Edgar Mitchell
Apollo 14 astronaut and sixth person to walk on the Moon. After a profound experience returning to Earth in 1971, he resigned from NASA to found the Institute of Noetic Sciences and became a public advocate for both consciousness research and UFO disclosure, saying he was "convinced enough of the reality of the ET presence" to state so publicly. Also served on the Science Advisory Board of Robert Bigelow's NIDS, documented in surviving 1996 correspondence between them.
In the consciousness threadClassified 25 August 2026 from this entity's own role text, which reads: "1971, he resigned from NASA to found the Institute of Noetic Sciences and became a public advocate for both consciousness res". An editorial classification, the same kind of field as cat - it rests on no page and does not claim to.
None of this entity's 14 connections has a source you can open. 3 carry no citation at all. 3 were tested against a document we hold and deliberately not bound.
Documents1 that names it
Also named in documents we hold
This entity's name appears in the 1 document below. That is the entire claim. Nothing here is evidence for anything on this map, no connection rests on it, and it says nothing about what the document is about. It is a place to look next.
14 connections
-
The claim we testedMitchell received his Wilson-memo notesWhat the document actually saysEWD: Keep for private/personal research - data collection to track down the story ... Will keep mouth shut, etc. etc.EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002, 2002
printed p. 15 · read off the page footerWhy we refused it. THE MEMO SAYS THE OPPOSITE OF ONWARD TRANSMISSION. On its last page Davis records that he intends to keep the notes for private research and keep quiet. That Mitchell came to hold them is the central provenance claim about this document and it is not in the document. -
The claim we testedthe notes surfaced from his estate after his 2016 deathWhat the document actually says- no sentence in this document concerns what became of it. It was written in 2002 and ends with Davis saying he will keep it private.EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002, 2002
printed p. 15 · read off the page footerWhy we refused it. A DOCUMENT CANNOT RECORD ITS OWN LATER HISTORY. This is the single most important unsourced claim in the whole cluster - it is the entire chain of custody - and nothing this project holds establishes it. -
The claim we testedallegedly relayed the account to Edgar Mitchell, who told Davis in 1999What the document actually saysTW: Confirmed Greer/Miller/Mitchell gave talk in Pentagon Conference room ... (Ed Mitchell said 4/9/97.)EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002, 2002
printed p. 1 · read off the page footerCaveat REWORDED 30 August 2026 for consistency with link 775, which describes the same act and already says "the memo alleges". "Allegedly" with no allegator is an accusation from nowhere; the allegator here is the Wilson-Davis memo and the sentence now says so.Why we refused it. The parenthesis shows Mitchell supplying a date to someone, which is close to the claim and is not the claim. The relayed-account chain is not on this page. PROVISIONAL. -
founded it in 1973Institute of Noetic Sciences history
-
fellow astronaut making similar public ET claimsNASA mission records; astronaut public statements
-
fellow figure in the psi/UFO "invisible college"Hynek & Vallee, The Edge of Reality (1975); 'invisible college'
-
→ NIDSserved on its Science Advisory Board1996 Bigelow-Mitchell correspondence
-
1996 letters document his role on NIDS's advisory boardNIDS records; George Knapp, Statement to Congress, House Oversight (HHRG-118-GO06), Jul 26 2023
-
fellow witness at the 2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure (National Press Club)
-
fellow Apollo moonwalker with starkly contrasting public views on UFOsNASA mission records; astronaut public statements
-
featuredSleeping Dog documentary (2026)
-
both drew similar public skepticism for late-career claims
-
journalist Annie Jacobsen alleges his institute was a CIA conduit for payments to Puharich during Geller's SRI evaluation
-
the memo describing him was found in Mitchell's estate after his death
1 correction to this record
Generated from the record, not written by hand. Every change keeps what the map used to say, because a correction nobody can see is indistinguishable from never having been wrong.
Notes on this record
Verified 2 September 2026 against Wikipedia, "Edgar Mitchell", fetched that day: Mitchell "died under hospice care in West Palm Beach, Florida, at the age of 85, on February 4, 2016", which the article notes was "the eve of the 45th anniversary of his lunar landing". Matches the end recorded here to the day. RECORDED GRADE: fetched secondary source, not a primary document read by eye. It is recorded so a reader can check it, and it is the same grade as the fourteen death dates already on this map.