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Man On Moon: We Saw a UFO (Buzz Aldrin)
UK Daily Record ^
| 24 July 2006
| Mike Swain
Posted on 07/25/2006 11:13:09 AM PDT by wagglebee
THE first men to walk on the Moon reported seeing a UFO, a new TV documentary reveals.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon's surface after Neil Armstrong, says space agency bosses covered up their sighting.
And the Apollo 11 astronauts were also careful not to talk about it openly.
He said: "There was something out there, close enough to be observed, and what could it be?
"Now, obviously the three of us weren't going to blurt out, 'Hey, Houston, we've got something moving alongside of us and we don't know what it is, you know?
"Can you tell us what it is?'
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"We weren't about to do that, because we knew that that those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and somebody might have demanded we turn back because of aliens or whatever the reason is."
The documentary, tonight on Five, also reveals that the astronauts had to repair the lunar module with a ballpoint pen after the historic landing in July 1969.
In the cramped conditions, someone's bulky spacesuit had snapped off a circuit breaker essential for starting up the engine.
To this day, Aldrin treasures the everyday object that saved their lives.
He said: "I used a pen, one of several that we had on board that didn't have metal on the end, and we used that to push the circuit breaker in."
The programme also draws on classified documents made public for the first time.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; apollo11; artbell; buzzaldrin; drugs; et; ets; extraterrestrials; fringe; moon; nasa; ohsomysteriouso; space; tinfoil; ufo; ufos; wackos
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To: PeterPrinciple
To: COBOL2Java
"Must have been Elijah Muhammed's Mother Ship..."
Nah, that's still circling the planet Platoon (known to us infidels as Pluto).
To: ChadGore
Now you've done it. My nipples are getting hard.
103
posted on
07/25/2006 12:04:53 PM PDT
by
Maceman
(This is America. Why must we press "1" for English?)
To: Carl LaFong
"Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!"
104
posted on
07/25/2006 12:05:15 PM PDT
by
50sDad
(ST3d: Real Star Trek 3d Chess: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes/tactical.htm)
To: MJemison
Did the same thing on the 88' Wrangler . Ran the battery down twice trying to start it . THEN, I remembered my dad propping open the carb with a screwdriver on a 52 Pontiac. Stuck in the pen and instant ignition .
To: Fudd Fan
I think Art is no doubt more occupied with terrestrial concerns: specifically his new bride from Manila.
To: edcoil
Drugs did that back then. We don't see them now due to proper refining...
They didn't call him "BUZZ" for nothing!!!
To: windsorknot
Did he see the metal munching moon mice? That trick never works!
108
posted on
07/25/2006 12:08:15 PM PDT
by
50sDad
(ST3d: Real Star Trek 3d Chess: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes/tactical.htm)
To: wagglebee
Man On Moon: We Saw a UFO
Apparently "we" were not carefully monitoring "our" oxygen levels at the time.
109
posted on
07/25/2006 12:08:24 PM PDT
by
Asclepius
(protectionists would outsource our dignity and prosperity in return for illusory job security)
To: jiggyboy
... a tripod and an open shutter on the moon at night would get you pictures of stars. My point is, however, that photographs taken by astronauts do not show stars. That was the original context of my statement. The point is that the UFO seen by the astronauts would not likely show up on any photographs. Unless it was close enough or large enough to be identified.
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posted on
07/25/2006 12:08:46 PM PDT
by
js1138
(Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
To: PsyOp
They did. I saw it on a documentary. The astronaut in the ship took a video shot of something shooting out of a moon crater. Pretty interesting.
111
posted on
07/25/2006 12:09:46 PM PDT
by
Americanexpat
(A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
To: samson1097
Red Lectoids! Evil incarnate from across the Eighth Dimension!
112
posted on
07/25/2006 12:10:02 PM PDT
by
50sDad
(ST3d: Real Star Trek 3d Chess: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes/tactical.htm)
To: wagglebee
As someone in recovery, I hate to bring this up, but Buzz Aldrin is a self-admitted alcoholic, sober for about twenty years...so he says.
113
posted on
07/25/2006 12:10:09 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: Hildy
By the way, the above post is a poor attempt at humor.
114
posted on
07/25/2006 12:11:06 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: Renegade
Actually, I thought they saw them lined up on a nearby ridgeline, watching them. And at some point we were warned off.
115
posted on
07/25/2006 12:11:18 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(I have to take a shower.)
To: ichabod1
You don't see stars on the moon in the daytime? The sky is just black? Did not know that.
Have you ever been to an outdoor stadium or amphitheatre on a clear night? The stars are still there, but they're hard to see when everything around is brightly illuminated. That's what happens on the moon in the daytime, where you find the clearest, darkest sky you've ever seen and the brightest sunlight you've ever seen at the same time.
To: Hildy
Good thing I saw your retraction. I was going to remark that, pink elephants aside, drinking doesn't generally produce hallucinations.
117
posted on
07/25/2006 12:13:43 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(I have to take a shower.)
To: wagglebee
the REAL item they saw:
118
posted on
07/25/2006 12:13:55 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: ichabod1
119
posted on
07/25/2006 12:14:12 PM PDT
by
50sDad
(ST3d: Real Star Trek 3d Chess: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes/tactical.htm)
To: Fighting Irish
Been looking at some NASA video over the past several weeks .......on the net?
120
posted on
07/25/2006 12:14:17 PM PDT
by
houeto
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