by Mike Bara
ANCIENT
ALIENS
ON THE
MOON
Adventures Unlimited Press
Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge these special souls who helped,
loved and or supported me during the writing of this book: Shana
Eva Paredes, Sherri Gaston, Neena Dolwani, my publisher David
Hatcher Childress, Melissa Thompson, Alan Pezzuto, Sean David
Morton, Denise Zak, my brother Dave and Bailey, and my little
lights The Lady Aurora and Miss Fluffy-Muffy
ANCIENT
ALIENS
ON THE
MOON
MIKE BARA
Ancient Aliens on the Moon
by Mike Bara
Copyright 2012
ISBN 13: 978-1-935487-85-2
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ANCIENT
ALIENS
ON THE
MOON
Adventures Unlimited Press
Dedication
This book is dedicated to Richard C. Hoagland,
Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin.
The original “Big 3” of Ancient Alien theorists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: EARLY OBSERVATIONS
CHAPTER 2: THE 20TH CENTURY
CHAPTER 3: SINUS MEDII
CHAPTER 4: TO THE MOON, ALICE!
CHAPTER 5: MARE CRISIUM
CHAPTER 6: WHO MOURNS FOR APOLLO?
CHAPTER 7: APOLLO 17
CHAPTER 8: CLEMENTINE,
TYCHO AND THE FACTORY
CHAPTER 9: THE ZIGGURAT, COPERNICUS
AND BEYOND THE INFINITE
EPILOGUE
INTRODUCTION
Our Moon is one mysterious place. It’s easy for us to forget that, to simply go about our daily business while only occasionally looking up and noticing that gray-white celestial body in the sky. Yet even though we don’t generally pay much attention to the Moon, it exerts a powerful influence over our planet, our oceans, our bodies, and perhaps even our consciousness. As I put it in my previous book The Choice:
…the Moon governs how fast the Earth spins, which is key to it being able to support human life. Without the Moon’s calming influence, the Earth would spin so fast that the winds caused by the centrifugal force would most likely flatten us all like pancakes. A day would last only a few hours, making photosynthesis a dicey proposition. The Moon also regulates and agitates the Earth’s protective magnetic field, which is so crucial to protecting us from high intensity solar flares and other types of deadly interstellar radiation. The Moon also just happens to be exactly the right size and exactly the right distance from the Earth to create perfect solar eclipses, a phenomenon where the disk of the Moon perfectly blots out the disk of the Sun. The diameter of the Moon also turns out to be 2,160 miles at the equator. It’s not 2,161 miles, or 2,159 miles across, but exactly 2,160 miles. And those 2,160 miles also just happen to match the 2,160 year length of each astrological Age of the precession of the equinoxes. Some people think this is all just a coincidence; that the Moon just happened to be ejected from the Earth by some random planetary collision or somehow wandered into Earth’s gravitational influence and stabilized in this perfect position from which it can protect us, regulate us, and even influence the female menstrual cycle.
I of course, do not agree that the Moon’s existence and its influence on our daily lives is coincidental. In fact, it is quite obvious to me that the Moon is here by design; that some larger hand is at work in its placement in our solar system. In The Choice, I examined the idea that this larger, unseen hand might be God, with a capital “G.” Here, in Ancient Aliens on the Moon, we’ll examine whether that unseen hand might be “gods,” with a lower case “g.”
To those of you that are skeptical, I warn you that there is quite a bit more evidence for this idea than you might suspect. Not only are there those previously mentioned numerical coincidences where the Moon is concerned, there is also quite a bit of what the military calls “ground truth” as well. This ground truth has been provided over the last generation by a veritable army of reconnaissance missions, both manned and unmanned, from orbit and from direct, on-site inspection by our NASA astronauts. A lot of you, unless you’ve read my first book Dark Mission–The Secret History of NASA, will find this information new to you. Others will recognize this information for what it is, confirmation that we are either not in fact alone in this universe, or that our history is not quite what you have been told in the books they gave us in school.
The truth is, while there is a ton of evidence of Ancient Alien intervention here on Earth, there is even more evidence on the Moon (and more yet on Mars, but that’s another book). The Ancient Alien theory, or the Ancient Astronaut theory as it used to be known, looks for evidence of extra-terrestrial (or supernatural) intervention in human history by examining ruins and mysteries here on Earth. The megalithic trilithons of Baalbek, the enduring mysteries of the great pyramids, the mathematical precision of Teotihuacán, the symbols of Nazca and the roadmap to human consciousness that is the Mayan ruins are all examples which the researchers have sought to decode and expose to the public. But in the course of this process, we have ignored the most obvious and perhaps the most easily confirmable evidence we have been shown. The ruins and mysteries that are revealed virtually right next door on our own celestial companion, the Moon.
This evidence consists of ruins and artifacts, buildings, instruments and vast industrial complexes in a place that according to all our conventional theories they simply cannot be – our Moon. Yet, as you will see in the images I’ll show you, these structures are there, defiantly upright in a place where they should have been ground to dust eons ago by the Moon’s unrelenting, incessant meteoric rain. Unless of course, they were somehow protected from that constant storm of meteors that bombard the Moon every day.
Not only will we prove that premise in the course of these pages, we will also ask some of the bigger questions it implies. All books, at their core, propose questions that they then seek to answer. The questions we need to keep in mind as we traverse these pages are these:
What did NASA find in their explorations of the solar system that they may have kept from the general public? In other words, did they find evidence of an advanced, extinct, extraterrestrial civilization on the Moon? And if they did, what was so destabilizing about them that they decided not to admit their discovery publically? The answer to those questions may surprise you, because it turns out NASA may have known all along that there were extraterrestrial ruins on the Moon, even before they went there. And I will show you that they even sought political and legal cover to justify keeping this critical ground truth from the American people, who after all paid for the missions—and from the world.
Next, we will look at just how truly ancient are these ruins on the Moon? I mean, if there were Ancient Aliens on Earth’s moon eons ago, what were they doing there? Somehow, I doubt it was just a vacation spot for passing Annunaki or Gray aliens. Once you get a grasp of just how vast and extensive the alien bases on the Moon really are, it will quickly follow that they must have been engaged in some kind of extremely important activity there. Where they somehow intervening in the development of life on Earth? And if so, how and when? Did these visitors simply observe us from afar, or did they step in, manipulate our genetic code, and improve our bodies to the point that we became modern man?
And did they dabble in other creatures’ genetic codes, producing most of the modern plants, animals and livestock we know today?
Lastly, we will ask the big question; if there are ancient ruins on the Moon, what happened to the builders of them? The answer to this one may explain the answers to the first two questions. It may lead to the inevitable conclusion that the Ancient Aliens didn’t simply pack up and leave; they may have been forced off the Moon, either by some conflict of unimaginable proportions, or by a natural calamity of the same dimensions. Either way, the answers to that question are bound to have created a ton of fear and trepidation inside the halls of NASA and at the highest levels of government.
But, all of those questions have to wait until we answer the first and most important question; just what the hell is on the Moon anyway?
CHAPTER ONE
EARLY OBSERVATIONS
One of the biggest problems with doing any kind of serious research about the Moon, whether it is of the mainstream variety or the more edgy stuff as in this book, is that nobody really knows much about the place. We know what we can see and have seen since the dawn of time; it always shows the same face to us (because of a condition called gravitational tidal-lock), it is made up of light stuff (highlands) and dark stuff (maria, or “seas” in Latin), it has a total land mass area roughly equivalent to the continents of Australia and Africa combined, and it also seems to have a profound physical effect on us here on Earth. Because of its gravitational influence, we have rising and receding tide. It both stimulates and regulates the strength of Earth’s magnetic field, which protects us from harmful solar flares and radiation. And, according to rogue geologist Jim Berkland, the Moon may play a significant role in the frequency of earthquakes, especially along the Pacific Rim. Beyond that, even the female menstrual cycle is governed by it to some degree (the term “menstruation” comes from the Latin mensis [month], which in turn comes from the Greek mené [moon]).1 And while mainstream scientists deny that it has any effect on our consciousness, ask any waitress or bartender if people behave differently under a full moon and they will tell you that fights and erratic behavior accelerate noticeably when the full moon is out. Even the terms “lunatic” and “lunacy” are derived from this anecdotal observation of human behavior, and it probably also gave rise to the early werewolf myths of the Middle Ages.
The Earth-Moon system, as seen by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The Moon also has an exceedingly uneven or “lumpy” gravitational field. While it is generally true that lunar gravity is about ⅙th that of Earth due to its much lower mass, there are also areas mostly on the Earth-facing side where the gravitational field is much stronger. These areas generally match up with the darker Maria, or seas, and are called “mascons” (for Mass Concentrations) because the gravity of the Moon is so much stronger there. Why the Mascons exist is something of a mystery. According to established theory, a topographic valley, or depression—which the maria generally are—should have what scientists call a “negative gravitational anomaly,” meaning that the gravitational field of the Moon is at least slightly weaker there. Instead, the gravitational field is much stronger, and as of the moment there is no really good explanation for this. Oh they’ve tried, blaming the mascons on the supposedly denser “basaltic lavas” the mare are supposedly made up of. But the vast mare sea Oceanus Procellarum is the biggest mare area on the Moon, and it has no mascon anomaly to speak of. All we can say for certain about the mascon basins is that there is something very dense beneath them, or something very powerful creating the gravitational anomalies.
Lunar mascon map showing mascons in the five of the largest “seas” on the Moon; Mare Imbrium, Mare Serenitatus, Mare Crisium, Mare Humorum and Mare Nectaris.
Over the centuries, the Moon has been known by many names. While we call it simply “the Moon” (taken from the old English “mone” or “mona”), ancient Germanic tribes called it “maenōn.”2 To the Greeks, it was known as “Selene” and to the Romans of course, “Luna,” as in the previously mentioned lunatic. In ancient Persia, the moon was known as Metra, the world mother, and to the Aztec tribes it was Mictecacuiatl, a fearsome beast which traveled the heavens looking for victims to consume.
Contrary to popular belief, there is no “dark side” of the Moon. Because of its constant motion in orbit around the Earth and its own constant 27 day synchronized spin, at some point in the month the entire lunar surface is exposed to the light. We’ve also discovered in fairly recent times that the maria, or dark stuff, seems to reside pretty much only on the side that constantly faces Earth. The backside, or dark side, if you must, has almost no maria-type seas. This is an enduring mystery, at least to the mainstream scientists, that this book may yet shed some light on.
The Moon is about ¼ the Earth’s diameter and about 1/81 its mass. The Moon is also the 5th largest satellite in the solar system, and the largest relative to its parent planet. There is no comparable arrangement of two such bodies anywhere in the observed universe. In fact, the Earth-Moon system is so unusual that science fiction author Isaac Asimov once referred to the arrangement as a “double planet.” The Moon is also the only major satellite in the solar system that the Sun actually has a stronger hold on than the parent planet. Using something Asimov called the “Tug of War” value, he found that the Earth’s gravitational pull on the Moon was less than half that of much farther away Sun:
We might look upon the Moon, then, as neither a true satellite of the Earth nor a captured one, but as a planet in its own right, moving about the Sun in careful step with the Earth. To be sure, from within the Earth-Moon system, the simplest way of picturing the situation is to have the Moon revolve about the Earth; but if you were to draw a picture of the orbits of the Earth and Moon about the Sun exactly to scale, you would see that the Moon’s orbit is everywhere concave toward the Sun. It is always “falling toward” the Sun. All the other satellites, without exception, “fall away” from the Sun through part of their orbits, caught as they are by the superior pull of their primary planets – but not the Moon.
— Isaac Asimov3,4
Exactly why this would be the case is unknown, but we can use it simply to reassure ourselves that the Moon – and its arrangement with the Earth, is very, very strange.
While the differences between the Earth and Moon are significant, there are also some unaccountable similarities that give rise to the question of just where the Moon came from in the first place. There are at least four competing mainstream theories for how the Moon ended up in orbit around our planet. Those theories are not only somewhat contradictory, there is at least some evidence to support each of them.
Back in the day, before we actually went to the Moon, the popular idea was something called the “Lunar Fission Theory.” First advanced in 1878 by George Howard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin, the Lunar Fission Theory argued that at some point in the past, the Earth had got to spinning so fast that it broke off or ejected a huge chunk of itself, which spiraled away and formed the companion body we see comfortably orbiting us today. The theory was that this chunk of the Earth’s mantle (the thick rocky layer just below the Earth’s crust, about 20-30 miles down) was somehow broken away in a violent episode, possibly caused by the Sun’s gravitational pull. In other words, sometime after the Earth cooled and assumed a solid form, a chunk of the Earth’s solid mass was somehow weakened, and then the sun pulled it off into a stable orbit about 240,000 miles out. The most popular location for all this material to have come from was the Pacific basin, a huge depression in the planet that at some places is as much as 35,000 feet deep and is wide enough to easily contain the entire continent of Africa. Since the Moon is about ¼th the size of the Earth, the Pacific basin could easily be the source of the rocky material necessary to create the Moon itself.
The Lunar Fission Theory would also neatly explain some of the enduring mysteries of the Moon. While the Moon is ¼th the size of the Earth, its gravity is, as I mentioned, only ⅙th that of
Earth. The discrepancy is accounted for by the fact that Moon has a much lower overall density and less mass. Being made up mostly of lighter materials normally found in the Earth’s crust or mantle (the layer right beneath the crust) the Moon also has a relatively tiny core. Only about 3 percent of the Moon is thought to be made up of a heavier nickel-iron core, whereas the Earth’s nickel-iron core makes up about 30 percent of its much greater mass.
If in fact the Moon was somehow spun off from the Earth itself, all of this would make sense. If the material required to make the Moon came from the lighter upper mantle of the Earth, then the Moon would obviously lack the heavier core elements that the Earth possesses. As the material that broke away collapsed and compressed, these heavier elements would sink to the middle and form the core. In fact, such an exotic composition is exactly what we would expect if the Lunar Fission Theory were substantially correct. However, there are three mechanical objections to the Lunar Fission Theory that would seem, on the surface anyway, to discredit it, at least to some degree.
General comparison chart of the Earth-Moon system.
The first objection to the fission theory is that the Earth-Moon system simply lacks the required angular momentum, or spin energy, for it to work. In order for a solid chunk of the Earth to break away in the equatorial region and spin off into space, the Earth-Moon system would have to have about twice as much of the spin energy it currently possesses. In order for the Earth to become unstable (and the resonant vibrations necessary to achieve fission to occur), a single day would have to have been about 3 hours long, rather than the current 24. Since angular momentum is assumed to be a constant, where did all this “missing” spin energy go?
