Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 11, Episode 11 - Space Station Moon - full transcript
Mythology has lore about the sky before there was a moon. Many strange stories intertwined with first hand experience from Apollo Astronauts who went to the moon. Lights , blurry glowing objects have been seen on the moon since 1835. As the moon may even be hollow and carted into position.
JONATHAN YOUNG: Some stories
attribute great powers
to the Moon.
It does have some effect on us.
DAVID CHILDRESS: Since the time
of the very first
Apollo Moon mission...
NEIL ARMSTRONG:
The Eagle has landed.
Researchers have pored over
photos of the Moon
looking for structures,
and they found some
unusual things.
Only 300 kilometers away
from where Apollo 11
ended up landing.
This area has undeniable
architecture
that looks like
what you would see
from obelisks.
GEORGE NOORY:
Somebody built something
on the Moon
a long, long time ago.
And I don't think
it was earthlings.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
The entire object
may be of artificial origin.
My question is,
who built the Moon?
NARRATOR:
Since the dawn of civilization,
mankind has credited
its origins to gods
and other visitors
from the stars.
What if it were true?
Did extraterrestrial beings
really help
to shape our history?
And if so...
might the answer be found
not on Earth but on the Moon?
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NARRATOR: Cape Canaveral,
Florida. February 8, 2016.
NASA and Lockheed Martin
project managers
announce preparations
are underway
for the Exploration Mission 1,
a manned Orion
spacecraft journey to the Moon.
The Chinese, Russian and Indian
space agencies follow suit,
unveiling their own manned
lunar exploration plans.
These missions would be the
first time humans traveled
beyond low earth orbit
since Apollo 17 in 1972.
But what could be the reason
for this renewed interest
in the Moon?
And just why has it taken
humanity so long to go back?
MISSION CONTROL: Liftoff.
We have a liftoff.
Liftoff on Apollo 11.
(beeping)
ARMSTRONG:
Tranquility Base here.
The Eagle has landed.
NARRATOR: July 20, 1969.
MISSION CONTROL:
Okay, Neil, we can see you
coming down the ladder now.
NARRATOR: Over one billion
people worldwide are glued
to their television sets
as they watch the shadowy figure
of astronaut Neil Armstrong
slowly step off the ladder
of the Apollo 11 lunar module
onto the surface of the Moon.
(cheering and applause)
ARMSTRONG:
That's one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind.
NARRATOR: The moment marks one
of the most important events
in the history of civilization.
It is the first time
a human being
has set foot on alien terrain.
Apollo 11 is what people
think of when you talk about
Apollo today and Neil Armstrong
setting foot on the Moon.
The Moon is roughly 220,000
miles away from the Earth.
Even the best telescopes
can't see what you can see
when you're just
standing on the surface.
BUZZ ALDRIN: Before we went to
the Moon, NASA was cautioned by
doomsday predictors
and different people.
People wonder what it would be
like on a place like that,
so different
from this place here.
YOUNG: The idea
of landing people on the Moon
has been in the imagination
long before the technology
was anywhere near
making it possible.
After all, to be on the Moon
is to step into
a mythological landscape.
The place of stories,
the place of wonder,
to step into the heavens,
and stand on ground of a kind
that is not Earth.
WILLIAM HENRY: It was a huge
moment for the human spirit.
While it was Americans
that put a man on the Moon,
it was considered a victory
for all of humanity.
Suddenly, science fiction
became real
and it opened up
a new age of exploration.
TSOUKALOS:
I think that every journey
starts with a first step.
The Moon was our first step
into the universe,
into our solar system.
It is awesome to think
that already 50 years ago
we became extraterrestrials
on another planet.
NARRATOR:
The Moon has captivated
the imagination of humanity
since the dawn of civilization.
It is a quarter
the size of the Earth
and is by far
the most dominant celestial body
in the night sky.
RICK STROUD: It takes about 30
days to go round the Earth.
The Moon glows and that's not
because of any property
within the Moon.
It's reflecting the rays of the
Sun, which causes it to glow.
The reason that the
Moon has phases is that
the Earth blocks the light of
the Sun as the Moon moves
round the Earth,
so it incrementally
gets a little bit more
and a little bit more
of the Sun's rays.
JOHN BRANDENBURG: The Moon's
importance is very great.
It leads to tides,
which helped life transition
from living in the ocean
to living on land.
It also stabilizes the Earth's
tilt relative to its orbit.
Without the Moon,
gravitational influences
can cause the poles of planets
to wander around
kind of drunkenly,
like a drunken sailor.
The Earth would have been a much
more chaotic place for life,
especially advanced life,
to develop
if it wasn't for the Moon.
NARRATOR: While the Moon is
largely responsible
for allowing life
to flourish on Earth,
this celestial body itself
is inhospitable.
It has no breathable oxygen
and temperatures on the surface
reach extremes
from 253 degrees Fahrenheit,
when it's facing the Sun,
to -243 degrees in the shade.
STROUD: It was a very serious
environment
'cause there's no oxygen.
So the astronauts,
once they were on the Moon,
they have to be completely
sealed.
Its surface gravity,
which is what really counts
if you're gonna go there, is
about a sixth of that on Earth,
which is why when you see
those grainy images
of the early astronauts,
they're sort of bouncing around,
and the Moon
has no atmosphere whatever.
STROUD: The astronauts,
once they were on the Moon,
suddenly they were able
to look at the world
that they'd grown up on, the
Earth, from a different place.
They were able to
see all of mankind
in all its tininess
in the universe.
And that I know had
a very profound effect
on the astronaut.
NARRATOR: Reaching the Moon was
such an unbelievable feat
that even to this day,
many people are convinced
the entire event was actually
staged in a Hollywood studio.
But ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,
not only did
we land on the Moon,
but what we found there was
more incredible than we know.
MICHAEL SALLA: During the 1969
Apollo Moon mission,
after the landing there was
a very strange two-minute gap
in radio transmissions.
And what happened
during those two minutes
has been subject
to a lot of controversy.
MISSION CONTROL: Neil, this
is Houston, radio check, over.
(radio static)
MISSION CONTROL:
Columbia, this is Houston, over.
(radio static)
NARRATOR: According to scientist
and NASA researcher Otto Binder,
various ham radio operators
were able to intercept
secret communications
with Mission Control
that were not made public.
The astronauts apparently
talked about
seeing extraterrestrial
objects on the Moon,
including flying saucers parked
along the edge of a crater
within their view.
Now, the truth of it is,
is that each of the astronauts
had a separate medical channel.
That channel was not public
and it could have been
very easily used
to communicate information
that you didn't want to be heard
over the general public
transmissions.
What's really interesting
about that story, though,
is the fact that, within 30
minutes of the landing
on the Moon, that story was
circulating around NASA
that, "Hey, guess what.
They saw something"
"on the rim of a crater.
They were all upset.
"They didn't know what to do.
They didn't know
if they should go out."
It is interesting
when you watch the feed
of when they
came back from the Moon.
They're not sitting there
jumping up and down for joy
and saying, "I had the most
incredible experience"
in my life, I was on the Moon."
They're not saying that.
They look very solemn,
very depressed.
They're looking down.
They almost look like
they want to vomit,
that's how disturbed they look.
Could they have seen
something there
that they didn't
want to tell the public
because of the implications?
I believe that, uh...
what this country
set out to do was
something that was going
to be done sooner or later.
We find for the first time
that man has a...
the flexibility
or the option of, uh,
either walking this planet
or some other planet.
It's a-a beginning of a new age.
NARRATOR:
After Apollo 11, NASA would send
six more manned missions
to the Moon,
culminating with Apollo 17
in 1972.
ALAN BUTLER: One of the most
interesting questions
with regard to our interaction
with the Moon
is why we have never
gone back there again
since the Apollo missions,
and what else is very telling
is that although the USSR
at the time
was getting to be quite able
to send its own astronauts
to the Moon,
it never seems to have done so.
Could it be that
there were agencies
associated with the Moon?
Aliens or other beings
who had warned humanity
to stay away for some reason?
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the American astronauts
were not alone on the Moon?
Is that why after Apollo 17,
we never went back?
Some ancient astronaut theorists
propose an even more
incredible possibility,
that the Moon came
to orbit Earth not by chance,
but by design.
NARRATOR:
Humans have been mesmerized
by the Moon
since the dawn of man.
And although many theories
have been proposed,
scientists cannot say
with absolute certainty
how this celestial object
came into being.
When I was a student,
nobody really knew
where the Moon came from
because it's so relatively big.
Uh, this was a real problem.
And I think that there is
a tendency to think that
moons get somehow captured
by the parent planet.
If you've got one body here and
another body come, coming along,
it can't just get trapped
into orbit like that.
The difficulty there
is just basic physics,
and so this remained a puzzle
until about 20 years ago
when another theory came along,
and that is that
the protoEarth was very early
on in the history
of the solar system hit
by a Mars-sized body.
Hit obliquely,
that this Mars-sized body
plowed into the center
of the Earth
and became the Earth's core,
and a lot of
the outer material
got stripped off by this
gargantuan collision and
coalesced to form the Moon.
Now, they had to come up
with a very, uh, bizarre theory
for how the Moon came into being
because all the conventional
theories don't make any sense.
The best theory
of the Moon's formation
is a phantasmagorically
catastrophic collision
of two things, you know,
at just the right angle to form
this belt of debris
that then formed the Moon,
but the Moon,
its exact size is such that
it gives us total eclipses.
Its disc exactly covers the Sun.
And the chances of that
occurring are so,
literally, astronomically small,
it's, it's very disturbing.
NARRATOR: The Sun's diameter is
400 times greater than the Moon
and coincidentally the Sun
also happens to be
nearly precisely
400 times further away.
This is the reason
that the Sun and the Moon
appear the same size
in the Earth's sky
and why we on Earth can
experience eclipses of the Sun.
CHILDRESS: It's just perfectly
in that orbit
to eclipse our Sun.
The odds of the Moon being
in that orbit accidentally
are a zillion to one.
So that right there is evidence
that our Moon
is in a perfect orbit
around our planet
that's not accidental.
BARA: In order to have a solar
eclipse the Moon has to be
exactly the size that it is,
which is 2,160 miles.
Not 2,161,
not 2,159,
but 2,160 miles at its equator.
And there are people out there
that actually think
that's a coincidence.
The fact is, is that
that is by design.
NARRATOR: Throughout
our observable galaxy,
this relationship and others
have not been duplicated.
Other moons are
sizably smaller by comparison
to their mother planet.
Earth's satellite not only
orbits closer than it should
for its size, it is also the
only moon in the solar system
that has a near-perfect
circular orbit.
And no other lunar bodies
are known
to have such a stabilizing role
as the Moon has with the Earth.
HENRY: Recent computer
simulations have shown
that without the Moon's
presence, the Earth's axis tilt
would be completely different
than it is today.
We might not even have seasons
as we know them presently.
Without the seasons
it could be very difficult
for life on Earth.
So the Moon is actually
performing
an incredible function.
It's life-sustaining.
Without it,
we might not be here.
BUTLER:
There are so many peculiarities
about the way the Moon
has affected the Earth
that one might be forgiven
for believing
that there is
intelligence behind it,
that something made it that way.
The Moon is so strange,
so odd in terms of what we find
elsewhere in the solar system,
and particularly
in terms of what
it does for the Earth,
having made the Earth
into a haven for life,
that one feels obliged to ask
the question,
"Could such things have come
about by chance?"
Was it placed there
deliberately?
Was it engineered,
maybe by aliens?
And therefore,
is our whole existence
a planned event?
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
that the perfect size
and placement of the Moon
may not be the product
of mere chance,
but was engineered by
extraterrestrial beings
in Earth's prehistory.
As evidence,
they point to ancient accounts
that speak of a time before the
celestial object even existed.
Beginning in the 5th century BC,
Roman and Greek authors
wrote of a time
"before there was a moon in the
heavens."
Allusions to this can also be
found in the Hebrew Bible.
And there are Zulu legends
that say
the Moon was brought to Earth
hundreds of generations ago.
Wowane and Mpanku were the names
of two Zulu deities
from prehistory.
The Zulus have a legend
that it was they
who brought the Moon
into existence.
They supposedly did so
by stealing an egg
from a giant sky dragon,
hollowing out the center,
the yolk of the egg, and then
rolling the resultant planet
across the sky
to become the Moon.
And the reason that the Zulus
say the Moon was put there
was to keep an eye
on human beings.
WHITEHEAD: The Zulu legend is
really interesting.
We first heard about it
from a Zulu shaman
named Credo Mutwa,
and he talked about the fact
that the Moon was towed in
to our orbit.
And when it did so,
it caused all kinds of floods
and cataclysms, and it changed
the axis of the planet.
And you can't help but wonder,
could the Moon
be an artificial satellite?
Could the Moon have come
from somewhere else
and is now used
as an observational base
for extraterrestrial beings?
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the Zulu legend is true,
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?
Was our Moon towed into place
in the remote past?
Perhaps further clues can be
found
by examining the scientific
evidence suggesting
that the Moon is,
in fact, hollow.
NARRATOR: The surface
of the Moon is scarred
with tens of thousands of impact
craters of various sizes.
Scientists suggest
this is due to the fact
that there has never been
an atmosphere on the Moon
to help protect it from
bombardment by space debris.
There are no
natural erosive forces,
like wind or flowing water,
to affect its surface.
And there is little
geologic activity
to conceal damage done
throughout the Moon's history.
DAVIES: When you study the
distribution of craters,
you find the surface
is totally saturated,
that is, that there are craters
within craters within craters,
right down to
the smallest scale of size.
BARA: One of the things
that's really interesting
about lunar craters is that,
even though some of them
are very large and some of them
are very small,
they all seem
to have the same depth,
and that really shouldn't happen
on a planetary body.
There should be variation
in depth.
So why are the Moon's craters
so uniform?
It's really, really unusual
and it's really not explainable
in terms of conventional
or established geophysics.
Some of the craters on the Moon
are nowhere near similar
to what they should look like.
In fact, they are
incredibly wide craters,
and wherever the impact point
is, they're convex,
which means there's still the
bulge of the Moon,
so this doesn't make any sense.
It's likely that
there is something
under the lunar surface,
which is very resilient
and which is preventing craters
going any deeper than they do.
This could only really
be either much harder rock,
which it can't be
because of the mass of the Moon,
or alternatively a metal sphere
of some kind
which is preventing more damage.
NARRATOR: Does the uniform depth
of the craters on the Moon
suggest some sort
of metallic barrier
underneath moon rock and dust?
But if so,
why wouldn't mainstream
scientists acknowledge this?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that by doing so,
they might also have
to acknowledge
that the Moon may be hollow.
MAN: Yankee Clipper, Houston.
NARRATOR: November 20, 1969.
(indistinct radio
communications)
During their ascent back to the
command module,
Commander Charles Conrad Jr.
And lunar module pilot Alan Bean
release the Apollo 12
launch vehicle
and crash it back to the Moon.
MAN: Apollo 12, Houston,
the LM is on its way down.
Roger.
NARRATOR: Upon impact,
something very unexpected
happened.
The Moon was said to have
seismically reverberated
like a bell
for more than an hour.
CUNNINGHAM: With Apollo 12,
people refer to a crash.
It wasn't really a crash.
It was a aimed deorbit
of the rocket
used to lift off
the, uh, lunar module.
And the crew separated
the launch vehicle
and crashed it back
into the ground
right close to where they'd had
a seismograph
that they had installed
down there.
Well, it vibrated,
so it was kind of an early clue
as to how solid
was the surface of the Moon.
HENRY: What was amazing
about this is that suddenly
the Moon began
to ring like a bell
and did so for nearly an hour.
Dr. Werner von Braun,
who was then the head of NASA,
decided that for Apollo 13
they were going to
intentionally crash a heavier
portion of the rocket
into the lunar surface.
- (sustained gong)
- And when they did this,
the Moon rang like a gong this
time for over three hours
into a depth of over 20 miles.
BUTLER: This was not expected
and it still puzzles
a lot of scientists today.
The inference
is that the Moon must be hollow
because the Moon is made
predominantly on the surface
of a kind of rock called basalt.
Although it's a
very lightweight rock,
it also absorbs impact
extremely well.
And so if the whole of the Moon
was made of that kind of rock,
you wouldn't expect it
to reverberate
when a large impact took place.
The reason that
this is played down
is because the idea
of the Moon being hollow
just contradicts what we know
about physics.
NARRATOR: In his 1966 book,
Intelligent Life
in the Universe,
renowned scientist
and astronomer Carl Sagan
defined modern scholarship
regarding the composition
of celestial bodies
throughout the cosmos.
TSOUKALOS: Carl Sagan suggested
that a natural satellite
cannot be a hollow object.
This is very odd because why
would the Moon be vibrating
unless it's a hollow object?
That would suggest
it's artificial.
NICK REDFERN:
Significant portions of the Moon
may have been hollowed out.
If that is the case,
the chances are
that was not achieved naturally.
That would have to have been
achieved artificially.
This brings up
the important question,
who would've had the ability,
the skills,
and the technology to do that?
Certainly not us.
That would only have to be
the work of extraterrestrials
and no one else.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the Moon is not only hollow,
but also
an artificial structure?
And if so, could it be
an extraterrestrial creation?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and as evidence,
they point to research
indicating
the Moon is actually...
a spaceship.
NARRATOR: Moscow, Russia.
July 1970.
After years of studying findings
from various Moon missions,
two government scientists,
Michael Vasin
and Alexander Shcherbakov,
publish an article
in Sputnik magazine
revealing their
shocking conclusion
about the nature of the Moon.
Their theory is that the Moon
is likely a creation
of alien intelligence
that was brought to Earth
in the remote past.
BUTLER: Two Russian physicists,
Vasin and Shcherbakov,
came up with the idea that
the Moon must be
an artificial object.
They based their ideas on,
first of all,
the fact that it appeared that
the Moon was hollow.
Since no hollow planet
could exist
according to
the known laws of physics,
that would mean that the Moon
had to be an artificial,
an engineered object.
WILCOCK: This article was
quite groundbreaking.
In fact, what they did is
to fundamentally redefine
scholarship around
what we think the Moon is.
NARRATOR: Based on the maximum
depth of the Moon craters,
Vasin and Shcherbakov proposed
that the surface was
only 2½ miles thick.
NASA scientists had determined
that this moondust
primarily consisted of chromium,
titanium and zirconium.
In their publication,
Vasin and Shcherbakov noted,
"If a material had 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
on precisely these elements."
TSOUKALOS:
Now they themselves proposed
that this suggestion
is outlandish.
However, only through their
calculations
and all the mathematics,
they determined that their
theory is correct.
We're talking people
in academia who may perhaps
lose their position
at the universities.
I don't think anybody would
publish a paper like this
unless they were 100% convinced
that their findings are true.
The entire object may be
of artificial origin.
And if that is the case,
my question is:
Who built the Moon, who placed
it here, and how long ago?
And so these Russian scientists,
their theory is
that the Moon is a spaceship.
It's got engines within.
But that on the outside,
they've coated it
with this
moon-looking substance.
Now, it's a farfetched idea,
but it makes a lot of sense
in that you might want to shroud
or cloak this craft
and make it look like a, uh,
very natural object.
NARRATOR: Since the publication
of the Vasin and Shcherbakov
article,
other researchers have come out
in support of their theory.
WILCOCK:
In 1975, Don Wilson wrote.
Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon.
In 1976, George Leonard wrote
Somebody Else Is on the Moon,
and these books further explored
a variety of anomalies.
Now, they note
some very bizarre things.
For example, the mineral
and metallic composition
of the material on the Moon
is not like anything
that we see on Earth,
and the apparent age of the Moon
seems to be greater than the
actual age of our solar system.
So they believe that the Moon
was actually brought here
from somewhere else.
BARA: Lots of people have talked
about the idea
that the Moon itself
is actually a spacecraft,
that it was piloted here and
put in this particular orbit.
There's no question that
there's evidence that the Moon
could be
a modified natural object.
TSOUKALOS: There are ancient
stories that speak of a time
when the Moon
was not up in the sky
and there are descriptions
that say that the Moon
was artificially pulled
into place.
So if we have two modern Russian
scientists who have suggested
that perhaps the Moon
was pulled into place,
and that is a corroboration
of ancient mythologies,
that's when I listen.
CHILDRESS: So the whole idea
that our Moon
is some gigantic hollow
spaceship
that's been put into a special
orbit around our planet,
and contains cities and
structures
that are inside and outside
of the Moon
is to me
a very reasonable assertion.
And in fact it would seem to be
that our Moon
is some kind of gigantic
artificial spaceship
that is here
to monitor our planet.
NOORY: Would I discount
the fact that the Moon
is a foreign object,
a spaceship, a Death Star?
I don't think
you can rule that out.
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the Moon
is actually a spacecraft?
And might it have allowed
extraterrestrials
to discreetly monitor
our planet?
But if so, might these beings
still be there today?
NARRATOR: November 1966.
Three years before the Apollo
astronauts made it to the Moon,
the Orbiter 2 spacecraft
situates itself in lunar orbit.
It was designed to capture
high-resolution images
of the surface to assist with
the selection of landing sites
for the Apollo missions.
One image in particular catches
the eye of researchers,
as it shows what appear
to be the shadows
of several pointed spires.
WILCOCK: On November 20, 1966,
the Lunar Orbiter 2,
NASA's probe,
photographs this area
on the Moon
that was actually
in the Sea of Tranquility,
only 300 kilometers away
from where Apollo 11
ended up landing.
And, what's so bizarre is that
this area
has undeniable architecture that
looks like what you would see
from obelisks.
There's eight different spires.
And scientists calculated that
the largest of these spires
would be an obelisk that
is 15 stories tall.
These do appear to be just like
an Egyptian-style obelisk.
But, what the heck are they
doing on the Moon?
TSOUKALOS: Of the multiple
anomalies on the Moon,
I think the spires are some of
the most fascinating ones
because astronomers
have calculated
that these spires are very tall
for them to be exclusively
natural occurrences.
BARA:
They have to be artificial,
simply from the fact that
the Moon has been bombarded
in kind of
an incessant meteoric rain
for 4.5 billion years.
There is no way that anything
bigger than a basketball
can be standing straight up
on the lunar surface.
(indistinct radio
communications)
BUTLER: The inference is that
NASA would have known this
and that one of the reasons that
they sent their mission there
was so that the astronauts
of the Apollo mission
could gain more information
about these
artificial structures
on the Moon.
(indistinct radio
communications)
ASTRONAUT: CAPCOMM, we're a go
for undocking.
CAPCOMM: Roger, Eagle, undock.
BARA: On Apollo 11, when the
astronauts were descending
to the lunar surface,
they got this very strange
computer alarm.
MISSION CONTROL: The 1202 alarm.
- CAPCOMM 1: 1202.
- CAPCOMM 2: 1202 alarm.
BARA:
The famous 1202 computer alarm.
(stammers) Basically, nobody
knew what it was.
What it came out to, um,
was that the computer itself
was overwhelmed with information
because Buzz Aldrin,
the lunar module pilot,
had turned on the radars
on the lunar lander.
It had two radars...
It had a side looking radar
and it had a docking radar.
So, in other words,
you had one that pointed down
and one that pointed
to the side.
Now, if there's nothing
on the surface of the Moon,
if there are
no artificial structures,
if there are no spires sticking
ten, 20 stories up into the sky,
why would you turn on
the side radar?
There's no reason to,
but Aldrin did it.
And, I think it's because
he knew and NASA knew
that there was some danger
of running into these things.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
NASA actually has knowledge
of structures on the Moon?
In 1960, NASA officials
commissioned a report
from the Brookings Institute
to weigh the implications
of the discovery of evidence
of extraterrestrial life.
Due to the findings
of the report,
researchers believe
it was determined
before the Moon missions to keep
any extraterrestrial findings
hidden from the public
for fear of social unrest.
Since the time of the very first
Apollo Moon missions,
researchers have pored
over NASA and Russian photos
of the Moon looking
for structures.
And they found
some unusual things.
You would think, in fact,
that if extraterrestrials
are on the Moon or were,
that they would have built
all kinds of structures.
And we're able
to see some of these,
even though NASA scientists
don't acknowledge
them as genuine.
NARRATOR:
But perhaps as intriguing
as the various structures seen
on the surface of the Moon
are the numerous reports
of lights
and other unexplainable
activity.
Intermittent reflections
emanating from the lunar surface
have been observed
for more than a century,
including by famed astronomer
Francis Bailey
in 1835.
And the phenomenon was also
reported by the Apollo 11 crew.
BUZZ ALDRIN:
The windows are all dark.
And that's when I began seeing
a flash and a streak
and another flash.
Flicker flashes we called them.
Kept seeing them.
And I said,
"You guys see anything unusual?
You see any flashes?"
Neil said,
"Yeah, I saw about 100 of them."
"How about you, Mike?"
"Nah, I didn't see a thing."
Any deep analysis by the crew as
to what the hell it was?
No. (Chuckles)
'Cause we were,
we were on our way home.
Let's, let's let somebody else
worry about that.
WILCOCK: These things were
actually disclosed by NASA
in their own transient lunar
anomalies catalog
showing lights moving around,
showing puffs of smoke,
showing things that should not
be there on the Moon's surface,
all of which suggests that there
is, in fact, a very thriving
extraterrestrial community
living on the Moon today.
NARRATOR: Might there not only
be structures
on the lunar surface
but also unidentified activity?
Activity that might point
to current extraterrestrial
occupation of the Moon?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
and suggest that further
evidence may be found
on the dark side of the Moon.
NARRATOR: The Moon is the most
visible celestial body
in the night sky.
But we only ever see one side
as it is in synchronous rotation
with Earth,
meaning it takes just as long to
rotate around its own axis
as it does to complete
its orbit around our planet.
Therefore,
we can only observe one side,
and up to 41% of the Moon's
surface is never seen.
The Moon is in what we call
synchronous rotation
with the Earth.
That is that the effect
of the gravity of the Earth
and the Moon means that the Moon
only shows us one side,
its one face, the face that
we're all familiar with.
PAUL DAVIES: The reason for this
is because when two objects
get close enough to each other,
they do become
so-called phase-locked
in that manner.
It means it presents
the same face to the Earth
the whole time.
BRANDENBURG:
Because of the tidal locking
of the Moon's rotation,
it presents the same face.
And of course this leads
to speculation
because this creates
a perfect place
to create large installations
on the Moon
that are not directly observable
from Earth.
Hypothetically,
the far side of the Moon,
it's an excellent place
to put up bases.
And that has been a fixture
of a lot of science fiction.
SALLA: There have been
whistle-blowers that say that
they've been taken to a base,
which is called
Lunar Operations Command,
on the far side of the Moon
and that this base
is part of a network of bases
on the far side of the Moon
that are run by various
secret space programs
and extraterrestrial
civilizations.
The Apollo missions have taken
surveillance photographs
of the Moon's surface and some
of the photographs
have shown what
appear to be structures.
NARRATOR: Could it be that
there are active bases
on the far side of the Moon?
Not only secret military bases,
but extraterrestrial bases
as well?
And if so, what would happen if
the full truth about the Moon
was finally revealed
to the general public?
CHILDRESS: Ultimately when the
truth of the origin of the Moon
and what is going on
in the Moon,
and-and structures on the Moon,
and perhaps even occupation of
the Moon is revealed to humans
on Earth, it will be a
shattering of our reality.
And we'll be able
to look up in the sky
and see what is an
extraterrestrial object
in orbit around our planet.
And we'll know it
for what it is.
HENRY: There's not a single
scientifically valid reason
not to think that it's
an extraterrestrial spacecraft
brought here
by extraterrestrial beings
in order to assist humankind.
For some,
that's a terrifying thought.
NARRATOR: Did the Apollo
astronauts encounter
more on the surface of the Moon
than was publicly revealed?
Might there have been evidence
of colonization,
or even that the Moon itself
is an artificial object?
And could this be
why we stopped going back?
Perhaps the upcoming
Moon missions,
the first in over four decades,
will finally reveal
the full truth
about this
mysterious celestial body
and also about our
extraterrestrial past.
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
attribute great powers
to the Moon.
It does have some effect on us.
DAVID CHILDRESS: Since the time
of the very first
Apollo Moon mission...
NEIL ARMSTRONG:
The Eagle has landed.
Researchers have pored over
photos of the Moon
looking for structures,
and they found some
unusual things.
Only 300 kilometers away
from where Apollo 11
ended up landing.
This area has undeniable
architecture
that looks like
what you would see
from obelisks.
GEORGE NOORY:
Somebody built something
on the Moon
a long, long time ago.
And I don't think
it was earthlings.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
The entire object
may be of artificial origin.
My question is,
who built the Moon?
NARRATOR:
Since the dawn of civilization,
mankind has credited
its origins to gods
and other visitors
from the stars.
What if it were true?
Did extraterrestrial beings
really help
to shape our history?
And if so...
might the answer be found
not on Earth but on the Moon?
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NARRATOR: Cape Canaveral,
Florida. February 8, 2016.
NASA and Lockheed Martin
project managers
announce preparations
are underway
for the Exploration Mission 1,
a manned Orion
spacecraft journey to the Moon.
The Chinese, Russian and Indian
space agencies follow suit,
unveiling their own manned
lunar exploration plans.
These missions would be the
first time humans traveled
beyond low earth orbit
since Apollo 17 in 1972.
But what could be the reason
for this renewed interest
in the Moon?
And just why has it taken
humanity so long to go back?
MISSION CONTROL: Liftoff.
We have a liftoff.
Liftoff on Apollo 11.
(beeping)
ARMSTRONG:
Tranquility Base here.
The Eagle has landed.
NARRATOR: July 20, 1969.
MISSION CONTROL:
Okay, Neil, we can see you
coming down the ladder now.
NARRATOR: Over one billion
people worldwide are glued
to their television sets
as they watch the shadowy figure
of astronaut Neil Armstrong
slowly step off the ladder
of the Apollo 11 lunar module
onto the surface of the Moon.
(cheering and applause)
ARMSTRONG:
That's one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind.
NARRATOR: The moment marks one
of the most important events
in the history of civilization.
It is the first time
a human being
has set foot on alien terrain.
Apollo 11 is what people
think of when you talk about
Apollo today and Neil Armstrong
setting foot on the Moon.
The Moon is roughly 220,000
miles away from the Earth.
Even the best telescopes
can't see what you can see
when you're just
standing on the surface.
BUZZ ALDRIN: Before we went to
the Moon, NASA was cautioned by
doomsday predictors
and different people.
People wonder what it would be
like on a place like that,
so different
from this place here.
YOUNG: The idea
of landing people on the Moon
has been in the imagination
long before the technology
was anywhere near
making it possible.
After all, to be on the Moon
is to step into
a mythological landscape.
The place of stories,
the place of wonder,
to step into the heavens,
and stand on ground of a kind
that is not Earth.
WILLIAM HENRY: It was a huge
moment for the human spirit.
While it was Americans
that put a man on the Moon,
it was considered a victory
for all of humanity.
Suddenly, science fiction
became real
and it opened up
a new age of exploration.
TSOUKALOS:
I think that every journey
starts with a first step.
The Moon was our first step
into the universe,
into our solar system.
It is awesome to think
that already 50 years ago
we became extraterrestrials
on another planet.
NARRATOR:
The Moon has captivated
the imagination of humanity
since the dawn of civilization.
It is a quarter
the size of the Earth
and is by far
the most dominant celestial body
in the night sky.
RICK STROUD: It takes about 30
days to go round the Earth.
The Moon glows and that's not
because of any property
within the Moon.
It's reflecting the rays of the
Sun, which causes it to glow.
The reason that the
Moon has phases is that
the Earth blocks the light of
the Sun as the Moon moves
round the Earth,
so it incrementally
gets a little bit more
and a little bit more
of the Sun's rays.
JOHN BRANDENBURG: The Moon's
importance is very great.
It leads to tides,
which helped life transition
from living in the ocean
to living on land.
It also stabilizes the Earth's
tilt relative to its orbit.
Without the Moon,
gravitational influences
can cause the poles of planets
to wander around
kind of drunkenly,
like a drunken sailor.
The Earth would have been a much
more chaotic place for life,
especially advanced life,
to develop
if it wasn't for the Moon.
NARRATOR: While the Moon is
largely responsible
for allowing life
to flourish on Earth,
this celestial body itself
is inhospitable.
It has no breathable oxygen
and temperatures on the surface
reach extremes
from 253 degrees Fahrenheit,
when it's facing the Sun,
to -243 degrees in the shade.
STROUD: It was a very serious
environment
'cause there's no oxygen.
So the astronauts,
once they were on the Moon,
they have to be completely
sealed.
Its surface gravity,
which is what really counts
if you're gonna go there, is
about a sixth of that on Earth,
which is why when you see
those grainy images
of the early astronauts,
they're sort of bouncing around,
and the Moon
has no atmosphere whatever.
STROUD: The astronauts,
once they were on the Moon,
suddenly they were able
to look at the world
that they'd grown up on, the
Earth, from a different place.
They were able to
see all of mankind
in all its tininess
in the universe.
And that I know had
a very profound effect
on the astronaut.
NARRATOR: Reaching the Moon was
such an unbelievable feat
that even to this day,
many people are convinced
the entire event was actually
staged in a Hollywood studio.
But ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,
not only did
we land on the Moon,
but what we found there was
more incredible than we know.
MICHAEL SALLA: During the 1969
Apollo Moon mission,
after the landing there was
a very strange two-minute gap
in radio transmissions.
And what happened
during those two minutes
has been subject
to a lot of controversy.
MISSION CONTROL: Neil, this
is Houston, radio check, over.
(radio static)
MISSION CONTROL:
Columbia, this is Houston, over.
(radio static)
NARRATOR: According to scientist
and NASA researcher Otto Binder,
various ham radio operators
were able to intercept
secret communications
with Mission Control
that were not made public.
The astronauts apparently
talked about
seeing extraterrestrial
objects on the Moon,
including flying saucers parked
along the edge of a crater
within their view.
Now, the truth of it is,
is that each of the astronauts
had a separate medical channel.
That channel was not public
and it could have been
very easily used
to communicate information
that you didn't want to be heard
over the general public
transmissions.
What's really interesting
about that story, though,
is the fact that, within 30
minutes of the landing
on the Moon, that story was
circulating around NASA
that, "Hey, guess what.
They saw something"
"on the rim of a crater.
They were all upset.
"They didn't know what to do.
They didn't know
if they should go out."
It is interesting
when you watch the feed
of when they
came back from the Moon.
They're not sitting there
jumping up and down for joy
and saying, "I had the most
incredible experience"
in my life, I was on the Moon."
They're not saying that.
They look very solemn,
very depressed.
They're looking down.
They almost look like
they want to vomit,
that's how disturbed they look.
Could they have seen
something there
that they didn't
want to tell the public
because of the implications?
I believe that, uh...
what this country
set out to do was
something that was going
to be done sooner or later.
We find for the first time
that man has a...
the flexibility
or the option of, uh,
either walking this planet
or some other planet.
It's a-a beginning of a new age.
NARRATOR:
After Apollo 11, NASA would send
six more manned missions
to the Moon,
culminating with Apollo 17
in 1972.
ALAN BUTLER: One of the most
interesting questions
with regard to our interaction
with the Moon
is why we have never
gone back there again
since the Apollo missions,
and what else is very telling
is that although the USSR
at the time
was getting to be quite able
to send its own astronauts
to the Moon,
it never seems to have done so.
Could it be that
there were agencies
associated with the Moon?
Aliens or other beings
who had warned humanity
to stay away for some reason?
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the American astronauts
were not alone on the Moon?
Is that why after Apollo 17,
we never went back?
Some ancient astronaut theorists
propose an even more
incredible possibility,
that the Moon came
to orbit Earth not by chance,
but by design.
NARRATOR:
Humans have been mesmerized
by the Moon
since the dawn of man.
And although many theories
have been proposed,
scientists cannot say
with absolute certainty
how this celestial object
came into being.
When I was a student,
nobody really knew
where the Moon came from
because it's so relatively big.
Uh, this was a real problem.
And I think that there is
a tendency to think that
moons get somehow captured
by the parent planet.
If you've got one body here and
another body come, coming along,
it can't just get trapped
into orbit like that.
The difficulty there
is just basic physics,
and so this remained a puzzle
until about 20 years ago
when another theory came along,
and that is that
the protoEarth was very early
on in the history
of the solar system hit
by a Mars-sized body.
Hit obliquely,
that this Mars-sized body
plowed into the center
of the Earth
and became the Earth's core,
and a lot of
the outer material
got stripped off by this
gargantuan collision and
coalesced to form the Moon.
Now, they had to come up
with a very, uh, bizarre theory
for how the Moon came into being
because all the conventional
theories don't make any sense.
The best theory
of the Moon's formation
is a phantasmagorically
catastrophic collision
of two things, you know,
at just the right angle to form
this belt of debris
that then formed the Moon,
but the Moon,
its exact size is such that
it gives us total eclipses.
Its disc exactly covers the Sun.
And the chances of that
occurring are so,
literally, astronomically small,
it's, it's very disturbing.
NARRATOR: The Sun's diameter is
400 times greater than the Moon
and coincidentally the Sun
also happens to be
nearly precisely
400 times further away.
This is the reason
that the Sun and the Moon
appear the same size
in the Earth's sky
and why we on Earth can
experience eclipses of the Sun.
CHILDRESS: It's just perfectly
in that orbit
to eclipse our Sun.
The odds of the Moon being
in that orbit accidentally
are a zillion to one.
So that right there is evidence
that our Moon
is in a perfect orbit
around our planet
that's not accidental.
BARA: In order to have a solar
eclipse the Moon has to be
exactly the size that it is,
which is 2,160 miles.
Not 2,161,
not 2,159,
but 2,160 miles at its equator.
And there are people out there
that actually think
that's a coincidence.
The fact is, is that
that is by design.
NARRATOR: Throughout
our observable galaxy,
this relationship and others
have not been duplicated.
Other moons are
sizably smaller by comparison
to their mother planet.
Earth's satellite not only
orbits closer than it should
for its size, it is also the
only moon in the solar system
that has a near-perfect
circular orbit.
And no other lunar bodies
are known
to have such a stabilizing role
as the Moon has with the Earth.
HENRY: Recent computer
simulations have shown
that without the Moon's
presence, the Earth's axis tilt
would be completely different
than it is today.
We might not even have seasons
as we know them presently.
Without the seasons
it could be very difficult
for life on Earth.
So the Moon is actually
performing
an incredible function.
It's life-sustaining.
Without it,
we might not be here.
BUTLER:
There are so many peculiarities
about the way the Moon
has affected the Earth
that one might be forgiven
for believing
that there is
intelligence behind it,
that something made it that way.
The Moon is so strange,
so odd in terms of what we find
elsewhere in the solar system,
and particularly
in terms of what
it does for the Earth,
having made the Earth
into a haven for life,
that one feels obliged to ask
the question,
"Could such things have come
about by chance?"
Was it placed there
deliberately?
Was it engineered,
maybe by aliens?
And therefore,
is our whole existence
a planned event?
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
that the perfect size
and placement of the Moon
may not be the product
of mere chance,
but was engineered by
extraterrestrial beings
in Earth's prehistory.
As evidence,
they point to ancient accounts
that speak of a time before the
celestial object even existed.
Beginning in the 5th century BC,
Roman and Greek authors
wrote of a time
"before there was a moon in the
heavens."
Allusions to this can also be
found in the Hebrew Bible.
And there are Zulu legends
that say
the Moon was brought to Earth
hundreds of generations ago.
Wowane and Mpanku were the names
of two Zulu deities
from prehistory.
The Zulus have a legend
that it was they
who brought the Moon
into existence.
They supposedly did so
by stealing an egg
from a giant sky dragon,
hollowing out the center,
the yolk of the egg, and then
rolling the resultant planet
across the sky
to become the Moon.
And the reason that the Zulus
say the Moon was put there
was to keep an eye
on human beings.
WHITEHEAD: The Zulu legend is
really interesting.
We first heard about it
from a Zulu shaman
named Credo Mutwa,
and he talked about the fact
that the Moon was towed in
to our orbit.
And when it did so,
it caused all kinds of floods
and cataclysms, and it changed
the axis of the planet.
And you can't help but wonder,
could the Moon
be an artificial satellite?
Could the Moon have come
from somewhere else
and is now used
as an observational base
for extraterrestrial beings?
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the Zulu legend is true,
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?
Was our Moon towed into place
in the remote past?
Perhaps further clues can be
found
by examining the scientific
evidence suggesting
that the Moon is,
in fact, hollow.
NARRATOR: The surface
of the Moon is scarred
with tens of thousands of impact
craters of various sizes.
Scientists suggest
this is due to the fact
that there has never been
an atmosphere on the Moon
to help protect it from
bombardment by space debris.
There are no
natural erosive forces,
like wind or flowing water,
to affect its surface.
And there is little
geologic activity
to conceal damage done
throughout the Moon's history.
DAVIES: When you study the
distribution of craters,
you find the surface
is totally saturated,
that is, that there are craters
within craters within craters,
right down to
the smallest scale of size.
BARA: One of the things
that's really interesting
about lunar craters is that,
even though some of them
are very large and some of them
are very small,
they all seem
to have the same depth,
and that really shouldn't happen
on a planetary body.
There should be variation
in depth.
So why are the Moon's craters
so uniform?
It's really, really unusual
and it's really not explainable
in terms of conventional
or established geophysics.
Some of the craters on the Moon
are nowhere near similar
to what they should look like.
In fact, they are
incredibly wide craters,
and wherever the impact point
is, they're convex,
which means there's still the
bulge of the Moon,
so this doesn't make any sense.
It's likely that
there is something
under the lunar surface,
which is very resilient
and which is preventing craters
going any deeper than they do.
This could only really
be either much harder rock,
which it can't be
because of the mass of the Moon,
or alternatively a metal sphere
of some kind
which is preventing more damage.
NARRATOR: Does the uniform depth
of the craters on the Moon
suggest some sort
of metallic barrier
underneath moon rock and dust?
But if so,
why wouldn't mainstream
scientists acknowledge this?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that by doing so,
they might also have
to acknowledge
that the Moon may be hollow.
MAN: Yankee Clipper, Houston.
NARRATOR: November 20, 1969.
(indistinct radio
communications)
During their ascent back to the
command module,
Commander Charles Conrad Jr.
And lunar module pilot Alan Bean
release the Apollo 12
launch vehicle
and crash it back to the Moon.
MAN: Apollo 12, Houston,
the LM is on its way down.
Roger.
NARRATOR: Upon impact,
something very unexpected
happened.
The Moon was said to have
seismically reverberated
like a bell
for more than an hour.
CUNNINGHAM: With Apollo 12,
people refer to a crash.
It wasn't really a crash.
It was a aimed deorbit
of the rocket
used to lift off
the, uh, lunar module.
And the crew separated
the launch vehicle
and crashed it back
into the ground
right close to where they'd had
a seismograph
that they had installed
down there.
Well, it vibrated,
so it was kind of an early clue
as to how solid
was the surface of the Moon.
HENRY: What was amazing
about this is that suddenly
the Moon began
to ring like a bell
and did so for nearly an hour.
Dr. Werner von Braun,
who was then the head of NASA,
decided that for Apollo 13
they were going to
intentionally crash a heavier
portion of the rocket
into the lunar surface.
- (sustained gong)
- And when they did this,
the Moon rang like a gong this
time for over three hours
into a depth of over 20 miles.
BUTLER: This was not expected
and it still puzzles
a lot of scientists today.
The inference
is that the Moon must be hollow
because the Moon is made
predominantly on the surface
of a kind of rock called basalt.
Although it's a
very lightweight rock,
it also absorbs impact
extremely well.
And so if the whole of the Moon
was made of that kind of rock,
you wouldn't expect it
to reverberate
when a large impact took place.
The reason that
this is played down
is because the idea
of the Moon being hollow
just contradicts what we know
about physics.
NARRATOR: In his 1966 book,
Intelligent Life
in the Universe,
renowned scientist
and astronomer Carl Sagan
defined modern scholarship
regarding the composition
of celestial bodies
throughout the cosmos.
TSOUKALOS: Carl Sagan suggested
that a natural satellite
cannot be a hollow object.
This is very odd because why
would the Moon be vibrating
unless it's a hollow object?
That would suggest
it's artificial.
NICK REDFERN:
Significant portions of the Moon
may have been hollowed out.
If that is the case,
the chances are
that was not achieved naturally.
That would have to have been
achieved artificially.
This brings up
the important question,
who would've had the ability,
the skills,
and the technology to do that?
Certainly not us.
That would only have to be
the work of extraterrestrials
and no one else.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the Moon is not only hollow,
but also
an artificial structure?
And if so, could it be
an extraterrestrial creation?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and as evidence,
they point to research
indicating
the Moon is actually...
a spaceship.
NARRATOR: Moscow, Russia.
July 1970.
After years of studying findings
from various Moon missions,
two government scientists,
Michael Vasin
and Alexander Shcherbakov,
publish an article
in Sputnik magazine
revealing their
shocking conclusion
about the nature of the Moon.
Their theory is that the Moon
is likely a creation
of alien intelligence
that was brought to Earth
in the remote past.
BUTLER: Two Russian physicists,
Vasin and Shcherbakov,
came up with the idea that
the Moon must be
an artificial object.
They based their ideas on,
first of all,
the fact that it appeared that
the Moon was hollow.
Since no hollow planet
could exist
according to
the known laws of physics,
that would mean that the Moon
had to be an artificial,
an engineered object.
WILCOCK: This article was
quite groundbreaking.
In fact, what they did is
to fundamentally redefine
scholarship around
what we think the Moon is.
NARRATOR: Based on the maximum
depth of the Moon craters,
Vasin and Shcherbakov proposed
that the surface was
only 2½ miles thick.
NASA scientists had determined
that this moondust
primarily consisted of chromium,
titanium and zirconium.
In their publication,
Vasin and Shcherbakov noted,
"If a material had 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
on precisely these elements."
TSOUKALOS:
Now they themselves proposed
that this suggestion
is outlandish.
However, only through their
calculations
and all the mathematics,
they determined that their
theory is correct.
We're talking people
in academia who may perhaps
lose their position
at the universities.
I don't think anybody would
publish a paper like this
unless they were 100% convinced
that their findings are true.
The entire object may be
of artificial origin.
And if that is the case,
my question is:
Who built the Moon, who placed
it here, and how long ago?
And so these Russian scientists,
their theory is
that the Moon is a spaceship.
It's got engines within.
But that on the outside,
they've coated it
with this
moon-looking substance.
Now, it's a farfetched idea,
but it makes a lot of sense
in that you might want to shroud
or cloak this craft
and make it look like a, uh,
very natural object.
NARRATOR: Since the publication
of the Vasin and Shcherbakov
article,
other researchers have come out
in support of their theory.
WILCOCK:
In 1975, Don Wilson wrote.
Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon.
In 1976, George Leonard wrote
Somebody Else Is on the Moon,
and these books further explored
a variety of anomalies.
Now, they note
some very bizarre things.
For example, the mineral
and metallic composition
of the material on the Moon
is not like anything
that we see on Earth,
and the apparent age of the Moon
seems to be greater than the
actual age of our solar system.
So they believe that the Moon
was actually brought here
from somewhere else.
BARA: Lots of people have talked
about the idea
that the Moon itself
is actually a spacecraft,
that it was piloted here and
put in this particular orbit.
There's no question that
there's evidence that the Moon
could be
a modified natural object.
TSOUKALOS: There are ancient
stories that speak of a time
when the Moon
was not up in the sky
and there are descriptions
that say that the Moon
was artificially pulled
into place.
So if we have two modern Russian
scientists who have suggested
that perhaps the Moon
was pulled into place,
and that is a corroboration
of ancient mythologies,
that's when I listen.
CHILDRESS: So the whole idea
that our Moon
is some gigantic hollow
spaceship
that's been put into a special
orbit around our planet,
and contains cities and
structures
that are inside and outside
of the Moon
is to me
a very reasonable assertion.
And in fact it would seem to be
that our Moon
is some kind of gigantic
artificial spaceship
that is here
to monitor our planet.
NOORY: Would I discount
the fact that the Moon
is a foreign object,
a spaceship, a Death Star?
I don't think
you can rule that out.
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the Moon
is actually a spacecraft?
And might it have allowed
extraterrestrials
to discreetly monitor
our planet?
But if so, might these beings
still be there today?
NARRATOR: November 1966.
Three years before the Apollo
astronauts made it to the Moon,
the Orbiter 2 spacecraft
situates itself in lunar orbit.
It was designed to capture
high-resolution images
of the surface to assist with
the selection of landing sites
for the Apollo missions.
One image in particular catches
the eye of researchers,
as it shows what appear
to be the shadows
of several pointed spires.
WILCOCK: On November 20, 1966,
the Lunar Orbiter 2,
NASA's probe,
photographs this area
on the Moon
that was actually
in the Sea of Tranquility,
only 300 kilometers away
from where Apollo 11
ended up landing.
And, what's so bizarre is that
this area
has undeniable architecture that
looks like what you would see
from obelisks.
There's eight different spires.
And scientists calculated that
the largest of these spires
would be an obelisk that
is 15 stories tall.
These do appear to be just like
an Egyptian-style obelisk.
But, what the heck are they
doing on the Moon?
TSOUKALOS: Of the multiple
anomalies on the Moon,
I think the spires are some of
the most fascinating ones
because astronomers
have calculated
that these spires are very tall
for them to be exclusively
natural occurrences.
BARA:
They have to be artificial,
simply from the fact that
the Moon has been bombarded
in kind of
an incessant meteoric rain
for 4.5 billion years.
There is no way that anything
bigger than a basketball
can be standing straight up
on the lunar surface.
(indistinct radio
communications)
BUTLER: The inference is that
NASA would have known this
and that one of the reasons that
they sent their mission there
was so that the astronauts
of the Apollo mission
could gain more information
about these
artificial structures
on the Moon.
(indistinct radio
communications)
ASTRONAUT: CAPCOMM, we're a go
for undocking.
CAPCOMM: Roger, Eagle, undock.
BARA: On Apollo 11, when the
astronauts were descending
to the lunar surface,
they got this very strange
computer alarm.
MISSION CONTROL: The 1202 alarm.
- CAPCOMM 1: 1202.
- CAPCOMM 2: 1202 alarm.
BARA:
The famous 1202 computer alarm.
(stammers) Basically, nobody
knew what it was.
What it came out to, um,
was that the computer itself
was overwhelmed with information
because Buzz Aldrin,
the lunar module pilot,
had turned on the radars
on the lunar lander.
It had two radars...
It had a side looking radar
and it had a docking radar.
So, in other words,
you had one that pointed down
and one that pointed
to the side.
Now, if there's nothing
on the surface of the Moon,
if there are
no artificial structures,
if there are no spires sticking
ten, 20 stories up into the sky,
why would you turn on
the side radar?
There's no reason to,
but Aldrin did it.
And, I think it's because
he knew and NASA knew
that there was some danger
of running into these things.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
NASA actually has knowledge
of structures on the Moon?
In 1960, NASA officials
commissioned a report
from the Brookings Institute
to weigh the implications
of the discovery of evidence
of extraterrestrial life.
Due to the findings
of the report,
researchers believe
it was determined
before the Moon missions to keep
any extraterrestrial findings
hidden from the public
for fear of social unrest.
Since the time of the very first
Apollo Moon missions,
researchers have pored
over NASA and Russian photos
of the Moon looking
for structures.
And they found
some unusual things.
You would think, in fact,
that if extraterrestrials
are on the Moon or were,
that they would have built
all kinds of structures.
And we're able
to see some of these,
even though NASA scientists
don't acknowledge
them as genuine.
NARRATOR:
But perhaps as intriguing
as the various structures seen
on the surface of the Moon
are the numerous reports
of lights
and other unexplainable
activity.
Intermittent reflections
emanating from the lunar surface
have been observed
for more than a century,
including by famed astronomer
Francis Bailey
in 1835.
And the phenomenon was also
reported by the Apollo 11 crew.
BUZZ ALDRIN:
The windows are all dark.
And that's when I began seeing
a flash and a streak
and another flash.
Flicker flashes we called them.
Kept seeing them.
And I said,
"You guys see anything unusual?
You see any flashes?"
Neil said,
"Yeah, I saw about 100 of them."
"How about you, Mike?"
"Nah, I didn't see a thing."
Any deep analysis by the crew as
to what the hell it was?
No. (Chuckles)
'Cause we were,
we were on our way home.
Let's, let's let somebody else
worry about that.
WILCOCK: These things were
actually disclosed by NASA
in their own transient lunar
anomalies catalog
showing lights moving around,
showing puffs of smoke,
showing things that should not
be there on the Moon's surface,
all of which suggests that there
is, in fact, a very thriving
extraterrestrial community
living on the Moon today.
NARRATOR: Might there not only
be structures
on the lunar surface
but also unidentified activity?
Activity that might point
to current extraterrestrial
occupation of the Moon?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
and suggest that further
evidence may be found
on the dark side of the Moon.
NARRATOR: The Moon is the most
visible celestial body
in the night sky.
But we only ever see one side
as it is in synchronous rotation
with Earth,
meaning it takes just as long to
rotate around its own axis
as it does to complete
its orbit around our planet.
Therefore,
we can only observe one side,
and up to 41% of the Moon's
surface is never seen.
The Moon is in what we call
synchronous rotation
with the Earth.
That is that the effect
of the gravity of the Earth
and the Moon means that the Moon
only shows us one side,
its one face, the face that
we're all familiar with.
PAUL DAVIES: The reason for this
is because when two objects
get close enough to each other,
they do become
so-called phase-locked
in that manner.
It means it presents
the same face to the Earth
the whole time.
BRANDENBURG:
Because of the tidal locking
of the Moon's rotation,
it presents the same face.
And of course this leads
to speculation
because this creates
a perfect place
to create large installations
on the Moon
that are not directly observable
from Earth.
Hypothetically,
the far side of the Moon,
it's an excellent place
to put up bases.
And that has been a fixture
of a lot of science fiction.
SALLA: There have been
whistle-blowers that say that
they've been taken to a base,
which is called
Lunar Operations Command,
on the far side of the Moon
and that this base
is part of a network of bases
on the far side of the Moon
that are run by various
secret space programs
and extraterrestrial
civilizations.
The Apollo missions have taken
surveillance photographs
of the Moon's surface and some
of the photographs
have shown what
appear to be structures.
NARRATOR: Could it be that
there are active bases
on the far side of the Moon?
Not only secret military bases,
but extraterrestrial bases
as well?
And if so, what would happen if
the full truth about the Moon
was finally revealed
to the general public?
CHILDRESS: Ultimately when the
truth of the origin of the Moon
and what is going on
in the Moon,
and-and structures on the Moon,
and perhaps even occupation of
the Moon is revealed to humans
on Earth, it will be a
shattering of our reality.
And we'll be able
to look up in the sky
and see what is an
extraterrestrial object
in orbit around our planet.
And we'll know it
for what it is.
HENRY: There's not a single
scientifically valid reason
not to think that it's
an extraterrestrial spacecraft
brought here
by extraterrestrial beings
in order to assist humankind.
For some,
that's a terrifying thought.
NARRATOR: Did the Apollo
astronauts encounter
more on the surface of the Moon
than was publicly revealed?
Might there have been evidence
of colonization,
or even that the Moon itself
is an artificial object?
And could this be
why we stopped going back?
Perhaps the upcoming
Moon missions,
the first in over four decades,
will finally reveal
the full truth
about this
mysterious celestial body
and also about our
extraterrestrial past.
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