'I was married to an Apollo astronaut – he believed in aliens and I do too' – The Mirror
The wife of a former Apollo astronaut has revealed some of the secrets her husband shared before his passing. Anita Mitchell, widow of the late NASA pilot Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man to walk on the moon in 1971, disclosed that her husband always believed in the existence of UFOs.
According to her, many astronauts and pilots had witnessed unexplained phenomena during their missions.
She said that some of Edgar's fellow astronauts, including Apollo crewmate James McDivitt, also reported seeing strange objects while in space.
Some even encountered unusual craft while flying conventional planes over Earth.
"I remember Gordy [Project Mercury astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr.] telling us at a dinner party in our house that he had seen something,' Mrs Mitchell told the Daily Mail.
"He said, 'Listen, we have nothing that goes that fast and goes that high,' she recalled.
Cooper, a veteran NASA pilot who participated in the Mercury and Gemini programs, had logged thousands of hours in jet aircraft. Yet, despite his experience, he admitted that American pilots "just couldn't catch" the unidentified object he had seen.
Edgar Mitchell, a former US Navy Captain, was part of the Apollo 14 crew and became one of the 12 astronauts to walk on the Moon in 1971.
His former wife, Anita, has shared her personal experiences and the stories she learned from other early NASA astronauts in her new book, You Don’t Look Like An Astronaut’s Wife. She revealed that the book's title came from a remark people often made to her in the 1970s.
The couple was married from 1973 until their divorce in 1984. Edgar passed away in 2016, just before the 45th anniversary of his historic moon landing.
Before his death, Mitchell was vocal about his belief that the US government was withholding information about UFO sightings and their potential connection to extraterrestrial life.
In 2009, he publicly called for the release of classified information, expressing his belief in the reality of alien life and that the government was suppressing knowledge about it.
According to Mrs. Mitchell, many of the astronauts she met during her husband’s time at NASA shared the view that there was “something” beyond human understanding in terms of technology.
She now shares her husband's belief, adding, "Do you really think we are the only intelligence in the universe? Because if we are, the universe is in trouble."
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