Posted on 04/20/2009 3:40:19 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Earth Day may fall later this week, but as far as former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell and other UFO enthusiasts are concerned, the real story is happening elsewhere. Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, asserted Monday that extraterrestrial life exists, and that the truth is being concealed by the U.S. and other governments. He delivered his remarks during an appearance at the National Press Club following the conclusion of the fifth annual X-Conference, a meeting of UFO activists and researchers studying the possibility of alien life forms. Mankind has long wondered if we're "alone in the universe. [But] only in our period do we really have evidence. No, we're not alone," Mitchell said. "Our destiny, in my opinion, and we might as well get started with it, is [to] become a part of the planetary community. ... We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there." Mitchell grew up in Roswell, New Mexico, which some UFO believers maintain was the site of a UFO crash in 1947. He said residents of his hometown "had been hushed and told not to talk about their experience by military authorities." They had been warned of "dire consequences" if they did so.
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If they really are coming then I’m in favor of meeting them as far away from Earth as possible.
And when I say “meeting them”, I mean meeting them with a powerful fleet.
1. I don’t know if he believes what he said about the astronauts and the back side of the moon, or not.
I don’t believe him on that score.
2. He has clearly joined the chorus of folks construing the ET’s as some flavor of saviors of mankind and the planet . . . playing a role the oligarchy must have set him up for and to be applauding his good obedient performance, so far.
Sad that.
3. Nevertheless, I believe he has said SOME true things about the phenomena. Now what is the truth and what is disinformation. Still quite a puzzle, that.
THANKS.
Every man’s gotta make a living?
KEEP THAT
DEATH GRIP ON THAT TYPE II ERROR ADDICTION demanding extreme levels of proof.
Not very scientific.
Not very rational.
Not very realistic.
Not very informed.
But it should make for the eventual facial expressions all the more priceless when they occur.
You make it sound like NO LEVEL OF EXPERT TESTIMONY
NO NUMBERS OF EXPERTS TESTIFYING
IS OF THE LEAST VALUE AT ALL.
What a silly notion that is.
Oh, I know.
Several thousand experts over 60 years are of
absolutely
0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000% value.
That’s suchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
a rational, realistic perspective.
/sar
Wait until folks see the triple breasted prossie of Eroticon VI.
Yeah, and before long, Obama will be pushing the agendy of the UP (United Planets) and the rights of the alien.
His pension should leave him sitting plenty pretty enough.
Dude would of had some credibility if he had actually landed on the moon instead of having been driven to a Burbank studio, legendary for having hosted such luminaries as Erroll Flynn, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Pola Negri, Fatty Arbuckle and many others, to film a simulation of a moon landing.
:-)
At the Suntrade Institute we have always used the analogy of dropping a pebble into a tub of water, sending out its transitory signal (wave disturbance), but with only a remote chance of being intercepted by another dropping pebble while contacting the surface. There may be plenty of wavelets but little interaction in the vast expanse of space-time, considering of course that the lifetime of the subject civilizations is small within that expanse.
There is an existing "Drake" theory of the probability of extraterrestrial life, totally off base, and simply a naive analysis.
On the other hand the psychology of Capt Mitchell, ala:
Mitchell and his fellow explorers of what he has called the "Frontiers of Consciousness" have long contended that broader public awareness of the extraterrestrial presence and interactions the astronaut-scientist believes are reality could help promote a "global mind change."
is extraordinarily revealing about life on Earth. That is, some desperate groping among some for something external, that should (and could) be resolved internally with what we've experienced.
I will bet anything, anything, that Edgar Mitchell, even considering that he is a Navy Capt, voted for Barack Obama. That is the psychology we are dealing with in the USA today. A sick immature nation in our view.
Johnny Suntrade, The Suntrade Institute
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