NASA Moon landing ?Һoᴄҡ: What did Apollo 11 discover during lost two minutes of SILENCE?
NASA’s Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in April 1969 but many conspiracy experts still question whether the Moon landing was real. Here is what some believe happened during two mysterious minutes when Apollo 11 went radio-silent.
So-called Moon landing experts who have studied the Apollo 11 mission have boldly accused NASA of holding back vital information on what really happened on July 20, 1069. Shortly after the Apollo 11 Lunar Module eagle touched down on the Moon with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, radio communications were cut short.
Appearing on the History Channel’s show Ancient Aliens, Dr Michael Salla, author of Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence, said the fact has been at the heart of a lot of intense debate.
He expert said: “During the 1969 Apollo Moon mission, after the landing, there was a very strange gap in radio transmissions.
“What happened in those two minutes has been subject to a lot of controversy.”
Over the years, NASA sceptics and conspiracy theorists have used the two minutes of radio silence to challenge NASA and claim humans never went to the Moon.
Some scientists and NASA researchers have even gone as far as to claim NASA’s astronauts came across evidence of alien activity on the Moon.
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One such researcher is book author David Childress, who said communiques of “parked UFOs” on the Moon were intercepted during this gap and withheld from the public.
Mr Childress said: “The astronauts apparently talked about seeing extraterrestrial objects on the Moon, including flying saucers parked along the edge of a crater within their view.”
Fellow conspiracy theorist Mike Bara, author of Ancient Aliens on the Moon, similarly alleged NASA’s astronauts were stunned by an incredible discovery.
Mr Bara, who also appeared on the History Channel, said both of NASA’s astronauts were evidently upset by something they saw on the Moon within 30 minutes of landing.
The revelation was made by a secret “medical” channel of communication between Apollo 11 and NASA’s mission control on Earth.
Mr Bara said: “Now the truth of it is that each of the astronauts had a separate medical channel.
The astronauts apparently talked about seeing extraterrestrial objects on the Moon
David Childress, author
“That channel was not public and it could have been very easily used to communicate information that you didn’t want to be heard over the general public transmissions.
“What is really interesting about that story though, is the fact that within 30 minutes of landing on the Moon, that story was circulating around NASA that, hey guess what, they saw something on the rim of the crater, they were all upset, they didn’t know what to do, they didn’t know if they should go out.”
And David Whitehead, radio host and creator of the Truth Warrior podcast, argued the story is given credence by the astronaut’s tense and sullen body language in post-return interviews.
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NASA Moon landing: Conspiracists are intrigued by two minutes of radio silence
Mr Whitehead said: “It is interesting when you watch the feed of when they came back from the Moon and they’re not sitting there jumping up and down for joy and saying, ‘I had the most incredible experience of my life, I was on the Moon’.
“They’re not saying that. They look very sullen, very depressed, they’re looking down.
“They almost look like they want to vomit – that’s how disturbed they look.
“Could they have seen something there that they didn’t want to tell the public because of the implications?”
After the success of the Apollo 11, NASA sent six more manned crews to the Moon before public interest in lunar exploration waned.
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The last astronaut to walk the Moon was Gene Cernan of the Apollo 17 mission – the 11th and final man to set foot on Earth’s only natural satellite.
The fact NASA has not been back to the Moons since the Apollo Programme wrapped up has been another point of contention between conspiracy theorists and Moon landing sceptics alike.
Alan Butler, author of Who Built the Moon?, said on Ancient Aliens: “One of the most interesting questions with regard to our interaction with the Moon, is why we have never gone back there since the end of the Apollo missions.
“And what else is very telling is that although the USSR at the time was getting to be quite able to send its own astronauts to the Moon, it never seems to have done so.
“Could it be that there were agencies associated with the Moon, aliens or other beings who have wanted humanity to stay away from the Moon?