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JONATHAN YOUNG:
Some stories
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attribute great powers
to the Moon.
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It does have some effect on us.
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DAVID CHILDRESS:
Since the time
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of the very first
Apollo Moon mission...
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NEIL ARMSTRONG:
The Eagle has landed.
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...researchers have pored over
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photos of the Moon
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looking for structures,
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and they found some
unusual things.
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Only 300 kilometers away
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from where Apollo 11
ended up landing.
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This area has undeniable
architecture
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that looks like
what you would see
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from obelisks.
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GEORGE NOORY:
Somebody built something
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on the Moon
a long, long time ago.
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And I don't think
it was earthlings.
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GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
The entire object
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may be of artificial origin.
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My question is,
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who built the Moon?
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NARRATOR:
Since the dawn of civilization,
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mankind has credited
its origins to gods
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and other visitors
from the stars.
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What if it were true?
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Did extraterrestrial beings
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really help
to shape our history?
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And if so...
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might the answer be found
not on Earth but on the Moon?
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NARRATOR: Cape Canaveral,
Florida. February 8, 2016.
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NASA and Lockheed Martin
project managers
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announce preparations
are underway
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for the Exploration Mission 1,
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a manned Orion
spacecraft journey to the Moon.
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The Chinese, Russian and Indian
space agencies follow suit,
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unveiling their own manned
lunar exploration plans.
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These missions would be the
first time humans traveled
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beyond low earth orbit
since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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But what could be the reason
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for this renewed interest
in the Moon?
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And just why has it taken
humanity so long to go back?
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MISSION CONTROL:
Liftoff.
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We have a liftoff.
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Liftoff on Apollo 11.
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(beeping)
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ARMSTRONG:
Tranquility Base here.
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The Eagle has landed.
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NARRATOR:
July 20, 1969.
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MISSION CONTROL:
Okay, Neil, we can see you
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coming down the ladder now.
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NARRATOR: Over one billion
people worldwide are glued
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to their television sets
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as they watch the shadowy figure
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of astronaut Neil Armstrong
slowly step off the ladder
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of the Apollo 11 lunar module
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onto the surface of the Moon.
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(cheering and applause)
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ARMSTRONG:
That's one small step for man,
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one giant leap for mankind.
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NARRATOR: The moment marks one
of the most important events
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in the history of civilization.
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It is the first time
a human being
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has set foot on alien terrain.
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Apollo 11 is what people
think of when you talk about
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Apollo today and Neil Armstrong
setting foot on the Moon.
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The Moon is roughly 220,000
miles away from the Earth.
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Even the best telescopes
can't see what you can see
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when you're just
standing on the surface.
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BUZZ ALDRIN: Before we went to
the Moon, NASA was cautioned by
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doomsday predictors
and different people.
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People wonder what it would be
like on a place like that,
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so different
from this place here.
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YOUNG: The idea
of landing people on the Moon
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has been in the imagination
long before the technology
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was anywhere near
making it possible.
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After all, to be on the Moon
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is to step into
a mythological landscape.
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The place of stories,
the place of wonder,
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to step into the heavens,
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and stand on ground of a kind
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that is not Earth.
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WILLIAM HENRY: It was a huge
moment for the human spirit.
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While it was Americans
that put a man on the Moon,
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it was considered a victory
for all of humanity.
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Suddenly, science fiction
became real
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and it opened up
a new age of exploration.
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TSOUKALOS:
I think that every journey
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starts with a first step.
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The Moon was our first step
into the universe,
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into our solar system.
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It is awesome to think
that already 50 years ago
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we became extraterrestrials
on another planet.
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NARRATOR:
The Moon has captivated
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the imagination of humanity
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since the dawn of civilization.
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It is a quarter
the size of the Earth
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and is by far
the most dominant celestial body
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in the night sky.
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RICK STROUD: It takes about 30
days to go round the Earth.
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The Moon glows and that's not
because of any property
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within the Moon.
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It's reflecting the rays of the
Sun, which causes it to glow.
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The reason that the
Moon has phases is that
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the Earth blocks the light of
the Sun as the Moon moves
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round the Earth,
so it incrementally
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gets a little bit more
and a little bit more
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of the Sun's rays.
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JOHN BRANDENBURG: The Moon's
importance is very great.
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It leads to tides,
which helped life transition
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from living in the ocean
to living on land.
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It also stabilizes the Earth's
tilt relative to its orbit.
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Without the Moon,
gravitational influences
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can cause the poles of planets
to wander around
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kind of drunkenly,
like a drunken sailor.
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The Earth would have been a much
more chaotic place for life,
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especially advanced life,
to develop
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if it wasn't for the Moon.
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NARRATOR: While the Moon is
largely responsible
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for allowing life
to flourish on Earth,
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this celestial body itself
is inhospitable.
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It has no breathable oxygen
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and temperatures on the surface
reach extremes
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from 253 degrees Fahrenheit,
when it's facing the Sun,
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to ‐243 degrees in the shade.
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STROUD: It was a very serious
environment
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'cause there's no oxygen.
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So the astronauts,
once they were on the Moon,
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they have to be completely
sealed.
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Its surface gravity,
which is what really counts
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if you're gonna go there, is
about a sixth of that on Earth,
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which is why when you see
those grainy images
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of the early astronauts,
they're sort of bouncing around,
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and the Moon
has no atmosphere whatever.
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STROUD: The astronauts,
once they were on the Moon,
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suddenly they were able
to look at the world
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that they'd grown up on, the
Earth, from a different place.
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They were able to
see all of mankind
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in all its tininess
in the universe.
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And that I know had
a very profound effect
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on the astronaut.
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NARRATOR: Reaching the Moon was
such an unbelievable feat
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that even to this day,
many people are convinced
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the entire event was actually
staged in a Hollywood studio.
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But ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,
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not only did
we land on the Moon,
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but what we found there was
more incredible than we know.
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MICHAEL SALLA: During the 1969
Apollo Moon mission,
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after the landing there was
a very strange two‐minute gap
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in radio transmissions.
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And what happened
during those two minutes
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has been subject
to a lot of controversy.
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MISSION CONTROL: Neil, this
is Houston, radio check, over.
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(radio static)
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MISSION CONTROL:
Columbia, this is Houston, over.
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(radio static)
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NARRATOR: According to scientist
and NASA researcher Otto Binder,
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various ham radio operators
were able to intercept
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secret communications
with Mission Control
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that were not made public.
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The astronauts apparently
talked about
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seeing extraterrestrial
objects on the Moon,
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including flying saucers parked
along the edge of a crater
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within their view.
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Now, the truth of it is,
is that each of the astronauts
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had a separate medical channel.
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That channel was not public
and it could have been
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very easily used
to communicate information
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that you didn't want to be heard
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over the general public
transmissions.
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What's really interesting
about that story, though,
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is the fact that, within 30
minutes of the landing
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on the Moon, that story was
circulating around NASA
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that, "Hey, guess what.
They saw something
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"on the rim of a crater.
They were all upset.
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"They didn't know what to do.
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They didn't know
if they should go out."
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It is interesting
when you watch the feed
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of when they
came back from the Moon.
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They're not sitting there
jumping up and down for joy
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and saying, "I had the most
incredible experience
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in my life, I was on the Moon."
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They're not saying that.
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They look very solemn,
very depressed.
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They're looking down.
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They almost look like
they want to vomit,
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that's how disturbed they look.
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Could they have seen
something there
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that they didn't
want to tell the public
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because of the implications?
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I believe that, uh...
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what this country
set out to do was
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something that was going
to be done sooner or later.
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We find for the first time
that man has a...
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the flexibility
or the option of, uh,
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either walking this planet
or some other planet.
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It's a‐a beginning of a new age.
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NARRATOR:
After Apollo 11, NASA would send
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six more manned missions
to the Moon,
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culminating with Apollo 17
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in 1972.
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ALAN BUTLER: One of the most
interesting questions
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with regard to our interaction
with the Moon
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is why we have never
gone back there again
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since the Apollo missions,
and what else is very telling
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is that although the USSR
at the time
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was getting to be quite able
to send its own astronauts
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to the Moon,
it never seems to have done so.
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Could it be that
there were agencies
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associated with the Moon?
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Aliens or other beings
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who had warned humanity
to stay away for some reason?
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the American astronauts
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were not alone on the Moon?
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Is that why after Apollo 17,
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we never went back?
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Some ancient astronaut theorists
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propose an even more
incredible possibility,
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that the Moon came
to orbit Earth not by chance,
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but by design.
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NARRATOR:
Humans have been mesmerized
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by the Moon
since the dawn of man.
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And although many theories
have been proposed,
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scientists cannot say
with absolute certainty
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how this celestial object
came into being.
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When I was a student,
nobody really knew
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where the Moon came from
because it's so relatively big.
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Uh, this was a real problem.
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And I think that there is
a tendency to think that
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moons get somehow captured
by the parent planet.
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If you've got one body here and
another body come, coming along,
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it can't just get trapped
into orbit like that.
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The difficulty there
is just basic physics,
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and so this remained a puzzle
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until about 20 years ago
when another theory came along,
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and that is that
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the protoEarth was very early
on in the history
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of the solar system hit
by a Mars‐sized body.
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Hit obliquely,
that this Mars‐sized body
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plowed into the center
of the Earth
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and became the Earth's core,
and a lot of
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the outer material
got stripped off by this
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gargantuan collision and
coalesced to form the Moon.
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Now, they had to come up
with a very, uh, bizarre theory
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for how the Moon came into being
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because all the conventional
theories don't make any sense.
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The best theory
of the Moon's formation
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is a phantasmagorically
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catastrophic collision
of two things, you know,
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at just the right angle to form
this belt of debris
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that then formed the Moon,
but the Moon,
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its exact size is such that
it gives us total eclipses.
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Its disc exactly covers the Sun.
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And the chances of that
occurring are so,
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literally, astronomically small,
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it's, it's very disturbing.
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NARRATOR: The Sun's diameter is
400 times greater than the Moon
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and coincidentally the Sun
also happens to be
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nearly precisely
400 times further away.
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This is the reason
that the Sun and the Moon
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appear the same size
in the Earth's sky
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and why we on Earth can
experience eclipses of the Sun.
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CHILDRESS: It's just perfectly
in that orbit
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to eclipse our Sun.
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The odds of the Moon being
in that orbit accidentally
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are a zillion to one.
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So that right there is evidence
that our Moon
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is in a perfect orbit
around our planet
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that's not accidental.
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BARA: In order to have a solar
eclipse the Moon has to be
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exactly the size that it is,
which is 2,160 miles.
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Not 2,161,
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not 2,159,
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but 2,160 miles at its equator.
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And there are people out there
that actually think
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that's a coincidence.
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The fact is, is that
that is by design.
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NARRATOR: Throughout
our observable galaxy,
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this relationship and others
have not been duplicated.
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Other moons are
sizably smaller by comparison
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to their mother planet.
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Earth's satellite not only
orbits closer than it should
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for its size, it is also the
only moon in the solar system
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that has a near‐perfect
circular orbit.
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And no other lunar bodies
are known
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to have such a stabilizing role
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as the Moon has with the Earth.
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HENRY: Recent computer
simulations have shown
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that without the Moon's
presence, the Earth's axis tilt
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would be completely different
than it is today.
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We might not even have seasons
as we know them presently.
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Without the seasons
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it could be very difficult
for life on Earth.
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So the Moon is actually
performing
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an incredible function.
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It's life‐sustaining.
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Without it,
we might not be here.
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BUTLER:
There are so many peculiarities
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about the way the Moon
has affected the Earth
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that one might be forgiven
for believing
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that there is
intelligence behind it,
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that something made it that way.
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The Moon is so strange,
so odd in terms of what we find
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elsewhere in the solar system,
and particularly
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in terms of what
it does for the Earth,
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having made the Earth
into a haven for life,
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that one feels obliged to ask
the question,
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"Could such things have come
about by chance?"
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Was it placed there
deliberately?
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Was it engineered,
maybe by aliens?
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And therefore,
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is our whole existence
a planned event?
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NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
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that the perfect size
and placement of the Moon
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may not be the product
of mere chance,
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but was engineered by
extraterrestrial beings
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in Earth's prehistory.
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As evidence,
they point to ancient accounts
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that speak of a time before the
celestial object even existed.
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Beginning in the 5th century BC,
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Roman and Greek authors
wrote of a time
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"before there was a moon in the
heavens."
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Allusions to this can also be
found in the Hebrew Bible.
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And there are Zulu legends
that say
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the Moon was brought to Earth
hundreds of generations ago.
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Wowane and Mpanku were the names
of two Zulu deities
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from prehistory.
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The Zulus have a legend
that it was they
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who brought the Moon
into existence.
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They supposedly did so
by stealing an egg
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from a giant sky dragon,
hollowing out the center,
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the yolk of the egg, and then
rolling the resultant planet
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across the sky
to become the Moon.
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And the reason that the Zulus
say the Moon was put there
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was to keep an eye
on human beings.
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WHITEHEAD: The Zulu legend is
really interesting.
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We first heard about it
from a Zulu shaman
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named Credo Mutwa,
and he talked about the fact
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that the Moon was towed in
to our orbit.
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And when it did so,
it caused all kinds of floods
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and cataclysms, and it changed
the axis of the planet.
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And you can't help but wonder,
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could the Moon
be an artificial satellite?
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Could the Moon have come
from somewhere else
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and is now used
as an observational base
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for extraterrestrial beings?
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the Zulu legend is true,
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as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?
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Was our Moon towed into place
in the remote past?
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Perhaps further clues can be
found
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by examining the scientific
evidence suggesting
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that the Moon is,
in fact, hollow.
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NARRATOR: The surface
of the Moon is scarred
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with tens of thousands of impact
craters of various sizes.
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Scientists suggest
this is due to the fact
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that there has never been
an atmosphere on the Moon
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to help protect it from
bombardment by space debris.
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There are no
natural erosive forces,
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like wind or flowing water,
to affect its surface.
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And there is little
geologic activity
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to conceal damage done
throughout the Moon's history.
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DAVIES: When you study the
distribution of craters,
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you find the surface
is totally saturated,
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that is, that there are craters
within craters within craters,
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right down to
the smallest scale of size.
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BARA: One of the things
that's really interesting
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about lunar craters is that,
even though some of them
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are very large and some of them
are very small,
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they all seem
to have the same depth,
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and that really shouldn't happen
on a planetary body.
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There should be variation
in depth.
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So why are the Moon's craters
so uniform?
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It's really, really unusual
and it's really not explainable
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in terms of conventional
or established geophysics.
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Some of the craters on the Moon
are nowhere near similar
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to what they should look like.
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In fact, they are
incredibly wide craters,
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and wherever the impact point
is, they're convex,
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which means there's still the
bulge of the Moon,
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so this doesn't make any sense.
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It's likely that
there is something
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under the lunar surface,
which is very resilient
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and which is preventing craters
going any deeper than they do.
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This could only really
be either much harder rock,
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which it can't be
because of the mass of the Moon,
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or alternatively a metal sphere
of some kind
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which is preventing more damage.
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NARRATOR: Does the uniform depth
of the craters on the Moon
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suggest some sort
of metallic barrier
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underneath moon rock and dust?
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But if so,
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why wouldn't mainstream
scientists acknowledge this?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that by doing so,
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they might also have
to acknowledge
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that the Moon may be hollow.
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MAN:
Yankee Clipper, Houston.
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NARRATOR:
November 20, 1969.
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(indistinct radio
communications)
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During their ascent back to the
command module,
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Commander Charles Conrad Jr.
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and lunar module pilot Alan Bean
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release the Apollo 12
launch vehicle
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and crash it back to the Moon.
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MAN: Apollo 12, Houston,
the LM is on its way down.
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Roger.
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NARRATOR:
Upon impact,
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something very unexpected
happened.
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The Moon was said to have
seismically reverberated
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like a bell
for more than an hour.
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CUNNINGHAM: With Apollo 12,
people refer to a crash.
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It wasn't really a crash.
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It was a aimed deorbit
of the rocket
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used to lift off
the, uh, lunar module.
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And the crew separated
the launch vehicle
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and crashed it back
into the ground
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right close to where they'd had
a seismograph
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that they had installed
down there.
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Well, it vibrated,
so it was kind of an early clue
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as to how solid
was the surface of the Moon.
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HENRY: What was amazing
about this is that suddenly
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the Moon began
to ring like a bell
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and did so for nearly an hour.
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Dr. Werner von Braun,
who was then the head of NASA,
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decided that for Apollo 13
they were going to
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intentionally crash a heavier
portion of the rocket
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into the lunar surface.
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‐(sustained gong)
‐And when they did this,
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the Moon rang like a gong this
time for over three hours
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into a depth of over 20 miles.
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BUTLER: This was not expected
and it still puzzles
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a lot of scientists today.
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The inference
is that the Moon must be hollow
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because the Moon is made
predominantly on the surface
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of a kind of rock called basalt.
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Although it's a
very lightweight rock,
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it also absorbs impact
extremely well.
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And so if the whole of the Moon
was made of that kind of rock,
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you wouldn't expect it
to reverberate
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when a large impact took place.
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The reason that
this is played down
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is because the idea
of the Moon being hollow
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just contradicts what we know
about physics.
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NARRATOR:
In his 1966 book,
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Intelligent Life
in the Universe,
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renowned scientist
and astronomer Carl Sagan
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defined modern scholarship
regarding the composition
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of celestial bodies
throughout the cosmos.
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TSOUKALOS: Carl Sagan suggested
that a natural satellite
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cannot be a hollow object.
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This is very odd because why
would the Moon be vibrating
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unless it's a hollow object?
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That would suggest
it's artificial.
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NICK REDFERN:
Significant portions of the Moon
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may have been hollowed out.
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If that is the case,
the chances are
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that was not achieved naturally.
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That would have to have been
achieved artificially.
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This brings up
the important question,
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who would've had the ability,
the skills,
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and the technology to do that?
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Certainly not us.
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That would only have to be
the work of extraterrestrials
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and no one else.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the Moon is not only hollow,
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but also
an artificial structure?
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And if so, could it be
an extraterrestrial creation?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and as evidence,
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they point to research
indicating
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the Moon is actually...
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a spaceship.
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NARRATOR:
Moscow, Russia.
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July 1970.
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After years of studying findings
from various Moon missions,
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two government scientists,
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Michael Vasin
and Alexander Shcherbakov,
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publish an article
in Sputnik magazine
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revealing their
shocking conclusion
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about the nature of the Moon.
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Their theory is that the Moon
is likely a creation
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of alien intelligence
that was brought to Earth
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in the remote past.
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BUTLER: Two Russian physicists,
Vasin and Shcherbakov,
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came up with the idea that
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the Moon must be
an artificial object.
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They based their ideas on,
first of all,
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the fact that it appeared that
the Moon was hollow.
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Since no hollow planet
could exist
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according to
the known laws of physics,
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that would mean that the Moon
had to be an artificial,
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an engineered object.
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WILCOCK: This article was
quite groundbreaking.
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In fact, what they did is
to fundamentally redefine
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scholarship around
what we think the Moon is.
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NARRATOR: Based on the maximum
depth of the Moon craters,
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Vasin and Shcherbakov proposed
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that the surface was
only 2½ miles thick.
498
00:27:19,429 --> 00:27:22,808
NASA scientists had determined
that this moondust
499
00:27:22,808 --> 00:27:28,647
primarily consisted of chromium,
titanium and zirconium.
500
00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:32,317
In their publication,
Vasin and Shcherbakov noted,
501
00:27:32,317 --> 00:27:35,529
"If a material had to be devised
to protect
502
00:27:35,529 --> 00:27:39,283
"a giant artificial satellite
from the unfavorable effects
503
00:27:39,283 --> 00:27:42,494
"of temperature
from cosmic radiation
504
00:27:42,494 --> 00:27:44,872
"and meteorite bombardment,
505
00:27:44,872 --> 00:27:47,082
"the experts would
probably have hit
506
00:27:47,082 --> 00:27:49,793
on precisely these elements."
507
00:27:49,793 --> 00:27:52,379
TSOUKALOS:
Now they themselves proposed
508
00:27:52,379 --> 00:27:55,299
that this suggestion
is outlandish.
509
00:27:55,299 --> 00:27:58,510
However, only through their
calculations
510
00:27:58,510 --> 00:28:00,429
and all the mathematics,
511
00:28:00,429 --> 00:28:04,474
they determined that their
theory is correct.
512
00:28:04,474 --> 00:28:08,645
We're talking people
in academia who may perhaps
513
00:28:08,645 --> 00:28:11,690
lose their position
at the universities.
514
00:28:11,690 --> 00:28:14,568
I don't think anybody would
publish a paper like this
515
00:28:14,568 --> 00:28:19,907
unless they were 100% convinced
that their findings are true.
516
00:28:19,907 --> 00:28:24,369
The entire object may be
of artificial origin.
517
00:28:24,369 --> 00:28:27,456
And if that is the case,
my question is:
518
00:28:27,456 --> 00:28:32,711
who built the Moon, who placed
it here, and how long ago?
519
00:28:33,962 --> 00:28:36,214
And so these Russian scientists,
520
00:28:36,214 --> 00:28:40,469
their theory is
that the Moon is a spaceship.
521
00:28:40,469 --> 00:28:42,220
It's got engines within.
522
00:28:42,220 --> 00:28:44,598
But that on the outside,
they've coated it
523
00:28:44,598 --> 00:28:47,935
with this
moon‐looking substance.
524
00:28:47,935 --> 00:28:52,356
Now, it's a farfetched idea,
but it makes a lot of sense
525
00:28:52,356 --> 00:28:56,944
in that you might want to shroud
or cloak this craft
526
00:28:56,944 --> 00:28:59,947
and make it look like a, uh,
very natural object.
527
00:29:01,949 --> 00:29:03,283
NARRATOR:
Since the publication
528
00:29:03,283 --> 00:29:06,203
of the Vasin and Shcherbakov
article,
529
00:29:06,203 --> 00:29:11,500
other researchers have come out
in support of their theory.
530
00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:13,752
WILCOCK:
In 1975, Don Wilson wrote
531
00:29:13,752 --> 00:29:16,004
Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon.
532
00:29:16,004 --> 00:29:20,092
In 1976, George Leonard wrote
Somebody Else Is on the Moon,
533
00:29:20,092 --> 00:29:25,138
and these books further explored
a variety of anomalies.
534
00:29:25,138 --> 00:29:27,182
Now, they note
some very bizarre things.
535
00:29:27,182 --> 00:29:30,811
For example, the mineral
and metallic composition
536
00:29:30,811 --> 00:29:33,438
of the material on the Moon
is not like anything
537
00:29:33,438 --> 00:29:36,817
that we see on Earth,
and the apparent age of the Moon
538
00:29:36,817 --> 00:29:40,320
seems to be greater than the
actual age of our solar system.
539
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,781
So they believe that the Moon
was actually brought here
540
00:29:42,781 --> 00:29:43,615
from somewhere else.
541
00:29:46,702 --> 00:29:48,704
BARA: Lots of people have talked
about the idea
542
00:29:48,704 --> 00:29:50,872
that the Moon itself
is actually a spacecraft,
543
00:29:50,872 --> 00:29:54,418
that it was piloted here and
put in this particular orbit.
544
00:29:54,418 --> 00:29:57,504
There's no question that
there's evidence that the Moon
545
00:29:57,504 --> 00:30:01,299
could be
a modified natural object.
546
00:30:01,299 --> 00:30:04,720
TSOUKALOS: There are ancient
stories that speak of a time
547
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,306
when the Moon
was not up in the sky
548
00:30:08,306 --> 00:30:11,685
and there are descriptions
that say that the Moon
549
00:30:11,685 --> 00:30:15,647
was artificially pulled
into place.
550
00:30:15,647 --> 00:30:20,819
So if we have two modern Russian
scientists who have suggested
551
00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:23,488
that perhaps the Moon
was pulled into place,
552
00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:27,159
and that is a corroboration
of ancient mythologies,
553
00:30:27,159 --> 00:30:30,203
that's when I listen.
554
00:30:30,203 --> 00:30:33,206
CHILDRESS: So the whole idea
that our Moon
555
00:30:33,206 --> 00:30:37,919
is some gigantic hollow
spaceship
556
00:30:37,919 --> 00:30:42,549
that's been put into a special
orbit around our planet,
557
00:30:42,549 --> 00:30:45,677
and contains cities and
structures
558
00:30:45,677 --> 00:30:50,057
that are inside and outside
of the Moon
559
00:30:50,057 --> 00:30:53,977
is to me
a very reasonable assertion.
560
00:30:53,977 --> 00:30:57,564
And in fact it would seem to be
that our Moon
561
00:30:57,564 --> 00:31:02,402
is some kind of gigantic
artificial spaceship
562
00:31:02,402 --> 00:31:06,364
that is here
to monitor our planet.
563
00:31:06,364 --> 00:31:08,533
NOORY: Would I discount
the fact that the Moon
564
00:31:08,533 --> 00:31:14,372
is a foreign object,
a spaceship, a Death Star?
565
00:31:14,372 --> 00:31:15,749
I don't think
you can rule that out.
566
00:31:17,167 --> 00:31:19,086
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the Moon
567
00:31:19,086 --> 00:31:21,838
is actually a spacecraft?
568
00:31:21,838 --> 00:31:24,257
And might it have allowed
extraterrestrials
569
00:31:24,257 --> 00:31:27,844
to discreetly monitor
our planet?
570
00:31:27,844 --> 00:31:32,682
But if so, might these beings
still be there today?
571
00:31:40,107 --> 00:31:44,486
NARRATOR:
November 1966.
572
00:31:44,486 --> 00:31:48,740
Three years before the Apollo
astronauts made it to the Moon,
573
00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:53,829
the Orbiter 2 spacecraft
situates itself in lunar orbit.
574
00:31:53,829 --> 00:31:57,457
It was designed to capture
high‐resolution images
575
00:31:57,457 --> 00:32:01,545
of the surface to assist with
the selection of landing sites
576
00:32:01,545 --> 00:32:04,172
for the Apollo missions.
577
00:32:04,172 --> 00:32:08,176
One image in particular catches
the eye of researchers,
578
00:32:08,176 --> 00:32:11,304
as it shows what appear
to be the shadows
579
00:32:11,304 --> 00:32:14,891
of several pointed spires.
580
00:32:14,891 --> 00:32:17,894
WILCOCK:
On November 20, 1966,
581
00:32:17,894 --> 00:32:20,897
the Lunar Orbiter 2,
NASA's probe,
582
00:32:20,897 --> 00:32:24,067
photographs this area
on the Moon
583
00:32:24,067 --> 00:32:26,570
that was actually
in the Sea of Tranquility,
584
00:32:26,570 --> 00:32:30,365
only 300 kilometers away
from where Apollo 11
585
00:32:30,365 --> 00:32:32,200
ended up landing.
586
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,453
And, what's so bizarre is that
this area
587
00:32:35,453 --> 00:32:40,625
has undeniable architecture that
looks like what you would see
588
00:32:40,625 --> 00:32:44,379
from obelisks.
589
00:32:44,379 --> 00:32:46,631
There's eight different spires.
590
00:32:46,631 --> 00:32:50,385
And scientists calculated that
the largest of these spires
591
00:32:50,385 --> 00:32:53,680
would be an obelisk that
is 15 stories tall.
592
00:32:56,308 --> 00:33:00,604
These do appear to be just like
an Egyptian‐style obelisk.
593
00:33:00,604 --> 00:33:02,397
But, what the heck are they
doing on the Moon?
594
00:33:05,609 --> 00:33:07,861
TSOUKALOS: Of the multiple
anomalies on the Moon,
595
00:33:07,861 --> 00:33:11,781
I think the spires are some of
the most fascinating ones
596
00:33:11,781 --> 00:33:15,911
because astronomers
have calculated
597
00:33:15,911 --> 00:33:19,706
that these spires are very tall
598
00:33:19,706 --> 00:33:25,045
for them to be exclusively
natural occurrences.
599
00:33:25,045 --> 00:33:26,796
BARA:
They have to be artificial,
600
00:33:26,796 --> 00:33:30,300
simply from the fact that
the Moon has been bombarded
601
00:33:30,300 --> 00:33:33,887
in kind of
an incessant meteoric rain
602
00:33:33,887 --> 00:33:38,141
for 4.5 billion years.
603
00:33:38,141 --> 00:33:42,062
There is no way that anything
bigger than a basketball
604
00:33:42,062 --> 00:33:45,941
can be standing straight up
on the lunar surface.
605
00:33:45,941 --> 00:33:47,776
(indistinct radio
communications)
606
00:33:47,776 --> 00:33:50,654
BUTLER: The inference is that
NASA would have known this
607
00:33:50,654 --> 00:33:53,573
and that one of the reasons that
they sent their mission there
608
00:33:53,573 --> 00:33:56,409
was so that the astronauts
of the Apollo mission
609
00:33:56,409 --> 00:33:58,954
could gain more information
about these
610
00:33:58,954 --> 00:34:01,248
artificial structures
on the Moon.
611
00:34:01,248 --> 00:34:05,001
(indistinct radio
communications)
612
00:34:05,001 --> 00:34:07,879
ASTRONAUT: CAPCOMM, we're a go
for undocking.
613
00:34:07,879 --> 00:34:10,840
CAPCOMM:
Roger, Eagle, undock.
614
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,301
BARA: On Apollo 11, when the
astronauts were descending
615
00:34:13,301 --> 00:34:14,761
to the lunar surface,
616
00:34:14,761 --> 00:34:17,555
they got this very strange
computer alarm.
617
00:34:17,555 --> 00:34:19,432
MISSION CONTROL:
The 1202 alarm.
618
00:34:19,432 --> 00:34:22,018
‐CAPCOMM 1: 1202.
‐CAPCOMM 2: 1202 alarm.
619
00:34:22,018 --> 00:34:23,853
BARA:
The famous 1202 computer alarm.
620
00:34:23,853 --> 00:34:26,356
(stammers) Basically, nobody
knew what it was.
621
00:34:26,356 --> 00:34:29,985
What it came out to, um,
was that the computer itself
622
00:34:29,985 --> 00:34:34,197
was overwhelmed with information
because Buzz Aldrin,
623
00:34:34,197 --> 00:34:35,949
the lunar module pilot,
624
00:34:35,949 --> 00:34:39,494
had turned on the radars
on the lunar lander.
625
00:34:39,494 --> 00:34:42,122
It had two radars‐‐
it had a side looking radar
626
00:34:42,122 --> 00:34:44,040
and it had a docking radar.
627
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,959
So, in other words,
you had one that pointed down
628
00:34:45,959 --> 00:34:47,711
and one that pointed
to the side.
629
00:34:47,711 --> 00:34:51,589
Now, if there's nothing
on the surface of the Moon,
630
00:34:51,589 --> 00:34:53,425
if there are
no artificial structures,
631
00:34:53,425 --> 00:34:58,471
if there are no spires sticking
ten, 20 stories up into the sky,
632
00:34:58,471 --> 00:35:00,682
why would you turn on
the side radar?
633
00:35:00,682 --> 00:35:02,642
There's no reason to,
but Aldrin did it.
634
00:35:02,642 --> 00:35:07,063
And, I think it's because
he knew and NASA knew
635
00:35:07,063 --> 00:35:10,775
that there was some danger
of running into these things.
636
00:35:10,775 --> 00:35:13,486
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
NASA actually has knowledge
637
00:35:13,486 --> 00:35:16,239
of structures on the Moon?
638
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:20,076
In 1960, NASA officials
commissioned a report
639
00:35:20,076 --> 00:35:23,413
from the Brookings Institute
to weigh the implications
640
00:35:23,413 --> 00:35:27,792
of the discovery of evidence
of extraterrestrial life.
641
00:35:27,792 --> 00:35:29,669
Due to the findings
of the report,
642
00:35:29,669 --> 00:35:32,172
researchers believe
it was determined
643
00:35:32,172 --> 00:35:35,800
before the Moon missions to keep
any extraterrestrial findings
644
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,469
hidden from the public
645
00:35:37,469 --> 00:35:42,390
for fear of social unrest.
646
00:35:42,390 --> 00:35:46,603
Since the time of the very first
Apollo Moon missions,
647
00:35:46,603 --> 00:35:51,816
researchers have pored
over NASA and Russian photos
648
00:35:51,816 --> 00:35:56,404
of the Moon looking
for structures.
649
00:35:56,404 --> 00:35:59,824
And they found
some unusual things.
650
00:35:59,824 --> 00:36:03,328
You would think, in fact,
that if extraterrestrials
651
00:36:03,328 --> 00:36:06,081
are on the Moon or were,
that they would have built
652
00:36:06,081 --> 00:36:07,916
all kinds of structures.
653
00:36:07,916 --> 00:36:10,543
And we're able
to see some of these,
654
00:36:10,543 --> 00:36:12,796
even though NASA scientists
655
00:36:12,796 --> 00:36:15,840
don't acknowledge
them as genuine.
656
00:36:18,718 --> 00:36:20,553
NARRATOR:
But perhaps as intriguing
657
00:36:20,553 --> 00:36:24,557
as the various structures seen
on the surface of the Moon
658
00:36:24,557 --> 00:36:26,726
are the numerous reports
of lights
659
00:36:26,726 --> 00:36:30,980
and other unexplainable
activity.
660
00:36:30,980 --> 00:36:34,317
Intermittent reflections
emanating from the lunar surface
661
00:36:34,317 --> 00:36:37,320
have been observed
for more than a century,
662
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,615
including by famed astronomer
Francis Bailey
663
00:36:40,615 --> 00:36:43,326
in 1835.
664
00:36:43,326 --> 00:36:48,498
And the phenomenon was also
reported by the Apollo 11 crew.
665
00:36:48,498 --> 00:36:50,291
BUZZ ALDRIN:
The windows are all dark.
666
00:36:50,291 --> 00:36:53,753
And that's when I began seeing
a flash and a streak
667
00:36:53,753 --> 00:36:55,922
and another flash.
668
00:36:55,922 --> 00:36:59,843
Flicker flashes we called them.
Kept seeing them.
669
00:36:59,843 --> 00:37:02,303
And I said,
"You guys see anything unusual?
670
00:37:02,303 --> 00:37:04,764
You see any flashes?"
671
00:37:04,764 --> 00:37:06,641
Neil said,
"Yeah, I saw about 100 of them."
672
00:37:06,641 --> 00:37:07,934
"How about you, Mike?"
673
00:37:07,934 --> 00:37:10,645
"Nah, I didn't see a thing."
674
00:37:10,645 --> 00:37:14,274
Any deep analysis by the crew as
to what the hell it was?
675
00:37:14,274 --> 00:37:16,776
No.
(chuckles)
676
00:37:16,776 --> 00:37:19,946
'Cause we were,
we were on our way home.
677
00:37:19,946 --> 00:37:23,533
Let's, let's let somebody else
worry about that.
678
00:37:23,533 --> 00:37:26,202
WILCOCK: These things were
actually disclosed by NASA
679
00:37:26,202 --> 00:37:30,123
in their own transient lunar
anomalies catalog
680
00:37:30,123 --> 00:37:35,211
showing lights moving around,
showing puffs of smoke,
681
00:37:35,211 --> 00:37:39,549
showing things that should not
be there on the Moon's surface,
682
00:37:39,549 --> 00:37:43,386
all of which suggests that there
is, in fact, a very thriving
683
00:37:43,386 --> 00:37:46,806
extraterrestrial community
living on the Moon today.
684
00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:51,269
NARRATOR: Might there not only
be structures
685
00:37:51,269 --> 00:37:56,733
on the lunar surface
but also unidentified activity?
686
00:37:56,733 --> 00:38:00,111
Activity that might point
to current extraterrestrial
687
00:38:00,111 --> 00:38:03,156
occupation of the Moon?
688
00:38:03,156 --> 00:38:06,284
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
689
00:38:06,284 --> 00:38:10,038
and suggest that further
evidence may be found
690
00:38:10,038 --> 00:38:11,748
on the dark side of the Moon.
691
00:38:19,255 --> 00:38:22,050
NARRATOR: The Moon is the most
visible celestial body
692
00:38:22,050 --> 00:38:24,886
in the night sky.
693
00:38:24,886 --> 00:38:27,722
But we only ever see one side
694
00:38:27,722 --> 00:38:30,683
as it is in synchronous rotation
with Earth,
695
00:38:30,683 --> 00:38:35,104
meaning it takes just as long to
rotate around its own axis
696
00:38:35,104 --> 00:38:38,817
as it does to complete
its orbit around our planet.
697
00:38:38,817 --> 00:38:41,945
Therefore,
we can only observe one side,
698
00:38:41,945 --> 00:38:45,990
and up to 41% of the Moon's
surface is never seen.
699
00:38:45,990 --> 00:38:48,117
The Moon is in what we call
synchronous rotation
700
00:38:48,117 --> 00:38:49,869
with the Earth.
701
00:38:49,869 --> 00:38:53,289
That is that the effect
of the gravity of the Earth
702
00:38:53,289 --> 00:38:57,001
and the Moon means that the Moon
only shows us one side,
703
00:38:57,001 --> 00:38:59,671
its one face, the face that
we're all familiar with.
704
00:39:02,173 --> 00:39:05,802
PAUL DAVIES: The reason for this
is because when two objects
705
00:39:05,802 --> 00:39:07,804
get close enough to each other,
they do become
706
00:39:07,804 --> 00:39:10,139
so‐called phase‐locked
in that manner.
707
00:39:10,139 --> 00:39:13,268
It means it presents
the same face to the Earth
708
00:39:13,268 --> 00:39:15,144
the whole time.
709
00:39:17,730 --> 00:39:19,524
BRANDENBURG:
Because of the tidal locking
710
00:39:19,524 --> 00:39:23,987
of the Moon's rotation,
it presents the same face.
711
00:39:23,987 --> 00:39:27,156
And of course this leads
to speculation
712
00:39:27,156 --> 00:39:29,617
because this creates
a perfect place
713
00:39:29,617 --> 00:39:31,536
to create large installations
on the Moon
714
00:39:31,536 --> 00:39:35,331
that are not directly observable
from Earth.
715
00:39:35,331 --> 00:39:37,375
Hypothetically,
the far side of the Moon,
716
00:39:37,375 --> 00:39:41,254
it's an excellent place
to put up bases.
717
00:39:41,254 --> 00:39:44,007
And that has been a fixture
of a lot of science fiction.
718
00:39:45,758 --> 00:39:47,468
SALLA: There have been
whistle‐blowers that say that
719
00:39:47,468 --> 00:39:50,013
they've been taken to a base,
720
00:39:50,013 --> 00:39:52,473
which is called
Lunar Operations Command,
721
00:39:52,473 --> 00:39:55,476
on the far side of the Moon
and that this base
722
00:39:55,476 --> 00:40:00,106
is part of a network of bases
on the far side of the Moon
723
00:40:00,106 --> 00:40:03,943
that are run by various
secret space programs
724
00:40:03,943 --> 00:40:07,488
and extraterrestrial
civilizations.
725
00:40:07,488 --> 00:40:10,992
The Apollo missions have taken
surveillance photographs
726
00:40:10,992 --> 00:40:14,078
of the Moon's surface and some
of the photographs
727
00:40:14,078 --> 00:40:17,248
have shown what
appear to be structures.
728
00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:22,712
NARRATOR: Could it be that
there are active bases
729
00:40:22,712 --> 00:40:24,714
on the far side of the Moon?
730
00:40:24,714 --> 00:40:27,800
Not only secret military bases,
731
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,596
but extraterrestrial bases
as well?
732
00:40:31,596 --> 00:40:36,267
And if so, what would happen if
the full truth about the Moon
733
00:40:36,267 --> 00:40:40,480
was finally revealed
to the general public?
734
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:45,610
CHILDRESS: Ultimately when the
truth of the origin of the Moon
735
00:40:45,610 --> 00:40:47,654
and what is going on
in the Moon,
736
00:40:47,654 --> 00:40:49,989
and‐and structures on the Moon,
737
00:40:49,989 --> 00:40:55,745
and perhaps even occupation of
the Moon is revealed to humans
738
00:40:55,745 --> 00:41:01,167
on Earth, it will be a
shattering of our reality.
739
00:41:01,167 --> 00:41:04,170
And we'll be able
to look up in the sky
740
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and see what is an
extraterrestrial object
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in orbit around our planet.
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And we'll know it
for what it is.
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HENRY: There's not a single
scientifically valid reason
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not to think that it's
an extraterrestrial spacecraft
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00:41:21,062 --> 00:41:23,564
brought here
by extraterrestrial beings
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00:41:23,564 --> 00:41:26,275
in order to assist humankind.
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00:41:26,275 --> 00:41:28,069
For some,
that's a terrifying thought.
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NARRATOR: Did the Apollo
astronauts encounter
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more on the surface of the Moon
than was publicly revealed?
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00:41:38,913 --> 00:41:42,125
Might there have been evidence
of colonization,
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00:41:42,125 --> 00:41:46,421
or even that the Moon itself
is an artificial object?
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00:41:46,421 --> 00:41:50,842
And could this be
why we stopped going back?
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00:41:50,842 --> 00:41:53,052
Perhaps the upcoming
Moon missions,
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00:41:53,052 --> 00:41:55,555
the first in over four decades,
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00:41:55,555 --> 00:41:58,725
will finally reveal
the full truth
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00:41:58,725 --> 00:42:02,020
about this
mysterious celestial body
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00:42:02,020 --> 00:42:07,859
and also about our
extraterrestrial past.