Dr. Edgar Mitchell

I liked how Dr. Mitchell was presented in the following article. It is an excellent overview of what he accomplished to get where he is now.

Ever since I was a child, I have been enamored by the space program. I read endlessly about astronauts, about rockets, the Saturn V, the moon landings, everything. I always envisioned my life as being part of this program that I loved so much. As is the case with most people, my life didn´t turn out quite like I thought it would. It turned out better! I am married to a wonderful woman that I might not have met had my life went where I thought it should.

One of my heroes was an astronaut named Edgar Mitchell. Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon, and holds the record for the longest moon walk on foot, a total of 9 hours and 17 minutes, which occurred on February 9, 1971. I was getting ready to celebrate my second birthday!

Edgar Mitchell attended Carnegie Institute of Technology, obtaining a bachelors degree in industrial management. In 1953, he joined the US Navy, serving as a pilot, eventually becoming a research and test pilot. He continued his education, obtaining a bachelors degree in aeronautical engineering, then a Doctorate of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Becoming an astronaut in 1966, his only space mission was as Landing Module pilot on Apollo 14 with Alan Shepard. It was at this time that his historic moonwalk occurred.

Dr. Mitchell retired from NASA in 1972. Since that time, Mitchell has been trying to get a message out to the American public that we are not alone.

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(Full Article: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/70634)

Roswell again, on Larry King Show

I can’t understand why people are still saying their would be panic upon disclosure. We have been prepared for this for decades. TV shows, the work of NASA in exploring space, the Disclosure Project, movies like E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Contact, etc. And we also understand that if they were Hostile, we wouldn’t be breathing this air. They would have taken over a couple hundred years ago when we were few people on this planet.

Here is a short clip of the Larry King Roswell Show, ignore the advertising.

UFO cover-up? 5:53
CNN’s Larry King Live’s panel discuss the accusations that the U.S. military has been covering up UFOs for years.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/07/05/lkl.roswell.ufo.cnn

Nasa sponsors course on how to talk to aliens

wow! Is it just me, or things have been really moving forward in the last 2-3 months?

English students at the University of Wyoming are being encouraged to consider the possibility that humanity might one day make contact with aliens and then not know what to say.

“Interstellar Message Composition”, a creative writing class, is believed to be the first of its kind to engage writers in a potential cosmic conversation, say its founders.

“We’ve thought a lot about how we might communicate with other worlds, but we haven’t thought much about what we’d actually say,” Prof Jeffrey Lockwood, the course leader, told ABC News.

The course, currently being taken by 11 students, is partly financed by Nasa’s Wyoming Space Grant Consortium, which sponsors educational and research projects in the state that support the agency’s missions.

Among questions tackled in Prof Lockwood’s class is how aliens might communicate, whether they would be able to translate human language, and whether they would be able to see or hear.

One student, Dixie Thoman, created a poem about menstruation with syllables arranged in a mathematically harmonious order, known as the Fibonacci sequence.

Recordings of the Brandenburg Concerto and Johnny B Goode are among those that have been beamed into space over the years in an attempt to provoke an extraterrestrial response.

The course is being advised by Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar message composition for the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute in California.

“It could be tomorrow that we’ll need to be ready to decide if we reply [to aliens],” he said. “It’s really critical to have people start thinking about it and it makes sense to start with writers. These are people who are really trying to express the human condition.”

(Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk)

Japan’s science minister hopes aliens exist

TOKYO (AFP) – Japan’s science minister said Friday he hoped aliens existed so children would become more interested in space, as a debate on UFOs continued to demand the attention of the cabinet.

“It would be fun if they existed,” education and science minister Kisaburo Tokai told reporters.

“There have been films like ‘ET.’ Children may grow up with ambitions regarding space,” he said, referring to Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic about a boy’s friendship with an extraterrestrial.

Japan has an increasingly ambitious space programme, with a major lunar probe launched in September. But it is struggling to boost children’s interest in science with a survey this month showing Japanese students came last internationally in the percentage seeking science careers.

Tokai said the cabinet, despite other pressing issues and a new poll showing a sharp fall in public support, started its regular meeting Friday with a lively discussion about UFOs.

But he declined to take sides on whether he personally believed in alien life-forms.

“The government is not considering a study on UFOs but I want to ask various things if I meet experts,” he said.

The science minister’s comments came a day after Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he was looking at how Japan’s military could respond to an alien invasion under the pacifist constitution.

The debate was set off on Tuesday when the government, asked for its position by an opposition lawmaker, stated it had no knowledge of UFOs.

The statement prompting a surprise rebuttal from chief government spokesman Nobutaka Machimura, who said: “Personally, I absolutely believe they exist.”

(Source: http://news.yahoo.com)

Japan’s science minister hopes aliens exist

TOKYO (AFP) – Japan’s science minister said Friday he hoped aliens existed so children would become more interested in space, as a debate on UFOs continued to demand the attention of the cabinet.

“It would be fun if they existed,” education and science minister Kisaburo Tokai told reporters.

“There have been films like ‘ET.’ Children may grow up with ambitions regarding space,” he said, referring to Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic about a boy’s friendship with an extraterrestrial.

Japan has an increasingly ambitious space programme, with a major lunar probe launched in September. But it is struggling to boost children’s interest in science with a survey this month showing Japanese students came last internationally in the percentage seeking science careers.

Tokai said the cabinet, despite other pressing issues and a new poll showing a sharp fall in public support, started its regular meeting Friday with a lively discussion about UFOs.

But he declined to take sides on whether he personally believed in alien life-forms.

“The government is not considering a study on UFOs but I want to ask various things if I meet experts,” he said.

The science minister’s comments came a day after Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he was looking at how Japan’s military could respond to an alien invasion under the pacifist constitution.

The debate was set off on Tuesday when the government, asked for its position by an opposition lawmaker, stated it had no knowledge of UFOs.

The statement prompting a surprise rebuttal from chief government spokesman Nobutaka Machimura, who said: “Personally, I absolutely believe they exist.”

(Source: http://news.yahoo.com)

LA Times Opinion Piece on Dennis Kucinich – Gives Life to the UFO Issue

Exopolitics Toronto

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Important Information Release – Initial Release

LA Times Opinion Piece on Dennis Kucinich – Gives Life to the UFO Issue

Toronto ON – December 1, 2007 – The LA Times has just posted an opinion piece that clearly bolsters the level of credibility of the Kucinich UFO encounter – while also mentioning the successful lawsuit by CFi against NASA, John Podesta’s concerns for an information release and other evolutionary sign posts as the American media initiates a position on this issue.

The insemination of the UFO/ET issue into the media has clearly taken place.

It appears the media is expecting… something.

It also appears the gestation period for this issue in the media is moving along quite nicely.

Although not remotely close to its birth and infancy, the initial conception of the matter can be readily traced – not to the back seat of a 1957 Chevy but to the hard work of pioneer researchers, advocates, lobbyists and citizen scientists who have patiently nurtured this new world-view.

The injection of the matter into the US Presidential campaign and the National Press Club Press Conference by CFi on November 12, 2007 has rejuvenated media interest.

This major mainstream posting by the LA Times gives rise to a widening systemic flow of ideas and positions relating to the UFO/ET matter – it has clearly become a strategic image on the sign-post of growing media engagement.

Despite the silence maintained by White House officials and other Presidential hopefuls, the LA Times is now added to the growing list of mainstream media outlets that are beginning to formulate and yes, parent a position on the embryonic news potential of an emerging UFO/ET narrative.

The tactical matter of which media outlet will strip itself from the stirrups of government control to give public recognition to the UFO/ET matter has now become an issue itself.

The imminent birth is a ways ahead – still. Soon however, the issue will be on the front pages of major newspapers – minus its umbilical chord – ready to meet the press and its public.

Perhaps the New York Times, the Washington Post, the burgeoning Canadian National Post or even the Toronto Star will over-see the delivery – ultimately a tantalizing event for those parents, who linger, impatiently pacing in the waiting-room down the hall for the truth to emerge.

Two long-suffering questions remain – Will it be a traditional 12 month human gestation period or the 22 to 24 month incubation period of the pachyderm and – like the Presidential election – will it be a boy or a girl?

While the parents of this issue – and there are many progenitors – have no gender preference, they fully recognize the first trimester has proven to be a fluid one, full of surprises as the American election moves into the ’08.

The forthcoming birth will resolve their desires.

What of the child?

Once born into the world of public scrutiny the infant will require circumspect care and prudent nurturing – but, once of age it will take the world by storm!

You are invited to review this most revelatory opinion article in the LA Times.

Please distribute.

LA Times Opinion
Kucinich’s Close Encounter
The presidential candidate’s televised acknowledgment of seeing a UFO has
put the issue back on the radar.
December 1, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-ufo1dec01,0,5688964.story?coll=la-opinion-leftrail

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