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.
Secondly, I heard an audio clip on the 'net that is supposedly of the Apollo astronauts (might be Aldrin). The astronaut is saying "Houston, this is (call sign). We still have the alien spacecraft...uh, under observance.">
I'll try to find the link.
Yes, but those couple of people that landed on the moon have the very highest credibility, while the credibility of the general public is usually unknown, at least initially. However, many witnesses do turn out to have high credibility as well - that B-52 crew that was featured on the Jennings special comes to mind.
OTOH, if memory serves, I think most UFO specialists believe that over 90% of sightings have prosaic explanations - which still leaves a very large number of cases that cannot be explained.
It is a fascinating subject, and has the potential to be a good bit more than fascinating.
He was joking? Whew! Thank God for that...........!
Case in point:
I've seen some things...I know many people who have seen some things...And while no one I know claims that these things were piloted by aliens, the one thing we all agree on is that we know what these things were NOT...
64 1/2 whoud be a 170 6 banger, 65 would have been a 200. I've never heard of a Mustang with a 202ci engine, but if you say so.
A maw? Did you see its paw, too??
Just pay'em the treefiddy and they'll go away.
If'n it was a '64 1/2 Mustang, you had either a 170 inline-6 or a 260 V-8 (assuming it was original). There was an earlier V-8 used in the Falcon/Comet; the 221. For my '65 Mustang (Fastback), the engine options were the 200 inline-6 or one of three versions of the 289 V-8. The 289 was increased in displacement in '68, creating the Ford 302.
Obligatory on-topic content: In either one of the episodes of From the Earth To The Moon or in Apollo 13 (I forget which), there's a nighttime Space Coast "cruising" scene which includes a glimpse of a '65 Shelby Mustang in a drag race.
It's a bullsh*t question. The 1964 1/2 mustang came with a 170 inline 6 or a 260 V-8. I can't answer the question, because there was no such thing!
"The documentary, tonight on Five"
Sounds about right. For a trip down memory lane, check out FordSix.com.
Aldrin made these claims some time ago and has stuck to them...this is actually old news.
It's not clear what they saw but they saw something.
Everything is falling in zero G. Hence the term "freefall."
"I've seen some things...I know many people who have seen some things...And while no one I know claims that these things were piloted by aliens, the one thing we all agree on is that we know what these things were NOT..."
Yes, me too. Agreed. My first post is not affected by my agreement.
Proud MUFON member here, BTW.
Wow, I never knew aliens used weather ballons, I thought they were more advanced than that.
That's not the UFOs - it's the IRS. /grin
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