Edgar Mitchell, Sixth Astronaut to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 85
Mitchell spent the latter half of his life arguing that the United States had recovered evidence of extraterrestrial visitation.
UFOs and Beyond: Apollo 14 Astronaut Ed Mitchell Is Looking Up
NBC profile of Mitchell's post-Apollo advocacy that ETs visit Earth and that the Roswell incident was real.
Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantoms scrambled to intercept a UFO over Tehran experienced weapons and electronics failures, documented by a declassified DIA report.
Three NASA astronauts aboard Skylab 3 observed and photographed a bright red rotating object from orbit for over 10 minutes, with NORAD unable to identify any known object in the vicinity.
On December 11, 1972 the Apollo 17 crew described 'jagged angular fragments' tumbling past the spacecraft windows - 'the Fourth of July out of Ron's window.' The Pentagon re-classified the photographs from 'insulation' to 'potentially physical object' on May 8, 2026.
Apollo 12 photographs of bright unidentified objects above the lunar horizon were re-classified by the Department of War on May 8, 2026 from 'photographic artifact' to 'potentially the result of a physical object.'
Apollo 11 crew observed a luminous object pacing their spacecraft during translunar coast; the apocryphal 'they're warning us off' Armstrong transmission is the most-repeated UFO claim of the lunar era.
The US military initially announced recovery of a 'flying disc' near Roswell, NM before retracting the statement, creating the most famous UFO controversy in history.