What the Apollo Astronauts Saw
In the book Above Top Secret, Timothy Good reveals that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after landing their Apollo 11 LEM module in the Sea of Tranquility on July 21, 1969. The astronauts said that they saw a light on a crater during the public televised transmission, followed by a query for additional information by specialists at mission control. Nothing else was heard about the matter.
In an article entitled, Alien Moon Base by UFO Joe (presumed pseudonym) at Infonet, it is purported that Otto Binder, a former NASA employee, claimed that a number of ham radio operators managed to eavesdrop on at least one exchange between mission control and the crew of Apollo 11. The brief exchange went as follows:
MISSION CONTROL: “What’s there? Mission control calling Apollo 11.”
APOLLO 11: “These babies are huge, sir . . . enormous. . . . Oh, 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. . . .”
In another article, Alien Bases: The Mystery of the Moon, posted on Friday, March 31, 2006 (CST) by Thoth (presumed pseudonym), it is alleged that Christopher Kraft, the former director of the NASA tracking base in Houston during the Apollo program, reported the following conversation involving Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mission Control:
APOLLO 11: “Those are giant things. No, no, no . . . this is not an optical illusion. No one is going to believe this!”
MISSION CONTROL: “What . . . what . . . what? What the hell is happening? What’s wrong with you?”
APOLLO 11: “They’re here under the surface.”
MISSION CONTROL: “What’s there? Emission interrupted . . . interference control calling Apollo 11.”
APOLLO 11: “We saw some visitors. They were there for awhile, observing the instruments.”
MISSION CONTROL: “Repeat your last information.”
APOLLO 11: “I say that there were other spaceships. They’re lined up on the other side of the crater.”
MISSION CONTROL: “Repeat . . . repeat!”
APOLLO 11: “Let us sound this orbit a . . . In 625 to 5 . . . automatic relay connected . . . My hands are shaking so badly I can’t do anything. Film it? God, if these damned cameras have picked up anything. What then?”
MISSION CONTROL: “Have you picked up anything?”
APOLLO 11: “I didn’t have any film at hand. Three shots of the saucers or whatever they were that were ruining the film.”
MISSION CONTROL: “Control, control here. Are you on your way? Is the uproar with the U.F.O.’s. over?”
APOLLO 11: “They’ve landed there. There they are and they are watching us.”
MISSION CONTROL: “The mirrors, the mirrors . . . have you set them up?”
APOLLO 11: “Yes, they’re in the right place. But whoever made those space ships surely can come tomorrow and remove them. Over and out.”
According to Timothy Good’s information, contained within Above Top Secret, Soviet scientists were supposedly the first to corroborate the Apollo 11 UFO encounter. Dr. Vladimir Azhazha, physicist and Professor of Mathematics at Moscow University, indicated that based on information that he and some of his colleagues were privy to, the encounter occurred immediately upon the landing of the Lunar Excursion Module. Dr. Azhazha mentions that Neil Armstrong transmitted the message to Mission Control that two large and unusual craft were observing them after having landed close to the Lunar Excursion Module. But due to censorship by NASA, the public was never allowed to hear the message. Dr. Aleksandr Kazantsev, another Soviet scientist, claimed that Buzz Aldrin filmed the UFOs from inside the cabin of the LEM module using color film, and continued the filming process subsequent to Armstrong and himself exiting the LEM. Apparently, the UFOs departed after just a few minutes once the astronauts were outside on the lunar surface, according to Dr. Azhazha.
Later, after the astronauts had returned to Earth, a professor who wishes to remain anonymous, approached Neil Armstrong at a NASA symposium regarding what had transpired during the Apollo 11 mission. Also, according to the article Alien Moon Base by UFO Joe at Infonet, a friend of Timothy Good’s witnessed the following portion of the conversation that ensued:
PROFESSOR: “What really happened out there with Apollo 11?”
ARMSTRONG: “It was incredible . . . of course, we had always known there was a possibility . . . the fact is, we were warned off. 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 a panic on earth. . . . But it really was a quick scoop and back again. . . .”
Some of the most significant testimony that has been brought to light concerning the details of the Apollo 11 mission was provided by the former chief of NASA Communications Systems, Maurice Chatelain. In 1979, he confirmed that Neil Armstrong had reported seeing two UFOs on the opposite rim of the crater from where the LEM was parked. Chatelain also indicated that the UFO encounter was common knowledge amongst NASA personnel, but due to an imposed gag order, the incident has not been openly discussed until now.
In his book, Our Ancestors Came From Outer Space, Chatelain makes reference to the fact that all of the Apollo and Gemini flights were followed by spacecraft of extraterrestrial (or unknown) origin, both at a distance and in near proximity to our own craft. Whenever this occurred, the astronauts notified Mission Control, whereupon absolute radio silence was ordered.
In another excerpt from his book, Chatelain goes on to say that Walter Schirra, while aboard Mercury 8, was the first of the astronauts to coin the term “Santa Claus” to clandestinely identify the nearby presence of UFO craft. Initially, however, the general public did not suspect a connection to the Santa Claus reference. It wasn’t until James Lovell (aboard the Apollo 8 command module) came around from the far side of the moon and communicated that there is a Santa Claus, that the public deemed the announcement to be rather odd. In spite of the fact that Lovell made this proclamation on Christmas Day 1968, it was still deemed by many to have a hidden meaning.
Even more incredible was Chatelain’s statement that there were rumors circulating within NASA that the Apollo 13 carried a small nuclear device destined to be detonated on the lunar surface for the purpose of seismic testing. En route, the Command Service Module was deliberately crippled by a UFO that was apparently protecting a moon base being managed by extraterrestrials.
Obviously, there has been a great deal of information withheld from the public domain concerning NASA’s true purpose, which would appear to have a far more substantial hidden agenda (i.e., that of direct involvement with an extraterrestrial element). Despite the fact that NASA operates under the guise of a civilian agency, it is anything but. With the bulk of its funding being provided by the Department of Defense, the astronauts are for the most part subject to strict military guidelines and regulations.