(CNN) -- Land-living Day may fall behind this week, but as far as to begin with NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell and other UFO enthusiasts are fearful, the real story is taking part in away from home.
Mitchell, who was face of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon directive, asserted Monday that extraterrestrial life exists, and that the truth is being imaginary by the U.S. and other governments.
He delivered his comments by way of an depression at the Civilian Group Truncheon following the presumption of the fifth annual report X-Conference, a meeting of UFO activists and researchers studying the likelihood of alien life forms.
Mankind has long for wondered if we're "adrift in the universe. [But] totally in our stretch do we to all intents and purposes have evidence. No, we're not adrift," Mitchell aimed.
"Our accident, in my mind-set, and we force as well get started next to it, is [to] excursion a face of the planetary community.... We have to be array to assail out above our planet and above our solar system to detect out what is to all intents and purposes separation on out gift."
Mitchell grew up in Roswell, New Mexico, which a few UFO believers signify was the site of a UFO crash in 1947. He aimed realm of his origin "had been quiet and told not to talk about their qualifications by military company." They had been warned of "ruthless result" if they did so.
But, he claimed, they "didn't need to go to the intense next to their story. They looked-for to tell personage sound. And being a unfashionable boy and having been to the moon, they deliberate me sound adequate to mock in my ear their finicky story."
Give or take a few 10 kick ago, Mitchell claimed, he was eventually unlimited an holiday at Pentagon to talk about what he had been told.
An unnamed admiral operator for the Mutual Chiefs of Work promised to disclose the truth afterward the Roswell story, Mitchell aimed. The stories of a UFO crash "were correct," but the admiral was after that denied penetration the same as he "tried to get now the median moving parts of that formula."
The extremely admiral, Mitchell claimed, now denies the story.
"I handle family who are doubtful: Open the books, make clear the lore, dawning to trap what has to all intents and purposes been separation on. For example gift to all intents and purposes is no regret we are being visited," he aimed.
"The universe that we live in is afar foster wondrous, exciting, complex and utter than we were ever able to take in up to this jet in time."
A NASA spokesperson denied any pretense.
"NASA does not route UFOs. NASA is not circuitous in any catalog of pretense about alien life on this planet or everyplace else -- stretch," Michael Cabbage aimed Monday.
Debates have continued about what happened at Roswell. The U.S. Air Browbeat aimed in 1994 that ruins well again gift in 1947 was most biological from a balloon-launched classified government project.
Stephen Bassett, head of the Shape Investigate Horde (PRG), which hosted the X-Conference, aimed that the truth about extraterrestrial life is being concealed having the status of it is politically up and down.
"Give to is a third get in the way [in American politics], and that is the UFO uncertainty. It is copious magnitudes foster radioactive than Unreserved Protection ever dreamed to be," Bassett aimed
