Summary

Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot and the sixth human to walk on the Moon, holding an MIT doctorate in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Mitchell publicly and consistently maintained across four decades that extraterrestrial visitation was real and that the U.S. government had suppressed evidence of it - claims he grounded in off-the-record briefings from retired military and intelligence officials with claimed firsthand UAP knowledge. In 1973 he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), a research organization studying consciousness and anomalous phenomena that remains active today. His 2015 WikiLeaks-published emails to presidential campaign chairman John Podesta, requesting urgent meetings on 'ETI disclosure and zero point energy,' are a documented primary source connecting his UAP convictions to the highest levels of contemporary American politics.

Roles

• -NASA Astronaut - Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot (1971)
• -Captain, U.S. Navy (ret.)
• -Sc.D. Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT (1964)
• -Founder and Chairman, Institute of Noetic Sciences (1973)

Organizations

Education

• -B.S., Industrial Management, Carnegie Mellon University (1952)
• -B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
• -M.S., Aeronautical Engineering, MIT (1961)
• -Sc.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT (1964)

Early Career

• -Commissioned as a U.S. Navy officer; qualified as a naval aviator and test pilot
• -Flew combat missions during the Korean War era; accumulated thousands of hours of flight time across multiple aircraft types
• -Earned two advanced degrees from MIT while on active duty, including a doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics - one of the most rigorous technical credentials held by any public UAP figure
• -Selected as a NASA astronaut in NASA's Group 5 ('The Original 19') in April 1966

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