Are aliens the one who prevented humanity from descending into a nuclear war? At least that’s what a former NASA astronaut claims.
Edgar Mitchell, who was part of the Apollo 14 mission to the moon, gained notoriety with the dissemination of various conspiracy theories since his return from the moon in 1971.
Mitchell, the sixth man to set foot on the moon, was interviewed back in 2016, where he admitted to being convinced of the existence of aliens and extensively spoke about claims that aliens have visited Earth.
In that conversation with the Daily Mirror, he raised the astonishing claim that aliens were responsible for preventing a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union during the peak tension of the Cold War.
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During that conversation, Mitchell also discussed the White Sands missile testing facility in New Mexico.
He said, “White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons and that’s what the extraterrestrials were interested in. They wanted to know about our military capabilities. My conversations with people in the military and intelligence community showed that the extraterrestrials were attempting to keep us from going to war and help us achieve peace on Earth.”
White Sands Missile Range is where the first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945 and Mitchell claimed that the officers there told him that aliens were disabling missiles that flew above the site.
As you can expect, these claims did not pass unnoticed. Nigel Watson, a UFO expert, said at the time to IFL Science, “In my view, it’s just another case of UFO fantasies and speculations. Trying to get at the facts is like herding cats.”
Nick Pope, a former senior official in the British Defense Ministry who investigated UFOs, also addressed Mitchell’s claims.
“Edgar is a very…
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