It is a perfectly human reaction to engage in jokes, gags, and ridicule when dealing with a subject that has the potential to literally change our entire geopolitical reality.
Dr. Edgar Mitchell (like the late Gordon Cooper), has nothing to gain from making the statements that he has made. This is a man who was considered rock solid, emotionally stable enough to fly all the damn way to the Moon and back, handle the controls of the Lunar Module, and perform his duties as close to perfect as possible. Mitchell is certainly not senile, insane or some kind of UFO nut. He has stated in fact that he has never seen a UFO himself, he is not an ‘abductee’, he is a former astronaut and scientist.
But he has obviously seen and heard enough from his peers and colleagues to be convinced that there is some sort of extraterrestrial presence that has been encountered over the past 6 decades and there is an enormous body of evidence that supports that conclusion.
The easiest thing to do is to engage the automatic knee jerk reaction and start joking about ‘little green men’, ‘tin foil hats’ the inevitable X-file ‘the truth is out there’ punchlines, because that enables that sort of personality to keep their mind closed, their reality under some semblance of ‘control’, and they don’t have to face the possibility that our human species has been interacting with some sort of unearthly entities for a very long time.
My personal beliefs are that whatever UFOs and their occupants are, they are NO friends of humanity, they are without a doubt in my mind, malevolent and deceptive, and in my own personal spiritual/theological framework, I tend to think they are indeed demonic in nature.
We should be on our guard and wary of any interactions with such entities. They are NOT our friends. I would highly recommend the book ‘The Threat’ by Dr. David Jacobs of Temple University. He is as reliable an authority on this subject as anyone, in fact he has been studying the phenomenon since the 1960’s.
I met one of the moonwalkers and was surprised at his small size. Part of the selection criteria for moon astronauts was a small uniform size to lower transportation costs and strong religious beliefs so they wouldn’t crack if all was lost. Having the ability to firmly believe in a watching deity in the sky with no actual testable proof is not far removed from believing in UFOs.