Did Buzz Aldrin pass lie detector to reveal truth about aliens? Fact Check

A spurious The Daily Star article claims that Buzz Aldrin and three other astronauts passed a lie detector test while claiming they saw aliens or UFOs.

As is common with the notoriously unreliable tabloid The Daily Star, the article is more fictitious than factual, and contains several glaring inaccuracies and fabrications.

Claim: Did Buzz Aldrin and 3 other astronauts pass a lie detector test claiming they saw UFOs?

No. The three other astronauts named in the article are Al Worden, Gordon Cooper and Edgar Mitchell. For one thing, Mitchell and Cooper both died in 2016 and 2004 respectively. There are no records of any of these 4 astronauts taking lie detector tests.

Reading further in The Daily Star article, is becomes apparent that there were no actual lie detector tests. Rather, the article claims that the Institute of BioAccoustic Biology in Ohio used past video interviews with each of the astronauts when telling of their encounters with unidentified objects to analyse their respective “voice patterns”. The Institute of BioAccoustic Biology subsequently concluded that each man believed they were telling the truth when recounting their stories.

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However the tests used by the Institute of BioAccoustic Biology are not verified and their accuracy is not known to the public. The accuracy of BioAccoustic study has not been verified and there is no evidence to show this line of study is more accurate than traditional lie detector tests.

So has each of the astronauts claimed to have seen aliens?

No. Firstly, Buzz Aldrin (who is most frequently used in such headlines due to him being the more famous of this quartet) has never claimed to have seen aliens or alien spacecraft. A spokesperson has also denied claims that Aldrin has participated in any sort of lie detector test. While Aldrin did say he did see something in the skies during the Apollo 11 trip to the moon, he later clarified that it was most likely light reflecting of a panel as it came off the rocket, and nothing to do with extra-terrestrials.

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Secondly, Al Worden has never claimed to have seen aliens either. Despite a claim made in The Daily Star article that said Worden had claimed to have seen aliens in an interview with Good Morning Britain, this quote was taken out of context, since Worden was describing human beings as aliens (”I see an alien every time I look in the mirror”) As a side note, Worden does believe that human civilisation started from an ancient alien race, which he asserted in the same interview.

Thirdly, Gordon Cooper has indeed claimed to have seen UFO’s during his career as a test pilot.

Fourthly, Edgar Mitchell has also claimed to have seen UFO’s during his Navy career.

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It is clear that The Daily Star article is laden with misleading statements and quotes. It is perhaps also worth noting that lie detector tests to “prove” the existence of UFO’s (or aliens) are quite unreliable, since lie detector tests (or in this case, ex post facto voice analysis) only demonstrate that someone believed they were telling the truth. UFO sightings, especially by those involved with aviation, are actually relatively commonplace – but UFO stands for unidentified flying object, not alien spacecraft. Someone genuinely believing they saw something they could not explain is a far cry from any sort of acceptable proof that aliens regularly visit Earth.

Is the truth out there? Maybe so… but this Daily Star article is just the usual tabloid trash we’ve come to expect from one of the UK’s more outlandish media outlets.