GC: Roger. Interesting. Very go to KILO KILO.
CMP: Hey, it’s gray now and the number one extends...
GC: Roger. We got it. And we copy that it’s all the way down there. Go to KILO KILO on that.
CMP: Mode is going to HM. Recorder is off. Lose a little communication there, huh? Okay, there’s Bravo Bravo, select OMNI. Hey, you know, you’ll never believe it. I’m right over the edge of Orientale. I just looked down and saw the lights flash again.
GC: Roger. Understand.
CMP: Right at the end of the rille.
GC: Any chance of...?
CMP: That’s on the EAST of Orientale.
GC: You don’t suppose it could be Vostok?595
CMP: I’ll be damned. I’ve got to mark that spot on the map!596
Many in the UFOlogy community have pointed to this transcript as an indication that the Apollo 17 astronauts on the lunar surface saw a UFO, and maintain that the reference to seeing the old Russian Vostok probe was simply a last minute attempt to cover-up something that had already gone out on the airwaves in the clear.
But this is not what interests us here. What interests us is the clear reference by the astronauts to switch to what are apparently secure frequencies for their communications. This clearly would imply that they saw something that did not belong there, although it need not be a UFO. Whatever they saw, it does not make much sense that they would have gone to secure frequencies merely to continue a conversation about the Russian Vostok probe.
Exactly what they might have seen may be indicated by the transcripts of a conversation held between mission Ground Control (designated CAPCOM here) and astronauts Duke and Young on the Moon’s surface:
DUKE: These devices are unbelievable. I’m not taking a GNOMON up there.
YOUNG: O.K., but man, that’s going to be a steep bridge (sic)597 to climb.
DUKE: You got YOWEE! Man John, I tell you this is some sight up here. Tony, the blocks in Buster are covered, the bottom is covered with blocks, five meters across. Besides, the blocks seem to be in a preferred orientation, northeast to southwest. They go all the way up the wall on those two sides and on the other side you can barely see the outcropping at about 5%. 90% of the bottom is covered with blocks that are 50cm and larger.
Blocks!?!? Wall!?!? As if this is not enough, the conversation becomes even stranger, if not even somewhat surreal:
YOUNG: Mark. It’s open.
DUKE: I can’t believe it!
YOUNG: And I put that beauty in dry!
CAPCOM: Dover. Dover. We’ll start EVA-2598 immediately.
DUKE: You’d better send a couple more guys up here. They’ll have to try (garbled)...
CAPCOM: Sounds familiar.599
As if a “wall” and “blocks” were not enough, during Apollo 17 there was this short exchange between astronaut Schmitt and Mission Control:
SCHMITT: I see tracks running right up the wall of the crater.
MISSION CONTROL: Your photo-path runs directly between Pierce and Pease. Pierce Brava, go Bravo, Whiskey, Whiskey, Romeo.600
Wilson’s commentary on these codes — Bravo Bravo, Kilo Kilo, and so on — is highly illuminating:
Mission control from time to time gave orders to the astronauts in some unusual terms, seemingly whenever an unusual sighting was taking place, directing them to Go to Whiskey Whiskey or Barbara Barbara or Bravo Bravo or Kilo Kilo. Interestingly, there is an ICBM base in Montana by the name of Kilo Kilo. Could NASA have used this base’s radio equipment to filter out through this prearranged private channel anything NASA did not want the public to know? Shockingly, WHISKEY WHISKEY, BARBARA BARBARA, and BRAVO BRAVO are also bases in the West.601
In my previous book The SS Brotherhood of the Bell I speculated on the possibility that there are in fact two space programs, an overt one, and a covert one wrapped up inside the public one.602 If Wilson’s statements here are correct, then it is one more indicator that the two space programs hypothesis is true, and it is a solemn reminder that mankind’s presence on the Moon in the form of the Apollo missions may have had another agenda altogether, one well-hidden from the public. We will return to this theme of two space programs and a hidden agenda in a subsequent chapter.
4. Apollo 18 and 19
Perhaps the strangest anomaly of them all is the fact that, having spent so much time, treasure, and thought on reaching the Moon, the last two Apollo missions were suddenly and by any account mysteriously cancelled. Altogether, there were supposed to have been ten lunar flights, and the Apollo 18 and 19 rockets were “already paid for and the astronauts trained and raring to go.”603 Why then were these already-paid for missions scrubbed? The standard explanation has always been that the final four Apollo missions were cancelled for budgetary reasons. But this cannot be the explanation for canceling Apollo 18 and 19 for these, as has been noted, were already paid for. Some other reason must lie at the core of the mystery, but whatever it is, the American government and NASA are not talking. Perhaps, as some UFOlogists assert, we were “warned” not to return by someone who did not like our presence there. Or perhaps, too, we found whatever it was we were looking for.
5. Leaping on the Moon: an Esoteric Symbolism
Prior to the Apollo missions, it was an item of popular discussion to imagine the fantastic athletic feats that man could accomplish on the moon. Why, in 1/6th the gravity, a 180 pound man would weigh only 30 pounds. He would be able to leap much taller, run faster and farther, hit golf balls off the tee for a mile. This line of discussion was hammered home in children’s Weekly Readers in schools, in television and film documentaries, in science fiction movies and novels, on late night talk show monologues and in almost every way conceivable. By the time of the Apollo missions, we were well-prepared to see some truly stupendous things.
But as William Brian II notes, we saw no such fantastic feats as we were glued to our television sets watching Apollo astronauts on mission after mission leaping around on the lunar surface.
Even with the astronaut gear....(Apollo 16 astronaut John Young) should have been able to jump over six feet off the ground if the Moon had one-sixth of the Earth’s gravity. In actuality, his efforts lifted him at most 18” off the ground.... Observations...indicated that Young made several attempts to jump as high as he could but with no success in achieving a height of more than 18 inches.604
This fact corroborates the implications of Von Braun’s statement concerning the neutral point of gravity between the Earth and the Moon, indicating yet again that the gravity of the Moon is much more than the public has been told.
And this in turn has led some revisionists to maintain that the entirety of the Apollo missions were hoaxed and done on a television mock-up set. But in fact, the small heights achieved by the leaping astronauts on all those Apollo landings in my opinion is a strong indicator that we went, and that, in this instance at least, NASA concealed nothing. Had NASA wished to hoax the missions on a television stage or film set, it is hardly likely that it would have overlooked the obvious implications of leaps from astronauts that were far too short for a Moon with 1/6th the gravity of the Earth. So why the leaping at all? Why show everyone on Earth in the plainest possible fashion that the Moon is a much more massive object than our pre-Apollo science had led us to believe?
I believe in part that the answer to this lies in the fact that, if the Moon is more massive, then the likelihood of us getting off the Moon by means of the small rockets on the Lunar Excursion Module is very small. Rockets may have been adequate to the task of getting us there, but if, as our and the Soviets’ earlier probe failures had already indicated, the Moon’s gravity was already known to be more massive, then the leaping is a subtle but nevertheless definite signal that some other technology may have been in play in getting us off the Moon.605
But there may be another message altogether in the leaping exercises of the astronauts on the Moon, a message heavy with esoteric significance: leaping is associated with Mars, the “Great
Leaping One” of so much esoteric literature. Indeed, the imperial Roman Salii priests who celebrated Rome’s founding relationship with Mars did so by blowing trumpets and leaping.606 So perhaps the leaping of the astronauts is designed to convey both a scientific significance, and a ritual one. In this respect, it has often been pointed out that many of the Apollo astronauts were Masons, and actually took Masonic regalia with them on their Moon missions to perform Masonic rites on the lunar surface, rites that were never broadcast to the public. And as Face-on-Mars exponent Richard C. Hoagland has often pointed out, many of the space missions of NASA are oddly scheduled so as to fulfill certain astrological and celestial alignments.
It is not only the behavior of the Moon that is odd, it is also the behavior of our astronauts on it.
C. LTPs: Lunar Transient Phenomena and the Pre-Apollo Top Secret Telescope Program
Anomalous behavior has been observed about the Moon ever since man first trained telescopes on it and began keeping accurate records of observations. One of the strangest facts about the Moon are the surface features that are there at one time, and not at another, or which disappear slowly over time, or conversely, emerge over time. One of the most famous instances is the case of the disappearing crater named Linne. First observed by the German astronomer Johann Schroeter in 1843, Linne was estimated to be some six miles in diameter and approximately 1200 feet deep. During the course of several years’ observations and careful lunar map-making, Schroeter eventually saw Linne disappear almost completely.607
Other astronomers have periodically reported seeing lights in the crater Plato, which then disappear, only to reappear again some time later. Other such changing phenomena, called Lunar Transient Phenomena or LTPs for short, are inexplicable changes in the color of the Moon’s surface, dark spots that appear and disappear, and so on.
Then came 1953 and famed astronomer and selenologist Dr. H. P. Wilkins’s, of “domes” that began to appear on the surface of the Moon. This was not the only problem. Wilkins also noted
That their number had been increasing rapidly. Similar reports were made by many expert observers. Wilkins could not explain their sudden appearance. Neither could other astronomers, for the newly discovered domes were near the limits of telescopic resolution, and the blurred features prevented positive conclusions. However, something was definitely responsible for the appearance of more then 200 strange domes. 608
Indeed, as author David Hatcher Childress points out in his book Extraterrestrial Archeology, one of Apollo 15’s precise mission objectives was for the astronauts to “describe the domes in the mare material and their probable origin.”609
An Example of a Lunar Dome, Visible just above the Arrow in the Crater toward the top center of the picture.
The observation of these domes and other transient phenomena by such respected astronomers and Wilkins apparently set off some sort of alarm in the intelligence corridors of Washington DC, for the Pentagon shortly thereafter began various programs to have the larger telescopes, such as at Mount Palomar, photograph the surface of the Moon in detail. These studies were classified Top Secret.610 Lunar anomalies had become subject to national security guidelines.611 The year 1953 is significant, of course, for being the year following the infamous Washington DC, US Capitol UFO Flap of 1952, in which UFOs were seen on radar by American military personnel, seen visually over the US capital city, and chased by scrambled American Air Force fighter jets. This activity came at the end of a major period of UFO activity dating from just before the end of World War Two, with the famous “Foo Fighter” incidents over Nazi Germany in late 1944, to the period immediately surrounding the Kenneth Arnold and Roswell episodes of 1947.
Thus, when Lunar Transient Phenomena suggestive of an artificial origin, like “domes,” were observed, catalogued, and reported by someone of Wilkin’s prestige, and confirmed by other reputable astronomers from all over the world, the American military, nerves already on edge with endless UFO activity, was bound to sit up and take notice. Since 1953, as author Daniel Ross observes,
The National Security Agency had been behind the official censorship of information concerning UFOs, and now it was equally necessary for them to clamp down security regarding any proof of alien operations on the Moon. By 1954, the guidelines and restrictions were set, regarding any photographic studies or announcements by the big observatories concerning the Moon.... Planetary studies of the Moon, Mars, and Venus, that had the capability of disproving the uninhabitable theories, were now a matter of national security.612
In other words, any data or information that indicated that Earth’s closest neighbors might be inhabited had to be suppressed. But there is more to this agenda than just this, for it also meant that any data that suggested planetary environments on Earth’s nearest neighbors even remotely conducive to habitability had also to be suppressed. And one must assume that the subsequent recommendations of the Brookings Report to withhold any evidence of past habitation on those planets also fell under that 1953 national security rubric.
Against this backdrop the strange coded language of some of the Apollo transmissions previously cited makes sense, for it is indicative of the same types of security protocols in place on the Apollo missions as were present in the telescopic studies and mappings of the 1950s. And that in turn would mean that they did indeed see “something” up there.
Following the same line of reasoning, it would perhaps also fall within the brief of these intelligence agencies to suppress any evidence of an interplanetary war that once occurred on these planets, for such evidence would also imply the existence of a technology. And perhaps this, ultimately, is the reason for the hidden military presence throughout the space program.
D. Shards, Octagons, Craters, and Towers versus “Incessant Meteoric Bombardment”
The surface of the Moon boasts a number of features suggestive of an artificial origin for themselves, and possibly for the Moon as a whole.
One of the strangest of these is the so-called “Shard” located south west of the Sinus Medii region of the Moon. The photo is from the Lunar Orbiter frame III-84M. The shadow of the object is clearly visible extending from the bottom of the structure to the lower right hand comer of the picture. The strange “star-like’ light on the top of the structure is a camera registration mark and not actually a part of the structure.
The Sinus Medii “Shard” on the Moon
However, why call this strange object a “structure” at all? For one thing, it stretches some one and a half miles above the surface of the Moon. It is, in other words, enormous. But the fact that it is there are all raises certain questions. According to the standard model, the Moon is supposedly subjected to an unceasing rain of meteors, a “bombardment” that would batter down sharp edges and jagged mountains into smooth, rounded hills over the billions of years the Moon has existed. Yet, there it stands, with its strangely regular “twisted” or “spiral” geometry. The object not only exists, in spite of this unceasing meteoric rain, but it has preserved some apparently basic, structural geometry.
Yet another odd feature not explainable by the standard “meteoric bombardment” model are the presence on the surface of the Moon of craters and other oddly rectilinear formations, formations almost impossible to explain on the basis of natural geological processes, much less those of meteoric bombardment. For example, how would one explain the origin of the oddly rectilinear polygons in the following photograph?
Note in particular the two very tiny pyramidal like objects in the left center of the picture. But most importantly, how would one explain the octagonal “crater” toward the bottom center? The meteoric bombardment is obvious from the picture. By the same token however, the rectilinear polygon shapes of some of these “craters” suggests the presence of an underlying structure and order.
Similar rectilinear structure is found in the following photo.
“Pie Slice” on the Moon
Note the pie “slice” cut to the left center
of the picture, the “tower” like object immediately above it, and the two “double craters” to the right side of the picture. Again, meteoric bombardment over billions of years should have obliterated such features long ago. And no known geological mechanism would seem to account for such neat and precise regularity. The presence of such features once again seems to suggest an artificial origin.
1. Various Explanations for Shallow Craters
But even the vast majority of craters on the Moon which obviously are the result of the impact on its surface of space debris have a problem. Depending on the size and velocity of the meteor, the impact crater it leaves behind will vary in the depth of the crater. Thus, one would expect that the largest craters would have, by comparison, a relatively greater depth. Thus, the most familiar feature of the Moon, its many craters, some of them quite large, are ironically the most anomalous features of them all, octagons, pyramids, domes, shards and pie slices notwithstanding.
Despite their fantastic size, even the largest gaping holes are surprisingly shallow. Craters fifty, even one hundred miles in diameter are no more than a mere two to three miles deep... Even conservative estimates by scientists indicate that meteors 10 miles or more in diameter should have penetrated the Moon surface to a depth of 4 or 5 times that diameter; yet the deepest Moon crater we know about (the Gagarin Crater) is 186 miles across but less than 4 miles deep. The conclusion that some scientists drew is that there is something extremely tough and strong under the shallow lunar surface, beneath the thin layers of rock and dirt covering this mysterious sphere, that prevented deep holes.613
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