Edgar Mitchell has passed away.
Dr. Edgar Mitchell - Speaks out about
Gov't Secrecy
From Dr. Greer:
I invited him (Edgar Mitchell)
to the original Project Starlight gathering of UFO military and
government witnesses in 1995 at Asilomar , Monterrey CA. I remember him asking
me, " My God Steve, do you know what you are taking on? " And I said
yes, I'm afraid I do. and he replied, " Well, we have to just go forward,
put one foot in front of the next, and never look back..." And so we have.
Later I brought him to the briefings
for members of Congress, White House officials and others in 1997 in Washington
DC. There he heard more top-secret testimony that UFOs were in fact real, and
the secrecy was extreme. The day after, I invited him to join me at the
Pentagon.
I had been asked to brief J2- the
Director of Intelligence of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Tom Wilson. From
these and other meetings he learned that the compartments running ET and
UFO projects were indeed Unacknowledged - rogue, illegal- lying even to
this Admiral and the President . For it was made clear during this meeting that
even the Admiral was pointedly blocked from accessing UFO - related operations.
This was a turning point in Dr. Mitchell's understanding.
Subsequently, he courageously spoke
out for the Disclosure of the truth. He stood with us until the end.
May he go into the worlds of light in
peace and love and joy. Now the great space explorer who walked the moon will
explore the infinite realms beyond space and time.
Steven M. Greer MD
Washington DC
Apollo 14 moonwalker
(and UFO seeker) Edgar Mitchell dies at the age of 85
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell sits for his
official portrait in 1970. Mitchell’s crewmates on the mission in 1971 were
Alan Shepard and Stuart Roosa. (Credit: NASA)
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar
Mitchell has died at the age of 85 after a months-long illness, according
to reports that emerged on the 45th anniversary of his first moonwalk.
Members of Mitchell’s
family spread the word today in obituaries published by news outlets in Palm
Beach, Fla., where the former astronaut lived. The Palm Beach Postquoted his daughter, Kimberly Mitchell, as saying he
died at a local hospice at about 10 p.m. ET Thursday.
“As a member of the
Apollo 14 crew, Edgar is one of only 12 men to walk on the moon, and he helped
to change how we view our place in the universe,” NASA Administrator Charles
Bolden said in a statement.
Edgar Mitchell took part
in the first lunar mission to follow 1970’s nearly disastrous flight of
Apollo 13, and became the sixth human to set foot on the moon.
We brought back the
first real samples from the moon.
Mitchell and Apollo 14
commander Alan Shepard landed on the lunar surface on Feb. 5, 1971, and
conducted two moonwalks. “Our task was to start to do the science,”
he told me in a 2014 interview. “And we did that. We did it well. We brought back
the first real samples from the moon.”
The experience was
life-changing for Mitchell. While he was on the moon, he felt an ecstatic sense
of oneness with the universe. “What the heck is happening to me?” he recalled
asking himself. After leaving NASA in 1972, he founded the Institute
of Noetic Sciences and
devoted himself to the study of consciousness.
Mitchell also delved into
the issues surrounding extrasensory perception and UFO sightings, including the
1947 Roswell incident in New Mexico. Based on his discussions with witnesses
and their associates, he came to believe there was “adequate proof that the
Roswell incident was a real thing.”
In 2011, Mitchell was
caught up in a controversy over a 16mm camera that he kept for decades after its use on the
moon. After initially making plans to sell the camera in an auction, he agreed
to hand it over to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Since
then, a law was enacted to grant Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts full ownership rights to the artifacts they saved as souvenirs.
Mitchell was born in
Texas and received his Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT. He was a
Navy pilot during the 1950s, and served in the Navy Field Office for Manned
Orbital Laboratory in the early 1960s. In 1966, he was selected for astronaut
training. Apollo 14 was his only spaceflight.
In addition to founding
the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Mitchell was a co-founder of the Association
of Space Explorers. He was the fifth of the 12 Apollo moonwalkers to pass away.
The others are Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong, Apollo 12’s Pete Conrad, Apollo 14’s
Alan Shepard and Apollo 15’s James Irwin.
Mitchell was married and
divorced three times. He is survived by five children, nine grandchildren and
one great-grandchild, according to TCPalm.com. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Today is the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 14 landing on the moon. And yesterday we lost the last living member of that crew – Edgar Mitchell. I first met Ed when I was at MIT as he was studying there at the same time. Ed was certainly involved in advanced mental sensory perceptions aka mind reading. Not my bailiwick but I respected him for his persistence and dedication to studying the unknown. I'm sorry to lose another of our Apollo Lunar Pioneers. RIP Ed.
The suburban Lake Worth resident who was part of the Apollo 14 crew that flew to the moon in 1971, died in hospice late Thursday night.
