Originally posted by Lightworth
It's at least conceivable, though I don't believe it's the case, that Mitchell is a government (or pro-government) disinformant made to make the more "new agey kook" types look weak, impotent...

Mitchell's interests include consciousness and paranormal phenomena. During the Apollo 14 flight he conducted private ESP experiments with his friends on Earth.[3] In early 1973, he founded the nonprofit Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) to conduct and sponsor research into areas that mainstream science has found unproductive, including consciousness research and psychic events.

Mitchell has publicly expressed his opinions that he is "90 per cent sure that many of the thousands of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets"[5] and that UFOs have been the "subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and to create confusion so the truth doesn't come out".[6] In 2004 he told the St. Petersburg Times that a "cabal of insiders" inside the US Government were studying recovered alien bodies, and that this group had stopped briefing US Presidents after John F. Kennedy.[7] He has said, that "We all know that UFOs are real, now the question is, where they come from".[8]

Mitchell has written several articles and essays[11], as well as two books: Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science (ISBN 0-399-11342-8) and The Way of the Explorer (ISBN 1-57270-019-X). In The Way of the Explorer, Mitchell proposed a dyadic model of reality.[12]

He is currently the Advisory Board Chairman of the Institute for Cooperation in Space, co-founded by Dr. Carol Rosin[13] and is a member of INREES.

Originally posted by Brainiac
No it's based on people fascinations, much like your own...

You. Can. Not. Make. Anyone. Believe. Something. They. Cannot. See. Without. Proof.

THE ABILITY TO TRAVEL ONLY 2 LIGHT YEARS WOULD BE MILLIONS OF YEARS AHEAD OF US.

that would mean that "they" have learned the ability to "alter" the molecular density of matter... Because to go even near the speed of light, you would have to do, or your mass would increase infinitely, causing you to never be able to reach that speed...