Astronaut Edgar Mitchell Called Reporting UFO Sightings Treason Under Oath

About this episode

On this episode of Reality Check, host Ross Coulthart interviews Dr. Manali Max Derekshani for the fourth time to examine NASA lunar and orbital anomalies in the wake of the Pentagon's war.gov/ufo document release. The episode centers on evidence the Pentagon and NASA have withheld or downplayed footage showing potentially non-human technology. Most explosive is Coulthart's revelation that Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell told a close friend he was warned it would be "treason" to discuss UFOs witnessed during lunar missions, suggesting official prohibition on astronaut disclosure. Dr. Derekshani presents detailed technical analysis contradicting NASA's prosaic explanations for multiple incidents: the Apollo 17 triangular blue lights now officially termed a "potentially physical object" by the Pentagon, the 1991 STS-48 shuttle footage showing an object making impossible maneuvers calculated at 18,000 G-forces and 430,000 mph, and the 1996 STS-80 mission capturing plasmatic objects moving at over 1 million mph. Coulthart reveals previously undisclosed information about a secret US facility at Australia's Harold E. Holt Naval Communications Station that was bulldozed before being returned to Australian control in 1991, speculating it may have housed directed energy weapons tested during the STS-48 incident filmed overhead. The discussion examines how NASA administrator Bill Nelson's claims of no anomalous UAP evidence contradict the agency's own archives, and why NASA chose to release lower-resolution images when higher-quality scans exist. Both argue these shuttle and Apollo anomalies warrant congressional investigation and represent more compelling evidence of exotic technology than recently released Pentagon videos.