Dr. Edgar Mitchell may have been the sixth astronaut to ever walk on the moon, but he’s the first to claim that aliens prevented the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union into erupting into nuclear war.

Need to read that again? Go ahead. It’s real. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you (yet).

A man who once put one leg in front of the other on the Earth’s moon is telling anyone who will listen that aliens flew down from their celestial origin and put a halt to what would probably have amounted to the end of human existence.

It’s one thing if some crackpot with a blogspot site is preaching this bold claim — it’s a whole other thing if it’s someone who’s actually been in space and wore a patch that read “NASA”.

More from the Mirror Online via DNA India:

He said that the military top brass saw UFOs visiting Earth during weapons tests in the 1940s at American missile bases and the famous White Sands Proving Ground in the New Mexico desert where the world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945.

The 84-year-old man told Mirror Online: “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.”

Thanks otherworldly beings (we guess?).