'Peace-Loving Aliens Saved Earth From N-War': Moon Mission Astronaut Edgar Mitchell

Once, there were aliens that saved the earth from a nuclear war between America and Russia, says a former astronaut, according to dailymail.

It was the sixth man to walk on the moon, Edgar Mitchell, who said that "high-ranking military officials" saw some alien ships even when there were nuclear tests in the 1940s.

The UFOs were seen over the world's first nuclear weapons test on July 16, 1945, in the desolate White Sands deserts of New Mexico.

"White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons - and that's what the extra-terrestrials were interested in," the 84-year-old Texan told Mirror Online.

He grew in New Mexico, near the bomb testing zone as well as Roswell, a spot where believers think the world's "most famous UFO encounter" took place.

"They wanted to know about our military capabilities. My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.'"

He says that his theory is supported by others who manned missiles. "Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft," he said.

Earlier, he had said that "real-life ETs were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head."

As our technology is "not nearly as sophisticated" as theirs, he warns that "had they been hostile" we would have been dead by now.

However, Nick Pope, an earlier Ministry of Defence UFO researcher, said that Dr Mitchell's comments are totally based on second-hand reports.

"Even where Mitchell's sources are genuine, how do we know they have access to classified information about UFOs?" he says.

After all, why did the aliens suddenly emerge, just after we developed atomic weapons and rocket technology? This was a threat we posed to the larger cosmos, he said.

"Ironically, governments have sometimes secretly promoted belief in UFOs, because if someone sees a secret prototype aircraft or drone, it's much better to have it reported as a flying saucer than recognised for what it is," said Pope.

"None of this is to say that there haven't been some genuinely fascinating and unexplained UFO sightings around nuclear facilities and military bases, but just because a UFO sighting is unexplained, it doesn't follow that it's extraterrestrial.'"