Quotes from Scientists, Government, Military, and a Theologian on ET

[Edited to note that I have since learned that some of these individuals are known peddlers of pseudoscience and others have been criticized for using woo language likely to mislead the public as to what actual science indicates. That said, I don't believe all quotations are devoid of value, but I can no longer vouch for the implied qualification of certain figures.]

“In my mind, there is no question that they're out there. My career is well established. My text books are required reading in all the major capitals on planet earth. If you want to become a physicist to learn about the unified field theory-you read my books. Therefore, I'm in a position to say: Yes- Most likely they're out there, perhaps even visited, perhaps on our moon.”

– Professor Michio Kaku, Author of Theoretical Physics UNY, ABC News Quote

“I've been convinced for a long time that the flying saucers are real and interplanetary. In other words we are being watched by beings from outer space.”

– Albert M. Chop, deputy public relations director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration,(NASA) and former United States Air Force spokesman for Project Blue Book

“When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science, but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum leap.” “We had a job to do, whether right or wrong, to keep the public from getting excited.”

– Dr. J Allen Hynek, Director US Air Force´s project Blue Book as a scientific consultant, astronomer, investigator and analysis

“Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone.”

– The Bible According to Albert Einstein

“The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.”

– Dr. Harold Puthoff (Director, Institute for advanced studies at Austin, Author of fundamentals of Quantum Electronics)

“The least improbable explanation is that these things are artificial and controlled ... My opinion for some time has been that they have an extraterrestrial origin.”

– Dr. Maurice Biot (leading aerodynamicist and mathematical physicist)

“The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. Most are not. It's clear from the Opinion Polls and my own experience, that indeed most people accept the notion that SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. The greater the education, the MORE likely to accept this proposition.”

– Stanton Friedman, Defense Contractor Nuclear Physicist

Extraterrestrial encounters “are NOT demonic, they are NOT due to psychological impairment, they are NOT a case of entity attachment, but these encounters deserve to be studied carefully.”

“Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios (embassies) in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela.”

“As God's power is limitless, it is not only possible but also likely that inhabited planets exist. ”

“It is probable that there are other beings. That is not very strange, because there is too much discrepancy between human and angelic nature, of which we have the theological certainty. And since in man, the spirit is subordinate to matter, and since the Angels are alone spirit, it is probable that beings exist with very much less body and matter than we have. They could be those that we call Ufo, these persons that would appear with these wagons, and that also have not only one science, but a natural ability to be our guardians.”

– Monsignor Corrado Balducci, As stated 5 different times on Italian TV (Vatican theologian insider close to the Pope, Monsignor Balducci said that he is on a Vatican commission looking into extraterrestrial encounters, and how to cope with the emerging general realization of extraterrestrial contact.)

“With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative. We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists, the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program...for this is one race we dare not lose.”

– Major Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC, Director NICAP 1953

“Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is. I can tell you, behind the scenes, high ranking military officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs.”

– Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter (Former director of the Central Intelligence Agency)

“I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth” – President Harry S. Truman

“I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.”

– Senator Barry Goldwater (1965)
(Retired Air Force Brigadier General and pilot with many decades of flying experience)

“I think about how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And I ask you, does not this threat already exist?”

– President Ronald Reagan, UN address

“The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.”

– Mikhail Gorbachev

I believe, and I scientifically am certain, that there are endless other living forms out there, including intelligent sentient beings. I do know that there are entire universes of living forms out there.
– Dr. Story Musgrave, NASA scientist-astronaut

“I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth.”

– Colonel L. Gordon Cooper (Mercury 9, Gemini-5 Astronaut)

“I've been asked about UFO's and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.”
– Commander Eugene Cernan, Commanded the Apollo 17 Mission. (LA TIMES, 1973)

“We have contact with alien cultures.”
– Astronaut Dr. Brian O'Leary

“In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone!”
– Charles J. Camarda (Ph.D.) NASA Astronaut

“We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?”
– Apollo 14 Astronaut Capt. Edgar Mitchell

“All Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin - flying saucers, or UFOs, if you want to call them by that name. Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who then ordered absolute silence.”
– Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems

“At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.”
– NASA's Scott Carpenter

When asked if he believed that UFO's were real: “Yes as a matter of fact I do.” He was also asked if he had ever seen a UFO and he said he had, on his Gemini mission. He went on to say that he tried to take a picture of it, but it did not come out.
– Brigadier Gen. James Mc Divitt, command pilot of the Gemini space craft. (This interview can be seen on a video tape called Beyond Belief, from United Entertainment, Inc. 1986.)

“I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high." As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk. About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me -- and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.”
– Mercury Astronaut Capt. Donald Slayton

“Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or some components, to be duplicated. And there is some group of people that may or may not be associated with government at this point that have this knowledge. They have been attempting to conceal this knowledge. People in high level government have very little, if any, valid information about this. It has been the subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out.”

– Edgar D. Mitchell, D.Sc., American pilot, engineer, and astronaut