Wife of Apollo astronaut reveals husband's strange 'encounters' with UFOs he told her before he died

The wife of a late NASA astronaut has opened up on the stories he used to tell her about UFOs.

Being in space is a huge thing, and only a select group of people will ever get to do it in their lifetimes.

So, of course they’ve seen things that us mere mortals will never get to set our eyes on.

But UFOs? Apparently so.

According to the wife of an Apollo astronaut, her husband used to tell her secrets about what he really saw in space.

Anita Mitchell was married to the late NASA pilot Edgar Mitchell, who was the sixth man to walk on the moon in 1971.

The Apollo 14 astronauts were at a prelaunch news conference at the Kennedy Space Center, including Edgar Mitchell on the left (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

She told the Daily Mail that he had encounters with strange things, and that it wasn’t unusual to see something out of the ordinary.

She said: “He always felt that there were UFOs out there, because so many of the pilots and astronauts had seen something.”

She claims that some of his crewmates, including Apollo astronaut James McDivitt, reported seeing mysterious objects, such as a strange craft.

Mitchell shared: “I remember Gordy [Project Mercury astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr.] telling us at a dinner party in our house that he had seen something.

“He said, ‘Listen, we have nothing that goes that fast and goes that high’.”

Cooper took part in the Mercury and Gemini projects, and was part of the early missions.

She has now got so many stories from ex NASA astronauts that she decided to tell it all in a new book, titled 'You Don't Look Like An Astronaut's Wife'.

She was married to her husband from 1973 to 1984, and the astronaut died in 2016.

However, he has always been open about what he believed to be in space, and even pushed the US government reveal all to the public about the potential alien life.

In 2009, he asked for the release of information which he alleged the US government was hiding about UFOs.

Mitchell on the moon in 1971 (Photo by Space Frontiers/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

At the time he said, as per The Guardian: "We are being visited. It is now time to put away this embargo of truth about the alien presence. I call upon our government to open up ... and become a part of this planetary community that is now trying to take our proper role as a spacefaring civilisation."

The former NASA pilot warned: "The sun will burn out in due course, and we have to be off this planet if our species is to survive. At this point in human history on this planet, we're now starting, and should be, to reach out beyond our planet and then beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there."

Mitchell said that she also believes what her late husband did, stating: “Do you really think we are the only intelligence in the universe? Because if we are, the universe is in trouble.”

After her husband left NASA, he went on to found the Institute of Noetic Sciences to investigate paranormal issues, and that he conducted experiments around extrasensory perception and to see if it was possible to bend metal telepathically.