I smell major UFO BS.
C’mon Buzz - you did us all a favor when you thumped the idiot who claimed you never walked on the moon.
Don’t go over to the dark side of conspiracy/UFO nuts.
Waitaminnit... if the moon landing was really faked and filmed in the Arizona desert, maybe it was close to Area 51 and he just saw the captured space aliens ship from the Roswell crash! Yeah, that’s it! Proof the moon landing was faked! Bwah hah hah hah!
Buzz didn’t mention it when I went to see him speak last year. He talked for over an hour.
So that’s why they call him “Buzz.”
I did like the irony that the rotating FR ad banner I got on this thread was the Dark Side of the Moon looking one.
Do we have a real source quoting Aldrin on this and not just some paranormal site? If it is true he said this to this Bolivian journalist, knowing good old Buzz’s history with kooks, he may have been pulling his chain. (Buzz is the guy that clocked a moon landing conspiracy theorist).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU
Jeez, people, read the story...Aldrin himself hasn’t said a word.
A BOLIVIAN journalist says he said it. I know when I want to share Earth shattering news, I head to Bolivia.
Let’s examine this logically. Buzz wanted to tell someone, but he knew he shouldn’t.
Should he a: tell the “mainstream” media and get a reward commiserate with the risk...
or should he b: tell some unknown jackass in a third world country, thus risking everything for well...nothing.
I think it is safe to say Buzz Aldrin never said these words to this journalist, else he would have said it to someone a little more prominent, or kept his mouth shut entirely.
And you made it because Orion needs slave girls, not middle aged engineers.
He has been saying this for decades.
Last year I saw Aldrin on a show about the moon landing. He seemed quite the joker.
UFO “B” LEVEL PING.
Buzz has been quoted off and on. This is a fascinating article given some other details.
There’s a snide insinuation up thread about alcohol or drugs . . . I don’t know about the validity of that.
However, I could understand a person of his experience, training and education being told to keep such an event quiet . . . feeling extremely frustrated and disgusted . . . if not angry and anguished. Often such feelings lead to alcohol abuse.
There are sufficient Apollo astronauts on record now, it’s no longer an issue as to whether such occurred. Only ignorant, clueless, willfully blind folks disbelieve them.
Or perhaps those too terrified and paranoid to face the truth.
ML/NJ
Ridiculing those who take UFO reports seriously is, well, foolish. Check out The Edwards Incident. I believe the date was October 7, 1965. F-106. Phoenix. “Something happenin’ here....”
I think not.
Alien 1: “Oh, look ... they’ve finally figured out how to travel off of their planet.”
Alien 2: “Puh-leeeze. They only made it as far as their moon. Stoopid Hoomans.”
How is this news?
There was a discovery channel show where Aldrin talked about the UFO they saw on their way to the moon, with actual recording of their radio call to NASA about it
Like he was actually ever anywhere near the moon ...
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