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.
There you have it. This blows the theory about the lunar landing being filmed/staged in a studio all to hell. :)
You don't see stars on the moon in the daytime? The sky is just black? Did not know that.
You said it well. There's nothing here about a flying saucer. I'm not in the least surprised that up there where we had not been before, didn't know exactly what to expect that an astronaut would see something that he couldn't identify.
But when they did, they rocked!
Could have been a 200 straight six. ;-D
The best cereal ever, IMO.
"I have a "bogy' at 9 O'Clock, I have a Bogy at 2 O'clock."
He sneezed boogers on the faceplate.
Seriously, things getting kicked up by landing would be a issue and would remain "airborne" (not really, but you know what I mean) for some time with the low gravity.
No, they didn't see Dr. Zefram Cochrane.
That's a different matter. The Hubble Telescope negates "Stars don't show up on images taken in space", and a tripod and an open shutter on the moon at night would get you pictures of stars.
Ping for later viewing
"No stars in the moon sky" is one of the bogus pillars of the theory that it was staged.
This has been around for some time . They supposodly saw an object hovering and moving slowly on the horizon of the moon's surface .
Pete Conrad would have said: What the hell is that??? Look at that baby over there!!! I loved Pete Conrad...
"It's miles long, with a maw big enough to swallow a dozen starships. The whole thing's a weapon... it MUST be!"
Didn't Gordo Cooper also have some experience? Seems to me he became quite religious as a result. Wasn't that in the Right Stuff?
"Paging Art Bell... Paging George Noory... White courtesy phone please."
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