If the cool-headed characteristics of both Buzz and Neil (particularly the latter) during their flying and spacing days aren’t enough, check out the Apollo transcripts; since that time, Buzz has pointed out in interview that a jettisoned chunk of their own vehicle has been mislabeled a UFO by some.
It is true that “Gordo” Cooper repeated his account of an experience he had in the 1950s. Mitchell has his new-age institute, but doesn’t claim to have had any close encounters himself, and to his credit doesn’t overstate this issue. The Mercury missions had some encounters with the astronaut’s own pee glittering around the spacecraft (the best anecdote I’ve seen is the John Glenn mission simulation in the movie version of “The Right Stuff”). John Glenn himself did a send-up of this whole train of discussion in his guest appearance on the TV show “Fraser”.
The Apollo-11 UFO Incidents
by James Oberg
http://www.debunker.com/texts/apollo11.html
and a quickie:
http://www.bautforum.com/archive/index.php/t-36682.html
That “Above Top Secret” website also has no problem regurgitating the ridiculous lie that the Apollo missions themselves were hoaxed by NASA. That is incompatible with the idea that Apollo astronauts saw aliens or UFOs on the Moon.
http://www.google.com/search?q=apollo+hoax+abovetopsecret&source=ig&hl=en&rlz=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_Landing_hoax_accusations
It’s a complex picture.
Given what I’m confident of . . .
It’s not tooooo great a leap for me to extrapolate about such stories.
Thanks.