There have been several astronauts such as Edgar Mitchell, Cady Coleman, Edwin Buzz Aldrin and Dr Brian O’Leary who have claimed to have seen UFOs. Aldrin, one of the first people to walk on the Moon, had shared his experience on board the Apollo 11, when he and fellow astronauts saw something flying alongside their spacecraft. Initially, they thought it was the final stage of a detached rocket, until mission control confirmed it was 6000 miles away from them.

Buzz Aldrin

Both Neil Armstrong and Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after their historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on July 21, 1969, according to unconfirmed reports. NASA astronaut Armstrong believed aliens have a base on the Moon and they apparently warned Armstrong and others to “get off and stay off the Moon”.

During a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session, Aldrin said the “first humans to set foot on Mars should never return to earth”.

When one user asked Aldrin if he believed in aliens and asked him about the sightings he saw on board Apollo 11, the astronaut replied: “On Apollo 11 en route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world – it was either the rocket we had separated from, or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft”.

Although Aldrin was reluctant to describe the sighting as an extraterrestrial craft, he believes there are other life forms in space.

Edgar Dean Mitchell

In 1971, Mitchell became the sixth person to walk on the Moon, and the journey spiritually transformed his life in such a way that he devoted much of his time exploring “esoteric realms of science, psychic phenomena and the existence of extraterrestrial beings”.

He was convinced after the journey to the Moon that “aliens have been observing us and have been here for some time”. Mitchell once even claimed that “peace-loving” aliens had visited Earth to save humanity from nuclear war, and indicated the Vatican knew about the existence of extraterrestrials.

Mitchell, who had been outspoken about his belief in aliens, told Mirror Online that top-ranking military sources had spotted UFOs during weapons tests. He also said that strange crafts flying over missile bases at the White Sands facility have been spotted by military insiders. The facility is a government-owned rocket engine test site where the world’s first ever nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945.

Gordon Cooper

Cooper was one of the seven astronauts who took part in Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program of the U.S., which ran from 1958 to 1963. Cooper, the last American to fly in space alone, had said he spotted UFOs flying over Germany seven years before he went into space.

In 1963, when he shot into space in a Mercury capsule for a 22-orbit journey around the world, Cooper told the tracking station he could see a glowing, greenish object appearing in front of him and approaching his capsule. The UFO was reportedly “real and solid”, because even the tracking radar had picked it up.

According to a taped interview by author, J.L. Ferrando, Cooper revealed how he felt he was living with a secret, which was imposed on all specialists in astronautics. “I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public”, he said. He added: “Because authority is afraid that people may think of god knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means”.

Brian O’Leary

O’Leary, who was one of the 11 astronauts named for a possible NASA Mars mission in the 1960s, authored three books that spoke about our connection to UFOs. He had also lectured on the subject across the world.

Regarding crop circles that he first saw in 1991 in England, he said in an interview: “The Crop Circle phenomenon, besides the hoaxed ones, is a very real phenomenon created by some unknown, probably non-human intervention”, according to UFO Evidence.

O’Leary is also reported to have said: “There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted. Civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time”.

Bernadette Soubirous was born in Lourdes, France on January 7, 1844. Her parents were very poor and she was the first of nine children. As a toddler, Bernadette contracted cholera and suffered extreme asthma. Unfortunately, she lived the rest of her life in poor health.

On Thursday, February 11, 1858, fourteen-year-old Bernadette was sent with her younger sister and a friend to gather firewood, when a very beautiful lady, emanating strong Love, appeared to her above a rose bush in a grotto called Massabielle (Tuta de Massavielha).

The woman wore blue and white and smiled very friendly at Bernadette. Bernadette fell to her knees and began to pray. Bernadette later described the woman as “uo petito damizelo”, meaning “a small young lady”. Though her sister and friend claimed they were unable to see her, Bernadette knew what she saw was real.

Three days later, Bernadette, her sister Marie, and other girls returned to the grotto, where Bernadette immediately knelt, saying she could see “aquero” again. She fell into a trance and one girl threw holy water at the niche and another threw a rock that shattered on the ground. It was then that the apparition disappeared.

On February 18, Bernadette said “the vision” asked her to return to the grotto each day for a fortnight. With each visit, Bernadette saw the Superior Spirit and the period of daily visions became known as “la Quinzaine sacrée”, meaning “holy fortnight”.

When Bernadette began to visit the grotto, her parents were embarrassed and attempted to stop her, but were unable to do so. On February 25, Bernadette claimed to have had a life-changing vision.

The vision had told her “to drink of the water of the spring, to wash in it and to eat the herb that grew there” as an act of penance. The next day, the grotto’s muddy waters had been cleared and fresh clear water flowed abundantly.

On March 2, at the thirteenth of the apparitions, Bernadette told her family the lady said “a chapel should be built and a procession formed”.

During her sixteenth vision, which Bernadette claims to have experienced for over an hour, was on March 25. Bernadette claimed she had asked the woman her name, but her question was only met with a smile. The insistence of Bernadette with the question of the name, was because of the parish priest, who demanded a connection of the apparition with the Catholic faith in order to approve the chapel. Bernadette asked again, three more times, and finally the woman said, “I am the Immaculate Conception”. Bernadette Soubirous never said, ever, that the apparition was the “Virgin Mary”.

Though many townspeople believed she had indeed been seeing the Virgin Mary, Bernadette’s story created a division in her town. Many believed she was telling the truth, while others believed she had a mental illness and demanded she be put in a mental asylum. Some believed Bernadette’s visions meant she needed to pray for penance.

Church authorities rigorously interviewed Bernadette, and the French police persecuted her, including they arrested Bernadette in order to force her to sign a false confession saying that she made up everything, what she never did. By 1862 the Catholic Church confirmed she spoke the truth.

Since Bernadette first caused the spring to produce clean water, 70 cures have been verified by the Lourdes Medical Bureau, and after what the Church claimed were “extremely rigorous scientific and medical examinations”, no one was able to explain what caused the cures.

The Lourdes Commission that initially examined Bernadette, ran an analysis on the water but were only able to determine it contained a high mineral content. Bernadette believed it was Faith and Prayer that was responsible for curing the sick, and not the water itself.

The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes is now one of the major Catholic / Spiritual pilgrimage sites in planet Earth. Many people have reported cures related to it, but never submitted themselves to the time-consuming procedures of the Lourdes Medical Bureau, so there are many thousands of genuine cures never officially recognized by the Catholic Church.

For instance, D. Scott Rogo, well known author of books of Parapsychology – including one of the best books in the field, “Life after Death: The Case for Survival of Bodily Death” -, explains in his book “Miracles” the authenticity of so many cures reported in the Grotto of Massabielle. (Douglas Scott Rogo was a writer, journalist and researcher on subjects related to Parapsychology, from the USA. He was found stabbed to death in his home on August 16, 1990. There were no signs of a struggle although a number of Rogo’s personal items were missing and his wallet was empty. His killer is still unknown and the case remains open).

We strongly believe that Bernadette Soubirous – an indigo child, was contacted by a Superior Spirit in the Grotto of Massabielle, Lourdes, France, with the purpose of helping people to reinforce their faith in Jesus message of Love through cure. The Catholic Church was used as a non-negative way of spreading this important message.