An Apollo 14 astronaut: "Aliens prevented a nuclear war"

Houston, we have an ally. Edgar Mitchell,  astronaut Apollo 14 mission , the third one managed to land on the moon in 1971, said that aliens helped stop a possible nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

In an interview with the Daily Mirror , Mitchell, sixth man to walk on the moon, he says that aliens were interested in nuclear tests that the US  conducted at White Sands (New Mexico), the first place where a nuclear bomb was detonated in July 1945 .

" They wanted to know our military capabilities. NASA then  had to issue a statement rejecting the claims of Mitchell ."It 's a great American, but we do not share their views on this issue." SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.es/2015/08/17/astronauta-aliens-guerra_n_7998348.html