Category: Moon

RESEARCH DATA ON THE MOON

RESEARCH DATA ON THE MOON

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³In 1843 Johann Schroeter recorded a six-mile crater which he named Linne. Its depth was estimated by the scientist to be 1200 feet.²
³This German astronomer made hundreds of maps of the Moon over many years. As he recorded his observations he saw this crater gradually disappear. Today Linne is just a tiny bright spot with little depth; a small pit surrounded by whitish objects.²
³Near the crater Birt…is an object shaped like a sword…(and) a geometric object shaped like a cross, in the lunar crater Eratosthenes. In the lunar crater Gassendi are angular lines, and on the floor of the crater Littrow are seven spots in the shape of the Greek capital Gamma.²

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³In 1935, two scientists named Van der Pol and Stormer detected radio signals on and around the Moon. Marconi and Tesla also reported flashing lunar lights.²
³In 1956, Ohio University reported, along with observations around the world, a Œcodelike radio chatter from the Moon.¹ ³
³In October 1958, American, Soviet, and British astronomers detected something speeding toward the Moon at better than 25,000 miles per hour! They not only SAW the strange object; they heard it emitting radio signals that no one could interpret!²

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³The first Astronaut to definitely see a UFO while in orbit was Major Gordon Cooper, during the marathon Mercury flight mission of 21 orbits in Faith 7 (May 15, 1963.)²
While making his fourth pass over Hawaii, Cooper claims he heard weird voice transmissions which he called an Œunintelligible foreign language.¹…Tapes later proved that the sounds were not those of a foreign language of this planet, but those of a tongue completely alien to Earth. Although language experts for NASA have replayed those tapes over and over, they simply have not been able to analyze it. (The language)…²
³On his final orbit of Earth while over the Muchea Tracking Station near Perth, Australia, the NASA astronaut (Cooper) sighted a weird-looking object approaching him. This UFO was also seen by over 200 people at the tracking station.²

Apollo 11 (Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins)‹Blast off-July 16, 1969‹Landed on the Moon at 2:17 p.m. (Florida time), July 20th, 1969.

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³The unexplainable event began as the Apollo 11 spacecraft approached the Moon, and the astronauts began hearing weird radio noise, variously likened to a Œfire-engine¹, loud sirens, buzz-saw sounds and train whistles, which interfered with the space communication hookup. Mission Control was so perplexed they asked: ŒYou sure you don¹t have anybody else up there with you?¹ ³
³It was clear that the strange interruptive noises came from OUTSIDE the Apollo 11 spacecraft, and had to be radio signals.²

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³It was presumably when the two moon-walkers, Aldrin and Armstrong, were making the rounds some distance from the LEM (Lunar Effect Module) that Armstrong clutched Aldrin¹s arm excitedly and exclaimed: ŒWhat was it? What the hell was it? That¹s all I want to know.¹ There followed further snatches of gasping interchanges between the two astronauts, with Mission Control chiming in frantically.
MISSION CONTROL: ŒWhat¹s there?…malfunction (garble)…Mission Control calling Apollo 11…¹
APOLLO 11: ŒThese babies were huge, sir…enormous…Oh, God you wouldn¹t believe it! I¹m telling you there are other spacecraft out there…lined up on the far side of the crater edge…they¹re on the Moon watching us…¹ ³

Apollo 12 (Charles Conrad, Dick Gordon, Allan Bean)‹November 14, 1969

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³Less than a minute after blast-off, the Apollo spacecraft was hit by a bolt of lightning (11:22 a.m. EST, November 14, 1969). With Apollo 12 barely a mile and a half above the Earth, virtually all of the electrical equipment in the spacecraft suddenly shut down…²
³It looked for a moment as if all would be lost, but the astronauts remained cool, and within three minutes all power and ship¹s systems were restored.²
³The source of the bolt remained a mystery to our space experts. Strangely enough, the nearest lightning was reported by the Weather Bureau to be MORE THAN 20 MILES AWAY!²

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³As Apollo 12 headed toward the Moon, observatories all over Europe began reporting that they had sighted two bright flashing Œunknown¹ objects in the craft¹s vicinity. Sighted THROUGH LARGE TELESCOPES, one object appeared to be following the spacecraft, and the other seemed to be traveling in front of it. Both objects appeared to be blinking on and off rapidly.²
³The next day, Saturday November 15th, the three Apollo 12 astronauts DID report to Mission Control at Houston that they had sighted two bogeys (UFOs).

Apollo 15 (David R. Scott, James B. Irwin, Alfred M. Worden.)
Apollo 14 (Capt. Allan Shephard Jr., Edgar Mitchel, Maj. Stuart Roosa.)
Apollo 16 (Ken Mattingly, John Young, Charles Duke.)

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Apollo 17‹Ground to Air (Taurus-Littrow area)
COMMAND MODULE PILOT (CMP): What are you learning?
GROUND CONTROL (GC): Hot spots on the Moon, Jack.
CMP: Where are your big anomalies? Can you summarize quickly?
GC: Jack, we¹ll get that for you on the next pass.
CMP: Hey, I can see a bright spot down there on the landing site where they might have blown off some of that halo stuff.
GC: Roger. Interesting. Very‹go to KILO KILO.
CMP. Hey, it¹s gray now and the number one extends…
GC: Roger. We got it. And we copy that it¹s all the way down there. Go to KILO KILO on that.
CMP: Mode is going to HM. Recorder is off. Lose a little communication there, huh? Okay, there¹s Bravo, Bravo, select OMNI. Hey, you know, you¹ll never believe it. I¹m right over the edge of Orientale. I just looked down and saw the lights flash again.
GC: Roger. Understand.
CMP: Right at the end of the rille.
GC: Any chance of‹?
CMP: That¹s on the EAST or Orientale.
GC: You don¹t suppose it could be Vostok? (Vostok is a Russian space probe.)
CMP: I¹ll be damned. I¹ve got to mark that spot on the map!
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³The strangest anomally…concerning the Moon¹s craters, is that despite their fantastic size, even the LARGEST gaping holes are surprisingly shallow. Craters fifty, even one hundred miles in diameter are no more than a mere two to three miles deep.²
³It has been calculated that a meteor of one million tons would be equal in explosive force to a one-megaton atomic bomb. We know that meteors weighing one million tons have clobbered the lunar surface. Yet they¹ve left only broad, shallow holes.²
³Even CONSERVATIVE estimates by scientists indicate that meteors 10 miles or more in diameter should have penetrated the Moon¹s surface to a depth of 4 or 5 TIMES that diameter; yet the deepest Moon crater we know about (the Gagarin Crater is 186 miles across but less than 4 miles deep.²
³The conclusion that some scientists drew is that there is something extremely tough and strong under the shallow lunar surface, beneath the thin layers of rock and dirt covering this mysterious sphere, that prevented deep holes. What could that tough, strong Œthing¹ be?²

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³In 1962, Dr. Gordon McDonald, a leading scientist at NASA, published a report in the July issue of ŒAstronautics.¹ In it he stated that, according to an analysis of the Moon¹s motion, it appears that the Moon is hollow: ŒIf the astronomical data are reduced, it is found that the data require that the interior of the Moon be less dense than the outer parts. Indeed, it would seem that the Moon is more like a hollow than a homogenous sphere.¹ Œ¹Astronautics¹ magazine‹July, 1962 issue.)
NOTE: The importance of this is immediately seen if one considers the possibility that our Moon is an artificial satellite. Another important question also comes to mind: Could the method used to analyze the Moon¹s motion be applied to the Earth¹s motion as well, to determine if it, also, is hollow? Scientists have never had the opportunity to study Earth from a distance, thus making the carrying out of such observations impossible. But from orbiting space-stations (like the Soviet ŒMir¹ station), these studies would be QUITE possible to carry out. If this has not already been done, (and realizing how much our government really tells the public, it probably HAS been), it SHOULD be, and SOON!
This would add another LARGE piece of evidence in the already PONDEROUS case in favor of the Hollow Earth Theory. In fact, the more one studies our mysterious Moon, the more light is thrown onto the Hollow Earth Theory as well.

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³…Take that 148-mile crater. In area it out does Hiroshima hundreds of times over. What a powerful explosion it must have been to send millions of tons of lunar rock fountaining over tens of miles! On the face of it, one would expect to find a very deep crater here, but nothing of the sort: there is 3 miles at MOST between top and bottom levels, and ONE THIRD of that is accounted for by the wall of rock thrown up around the crater like a toothed crown.²
³For such a big hole, it is too shallow. Furthermore, the BOTTOM of the crater is CONVEX, following the curve of the lunar surface.²

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³Now, let us consider the chemical peculiarities of the lunar rock. (Samples were brought back by the Apollo missions.) Upon analysis, American scientists have found Chromium, Titanium and Zirconium in it. These are all metals with refractory, mechanically strong and anti-corrosive properties. A combination of them all would have enviable resistance to heat and the ability to stand up to means of aggression, and could be used on Earth for linings for electrical furnaces.²
³If a material has to be devised to protect a giant artificial satellite from the unfavorable effects of temperature, from cosmic radiation and meteorite bombardment, the experts would probably have hit upon precisely these metals.²

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³Our six trips to the Moon have produced a world of informational material: 837 pounds of lunar rocks and soil and over 30,000 photographs and reels of magnetic tape.²

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³The oldest rocks found on planet Earth have been discovered in Greenland. They are dated 3.7 billion years.²
³One rock from man¹s first trip to Luna was a baffling 4.3 billion years old. Another puzzler (Rock #13) checked in at an unbelievable 4.5 billion years. And an Apollo 11 soil sample turned out to be 4.6 billion years old. Another report based on the Potassium-Argon system of dating, now accepted by science as the most accurate dating system, claimed ŒSome of the rocks gave an unacceptable age of 7 billion years.¹ ³
³Two Apollo 12 rocks have been dated at 20 billion years.²

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³Most of the rocks from our first Moon landing (Apollo 11) clocked in at 3.6 billion years of age, but the soil in which they rested proved to be 4.6 billion years old.²
³With Apollo 12 the same contradictory clash was found. The soil sample (4.4 billion was a billion years OLDER than the rocks that lay strewn about it, an impossibility to our bewildered scientists. They expected the soil to be the powdered remains of the rocks lying amidst it, a rubble pile consisting of dust, dirt, rocks and stones that have been banged and crushed over eons of time by the bombardment of meteorites.²
³Even more bewildering discoveries were to follow, as lunar experts found from chemical analysis of the soil that this lunar dirt did not come from the rocks around it but from somewhere else!²
³If the Moon did wander through the universe as a spaceship, then clearly it would have passed through different cosmic Œtime zones.¹ In so doing it would have picked up rocks and rock particles in the form of meteorites and micrometeorites, and the dust and dirt would be of differing ages.²

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³Some elements found on the Moon have never before been found on Earth in their natural forms. At the Third Scientific Conference in Houston, the Argone National Laboratory reported that they had found Uranium 236 and Neptunium 237 in Lunar samples brought back by Apollo 12 and 14‹elements never previously found in nature.²

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³When the Lunar Module ascent stage of Apollo 12 was sent crashing into the Moon, the seismological equipment recorded the shock waves. The results staggered NASA scientists. The artificially created Moonquake lasted 55 minutes!²
³Furthermore, the KIND of signals recorded by the seismometers shocked scientists. Seismologists were puzzled that the signals started with small waves, gained in size to a peak, and lasted for unbelievably long periods of time. ŒThe records are utterly different from any obtainable observations on the Earth,¹ relates one scientist in the highly regarded publication ŒScience¹ (November 12, 1971.²
³The seismic records of Apollo 12 proved not to be unique. When the spent 3rd stage of the ill-fated Saturn rocket booster of Apollo 13 was propelled out of Earth orbit into a Moon trajectory, and by radio command crashed into the Moon, it hit with an impact equal to 11 tons of TNT, about 87 miles from the site where the Apollo 12 astronauts set up seismometers.²
³The entire Moon vibrated for more than 3 hours, 20 minutes; the vibrations traveling to a depth of 22-25 miles.²
³The Apollo 14¹s S-IVB was also boosted into a Moon course and, by remote control, crashed into the lunar surface. A NASA science publication (ŒApollo 14: Science at Fra Mauro, p.17¹) said: ŒThe Moon reacted like a gong. For about 3 hours it vibrated and these vibrations traveled to a depth of 22-25 miles.¹ The instruments, by the way, picked up the vibrations even though they were 108 miles away from the Apollo 14 impact site.²

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³There is also the question of the mystifying speed with which vibrations travel through the Moon¹s hard, interior layer. As Werner von Braun tells us: ŒThe velocity (of seismic waves seems to gradually increase down to a depth of about 15 miles‹then there is a sharp increase. This increase can only be accounted for by a change to a denser material…At a depth of 40 miles, the velocity is estimated to be about 6 miles per second…No rocks examined thus far would, under the actual pressures expected to be at a lunar depth of 40 miles, transmit seismic impulses at speeds as high as 6 miles per second.¹ (ŒPopular Science¹ January, 1972‹pp. 67-68).²
³What kind of material would carry sounds at that speed? Strange that a check of the speed of sound through the probable intermixture of metals (Iron, Titanium, Beryllium, Molybdenum, and Yttrium) that exists in the outer maria averages out to be about 6 miles per second…Here is impressive proof that the inner layer inside the Moon is indeed metallic, and that the spaceship Moon does have an artificial inner hull!²

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³…Lunar scientists received upsetting news from instruments left on the Moon by Apollo expeditions. Great eruptions of water vapor clouds have been detected which spread over an area of some 100 SQUARE MILES on the Moon¹s surface! The eruptions lasted 14 hours!²
³Apollo 16 astronauts had brought back rocks that appeared to be rusty, and it turned out that the rocks contained rusted iron! How could the iron in these rocks be rusted without the presence of water on the Moon, scientists wondered, for to have rust one must have Oxygen and free Hydrogen, as well as iron and water.²

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³We do know from Apollo astronauts-Mission Control conversations that our astronauts did come across strange hard-to-explain structures on the surface of this strange alien world. Consider this conversation, for instance, which took place during the Apollo 16 mission between Ground Control and the Apollo 16 astronauts:
DUKE: These devices are unbelievable. I¹m not taking a GNOMON up there.
YOUNG: O.K., but man, that¹s going to be a steep bridge to climb.
DUKE: You got‹YOWEE! Man‹John, I tell you this is some sight up here. Tony, the blocks in Buster are covered‹the bottom is covered with blocks, five meters across. Besides the blocks seem to be in a preferred orientation, northeast to southwest. They go all the way up the wall on those two sides and on the other side you can barely see the outcropping at about 5%. 90% of the bottom is covered with blocks that are 50cm and larger.
CAPCOM: Good show. Sounds like a secondary…
DUKE: Right out there…the blue one that I described from the lunar module window is colored because it is glass-coated, but underneath the glass it is crystaline…the same texture as the Genesis Rock…Dead on my mark.
YOUNG: Mark. It¹s open.
DUKE: I can¹t believe it!
YOUNG: And I put that beauty in dry!
CAPCOM: Dover. Dover. We¹ll start EVA-2 immediately.
DUKE: You¹d better send a couple more guys up here. They¹ll have to try (garble).
CAPCOM: Sounds familiar.
DUKE: Boy, I tell you, these EMUs and PLSSs are really superfantastic!

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Apollo 17
SCHMITT: I see tracks‹running right up the wall of the crater.
MISSION CONTROL (Gene Cernan): Your photopath runs directly between Pierce and Pease. Pierce Brava, go to Bravo, Whiskey, Whiskey, Romeo.
³If this is not code what is it? And why switch to the use of strange meaningless code words if NASA was not trying to cover up something startling; something that needed to be hidden from the public? In fact, science writer Joseph Goodavage maintains that Œwhenever something was discovered, the astronauts and CAPCOM apparently switched to a prearranged code, sometimes even on an alternate PUBLICLY UNMONITORABLE channel.¹ (ŒSAGA¹-March, 1974-p.36).²
³Secrets of our Spaceship Moon² (SOSM) ‹Page 18-19
³On the edge of the Sea of Storms is a strange opening that leads down into the Moon. Dr. H.P. Wilkins, one of the world¹s leading lunar experts before his untimely death a few years ago, was convinced that extensive hollow areas did exist inside the Moon, perhaps in the form of caverns, and that these were connected to the surface by huge holes or pits. He discovered such an opening himself‹a huge round hole inside the crater Cassini A. This crater is one and a half miles across, and the opening leading down into the Moon is over 600 feet across‹more than two football fields laid end to end. Wilkins writes in his definitive work, ŒOur Moon¹: ŒIts inside is as smooth as glass with a deep pit or plughole, about 200 yards across at the centre.¹ ³
³…hundreds, in fact, thousands, of UFOs have been seen on or around the surface of the Moon, and a concentration of them has been spotted in the Sea of Storms. Could they be coming and going through this huge opening or one like it?²

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³It should be noted that the Apollo flights, about which there have been rumors concerning UFOs, employ a different approach to communications between the astronauts and the ground. The radio signals are sent directly back to Houston and then rebroadcast with Houston having the option of deleting whatever they choose to delete…During the earlier Gemini and Mercury flights the talk was Œin the open¹‹readily monitored by Ham equipment.²
NOTE: The method now used by NASA (as mentioned above) keeps the HAM OPERATORS from monitoring the astronauts-to-ground transmissions, but people with their own VHF/UHF transmitters/receivers (such as privately owned radio and television stations) could (and reportedly DID) monitor these conversations uncensored.

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³…Mission Control from time to time gave orders to the astronauts in some unusual terms, seemingly whenever an unusual sighting was taking place, directing them to ŒGo to Whiskey Whiskey¹ or ŒBarbara Barbara¹ or ŒBravo Bravo¹ or ŒKilo Kilo.¹ ³
³Interestingly, there is an ICBM base in Montana by the name of KILO KILO. Could NASA have used this base¹s radio equipment to filter out through this prearranged private channel anything NASA did not want the public to know? Shockingly, WHISKEY WHISKEY, BARBARA BARBARA, and BRAVO BRAVE are also bases in the West.²

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³The disks of the Sun and the Moon appear to be just about equal as viewed from Earth…The Moon is only 2,160 miles in diameter, while the Sun is 864,000 miles. That makes the Sun¹s diameter approximately 400 times greater. To put it another way, the ratio of our Moon¹s disk to the Sun¹s is 1:400.²
³However, our Sun is 93,000 miles away and the Moon is only about a quarter of a million miles away. Strangely enough, this works out to about the same ratio‹approximately 1:400. So the distance just about cancels out the size, and this is why the tiny Moon appears to the viewer on the Earth to be about the same size as our gigantic Sun.²
³This is shown remarkably during a total eclipse. Isaac Asimov makes an observation about this truly amazing situation, which he calls Œcoincidence¹.²
³In his book ŒSpace, Time and Other Things¹ (Doubleday, 1965) he notes: ŒWhat makes a total eclipse so remarkable is the sheer astronomical reason why the Moon and the Sun should fit so well. It is the sheerest of coincidences, and only the Earth among all the planets is blessed in this fashion.¹ ³

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³In his authoritative study ŒOur Moon¹, H.P. Wilkins explains his astounding conclusion: ŒLong ago it was calculated that if the Moon had contracted on cooling at the same rate as granite, a drop of only 180 degrees would create hollows in the interior amounting to no less than 14 millions of cubic miles.¹ ³
NOTE: Would not the same apply to the cooling of the Earth? This could have applications to the Hollow Earth Theory, which proposes that, not only the EARTH, but ALL planets are formed with interiors that are essentially HOLLOW.

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³The associated Press wire carried this brief but startling Soviet announcement:²
³ ŒEmphasizing the importance of lunar soil samples, and article in ŒPravda¹ revealed that the first successful automatic mission in 1970 brought back particles of iron that ŒDOES NOT RUST.¹ Pure iron that does not rust is unknown on Earth.* In fact, it cannot yet be even manufactured. Physicists and scientific experts claim they cannot understand how this is at all possible without some kind of manufacturing process being involved. They also point out that it is beyond out present Earth technology.¹ ³
(Detroit Free Press, August 24th, 1976.)
*NOTE: There is a large obelisk in New Delhi, India that is VERY ancient, and is composed of iron that does not rust. See Erich von Daniken¹s books for reference.

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³ ŒThe Sea of Tranquility is covered with material that is considerably more dense than the average density of the Moon…This is the reverse of what one would expect. On Earth the lava that flows upwards and out onto the surface is the lighter component‹not the heavier fraction.¹ ³
(New York Times‹November 99th, 1969.)

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³…Perhaps the most striking phenomenon of all regarding our strange Moon is that the seismic recordings each month conform to nearly the same identical pattern. The sequence of events, as Earth¹s gravity tugs at the Moon, seems to be the same each month, rendering the same Œseismic signature.¹ ³
³Lunar seismic disturbances are assumed to be generated by stresses building up and sliding or other movements of rock faces. In the case of the Moon, lunar expert Gary Latham (NASA) explains, probably the tidal pull (of the Earth on the Moon) builds up until the Œfriction can no longer hold these surfaces together and they just pop; they slide…¹ But of course they would not slide each and every time in the same way at the same time. And yet they appear to be doing just that!²
³Moonquakes occur at monthly intervals like clockwork. When the Moon is closest (Perigee) the first pooping noises come. Actually, the very first occur five days before the Moon reaches Perigee in its orbit, and then again another event indicates something stirring in the Moon three days before Perigee. The amazing thing is the clockwork precision with which this all happens. Scientists find it absolutely astonishing. ŒYou can set your watch by it,¹ confesses Latham.² (NASA Science Briefing, Houston, May 26th, 1971.)

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³Even before man journeyed to Luna, scientists like Isaac Asimov had pointed out that the Moon is really a freak of celestial nature, for by all cosmic laws SHE SHOULD NOT BE CIRCLING THE EARTH.²
³The Moon is a whopping one-fourth of Earth¹s size. The next largest satellite circling a planet that is anywhere NEAR that ratio is whirling around Jupiter, and it is only one-EIGHTIETH the size of its master. Because of the Moon¹s proportionally great size some scientists have even labeled the Earth-Moon combination an actual double planetary system.²
³Discussing the problems of Œhaving the Moon where it is,¹ Dr. Asimov asks:
³ Œ…Small planets, such as Earth, with weak gravitational fields, might well lack satellites. Pluto has no known satellites, neither have Mercury and Venus…Yet Earth, quite surprisingly, does have a satellite‹the Moon.¹ ³
³ Œ…It¹s not just having satellites. It¹s primarily the SIZE of those satellites…In general, then, when a planet does have satellites, there would be every reason to suspect…that at best it would be a tiny world, perhaps 30 miles in diameter.¹ ³
³ ŒBut that is not so. Earth not only has a satellite, but it is a giant satellite, 2,160 miles in diameter. Amazing.¹ ³ (Isaac Asimov‹¹Intelligent Man¹s Guide to Science¹, p.108.)

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³The Moon¹s orbit is too nearly circular and synchronized. Such a gravitational capture should have produced a rather elongated, elliptical orbit, instead of the nearly circular path the Moon now follows around the Earth.²

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³The Moon is a celestial freak in several other respects. Almost all other satellites in the solar system circle their respective planets in the same plane of the orb¹s equator. But not out Moon. Its orbit instead lies strangely closer to the Earth¹s orbit around the Sun. Puzzled scientists wonder: Why is our Moon circling the Earth outside this usual equatorial planetary orbit? They do not know.
NOTE: The more scientists look at the evidence brought back from the Moon, the more they are convinced that it was formed at some remote corner of the Galaxy, and was captured by the Earth several thousand years ago. The problem with the capture theory is that, for one, the Moon is too BIG. Secondly, its orbit is too perfectly circular, and too far out from the Earth. (If it HAD been captured by the Earth, it would have an ELLIPTICAL orbit, not a perfectly circular one.) These facts, combined with the HOLLOW and seemingly ARTIFICIAL nature of the Moon, not to mention the Œcoincidental¹ positioning of the Moon‹the positioning that makes Earth the only planet in the solar system to experience total eclipses‹all of these discrepancies and coincidences are just too much to accept. As outlandish as it may seem, the theory of ŒSpaceship Moon¹ having been Œaltered¹ and steered into Earth orbit by god-knows-who several thousand years ago seems to be the only one that fits all of the evidence.

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³ ŒA new moon rose,¹ Richard Lewis told us at the Fifth Lunar Conference in 1974. ŒIt was a planet in its own right…Such a planet had to be captured to become the satellite of the Earth.¹ ³
NOTE: The fact that the Moon was once, of necessity, a planet in its own right, along with fact that evidence points to the Moon being hollow, could be an interesting piece of evidence in favor of the Hollow Earth Theory. (This theory holds that, not only our Earth, but ALL planets are formed hollow.) Therefore, the fact that the Moon is hollow does not necessarily mean that it is a spaceship fashioned by Aliens. It could simply mean that the Hollow Earth Theory is, indeed, correct, and that all planets are, in fact, formed hollow; the Moon having once been its own planet, until its relatively recent capture by the Earth. (Interestingly enough, the impossible celestial mechanics required for the Moon to be in its present orbit become much more probable if one considers it to be a hollow body. If, indeed, it was Œsteered¹ into our orbit by Œaliens¹ however long ago, this would certainly made their job a lot easier!). Unfortunately, orthodox scientists have as much (if not MORE) trouble accepting the Hollow Earth Theory as they do the Spaceship Moon theory.

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³Originally 10 flights to the Moon had been scheduled…In fact, Apollo 18 and 19 rockets were ALREADY PAID FOR and the astronauts TRAINED and raring to go. Yet these last two scheduled Moon missions were cut. Why were they slashed when, as one science reporter tells us, Œthe hardware had already been purchased?¹ ³
³Even CRITICS of manned space flights like Dr. Thomas Gold of Cornell University screamed out against these nonsensical cuts: ŒIt¹s like buying a Rolls-Royce, and then not driving it because you want to save a few bucks on the gas.¹ ³
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³If you look at a complex thing long enough, you begin to understand it, or at least its superficial aspects. The mind cannot assimilate everything in a complex picture at once, so you see very little at first. Gradually you master a detail, and then the mind can forget that detail and go on to something else. The more details you master, the more you can see.²

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³On august 26, 1966, NASA¹s Lunar Orbiter I spacecraft took a picture of a crater on the hidden side of the Moon. (NASA photo #66-H-1293)…It shows a 31 mile wide crater which HAS IMPINGED ON THE WALLS OF A SMALLER CRATER. Both craters are clearly distinguishable as OCTAGONS. Is there a natural way in which an octagon can be formed on the Moon‹an octagon 31 miles in diameter?²

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³34 tracks in the Apollo 17 landing area were measured and investigated. Length of the tracks ranges from .1 kilometer to 2.5 kilometers, with an average length of about .75 kilometer. Track widths ranged up to 16 meters (about 38 feet), with an average width of over 18 feet.²
³20 men or more with long crowbars would be needed to dislodge even the smallest of the boulders…When the boulders were dislodged, a fantastic ADDITIONAL FORCE would have been required to KEEP them moving on a 25 degree slope.²

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³NASA photo 67-H-1135 shows two long trails, 900 feet and 1200 feet long. The objects obviously making the trails are light-splashed by the sun; no real detail can be gleaned from studying them, but they do not look like boulders.²
³Do you know how much force it would take to set in motion a rock 75 feet across? Volcanic action might do it, but we have NASA¹s word for the fact that the Moon (on the SURFACE, at least) is seismically quiet.²
³The smaller object in the photo‹the one making the longer trail‹came up OUT OF THE CRATER before it continued down the hill. Repeat: it came up OUT OF A CRATER.²
³There is a fascinating TREAD MARK on the trail of one of the Œboulders.¹ There is also a symmetrical design on the Œboulder¹ itself.² (Again, see NASA photo #67-H-1135.)

NOTE on the Moon¹s ³RAYS²: The so-called ³rays² that extend from and between many craters on the Moon were found by Apollo astronauts to be composed of a fine, powdery chalk-like substance. (Much like the chalk-lines laid down on sports fields.) What could be the cause of these rays? It is interesting to note that the craters with the largest ray patterns are the ones in which the most ACTIVITY has been noted. (Bright lights, Œartificial constructions¹, and spraying.) The theory that these trails of dust are caused by meteor impacts is ruled out immediately, because most craters having rays have only one or two extending from them. (Only the Œbusy¹ craters have many of them.) A meteor impact causes derbis to be thrown in ALL directions. Even meteors hitting at an oblique angle would throw derbis in a complete arc along its forward direction. So what causes the rays? It seems a strange coincidence that the bottoms of the ³rayed² craters are heavily coated with the same white, powdery substance of which the rays are composed. The ³rays² are beginning to look like they were made by something ³tracking² the powder up out of the crater, and in a straight line to other craters. It was found by the Apollo astronauts that this powder clings to EVERYTHING, and was, in fact, a great nuisance to them, as it clung to their suits, faceplates, camera lenses, cables, etc., and even found its way into the Lunar Module, posing a bit of a housekeeping problem, as the powder lost its adhesive quality upon entering the atmosphere of the Lunar Module.
Is it possible that spacecraft (UFOs?) landing on the bottom of the craters, thereby having their undersides covered by this powder, could be responsible for the tracking of this powder across the lunar surface? It would take a great number of repetitions of these trips to track a line of powder pronounced enough to be seen from many miles up. But, after all, don¹t planes on Earth always follow certain flight patterns? Talk to an air traffic controller, or anyone involved or interested in flying; they will tell you that there are, in fact, Œinvisible highways¹ in the sky that pilots MUST follow. (Not only is this the law of the FAA, it is common sense: the shortest distance between 2 points IS a straight line, and is thus the quickest path to get where you¹re going.)
So it is entirely possible (and quite likely) that these ³rays² are caused by spacecraft on the Moon. (Scientists have been UNABLE to come up with a NATURAL explanation, after all!) Now, whether these spacecraft belong to the U.S., the Soviets, or Aliens is purely a matter of speculation. I¹m sure there are strong arguments in favor of each of these possibilities. The facts are there; you are free to interpret them in any way you see fit.

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Lagrangian Points: ³All the planets revolving around the sun have them. So does our Moon. You can stick something in one of these Lagrangian Points and it might stay there forever‹or as long as the planets do.²
³…asteroids, all kinds of space junk and dust can collect in the Lagrangian Points and not get swept up by the gravitational attraction of bigger bodies.²
NOTE: Could a permanent space-station (such as the ill-fated SkyLab) be placed into one of these Lagrangian Points? It would be much safer than placing one in ORBIT, where there exists a chance that its orbit will decay, and cause it to come crashing down to Earth.

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Isaac Asimov: ³ ŒIt is a shame that one small thing remains unaccounted for; one trifling thing I have ignored so far, but WHAT IN BLAZES IS OUR MOON DOING WAY OUT THERE? It¹s too far out to be a true satellite of Earth…It¹s too BIG to have been CAPTURED by the Earth. The chances of such a capture having been effected and the Moon then having taken up a nearly circular orbit about the Earth are too small to make such an eventuality credible.¹ ³
³ ŒBut, then, if the Moon is neither a true satellite of the Earth nor a captured one, what is it?¹ ³ (ŒAsimov on Astronomy¹‹Mercury Press, 1963.)

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³…after the successful RANGER and SURVEYOR and ORBITER and APOLLO flights, we dropped manned lunar exploration like a hot potato. Less than 20% of the data resulting from these probes has been studies. Less than 2% has been reported on.²

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³Moongate² (MGTE) ‹ Page 24-25
³The funding of top-secret military projects can be easily camouflaged by other unclassified projects. Components and parts needed for secret projects can be ordered one at a time from different manufacturers and charged to a dummy or decoy project. The parts can be assembled in secret and the manufacturers never know what the end product is. An expensive decoy project can be used to generate the funds and to develop the technology for highly sophisticated secret projects at the same time. The NASA space program to put men on the Moon provided the military with such a decoy project.²

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³The point where a spacecraft enters the predominant attractive zone of the Moon¹s gravity is called the neutral point. It is the region in space where the Earth¹s force of attraction equals the Moon¹s force of attraction. Since the Moon is smaller and SUPPOSEDLY has a smaller surface gravity, the neutral point should be quite close to the Moon. In fact, if it is assumed that the Moon has one-sixth of the Earth¹s surface gravity (which is what we are all taught in school), the neutral point is calculated to be about nine-tenths of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The average distance to the Moon is about 239,000 miles, hence this places the neutral point approximately 23,900 miles from the Moon¹s center.²

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³At a point 43,495 miles from the Moon, lunar gravity exerted a force equal to the gravity of the Earth, then some 200,000 miles distant.² (ŒTime¹ magazine, July 25, 1969.)

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³At a distance of 43,495 miles from the Moon, Apollo 11 passed the so-called Œneutral¹ point, beyond which the lunar gravitational field dominated that of Earth.² (ŒHistory of Rocketry & Space¹‹1969.)

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³…since the Earth¹s pull equals the Moon¹s at the neutral point, the inverse-square law enables the pull of gravity at the Moon¹s surface to be determined…The result is that the Moon¹s surface gravity is 64% of the Earth¹s surface gravity, not the one-sixth (or 16.7%) value predicted by Newton¹s Law of Universal Gravitation!²

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³In one-sixth gravity everything would weigh one-sixth, or 16.7%, of its Earth weight. A 180lb. man would weigh a mere 30lbs. Writers were speculating on the athletic abilities of men on the Moon long before the space program and Apollo. They based their calculations on one-sixth gravity. The public was anticipating some of these spectacular athletic feats when astronauts explored the Moon, but none were ever performed.²

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³…even with the astronaut gear, (spacesuit, etc.)…(Apollo astronaut John Young)…should have been able to jump over six feet off the ground if the Moon had one-sixth of the Earth¹s gravity. In actuality, his efforts lifted him at most 18″ off the ground. …observations (of the NASA video tapes, and television broadcasts) indicated that Young made several attempts to jump as high as he could but with no success in achieving a height of more than 18 inches.²

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³A photo appeared in the December 12, 1969 issue of ŒLife¹ magazine showing Apollo astronaut Alan Bean carrying a barbell-shaped package of instruments whih allegedly weighed 190 Earth pounds. The accompanying statement that it had a Moon weight of only 30 pounds does not seem consistent with the photo which shows a noticeable bow in the approximately 1-inch bar. (NASA photo 69-HC1341).²
³The movie film of this event is even more revealing. As Bean carried the instrument package across the lunar surface, the bar bent up and down, strained by the heavy burden on each end. It was also apparent that the instrument package was quite heavy from Bean¹s efforts and movements.²

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³Astronauts were sent to the Bend, Oregon area to get their ŒMoon Legs.¹ Walter Cunningham was the first to try out the Moon suit, backpack life support system, and certain tools to be used by Armstrong and Aldrin on the Moon excursion.²
³That the astronauts were able to maneuver around at all in the Bend, Oregon area with their gear on suggests that the gear weighed far less than 185 pounds. (The weight that we were all given.)²

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³When Apollo 14 astronauts were in view of the south flank of Cone Crater, Shephard went down on one knee to pick up a rock and required the aid of Mitchell to stand up. About 2/3 of the way to their destination, their heart rates were up to 120 beats per minute as they moved uphill.²
³As they climbed, Shephard¹s rate reached 150 per minute and Mitchell¹s went to 128.²
³The astronauts never reached Cone Crater. They went back down hill toward Weird Crater to collect rock samples, then on to triplet to dig trenches.²

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³The author observed one of the Apollo 14 astronauts in a movie film of the mission. The astronaut was running in semislow-motion in an otherwise perfectly normal manner. The discrepancy arises when it i considered that the astronaut went no higher off the surface and went no farther with each step than he would have on Earth. The slow-motion effects could not cover up this fact. This suggests that the film speed was adjusted to slow down the action to give the impression that the astronauts were lighter than they actually were. With the slow-motion effects, objects would appear to fall more slowly and the public would be convinced of the Moon¹s weak gravity.²

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³The Rover was supposedly designed for the Moon¹s one-sixth gravity, but close examination indicates that it resembled a vehicle more suitable for near-Earth gravity. It was approximately 10 feet long and 4 feet high, with a 7.5 foot wheelbase and 6 foot tread width. The wheels were 32″ in diameter with chevron-shaped treads of Titanium, not much different looking than an Earth tire.²

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³…a minimum-size vehicle (for use on the Moon) would need a wheelbase of 20 feet to give it speed capability over rough terrain…To keep the center of gravity to within 6 feet of the surface, it would need a tread width of 20 feet²

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³The Rover encountered mostly loose dust and rocks on the Moon. This type of surface would have less traction than ordinary pavement. The Rover had a loaded Earth weight of 1,540 lbs. Under one-sixth gravity, only 128 lbs. of force would be required to make the vehicle slide. Therefore, in going the maximum speed of 10.2 MPH, the vehicle would begin to slide if the wheels were turned enough to make a radius of curvature of less than 84 feet.
Even at 5 MPH, the minimum curvature would be 20 feet. The operator would have to be extremely careful not to make any abrupt changes in direction since a sharp turn could tip it over.² (See the tracks of the Rover in NASA photo #71-HC-277‹it shows the tracks of the Rover while being driven by one of the astronauts. The driver was doing some Œsand-dune¹-type reckless driving, with wild swerves and curves all over the place. Doesn¹t sound like he had much trouble with flipping over, does it? And considering that the Rover was too SMALL for effective operation at one-sixth gravity, even at LOW speeds and using EXTREME caution, something just doesn¹t fit here. All observations indicate that the Moon has a much higher gravity than was previously believed.)

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³Charles Duke (Apollo 16) evidently had a difficult time on the Moon. He fell a number of times and a series of photos appeared in many newspapers whih showed him stumbling and falling…Since objects would take nearly 2-1/2 times longer to fall in one-sixth gravity, Duke should have had plenty of time to catch himself. It is even more surprising that Duke fell as OFTEN as he did considering that he was wearing the most advanced, updated Moon suit which supposedly provided him more flexibility than any astronaut before him.²

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³The author acquired the movie showing the Apollo 14 flag ceremony. Close analysis of this film shows that the flag billowed and waved when the astronauts were not touching it or even close to it. At the end of the flag ceremony, as one of the astronauts moved away from the flag, it began to wave back and forth. In an apparent attempt to mask any further display of an atmospheric wind, both astronauts blocked the movie camera¹s view of the flag. The astronaut nearest the flag began running toward and in front of the camera while the other astronaut put his arm in front of the lens.²
³The Apollo 14 film (above) was ordered (by the author) in 1980 from ŒMovie Newsreels¹, a company located in Hollywood, California.²

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³The most probable cause of a planet¹s magnetic field seems to be the rotation of charges which are present in its atmosphere and on its surface. These charges rotate with the planet; therefore, the intensity of the magnetic field generated would be directly proportional to the planet¹s rotational velocity. Since the Moon¹s rotational velocity is less than 1% of Earth¹s, is also follows that the Moon¹s field is less than 1% of Earth¹s.²
NOTE: The Apollo program DID discover that the Moon has a very feeble magnetic field.
³A rotating planet can be compared to an electrical solenoid, which is a coil of wire…When a current is sent through the coil, a magnetic field is generated at right angles to the direction of the wire (the direction of the current flow). Planets carry charges with them in their atmosphere and surface and this generates electrical currents in the direction of rotation, or east-west. The magnetic field is generated at right angles to this, or the north-south direction. Even though the charges are not necessarily moving east-west relative to the surface which is traveling with them, the magnetic field is still created because the planet itself is rotating.²
NOTE: This is very important when applied to the Hollow Earth Theory. One of the strongest arguments of orthodox scientists against the Hollow Earth Theory has always been that magnetic fields around planets are created by a rotating mass of liquid iron, thus making the Hollow Earth Theory an impossibility. (Heaven forbid they should consider an alternate theory as to the cause of the Earth¹s magnetic field. After all, man has penetrated the crust of this planet no deeper than 5 miles (and that¹s if you count SONAR…actual PHYSICAL penetration is much less than this), so how do we know for certain what is at the center?) In light of the new findings (above) concerning the cause of planetary magnetic fields, the scientists¹ main objection to the Hollow Earth Theory is removed, and the theory becomes possible; indeed, very PROBABLE. (See the Hollow Earth papers for further reference.)

NASA photo 89-HC-431 shows the atmosphere around the Moon. (It is shown as plate #11 in ŒMOONGATE¹.)

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³It is probable that only a limited thickness of the Earth¹s crust contributes to the majority of the Earth¹s surface gravity die to the scattering of gravity radiation originating from masses below a certain depth. (Much the same as a stack of magnets gets stronger as you add more magnets, but only to a certain point, where the bottom magnet is not strong enough to reach all the way through to the upper layers‹Galt). This implies that the Earth¹s mass cannot be accurately predicted using the conventional method. If the planets had empty or hollow centers, the surface gravity might not be much different than if they had iron cores, or even lead cores. This seems to explain why the Moon has such a high gravity for its size. Because of this effect, the conclusion is that Newton¹s Law of Universal Gravitation overstated the mass of the Earth in the first place.²
NOTE: While this argument is aimed at explaining the reason for the high gravity on the Moon, one can immediately see its importance as applied to the Hollow Earth Theory.

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³It is not commonly known that the Earth displays the same bell-like ringing or reverberation as the Moon…(Such a) ringing effect was recorded during the May 22, 1960 Chilean earthquake…The ringing continues for a considerable length of time in a regular series of slow impulses which were recorded at various independent seismic stations…The planet rang again as a result of the Anchorage, Alaska earthquake of March 27, 1964.²
NOTE:: This points out, as I stated earlier, that the Moon is not necessarily a Œspaceship¹ just because of this ringing. It does seem to point to the fact that ALL planets are, indeed, HOLLOW.

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³A photograph of the Earth taken by the DODGE (Department Of Defense Gravity Experiment) satellite. 18,100 miles above the equator, appeared in the November 10, 1967 issue of ŒLife¹ magazine…The author was not able to obtain permission to reproduce this photo; however, it is available for inspection at most libraries.²
³The DODGE photo is interesting, but a view at a better angle is needed to show more details. Such a picture, taken in 1967 by the Applications Technology Satellite 111 (ATS-111) from its stationary position over the equator above Brazil, is shown in NASA photo 67-HC723.²
NOTE: This last photo also appeared in ŒSecret of the Ages¹, by brinsley Le Poer Trench. (This book was taken off the market by the U.S. Government shortly after its release in 1977.)

Both of the above mentioned photos depict the Earth, and show the Œhole¹ at the North Pole from different angles, giving depth to the phenomenon, and allowing researchers to make quite accurate estimates as to the hole¹s width and angle of descent into the Earth¹s interior.
These photos belong with the Hollow Earth research materials, but seeing as how I ran across them amongst the MOONGATE research data, I decided to include them here. After all, the more one researches ONE of these two theories, the more light is shed on the other.

December 3, 2025
STANDING ON THE MOON

STANDING ON THE MOON

Vol. I, Issue 3 Aug 18, 1997

Dear Reader,

Stop your world for a moment, get in touch with your feelings and imagine that you are an Apollo astronaut standing on the moon. Your fellow astronaut is nearby inside the lunar Lander and you are out there all alone, in your spacesuit, standing on the powdery, barren surface of the moon. It is beyond eerie. It is unearthly, alien. No amount of training could ever have prepared you for the way you are feeling right now. Your heart is pounding. The landscape is stark and flooded with a searing light. With no atmosphere, the stars blaze all around you in a black sky like headlights pointed straight at you. You can see the earth above (below?), hanging like a light blue tree ornament in the perpetual night. You can almost reach up and touch it. Your family is there, so near yet so far. If the rocket on the Lander fails to ignite, you will die here. It is so unearthly quiet, you can hear the sound of your own blood flowing through your inner ears. You can almost hear the sound of your own digestion. You are truly and inexorably alone.

Then the NASA movie director yells “cut!”, you lift off your helmet and head out the hangar door for lunch with the rest of the crew.

Whew! I had you there for a second. Now get in touch with your imagination again, and this time pry your mind open as w-i-d-e as it will go. Turn your truth detector on “high” and consider the outrageous, the impossible: that NASA never actually landed a man on the moon. That they faked it in a simulation filmed entirely inside a floodlit hangar here on good old terra firma.

Impossible!, you say. I mean, if you’re over about the age of 40, you can most likely remember exactly where you were and what you were doing as Neil Armstrong spoke those most famous words in all of human history: “One small step for man, one giant step for mankind”. Fake it? FAKE it? Why on Earth (literally) would they do this?

Hard digging investigative journalist, Jim Collier of “Votescam” fame, has now hung his credibility and perhaps his entire career on the question of whether NASA has actually “mooned” the entire world in the most colossal hoax of all time. The premise is that the pressure was on to beat the Soviets to the moon.

Everything was at stake – F$30 billion in federal funding, prestige, egos, careers, the whole works. NASA knew how to send three men TO the moon and go AROUND the moon, but lacked the technical expertise to land ON the moon – to separate from a “mother ship” (the lunar orbiter), descend in a smaller, self-contained “shuttle craft” (the lunar lander), fire a 10,000-pound-thrust landing rocket and spiral down to a controlled landing, suit up, disembark, romp and play on the surface, go for a drive, return to the lander, blast off, rendezvous and dock with the orbiter and finally return to Earth.

So they faked it. Considering that this was the same general era as Stanley Kubrick’s blockbuster “2001”, the special effects technology certainly existed. And you can make a lot of movie with a cool F$30 billion.

In a recently released VHS video titled “It’s Only A Paper Moon”, Collier looks straight at the camera and in a “video letter” asks senior NASA management for proof of the accomplishment – a feat the entire world has long taken for granted.

Collier points out a few, minor inconsistencies, summarized here:

1. Two fully suited Apollo astronauts could not physically have fit in the allotted space inside the lunar lander and opened the door because the door opened INWARDS, not outwards. They could not have exited with their suits on. He measures this on film.

2. An Apollo astronaut could not physically have fit through the tunnel connecting the orbiter and the lander. It was too narrow. Collier went to NASA’s museum and measured it. The ends of the tunnel contained a ring of docking connectors. NASA’s “in flight” footage that we are told was taken en route to the moon shows astronauts freely tumbling through this connecting tunnel which would be blatant enough except that there are no connectors visible, plus the tunnel hatch door opens the wrong way. Those shots were taken ON EARTH.

3. There is BLUE light coming through the spacecraft windows en route to the moon. With no atmosphere to filter through, space is BLACK. That footage was taken here ON EARTH, most likely in a cargo jet placed into a steep dive to simulate the sensation of “zero-G”.

4. Photos taken by disembarked astronauts show the lunar lander sitting on a placid, smooth, undisturbed surface. Impossible, if they blasted down to a landing, riding on a 10,000 pound thrust plume of flame. The entire area would be severely disturbed. Those shots were taken here on EARTH.

5. There are no stars in the sky in any Apollo photographs. None. That is impossible. The astronauts were surrounded by blazing white stars, unaffected by any atmospheric distortion. Those shots were taken here on EARTH.

6. There are multiple shadows projecting from the astronauts and from other objects standing on the lunar surface, shadows of different lengths. That is impossible. There was no other source of illumination besides the SUN, all of which (obviously) came from the exact same direction. Those shots were taken here on EARTH.

7. Earth never appears in a single NASA photo allegedly taken by an astronaut standing on the moon. Not one. If you were NASA, wouldn’t you want, for publicity purposes if none other, MANY shots of astronauts – maybe of every single astronaut – posing “next to” the Earth? Maybe even appearing to HOLD Earth in his upturned palm?

8. With 1/6 the gravity of Earth, the “rooster tail” of dust kicked up behind the wheels of the “dune buggy” (lunar rover) should have gone up SIX TIMES as high as it would on Earth when traveling at the same speed. But it does not. It also comes back down in sheets – SHEETS! That is impossible in zero atmosphere. The dust should have come back down in the exact same smooth arc it went up in.

9. The folded lunar rover could not physically have fit in the allotted storage space on the lunar lander. Collier went and measured it. The space is several feet too short. Shots taken “on the moon” show the astronauts STARTING to unhatch the compartment and remove the rover, but then cut away. When they pan back, the rover has been unfolded. How conveeeeeeenient!

10. The lunar lander crashed – CRASHED – during its only test flight on Earth. So why was it further test flown by attempting to land it ON THE MOON? If you were an astronaut’s wife, would you go along with that?

11. None of the Apollo astronauts has ever written an “I Went To The Moon” book or other such memoirs.

12. There is more – much, much more. The location of the directional thrusters, the smoky visibility of the burning rocket fuel, etc. …

Now ask yourself, if in fact we did NOT land on the moon and the American public ever discovers that fact, do you think their eyes and minds might be opened just a teeny bit to the HUNDREDS of already discovered and CONFIRMED acts of government deception?

Such as the FACT that a Social Security Number is NOT required by law? How about the limited imposition of the income tax? How about Gulf War Syndrome? How about abandoned soldiers in Korea and Vietnam? Gee, how about the entire New World Order?

NASA is stonewalling Collier completely. No response. No rebuttal. No denial. Just dead silence. Perhaps a few MILLION Americans should begin turning up the heat by asking NASA and their elected officials these same questions. But first, they simply MUST buy and view Collier’s video, “It’s Only A Paper Moon”.

Order by sending check or money order for F$19.95 plus F$3 S/H to:

Victoria Press House, 67 Wall Street, Suite 2411, New York, NY 10005

Oh, by the way, Grumman and Northrop corporations, developers and manufacturers of the lunar lander and the lunar rover, told Collier that all of the original blueprints and design records were destroyed. Not lost, misplaced or in the Smithsonian proudly displaying the history and development of this monumental feat of human engineering and accomplishment. DESTROYED.

Ready? Sing along, gang! And a one, and a two, …

“It’s only a paper moon, sailing over a cardboard sea, but it wouldn’t be make believe if you believed in me.”

December 3, 2025
The Wrong Stuff

The Wrong Stuff

Are you sure we went to the moon 25 years ago? Are you positive? Millions of Americans believe the moon landings may have been a US$25 billion swindle, perpetrated by NASA with the latest in communications technology and the best in special effects. Wired plunges into the combat zone between heated conspiracy believers and exasperated NASA officials.

By Rogier van Bakel

“Columbia, he has landed Tranquility Base. Eagle is at Tranquility. I read you five by. Over.” The voice from Houston betrayed no emotion, although this was anything but business as usual. A human being was about to set foot on the moon for the first time in history, armed only with the Stars and Stripes, some scientific instruments, and an almost reckless, can-do demeanor that had captivated the world.

The reply from Columbia, the command-and-service module that had released the lunar lander 2 hours and 33 minutes earlier, betrayed only equal professional cool. “Yes, I heard the whole thing,” Michael Collins said matter-of-factly.

Houston: “Well, it’s a good show.”

Columbia: “Fantastic.”

That’s when Neil Armstrong chimed in. “Yeah, I’ll second that,” said the 38-year-old astronaut, the moonwalker-to-be, America’s own Boy Scout, and the most famous man in the – well, in the universe. And even though the static ate away at the clarity of his consonants, Armstrong’s sneering tone came through loud and clear. The mission control man heard it too. And he knew what was coming. Sort of.

“A fantastic show,” Armstrong said. “The greatest show on earth, huh, guys?”

There was a moment’s silence. Then a cameraman sniggered. And the director sighed, and did what directors do when actors screw up their lines. “Cut,” he groaned. He was a heavyset man in his 50s, and the combination of the long hours and the hot studio lights had started to get to him.

“Shit, Armstrong, if you’re gonna be a smart-ass, do it on your own time, all right? We got 25 tired people on this set. We got a billion people who are going to be watching your every move only a week from now. We’re on deadline here. Now, do you suppose you could just stick to the script and get it over with? Thank you.”

His assistant stepped forward with the slate. “Apollo moon landing, scene 769/A22, take three,” she announced.

“Action!”

“Columbia, he has landed Tranquility Base,” the mission control man began again.

Superfraud

The history books lie. So do the encyclopedias and the commemorative videos and the 25-year-old coffee mugs with the proudly smiling faces of Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins. When Armstrong got down from that ladder, proclaiming that it was only a small step for him but a giant leap for mankind, he was merely setting foot on a dust-covered sound stage in a top-secret TV studio in the Nevada desert. NASA’s cold warriors and spin doctors faked the whole moon landing. Come to think of it, they faked all six moon landings – spending around US$25 billion to prove to the world that not even the Soviets, especially not the Soviets, could hold a candle to the US when it came to space exploration.

Well, at least, that’s the view of writer Bill Kaysing. It’s also the conviction of millions of Americans who have learned to distrust their government with a passion. Most of these skeptics don’t even appear to be steamed about the alleged superfraud. They shrug and raise their palms and go about their business. Not Kaysing. He seems to have never heard a conspiracy theory he didn’t like, and this one tops ’em all. For almost 20 years now, he has been trying to get out “the most electrifying news story of the entire 20th century and possibly of all time.” He has written a book aptly titled We Never Went to the Moon and won’t give up trying to uncover more evidence.

Kaysing, a white-haired, gentle Californian whose energy level seems mercifully untouched by his 72 years, worked as head of technical publications for the Rocketdyne Research Department at their Southern California facility from 1956 to 1963. Rocketdyne was the engine contractor for Apollo.

“NASA couldn’t make it to the moon, and they knew it,” asserts Kaysing, who, after begging out of the “corporate rat race,” became a freelance author of books and newsletters. “In the late ’50s, when I was at Rocketdyne, they did a feasibility study on astronauts landing on the moon. They found that the chance of success was something like .0017 percent. In other words, it was hopeless.” As late as 1967, Kaysing reminds me, three astronauts died in a horrendous fire on the launch pad. “It’s also well documented that NASA was often badly managed and had poor quality control. But as of ’69, we could suddenly perform manned flight upon manned flight? With complete success? It’s just against all statistical odds.”

President John F. Kennedy wasn’t convinced at all that the endeavor was next to impossible. In fact, he had publicly announced in May 1961 that “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth” would be a Number One priority for the US, an accomplishment that was to instill pride in Americans and awe in the rest of the world. And so, Kaysing believes, NASA faked it, acting in accordance with the old adage that in a war, the truth is often the first casualty. (Cold wars, he and his fellow conspiracy believers say, are no exception.)

To hear him tell it, NASA had good reason to stage moon landing after moon landing, instead of simply admitting that lunar strolls would have to remain the stuff of science fiction novels, at least for a while. “They – both NASA and Rocketdyne – wanted the money to keep pouring in. I’ve worked in aerospace long enough to know that’s their goal.”

Absent Stars

There is an almost instinctive rejoinder to all of this: but we saw it. If television ever had a killer app, the moon landing was it. We bought new sets in droves, flicked them on as zero hour approached, and, miraculously, felt ourselves being locked into an intangible but very real oneness with a billion other people. It was our first taste of a virtual community, of cultures docking. It felt good. And now there’s this guy telling us that it was all a lie? C’mon! His rockets are a little loose. What proof does he have anyway?

Kaysing points out numerous anomalies in NASA publications, as well as in the TV and still pictures that came from the moon. For example, there are no stars in many of the photographs taken on the lunar surface. With no atmosphere to diffuse their light, wouldn’t stars have to be clearly visible? And why is there no crater beneath the lunar lander, despite the jet of its 10,000-pound-thrust hypergolic engine? How do NASA’s experts explain pictures of astronauts on the moon in which the astronauts’ sides and backs are just as well lit as the fronts of their spacesuits – which is inconsistent with the deep, black shadows the harsh sunlight should be casting? And why is there a line between a sharp foreground and a blurry background in some of the pictures, almost as if special-effects makers had used a so-called “matte painting” to simulate the farther reaches of the moonscape? “It all points to an unprecedented swindle,” Kaysing concludes confidently.

But just how could NASA possibly have pulled it off? How about the TV pictures that billions of people saw over the course of six successful missions: the rocket lifting off from the Cape Kennedy launch pad under the watchful eye of hundreds of thousands of spectators; the capsule with the crew returning to earth; the moon rocks; the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of space-program employees in the know who would have to be relied upon to take the incredible secret to their graves?

Easy, says Kaysing. The rockets took off all right, with the astronauts on board, but as soon as they were out of sight, the roaring spacecraft set course for the south polar sea, jettisoned its crew, and crashed. Later, the crew and the command module were put in a military plane and dropped in the Pacific for “recovery” by an aircraft carrier. (Kaysing claims that he talked with an airline pilot who, en route from San Francisco to Tokyo, saw the Apollo 15 command module sliding out of an unidentified cargo plane, but he can’t provide the captain’s name or the name of the airline.) The moon rocks were made in a NASA geology lab, right here on earth, he continues. Not very many people on the Apollo project knew about the hoax, as they were only informed on a need-to-know basis. Cash bonuses, promotions, or veiled threats could have ensured the silence of those who were in on the whole scheme.

Zero Gravity

Kaysing is not alone in his assertion that NASA has been, um, mooning the public. Bill Brian, a 45-year-old Oregonian who authored the 1982 book Moongate, agrees that there is “some sort of cover-up.” Although Brian thinks that his fellow investigator may very well be right in saying that we never went to the moon, he believes there is an entirely different reason for many of the inconsistencies the two have found. Maybe we did go, Brian says, but it’s possible we reached the moon with the aid of a secret zero gravity device that NASA probably reverse-engineered by copying parts of a captured extraterrestrial spaceship. Brian, who received BS and MS degrees in nuclear engineering at Oregon State University (although he now holds a job as a policy and procedures analyst at a utility company), uses his “mathematical and conceptual skills” to reason that the moon’s gravity is actually similar to Earth’s, and that most likely, the moon has an atmosphere after all. He has crammed the appendices of his book with complex calculations to prove these points, but he trusts his intuition, too: “The NASA transcripts of the communication between the astronauts and mission control read as if they’re carefully scripted. The accounts all have a very strange flavor to them, as if the astronauts weren’t really there.”

But why in the world would NASA feel compelled to cover up knowledge of a high-gravity moon? “It’s a cascading string of events,” explains Brian. “You can’t let one bit of information out without blowing the whole thing. They’d have to explain the propulsion technique that got them there, so they’d have to divulge their UFO research. And if they could tap this energy, that would imply the oil cartels are at risk, and the very structure of our world economy could collapse. They didn’t want to run that risk.”

As this issue of Wired goes to press, a new book is headed to the stores: Was It Only a Paper Moon, by Ralph René, “a scientist and patented inventor.” Published by tiny Victoria House Press in New York, in what it has announced will be a first run of “at least 100,000 copies,” Paper Moon supposedly presents the latest scientific findings regarding the moon landing. René offers data suggesting, among other things, that without an impractical shield about two meters thick, the spacemen “would have been cooked by radiation” during the journey. Ergo, the lunar endeavors were impossible, and were cynically faked at the expense of gullible people everywhere.

Other conspiracy buffs don’t doubt that men walked on the moon but call the fact irrelevant because extraterrestrials made it there ages ago – and NASA knows it and has preferred to keep it a secret. In his recent book, Extra-Terrestrial Archeology, David Childress points out various unexplained structures on the moon and argues that these might be archeological remnants of intelligent civilizations. Childress, an avid believer in UFOs, also doesn’t rule out the possibility that aliens still use the moon as a base and a convenient stepping stone for their trips to our planet. This might even mean, enthuses the author, that the moon is really “a spaceship with an inner metallic-rock shell beneath miles of dirt and dust and rock.”

Children and Senators

Although very few Americans subscribe to such grandiose theories, millions of people doubt the authenticity of the lunar missions, much to NASA’s exasperation. Over the years, the agency’s public services department went through reams of paper answering incredulous schoolchildren, teachers, librarians – and even US lawmakers like former Sen. Alan Cranston (D-California) and Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-South Carolina), who had written to NASA relaying the doubts of some of their constituents. As many as 100 million Americans, says Kaysing, are inclined to disbelieve the whole lunar adventure. Like many of his statements, that one should be taken with a grain of salt: his proof is based on his observation that “almost half the people who phoned in to radio and TV shows” he has been on supported him. That’s hardly irrefutable proof.

But when Knight Newspapers (one of the two groups that later merged to form Knight-Ridder Inc.) polled 1,721 US residents one year after the first moon landing, it found that more than 30 percent of respondents were suspicious of NASA’s trips to the moon. A July 20, 1970, Newsweek article reporting the results of the poll cited “an elderly Philadelphia woman who thought the moon landing had been staged in an Arizona desert” and a Macon, Georgia, housewife who questioned how a TV set that couldn’t pull in New York stations could possibly “receive signals from the moon.” The greatest skepticism, according to Newsweek, surfaced in a ghetto in Washington, DC, where more than half of those interviewed doubted the authenticity of Neil Armstrong’s stroll. “It’s all a deliberate effort to mask problems at home,” explained one inner-city preacher. “The people are unhappy – and this takes their minds off their problems.”

Poll or no poll, even James Oberg, a nemesis of Kaysing, conservatively estimates that the disbelievers may number between 10 and 25 million Americans.

Oberg works for NASA contractor Rockwell International as a space-flight operations engineer with the space shuttle program. He writes as a second profession, covering all aspects of space activity, with a special interest in space folklore. Myths have a way of blossoming in the fertile soil of scientific discovery, Oberg notes. “Every age of exploration is the same in that respect – from the time of the Phoenicians…to Marco Polo, and including mermaids and unipeds and all these mythological creatures that lurk at the edge of our exploration. To me, it’s extremely humanizing to have this typically human reaction – this denial, this myth making – to our lunar adventure. I’m not at all surprised that these stories or interpretations exist. Actually, I’m surprised they aren’t more widespread.”

Nonetheless, hoax believers can be found in many parts of society, here and abroad. According to Oberg, Cuban children are officially taught that Yankee space technology failed miserably and that NASA was reduced to pitifully faking every single lunar landing. Some New Agers also contest the possibility of moon landings, as do Hare Krishnas. Non-mainstream Christians at the Flat Earth Society – a Lancaster, California-based anti-science group of about 3,500 members – contest the entire field of astronomy (not to mention moon landings). They liken the towering launch pads to the Tower of Babel.

The eccentricity of such convictions certainly intrigues Oberg. “I respect these people’s dedication to their view of the world. One reason they fascinate me is that they’re a constant reminder to me that we can’t rest on common knowledge, we can’t be complacent with our traditional interpretations of things – even though these interpretations are almost always right. But I also find their pathology of reasoning, or non-reasoning, compelling. We define health by the boundaries of pathology, and I try and define rational thought by looking at cases that go over the edge.”

That’s damning praise indeed. So it’s no surprise that Bill Kaysing doesn’t much care for James Oberg, whom he dismisses as “a NASA agent.”

Good Timing

If NASA had really wanted to fake the moon landings – we’re talking purely hypothetical here – the timing was certainly right. The advent of television, having reached worldwide critical mass only years prior to the moon landing, would prove instrumental to the fraud’s success; in this case, seeing really was believing. The magic of satellites, with their ability to enable live global (and interplanetary?) communication, fascinated and awed millions of people, much like anything atomic had caught the public’s fancy in the previous decade. Also, space research and rocket science had advanced far enough to make a trip to the moon likely – or, at the very least, remotely feasible. “The structural nature of technology had changed to make the moon landing possible, but that also made it possible for people to doubt it,” says Gary Fine, a sociology professor at the University of Georgia in Athens specializing in rumor and contemporary legend.

Perhaps more importantly, Watergate hadn’t happened yet, and people still trusted their elected officials. “A distrust of authority clearly plays into this whole thing,” argues Fred Fedler, who teaches journalism at the University of Central Florida and has written a book on media hoaxes. “With Vietnam and Watergate, people have become less trusting, and to some people it doesn’t matter what the government says; their immediate reaction is to disbelieve and to sometimes embrace the opposite view.”

The distrust continues to be fed by the mass media, especially in the film and TV business. It is rare to find a movie in which a government agency is actually depicted as a collection of fairly efficient, competent people who serve their country to the best of their ability. Dramatically speaking, an elite of sinister, evil bureaucrats is much more appealing. Linda Degh, a retired folklorist who taught at Indiana University in Bloomington, and who has recently published a book titled American Folklore and Mass Media, is reminded of the film Capricorn One. Released in 1978, Capricorn One tells the story of a staged flight to Mars. The astronauts grapple with the moral implications of the giant charade and fear they might be killed to keep them from blowing the whistle. Sure enough, they find themselves hunted down by bloodthirsty government thugs; only one of the astronauts makes it to freedom and reporters’ microphones. Degh recalls that it was “quite a slanderous movie, pretending that the government had been killing people,” and she believes that it must have given a powerful boost to the moon-landing hoax theory. “The mass media catapult these half-truths into a kind of twilight zone where people can make their guesses sound as truths. Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance.”

007 Uncovers Hoax

Peter Hyams, Capricorn One‘s director, agrees that mass media can be very powerful – dangerously so, in fact. “My parents believed that if it was in The New York Times, it was true. I was part of the generation that grew up believing that if we saw it on television, it was true. And I learned how inaccurate newspapers were, and I realized that TV is just as inaccurate, or it can be. So I said, wouldn’t it be interesting if you took a major event where the only source that people have is a television screen, and you showed how easy it would be to manipulate everybody.” Hyams insists that he made Capricorn One “for entertainment, for fun,” not because he was making not-so-veiled references to the alleged Apollo hoax. “I was aware that there were people who believed that we never walked on the moon, but I never read their books or consulted with them. And frankly, I think they are being totally ludicrous.” (Nevertheless, an invitation to a sneak preview screening at the time of Capricorn One‘s release said: “Would you be shocked to find out that the greatest moment of our recent history may not have happened at all?”)

The concept of the moon swindle holds a certain appeal for other filmmakers as well. In Diamonds Are Forever (1971), James Bond accidentally stumbles onto a movie set that consists of rocks, a lunar backdrop, and a vehicle that looks like NASA’s Eagle. Men in spacesuits move about slowly and clumsily, as if simulating low gravity. Bond’s pursuers give chase, but 007 – stirred, but not shaken – climbs into the lunar lander and makes his escape. The scene is never explained. In the high-tech thriller Sneakers (1992), Dan Aykroyd’s character, a gadgeteer and conspiracy enthusiast, refers to the moon landing by casually remarking: “This LTX71 concealable mike is part of the same system NASA used when they faked the Apollo moon landings.” And a small San Francisco Bay area production company with a big name, Independent Film and Video Productions, is working on an as-yet-untitled feature film in which a writer discovers that the moon landings may have been simulated – and then nearly gets killed in his quest for the truth.

Simulating One-Sixth Gravity

Technically speaking, could the moon landings have been faked? Was the state of special effects advanced enough in the late ’60s to fool even the most discriminating eye? Simulating one-sixth gravity could have been done with the use of hydraulic cranes and thin wires – the Peter Pan approach – or by filming scenes under water, says Dennis Muren. Muren, an eight-time Oscar winner, is the senior visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucas Digital. He was responsible for making the Jurassic Park monsters come alive and for key scenes in Terminator 2, Star Wars, and The Abyss.

“A moon landing simulation might have looked pretty real to 99.9 percent of the people. The thing is, though, that it wouldn’t have looked the way it did. I’ve always been acutely aware of what’s fake and what’s real, and the moon landings were definitely real,” Muren stipulates. “Look at 2001 or Destination Moon or Capricorn One or any other space movie: everybody was wrong. That wasn’t the way the moon looked at all. There was an unusual sheen to the images from the moon, in the way that the light reflected in the camera, that is literally out of this world. Nobody could have faked that.”

Of course, Bill Kaysing will have none of it: “Perhaps this guy [Muren] was part of the cover-up. Anything is possible.” Kaysing likes to paraphrase Alvin Toffler: “He writes that most people are producer/consumers – he calls them prosumers. They go through life not questioning anything, not knowing anything. Ninety percent of the American population has no idea what’s going on in this country. I’d like to be the one to tell them – tell them at least part of it. I’m either going to share the truth about the moon with them, or I am going to die trying.”

NASA Bites Back

Q: Why is there no discernible crater beneath the lunar lander?

A: “Although the descent engine of the LM is powerful, most of its operation takes place thousands of feet above the moon during the early stages of the landing,” says a NASA information sheet. “At the moment of touchdown, a small amount of surface dust is blown away, but the relatively cohesive lunar surface seems to deflect the blast sideways.”

Q: Why is there an artificial-looking line between a sharp foreground and a blurry background in some of the pictures of the lunar surface?

A: “What you see is simply the curvature of the moon,” explains Paul Lowman, a NASA geophysicist. “Because the moon is such a small body, the curvature horizon is only two or three miles away from eye level. That sharp line you see in some pictures is the visible horizon. The blurry part you see is caused by mountains sticking up from beyond the horizon.”

Q: Why are there no stars in many of the photos taken on the moon?

A: “That’s one of Kaysing’s sillier arguments,” says James Oberg, a space-flight operations engineer with the space shuttle program. “Go out at night and take a picture of yourself under a streetlight. Even if there’s a star-studded sky, you’ll see no stars in your picture because the camera was set to properly expose that big lighted object in the foreground – you – and will not register much weaker light sources.”

Q: How about the various lighting anomalies?

A: “On some pictures, astronauts are lit from more than one side because the sunlight is reflected off the lunar surface or off the landing vehicle,” says NASA spokesperson James Hartsfield. Paul Lowman adds that some conspiracy believers are unknowingly or deliberately using pictures of astronauts that NASA never claimed were taken on the moon. “There are pictures being passed on and published in their circles that appeared in pre-moon landing issues of Aviation Week – nothing mysterious about them,” sighs Lowman. “These are photos taken in a moon-like training facility at the Johnson Space Center where, indeed, there were several sources of light.”

Moon Hoaxes of Yesteryear: Pigs Might Fly

Not to rain on anyone’s parade – but a balloon-faring Dutchman walked on the moon some 140 years before Neil Armstrong did. In the Southern Literary Messenger of June 1835, Edgar Allan Poe published the first installment of that prodigious fable, which he unsuccessfully tried to pass off as a genuine news story.

Fed up with his miserable life in Rotterdam, one Hans Pfaall, an unemployed bellows mender, secretly built a giant balloon. His goal: “to force a passage, if I could, to the moon.” He gambled that he would gradually get accustomed to the very high altitudes. Pfaall purportedly took off on April 1, and, because of the thinning atmosphere, soon suffered spasms and began bleeding from the ears, nose, and eyes. He made it though: after 19 days in space, the Flying Dutchman landed in a crowd of ugly little moon people, who “stood like a parcel of idiots, grinning in a ludicrous manner, and eyeing me and my balloon askant, with their arms set akimbo.”

Despite the awkward welcome, the world’s first astronaut lived among the unsightly critters for five years, then wrote a letter to the Mayor of Rotterdam in which he described some of his experiences and negotiated his return. A lunar messenger whom Pfaall had entrusted with the missive did reach the city (by balloon, of course) but couldn’t be persuaded to land; after dropping off the letter, he disappeared into the heavens without waiting for a reply – no doubt, Poe muses, “frightened to death by the savage appearance of the residents of Rotterdam.” (Poe’s story is recounted in Media Hoaxes, a book written by Fred Fedler and published in 1989 by Iowa State University.)

Imagine a telescope lens with a diameter of 24 feet and a weight of almost 15,000 pounds. With it, you could see insects on the moon. OK, so there is no life on the moon – but that’s not what the readers of the New York Sun were told. In August 1835, the penny paper reported the “findings” of the British astronomer Sir John Herschel. In a six-part series, reporter Richard Adams Locke wrote that the scientist, using a huge custom-built telescope in a planetarium at the Cape of Good Hope (at the southern tip of Africa), had spotted many spectacular species on the moon. Among them: horned bears, tailless beavers, and 4-foot-tall ape-like creatures with thick beards and large wings. Locke referred to them as “bat-men.” Actually, there were plenty of bat-women too, and the two sexes engaged freely in behavior that Locke declined to describe – it would have been “improper” on earth.

Herschel was a legitimate, respected scientist who remained unaware of his fictional discoveries for months. When word of Locke’s elaborate yarn reached him, he reportedly laughed and tried to expose the hoax – to little avail.

On June 20, 1977, Anglia TV in England caused a nationwide stir when it broadcast a documentary called Alternative Three. By linking facts with half-truths, and by staging interviews with so-called “astronomers” and “astronauts,” the makers suggested that both NASA’s space program and the Cold War were decoys. The power elite in the USSR, the US, and Great Britain had in fact been working together on a secret project – Alternative Three – that had established bases on the moon and on Mars, so that they could escape the coming ecological nightmare on earth. Insiders who were deemed a security risk were callously murdered. Scientists had been abducted to do experiments in the space colonies. Even ordinary folks had been snatched and forced into slave labor on the moon and on the red planet.

Surprise! It was all a hoax, made clear by the closing credits that listed the actors on the show and that contained a copyright notice dated April 1. Nonetheless, Anglia was flooded with calls, and newspaper headlines reported “shock” and “panic.” To this day, some people believe that all of it, or some of it, is true.

Anagram enthusiasts will find that Rogier van Bakel (rogier@reporters.net) has Brave Ink Galore. He is a Dutch correspondent in Washington, DC.

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December 3, 2025
US ASTRONAUTS SEE UFOs

From Kingdom Voice March 1998

US ASTRONAUTS SEE UFOs

The following facts confirm the existence of documented UFO sightings by American astronauts.
MAJOR GORDON COOPER: One of the original Mercury Astronauts and the last American to fly in space alone.

On May 15, 1963, he shot into space in a Mercury capsule for a 22 orbit journey around the world. During the final orbit, Major Gordon Cooper told the tracking station at Muchea (near Perth, Australia) that he could see a glowing greenish object ahead of him quickly approaching his capsule. The UFO was real and solid, because it was picked up by Muchea’s tracking radar. Cooper’s sighting was reported by the National Broadcasting Company, which was covering the flight step by step; but when Cooper landed, reporters were told that they would not be allowed to question him about the UFO sighting. Major Cooper was a firm believer in UFOs. Ten years earlier, in 1951, he had sighted UFOs while piloting an F-86 Saber jet over Western Germany. They were metallic, saucer-shaped discs at considerable altitude and could out-maneuver all American fighter planes.

Major Cooper also testified before the United Nations: “I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Most astronauts are reluctant to discuss UFOs. I did have occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.”

According to a taped interview by J.L. Ferrando, Major Cooper said: “For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public. Why? Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows-what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means.

“I was furthermore a witness to an extraordinary phenomenon, here on this planet Earth. It happened a few months ago in Florida. There I saw with my own eyes a defined area of ground being consumed by flames, with four indentations left by a flying object which had descended in the middle of a field. Beings had left the craft (there were other traces to prove this). They seemed to have studied topography, they had collected soil samples and, eventually, they returned to where they had come from, disappearing at enormous speed. I happen to know that authority did just about everything to keep this incident from the press and TV, in fear of a panicky reaction from the public.”

ED WHITE & JAMES McDIVITT: In June 1965, astronauts Ed White (first American to walk in space) and James McDivitt were passing over Hawaii in a Gemini spacecraft when they saw a weird-looking metallic object. The UFO had long arms sticking out of it. McDivitt took pictures with a cine-camera. Those pictures have never been released.

JAMES LOVELL AND FRANK BORMAN: In December 1965, Gemini astronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman also saw a UFO during their second orbit of their record-breaking 14 day flight. Borman reported that he saw an unidentified spacecraft some distance from their capsule. Gemini control, at Cape Kennedy, told him that he was seeing the final stage of their own Titan booster rocket. Borman confirmed that he could see the booster rocket all right, but that he could also see something completely different.

During James Lovell’s flight on Gemini 7:
Lovell: “BOGEY AT 10 O’CLOCK HIGH.”
Capcom: “This is Houston. Say again 7.”
Lovell: “SAID WE HAVE A BOGEY AT 10 O’CLOCK HIGH.”
Capcom: “Gemini 7, is that the booster or is that an actual sighting?”
Lovell: “WE HAVE SEVERAL. ACTUAL SIGHTINGS.”
Capcom: “Estimated distance or size?”
Lovell: “WE ALSO HAVE THE BOOSTER IN SIGHT.”

NEIL ARMSTRONG & EDWIN “BUZZ” ALDRIN: According to the NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong, the aliens have a base on the Moon and told us in no uncertain terms to get off and stay off the Moon. According to hitherto unconfirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after that historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969. 1 remember hearing one of the astronauts refer to a “fight” in or on a crater during the television transmission, followed by a request from mission control for further information. Nothing more was heard.

According to a former NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed radio hams with their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA’s broadcasting outlets picked up the following exchange:
NASA: “What’s there? Mission Control calling Apollo 11.”
APOLLO 11: “These “Babies” are huge, Sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You wouldn’t believe it! I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out there, lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They’re on the Moon watching us!” A certain professor, who wished to remain anonymous, was engaged in a discussion with Neil Armstrong during a NASA symposium.
Professor: “What REALLY happened out therewith Apollo 11?”
Armstrong: “It was incredible, of course we had always known there was a possibility, the fact is, we were warned off (By the Aliens.) There was never any question then of a space station or a moon city.”
Professor: “How do you mean ‘warned off ?”
Armstrong: “I can’t go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology – Boy, were they big! And menacing! No, there is no question of a space station.”
Professor: “But NASA had other missions after Apollo 11?”
Armstrong: “Naturally – NASA was committed at that time, and couldn’t risk panic on Earth. But it really was a quick scoop and back again.” According to a Dr. Vladimir Azhazha: “Neil Armstrong relayed a message to Mission Control that two large, mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. But this message was never heard by the public — because NASA censored it.”

According to a Dr. Aleksandr Kasantsev, Buzz Aldrin took color movie film of the UFOs from inside the module, and continued filming them after he and Armstrong went outside. Armstrong confirmed that the story was true but refused to go into further detail, beyond admitting that the CIA was behind the cover-up.

DONALD SLAYTON: Donald Slayton, a Mercury astronaut, revealed in an interview he had seen UFOs in 1951: “I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high. As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the dam thing it didn’t look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk. About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me – and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.”

MAJOR ROBERT WHITE: On July 17, 1962, Major Robert White reported a UFO during his fifty-eight-mile high flight of an X-15. Major White reported: “I have no idea what it could be. It was grayish in color and about thirty or forty feet away.” Then, according to a Time Magazine article, Major White exclaimed over the radio: “There ARE things out there! There absolutely is!”

NASA PILOT JOSEPH A. WALKER: On May 11, 1962, NASA pilot Joseph Walker said that one of his tasks was to detect UFOs during his X-15 flights. He had filmed five or six UFOs during his record breaking fifty-mile-high flight in April, 1962. It was the second time he had filmed UFOs in flight. During a lecture at the Second National Conference on the Peaceful Use of Space Research in Seattle, Washington, he said: “I don’t feel like speculating about them. All I know is what happened on the film which was developed after the flight.” – Joseph Walker. To date none of those films has been released to the public for viewing.

COMMANDER EUGENE CHATELAIN: In 1979 Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems confirmed that Armstrong had indeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater. Chatelain believes that some UFOs may come from our own solar system specifically Titan. “The encounter was common knowledge in NASA, but nobody has talked about it until now. All Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin – Flying Saucers or UFOs, if you want to call them by that name. Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who then ordered absolute silence.

“I think that Walter Schirra aboard Mercury 8 was the first of the astronauts to use the code name ‘Santa Claus’ to indicate the presence of Flying Saucers next to space capsules. However, his announcements were barely noticed by the general public. It was a little different when James Lovell on board the Apollo 8 command module came out from behind the moon and said for everybody to hear: ‘PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS!’ Even though this happened on Christmas Day 1968, many people sensed a hidden meaning in those words.”

The rumors persist. NASA may well be a civilian agency, but many of its programs are .funded by the defense budget and most of the astronauts are subject to military security regulations. Apart from the fact that the National Security Agency screens all films and probably radio communications as well. We have the statements of Otto Binder, Dr. Gary Henderson and Maurice Chatelain that the astronauts are under strict orders not to discuss their sightings. And Gordon Cooper has testified to a United Nations committee that one of the astronauts actually witnessed a UFO on the ground. If there is no secrecy, why has this sighting not been made public?

NASA’S SCOTT CARPENTER: “At no time, when the astronauts were in space, were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs!”

[Sources: “Great Mysteries: UFOs” by
Robert Jackson, “Above Top Secret” by Timothy Good, “The UFO Encyclopedia” by John Spencer, and “Genesis Revisited” by Zacharia Sitchin.]
KINGDOM VOICE is published by Yahweh’s New Kingdom Inc.

December 2, 2025