WS, these comments are discussed at the marvelous site 'Apollo Lunar Surface Journal', linked from here....
http://www.jamesoberg.com/ed_mitchell_weve_had_visitors.pdf
Mitchell was always perfectly clear, neither he nor any astronaut he knew had ever had a UFO encounter on a space flight.
"On a space flight" is evidently the operative term, because, as I recall, Mitchell also said that he knew people, and I think he said astronauts in one clip, that had had sightings or anomalous encounters. In any case, Mitchell became pretty involved in what he called
noetic science. Mitchell seemed to think consciousness goes down to a quantum level of matter. That, to my mind, left the question of "visitors" open in regard to what he was referring. And to be honest, the "Beep beep" explanation seems weak to me, even if possible.
At your site, Jim, you say about yourself:
WHOSE AGENDA DO YOU SERVE?
I am dictated to by nobody, on any topic, and attach myself to nobody’s dogmas, agendas, or spins. My goal is to hold highest the ideal of my undergraduate alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan University, ‘Quaecumquae sunt verae’ – ‘Whatsoever things are true’. Being beholden to nobody else’s budgets, perks, threats, or ideologies frees me to follow a story, and tell that story in a practical context, without fear or favor – a quality for which, fortunately for me, there has been no shortage of willing customers in my specialties.
I looked around your site and maybe I missed it, but I haven't found any reference to your association with CSICOP,
yet at CSI we find:
[Oberg] is a founding Fellow of CSICOP and a Skeptical Inquirer consulting editor.
Okay, that's your business. But presumably you find that ideology compelling, and it seems strange that you wouldn't make your association with CSICOP clearer at your site.
Some CSI members are just as hopelessly reckless in their views against UFOs as any UFO devotee. For example, James McGaha, and Joe Nickell
boldly declared the Exeter case solved, claiming it was a KC-97. But Martin Shough methodically showed that the idea that a KC-97 was the source for the reported object is ridiculous,
Exeunt Exeter? In fact, McGaha evidently deliberately misled readers of his article by claiming all five director lights (lighted panels) were red, when it is clear that the center panel was green or blue. So, Jim, association with such fellows would seem to indicate acceptance of their views and practices. No?