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And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.

Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as ‘little people who look strange to us.’

He said supposedly real-life ET’s were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.

Chillingly, he claimed our technology is “not nearly as sophisticated” as theirs and “had they been hostile”, he warned “we would be been gone by now”.

Dr Mitchell, along with with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.

“I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we’ve been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real,” Dr Mitchell said.

“It’s been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it’s leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.

“I’ve been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes - we have been visited. Reading the papers recently, it’s been happening quite a bit.”

Dr Mitchell, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics claimed Roswell was real and similar alien visits continue to be investigated.

He told the astonished Kerrang! radio host Nick Margerrison: “This is really starting to open up. I think we’re headed for real disclosure and some serious organisations are moving in that direction.”

Mr Margerrison said: “I thought I’d stumbled on some sort of astronaut humour but he was absolutely serious that aliens are definitely out there and there’s no debating it.”

Officials from NASA, however, were quick to play the comments down.

In a statement, a spokesman said: “NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe.

‘Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue.’

People got very excited in 2004 when NASA’s rover Opportunity discovered evidence that Mars had once been wet. Where there is water, there may be life. After more than 40 years of human exploration, culminating in the ongoing Mars Exploration Rover mission, scientists are planning still more missions to study the planet. The ­Phoenix, an interagency scientific probe led by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, is scheduled to land in late May on Mars’s frigid northern arctic, where it will search for soils and ice that might be suitable for microbial life (see “Mission to Mars,” November/December 2007). The next decade might see a Mars Sample Return mission, which would use robotic systems to collect samples of Martian rocks, soils, and atmosphere and return them to Earth. We could then analyze the samples to see if they contain any traces of life, whether extinct or still active.

Such a discovery would be of tremendous scientific significance. What could be more fascinating than discovering life that had evolved entirely independently of life here on Earth? Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we are not entirely alone in this vast, cold cosmos.

But I hope that our Mars probes discover nothing. It would be good news if we find Mars to be sterile. Dead rocks and lifeless sands would lift my spirit.

Conversely, if we discovered traces of some simple, extinct life-form–some bacteria, some algae–it would be bad news. If we found fossils of something more advanced, perhaps something that looked like the remnants of a trilobite or even the skeleton of a small mammal, it would be very bad news. The more complex the life-form we found, the more depressing the news would be. I would find it interesting, certainly–but a bad omen for the future of the human race.

How do I arrive at this conclusion? I begin by reflecting on a well-known fact. UFO spotters, Raëlian cultists, and self-­certified alien abductees notwithstanding, humans have, to date, seen no sign of any extraterrestrial civilization. We have not received any visitors from space, nor have our radio telescopes detected any signals transmitted by any extraterrestrial civilization. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been going for nearly half a century, employing increasingly powerful telescopes and data-­mining techniques; so far, it has consistently corroborated the null hypothesis. As best we have been able to determine, the night sky is empty and silent. The question “Where are they?” is thus at least as pertinent today as it was when the physicist Enrico Fermi first posed it during a lunch discussion with some of his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory back in 1950.

Here is another fact: the observable universe contains on the order of 100 billion galaxies, and there are on the order of 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone. In the last couple of decades, we have learned that many of these stars have planets circling them; several hundred such “exoplanets” have been discovered to date. Most of these are gigantic, since it is very difficult to detect smaller exoplanets using current methods. (In most cases, the planets cannot be directly observed. Their existence is inferred from their gravitational influence on their parent suns, which wobble slightly when pulled toward large orbiting planets, or from slight fluctuations in luminosity when the planets partially eclipse their suns.) We have every reason to believe that the observable universe contains vast numbers of solar systems, including many with planets that are Earth-like, at least in the sense of having masses and temperatures similar to those of our own orb. We also know that many of these solar systems are older than ours.

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Japanese Official Admits UFOs Exist
21-Dec-2007

Nobutaka Machimura

This week you get to learn about UFOs in Ireland and the rest of Europe. Not many people realize that a top government official in Japan says he “definitely” believes UFOs exist. MSNBC reports that Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura made this statement while speaking to reporters “in response to demands…for an inquiry into ‘frequent reports of UFO sightings.’”

In our Dec. 19 newsletter, Whitley wrote, “The phenomenal stupidity of the general media was never more apparent when reporters laughed as Japan’s main government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura, said in answer to a press conference question that UFOs ‘definitely exist.’ Once again, this illustrated the fact that government secrecy and denial is only one obstacle in the way of understanding the UFO phenomenon. An ill-informed and willfully ignorant media is another, even greater obstacle. Machimura’s comment was another in a long line of comments by former and current government officials from many countries that goes back years, either admitting that UFOs exist or may exist. Instead of laughing, the media should be doing the responsible thing, and demanding that hidden records be released, and genuine scientific research begin.”

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Possible UFOs Sighted in Maine
17-Dec-2007

There were unusually intense UFO sightings in England in early December, and now orange fireballs with no clear explanation have been observed by many witnesses in Bangor, Maine. The fireballs were sighted on December 14 between 10 and 11 PM.

A flaming object was seen dropping out of the sky over Penobscot Bay on Monday night, but the Air Force reported that this was probably a fuel tank from an Atlas rocket that had been used to launch a National Reconnaissance Office satellite. When asked about the Thursday night lights, an Air Force spokesman said, ‘that wasn’t us.’”

Local scientists offered various theories about luminous gas clouds, but a local resident contacted by Unknowncountry said that the lights were stationary and bright, and, when they moved, traveled slowly across the sky without changing formation.

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Candidate Says He Will Reveal Roswell UFO Info.
29-Oct-2007

Bill Richardson

Is the UFO information hidden deep within government archives finally coming to light? First, author Shirley MacLaine reveals that presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich saw a UFO. Next, report Leslie Kean forces NASA to release its Kecksburg UFO documents. Now, presidential candidate Bill Richardson says, that if elected President, he will force the government to reveal the documents about the 1947 UFO crash that took place in Roswell, New Mexico.

In the Houston Chronicle, April Castro quotes Richardson as saying, “I’ve been in government a long time, I’ve been in the cabinet, I’ve been in the Congress and I’ve always felt that the government doesn’t tell the truth as much as it should on a lot of issues…When I was in Congress I said (to the) Department of Defense … ‘What is the data? What is the data you have?’” He was told that the records were classified and says, “That ticked me off.”

At a recent campaign stop he replied to a question about Roswell by saying, “What do you want me to do? You want me to open up all those files? I’ll work with you on that.”