Wife of Apollo astronaut reveals husband’s untold encounters with UFOs that convinced him we’re not alone

Is there anyone more qualified than an astronaut to shed light on the existence of UFOs? 

Now, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, the wife of one Apollo astronaut has revealed the secrets her husband shared before he died.

Anita Mitchell, who was married to the late NASA pilot Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon in 1971, said: ‘He always felt that there were UFOs out there, because so many of the pilots and astronauts had seen something.’ 

She claims several of his fellow crewmates, including Apollo astronaut James McDivitt, similarly reported seeing mysterious objects during America’s early space missions. Some also saw strange 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 was one of the earliest NASA pilots who took part in the program’s Mercury and Gemini projects and logged thousands of hours in jet aircraft.

But despite all his experience, Mrs Mitchell said the veteran pilot had admitted that after spotting the UFO, American pilots ‘just couldn’t catch it’ 

Edgar Mitchell, a former US Navy Captain, was part of the Apollo 14 crew that flew to the Moon in 1971 – and was one of just 12 NASA astronauts to walk on it.

His former wife has shared her experiences and stories she heard from many of the early NASA astronauts in a new book ‘You Don’t Look Like An Astronaut’s Wife’. 

Mrs Mitchell said the title of her book comes from the comments people made to her in the 1970s.

The couple were married from 1973 to 1984. Edgar Mitchell died in 2016, just before the 45th anniversary of his moon landing.

Prior to his death, the former astronaut pushed for the US government to tell the public what it knew about the many reports of strange sightings and their potential ties to alien life.

In 2009, Mitchell publicly called for the release of information he believed the government was hiding about UFOs – adding that he believed extraterrestrial life was real and officials were suppressing knowledge about it.

According to the astronauts Mrs Mitchell met during her husband’s tenure in the space program, they claimed there was ‘something there technology-wise’ beyond what humans knew about.

She has now told the Daily Mail that she shares her husband’s belief that there was ‘something out there.’

‘Do you really think we are the only intelligence in the universe? Because if we are, the universe is in trouble,’ she added.

Mrs Mitchell said that being an astronaut’s wife was ‘like a different universe’. 

‘It was a wonderful experience to grow up there… and to be just a part of that,’ she continued.

‘I call them the cowboys, and they were,’ she added, noting that even though many of the NASA pilots went on to earn college degrees and doctorates, they all still had an adventurous ‘need for speed.’

During the Apollo 14 mission, her husband was the lunar module pilot for the NASA spacecraft which carried fellow astronauts Alan Shepard and Stuart Roosa to the Moon.

According to his ex-wife, Mitchell also had a lifelong fascination with the paranormal and psychic phenomena. 

After his NASA days, he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to investigate paranormal phenomena.

She added that her ex-husband conducted a huge number of experiments around ESP (extrasensory perception), or the paranormal ability to perceive information without using the five senses.

Mitchell also conducted experiments to see if it was possible to bend metal with mental powers.

It was during this period when Mrs Mitchell met one of the most influential people in NASA history – famed aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, who was one of the architects of the space program.

A former rocket scientist in Nazi Germany, Von Braun developed the V-2 ballistic missile, which became a model for the space rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles used by the US and Soviet Union in the decades following World War II.

Mrs Mitchell said the atmosphere and excitement around space launches today reminds her of NASA’s early days of the so-called ‘space race’. 

She added that Von Braun used to dream of going to Mars, in the same way SpaceX founder Elon Musk does today.

‘Today, it almost feels like the Apollo days again, only bigger. It’s an exciting time to be alive and to witness it all,’ she said.