Mitchell is a brilliant man and was a great pilot. But he has been involved with this mystical stuff for a while. Why they refer to him as “top astronaut” though is beyond me. He had only the one space flight, 37 years ago. Of course he is remarkable and a hero to me for having been one of only 12 men to walk on the moon. But he has had no connection to NASA for decades I don’t think.
There is a nearly 1.0 correlation between folks that “see aliens” or at least believe in them and involvement in the occult.
Conversely, there are few cases (I don’t know of any) of Christians reporting alien sightings.
Demonic origin perhaps? Just conjecture.