, why isn't there even ONE clear picture of a spacecraft? Most of the supposed 'witnesses' to UFO events are not people whose word I want to take. I will not say that visits from aliens are impossible. To my mind, there is just NO creditable evidence to support such visits to this point.

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Jeff, Barkhamsted, CT — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:52:52 GMT

Very sad that such a distinguished person would succumb to belief in fairy tales.

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Kevin, Lincoln, NE — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:53:05 GMT

To possibly answer Lynwood's question, the answer is to maintain the status quo.

If we no longer depended on oil, certain powerful people would find themselves out of a job. If terrorism ceased to be a source for fearmongering, certain powerful people would find themselves out of a job. Things won't change because the people in control fear it. So long as they can maintain the status quo, they can retain their power and status.

/end conspiracy.

Eh, in the end, it matters little for someone like me. I'm just one of the many trench-workers at ground level that keeps the country going.

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Robert Kennerson — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:03:58 GMT

It's great that Mitchell and other Astronauts have come out on this subject, they where in the loop on this subject and it gets no more crediable!
You have to ask your self.. What did they see on the way to the moon? What did they see when they got there? And is that why we haven't been back to the moon? They (Aliens) have been here since the begining and have never left. We have mounds of data on this subject and still no one belives. If you want proof Look in the Bible! There are hundreds of accounts through out the text, They have been seen as God since humans could write! Ezikel chapter 1 thru 28! just as an exampel. Open your eyes and stop being blinded by government cover up. And if their not a threat why the cover up world wide? We have millions of credable wittneses around the world that have seen UFO's yet we only have a handfull of people investigating these account, this is where money should be spent! We have a right and an obligation as a race to find out everything we can about these aliens. The Knolege would take us to the next level of human evolution in no time. Picture of disk shaped objects are depicted in ancient hyrogliphs,paintings on caves, art work from the midle ages, in every country around the world and we still don't have a qlue as to what, why, or how. Come On!
I have to say that the new light being shined on the subject makes me happy.. but we are not doing enough, in the media to bring this forward, and it would be the greatest discovery in human history! Who wouldn't want that story!? The Media is not what it use to be! It use to be about getting the truth to the public but now it's all about ratings and what you can spin. Well spin this! It's worth it! Your ratings will go through the roof and people want to know!
R.Kennerson

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Steve - Michigan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:06:53 GMT

On Apollo 14, wasn't he also the one who attempted to conduct his own, secret and unsanctioned, ESP experiments while on their way to the moon? I think that about sums it up.

Reference Andrew Chaikin's "A Man on the Moon" for full rundown of that part of the story.

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George McKinney, Charleston WV — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:08:41 GMT

Here we go again - little gray/green/pink/rainbow colored men! I am totally willing to accept the possibility of ET's, but why do they have to be created in the image of man? Think of all the possible worlds where there are energy and elements to create advanced molecules and start the process going. How about a gaseous based life - could work great on a high-G planet like we have discovered. Or a methane/hydrogen based type, for cold planets? Or how about an energy based - we are working in that direction with artificial intelligence - just what might evolve in the heart of a star or in a plasma around a star? Some of these could easily take the accelerations and long periods of inactivity that might be required to travel between star systems.

I can accept the ability and will of the government to bumble and hide things like an ET contact. But when we start to make them in our image, my credibility starts to get pretty stretched.

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Jeff — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:12:00 GMT

Cover up?!?!?

Are you blind?

I've been ON THEIR SHIPS. IT IS REAL!!!!!!11

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ELEFTERIOS VOGIOKALAKIS/ATHENS/GREECE — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:14:31 GMT

GREAT THANGS TO GOT BECAUSE THE PHILIP CORSO AND EDGAR MITCHELL THEY BROKE THE SECRET SILENT FROM THEESE COSMIC PHENOMENON AND TODAY I KNOW AND ALL THE PEOPLE IN THIS PLANET THE TRUTH AROUND THE UFO

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Frank, Dallas, TX — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:20:31 GMT

"says he was told that powerful alien beings have been among us for 60 years and that government officials have been carefully covering up that fact."

So what? I've "been told" that too. Doesn't make it true.

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Bill Nilla, Phillipsburg,NJ — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:23:32 GMT

Really. UFOs aliens. It looks like the entire intellectual populatuon of the U.S. really lack intelligence. 1st. lets look at how vast the universe is. To far to Travel in less then 5 generations to the next solar syatem. 2nd. Evidence that life is scarce in the Galaxy let alone Universe. 3rd look at biology on earth it took billions of years for intelligent life to evolve. Not only billions if years but evidence shows that humans escaped extiction by the hair of their chinny chin chin.
So you would need intelligent life to form on a planet that is not hostile to life ( not many of those around I bet , but I am sure some Planets exist, lets say 100 million that can support life, There are 100 million Galaxies with 100 million solar systems in each. That would be one solar sytem per galaxy. So lets say their are 1000 per galaxy, they would first have to develope then learn science and then learn how to travel at vast speeds. Oh by the way they have to develope an economic system, else invention doesn't happen. Oh they have to be innately hostile like humans or invention doesn't happen.The Speed of light seems to be the cosmic speed limit. Even thats not fast enought to travel the entire galaxy. SO WAKE UP PEOPLE. These are conspiracy writers selling you books . There are no Aliens here

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Gary Hart, Bloomington IL — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:24:35 GMT

My first UFO sighting over the town in IN where I lived in the 70s occured after sneaking out of my house one night. The second happened as I purposefully investigated sightings occurring around Lockwood MO in the early 90s during a sightings flap period. My third sighting occurred in my back yard in the late 90s. All three sightings were clearly, unambiquously not of natural phenomena nor were they of any humanly constructed flying craft. What other option to explain what I saw is left? Only one. I am convinced by what I have seen. The only mystery for me is why our government desperately tries to keep this information covered up...

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John Pleese — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:24:41 GMT

Sounds like he's been in space too long.

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John Doe, Seattle, Wash — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:26:11 GMT

As to whether you deserve technological help for your world's problems, let me ask one simple question. Do you go out of your way each day to help an ant colony survive, or do you let it survive or fail on its own? Neither do we. We're a little busy with our own problems, thank you very much. Good luck

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peter galulsha, san diego ca. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:38:13 GMT

There is a very simple explanation as to why we are
still using oil, fighting in the mid-east ect. ect. ect......there are no secretely held technologies developed thru co-op with aliens. Because there aren't any. If our entire galaxy is rapant with intelligent life (maybe it is); there is still an incomprihensible amount of space between the stars and planets. As dense as our Milky Way appears to
be, at 670,000,000 miles per hour it would still take
over two years to reach the nearest star! If I'm wrong then I'm sure the 'aliens' must be incahoots
with the oil companies and have just decided to kick it here on our dime.

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Alien — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:39:33 GMT

All this speculation is amusing but ultimately fruitless. Or have you forgotten about our memory-eraser ray?

Oh, right, of course you have.

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Thinker — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:45:58 GMT

Folks, I understand the desire to believe in aliens. I believe that we are not alone in the universe, but I'm nearly certain that we've never been visited, nor will we ever be - as certain as you are that we have been visited. So, we're at an impass. When that happens, the answer is science. Get some facts, analyze them, and the truth will be told. We're in luck! that's already been done, and guess what? No aliens. Just like with religion, why do so many people persist on believing something so strongly when there is absolutely no shred of evidence for it? but, there's no winning this argument. it's just sad to me that folks are still living in the dark ages - last week it was Zeus and Athena, yesterday it was the Good Book, today it's aliens.

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Dave, Phoenix, Az — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:49:03 GMT

It would hard to believe that we were the only beings in this vast universe and there are many star systems that are much older than our system. The fact that a race of beings could develop star travel as we will one day is not out of the question and if their technology was so advanced if they chose to visit I don't believe that is out of reality. The government kept Stealth technology covered up until they were ready to release it so anything is possible

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M. Sklar — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:52:20 GMT

PROBLEM -- "Should Mr. Mitchell's accounts prove to be true (I've no doubt that they are)..." Why have you know doubt? Are you in the know, or are you just desperate to believe? You don't have to dismiss his claim, but if you have two brain cells to rub together, you doubt any claim to some degree if it comes without substantial evidence. Your unquestioning belief undermines your position.

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Underwelmed — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:57:38 GMT

I have been fascinated with this subject for many, many years and I have been following the testimonies of this astronaut, high ranking airforce brass, high ranking RAAF officials, etc. with great interest. I consider myself to be a skeptic but after so many years I have seen too much of what I consider bizzare reactions by the government to certain sitings. The most notable (and convincing) was the sighting of a huge, dark delta shaped object right over the top of Phoenix. There were hundreds of reported sighting of it but almost no official response until the Govenor called a press conference and mocked the reports by bringing a costumed alien on camera. strangely after leaving office, he too admitted seeing the object and described it in the exact same way others had. Who pressured him then into responding the way he did while he was govenor if he too actually saw it?

I think that it is important to remember that there are ten of thousands of reported sighting every year. The vast majority of these can be explained away in one way or another and others may be more difficult to dismiss. But if only one event out of all the years and millions of sightings worl-wide is true then the entire proposition is in fact true - there is other intelligent life and it is (or has) visited us. It only takes one true event to make it all true.

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Matthew 'Floyd' Clough, Stockbridge, GA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:58:51 GMT

Very peculiar after doing some homework on Edgar here, coupling that with what I knew of him and the institute in Washington. It's funny seeing all these former officials come out lately, and in the eye of the media no less (which is fubar'ed). Personally I dream of a new horizon for our species - time does seem like It's accelerating. Could something massive be in store for us in our lifetime? Maybe - but I'm having fun BEING here during all this none-the-less.

I feel that, in the last few years at the least, people have been taking a growing interest in 'truth seeking' in general. These days, I can understand the mass sense of 'confusion' that seems present world-wide when people don’t know what or who to believe anymore. We live in a very interesting point in human history. Anything could happen, and anything is BOUND to happen.

As Carl Sagan once said: "If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority - then we're up for grabs!"

Thanks Alan. :)

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Chuck Evans, Seattle, WA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:13:01 GMT

Fer cryin' out loud. There's NO physical evidence of aliens, and nothing but hearsay evidence from so-called "witnesses". About all anyone can say about Roswell is that they were "kept away" from information. Nobody saw any information. Nobody's seen the space ships. No credible pictures. No credible physical evidence. NOTHING. What we're left with is conjecture. Here's what we can actually say about life on other planets: 1) Is there life on other planets? Probably. 2) Is there intelligent life on other planets? Possibly. 3) Is there intelligent life from other planets that has visited the Earth? There is no evidence for that.

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Skeeterz, Vieux Fort, St. Lucia — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:17:40 GMT

Interesting. My mother has always believed this stuff. I think some people really want to believe in and others just can't.

Way i was 16, I was traveling down a back country dirt road in Indiana late at night on my way home, and saw a trmendously bright light in the road up ahead. No way was this a car as car headlamps tend to move up and down with bumps and the hilly area would dip up and down. This bright light was still and super bright...about 15 seconds later, when i popped over another hill, it was completely gone. And there was nothing there when i got to where it would have been. There should have been "at least" some dust. But nothing.It was kinda a eery and has stuck with me 30 years later.

I do not believe or disbelive, but my question is this:

If they were or are here on earth, in this day of information, i feel that someway, somehow there would be more info, pictures, video and experiences. But, like the Lockness Monster, the actual proof always seems to be questionable! I mean people everywhere capture just about everything...why not the lil' guy from outserspce?

Steve
http://www.skeeterzrumbar.com

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Brad, Phoenix, AZ — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:17:41 GMT

The revelation of a far-advanced alien civilization (likely existing in the universe for much longer than modern man) would put a stress on the religious believers of the world never seen before. Many religions could be all but debunked if something like this were revealed to be true... Hence the need for a worldwide government cover-up... To assume it would put an end to terrorism as some comments state, is a bit overstated, as it may in fact elevate the terrorism problem, given the potential strain it may put on many peoples' religious beliefs.

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fissilemissile — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:26:49 GMT

What would happen to this nation if it were to be revealed that there is no God? Would the masses lose their sense of morality? Many would lose their sense of justified behavior. Would the terrorists stop? Or would they continue because they would believe the reported information as lies and use it to fuel their ideals and causes? I don't know how this information could make things better quickly. I think it would cause a massive war between believers and non-believers that would span the earth. I think earthlings need to settle a few issues before we can level this kind of information, real or not real.

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I want to believe, Chicago, IL — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:29:44 GMT

I'm the first person who will line up and say, "I want to believe," but there is just too much evidence out there that points to us having never been visited by extra terrestrial beings. If we really did posses vast amounts of alien knowledge which would help humanity shift to clean energy and prevent environmental damage to our planet, how can anyone think that any world government (not just the US) wouldn't be screaming for the use of this technology. If (and remember this is just a hypothetical) these benevolent aliens that Edgar Mitchell describes do exist and have the technology to help humanity avoid self-destruction, wouldn't you think they'd offer to help us if we asked?

Two of the greatest science fiction authors of the last century, Carl Sagan and Arthrur C. Clarke had both indicated that they believed that there was intelligent life elsewhere in the universe just by the mere fact that the universe is so infinitely big. I am completely on board with that. However, I cannot bring myself to conclude that another civilization has already contacted us, but are being kept under wraps only on the basis of here-say. (There's a big reason why that sort of testimony is inadmissible in most legal matters.)

The bottom line of my argument here is that there are just too many holes that can be poked in any argument for aliens having visited earth. All the conspiracy theorists would have you believe that this sort of thing can be kept out of the collective knowledge of the public, but think about just how many people would have to be in the loop on this. Too many signs point to this myth being busted.

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Rick Ventriglia, Stratford, NJ. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:30:45 GMT

Mitchell is another in a long line of reputable sources whom we should take seriously. Why people like Mitchell and Col. Phillip Corso would make a mockery out of their careers by making false claims is beyond me. Both men admitted that they got the bulk of their info from reputable sources whom they respect. Corso stated that he saw an alien body in a wooden crate stored at his base right after the Roswell crash. Why would he lie and ruin his reputation? There are at least an additional twenty one similar professionals who are willing to state the facts to congress. But that won't happen! Our government needs any technological edge they can get over the other nations on earth and vice-versa. It all comes down to national security, so it's certain that for now the truth will remain hidden. We can't fault the government though. Disclosure would reveal too much of our advanced technology, and if the truth is brought out, the rest of the world will not only hear it but will learn about how far the U.S. and a few other nations have gone to mislead the public. That would open a colossal global can of worms!

Consider that there are just too many UFO sightings for them all to be aliens. After all, why would so many travel so far just hover above our skies. They were seen hovering over Roswell immediately after we tested the A Bomb, which shows me that SETI may not be the only one listening in on the universe. There are so many videos and first hand accounts of UFO activity that I believe prove we're being visited, but the majority of sightings must be our own advanced technology. There are just too many sightings!

I firmly believe that we are being monitored by various alien sources because we are destroying the earth and we may well destroy all races on earth in upcoming wars. I don't believe that civilizations who may have had technology for thousands or even millions of years (we've had modern technology for barely 150 years) will allow us to destroy part of the space which all creatures in the universe share. In addition, the UFOS bouncing across the skies may just be looking for black holes they can use to propel them to other parts of the universe.

Steven Hawkins once said that man may never have the ability to prove that god doesn't exist. Consider the same for aliens. Can anyone prove they don't exist?
The saga will continue long after we're gone!

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Mark G, P-Town, NJ — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:31:31 GMT

Hey, I used to believe but come on... 60+ years and no hard proof...
With nearly every American carrying a camera phone, you'd think we would have a pretty good coffee table book from Time-Life by now...
Maybe they are there with the image of the Virgin Mary in the rusty drain pipe... sheesh~

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Wraith, Houston Texas — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:37:35 GMT

Funny thing is, his is crediblity is only being called into question because he is making claims to the positive about a taboo subject. So many like to claim he believes because he wants to, yet refuse to admit that for some reason the distinct possiblity that they DON'T want to believe.
It would, after all, deflate mankind's inflated sense of importance.
Not saying he isn't a liar or crazy but some people are too quick to dismiss things.

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Little Green Man — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:49:28 GMT

Sounds like Edgar and the rest of you have been inhaling a little too much moon dust. Edgar is probaby just trying to make a little of the green stuff from all of the gullible poeple out there.

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Matthew 'Floyd' Clough, Stockbridge, GA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:52:20 GMT

Learning some things about Edgar lead me to reading up on the Brookings Institute, and apparently a study was done by Brookings in the 40's/50's (for NASA and government officials) on the impact of official disclosure, hence the evolution of the supposed 'cover-up':

http://www.edmitchellapollo14.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=52

http://www.brookings.edu/

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S.B. Stein E.B. NJ — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:55:10 GMT

Too bad there is no other tangible proof he could provide to the public. Eyewitnesses are great, but something like this needs a much more than this. The fact that intelligent beings have traveled to Earth from some distance will throw many peoples belief systems into complete shock. We must verify what is being said.

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Nate, Florida — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:04:55 GMT

The reason for the cover up is simple. Our little grey friends and the governments of the world are fully aware that society is not prepared for a full disclosure of this magnitude. Many of the world's religions would be thrown into chaos as well as many of the firmly held beliefs about our position in the evolutionary food chain. Humanity is still too infantile to wrap its head around knowing we are not the top dog. Unlike many utopian outlooks, it is more likely that the fear and panic that would ensue could herald the end of society as we know it. Fear of the unknown and things we don't understand would cause alot more problems than we can imagine right now. I hope the day comes that we all know the truth, unfortunatly I am unsure if this will happen in my lifetime.

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Tony R — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:12:52 GMT

It's impossible, the government would never lie to its people, would it?

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CDub — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:15:38 GMT

If one were wondering why they would keep any knowledge of intelligent life beyond the realms of our own planet a secret, one would only need to think of the religious impact/fallout that such a discovery would bring. Our government, vastly comprised of deeply religious Christians would never allow such information to pose any threat to their theocracy of "faith-power" over the people. I for one don't believe that we have been visited by ANY intelligent beings (although I do believe in intelligent life throughout the vast galaxy.)

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Rick Goldin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:22:56 GMT

In reponse to Lynwood (who happens to share my uncle's first name), I see it this way. The reason we, as a species, are not pushing harder to receive information from alien technology is because there are plenty of good ole boys born and bred on THIS planet who like things just the way they are. It's extremely LESS expensive to continue to watch oil prices spiral up than it is to revamp an entire society based on automobiles, gasoline and all the factories, jobs, transportation systems and fuel delivery systems already in place. It will happen. No doubt. And it may be that the seeds of the new energy model have already been sown by those with knowledge far beyond ours. At any rate, my reason for ansering this blog isn't as a result of doubting alien life forces are out there ... I just thought I put my two cents worth in about the general greed of human beings and why things haven't changed faster. Which leads to your concluding remarks of "we truly choose peace for ourselves and others". The first part of this ramble should give one an interesting insight into the answer to that statment. Not likely anything short of radical mind altering therapy will resolve the "peace for oursleves and others" issue. Sad, isn't it?

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Scott, Machesney Park, IL — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:32:43 GMT

UFO's... a convenient cover story for what's really going on.. -shifty eyes-

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Johnny Awake, Chicago, IL — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:37:02 GMT

The government continues its cover-up because it is controlled by reptilian shape-shifters who have created all modern governments in order to exploit & manipulate the human race and ultimately control the planet. These reptilians use spaceships to fly around the planet as well as those in other solar systems. If they admitted that UFO's existed, it would be harder for them to control the masses because people would be demanding answers, thinking outside the box, questioning the nature of existence, & wanting access to highly advanced technology that could be the key to our salvation - which they do not want us to have. Watch this video for more of an explanation: http://youtube.com/watch?v=AJw_C4krhSQ

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John Doe, Denver, CO — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:40:48 GMT

Wasn't Mitchell the one that tried some ESP experiments while on the Moon? (Without NASA knowledge or approval, of course.) As much respect as I have for a moonwalker, he seems to have been on the fringe for a while.

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Guy, Elkhart IN. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:42:05 GMT

I’m not a UFO nut but I do believe the probability is very high that we have been visited by many different species of extra-terrestrials. The logic I use for my opinion is that we now know of hundreds of solar systems that have planets to big for life as we know it to exist in the habitable zone from the star. If we can see this with our less advanced technology then it would be safe to assume that beings flying UFOs would be able to see all this much better then we can with their more advanced science. And so knowing how rare our solar system is, it would seem that our solar system must stand out like a sore thumb: having a habitable Earth like planet protected by Jupiter and all, that can be perceived thousands of light years away. And so for this reason I think we have been visited many times by different UFO producing civilizations that have become curious about what may lie on a planet such as ours.

I’m absolutely positive if we reach the technology to make such a trip, we will be doing the same thing if we found a solar system like ours somewhere out there. And I am sure we will be aware of the existence of such a solar system long before we have the technology to reach it.

After all, if we are putting all this effort into Mars for the possible low life forms there, just think how much effort we would put into reaching the high life forms of a planet like ours!

Would not alien UFOs do the same to visit us???

Guy

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J. Whitford Albuquerque, NM — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:46:02 GMT

Dr. Mitchell's comments add to an overwhelming
amount of information already available reguarding
alien life and our governments attempts to cover
it up. Wow! like that's never happened before.

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Claudia, Sun Valley — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:46:37 GMT

It is ignorant to say that aliens have been here and only the government have seen them, have you ever heard of the phrase loose lips sink ships? The gov't would'nt be able to stop people if they really wanted to let the general public know. Everyone that says there is a coverup gives the gov't WAY too much credit.
It seems the mystery and lure of the unknown is what brings people to believe....the want of knowing there is something bigger than us...so much for having a higher conscience.

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Tony Rotz — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:48:16 GMT

Why are people so afraid to admit that UFO aircraft may in fact be a reality? It's a little like the scientists refusal to believe in God, that there are intelligences higher than what they possess and in the case of God infinitely higher, what they can't imagine can't possibly exist. I believe they are very afraid that aliens exist, and definitely afraid that God exists.

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Victor Hadaway, San Francisco, CA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:00:34 GMT

Why the cover up? We, citizens of earth, could use advanced technology. We are in need now of advances in medicine, economics, and energy for example. Is all the alien advanced technology only useful for military purposes? Is that why there is a cover up?

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Cloak N. Dagr — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:03:19 GMT

Hog Spit. No proof, no credibility. Relaying circular information from other "believers" isn't any kind of evidence. Having a belief is fine, but offering it as proof is another. Why hasn't even one of these so-called witnesses (military or otherwise) brought even a small piece of material, hide, organ, whatever out in all these years? Here's a belief for you: "I don't believe that in all this time a secret like this could be kept without one blabbermouth hiding a chunk of (put what ever extraterestrial material you want in here) in his lunch bucket and subsequently parading it on (put whatever media outlet you like here)." There's my belief and it's every bit as credible on face value as it's opposite.

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Darius Lundberg, Santa Barbara, Calif. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:07:40 GMT

Lynwood is absolutely correct. I would add that as long as the status quo is maintained, the public (and the earth) will be in an inescapable wrestler's hold of ignorance. This does not bode well for the future.

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mike Reston,Va — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:09:15 GMT

i have a question, if they are already here and are so advanced why don't they just land wherever they want and say "hey we are here",what makes people think an "inferior" civilization (humans) can keep the secret for so long.

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Lil Greenmen, Roswell, New Mexico — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:28:41 GMT

Fear not earthlings, we come in peace. We only want to study you and your abberant behavior. While there are other living worlds in this galaxy, most are in the most primitive stages of development with no truly sentient life-forms. Your world, while not unique, is very rare and we are fascinated by your self-delusional and self-destructive tendancies. For instance you are killing your world with pollutants of the air and water. Do you not realize by doing this you are killing yourselves? For a seemingly sentient species this behavior is highly illogical and like your world, unique. You subject yourselves to leaders of inferior intellectual ability and with predispositions to violence. Despite the lessons of your history, you refuse to learn. We have no intention or need to interfere with your own self-destruction. We only wish to observe it.

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Robert Salas — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:28:59 GMT

The body of evidence in support of the reality of UFOs and ET visitation is overwhelming if any of you "reporters" would only take the time to look at it.

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DR Coppinger, Indianapolis, IN — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:29:14 GMT

Gez, If we do know of aliens, why keep if from the population? In the scriptures, it mentions one heaven and one earth. Not someone from another planet. Please give me a break. All that goes on in this world, someone would bring this up. How about starvation, people dying of aids and homeless. That's a toptic that get's my attention. Worry about whet's on this earth, NASA, what a waste. That should have been closed, like all the factories and places that good hard working people tried to make a living. Not Another Safe Agency (NASA), do you know what the useless bunch make an hour? As many times as they have put a flight in space, never encountered on alien ship, yeah right! If you believe in the God almighty or not. All I can say is God bless each of you. Do away with NASA and the IRS. We would be so much better off.

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Jay Reyes, Brooklyn NY — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:42:28 GMT

Mulder, are you out there?

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roger,kentucky — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:48:53 GMT

Humans need to learn to seperate science, from science fiction. in the 60 years in question not one iota of proof has surfaced, only rumors, no united states government has ever been that airtight. humans are responsible for everything humans have done, good and bad. accept it, we are responsible for us and our planet and no one but us is going to bail us out but us.every human project in history has leaked or been proven, secret aircraft, manhattan project, watergate, iraq war reasons, no secret such as aliens could possibly exist for this long. get real folks, it only makes good reading for science fiction and money

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Phil Tew- Jackson, Ms. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:56:30 GMT

Here we go again. How many times are we going to hear about UFO's and some grand cover-up by government officials but no proof to back it up? Years of UFO sightings and "close encounters" have netted exactly zero credible proof. Throw in the Loch Ness monster and Big Foot and it's all just a zany circus to entertain us. Shazam!

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John Herlihy Las Vegas,NV — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:02:17 GMT

I believe Mr. Mitchell.Although he has had no first hand experience,I have. I won't get into all the details but on 12/13/08 I saw 9 objects which I called UCFO's Unidentified Controlled Flying Objects. From all that I have read we will all soon know the truth behind what's been going on.These are very real events that people have seen.There has definately been a cover up by the govt.The question is could we handle the truth. Before I had my sighting I often thought about the possibilities of UFO's and life elsewhere. Sometimes I wish I never saw what I did.Because I now know they are real.Its no longer a fantasy.If you'd like more details on what I saw please feel free to e-mail me and I'll tell you about the entire event.Thank you

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Jim Oberg — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:05:39 GMT

Mitchell believes lots of things he's heard, and he believes Uri Geller is a genuine psychic with paranormal powers that he's witnessed, and he believes he was cured of cancer by the psychic powers of a New Age medium... so his 'belief' works for him, but others need more proof. His private ESP test on Apollo-14 showed imagination and initiative, but I've read the published paper [anybody else ever seen it?] -- he mathematically manipulated the final garbled and ambiguous results with a series of elastic 'success criteria' until the originally random data showed a satisfying statistical trend which he could brag of -- not sound science, in my opinion. But remember the story about the question to Alan Shepard about why he picked Mitchell for his crew: "Because I wanted to come back". It was a sweet story, and plausible -- except that Mitchell was on the crew first (originally with Gordon Cooper, who got relieved of duty for flakiness), and it was Shepard who was added in later. So many stories 'sound good' in space history, that turn out to be only 'his stories'. I think these are more of that genre.

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Noe Seeum — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:07:09 GMT

The reason we're fighting is money. Defense contractors, those that buy their stocks, and those that take their bribes and approve their contracts, are all making a lot of money. Stopping hunger, curing illness, creating energy independence, none of those are going to make senior govt officials or big businesses money, so, they'll never happen. Just look at the so-called war on terror, untold billions spent and we are no safer than pre-911. But the fear mongering goes on at an ever more frenetic pace. Gotta be save, just gonna cost some money....

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Dactyl, San Antonio, TX — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:12:57 GMT

Still waiting on the day this will all be in the open!!

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John Arndt — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:25:22 GMT

Edgar Mitchell isn't the only NASA astronaut who has spoken out about ufo's. Here is Gordon Cooper (one of the original Nercury 7) talking about his own experineces:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dvPR8T1o3Dc

Still, many will still deny, deny, deny. I think it's a psychological problem that some have with trying to keep a rigid world view.

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Richard, Baltimore — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:28:04 GMT

After all of this time, it would be clearly evident to everyone ... if it were true.
This is the same group of crazies who believe there is an invisible being who can hear your wishes and make people well or change the course of events.
Pathetic.

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Mike Smith, Houston, Texas — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:32:38 GMT

Not having witnessed anything even romotely related to an alien presence I can't say I believe OR disbelieve it. It sure would be nice though if somebody with (thank you, H.G. Wells) "intelligence immeasurably greater than ours" would bail us our of the messes we keep getting ourselves into. Most likely, those intelligences are trying to figure out a way to make a graceful exit and get the heck outta here.

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Ramsterdam — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:36:01 GMT

It does not matter if there are aliens or not.
wether they are out in space, on our planet, or in our planet.All goverments are rubbing elbows with each other, I am not stupid, black goverments rule behind the scenes. The presidents are puppets, the question is who is the puppet master? Lets Nuke ourselves that will show them who is in control.
WE The PEOPLE ARE IN CONTROL

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Bob, Northern Virginia — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:54:43 GMT

I have a big problem with the government cover-up hypothesis. I can't imagine the United States Government successfully covering up anything for 60 years. (Organized crime? Yes. The government? No.) I'm perfectly happy to accept the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and I'm perfectly happy with the concept of extraterrestrial intelligences visiting Earth. But the UFO evidence does not lead me to believe that extraterrestrial intelligences have visited Earth. It leads me to believe that some people have had ineffable experiences that they explain using the vocabulary of a UFO mythology, even as they are taken advantage of by insincere charlatans. While I acknowledge the sincerity of a relatively small number of people who have had deeply subjective, personal experiences that they attribute to encounters with extraterrestrial intelligences, I believe the vast majority of those pushing the UFO agenda are opportunistic charlatans. With regard to those few sincere UFO believers who are seeking to articulate their own subjective experiences, I view them as using the language of UFOs as a mythology to provide a vocabulary for explaining deeply personal, subjective experiences which they cannot otherwise communicate. In other times and/or places, they would have drawn on other mythologies; however, in this time and place, they drawn on UFO mythology. It appears that there is no shortage of completely terrestrial human parasites who are eager to take advantage of those few, sincere UFO believers.

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BB, Climax, New Mexico — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:55:00 GMT

Senator Daniel Inouye expressed the deceit our leaders have advanced to in the last 100 years.
"A shadowy government, with it's own air force,it's own navy, it's own fund raising mechanism and the ability to pursue it's own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself".
The Disclosure Project May 9, 2001 exposes the deceit of the UFO information by our government and much more than the topic.
Having a shadowy government, instead of an American Government...having a shadowy monetary system instead of an American Monetary System, it is evident that our leaders, from govenors to the president wish upon themselves the fate of Czar Nicholas and his family.
Our government has chosen to use fear, debt and deceit to rule our nation. Greed to secure their lifetime and socialism instead of democracy to be America's future with the AMERO.
Their plan so sinister, they have forgotten about their own children and grandchildren's fate.
The Aliens...well evidence reveals they have been here a long, long time. They don't seem to like daylight much, as well as our leaders.
To the American Citizen, Let Truth and Justice be thy weapon and slay the dragon to the last offspring.
God Bless America

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Scott J. Adaire, Indianapolis, IN — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:55:38 GMT

My qualifications: none. My first hand knowledge of UFO's: none. That said, my father was a graduate engineer that specialized in severe environment building construction and materials stress. He was a civilian contractor working for the Air Force from 1953 through 1958. Something called the DEW line, that's what Dad called it. During that time he spent a lot of time in Greenland, at some place called Thule and another place called Sonderstrom. (I do not vouch for my spelling) When he deplaned on his first period of "duty", he and about 40 other men witnessed a large, multicolored spoked wheel in the sky. It was rotating slowly and Dad said it appeared to be 2000 to 3000 feet in the sky. (he admitted that without a frame of reference and without knowing the dimensions, it was a best guess) It was photographed by numerous people but the military got most of the film. My father was able to keep his film, and did not mail it home. He carried it and had it developed later. It was slide film, and shows exactly what he described. My father was both an engineer (never imagined anything in his life) as well as a Scotsman, about as pragmatic and fact based as possible. Since talking to him and seeing the slides, I have never doubted their existence. Never. I keep looking, and have never seen anything but I have never seen many things that I know exist. Why the secrecy? I have no idea and neither did Dad.

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Ray McCarthy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:58:36 GMT

The fact that Mitchell admits to no first hand experiences merely makes him a celebrity that happens to be jumping on the extra-terrestrial bandwagon. It would be great if he had hard evidence or more details to add to the mix of what is already out there, but in effect all he's saying is "Hey I believe in this stuff too!" I tend to give him no more credibility than if Brittney Spears had suddenly got up one morning and announced that she too believed in little grey men. Oh yay. Pardon me if I don't jump for joy.
I'm waiting for the little nugget of information that we've truly found something unusual, such as a broadcast we've been able to pinpoint, or unusual activity around a new planet we've found. Until then, we will most likely be stuck with whatever Hollywood comes up with.
I do believe we are being visited and have been for longer than we know, and yes if they were extremely hostile we probably would have been obliterated by now. I think it's more likely that our little planet is more of a nature preserve, and we are observed for the most part, while small groups of more hostile aliens may act the part of poachers, accounting for a certain percentage of the missing persons cases you see out there. Something to think about the next time you're out on some dusty back road in the middle of no-where.

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Don Pointer, Buckhorn, New Mexico — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:01:28 GMT

Look...put yourself in the shoes (if they wear shoes) of an alien race who've discovered us. We are stupid, selfish, war-like and cruel and we waste our resources as well as refusing to control our numbers before we go extinct in the accumulating garbage and sewage. Would you make contact with humans? I think not. Most likely you would make sure we never got out of our solar system.

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Klatu — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:22:25 GMT

Greetings Earthlings,
We've observed your primitive attempts to colonize this planet for much passing of time space. Be kind to yourselves.
Klatu

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Michael Wawra — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:37:23 GMT

I agree that there's something weird about Roswell, but an immediate red flag for me is the statement that "government officials have been carefully covering up that fact." When was the last time government officials successfully covered anything up for more than a few years, let alone 60? I think we are giving the conspiracy theory way too much credit.

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James Doe, Detroit, Michigan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:37:45 GMT

I believe Mr. Mitchell's account of things, as well as his story of official "plausable Deniability" and cover up stories inreguards to goverments out there.

I am not a nut case, I am a technical professional, with over 30 years of experience in the observation and documentation of things technical in nature, in otherwords I am a "Trained Observer"

I myself have witnessed flying craft that could not be identified by myself on 3 separate occasions, with multiple witnesses present. These aircraft were not anything "typical", hovered and manuvered silently in full view of anyone who cared to be looking their way in open public areas, and can not be explained with currently known technology.
BUT, that does not mean that they were not manufactured, or reverse manufactured, by goverment agencies or company's unknown for purposes of warfare, testing, and observation duties.
The crafts in question were in full view of the public, but everyone who was in the immediate vacinity acted as if nothing was there, or as if the objects were not detectable by them. This suggests either advanced "Stealth" technology is being tested, or we are actively being observed for purposes unknown.
In either case, the goverment has no obligation to tell us anything, as it may reveal either "hidden technology", or a new technology that is in the development stages. Civilian observers are just a nuisance to the goverment, and there is no advantage to catering to us "non-goverment" people.
Counter Intelligence is also a major tool for our goverment. Dis-information and coverups have been a tool our public and military officials have used against us for years, often without accountability on their part.
Why should they change now? How is this to their advantage to change the SOP? It is not, and never will be, to their advantage to change. The hole they have dug for themelves is allready too deep, and our nation would be shaken to its foundations if the public ever found out the goverment has been lying to them "for their own protection" for many many years.

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Dutch, Naperville, Illinois — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:41:26 GMT

Soldiers, Sailors and Pilots have a long history of telling "tall tales." There's no harm in them. Just don't be disappointed when this modern day tale of a Leviathon turns out to be as phony as those of yore.

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jay failing — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:45:34 GMT

I think the odds are the aliens are real. However, they probably regards us as cosmic trailer trash, and just swing by for energy and food, and avoid us. Somewhat like a clipper ship would have pulled into a port in it's travels. I think they use H3 for energy, as well as magnetism. They probably beam up some food also, fish, animals, fruit etc, and go.
Early visits satiated their curiosity about who we are. It is the metal based life forms we need to worry about, have seeded, and gone from simple machines to the intelligent AI stuff we are furthering
in a very short time. Carbon base life takes millions of years. Head's up! That's my take on it.

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harl, columbia, s.c — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:56:45 GMT

N.A.S.A=NOBODY AIN'T SEEN ANYTHING

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Brian D., Dallas, Texas — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:08:30 GMT

Wait, isn't Apollo 14 one of those faked moon landings that were covered up by a different massive government conspiracy?

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Dan, Seattle, WA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:22:41 GMT

His contention that UFO's exist is for the sole purpose of selling his books to make money. Pure and simple.

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Ethan Burnett Tucson, Arizona — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:26:17 GMT

Yet another educataed and successful man falls victim to great fictions supported by false testimonies, lies, and atmospheric phenomenon.

I don't believe there are little green men because of the vast distance they would have to travel to get here. Space travel isn't cheap or quick. No society would waste its time hiding under the nose of another, unless it is hostile-and these little green men haven't wiped us out yet.

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C. Crump, United States of Apathy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:39:09 GMT

Hmmm, could the government really cover up something like this? Yep. They have us backing a war to further enrich the rich while the sons of the poor die, so why not? Oh, right, fighting terrorism. You aren't any safer than you were in 2001. The American public will swallow whatever it's told. As for aliens coming "so far" to do nothing, I'm not so sure they've come very far. And I'm not so sure they're doing nothing. I'm not even sure they're aliens. But something is happening, and there are some strange little beings here from somewhere. Maybe they're from here, too. Maybe they're the gods, maybe they're evolved dinosaurs, maybe they're aliens, who knows. Belittling this subject is just what you've been taught to do, and it would be nice to see some integrity on the part of our government and our science establishment - which is not impartial - and have them open up about this.

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Thomas Edison Appleton WI — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:51:52 GMT

I have well over 18 thousand hours of research in this field. I have thoudands of photos government released and non released documents. All I can say for you nay sayers is DO YOUR homework. A five year old can look at the facts and know we have been visited. I was a non believer. I got interested when I began to look into the history of man kind. The missing link as they call it. I just have one question for the non believers.
How did we go from the stone age living in caves, to building the most advanced structures in human history? To creating calanders that are more accurate than what we use today?, from a society that didnt even really have writting. How did these ancient people know about planets that were not even discovered until the 1800's and 1900's but the ancients knew they where there. HOW? This is just the tip of the ice berg. Religeon is the biggest reason i feel disclosure has taken so long. It would smash everything most people believe in. Monsenior Balducchi I hope it is spelled correctly, said enough to pretty well make most people belivers. Recent ET remarks by the vatican also should give you a clue.
Want more visit my website. You dont find it ask.
http://melchizadek.conforums.com/index.cgi

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JC, Fairbanks, AK — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:56:24 GMT

Pure, unadulterated baloney. No matter who's saying it. If this jerk doesn't have PROOF of his extraordinary claim he oughtta just clam up and stop embarrassing the rest of the moonwalkers.

I'd alot rather read about Rusty Schweikert and asteroid Apophis than this bozo . . .

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Alain, Orlando, FL — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:08:07 GMT

ALIENS ARE REAL! I have positive proof and I'm now telling you where to find this proof. All you have to do is read all these comments... There's aliens all around us! ....aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!

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I Believe, South Texas — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:10:14 GMT

It's very simple...Extraterrestrials do exist and in exchange for "covert" access and observation of our planet, Governments (not just ours) receive small bits of technology in order to IMPROVE our way of life. The problem is not all technology is being used for that reason. When the people of the earth and their Governments learn to work together as a unified planet for the benefit of mankind and our environment then perhaps we will be privileged to a 1st contact.
A closed mind will never see the infinite possibilties that man can create...not destroy.

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Chris, Philly, PA — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:23:49 GMT

I think the most interesting tidbit of all UFO evidence comes from Medieval times way before there was a Roswell. I've even seen passages where Alexander the Great records "two great flying shields" in 329 B.C. Just something to think about. I find it interesting, but I'm someone who needs to see proof before I believe anything. I do think that it is possible for our government to cover something like this up because the proof may be classified above classified.

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A. Kuhl — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:32:15 GMT

Thanks, MSNBC, I guess this subject matter was perhaps newsworthy after all...

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Roger Thompson, Jeff, Ohio — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:39:18 GMT

I knew a guy many years ago growing up who was in the Air Force and had been stationed at Wright Patterson in Dayton. You could always tell he wanted to talk about it when you would ask him but he would always just say if he told us we wouldnt believe and that the govt made him sign papers saying he was never allowed to talk about what was in there.(refering to hanger 18 of course) True or not? i dont know. But besides...is it really a secret they are visiting? people have been claiming sightings of UFO's since before there were crafts that could fly....so if people actually see them....is it really a secret they are here?

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ljd, PVB, FL — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:51:18 GMT

It amazes me that the dialogue is still so obtuse. Why for intance could there not be more than one species of alien visiting us? Perhaps there is a "good" group and a more "evil" group. Certainly, the belief of "good and evil" has existed since man has begun pondering his spiritual meaning. And the majority of the human race currently believes in "good spirits" and "bad spirits". Furthermore, if these species do exist and are from another dimension, as stated in the Zohan or speculated about in string-theory, why do we insist they they take on only one physical form? I can't help but ponder how the computer, being designed after the human mind, can be manipulated so easily. If that is the case, what makes us so certain that all which we "perceive" is matter and "real" and not just a play on instruments of our physical, human body?

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Dan Stewart — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:55:36 GMT

Well why do you think the Gov. would lie to the people?
I have a theory!

The Government is renting us out ! The ailens want to study humans (we are likely unusual because we are mamals and most of the universe isn't)so the US gov gets some nice flying saucers (with little or no fuel in them)and promiss to cover up any indecressions
they may cause. Of course the ailens arn't worried about us reverse engineering their craft. they know we have very little fuel (Element 115) because there isn't any on this planet only the small ammount already on the craft.

It was a safe bet for them they give away a spacecraft they know we can't duplicate and can't fuel.

And in return the US Government cleans up the mess.
And the public are never the wiser.
you see if everyone knew the were being studied they wouldn't "act normal" or vise a versa they would when otherwise they would not. It's the effect of knowing that you may be under watch or something.

Part of Human Nature I guess.

If not then what other motive would the Gov. have to keep the secret so long.

I know I had a Clearance at one time and I have a good understanding of how the Air Force keeps their stuff
they keep it as lons as it's current up to about 20 yrs out therefore if the cover-up has been going for 60 years it must still be active and will stay that way until 20 yrs after the program is done.IE even if the whole thing was closed by presidential order you still would't hear about it for at least 20 years

wrapped within an enigma, surrounded by a mystery.
so life goes on

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Carlos, Lockhart, Tx. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:20:54 GMT

For those of us who've been in the UFO loop for a long time and who take the existence of UFO's for granted, this is really old news. It can only be surprising to those who only now have discovered that UFO loop.
Regarding Col. Corso, there was an excellent TV program on the History Channel, I believe it was, that explained very satisfactorily that the Col.'s claims were not true. He claimed to have recovered alien artifacts which he placed at various industrial laboratories and which resulted in certain technologies we have today, such as microwaves and Kevlar. But the truth is that these technologies came from research facilities he never visited and which were produced by hard-working researchers, not reverse engineers. Another question that came up was... how could a mid-level officer have access to such high-level information, whether in the sixties or later? Not likely. My only question is, why would Col. Corso release such misinformation? Was it merely to stake his own claim to fame?
As to Lynwood's comment, yes, there are many who are aware of a gov't. coverup. But the question is still whether the gov't. has reverse engineered any E.T. technology. I'd say no. I say that because I agree with Dr. Mitchell that their technology is far ahead of ours, so far ahead that we can't begin to comprehend it.

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Mr Weasel, New Hampshire — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:28:31 GMT

can we believe this? Could our goverment cover up such a thing for 60+ years?? You don't think it's possible? Then let me ask just one question of those who thing the goverment couldn't and wouldn't cover up such a thing...

Who shot JFK???

the conspiricies continue.....

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cody mccall — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:34:04 GMT

Maybe Mitchell's views are genuine or maybe he's just seeking the spotlight from which he faded decades ago. My M.O. is--anything is possible but I need proof. That would be VERIFIABLE proof. And there ain't any.

Think about this: all the different types of cameras/recording devices all over the planet, many of which never sleep. And, yet, with all that observation power, nothing verifiable has been produced. Tells me all I need to know.

Be open-minded but be skeptical.

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Steller Diner — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:39:27 GMT

People of Earth...you will soon be served up on our dinner plates...merci beaucoup!!!

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Adam Korbitz, Madison, Wisconsin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:49:29 GMT

Alan Boyle, thank you for brining some reason to the hullabaloo over Dr. Mitchell's comments. Your analysis is essentially correct: he is simply reiterating what he has been told by people he trusts, and to that extent it is simply hearsay. That does not mean it isn't true or that Dr. Mitchell is crazy (as some seem to suggest), but it wouldn't be admitted as evidence in court if offered to prove the reality of extraterrestrial visitation. That's all. It is human nature to believe those we trust, even if they tell us something otherwise difficult to believe. Science should investigate these claims rather than cavalierly dismiss them. Remember the meteorite the hit Peru in September? The scientific community rapidly dismissed eyewitness accounts until investigators verified the strike. More on this false "skepticism" at my blog: http://estimateofthesituation.blogspot.com/2008/03/object-lesson-in-fallacy-of-unbridled.html

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Michael Grassi, Jiamusi, China — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:12:05 GMT

Aliens are real? how silly! What makes Edgar Mitchell such an expert? Just because he has a Doctoral Degree, has traveled to and walked on the moon and has spent his entire professional career in and around other aerospace 'experts' doesn't mean I have to believe what he says. I prefer to believe what my government and every Bible thumping, 8th grade educated, tobacco chewing, beer swilling, red-blooded real American has to say. They are the only ones we can trust. Although there is no physical evidence of God's existence and all of my knowledge of Him is second hand I believe he exists. He lives on a cloud. Every once in a while his wife, Mary, will appear on a tuna fish sandwich. When we die, and if we have been good American Christians we go to heaven. In Heaven, we get all the neat stuff we couldn't afford on earth. Sorry, only American Christians are allowed into Heaven, no illegal or extraterrestrial aliens please! What will these 'nut-case experts' have us believe next? That the World Trade buildings were brought down by forces other than a few plane loads of wacky Arabs. Because jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to turn all that steel into a molten mass and that World Trade Center building number Seven collapsed into a neat pile many hours after the initial incident is not proof that this event was perpetrated by forces other than a band of Jihad's merry-pranksters. People do not be ignorant, it is your patriotic duty to believe everything your government tells you, after all, they have your best interests at heart. We are not intelligent enough to understand all the things our enlightened politicians know, so mind your place and do not question authority. To Obey and Conform, Work and Consume are your only reasons to live. Freedom of information will enslave you, embrace the dog leash that your government has around your neck, it is for your own good! America, love it or leave it!

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Greg, Auburn, Wash. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:25:51 GMT

Why do half the people posting here spell like lolcats?

By the way, new technologies have repeatedly toppled civilizations. Most refreshing. Bring on the lightweight batteries and broadcast power, Dr. Tesla!

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anonymous, Little Rock, Arkansas — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:51:02 GMT

Geoff,
They would have to be much closer than 40 light years. If they were 20 light years away, the radio signals from 1907 would have gotten there, when they were sitting on their launch pad ready to go. They hear our very first radio signals and go, "Hey, people are on Earth (over there in Sol system) and they have a radio! Let's go! Then they'd launch and travel at the speed of light to land in Roswell. Much more likely they're much closer since Marconi's first signals were weak. I'd say they were maybe 4 light years away, but we've been listening to Alpha Centauri (the closest system, at 4 light years) for decades and haven't heard as much as a sneeze over EM.

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Vic delValle, San Juan, PR — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:11:01 GMT

If we weren't on the brink of a new X-files movie, these vague comments would have had no attention.

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sean FitzGerald, detroit Mich — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:26:02 GMT

Who doesn't suspect this. It's the worst kept secret of all time

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Matthew, Phoenix, Arizona — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:26:52 GMT

I'll tell you about a cover up... the one orchestrated by all of the people on Earth who are too afraid of the mundane nature of reality to accept it!

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Sim S G, Singapore — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:10:45 GMT

Aliens visiting earth could be clones or robots who could duplicate themselves along the way. We always think of our own dimension and that's wrong. Highly intelligent beings far more sophisticated than us can travel the galaxies by bending time. This technology is still beyond us.

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X Files Uncover — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:16:19 GMT

There is no doubth that humans are delighted listening supernatural stuff of any kind.
I have certainly seen small creatures, but rather than being green or brown, the ones I've seen are blue. A lot of people have seen them too; they are called SMERPHS and they are very funny. jejeje

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ray smith — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:23:00 GMT

I was told a dude pranced into the room with a bucket of yellow cake.....and how heavy would that be?...government conspiracy?...sure every damn day since man invented government....It is in our nature to lie to one another....now dolphins on the other hand...they are developing quite normally and the prime directive keeps it so....like they would want to talk to bush...about what? curious george reprints?....sure there is something out-there....always has been....boogie men...indians...giant sea monsters...dragons....oh, yea...and starving aliens...get real....1000 spy satellites, a space station, 100 million archeologists etc.,etc.,etc., and our best knowledge is hearsay, inuendo and speculation.....transpermia is surely real...think about what the astro-nots are flushing out everyday but most of the science points to a lonely earth..hope we learn different...but I ain't wishing on wishy washy evidence, we got real problems here, on earth, some of those problems are the result of grandiose delusional influencers....his words come coincedently with events that appear more of a money consperacy...seems a lot of people are working over time to distract us from reality....perhaps it is easier to accept a candidate based on whishes and words when we ourselves pine with hope on whishes and hearsay, not hard cold facts....time will tell us what the truth is, not cool movies or ad driven dribel. Thanks for all the fish.

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Only 1, USA — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:30:07 GMT

Oh, how simple minded we have all become. Mysteries exist all around us. Stonehenge, the Big Bang, DNA, Evolution, Quarks, Pyramids etc. Many a human have been doubted and ridiculed for their theories and beliefs only later to be called pioneers - Aristotle, Newton, Galileo, Columbus, Einstein, Martin Luther King, Stephen Hawking and blah, blah, blah.....It's so easy to cover things up especially when it’s in plain sight. Disinformation, confusion and making us all too BUSY in our so called lives to even know the people that live next to you, let alone trust what they have to say. Fear and mistrust of each other is why cover up is so easy. Anyway, enough ranting, all I really have to say is that there are MANY things we do not yet understand about the Universe.....
Think about this - Of all the so called UFO sightings and reports through out all of history, all over the world, by all sorts of humans, Either they are all liars or......... "Only 1" needs to be true..With or with out proof.

Are we really that naive?
Obviously.

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Brian, Las Vegas ,NV — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:43:27 GMT

If little green men from out there are real, how would anyone know the truth from the bunk that has been thrown into the mix..Even if someone has really had an encounter with an alien when the story comes out about it, most people will only assume it's just another joke.There is no way to tell until someone gets a solid piece of a ship or an alien to show the public. As for government people letting this out of the bag, well, some have been doing this for years but who believed them? With a science advanced eons ahead of us and having much expirence with races like ours, I do not think the aliens will let any evidence fall into our hands.It comes to the question as to why do they come here? Curiousity. What's out there? We will do the same as our science advances.

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zerog — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:43:53 GMT

Has any one given thought to the fact the man kind has only been on earth thousands of years. Look what we have accomplished, even in just the last couple hundred years. Now imagine where our technoledgy will be after hundreds of thousands or millions of years. That is if we were capable of making it that long, but thats what might be out there. People should not belive every thing they hear, but without proof one way or the other they should not discredit it either.

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Thomas Ashby, Calgary — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:57:08 GMT

Instead of just helping humans to overcome technical
issues of space travel , why not just give us one of there space ships as a gift. Afterall, Will Smith flew one in ID4..maybe Mitchell is ready to tell, they already have.

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Patrick Bishop — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:58:31 GMT

Yikes!

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Gunther, Tempe, AZ — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:51:15 GMT

The fact is, we have been here all along. I've explained what happened at Roswell, even why we borrow your sheep. It's all very simple, really.
http://alienzoo.com/blog/index.php/about/

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keith Hass, Seattle, Wasington — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:17:26 GMT

Ok, maybe it happened who cares anymore? It is just silly to think we are it in the univere. Someday we will explore new worlds, but it could be a couple hundred years until we physically do so. It will be so cool when all we have to do is beam our atoms around instead of wasting a substance from the dino age(oil).

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George Hugle Cheboygan mi. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:19:47 GMT

Edger Mitchel, Gordon Cooper and many other Ex NASA men should all come forward and just because we accept that they are here doesn't mean that the Governments want them to hurt their pocket books. I for one wish we were a better species,nonviolent and no deceit, right now we are such a sad species.
I think some governments are scared of them because could be their ways are so much better, no monitary system, everyone shares work and goods, no elite, all cared for. Hostile crimes are dealt with very severely,no prisons. Who of us knows but there must be a better way, ours sure doesn't work. I really don't think they would help us the way our governments are and the way some people are.
Right now it's a cruel world, I personely am ashamed of it, not the World althought we have done are best to distroy the most beautiful planet in our solor system but the people on it, but not all the people.

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Gary — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:06:45 GMT

Why would an ET smart enough to travel through space WANT to visit Earth? If he got 60 light years from Earth and picked up "I Love Lucy" or "War of the Worlds" or worse yet news clips of WW2 he would turn around, kick in the warp drive and tell the Federation to stay away from that 3rd rock from the Sun.

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Carter in Wisconsin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:14:59 GMT

Been interested since 1952. Much was proven false. That .01% interested us. My Son and I saw one in 1986. We only use about 5% of our intelligence. The universe is limitless. Too much out there to believe we are alone but feel our species not ready to act intelligently in this universe. Just because of our inabilities we are being watched. The method of movement is dimensional in my opinion. It explains the historic variables of observations we can't understand as yet. We don't know about most of our universal matter as yet. All very interesting abstracts to our small and rare species.

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jim fisher, Albany,NY — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:24:54 GMT

What if these ET are not ET at all, but the human race from 100,000 (or 200,000) years in the future trying to study their own past(ie Time travel)? If we had the ability to travel back in time, study dinosaurs and see how they lived, if they really had feathers,how they where colored, sounded and moved in their own environment a few hundred million years ago....... Dont you think we would do it? Wouldnt we as a race want to answer questions from our past like that? Imagine in 100k years, all the questions about us as a race now.......in year 2008, what questions would someone from the future want to see first hand?

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Michael, Pasadena,Tx — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:36:54 GMT

Surely there are UFOs and aliens. Sometimes they make their presence known, but in general they keep quiet. I think this is by plan. The government has requested to keep the aliens away until they can find a way to undo their lies. It's a conspiracy, no doubt. Me and about 50 other soldiers from the 82nd Airborne saw a UFO in June 1997. There is no doubt these things exist.

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Mike Sternshein Woodstock GA — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:43:50 GMT

I witnessed an object in 1966 at age 20 in Plainfield NJ, it was around 10 PM and I was walking my dog. It hovered over some trees for maybe 5 min then floated over head at about 1500 ft. It was triangular with 3 lights at each corner blue, red and green. A small plan circled it and then flew away, The object then floated back over the trees and then shot straight up and was gone in seconds. It was observed by myself and at least 8 or 9 others around me.

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Andrew R. Stec — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:05:54 GMT

Why don't you all go look at some images on my website. Dvd is out for release later on this week.
Irrefutable photogroaphic proof from NASA images of a mining civilization on the Planet Mars and the moon, an artificial observation platform. Time to get out of the sixth grade and become aware of what you are and why you are here. Stop trying to explain everything using physics based on lies.

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Myke — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:58:09 GMT

Some interesting things about this thread:

First - The "cover-up" nuts think the government (any government) is powerful enough to suppress knowledge of aliens who traveled across vast distances. If they have that kind of technology, surely they could just broadcast a world wide message of greeting and the bad ole government couldn't stop it.

Second - The alien nuts seem to believe that just because aliens have technology, that they are moralistic and benevolent. That they don't contact us because we destroy the world and each other, that we are the "trailer park" of the universe. Maybe the aliens are the losers of the universe and were kicked out of their own star system because they were wackos.

Very funny thread to read over my morning coffee though.

...and another thing, some of you nuts need to get a spell checker. Your arguments lose weight when you can't spell.

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ALLEN — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:58:35 GMT

EDGAR IS JUST TRYING TO HELP HUMANITY WITH A PROPER PERSPECTIVE OF MAN VS THE UNIVERSE AND THAT WE ARE NOT THE BIOLOGICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE..MOST EARTHLINGS CAN NOT COMPREHEND SUPER EXTRODIDARY AIRCRAFT NOR DO THEY HAVE THE AWARENESS TO LOOK FOR THEM..WE ALSO LIVE IN A TIME WHERE THE ENDS JUSTIFIES THE MEANS FOR OUR GOV---THEY LIE---THEY CLAIM TO PROTECT US OR IS IT TO EXPLOIT US AS WELL? I COME FROM AN AVIATION BACKGROUND AND HAVE SEEN EXTRA-ORDINARY AIR CRAFT--SEEING IS BELIEVING...BUT I ALSO CHECKED WITH PEOPLE IN THE KNOW--DEEPLY--UFOS ARE HERE FOR A REASON--I AM SURE THE TECHNOLOGY IS A BIG NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE--AS WELL AS US HAVING NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND BEING SPACE TRAVELERS MAKES US A THREAT TO THEM---POTENTIALLY---AND AS I HAVE SEEN WHAT MAN HAS DONE THE LAST 100 YEARS--WE ARE A THREAT TO THEM.

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Comedian, funnytown,in — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:59:24 GMT

There are no aliens out there, if there were we would have sent them foreign aid by now.

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Dennis Logan, Austin, Texas — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:08:59 GMT

Proof Please. Thank You

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JB, Toulouse, France — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:23:04 GMT

Mitchell may have many reasons to go public with his declarations but, after all, he’s just logical. The universe and time have no limits. Consequently the chance that we are alone is zero. The question is only where and when.
On the other hand it sounds a bit strange that aliens chrash their craft just after the the 2nd WW in the Arizona desert. They could have chosen a better place and a better moment… Other argument in favor of his theory is the sudden technical progress the humanity made during the past century. Was there a helping hand somewhere ?
That our respectives governements are hiding something is obvious. How do you want to keep control of billions of individuals in the world who believe in all kinds of gods and religions when suddenly your are telling them it’s all bull****…

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Raquet, Norfolk, VA — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:24:18 GMT

Very interesting comments, even from the skeptics. If there are aliens visiting us, either from another galaxy or from a different Earth-based dimension, they're very crafty (pardon the pun). We humans are so mistake prone, so superstitious, so bloodthirsty hateful, that it's a wonder we've survived this long. Our kind shoot or stab first, and then ask questions, but never remorse over our basic animalistic compulsions. Are visiting aliens mistake prone too? The evidence, or at least verbal accounts, seems to support a positive response.
I believe that something is causing unexplained sightings, whether man-made or alien-made I can't say. I can say that I, too, have seen something that I classify as a UFO, albeit it was at a distance in a Spring night sky over the desert scrub in eastern N.M. I wasn't alone in seeing the alien-like demonstration; dozens of people remarked about the same sighting. The object was slightly larger and brighter than a star; moved vertically, horizontally, and diagonally faster in ways that neither of our known aircraft can move; and when it zoomed extremely fast towards our location it produced no sound whatsoever. Keep in mind that this demonstration was in the middle of nowhere in a clear, brightly lit, star-filled sky. The only thing out there would be pasture land; yeah, the next day we looked for butchered cows, and kept our eyes on the news articles, but nothing surfaced; except for the rash of calls to the local police that fateful night.
I know what I saw, and even though it doesn't go to the depth to make anyone salivate, I believe that we are either being watched by others or being manipulated by those trying to keep secrets. To be certain, what others and I saw was real, regardless of the source. This took place in 1971.

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Michael, Jacksonville, FL — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:25:05 GMT

"Why would creatures with technology infinitely surpassing ours come so far to do things so stupid?" Well, why do the bubbas go so far from the beer buckets from which they imbibe to go cow tippin'? Why do our politicians, whom put on the aire of being superior to their electorate, throw out the same chum to the sharks in the media under the guise of change? The answer is simple - because they can.

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Jason F - Houston, Texas — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:28:40 GMT

If "any" visitor were to travel here - they would therefore have the ability to bend/control light as the speed they would travel. Essentially - they would control light - thus control movement and be essentially 3-5 minutes ahead of us. They would do whatever they liked - studying our species for the flaws and qualities we promote.
All the while - we're at their complete mercy. When you can manipulate light, which if here, they can most certainly do - their advantage is beyond our comprehension. Much like the Bible - it's an ongoing debate. If their are such creatures which odds say yes - we cannot do anything unless they decide to show themselves. It's really that simple...

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ken, NYC — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:34:03 GMT

The goverment has it reasons to cover up this stuff. Cattle mutilations and human multilations are the same thing to them and have occured through our history. Obviously just like poeple, you have good ones, and bad ones with these EBE's.

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Skye Evans, Las Cruces NM — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:38:03 GMT

I've grown up hearing my taciturn and otherwise conservative and sensible Country-music listening elders (long-time ranchers in the Roswell area) refrain from passing judgment on alien believers. They know more about what happened in 1947 than they're willing to tell, and are very solemn when folks like Edward Mitchell step up. What's sad is the way the media makes of joke of it when some of these folks, aging and dying now, are simply trying to bear witness and be true to their own sense of duty. Can we at least accept that much? All this just smacks of over-sensationalising for ratings.

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Mark M. Phoenix AZ — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:55:59 GMT

Terrorism will never go away, people do not need any reason to hate others.
If you think coverups and secrecy are not possible, just look to the Manhattan Project that created the A-Bomb. Even after it was tested no one in the general public knew about it until it was used, even Harry truman, the VP at the time had to be CONVINCED it was real when it was revealed to him when FDR died.

People still believe in Adam and Eve and that "God" created the world in seven days, when was the last time God showed up anywhere and where did he get "His" technology? Why hasn't he come to help us now that we have screwed things up so bad. Ever seen a child dying from cancer and wonder why God loves that child less than others?
What would Christians do if they knew their version was completely not true? How would the religions of the world settle out if we were proven to be not God's people?
How safe would the unwashed masses feel if they knew the people they trust to keep them safe were absolutely powerless?
Ever been alone and scared when you knew your fate lay in the hands of someone or something you absolutely had no control over? Ask the Columbian hostages how they felt being captive, they almost turned on each other.
I am not saying that any of it is true or not true but it is a little simple minded to think that we know all about everything. What would people 2000 years ago think about a light bulb? It would have seemed absolutely impossible then. Think back to a time when we were so sure that the earth was the center on the universe and that the earth was FLAT.

Until humanity is ready to truly open their minds and accept what can be true, none of it matters. Go back to your cave and draw on the walls, hate your neighbor because they are different and do not believe as you do, kill those that do not believe your God is the true god, covet what you can not have.

When your own ancestors were alive they did not have computers, did that mean they would never be real?

Would you share what you had with a species that continues on its own path of destruction, intent on using up what it has, intent on hating that it does not understand or would you just be on your merry way.

We are not ready even if it is true, just look at the comments here, all we care about is us, why we do not have those things that would make it all better for us, and distrusting everything about the subject, content to be spoon fed by those with the spoon.

I for one am glad we do not know if it is true or not. We would only ruin it.

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James, Houston, Texas — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:57:22 GMT

We have not yet been "visited". Yes, it makes for interesting and compelling entertainment, but it simply hasn't happened thus far. It could happen tomorrow and it may not for millennia to come. When it does, it is highly unlikely these visitors will choose the low profile or no profile approach as required to date by the absence of any tangible proof.

If they are technologically empowered sufficient to span the enormous distances in an adequately compressed time span so as to make the voyage relevant for them, they will not have need for obscurity. True, the life spans of these beings will likely be far greater than ours - just as technology has doubled our life expectancy since the mid-1800's. But regardless of this, the consumption of time in the voyage process will surely have bearing. Ultimately, their vast superiority, as demonstrated by their ability to appear here in the first place, will obviate any concern or strategy on their part for a stealthy presence once they arrive. To the contrary, I fully expect their arrival to be sudden, dramatic, and consequential beyond anything we can imagine. Given their arrival is not deferred for thousands of millennia, until the time when we and such beings may perhaps be relative peers, their arrival will be a "species altering" event for us and perhaps most or all other species who reside with us on this beautiful sphere.

We can only pray the impact is less than "species eliminating".

Ultimately, we are protected by purpose and reason. A species capable of arriving here is one who has surely progressed well beyond the primitive needs we still default to in our early state of species evolution, such as; domination, conformity, consumption, and eventual destruction.

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Samuel D. G. Heath, Ph. D. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:58:26 GMT

While camping just south of Edwards AFB I witnessed three discs overhead in a triangular equidistant formation. They remained stationary for about ten minutes, then slowly began a counterclockwise rotation and suddenly raced north and disappeared.

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Arizona Willie — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:04:08 GMT

Considering the unlikely possibility of faster than light travel, interstellar travel is highly unlikely.

So I doubt the UFO'S are from another planet.

However, they may well be from far in the future researching the past as our present day archeologists do.

Scientist claim to have sent a few molecules into the past by a few milli-seconds ( how they prove that is beyond me ) so it may be that thousands of years in the future when our sun has dimmed and the human race has evolved to be bald with large eyes to gather the diminished light from the sun ( to fit the image of the little gray men ) that they are coming back to study our times.

That would also explain why they haven't contacted us. The paradox of time travel that if they change the past it would change the future. Probably all they can do is observe.

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Such a Bastard, Somewhere, USA — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:02:42 GMT

It's obvious aliens exist. Why they'd want anything to do with mankind is the question.

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Mike Roberts, Shreveport, LA — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:12:20 GMT

The only cover up at Roswell was the fact that the US was using high altitude spy balloons [the predecessors to our spy planes and satellites] to spy on the communist world, especially the USSR. This was a top secret project and tightly guarded. It was better to have 'space aliens' leaked out than the truth. A similar flap ocurred when we started overflying the USSR with our SR-71 spyplane--a vehicle way ahead of its time technologically--so far ahead that the Russians first thought it was aliens from outer space! The program was kept top secret from the late 50s through the early 70s at least, although there were leaks [I worked with SR-71 imagery in the intelligence community in the late 60s-early 70s]. Our spy satellite programs were actually classified "above" top secret [code word] and still are. There have been many "cover ups" to hide secret military of intelligence info that have nothing to do with aliens and UFOs. I had insider info at one time--and saw or heard no evidence that aliens have been among us.

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Bloggerrich, Fort Lauderdale, FL — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:24:23 GMT

Billy...what's with the Zohar? Ancient peoples have been underestimated for years, but that has been changing as discoveries are being made. The "Zohar" was written by Moses de Leon in the 1400's. He took the original works created in the Roman times and applied 1400's information to it. These writings are for those who like to lose themselves in fantasy and although some of the information is based on fact, most of it is garbage. Let's deal with reality here, not the Dungeons and Dragons crap.

First, it is highly unlikely that we have been visited by anybody, unless they are in our solar system. I've done the math on a previous posting and don't care to spend that much time figuring it out again. But, it would take over 2,000 years traveling 1 million miles per hour to get to our nearest neighbor (Proxima Centauri), which they haven't found any planets orbiting. Our fastest vehicles (Helios and Helios 2) traveled at about 150,000mph due to their elliptical orbit around the sun. In open space, you won't be able to use the sun because the farther you go away the more you slow down. These crafts slowed down to just over 45,000mph at their farthest point from the sun. So we would have to create engines that provide more thrust than the sun's gravity provides by "sling shooting" space crafts. At the speed of light(186,282 miles per second), it would still take you about 4.5 years to get to our closest neighbor.

It is highly unlikely that we have been visited by anyone outside our solar system. If we have, it is more likely from in our solar system or even right here on Earth or maybe the Kuiper Belt if they have set up a space station.

You can bet we are not alone in the universe, but we likely have not had any visitors.

Also, forget the rediculous, "beings from another dimension" thing as mentioned in the Zohar. This makes for bad "B" movies and TV shows, but has nothing to do with reality.

Additional Info:
1. 10 closest stars to our solar system range 4.2-8.6 light years.
2. Fastest man made crafts are Helios 1 launched in December 1974 and Helios 2 in January 1976. Both reached around 150,000mph, but only as they approached the sun...not generated by onboard power systems.
3. New Horizons is the fastest spacecraft launched from Earth to date. The "New Horizons" spacecraft attained an escape velocity of about 35,800 mph (57,600 km/h) as it departed Earth orbit.

Visit http://www.aerospaceweb.org for this and lots of other interesting facts.

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Ben, Hot Springs, Arkansas — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:34:30 GMT

Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University (1952); Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautics from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (1961); Doctorate of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964; Honorary Doctorates from New Mexico State University (1971), Carnegie-Mellon University (1971), University of Akron (1979) and Embry-Riddle University (1996).

6th man to walk on the moon. Now listen, most of you yahoos out there couldn't muster this man's career if you tried your best 24 hours a day. Do not impune his sanity or his reputation just because you don't like what he has to say or what he thinks. He's an American hero. This blogger for "Cosmic Log" is a journalist (NOT A SCIENTIST) and thought it might be cool to decry Mitchell. Mitchell has never given any indication that he is insane or delusional. Are you all so blind as to honestly believe that this sort of thing isn't possible and that our government doesn't have the will or the resources to purposefully cover it up? They covered up the atomic bomb experiments for 5 years even though it had 100,000 people working on it, why couldn't they cover this up? Why would a man of his standing and reputation ruin it all at the end of his life for no reason? Insanity? Please.

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Ben, Hot Springs, Arkansas — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:36:35 GMT

By the way, the "UFO FILES" were never closed. The Air Force just told us that they were closed.

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Gphillip — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:54:14 GMT

Give it up. There are no aliens, goasts, vampires or goblins. People like to believe in these things because it makes them think there is more to life than just these temporary bodies of flesh. In a sense, it's a way to ignore the fact of their own mortality. Sure there are things in the sky we can't explain from time to time. That has always been the case and probably always will be. a couple thousand years ago they called them Angels, some called them dragons. Now we know some are cloud formations, others high flying flocks of geese, some in the 50's and 60's were spy planes and the government used UFO's as cover, but some still are "unidentified" and that will always be the case. It doesn't mean they are spookey, it just means we don't have enough information to identify them. Everyone should rest assured though, every single sighting has a natural, or human-made explanation. It's physically impossible for aliens to travel here, just as it is and always will be physically impossible for us to travel to other star systems. That's the stuff of childish dreams. Put away those childish things and focus on the one and only too terribly short life you'll ever have, right here on good old Mother Earth.

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Albert L. Hill, Shawnee, Kansas. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:01:08 GMT

With the number of "spy" satalites around the earth, why has none been placed around the moon so we could observe the back side of the moon? There is a lot of money and effort spent on a space station that
considering the time span, we could have built a place on the moon. Unless we were told to stay away.

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Dave, — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:33:43 GMT

If other beings from space are so smart, why don't they find a way of using mosquitos to their advantage and take all of them from this planet?

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Neptune — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:44:07 GMT

I didn't really think much about UFO's until a friend and I saw one a few months ago, since then its all I can think about. It wasn’t some light way up in the sky, It was a huge V shaped craft flying low to the ground, maybe 100 feet directly above me, gliding/floating in absolute silence. It was unbelievable, and I wouldn’t have believed my own eyes unless my friend was there also to confirm what was happening. There's a lot more to the story, but since then I realize the UFO phenomenon is real.

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Just Mary, Troy, MI — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:45:47 GMT

Can't possibly cover up UFO's? Funny, the government covered up radiation experiments on the homeless, mentally ill and the feeble children in orphanages (fed oatmeal containing radioactive calcium & other radioisotopes)claiming reports were untrue, lies etc only to later finally admit that they had done that during the 40's to 70's but ofcourse they claim no longer do that (believe them?). The government's announcement in 1997 which barley caused a media stir that indeed these tests had taken place. President Clinton came out and stated that victims of past radiation experiments would be compensated. Made me feel warm and fuzy.

From personal experience, I did see a "UFO" so did my Mother, Sister and of our neighbors that were at home at the time. It was very large and emitted a very low but powerful vibration (it felt like it was going right through you). The government came out and said it was swamp gas. Then the government changed their mind and said it was a special proto type weather baloon. After that the government said we in Grand Rapids, MI had mass hysteria and did not see anything. That was over 40 years ago and I remember it like yesterday. All I can hope for is one to land on the white house and then maybe the government won't be able to cover that one up. But then again the entire country could suffer from mass hysteria.

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Dan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:46:20 GMT

"no body can travel from light years away toget here."
Do the math, Snake Venom. Our star is a relatively young one and given how little time it took for "intelligent" life to evolve here, other intelligent life forms could well have recorded its birth. With that much time they could have made it here in a donkey cart.

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R. Davey Canada — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:50:36 GMT

To Whom it may concern

If you think we are the only planet in the Universe who has a civilization, you must be ignorant.

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Ron Russman, Oxford, PA — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:53:23 GMT

I want to laugh and cry at the same time. I don't think it changes much. Now we can stop looking for intelligent life on other planets and start looking for it here. I don't think they will respect us with any public contact until we settle down and stop killing each other.

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D. Bradford — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:04:21 GMT

God told me that the aliens are here. I don't need evidence. If you don't believe me, you have no faith. (just another example of why religion is retarded.)

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Brad, OK — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:13:52 GMT

Why would other beings from another planet have the EXACT same features as earthly beings. ie head, eyes, arms, legs, feet, hands. On top of that, they are all at the same place on the body. Obviously these creatures were thought up by human minds. Humans just want something to relate to so they make creatures of their own image.

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Jon, Boulder — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:40:45 GMT

I agree with J Henson--way too much time is spent discrediting Mitchell. He doesn't claim to have proof or evidence, he's just passing on secondhand info (with at least a shred of credibility due to his experience in a government agency) in hopes of creating a public demand for investigation and proof. People like Phil Plait will crucify anyone for an ego boost. IMO, not the best way to promote science.

Reply to Darren Pope: We're spending hundreds of millions of dollars to dig in the dirt on Mars, and we can't even properly get the regolith out of the scoop. If there were Martian cows to mutilate, we wouldn't hesitate to spend billions more to do so.

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Alex in T.O. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:41:48 GMT

It's all straw so far. I'm still waiting.

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Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:14:09 GMT

How many times has human civilization reached a high level of technology and then destroyed by natural causes...once,twice,etc. I believe we have risen numerous times and even left this planet eons ago and are out there...The myth of Atlantis is one these times...most myths are based on true events that did in fact occur...

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JoeFisherman, k.falls, oregon — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:20:25 GMT

even if they are here i feel that there are more important issues to waste my time with.

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FirstThinker — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:40:12 GMT

I think Don King is an alien, he just doesn't quite "get" it on human appearance.

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Jeff F., Charlotte NC — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:52:02 GMT

All data here is approximate, based on imperfect recollection, as this is an opinion not a subtitled scientific treatise.
1.) 10 years ago credible scientific knowledge said extrasolar planets were extremely rare. Today that is reversed and credible knowledge says planets and planetary systems are probably very common throughout the universe.
2.) Our galaxy, The Milky Way, is thought to have a billion, billion stars. That's 24 zeros, folks.
3.) The universe, within the expanse that our current technology allows us to examine, is thought to have at least a billion, billion galaxies.
Do the math here and you've got a lot of planetary systems- 10 to the 48th power or 48 zeros. Since we no longer count Pluto our system has 8 planets......

The problem with credible scientific knowledge (theory?) is it's basis, per force, on our limited technologies. So, for the sake of argument lets use 1/100th of 1% as our basis of possibility. If .001% of all galaxies support stars with planetary systems and .001% of those stars within the galaxies actually have stars with systems and .001% of those systems have a single planet that supports life in some form and, I know, I know, .001% of those planets contain intelligent life. That still leaves mire than a trillion, trillion (10 to the 32nd power) planets that support intelligent life. Perhaps your more comfortable with 1/1000th of 1%. OK, just under a trillion, trillion. I'm not a gambler, but with odds like that, I think I'd buy a lottery ticket!

4.) It is less than 200 years since man-kind's first portable, internal energy propelled travel-steam.
5.) It is 50 years since our first successful effort of any kind off this planet- Sputnik.
6.) It is 40 years since our first successful step to any other heavenly body-Apollo to our moon. This might be a good time to add that there are those who still, apparently, believe that this, too, is a government conspiracy.
Human travel, not space travel, travel is in its infancy. We may or may not be off the bottle, we're certainly still on baby food.
Due to the current state of technology, travel is based on the "equal and opposite reaction" theory and accomplished by blowing things up (gotta love the human mindset), only in this case we control and direct the explosion.
7.) Current scientific thought (here we go again) theorizes that 97% of all energy is what we call "Dark Energy". I guess because we are still completely in the dark about it. With such a large majority of energy types unknown, it seems highly possible that some forms are not subject to the current belief that lightspeed is the speed limit of all movement through the universe.

We've all seen imaginative, creative sci-fi such as Star Trek which presents two possible modes of travel. Warp drive, based on warping what scientists today consider to be the most pervasive force in the universe, gravity, in the same way we move small objects by warping magnetic fields. The other , of course, is the transporter which theorizes the conversion of matter to energy, sending it in the manner of a laser beam, and reconverting it at a prescribed location. If there are a trillion, trillion (or even 1/2 that) form of intelligent life, each on it own discrete course of development and research, how could some of us be so egotistical as to assume that we are the most advanced form and therefore the only ones capable of ANY form of interplanetary travel, or dreams of intergalactic travel.

No, its not the idea of extraterrestrials visiting, or even living among us that frightens me. What frightens me are the violent individuals or groups that would imprison or kill these visitors due to their mindless fear of the unknown, or the closed minded who "know" the rest of us are foolish because we accept the possibility that things exist which our current level of knowledge is unable to prove or disprove.

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Derek Mills, Las Vegas, Nv — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:03:53 GMT

It's all about what you believe/believe in. Is God "real?" Or is he another man-made tale to influence the rest of society? Some belive some don't. Honestly, too many unexplainable occurrence's happen every day. And you can't chaulk all of them up to coinceidence. So is God real? I say yes, but thats what I belive.

Are "ET's" real? I've never seen one first hand. That doesn't mean their existance is impossible or improbable for that matter. Given the vastness of space, It would be a complete waste to have only one intelligent being and life in it. I would say the odds are against those who think aliens aren't real. And most of the people who don't belive in aliens, don't believe in aliens because of religious beliefs.
So because the bible is worded in such a way that states aliens can't be real, they're not? Is it also impossible to believe that the bible was purposly "tweeked" to better suit the hurding of human-kind to those in power? Do you tell your kids everything you know or just what you want them to know?

It's all about what you believe/believe in. Anything is possible.......

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CeeTee9, Plano, TX — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:20:34 GMT

I think what’s more amazing than Dr. Mitchell’s statements is how after 60+ years of reported UFO sightings world-wide, hundreds of thousands of photos and videos, thousands of credible witnesses (including extremely credible and competent pilots, astronauts, scientists and government and military employees—many of whom have top secret clearances), and even some physical evidence, that there are still those who claim its all bunk spewed by a bunch of nuts. Seems to me the nuts are those who can’t see the forest for the trees.

And for those that say “how could the government keep such a secret covered up for so long.” Uh, hello! They haven’t kept it secret. They have deceived us. It has been in the media for over 60 years now (actually, much longer than that). The government just continues to deny the phenomena is real and that they have any involvement in the subject. The deception has continued for 60+ years.

How many times has the government “closed” their files on UFOs and denied any investigations or interest in the subject—while the FOIA continues to reveal that is not the case. With all the lies the government has been caught in over the years, is there really any one of you who still seriously believes whatever the government says? The government has lost all credibility—particularly in this matter—in my opinion.

It’s quite obvious to anyone with even a modicum of intellect that the main-stream media is also involved in the deception (i.e., they are clearly controlled by the government). Freedom of the press is long gone—if it ever really existed in the first place. I have yet to see a truly balanced report on the subject. Most of the “pieces” the media has done on this subject are tongue-in-cheek at best. And the usual clowns they bring in as skeptics and UFO debunkers (in a vain attempt at balanced reporting) make such ridiculous statements that they are laughable. They’ll take one aspect to a sighting or an abduction experience that can be explained by conventional means, ignore all the aspects they can’t explain, and then say “case solved” with a straight face. Unbelievable!

For those of us who know the truth, we wonder when (not if) our government will come clean and tell the rest of the world the truth. The technology that we have derived from these alien crafts and visitors can quite literally save us and our planet from certain self-destruction—if wisdom is applied.

For those who still can’t accept the truth despite the overwhelming amount of credible evidence (if you would just take the time to look at it—and, yes, there’s probably more disinformation and garbage than truth out there, but the credible evidence is there too), I hope you will learn how to cope with the truth. Aliens are real and they are here and our government knows it!

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Jack, Earth — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:30:43 GMT

I find this subject to be utterly enthralling, the vastness of the universe and its inhabitants. Throughout my life I’ve found myself repeatedly pondering the riddle of unexplainable phenomena such as the U.FO. phenomenon. I always find it interesting the range of opinions and emotions expressed on the matter. The one thing that I don’t think is debatable is the fact that many reputable people who have a lot to lose by coming forth and publicly talking have given numerous accounts over the years of personally witnessing U.F.O.’s, from former Arizona Governor Fife Symington who was a pilot during the Vietnam War, and I’m assuming knows a thing or two about aircraft, to NASA astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, one of only 12 men who have ever set foot on the moon. Some think they are military aircraft from this world, some think they are extra-terrestrial, some claim to have no opinion one way or the other, but all of them claim to have seen something. I personally take the position that there are Unidentified Flying Objects and only a select few truly know their origin. I mean it’s very simple, either they’re all man-made or they’re not. Now just because we know of past secret military aircraft operating in the skies before they were declassified such as the stealth bomber in the 1980’s doesn’t mean that all U.F.O sightings throughout history have been man-made objects. It just means that some U.F.O’s spotted by humans throughout the 20th/21st centuries were later determined to be man-made. I personally believe some are of course man made; classified military projects and some aren’t, meaning some of the Unidentified Flying Objects or Unidentified Submersed Objects seen by humans are not man-made. Are they extra-terrestrial? Are they some sort of highly evolved/advanced form or us from the future? I of course don’t have the slightest idea but I find it to be unbelievably fascinating.
A lot of people, myself included, ask or wonder why if they are extra-terrestrial or beings from the future then why don’t they make some sort of contact with us. I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately and my curiosity has led me to think of the recent discovery of another “lost” tribe in the Amazon this spring. The story was all over the internet and the pictures were just astounding. A small plane with just a few people and a photographer flew over this tiny little opening in the jungle canopy and the photographer took these breathtaking photos of completely indigenous people covered in some sort of dye standing next to primitive huts and shooting arrows at the strange “object” in the sky. Now of course throughout their history at various times they’ve probably seen other “objects” in the sky before, appearing and disappearing from sight. One would have to assume they have at least some curiosity about what they are…are they hostile...friendly? They seem to be wary of what they see or else they probably wouldn’t shoot arrows at it. Throughout their history they’ve possibly on very rare occasions spotted a “being” not of their own kind. Maybe the “being” tried to make contact or get closer and maybe the indigenous people viewed that as hostile, as the “being” trying to “abduct” them. They don’t know what the “objects” in the sky are or who the “beings” are they spot ever so rarely. Of course the “beings” know all about them and consciously make an effort not to engage and make contact. Not out of spite or for nefarious reasons but out of compassion. We of the modern, industrial world feel, maybe arrogantly, that we are somehow more evolved then our earthly neighbors in the Amazon. We view them with curiosity and quaintness but also with compassion for we know that if we were to ever make a concerted, ongoing effort to continually seek them out and make contact, their world as they know it would be no more. We in our compassion for them don’t want their innocence to be corrupted. Maybe, just maybe, there are astronomically advanced/evolved “beings” out there that have somehow found us here, hidden away under our little canopy and view us as their intergalactic neighbors who are not even remotely advanced in relative terms to them and pathetically primitive but yet at the same time curious in our uncorrupted innocence from the rest of the “evolved, industrial galaxy.” Maybe they too feel it is best to simply observe from afar and not make contact as doing so would disrupt our quaint existence.

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Ron H, MO. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:14:01 GMT

The military loves big budgets for big guns. I can't imagine any top military commander saying "we've got plenty of weapons - give the budget to health care". If the military had bodies of little grey men they would parade them as The Next Great Enemy - and thus get more money for more defense.. they wouldn't keep it secret - they would exploit the bodies and other evidence to create enough fear to all the defense $. Who would want to spend money on health care when there's a new evil to kill.

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Mandy, Colorado Springs, Colorado — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:19:56 GMT

I believe also that there are so many places in our vast universe for it to be quite ilogical to believe that we are alone.
I also find it interesting that through all of the records of man; cave paintings, bibles, zohar, that all of man kind has believed in some higher being or beings, all very different. But one common thread through all religions and ways of life around the globe are our encounters with these "people" and written accounts.
Two thousand years ago a grown man had the same mental capacity as three year old today. Maybe we have grown to a point where we ask questions, like a child, but can not truly comprehend the answers. we would find ourselves dealing with them ilogicaly and irrationaly. A global depression may insue and with any "child" you have watched grow you would not put them in harms way until fully aware of there capability to handle certain truths and situations.
Perhaps in years to come with the leaps and bounds we are still making we will be ready. Until then it is my mind a chance to learn as much about each other and our world.

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K'lief, San Francisco, CA — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:48:07 GMT

There is one thing that stands out in my mind as far as the coverage of this goes. Every single article I've read, news program I've seen etc (excepting the initial interview on Kerrang) has handled this as lightly as Keith Olberman handles the clips on Oddball. Not just the Dr. Mitchell statement but every time any thing happens in the realm of UFOs. It's either not covered or handled with levity completely ignoring the potential weight of the issue.

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Alexk — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:06:31 GMT

Aliens exists!. They are not from other stars. They are home grown. Space aliens. They were on earth until some catostrophe struck on earth and start to live in space and evolved. They also live in underground earth. They develop big eyes because of the dark places they live. They need bigger lenses. They are going anywhere. Only issue is , do they have better technology than us?.

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Mark VanGelder — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:40:18 GMT

Anyone (other than a creationist) should have the common sense enough to know that there is life on other planets. How could there not be considering all the trillions of possible "earths." I know, for one, that the tringle shaped craft that I saw in 2003 hovering over houses in my town was no earthly craft. If the US or another country had such technology the US would be using it in our for-profit war in Iraq!

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T J Gordon, Clarkston, UT — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:59:13 GMT

This is a beautiful demonstration of the fact that the will to believe something despite its vanishingly small probabililty and absolute, complete lack of credible evidence is alive and well even in ancient astronauts. LGMs look like little green men? C'mon! I thought they looked like Bigfoot!!

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jnsmith roanoke,va. — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:03:10 GMT

mitchell could be right. but he has a major point being in the "loop" so to say. and besides, the sheer vastness of our own universe not to mention the trillon others out there, tends to leave me with the fact that there may just be others out there whom ma be just a tadd more advanced than we are. peace/out

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Stephen, MetroWest, Massachusetts — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:05:57 GMT

Astronaut Gordon Cooper made similar statements to that of Dr. Mitchell's recent comments before his death in 2004, as reported on CNN. Astronaut Cooper did see a craft of unknown origin that he couldn't identify. Astronaut James McDivitt did as well, while in orbit aboard Gemini.
There really is plenty of circumstancial evidence to back up many credible eye-witness claims of objects that seem out-of-this-world. The web site UFO Evidence dot Org posts many examples.
I think it is all worthy of open and honest scientific study and debate. Too bad many won't even go to the locations of sightings and look or bother to read the really interesting reports, as did the late Dr. Hynek who changed his opinion after the fiasco of Project Blue Book by the USAF PR dissolved. He felt used and that the best cases and evidence that the phenomena was real was ignored, as a remember it.

This is an opportunity for a public THANK YOU to Dr Mitchell, Gordon Cooper, and all the other brave explorers and scientists who seek to find and tell the truth. They truly are heroes!

Other amazing and honest people can be seen on
The Disclosure Projects 2001 National Press Club event video is worth a watch. Many an insider is willing to testify under oath before Congress that the UFO phenomenon is real, providing documents, radar tapes, and other evidence. Other countries around the world have taken a more open approach, releasing their years worth of investigations and files of this 'Open Secret.' After all, if these things aren't from here, disclosure of their presence will be on their terms and not ours.

Lastly, this is an appropriate quote for this discussion and debate:
" The Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence. " - Dr. Carl Sagan

I've enjoyed reading all the comments.

Time will tell!

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Jason, Holiday, FL — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:25:59 GMT

I read corso's book when it first came out. His claims were far more than hearsay. He wrote he personally handled the large black eye coverings of "Greys" He said they were actually artificial devices a lot like a night vision film covering. He also stated he manipulated pieces of alien uniforms that were back engineered into what we now know as kevlar. He did many more things than hear things second hand. Report on the book not YOUR version of it!

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Thomas Ashby, Calgary — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:47:44 GMT

This photo by the HST is humbling in that it packs numerable galaxies in it and ones that are seen through the telescope of warped spacetime. Our galaxy could be any one of of them. It's a mathematical certainty that planets like ours are out there.

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/screen/heic0814a.jpg

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Barry Scott, Norfolk, Virginia — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:24:49 GMT

Well, all I know is, if the previous group of comments are the standards of life on earth, any life form worthy of interstellar or interdimensional travel would be smart enough to either hide well, or run as fast as possible from this planet. It's bad enough that the majority of the population is controlled by a great being they have never seen nor experienced, but the few really smart ones are silenced and legally unable to make any difference.
I'd take the gold, and get out of Dodge ASAP!
Oh, that's right, they have people that do that for them, I forgot!

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James, Houston, Texas — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:38:41 GMT

I will repeat what I said in my earlier comment (July 29th, 9:57am), we have not been "visited". This is not to say aliens don't exist. They almost certainly exist, and in limitless varieties. Some of these creatures will possess physical similarities to us. But a great many more will bear no resemblance to life forms as we currently understand them, nor will we to them.

Beings who eventually visit us must be from that narrow strata of life forms we are able to identify as such. They will be from the segment whose ability to arrive here will be facilitated by some form of vehicular transport. Otherwise, we will never know they have arrived. This need of ours that a life form be of the type we are able to recognize as actually being among us when they do arrive, leaves us to await representatives of only the narrowest slice of the extraterrestrial pie. This fact, in and of itself, is a testament to the very primitive state of our current evolution - that we are as yet unable to recognize 99% of the life forms who may eventually visit us as being life forms at all.

In conclusion, they are most certainly out there. But they have most certainly not yet arrived here. One day they may and we will be forever changed. But our wait it exacerbated by the inalienable fact that our long awaited visitor must be of sufficient similarity to us that we have relevance to them.

Otherwise "they" could well blow past us, concluding we are nothing more than organisms of little or no value to them. We must also recognize that any life form of sufficient evolution to arrive here to begin with will most certainly have encountered many other life forms before us, over their countless millennia of exploring our galaxy or universe beyond it.

What is it about us that we think might divert them on their journey? Should we really view ourselves as a destination? Clearly we do, but it is quite doubtful we actually are to any more than .01 of the life forms who might eventually come by.

Ultimately our encounter, if it ever occurs, must overcome the twin hurdles of nearly infinite evolutionary time (read: biological dis-similarity) and nearly infinite distances (read: practical improbability). Our solar system is but a grain of sand on an enormous beach many billions of light years away from any curious being of any degree of attractive similarity.

Is it that we need them? Is that what underlies all this? If so, we might be in trouble. The absence of intelligence that accompanies nearly all of the speculation and conjecture on this topic is not about to attract any intelligent and wise being to come venturing our way.

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Cody Pierson, St.Catharines, Ontario, Canada — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:50:09 GMT

It's odd...lately I have seen more and more "conspiracy theories" about aliens and extraterrestrial life. Each more so than the day past.
I accept the realm of possibility within this. The governments of the world seem to be covering up "something", but maybe alien or ET life is actually just the cover. If there is something out there though...wouldn't they have tried to contact their buddies that have crash landed here? Buddies that are supposedly locked up in bunkers being tested upon? Surely if there is aliens...they're tech would definitely surpass us and if he took any of them "hostage", I would see it as an act of war (if they do believe in such a thing that is) meaning they probably could take us out, but nothing out of the ordinary has really happened in 60 years, maybe because they might be 10000 light years away it might take them awhile, but that would mean in that 10000 light years their tech would become even more advanced lending to our demise. Only certain people know the truth, I think it should stay that way. The world is too busy trying to build up it's war torn countries and fix natural disasters...I don't think the majority of the Earth could handle that information in times like these...but that is again only my opinion.

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Jared, New York,New York — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:28:23 GMT

Listen, I agree with the economy reason, I work up in Manhattan, and see the markets go up and down. Nearly going into recession. I do believe in a higher government than our U.S. government. Listen yes there is life on other planets. I do believe they have come, we don't know about it because everyone would be demanding their technology. What would everyone do if there was no more electricity, oil,car, etc... plants to create everything we use here on earth? They would be out of a job. Unfortunately the powers at be will not let us advance as a race. Instead they are only worried about how to make their lives better, and to have power over the world. The best quote I have ever heard, and will always remember is: (REMEMBER THIS TOO)IT WILL ANSWER ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT SOCIETY.

GO WHERE THE MONEY IS.

They tell us money can't buy happiness. Why? So we don't strive to better ourselves. Listen i may be wrong about everything. But can't you see already. The Tesla Car. Is an electric car. It is super fast to boot. Now we have the tech. Why is it not mass produced? Because the oil companies and other companies will be put out of a job.

Remember:

GO WHERE THE MONEY IS.

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Jack Futerman, Toronto, Ontario, Canada — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:44:06 GMT

If Homo Sapiens evolved a million years earlier than they did, there is little doubt we would be sending out colonies of astronauts to inhabit colonies on moons in other solar systems that revolve around planets to observe beings who had created nuclear weapons but were still a million years behind us in their evolution. Even if those voyages entailed thousands of years of travel. Subsequent generations of their off spring would be the scientists making these amazing discoveries which would justify such an undertaking.

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Jim Oberg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:28:55 GMT

So far we've experienced what I'd call a poly-monologue, hundreds of sincere people telling their views and talking past each other, vocal but deaf.

But there was precious little discussion about what to DO about what's clearly a leading cultural phenomenon of the last half century -- what to do to cast light, not heat and smoke (and mud), on the question.

Please, if you have a UFO perception, document it immediately, with noting of its angular size, direction, and motion. And be prepared to accept a prosaic explanation (> 90% of cases, maybe a lot greater) instead of engaging in ego-defense.

Please, double-check claims you run across on the internet, TV 'documentaries', anywhere -- seek OUT contrary interpretations, which often are omitted or glossed over [or deliberately misrepresented] by anybody trying to persuade you of anything.

Please, in evaluating theories, be aware of how they can seduce you by providing emotional and intellectual status vis-a-vis others, and realize that demonizing people who think differently is a sure sign of illogical, even pathological, thought processes. The more confident you are of any of your views, the more often you should force yourself to 'argue against yourself' and briefly make believe you believe the opposite, to see how it feels. Whenever you hear somebody say "I have no doubt" about anything, you better be hearing alarm bells inside your mind.

And don't lose faith that digging into mysteries, and casting light into corners, and turning over stones, CAN produce results. Just be prepared to sometimes be disappointed by them rather than always 'disovering' that it proves you had been right all the time.

I think that's our only hope to understand things better (or more realistically, LESS badly) than we do today.

I know that's how Alan approaches topics, and it's my ideal as well, one that, being human, I approach only asymptotically and only with the help of lots of friends and strangers who provide feedback -- often very NON-ego-gratifying feedback <grin>.

Jim O
www.jamesoberg.com (where you will find investigation results about McDivitt's space sighting, and Gordon Cooper's stories, that are generally covered up by the news media)

We covered this subject on DATELINE recently, please watch the program, read the files, and join the conversation there:
http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.aspx?boardid=474&threadid=670046&boardsparam=Page%3d48

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CeeTee9, Plano, TX — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:13:53 GMT

I’ve read some good and well thought out arguments and some completely moronic arguments here (and elsewhere) on this subject, but it never ceases to amaze me how people who obviously know little or absolutely nothing about the subject, and/or who have never witnessed an actual UFO first hand, can be so adamant that UFOs don’t exist and/or that we have not been visited. Their BELIEF that UFOs don’t exist or that we have not been visited is fine, but it is a slap in the face to all those who know otherwise when they pretend to know something they clearly have no clue about.

I personally don’t care if a single skeptic or total disbeliever ever believes those of us who know the truth.

Speaking strictly for myself and my experiences over the last 50+ years, there is no question that UFOs exist and that they must be piloted (or, at least, created and controlled) by some intelligence. What I cannot say with 100% certainty though is whether they were piloted (or controlled) by beings from another planet, some other dimension or time, or from some unknown intelligences from within our own planet. I am quite confident, however, that these crafts were not ours (i.e., were not the result of some super-secret government black-ops projects—at least not in the early days). And I say that because it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever for us to develop the kind of technology that I saw and then keep it under wraps for 50 years (or more). What good is technology if you’re never going to use it or only use it to scare some unsuspecting civilians once in a while? Whether or not we have been able to sufficiently reverse-engineer downed crafts to create our own in the interim is unknown at this point.

Regardless, my only goal in commenting on these issues (from time to time) is to help encourage others who know the truth to come forward and to help raise the consciousness of the general public—hopefully to the point where we stop the childish name calling and egotistical diatribes and start working together to force the governments of the world to release what they have kept hidden for decades.

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Terence Shaw, Chester, England — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:12:39 GMT

If aliens visit us from distant planets they could have quite a difference appearance to us because of different conditions on their planet. Our religions teach us that we are made in the image of God. If the aliens have a different appearence to us then that would throw into doubt one of the fundamentals of religion. Religion has a powerful control over people and assists governments to keep subjects under control. Most of the wars and persecution in the past,and terrorism today, has been due to religion. Without it there could be more peace but this could be outweighed by the loss of control by governments.This could be a good reason for secrecy from all governments about encounters with aliens.

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Thomas Ashby, Calgary — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:04:39 GMT

The only problem as I see it with Jim Oberg's admirable views is unfortuately it's that exact type of mentality that keeps religions alive.

You can't dispute real science.

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William R. Cousert, Westminster, CA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:59:33 GMT

For those who asky why the government deny knowledge of alien beings, consider this.

What if it turned out that everything you heard was true, but these aliens considered humans to be a delicacy? Would you want to know there was a possibility that you or a member of your family could be on the menu, and there was nothing you or the government could do to stop it?

Hence the reason for the big lie.....

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PRD Manchester, NH — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:59:51 GMT

All I can say...I believe in UFO's. I saw 2 in Kingston, NY back in '66 playing golf with my Dad in a mid summer evening. (By the way they weren't saucers) (More like a hand towel roll spinning on fire making a hissing sound. They both hovered over us for several seconds and quickly left the area. I also beleive our goverment knows and has proof of another life or being (human) we would not call it. I also beleive that such life has visited us many times and are far ahead of us in the Tech world. If this comes out, I'm sure there will be a rush to hit the highways and by-ways by many that fright is one thing that many human beings can't control on their own without some help from others. I don't beleive we should fear but invite and learn, and for all be open the to possiblities of what ifs could bring a better life for us here on our planet. I hope before my last day on this planet this becomes an open topic and people of our future on earth will become a much better society and in peace.

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John Doe, Knoxville, TN — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:15:12 GMT

My apologies to those who have closed minds, but the little gray's actually exist. In 1988, it surprised me too to have one in my bedroom. As for why they are here, and how long they have been here, he/she/it didn't say. Actually, it didn't say anything, and I was too stunned to say anything or even move. It did however collect a dried saliva sample from my smoking pipe and then promptly left. Sorry for not having any colaborators to help back up my story, but I was alone. I haven't seen him/her/it or any others since that night.

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David,Portland,Oregon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:32:38 GMT

L@@K!! I am so tired of negative input like Oh the government could not keep a secret like aliens and Ufos-Think Again! I personaly have seen the unexplained.

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Racquet, Norfolk, VA — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:21:30 GMT

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) sites are still being funded. Those who man the SETI sites are dedicated to their endeavor, the teams working 24/7 -- for what? They believe their cause is just and warranted. What exactly are they looking for that is so important? Do they know something that we don't? You bet they do!
Have you ever heard of the Wow! signal? This signal was received by the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University in August 1977. It lasted for 72 seconds. The peak of the signal was the strongest ever recorded, reportedly 50,000 times stronger than the signal strength usually sought by SETI equipment!
It happened once, in 1977, and to this date, never again. The origin or the signal supposedly came from the direction of Saggitarius.
The Wow! signal has never been adequately explained, and unfortunately, has never been confirmed by a second occurrence. It portrayed every aspect of an alien signal, as the SETI scientists have theorized.
You can easily search for more info of the Wow! signal at your leisure. It actually happened. Are we to debunk and ridicule those who found the signal and interpreted it using scientific learning and principles? Or are we to accept it for what it is and what the SETI scientists claim it to be?
It's a lot like UFO sightings. Some people supposedly get a close up and personal experience while others (like me) witnessed a distanced sighting, trying desperately to understand what we know our eyeballs registered.
I'm a Christian, I wouldn't lie to you about this, I believe in God and His infinite wisdom, and I can easily accept that if God chose for it to happen then we are not alone in this vast universe.

Just to point out something that I read in another comment (I won't point fingers): God gave each of us free choice to either believe in Him or not, and He also gave the devil free reign over Earth. Yes, you'll see deformed, hungry, sick children, for instance, but is it God doing this to those children? No, this suffering belongs to the devil and his minions. God allows this to happen so we can tell the difference and hopefully strike a path towards His salvation and mercy. As a stricken child (or even you) grows older, learning the ways of a wicked world, and were to believe in God, and to accept Jesus Christ as our savior who died on the cross for our sins, then in death the soul would have everlasting life while the bodily husk would rot away. Without God's salvation, a person's soul would forever be a pawn of the devil. You can either choose to believe that or not -- God granted each of us free choice in the disposition of our soul.
This is a lot like believing in UFOs, or anything else that is largely unexplainable. The huge difference is believing in the possibility of one (UFOS, for example), while having unshakeable faith in the other (God).
Didn't mean to get off on a religious tangent. If aliens do exist, then they, too, are God's creatures. I know that begs a Pandora's box of other questions, but only God has all the answers.
We merely speculate using our God-given curiosity, attempt to assign reason to something unfamiliar to us, and then heatedly argue the point, all the while adding to the confusion, and justifying our actions in our own minds! Wow, are we in trouble! But I type this with a smile on my face.

Now go do a search for the Wow! signal.

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Thomas Ashby, Calgary — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:06:43 GMT

Racquet, Norfolf...Please don't use this topic as a way to weasel your beliefs about a fiction called God and Satan. The fact the WOW signal has never been repeated speaks strongly in favor of an earthly source.

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Thomas Ashby, Calgary — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:10:28 GMT

Why do UFO sightings always have to be so fantastical. What about just apparent objects or lights at night that are readily inexplicable. Whne doing astronomy, I have seen flickering lights high in the atmosphere that move in ways that don't speak of aircraft or satellites. (but probably are)

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samuel.Chiba,Japan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:50:55 GMT

It isimportant not to box God into this category,
He is creator of all life but he is not unrelateable.

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Walt Woodliff, Oakland, Ca. — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:22:22 GMT

This is nothing new to governments or mankind. This has been with us since the beginning. The government doesn't know more than everyone else. They however are under the delusion they control the information and revelation. They don't. =-)

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thomas Lee Boles, Saint Paul, Minnesota — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:18:14 GMT

I heard about a man who saw a flying saucer once. He said his wife threw it at him.

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Jeff Gordon, Aurora Co. — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:55:47 GMT

You have to love those shallow, narrow minded individuals who think they are so much smarter than the rest of us. 90 percent of the worlds population belives in some form of religion. Can you imagine what the little gray people would have to say about that?

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Increase Mather Grand Rapids, MI — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:34:19 GMT

Too many thousands have seen these things in the sky. Too many radar sightings too. If even one is true...then it's real.

Google "Disclosure Project"....see the May, 2001 press conference at the National Press Club, which the national media basically ignored...over four hundred witnesses have signed affidavits saying they are willing to testify to the reality of these craft.

They are not nutbars.....they are current or former government insiders who have reason to know the truth. Go ahead...google the site...watch the tape... listen to the testimony...your life will not be the same afterward.

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Stevie, Las Vegas, Nv. (The Scarey Desert) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:05:59 GMT

Wake up people! The universe was not made just for the people of earth. It would be such a waste of space if there wasn't anyone else out there. Aliens are here and they have been here for a very long time. I know they are here. I have been witness to some things that could not be explained with our everyday logic. But if you step out of that little box there are plenty of explanations for what I have seen. How many of you would go to space if you had a chance? I would do it in a flat second. Space exploration would be the most wonderful thing I could think of doing with my life if I could go back and do it again. Be possitive and maybe the goverment will stop thinking all ordinary everday people are weak and bgrainless. I hate it when someone says we aren't ready. there are some who would give it a try if they could.

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Joe DiFrancesco Philadelphia, PA — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:15:50 GMT

Of course, there is no "official" trail for Mitchell's story - that's the problem. All leaks have come from unofficial sources. The veil of secrecy needs to be lifted now. Clearly we are being slowly desensitized to this phenom, and have been for the last five years or so. Additionaly, sightings are up all over the world, anyone can see that. Hopefully, Obama is the man to allow the whole story to come out once and for all.