He stated in a radio interview last summer:

>“We have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real, though it has been covered up by our governments for the last 60 years or so... some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it. I have been deeply involved in certain committees and certain research programmes with very credible scientists and intelligence people that DO know the real inside story and I am not hesitant to talk about it. There is quite a bit of contact going on—we DO know we have been visited, that the Roswell crash was real, and a number of other contacts have been real and ongoing…”

He stated that well over 70 percent of the U.S. public believed as fact the visitation to earth by UFOs and that people on the inside who know of this information now feel less threatened in speaking out about what they know.

Dr Mitchell is not the only former astronaut to come forward about UFOs.

Colonel Gordon Cooper, an astronaut in Project Mercury—the first U.S. manned-space effort, is on record saying he witnessed a formation of metallic saucer-shaped UFOs at high altitude over central Europe in 1951. Seven years later Colonel Cooper had another experience when he oversaw the processing of film footage taken of a UFO saucer which landed on a dry lake bed in California. He said footage was sent to Washington and nothing of it was heard of again.

According to The Independent, Colonel Cooper gave testimony at a U.N. hearing on UFOs in 1978.

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And this is just the tip of the iceberg Socrates II. Here you have TWO credible astronauts who are speaking from EXPERIENCE and because of their contacts. You cannot deny that it is only YOUR personal belief systems that are tarnishing their haloes. His interviews along with Coopers are all over the <web.> I don't think you have a leg to stand on here. Just a very visible bias (you and Phil.)