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20th July 2011, 11:34
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Is there an "Alien Base" on the Moon? More and more people are coming forward with
stories of an alien presence on the Moon. Rumors say that there is an Alien Moon Base
on the far side of the moon, the side we never see from Earth.
Did you ever wonder why the Moon landings stopped and why we have not tried to
build a Moon Base? It does seem like a better and easier idea than a floating space
station with no access to any raw materials or supplies? 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!
Sound far fetched? Milton Cooper, a Naval Intelligence Officer tells us that not only
does the Alien Moon Base exist but the U.S. Naval Intelligence Community refers to
the Alien Moon Base as "Luna," that there is a huge mining operation going on there,
and that is where the aliens keep their huge mother ships while the trips to Earth are
made in smaller "flying saucers".
LUNA: The Alien base on the far side of the Moon. It was seen and filmed by the
Apollo astronauts. A base, a mining operation using very large machines, and the very
large alien craft described in sighting reports as mother ships exist there. -Milton
Cooper
Did Apollo 11 Encounter UFOs on the Moon? from the Book "Above Top Secret" by
Timothy Good.
According to hitherto unconfirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz"
Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after their historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on 21
July 1969. I remember hearing one of the astronauts refer to a "light" in or on a carter
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: 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!
In 1979, Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems
confirmed that Armstrong had indeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater.
"The encounter was common knowledge in NASA," he revealed, "but nobody has
talked about it until now." Soviet scientists were allegedly the first to confirm the incident. "According to our
information, the encounter was reported immediately after the landing of the module,"
said Dr. Vladimir Azhazha, a physicist and Professor of Mathematics at Moscow
University. "Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large,
mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. But
his message was never heard by the public-because NASA censored it. "
According to another Soviet scientist, Dr. Aleksandr Kazantsev, Buzz Aldrin took color
movie film of the UFOs from inside the module, and continued filming them after he
and Armstrong went outside. Dr. Azhazha claims that the UFOs departed minutes after
the astronauts came out on to the lunar surface.
Maurice Chatelain also confirmed that Apollo 11's radio transmissions were interrupted
on several occasions in order to hide the news from the public. Before dismissing
Chatelain's sensational claims, it is worth noting his impressive background in the
aerospace industry and space program. His first job after moving from France was as an
electronics engineer with Convair, specializing in telecommunications, telemetry, and
radar. In 1959 he was in charge of an electromagnetic research group, developing new
radar and telecommunications systems for Ryan. One of his eleven patents was an
automatic flights to the Moon. Later, at North American Aviation, Chatelain was
offered the job of designing and building the Apollo communications and data-
processing systems.
Chatelain claims that "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." He goes on to
say:
"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."
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 by Otto Binder, Dr.
Garry Henderson and Maurice Chatelain that the astronauts were 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?
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 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! (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.
Armstrong confirmed that the story was true but refused to go into further detail,
beyond admitting that the CIA was behind the cover-up.
(thanks to BBS)
More information: Sensation: Cities Found on the Moon!
Reasonable activity of an alien civilization showed up unexpectedly close to us. We
were not ready for it psychologically
We still can come across publications trying to find an answer to the question: Are we
alone in the universe? At the same time, presence of reasonable creatures has been
detected just close to our home, in the Moon. However, the discovery was immediately
classified as secret, as it was so much incredible that even could shake the already
existing social principles, reports Russia's newspaper "Vecherny Volgograd."
Here is an extract from the official press-release:
“NASA scientists and engineers participating in exploration of Mars and Moon reported
results of their discoveries at a briefing at the Washington national press club on March
21, 1996. It was announced for the first time that man-caused structures and objects had
been discovered on the Moon.” The scientists spoke rather cautiously and evasively
about the functioning objects, with the exception of UFO. They always mentioned the man-caused objects as possible, and pointed out the information was still under study,
and official results would be published later.
It was mentioned at the briefing as well that the Soviet Union used to own some photo
materials proving presence of reasonable activity on the Moon. And although it wasn't
identified what kind of reasonable activity it was, thousands of photo-and video
materials photographed from the Apollos and the Clementine space station
demonstrated many parts on the lunar surface where the activity and its traces were
perfectly evident. The video films and photos made by U.S. astronauts during the
Apollo program were demonstrated at the briefing. And people were extremely
surprised why the materials hadn't been presented to the public earlier. And NASA
specialists answered: “It was difficult to forecast the reaction of people to the
information that some creatures had been or still were on the Moon. Besides, there were
some other reasons to it, which were beyond NASA.”
Specialist for lunar artifacts Richard Hoagland says that NASA is still trying to veil
photo materials before they are published in public catalogues and files, they do
retouching or partially refocus them while copying. Some investigators, Hoagland is
among them, suppose that an extraterrestrial race had used the Moon as a terminal
station during their activity on the Earth. The suggestions are confirmed by the legends
and myths invented by different nations of our planet.
Ruins of lunar cities stretched along many kilometers, huge transparent domes on
massive basements, numerous tunnels and other constructions make scientists
reconsider their opinions concerning the lunar problems. How the Moon appeared and
principles of its revolving around the Earth still pose a great problem for scientists.
Some partially destroyed objects on the lunar surface can’t be placed among natural
geological formations, as they are of complex organization and geometrical structure. In
the upper part of Rima hadley, not far from the place where the Apollo-15 had landed, a
construction surrounded with a tall D-shaped wall was discovered. As of now, different
artifacts have been discovered in 44 regions.
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Houston Planetary Institute and
specialists from the bank of space information are investigating the regions. Mysterious
terrace-shaped excavations of the rock have been discovered near the Tiho crater. The
concentric hexahedral excavations and the tunnel entry at the terrace side cant be results
of natural geological processes; instead, they look very much like open cast mines.
A transparent dome raised above the crater edge was discovered near the crater
Copernicus. The dome is unusual as it is glowing white and blue from inside. A rather
unusual object, which is unusual indeed even for the Moon, was discovered in the upper
part of the Factory area. A disk of about 50 meters in diameter stands on a square
basement surrounded with rhombi walls. In the picture, close to the rhombi, we can also
see a dark round embrasure in the ground, which resembles an entry in an underground
caponier. There is a regular rectangular area between Factory and the crater Copernicus
which is 300 meters wide 400 meters long.
Apollo 10 astronauts made a unique picture (AS10-32-4822) of a one-mile long object
called Castle, which is hanging at the height of 14 kilometers and casts a distinct shadow on the lunar surface. The object seems to be consisting of several cylindrical
units and a large conjunctive unit. Internal porous structure of the Castle is clearly seen
in one of the pictures, which makes an impression that some parts of the object are
transparent.
As it turned out at the briefing where many NASA scientists were present, when
Richard Hoagland had requested originals of the Castle pictures for the second time, no
pictures were found there at all. They disappeared even from the list of pictures made
by the Apollo 10 crew. Only intermediate pictures of the object were found in the
archives, which unfortunately donut depict the internal structure of the object.
When Apollo-12 crew landed on the lunar surface, they saw that the landing was
observed by a half-transparent pyramidal object. It was hanging just several meters
above the lunar surface and shimmered with all rainbow colors against the black sky.
In 1969, when the film about astronauts traveling to the Sea of Storms was
demonstrated (the astronauts saw the strange objects once again, which were later called
“striped glasses”), NASA finally understood what consequences such kind of control
could bring. Astronaut Mitchell answered the question about his feelings after a
successful return the following: “My neck still aches as I had to constantly turn my head
around because we felt we were not alone there. We had no choice but pray.” Johnston,
who worked at the Houston Space Center and studied photos and video materials done
during the Apollo program, discussed the artifacts with Richard Hoagland and said, the
NASA leadership was awfully annoyed with the great number of anomalous, to put it
mildly, objects on the Moon. It was even said that piloted flights to the Moon could be
banned in the programs network.
Investigators are especially interested in ancient structures resembling partially
destroyed cities. The orbital shooting reveals an astonishingly regular geometry of
square and rectangular constructions. They resemble our terrestrial cities seen from the
height of 5-8 kilometers. A mission control specialist commented on the pictures: “Our
guys observed ruins of the Lunar cities, transparent pyramids, domes and God knows
what else, which are currently hidden deep inside the NASA safes, and felt like
Robinson Crusoe when he suddenly came across prints of human bare feet on the sand
of the desert island.” What do geologists and scientists say after studying the pictures of
lunar cities and other anomalous objects? They say, such objects cant be natural
formations. “We should admit they are artificial, especially the domes and pyramids.”
Reasonable activity of an alien civilization showed up unexpectedly close to us. We
were not ready for it psychologically, and some people hardly believe they are true even
now.
Translated by Maria Gousseva
original source=http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/10/05/37771.html
UPDATED INFO: New crater revives Moon mystery
13:30 11 January 03 Special Report from New Scientist Print Edition
A mysterious flash on the Moon caught on camera 50 years ago is still provoking
disagreements about its origin. Astronomer Bonnie Buratti says her new results show
that the flash was caused by a 20-metre asteroid hitting the Moon.
If Buratti is right, such impacts may be more frequent than thought-about once every 30
years on the Earth, and every 500 years on the Moon. But other asteroid watchers think
the flash was due to a small meteor burning up in Earth's atmosphere.
Amateur astronomer Leon Stuart's 1953 photograph of the Moon shows a light spot near
the centre of the Moon's visible surface. It would take a half-megaton explosion to
produce such a flash, says Buratti, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena.
The resulting crater would not be visible from Earth, but it should appear on close-ups
taken by lunar probes. In a future issue of the journal Icarus, Buratti reports a fresh
impact scar at the site of the 1953 flash on images collected by the Clementine
spacecraft as it orbited the Moon in 1994. A bright blanket of ejected material covers an
area that is about 1.5 kilometres across, and the colour of the debris indicates that the
crater is relatively new.
Point meteors
But the odds against such a big lunar impact are too long for Peter Brown of the
University of Western Ontario, who has used US military satellite data to estimate
meteor impact rates on the Earth.
"I think they are going too far," he told New Scientist. Instead, he believes that the flash
was a meteor falling to Earth, which appeared as a bright spot because it was moving
directly towards the observer.
Although such "point meteors" are rare, they are much more common than lunar
impacts. He is not impressed by the crater's appearance. "We have no absolute criteria"
for the age of lunar craters, he says. "'Fresh' could be 20 million years old."
Buratti calls Brown's claim "preposterous". She says Stuart was an experienced
observer, his half-second exposure shows no trace of motion, and the flash was near a
point on the leading edge of the Moon where impacts are most likely. "Our
identification of the crater validates Stuart's claim that it was an impact."
Jeff Hecht
More UFO Casebook Articles on the Moon...
"I Saw Structures on the Moon" (Karl Wolfe)
An Alien Moondome?
Sources:http://www.ronrecord.com/astronauts/mchatelain.html
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/moonbase.htm
http://www.ronrecord.com/astronauts/mchatelain.html
http://www.internationalnewsagency.org/us_astronauts_and_the_ufo_encoun.htm
http://www.debunker.com/texts/apollo11.html
http://www.ufodigest.com/nasa/index.html
Chatelain-www.unexplainable.net
Armstrong-www.space.com
farside of moon-www.mhhe.com/
aldrin-www.nndb.com
Is there an "Alien Base" on the Moon? More and more people are coming forward with
stories of an alien presence on the Moon. Rumors say that there is an Alien Moon Base
on the far side of the moon, the side we never see from Earth.
Did you ever wonder why the Moon landings stopped and why we have not tried to
build a Moon Base? It does seem like a better and easier idea than a floating space
station with no access to any raw materials or supplies? 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!
Sound far fetched? Milton Cooper, a Naval Intelligence Officer tells us that not only
does the Alien Moon Base exist but the U.S. Naval Intelligence Community refers to
the Alien Moon Base as "Luna," that there is a huge mining operation going on there,
and that is where the aliens keep their huge mother ships while the trips to Earth are
made in smaller "flying saucers".
LUNA: The Alien base on the far side of the Moon. It was seen and filmed by the
Apollo astronauts. A base, a mining operation using very large machines, and the very
large alien craft described in sighting reports as mother ships exist there. -Milton
Cooper
Did Apollo 11 Encounter UFOs on the Moon? from the Book "Above Top Secret" by
Timothy Good.
According to hitherto unconfirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz"
Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after their historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on 21
July 1969. I remember hearing one of the astronauts refer to a "light" in or on a carter
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: 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!
In 1979, Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems
confirmed that Armstrong had indeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater.
"The encounter was common knowledge in NASA," he revealed, "but nobody has
talked about it until now." Soviet scientists were allegedly the first to confirm the incident. "According to our
information, the encounter was reported immediately after the landing of the module,"
said Dr. Vladimir Azhazha, a physicist and Professor of Mathematics at Moscow
University. "Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large,
mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. But
his message was never heard by the public-because NASA censored it. "
According to another Soviet scientist, Dr. Aleksandr Kazantsev, Buzz Aldrin took color
movie film of the UFOs from inside the module, and continued filming them after he
and Armstrong went outside. Dr. Azhazha claims that the UFOs departed minutes after
the astronauts came out on to the lunar surface.
Maurice Chatelain also confirmed that Apollo 11's radio transmissions were interrupted
on several occasions in order to hide the news from the public. Before dismissing
Chatelain's sensational claims, it is worth noting his impressive background in the
aerospace industry and space program. His first job after moving from France was as an
electronics engineer with Convair, specializing in telecommunications, telemetry, and
radar. In 1959 he was in charge of an electromagnetic research group, developing new
radar and telecommunications systems for Ryan. One of his eleven patents was an
automatic flights to the Moon. Later, at North American Aviation, Chatelain was
offered the job of designing and building the Apollo communications and data-
processing systems.
Chatelain claims that "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." He goes on to
say:
"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."
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 by Otto Binder, Dr.
Garry Henderson and Maurice Chatelain that the astronauts were 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?
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 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! (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.
Armstrong confirmed that the story was true but refused to go into further detail,
beyond admitting that the CIA was behind the cover-up.
(thanks to BBS)
More information: Sensation: Cities Found on the Moon!
Reasonable activity of an alien civilization showed up unexpectedly close to us. We
were not ready for it psychologically
We still can come across publications trying to find an answer to the question: Are we
alone in the universe? At the same time, presence of reasonable creatures has been
detected just close to our home, in the Moon. However, the discovery was immediately
classified as secret, as it was so much incredible that even could shake the already
existing social principles, reports Russia's newspaper "Vecherny Volgograd."
Here is an extract from the official press-release:
“NASA scientists and engineers participating in exploration of Mars and Moon reported
results of their discoveries at a briefing at the Washington national press club on March
21, 1996. It was announced for the first time that man-caused structures and objects had
been discovered on the Moon.” The scientists spoke rather cautiously and evasively
about the functioning objects, with the exception of UFO. They always mentioned the man-caused objects as possible, and pointed out the information was still under study,
and official results would be published later.
It was mentioned at the briefing as well that the Soviet Union used to own some photo
materials proving presence of reasonable activity on the Moon. And although it wasn't
identified what kind of reasonable activity it was, thousands of photo-and video
materials photographed from the Apollos and the Clementine space station
demonstrated many parts on the lunar surface where the activity and its traces were
perfectly evident. The video films and photos made by U.S. astronauts during the
Apollo program were demonstrated at the briefing. And people were extremely
surprised why the materials hadn't been presented to the public earlier. And NASA
specialists answered: “It was difficult to forecast the reaction of people to the
information that some creatures had been or still were on the Moon. Besides, there were
some other reasons to it, which were beyond NASA.”
Specialist for lunar artifacts Richard Hoagland says that NASA is still trying to veil
photo materials before they are published in public catalogues and files, they do
retouching or partially refocus them while copying. Some investigators, Hoagland is
among them, suppose that an extraterrestrial race had used the Moon as a terminal
station during their activity on the Earth. The suggestions are confirmed by the legends
and myths invented by different nations of our planet.
Ruins of lunar cities stretched along many kilometers, huge transparent domes on
massive basements, numerous tunnels and other constructions make scientists
reconsider their opinions concerning the lunar problems. How the Moon appeared and
principles of its revolving around the Earth still pose a great problem for scientists.
Some partially destroyed objects on the lunar surface can’t be placed among natural
geological formations, as they are of complex organization and geometrical structure. In
the upper part of Rima hadley, not far from the place where the Apollo-15 had landed, a
construction surrounded with a tall D-shaped wall was discovered. As of now, different
artifacts have been discovered in 44 regions.
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Houston Planetary Institute and
specialists from the bank of space information are investigating the regions. Mysterious
terrace-shaped excavations of the rock have been discovered near the Tiho crater. The
concentric hexahedral excavations and the tunnel entry at the terrace side cant be results
of natural geological processes; instead, they look very much like open cast mines.
A transparent dome raised above the crater edge was discovered near the crater
Copernicus. The dome is unusual as it is glowing white and blue from inside. A rather
unusual object, which is unusual indeed even for the Moon, was discovered in the upper
part of the Factory area. A disk of about 50 meters in diameter stands on a square
basement surrounded with rhombi walls. In the picture, close to the rhombi, we can also
see a dark round embrasure in the ground, which resembles an entry in an underground
caponier. There is a regular rectangular area between Factory and the crater Copernicus
which is 300 meters wide 400 meters long.
Apollo 10 astronauts made a unique picture (AS10-32-4822) of a one-mile long object
called Castle, which is hanging at the height of 14 kilometers and casts a distinct shadow on the lunar surface. The object seems to be consisting of several cylindrical
units and a large conjunctive unit. Internal porous structure of the Castle is clearly seen
in one of the pictures, which makes an impression that some parts of the object are
transparent.
As it turned out at the briefing where many NASA scientists were present, when
Richard Hoagland had requested originals of the Castle pictures for the second time, no
pictures were found there at all. They disappeared even from the list of pictures made
by the Apollo 10 crew. Only intermediate pictures of the object were found in the
archives, which unfortunately donut depict the internal structure of the object.
When Apollo-12 crew landed on the lunar surface, they saw that the landing was
observed by a half-transparent pyramidal object. It was hanging just several meters
above the lunar surface and shimmered with all rainbow colors against the black sky.
In 1969, when the film about astronauts traveling to the Sea of Storms was
demonstrated (the astronauts saw the strange objects once again, which were later called
“striped glasses”), NASA finally understood what consequences such kind of control
could bring. Astronaut Mitchell answered the question about his feelings after a
successful return the following: “My neck still aches as I had to constantly turn my head
around because we felt we were not alone there. We had no choice but pray.” Johnston,
who worked at the Houston Space Center and studied photos and video materials done
during the Apollo program, discussed the artifacts with Richard Hoagland and said, the
NASA leadership was awfully annoyed with the great number of anomalous, to put it
mildly, objects on the Moon. It was even said that piloted flights to the Moon could be
banned in the programs network.
Investigators are especially interested in ancient structures resembling partially
destroyed cities. The orbital shooting reveals an astonishingly regular geometry of
square and rectangular constructions. They resemble our terrestrial cities seen from the
height of 5-8 kilometers. A mission control specialist commented on the pictures: “Our
guys observed ruins of the Lunar cities, transparent pyramids, domes and God knows
what else, which are currently hidden deep inside the NASA safes, and felt like
Robinson Crusoe when he suddenly came across prints of human bare feet on the sand
of the desert island.” What do geologists and scientists say after studying the pictures of
lunar cities and other anomalous objects? They say, such objects cant be natural
formations. “We should admit they are artificial, especially the domes and pyramids.”
Reasonable activity of an alien civilization showed up unexpectedly close to us. We
were not ready for it psychologically, and some people hardly believe they are true even
now.
Translated by Maria Gousseva
original source=http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/10/05/37771.html
UPDATED INFO: New crater revives Moon mystery
13:30 11 January 03 Special Report from New Scientist Print Edition
A mysterious flash on the Moon caught on camera 50 years ago is still provoking
disagreements about its origin. Astronomer Bonnie Buratti says her new results show
that the flash was caused by a 20-metre asteroid hitting the Moon.
If Buratti is right, such impacts may be more frequent than thought-about once every 30
years on the Earth, and every 500 years on the Moon. But other asteroid watchers think
the flash was due to a small meteor burning up in Earth's atmosphere.
Amateur astronomer Leon Stuart's 1953 photograph of the Moon shows a light spot near
the centre of the Moon's visible surface. It would take a half-megaton explosion to
produce such a flash, says Buratti, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena.
The resulting crater would not be visible from Earth, but it should appear on close-ups
taken by lunar probes. In a future issue of the journal Icarus, Buratti reports a fresh
impact scar at the site of the 1953 flash on images collected by the Clementine
spacecraft as it orbited the Moon in 1994. A bright blanket of ejected material covers an
area that is about 1.5 kilometres across, and the colour of the debris indicates that the
crater is relatively new.
Point meteors
But the odds against such a big lunar impact are too long for Peter Brown of the
University of Western Ontario, who has used US military satellite data to estimate
meteor impact rates on the Earth.
"I think they are going too far," he told New Scientist. Instead, he believes that the flash
was a meteor falling to Earth, which appeared as a bright spot because it was moving
directly towards the observer.
Although such "point meteors" are rare, they are much more common than lunar
impacts. He is not impressed by the crater's appearance. "We have no absolute criteria"
for the age of lunar craters, he says. "'Fresh' could be 20 million years old."
Buratti calls Brown's claim "preposterous". She says Stuart was an experienced
observer, his half-second exposure shows no trace of motion, and the flash was near a
point on the leading edge of the Moon where impacts are most likely. "Our
identification of the crater validates Stuart's claim that it was an impact."
Jeff Hecht
More UFO Casebook Articles on the Moon...
"I Saw Structures on the Moon" (Karl Wolfe)
An Alien Moondome?
Sources:http://www.ronrecord.com/astronauts/mchatelain.html
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/moonbase.htm
http://www.ronrecord.com/astronauts/mchatelain.html
http://www.internationalnewsagency.org/us_astronauts_and_the_ufo_encoun.htm
http://www.debunker.com/texts/apollo11.html
http://www.ufodigest.com/nasa/index.html
Chatelain-www.unexplainable.net
Armstrong-www.space.com
farside of moon-www.mhhe.com/
aldrin-www.nndb.com