On Monday at the National Press Club Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to ever step on the moon, called upon the Obama to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the truth of alien contact that has been in place for six-decades.

He was speaking to the X-Conference 2009 and Nick Pope, a former Senior Executive Officer for the Ministry of Defense who directly investigated UFOs during his time at the MoD, was there.

Listen to Nick Pope talking to Roy Basnett about the truth behind Alien encounters here.

Scientist, test pilot, naval officer, astronaut, entrepreneur, author and lecturer, Dr. Mitchell's extraordinary career has been a constant quest to explore and understand the world in which we live. 

His academic background includes a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University, a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a Doctor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT.

He has received honorary doctorates in engineering from New Mexico State University, the University of Akron, Carnegie Mellon University and a ScD from Embry-Riddle University.  Dr. Mitchell has received many awards and honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize and was inducted into the Space Hall of Fame in 1979 and the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1998.

Following Dr. Mitchell, Dr. Milton Torres, Major USAF (ret.), related an incident in 1957 while serving in the United Kingdom wherein he was ordered to shoot down a “UFO” which registered on his radar as possibly the size of an “aircraft carrier” and demonstrated extraordinary maneuverability.

He was subsequently warned by an intelligence staffer to never speak of the incident to anyone or else lose his flying status.  He only spoke out when the report of the incident turned up in a series of UFO file released last year into the public domain by the British government.

Dr. Torres called upon the new Democratic administration under President Barack Obama to declassify and release all “UFO” related documents in government files to the American people.  In this he mirrored very similar demands previously made by former Clinton advisor and chief of staff, John Podesta, and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.