NASA astronaut says he saw something ‘organic, alien-like’ in space

A NASA astronaut has set the hearts of UFO fans fluttering with the revelation that he once saw something ‘organic, alien-like’ in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle.

In response to a question from tireless UFO hunter Scott C Waring, astronaut Leland Melvin said that he saw something, ‘organic, alien like floating out of the payload bay.’

Melvin, an engineer who flew two missions on Space Shuttle Atlantis, said that NASA ground control told him it was ‘ice that had broken off of the Freon hoses. Translucent, curved, organic looking’.

But just to keep the UFO fans happy, he replied, ‘You never know,’ when asked whether NASA might have been hiding something.

He’s far from the first NASA astronaut to claim to have seen something weird in space.

Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, claimed – among other things – that high-ranking military officials saw UFOs during weapons tests in the White Sands desert in New Mexico.

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Mitchell, who piloted the Apollo 14 landing module, has spoken regularly about his belief in aliens.

Mitchell said in 2015,‘White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons – and that’s what the extra-terrestrials were interested in.’

‘They wanted to know about our military capabilities.

‘My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.’

Mitchell died in 2016.