Excerpt from a letter written by
Gordon Cooper to the United Nations
Who in the hell is Gordon Cooper? Why should you care about what some nut job writes to the U.N.? All very good questions and will be answered in due time.
To get to the bottom of all of what should seem like nonsense to any normal person who didn’t just spend the last couple of days doing research in the loosest way possible, I need to start with July 23 2008. You see on July 23red something happened that made the child lurking inside of me giddy as a little girl, Edgar Mitchell did an interview on British radio station Kerrang! 105.2, a station that according to the universal database that is the Wikipedia is ‘a specialist rock music radio station,’ and proceeded to proclaim for all to hear that, “I happened to be privileged enough to have, uhh, be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet and the U.F.O. phenomenon is real...”
Holy shit. Did I just hear that right? Some asshole just went on the radio and told me that aliens do exist? Well I could have done that, well maybe not the whole British radio part but you get my point. So now we have two unknown assholes just going on and on about how aliens are real and have in fact visited planet earth. Crazy people say crazy thing eh? These two trucker-cap and wife beater wearing hillbillies should just shut their gaping maws and enrich the world with their golden silence, right amigos? Well if I had just painted these men in any kind of true light I would have to agree but the problem is that both of these men are real life American heroes, the last of a dying breed and some of the first of there kind, not the first but close enough, these men are both retired astronauts. Gordon Cooper was the final member of the Mercury space program to orbit the earth, Dr. Edgar Mitchell on the other hand stepped out of the hatch of Apollo 14 right after Alan Shepard and took a merry little jaunt across the surface of the moon. So when these guys talk it seems to add a little bit of weight to an argument about space related things in my opinion.
Through out the interview Mitchell talked about several things that seemed quite interesting to be coming out of the mouth of an astronaut, such as validating the Roswell New Mexico flying saucer crash of 1947 and other things. Shortly after I listened to the stream of the radio broadcast, I had two prevailing thoughts on my mind the first was, “God damn it, this almost adds a bit of validity to the shitty story of Indiana Jones 4,” this was quickly followed by, “I should really tell someone about this.” The funny thing about this is that no one else seemed to be interested in the fact that the sixth man on the moon was walking around talking about how the earth has been visited by extra-terrestrials, my father even went so far as to say “It’s good to know that they’re letting crazies walk on the moon now.” Not that I really think that Mitchell’s claim proves that aliens exist or even that I really think that we have been visited by little green men in flying saucers, it just seemed so interesting that Mitchell would so boldly state this and no one would find even raise an eyebrow. So in a fit of needing confirmation that this happened was in fact interesting I set fourth on my mission for validation.
What I found though wasn’t quite what I expected. You see the radio show I listened to had a host who had never in a million years imagined that when he sat down to interview an astronaut that the bombshell that the truth is out there would be cast down upon his head, which was much the same reaction that I had. Fuck Mitchell was the sixth man on the moon, up until this point in my life I only knew who first, second and fifth men on the moon were to me, for all intents and purposes Edgar Mitchell was birthed into existence when he conducted this interview.
After some research I learned that this wasn’t the tectonic plate shattering announcement that I once thought it was, no my new hero seems to have a history of confirming the existence of aliens and the reality of the Roswell incident. This was a little jarring to me that the guys at Kerrang! radio would have over looked this history with Mitchell, that or this was the reason that he was invited on to the show. Just think of all of the publicity that they have gotten out of this, I didn’t know that Kerrang! existed until this point and I feel safe assuming that until you read this you didn’t know about them either, I think that these guys decided to brew up a storm in teacup to up there notoriety with the public. I can see it now, in a quaint little coffee shop located in Wakefield England two young people are sitting down smoking there cigarettes and sipping on there fancy coffees when one mentions, “Ey you hear about how Kerrang! had some space man on the show and said that little green men exist?” shit everyone in ear shot just got hit by word of mouth advertisement. Though England might not be quite like that it’s how I would like to imagine that scenario going down. But this still doesn’t seem to answer my question, why is Mitchell going around talking about these facts so bluntly and not caring if people label him a crazy?
Well upon further research I learned that Mitchell once lived in the Roswell area. He explained that some of his incontrovertible evidence came straight from the horses mouths, he has talked extensively with the old timers of the area, ranging from ranch owners to people that he claims to have researched were in fact the military personal who responded to the saucers crash back in forty seven. After learning this I walked away from everything with a whole new perspective, I don’t think it matters too much to Mitchell that he knows that aliens exist and is on some sort of Fox Mulder crusade to rip the veil from of the eyes which the general public proudly wears. No I think that the true intention may be to keep the original lore of the night of July 7, 1947 in Roswell New Mexico alive. If he convinces a couple of people along the way it’s probably a plus but at least in this time when any damned fool, not unlike myself, can go on the internet and say and thing they want, he is keeping the tale alive the way stories have sense the first story was told.
Now for my entire life I have liked the idea of visitors from space, I have never cared if they were the hippy technology giving verity or the bad ass we are going to rape your planet kind, I just kind of wanted the fantastic to come real and spice up what is a fairly repetitive history log that us humans have. Do I think that what Mitchell says is true? Not really but I appreciate what he has done to help keep some bullshit childhood fantasy of mine alive.
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