LAKE WORTH, Fla. --

Edgar Mitchell's suburban Lake Worth home is a small shrine to the nine
hours and 17 minutes he spent walking on the moon. Because of his experience,
Mitchell's recent comments about unidentified flying objects and aliens
are getting a lot of attention. "It's incredible to think that we might be the only intelligent,
living system in the universe. That's not credible anymore," he told WPBF News

The Apollo 14 veteran said that he believes the U.S. government
has been covering-up the truth for more than 50 years. "Military pilots, airline pilots,
mostly, from all over the world, for 50 years, have reported these things,
but they've quit because they're told to shut up and not talk about it by military
and intelligence people," Mitchell said. The 77-year-old said the deception began
after the alleged alien landing in Roswell, N.M., in 1947. Ever since, Mitchell claims,
the government has been keeping proof of alien life -- and alien visits -- under wraps.

The issue gained steam earlier this week when Mitchell told a British radio
interviewer that he knows that the government knows about life in outer space.
"I've been saying the same damn words for 10 years, almost verbatim,
and all of a sudden, here I'm global news," he said.