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.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Pinging posts 298 and 299.

[Eastbound]

Too bad John Lear isn't a Freeper.

[expatguy]

LSD

[Caipirabob]

Well, this goes a long way towards explaining the nickname "Buzz".

[Allegra]

No doubt more evidence of conspiracy for the Bart Sibrel-tards of the world.

Heeheehee....he said "tard."

[pax_et_bonum]

Heeheehee....he said "tard."

:-)

Heeheehee...

[SunkenCiv]

It's not in the Right Stuff. The experience Gordo had was not in the space program, if memory serves, it happened during his terrestrial pilot days.

[SunkenCiv]

Buzz is supposedly going to be on Art Bell tonight, but probably to rebut the nutty crap from Richard Hoagland, who will be the main guest:

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/07/31.html

"Upcoming

"Richard C. Hoagland -Missing Apollo Tapes- enterprisemission
Coast to Coast AM science advisor Richard C. Hoagland will discuss the missing Apollo II video tapes as well as the pending NASA 'Orion' Moon missions.

"11p-11:30p PT: Buzz Aldrin, one of the Apollo astronauts, joins the show."

[GOPJ]

...if Neil Armstrong were to verify this, it would have a lot more credibility.

Agreed.

[SunkenCiv]

Here's an addition to what you've all been saying:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#stars

Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax
(February 13, 2001)
Phil Plait

"Bad: The first bit of actual evidence brought up is the lack of stars in the pictures taken by the Apollo astronauts from the surface of the Moon. Without air, the sky is black, so where are the stars?

"Good: The stars are there! They're just too faint to be seen... On the Moon, the lack of air means that the sky is dark. Even when the Sun is high off the horizon during full day, the sky near it will be black. If you were standing on the Moon, you would indeed see stars, even during the day. So why aren't they in the Apollo pictures? ...The lunar landscape is brightly lit by the Sun, of course, and your friend is wearing a white spacesuit also brilliantly lit by the Sun. To take a picture of a bright object with a bright background, you need to set the exposure time to be fast, and close down the aperture setting too; that's like the pupil in your eye constricting to let less light in when you walk outside on a sunny day. So the picture you take is set for bright objects. Stars are faint objects!"

[SunkenCiv]

9/30/2005
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case592.htm

"Aldrin: Now, obviously, the three of us were not going to blurt out, 'Hey Houston we got something moving along side of us and we don't know what it is, you know, can you tell us what it is?'. We weren't about to do that, cause we know that those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and who knows what somebody would have demanded that we turn back because of Aliens or whatever the reason is, so we didn't do that but we did decide we'd just cautiously ask Houston where, how far away was the S-IVB?

"Narrator: Unaware of the drama unfolding in space, Mission Control radioed the position back to Apollo 11.

"Mission Control: 'Apollo 11, Houston. The S-IVB is about 6,000 nautical miles from you now, over.'"

[Quix]

Thanks.

I wasn't clear on the specific night.

[Quix]

Thanks.

As I recall, I was listening to that live.

[SunkenCiv]

Apollo 11 Transcripts
Edited by Eric M. Jones
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11trans.html

[Quix]

Thanks.

I wonder if there are Ham Radio operators with their own transcripts to compare.

[bandleader]

"Take Me To Your Leader"?

[SunkenCiv]

Aldrin:	The first unusual thing that we saw I guess was one day out or something pretty close to the moon. It had a sizeable dimension to it, so we put the monocular on it.
Collins:	How'd we see this thing ? Did we just look out the window and there it was.
Aldrin:	Yes, and we weren't sure but what it might be the S-IVB. We called the ground and were told the S-IVB was 6,000 miles away. We had a problem with the high gain about this time, didn't we ?
Collins:	There was something. We felt a bump or maybe I just imagined it.
Armstrong:	He was wondering whether the MESA had come off.
Collins:	I don't guess we felt anything.
Aldrin:	Of course, we were seeing all sorts of little objects going by at the various dumps and then we happened to see this one brighter object going by. We couldn't think of anything else it could be other than the S-IVB. We looked at it through the monocular and it seemed to have a bit of an L shape to it.
Armstrong:	Like an open suitcase.
Aldrin:	We were in PTC at the time so each of us had a chance to take a look at this and it certainly seemed to be within our vicinity and of a very sizeable dimension.
Armstrong:	We should say it was right at the limit of the resolution of the eye. It was very difficult to tell what shape it was. And there was no way to tell the size without knowing the range or the range without knowing the size.
Aldrin:	So then I got down in the LEB and started looking for it in the optics. We were grossly misled because with the sextant off focus what we saw appeared to be a cylinder.
Armstrong:	Or really two rings.
Aldrin:	Yes.
Armstrong:	Two rings. Two connected rings.
Aldrin:	Yes.
Collins:	No, it looked like a hollow cylinder to me. It didn't look like two connected rings. You could see this thing tumbling and, when it came around end-on, you could look right down in it's guts. It was a hollow cylinder. But then you could change the focus on the sextant and it would be replaced by this open book shape. It was really weird.
Aldrin:	I guess there's not too much more to say about it other than it wasn't a cylinder.
Collins:	It was during the period when we thought it was a cylinder that we inquired about the S-IVB and we'd almost convinced ourselves that's what it had to be. But we don't have any more conclusions than that really. The fact that we didn't see it much past this one period --- we really don't have a conclusion as to what it might have been, how big it was, or how far away it was. It was something that wasn't part of the urine dump, we're pretty sure of that.

found here.

[SunkenCiv]

also found here.

In his book "RETURN TO EARTH" Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. writes the following on pages 223-224;

In the middle of one evening, Houston time, I found myself idly staring out the window of the Columbia and saw something that looked a bit unusual. It appeared brighter than any star and not quite the pinpoints of light that stars are. I pointed this out to Mike and Neil, and the three of us were beset with curiosity. With the help of the monocular we guessed that whatever it was, it was only a hundred or so miles away. Looking at it through our sextant we found it occasionaly formed a cylinder, but when the sextant's focus was adjusted it had a sort of illuminated "L" look to it. It had a shape of some sort -- we all agreed on that -- but exactly what it was we couldnt pin down. We asked Houston some casual questions: "How far away is the Saturn third stage?" The response was in the vicinity of six thousand miles. That wasn't it.

It could possibly have been one of the panels of the Saturn third stage which fly off to expose the LM and cannot be traced from earth. We could see it for about forty-five seconds at a time as the ship rotated, and we watched it on and off for about an hour. We debated whether or not to tell the ground we had spotted something, and decided against it. Our reason was simple: The UFO people would descend on the message in hordes, setting off another rash of UFO spottings back on earth. We concluded it was most likely on of the panels. Its course appeared in no way to conflict with ours, and it presented no danger. We dropped the matter there.

In his book "Carrying The Fire" astronaut Michael Collins the command module pilot makes no mention of this incident.

[SunkenCiv]

There are, and they all agree. The supposed crazed fearful transmissions by the astronauts were a hoax.

[truthandlife]

I am sure Buzz will be coming out with a book soon to reveal more details $$$$$$$$$$$$