Man On Moon: We Saw a UFO (Buzz Aldrin)

UK Daily Record ^ | 24 July 2006 | Mike Swain

[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.

[AdmSmith]

;-)

[RegulatorCountry]

"Must have been Elijah Muhammed's Mother Ship..."

Nah, that's still circling the planet Platoon (known to us infidels as Pluto).

[Maceman]

Now you've done it. My nipples are getting hard.

[50sDad]

"Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!"

[Renegade]

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 .

[Jimnorwellwarren]

I think Art is no doubt more occupied with terrestrial concerns: specifically his new bride from Manila.

[3dognight]

Drugs did that back then. We don't see them now due to proper refining...

They didn't call him "BUZZ" for nothing!!!

[50sDad]

Did he see the metal munching moon mice?

That trick never works!

[Asclepius]

Man On Moon: We Saw a UFO

Apparently "we" were not carefully monitoring "our" oxygen levels at the time.

[js1138]

... 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.

[Americanexpat]

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.

[50sDad]

Red Lectoids! Evil incarnate from across the Eighth Dimension!

[Hildy]

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.

[Hildy]

By the way, the above post is a poor attempt at humor.

[ichabod1]

Actually, I thought they saw them lined up on a nearby ridgeline, watching them. And at some point we were warned off.

[xenophiles]

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.

[ichabod1]

Good thing I saw your retraction. I was going to remark that, pink elephants aside, drinking doesn't generally produce hallucinations.

[Conan the Librarian]

the REAL item they saw:

[50sDad]

Make your time.

[houeto]

Been looking at some NASA video over the past several weeks ....

...on the net?