After another successful lunar expedition, Apollo 17, in December 1972, the Americans suddenly stopped exploring the Moon, as if they had lost interest in it. They only woke up in the spring of 1994, when the Clementine reconnaissance spacecraft, launched by the Pentagon (and not NASA), set off for the Moon. It was officially reported that its main task was to photograph the entire lunar surface for the subsequent creation of a complete “mosaic” map of the Moon from the resulting images. However, some American selenologists believe that this was far from the only, and perhaps far from the main purpose of launching Clementine.
The Zhelta super moon will fall asleep on the night of August 10-11, 2014. Photo: Bulgarian Space Agency
And two years earlier, the group “The Mars Mission”, or TMM, headed by Professor Richard Hoagland, began “desk” studies of the lunar landscape in the USA. TMM employees decided to scrupulously study all available photographs of the lunar surface that contained any oddities. And above all, those that depict rock formations of an unnatural appearance, which could be artificial structures or their ruins. Pictures with similar images were subjected to computer analysis using a specially developed program.
Initially, the researchers discovered in one of the images regular-shaped hills that cast shadows of the corresponding shapes on the lunar surface. These were the now well-known “moon domes”. It is difficult to explain their origin by natural causes, especially considering that, according to most researchers, active volcanic activity and tectonic processes on the Moon ceased about 3 billion years ago, and the ring mountains (circuses) and craters characteristic of its modern relief were formed as a result of impact impact of meteorites.
The next sensational discovery of the TMM were photographs of the small Ukert crater, which has a clearly defined triangular shape. The images were from a series transmitted in 1967 from the Lunar Orbiter-Z probe. It is noteworthy that the crater is located exactly in the middle of the lunar disk visible from Earth. Other images of the area around Uckert show a spiky hill that the researchers labeled "The Peak." It rises almost 2.5 km above the surface of the Moon. Knowing the mechanism of erosion of the lunar surface, it is impossible to imagine the existence of a natural formation on it that has been preserved in its current form for billions of years.
As we studied the photographs, unexpected discoveries followed one after another. It turned out that behind the “Peak” there was another hill, similar to a comet standing on its tail. This is the “Tower”, its height is 11 km. When the images of the Peak and Tower were enlarged and subjected to special computer processing, then, according to Dr. Hoagland, “it turned out that the surfaces that reflect light to the greatest extent are not located outside these formations, which would be logical if they were natural rock formations, and inside! Our research suggests that we have discovered some kind of artificial structure made of cryptocrystalline or glassy material, which was applied in layers to obtain the required geometric shape of the structure.”
In one of the frames of television footage taken by the Lunar Orbiter-3 probe and designated in the NASA catalog as 71-N-1765, as many as 5 formations are visible, similar to the terrestrial pyramids in Egypt or Nubia. At the same time, members of the TMM group learned that this probe did not transmit to Earth all the images it took. On March 2, 1967, NASA announced that the transmission of their latest series was suddenly interrupted due to the failure of the transmitting cameras on board the probe. Of the 211 images taken on Earth, only 29 were obtained.
In the process of studying the images, TMM employees discovered a large number of mysterious objects on them. The presence of all these “domes”, “peaks”, “towers” and “pyramids” on the surface of the Moon refutes many ideas established in modern selenology. If the mentioned objects had such shapes and sizes from the very beginning of their existence, then now they would not be so tall and prominent due to the systematic “shelling” of meteorites. If they are artificial structures, then their creators undoubtedly took care to protect their buildings. By the way, it is known that the lunar base project being developed by NASA calls for the use of steel and quartz glass as construction and protective materials. One of the images (4822) turned out to be very interesting. It was carried out in May 1969 in the area of the craters Ukert, Trisnekerl and Manitius by US astronauts flying around the Moon on the Apollo 10 spacecraft.
When the image was enlarged, it was possible to discern a clearly defined area of the lunar surface, clearly covered with rock panels protecting the structures underneath. When this image was enlarged even more and subjected to computer processing, new interesting details became visible. For example, building structures rising 1.5 km above the surface, connected to each other by beams and serving as support for a giant dome, which, according to some researchers, is intended to protect the city underneath. And in photographs taken recently from the Clementine, it was discovered that the inside of this dome is covered with a layer of glassy substance.
But that, as they say, is not all.
For more than 30 years now, there have been persistent rumors among very respected and respected scientists and researchers that some reports of American astronauts who landed on the Moon have never been made public, are still classified as top secrecy and lie in armored safes of NASA and the Pentagon. The reason is that the Earth's messengers allegedly saw there some objects and phenomena that did not fit into the framework of modern scientific ideas and generally contradicted common sense. The possible nature of these objects and phenomena is eloquently evidenced by a fragment of a conversation that, according to former NASA employee Otto Binder, was intercepted (again “allegedly”) by unnamed radio amateurs. This conversation took place on July 21, 1969, between NASA Space Center and astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, who, having left the Apollo 11 spacecraft with Michael Collins in lunar orbit, descended in a lander to the surface of the Moon.
Space Center: The center calls Apollo 11. Well, what do you have there?
Astronauts:...these “little ones”... They are huge, sir! Simply gigantic! My God, you won’t believe it!.. I’m telling you, there are other ships here, they are standing next to each other at the far edge of the crater. They are watching us!.. And here is a fragment of a conversation that took place (again, “allegedly”) between a certain professor, who wished to remain anonymous, and Neil Armstrong during a symposium held at NASA.
Professor (P): So what really happened there with Apollo 11?
Armstrong (A): It was incredible... The point is that these strangers made it clear to us that we should leave their territory. Of course, after this there can be no talk of any lunar station.
P: What do you mean by "made clear"?
A: I have no right to go into details, I can only say that their ships are much superior to ours both in size and in technical sophistication. You see, they were really huge! And formidable... In general, we have nothing to think about either a lunar city or a station on the Moon.
P: But after Apollo 11, other ships also visited there.
A: Certainly. NASA did not dare to suddenly and without explanation interrupt its lunar program. This could cause panic on Earth. But the tasks of all subsequent expeditions were simplified, and the time spent on the Moon was reduced. There is information that when the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the surface of the Moon on July 21, 1969, during a “live” television broadcast of this historical event, either Neil Armstrong or Edwin Aldrin said that on the edge of a nearby crater (or inside it) the light source is visible.
The mission control center did not comment on this information. Since then, the rumor has continued that astronauts saw a UFO on the edge of the lunar crater. One of the founders of ufology in the USSR, physicist Vladimir Azhazha, and Maurice Chatelain, the developer and creator of communication and information processing systems for the Apollo spacecraft, expressed confidence that there really was a UFO on the edge of the lunar crater.
However, Dr. Paul Lowman from the Goddard Space Flight Center, one of the divisions of NASA, in a conversation with the English writer and ufologist Timothy Goode said the following about this: “The very idea that such a purely civilian organization as NASA, working openly and publicly , can hide such a discovery from the public, is absurd. We simply couldn't do it even if we wanted to. In addition, it is known that most radio communications with the Apollo 11 crew were transmitted to Earth in real time.”
Meanwhile, in response to a question from Timothy Goode, the chief information officer at the Manned Flight Center in Houston (now the Lyndon Johnson Space Center), John McLeish, wrote on May 20, 1970: “When astronauts request a private conversation or when management at the Control Center believes that a planned conversation should be private in nature, it is conducted in the commonly used radio frequency range, but is transmitted through special voice communication channels. And unlike other negotiations between the Control Center and a ship in space, the content of such conversations is not made public.
The means for astronauts to have confidential conversations with the Control Center existed then, and they still exist today.” An interesting detail: when members of the TMM group asked NASA management for negatives of some photographs depicting strange formations and structures, they were told that these negatives... disappeared under unclear circumstances.
Moreover, when some of the missing negatives were suddenly found (also under unclear circumstances), it turned out that those areas where the images that interested the researchers were located had been carefully retouched. “I have no doubt,” writes Professor Hoagland, “that both NASA employees and astronauts knew about the existence of these sky-reaching objects on the Moon. Otherwise, it is difficult to understand how the Apollos managed to avoid collisions with them during orbital flights around the Moon at low altitudes.”
Today, the Pentagon has several million images of the Moon and cislunar space, but only a tiny part of this gigantic video library is available for viewing and research. Why? Why is everything related to the Clementine mission shrouded in secrecy? What is existing and happening on our natural satellite that NASA, the Pentagon and the US leadership are so diligently hiding from the public? The results of the work of researchers from the TMM group, including the study of the few images transmitted from Clementine that have become available, confirm the plausibility of the hypothesis they put forward that once upon a time representatives of a certain scientific and technical civilization (STC) founded their colony on the Moon.
According to Dr. Hoagland, this happened several million years ago, and the giant structures and protective structures captured in the photographs (and perhaps also seen “live” by the astronauts, since they traveled more than 100 km on the Moon) are just ruins. Who and when erected all these buildings and structures can only be found out after systematic exploration of the Moon begins. And even with the current level of development of space technology, it is quite possible to implement such a program - the expeditions of the American Apollo spacecraft convincingly proved this. “We must revive our old space program,” says Professor Hoagland, “and return to the Moon, because scientific discoveries can await us there that we cannot even imagine now.” It has long been believed that there is no water on the Moon.
And it never was. But the instruments installed on it by the crews of the Apollo spacecraft refuted this “immutable” truth. They recorded accumulations of water vapor extending over the lunar surface for hundreds of kilometers. Analyzing these sensational data, Professor John Freeman from Rice University in Houston came to an even more sensational conclusion. In his opinion, instrument readings indicate that water vapor seeps to the surface from the depths of the lunar interior! Legends about the existence of lunar cities appeared, probably, simultaneously with the emergence of the first large cities on Earth.
But legends are legends, and some European astronomers, back in the 19th century, claimed in their works that they had seen the ruins of such cities on the Moon. American astronomical magazines published photographs and drawings of pyramids, domes and bridges that scientists observed on the surface of our night star. And the Polish explorer and writer Jerzy Zulawski, in his three-volume description of the Moon “On a Silver Ball,” even indicated the exact coordinates of the ruins of one of the lunar cities located in the Sea of Rains. It is possible that he himself saw these ruins through a telescope during a visit to the astronomical observatory of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he often visited when collecting materials for his monumental work. It is also impossible to explain by natural causes the presence of white dome-shaped elevations on the Moon with a diameter of up to 200 m. More than 200 of them have already been discovered, and the most surprising thing is that at times they disappear in one place and appear in another, as if moving along the lunar surface.
A large number of “domes” are concentrated near another mysterious element of the lunar landscape - a perfectly straight “wall” about 450 m high and over 100 km long. On the flat surfaces of the Sea of Tranquility and the Ocean of Storms there are isolated groups of rocks. Among them, monoliths stand out in the form of giant spiers and pyramids, surpassing in height any terrestrial structures. Their presence and shape are confirmed, in particular, by photographs taken from the Soviet automatic interplanetary station Luna-9.
A detailed description of these strange formations and their photographs can be found in the book Extraterrestrial Archeology by David Hatcher-Childress. It is possible that today one of the most grandiose (literally and figuratively) mysteries of the Moon is the “O’Neill Bridge”. On July 29, 1953, John O'Neill, science editor of the American newspaper The New York Herald Tribune and amateur astronomer, discovered something unusual on the Moon.
Using a refracting telescope with a 100-mm lens, he saw in the southwest of the visible disk of the Moon, in the region of the Sea of Crises, an arch of enormous length - its length was more than 19 km! Being a sensible man and not prone to fantasy, O’Neill considered what he saw to be a bizarre creation of lunar natural forces.
Three weeks later, O'Neill wrote about his discovery to the famous English astronomer Hugh Percy Wilkins. It was according to the maps he compiled, on the most detailed of which the lunar disk reached a diameter of 7.6 m, that the trajectories of space probes flying around the Moon were laid out.
Having received the letter, Wilkins, who considered himself an expert on lunar landscapes, decided that the amateur astronomer was simply mistaken. But he still pointed his reflecting telescope with a mirror diameter of 375 mm at the indicated area. To his surprise, there really was an absolutely incredible structure (Wilkins later described it as “a bridge under which the light of the sun's rays passes, and the shadow of its arch falls on the surface of the surrounding plain”).
The English astronomer immediately wrote a reply message to O’Neill, confirming the correctness of the observation and congratulating him on the discovery. Unfortunately, O'Neill died suddenly and did not have time to receive this letter. Speaking on the BBC's science program on December 23, 1953, Wilkins stated that the O'Neill Bridge, or Moon Bridge, was an artificial structure. “The appearance of the Bridge indicates that such a formation almost certainly could not have arisen during the formation of the Moon during any natural process,” the astronomer argued.
But even if this had happened, such a structure of natural origin would certainly have collapsed over the millions of years that have passed since then; it could not have survived to this day.” An article describing the “Bridge” was published in May 1954 in the magazine “Sky and Telescope”, published by Harvard University (USA).
The article provided a detailed description of a mysterious structure photographed on the surface of the Moon and connecting two mountain ranges near the Sea of Crisis. In June 1954, while at the Mount Wilson Astronomical Observatory (Pasadena, California), Wilkins again examined the “Bridge,” this time through a reflecting telescope with a one-and-a-half-meter mirror, and again became convinced of the reality of its existence. By that time, many astronomers had already seen the “Bridge,” but some scientists still had doubts about its reality.
At the same time, there was an ongoing debate among supporters of the existence of the “Bridge” about the nature of this mysterious structure. The then very young astronomer Patrick Moore, who worked with Wilkins on his lunar maps, was convinced of the existence of the “Bridge” and was inclined to recognize its artificial origin. This is what he wrote in his book “Guide to the Planets”, published in 1955: “In early 1954, the discovery of a certain structure called the “Moon Bridge” aroused great interest among astronomers.
It is obvious that this arch does exist on the edge of a lava-covered plain called the Sea of Crisis, it was discovered by the American J. O'Neill, his discovery was confirmed by the Englishman Dr. H. P. Wilkins, and I myself have personally seen this arch. According to Wilkins' calculations, this bridge had a length of about 20 km, and Polish researcher Robert Lesniakiewicz adds that the “Bridge” rose 1600 m above the surface of the Moon, and its width was about 3200 m. Truly a cyclopean structure!
What hypotheses can be put forward based on the above information about the origin of unnatural objects and events on the Moon? The Moon is inhabited by Selenites - representatives of the extraterrestrial scientific and technological center and is considered by them as their own territory. This explains, in particular, the mysterious phenomena observed from the Earth on its surface and the high activity of unidentified space objects (UCOs) in the lunar space, as well as the reluctance demonstrated by the Selenites to see “outsiders” on the Moon, which, according to their concepts, are modern earthlings. In very distant times, the Moon was colonized by representatives of the earth's scientific and technological center, which preceded the current one and died for reasons unknown to us - perhaps as a result of a global civil war or as a result of an attack by an alien scientific and technological center that invaded from space.
Moon- this is a huge spaceship that came to us from outside the solar system and delivered to Earth those creatures from which the genus of homosapiens - Homo sapiens - originated. Now the Moon is a gigantic space station with intelligent aliens from other worlds or descendants of the former earthly supercivilization living inside it. They are the “producers” of all objects and phenomena that we perceive as UFOs and NGOs. Currently, there are lively discussions among scientists from various fields of science about the possible nature of the oddities that our closest cosmic neighbor constantly demonstrates to us. Not the last place (and word) belongs to ufologists in these discussions.
One of the hypotheses explaining the events taking place on the Moon was proposed at the international ufological conference held in Prague in 1998 by Robert Lesnyakevich. In his opinion, in the distant past there was a civilization on Earth, people from which mastered and populated Mars and Venus, as well as habitable satellites of the giant planets of the solar system. But 12 - 15 thousand years ago, the mentioned civilization died when aliens from another planetary system invaded the Solar System, for example, from the system of the closest star to us, Proxima of the Centaurus constellation. And they arrived on a spaceship, the role of which was played by... the Moon! At the same time, flying near Pluto on their way, the Proximians brought it out of its previous orbit, and it, which until then had been a satellite of Neptune, became an independent planet. Having reached a pre-selected place in the solar system, the aliens “slowed down” the Moon and put it into orbit around the Earth. Probably, a brutal war using weapons of mass destruction soon broke out between the earthlings and the Proximians. As a result, Mars lost its water and almost completely lost its atmosphere, and violent volcanic activity began there. On Venus, hostilities led to the boiling off of all seas and oceans.
This caused greenhouse megaeffect- Over time, the surface of the planet became like a red-hot furnace. Fierce battles also took place on Earth. Their echoes have been preserved in the myths of all peoples of the world as legends about the struggle of the gods who descended from heaven among themselves and with people...
It is precisely the signs of the activity of these great civilizations that we have recently begun to detect on the Moon and Mars. As for the assumption of using the Moon as a spaceship, no matter how fantastic it may seem at first glance, there are some reasons for it. It is possible that the inhabitants of other worlds are already traveling in outer space, using planets as vehicles. The fact is that today astronomers know about 30 planets that do not circle in constant closed orbits around their stars, but wander freely in space.
One of them is the object TMR-1C, located in the constellation Taurus and distant from Earth at a distance of about 500 light years. Perhaps astronomers will engage in a detailed study of these space wanderers and figure out what reasons (or forces) allowed (or forced) them to go on a “free flight”. And here is another interesting message that came from Japan. On the evening of September 9, 2003, the famous ufologist scientist and journalist Dr. Kiyoshi Amamiya from the city of Tenryu, Nara Prefecture, observed a mysterious luminous object near the Moon. It was a bright spot that appeared near the lunar disk, approached it and then seemed to merge with it. Amamiya filmed this entire process on a digital video camera with a teleconverter.
Looking at the footage on the monitor the next day, he became convinced that the NPO actually flew up to the Moon and, possibly, landed on its surface.
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During 2007-2009, former NASA employees Richard S. Hoagland and Ken Johnston held a series of press conferences. According to them, the world's leading space organization has been hiding the truth for 40 years that astronauts of the Apollo mission discovered traces of an ancient civilization on the Moon.
Crystal Towers of the Moon
Richard Hoagland sets out his views on the problem of lunar architectural and man-made artifacts in the most detail on the pages of his book Dark Mission. The Secret History of NASA,” which has also been translated into Russian. There is a whole chapter dedicated to artifacts - “Crystal Towers of the Moon”. Armed with the latest technology, Hoagland analyzed images of the satellite's surface. We are talking about photographs that were obtained by the American manned Apollo mission and automatic research vehicles. The results were interesting.
Hoagland noticed strange geometric formations in the Ukert crater area. Moreover, in the crater itself there is a certain dark triangular object against the background of a lighter circle. It is curious that earlier the NASA image AS10-32-4810 was studied by the American ufologist Fred Steckling, who saw the entrances to the sublunar bases of aliens in the dark spots, but did not pay any attention to the geometrically correct formations.
Photo of LO-III-84M
Meanwhile, in the image of LO-III-84M, taken by one of the Lunar Orbiter mission devices, Hoagland noticed a tower similar to a pin, a mile and a half high. On the surface of the Moon, which had been bombarded by asteroids and micrometeorites for millions of years, this fragment looked like a completely anomalous structure - with an irregularly shaped top, thickening in the middle and tapering downward. Computer enlargement produced some very impressive results. The unusual structure consisted of repeating, complex internal crystalline shapes visible throughout the object.
Using a computer, Hoagland enlarged the images taken from the LO-III-84M negative, revealing a remarkable internal structure of cubic or hexagonal cells that had been badly damaged by time but were still clearly visible. Probably the size of these cells is about seventy meters.
Dome over the sea
In the same photo, you can see the dimly lit top of a more massive cubic tower, most likely made of glass. The initial assumption that a comet passing behind the Moon was captured in the frame was rejected, since no such comets were observed in February 1967, when the picture was taken. Calculations showed that we are talking about a glass tower more than seven miles high. Computer processing of the photograph indicated the presence of another anomaly, conventionally called a “fire in the steppe.” We are talking about a multi-meter layer of material covering the surface of the Moon, which emits a reddish glow. Calculations showed that this material most likely consists of glass fragments and something else incomprehensible.
Photo AS 10-32-4822
Hoagland suggested that once upon a time there was a sea on the Moon, which was completely covered by a glass dome. About 100 miles southwest of the pin and the glass tower, Surveyor 6 captured something else interesting in November 1967. This something looked like sparkling beads. The Surveyor image shows sparkling chains stretching along the western horizon and intense light above a geometric structure visible against an airless lunar sky. Hoagland believes that this phenomenon can only be caused by the interaction of sunlight and a giant glass dome located directly above the surface of the Moon. The real treasure turned out to be NASA photograph AS 10-32-4822, taken by Apollo 10 in 1969. To the northwest of the Ukert crater we already know, an unusual area of the lunar surface with clear geometric outlines is clearly visible. Because the area looks almost like a city, a geological consultant has even given it the nickname "Los Angeles on the Moon." The photograph shows a surprisingly regular three-dimensional pattern over an area of hundreds of square miles, roughly the size of Los Angeles on Earth. Rows of lines, sometimes stretching across the surface for tens of kilometers, seem strikingly similar to the streets and avenues of earthly cities. But in some places the photograph clearly shows round craters a mile in diameter.
It looks like the lunar city was bombed. At the same time, it is quite possible to assume that meteorites have nothing to do with this bombing - most likely, we are talking about the use of nuclear weapons. Independent experts admitted: from a geological point of view, “lunar Los Angeles” is a relatively young “city”, it is at most several hundred million years old. In image AS 10-32-4822, researchers also discovered an object - a giant castle, extremely similar to Neuschwanstein, built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria. But the height of the lunar “castle” reaches 11 miles. Studying the image, Hoagland came to an unexpected conclusion: the castle was hanging above the surface of the Moon, and a wire was holding it in the air.
But here, perhaps, one can argue with him: perhaps the castle is simply installed on a completely dark base or on a mirror-like and extremely flat surface. The optical effect, when islands or ships seem to float above the water, has been well known to sailors since ancient times. As is known, there is no water on the surface of the Moon, but there may well be a mirrored area around the supposed castle. Why not? As for the “wire,” given the gigantic size of the castle, its diameter clearly exceeds 10 meters. Entire communication nodes could easily pass inside such a “wire.” And not only, for example, fiber-optic lines, but also, say, a pneumatic railway.
Who built everything?
Of course, the question arises: who and when could build these structures? Here’s what Richard Hoagland himself says about this in an interview: “I believe that the Apollo project confirmed the existence of an ancient, but still human civilization on the Moon. It was laid down by our ancestors in what kind of tribe it’s scary to think. But we were able to make public only a small part of the information obtained by NASA that humans once inhabited the entire solar system."
Datings of hundreds of millions of years, proposed by independent experts, send us back to the age of dinosaurs, if not further. However, even in those days people could exist on Earth. This is evidenced by archaeological finds - for example, traces of human feet in geological layers corresponding to the Cambrian time (505-590 million years, Antelope Springs, Utah, USA, 1968), the Triassic period (213-248 million years, Nevada, USA, 1922) and the Carboniferous period (286-320 million years, Rocastle, Kentucky, 1938).
Meanwhile, in the distant past, life could exist on the surface of Selene. This was stated by astrobiologists from the USA.
"If liquid water and a thick atmosphere were present on the early Moon for long periods of time, then we think the lunar surface may have been habitable at least temporarily," says Schulze-Makuch.
The work of astrobiologists is based on the results of recent space missions and.
So, in 2009 and 2010, an international group of scientists discovered a huge amount of water ice on Selena. In addition, convincing evidence was obtained of the presence of large amounts of water in the lunar mantle.
Also, the young Moon was likely protected by a magnetic field, which could have protected life forms on the surface from the deadly solar wind.
As Schulze-Makuch believes, life on the satellite could have originated in the same way as But, more likely, it was nevertheless brought by a meteorite.
The earliest evidence of life on Earth is fossilized cyanobacteria, 3.5 to 3.8 billion years old. At that time, the solar system was being bombarded by meteorites. It is possible that meteorites containing simple organisms (the same cyanobacteria) could have been brought to the satellite from the Earth itself.
"It's very likely that the Moon was habitable at that time. Microbes could thrive in the waters of the Moon until the surface became dry and dead," says Schulze-Makuch.
The specialist admits that it is only possible to determine whether life originated on the Moon or was transferred from another place in the course of a future satellite exploration program. One of the promising areas of research for any future space missions may be the collection of samples from deposits of the period of volcanic activity. The goal is to determine whether they contain water or possible signs of life.
In addition, experiments could be carried out under simulated lunar conditions directly on our planet and on the ISS to also find out whether microorganisms could survive the conditions that, according to theories, existed on the early Moon.
By the first half of the 1970s, the United States had invested billions of dollars in space exploration. The USSR space program is believed to have been less expensive, but no less interesting in terms of conducting scientific experiments. And suddenly both countries began hastily curtailing their space projects.
By 1974, the N1-LZM project, intended for the exploration of the Moon, was ready at the Central Design Bureau of Experimental Mechanical Engineering (TsKBEM), under the leadership of chief designer Vasily Mishin. However, no money was allocated for it.
Anton Pervushin writes the following about this: “Due to the delay in flight testing of the N-1 rocket, the lunar exploration program was reoriented to unmanned flights with a gradual reduction in the number of launched automatic vehicles and the consistent curtailment of the entire program under the pretext that the Moon was fully studied and of interest no longer represents science."
After TsKBEM was reorganized into the Research and Production Association “Energia”, Valentin Glushko was appointed its head, who in October 1974 began developing a comprehensive work plan for the NPO for the coming years. It was assumed that the visit to the Moon by Soviet cosmonauts would be long-term in nature - with the design of new heavy spacecraft for lunar expeditions and the construction on the Moon of various options for residential and work complexes, as well as means of transportation.
Until his death, Valentin Glushko tried to convince the Soviet “higher-ups” of the need to finance the scientific program for the exploration of the Moon, but all his attempts remained in vain, although the development of individual parts of the system had already reached preliminary design.
But Evgeny Arsyukhin, astronomer, coordinator of lunar observations in the CIS countries, says the following about the more than 30-year period that has passed since the cessation of the lunar programs of the USSR and the USA: “For such a long time, the Moon remains an extremely little-studied object. Very few people fly to it - at least officially. Why do all the plans for the construction of a lunar base (at least in terms of ensuring regular flights to the Moon of just probes) remain just plans?”
“Lunokhod-2” as part of the “Luna-21” station landed on the Moon on January 16, 1973 in the Sea of Serenity (172 km south of this place, a month before the events described, the module of the last US manned spacecraft “Apollo-17” landed on the Moon). The landing of Lunokhod 2 was accompanied by failure of the navigation equipment. A detailed photographic map of the landing area, which was found in the USSR under very strange circumstances, was of great help.
Anton Pervushin, with reference to the chief designer for lunar topics at the NPO named after. Lavochkin Oleg Genrikhovich Ivanovsky, said the following: “Immediately after the landing of Luna-21, an American delegation arrived in Moscow to discuss the results of the study of the planets of the solar system. The meeting took place from January 29 to February 2, 1973. In it, one of the American scientists carefully approached Ivanovsky and put an envelope in his jacket pocket. Inside was a detailed photograph of the Luna 21 landing area. The area was filmed by the Americans in anticipation of the Apollo 17 departure. This photograph actually saved Lunokhod 2.”
The last TASS report on the movement of Lunokhod-2 was dated May 9, 1973. The official version of the completion of the “tractor” sounded like this: getting out of the next crater, the machine scooped up lunar soil onto the solar battery. Due to this, the charging current dropped, and due to dust getting on the radiator, the thermal conditions were disrupted. All attempts to save the device ended in vain.
In 1975, Lunokhod-3 was manufactured, a more advanced one, which passed the entire cycle of necessary tests on Earth. But he was not delivered to the Moon. The then general director of the NPO named after. Lavochkin Sergei Sergeevich Kryukov for some reason changed his attitude towards the lunar program: all forces were switched to delivering lunar soil, and not to conducting observations on the Moon. "Lunokhod-3" was transferred for storage to the NPO museum named after. Lavochkin, where he remains to this day.
So two fundamental questions remain unanswered: what exactly could have been discovered on the Moon during Soviet and American research? And why did the two states almost simultaneously stop lunar exploration?
Oleg Ivanovsky, deputy chief designer of the Luna automatic stations, honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics: “I do not rule out that one of the reasons for the curtailment of both the American and Soviet lunar programs were the anomalous phenomena that the Americans encountered both on the Moon and in its surroundings."
Vladimir Azhazha, Doctor of Philosophy, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences: “In 1992, I was at a conference of ufologists in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and met former senator Clifford Stone, who had very interesting information. Stone invited me to his place, we had a long conversation, talking all night.
He showed me a number of unique film footage, which were fragments of meetings of the US Senate. In these frames, information was once again voiced about the possible population of the Moon by an intelligence unknown to us, and it was said that a decision had been made to stop flights of the American Apollo series spacecraft to the Moon.
It is unclear whether President Kennedy shared his thoughts with Khrushchev about what awaited man on the Moon in the early 1960s, after the so-called Brookings Report essentially predicted the discovery of evidence of extraterrestrial civilization on the Moon. But what is known for sure is that shortly after the official launch of the Apollo program (May 25, 1961), one of the goals of which was called “an attempt to get to the Moon before the Soviet Union,” President Kennedy secretly made the following proposal to Khrushchev during the first Vienna summit : “Let our nations fly to the moon together!” However, this joint project has not yet been implemented. Why?
Probably, our distant ancestors also observed unusual glows and bright flashes on the Moon. On ancient symbols you can see a bright star between the horns of the crescent moon. Where there couldn't be a real star. This symbol is at least 2000 years old. And astronomers from Kharkov photographed flares on the Moon with an interval of 7 seconds. No less mysterious are the moving clouds above the Moon, where there is no atmosphere.
1958, November 3 - Professor of the Pulkovo Observatory Nikolai Kozyrev spent 2 hours observing a strange red cloud over the Alphonse crater, which completely covered its central part. What is this? Eruption? But nothing like this can exist on the Earth’s satellite. Volcanic activity on the Moon ended two billion years ago. And it didn’t happen the same way as on Earth.
Vladislav Shevchenko, head of the department of lunar and planetary research at the SAI MSU, says:
“I have in my hands a so-called volcanic bomb, brought by our employees, who at one time studied analogues of lunar soil on the Kamchatka Peninsula. They discovered it in the emission field of Kamchatka volcanoes. This is solidified lava, which has a drop-shaped shape. But there are no such formations on the Moon. Volcanism on the Moon was limited to the release of lava that formed the seas, flooding as if from within. Slowly, but very calmly, this substance spread across the surface of the Moon. There were no explosions, no emissions. That is, the interpretation of observations similar to those of N.A. Kozyrev is very difficult.”
But if this is not volcanism, then what is? As you can see, lunar glows have a different origin. It does not fit into today's scientific ideas. It is also impossible to explain the flights of unknown bodies over the lunar surface.
Our contemporaries are also observing mysterious movements on the Moon. One such observation was made in May 1955. A white streak rose from the north pole of the Moon. And, turning sharply to the right, she went down, skirting the lunar disk. After about 5 seconds, she ran into the Moon near the South Pole. She began to quickly turn pale and soon disappeared completely.
The second observation was made in the summer of the same year. This time the luminous object was flying in the other direction. In a few seconds, having flown a third of the circle, he descended along a steep trajectory to the surface of the Moon. The body was quite large and seemed to be controllable.
From time to time, against the background of our bright satellite, flights of huge dark objects are observed through a telescope. Moreover, along rather intricate trajectories. Here's an interesting observation that was made in 1992.
Astronomer Evgeny Arsyukhin spoke about it:
“Imagine that you see some kind of square object that moves quite slowly, while making zigzag movements. At first it flies a little up, then flies a little down. Then he makes a loop and hides in one of the craters. I cannot say for sure that he fell into this crater, that he landed in this crater. Of course, from the Earth, and the atmosphere is shaking, such details are not visible. It simply leveled with the Alphonse crater and disappeared.”
Something similar was observed in March 2000. For 12 minutes. A dark object was moving against the background of the lunar disk. At 120x magnification, it was clearly visible that the object was shaped like an orange slice and was rotating slowly. The astronomer managed to take several photographs.
There is a video recording that was made using a telescope by the world famous astronomer from Japan Yatsuo Mitsushima. The shadow of some object is clearly visible, quickly moving across the lunar surface. The enormous size of the shadow is impressive - about 20 km in diameter - and the speed of its movement: in two seconds the shadow traveled about 400 km. Facts are stubborn things. Was it not these mysterious objects that forced the Americans to suddenly stop the live broadcast of the moon landing and blame everything on the failure of television equipment?
Edwin Aldrin, the second crew member of the Apollo 11 mission, in 1999, speaking on a television program dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the lunar expedition, on the topic of whether there is life on the Moon, made a sensational statement: there is life on the Moon, and in NASA has known about this for a long time. Moreover, to confirm his words, the astronaut presented an audio recording. Those same two minutes of negotiations that disappeared from the air, which were conducted by the astronauts who landed on the lunar surface, with the Mission Control Center.
From these negotiations it is clear: the astronaut module is being watched by a mysterious luminous object. The astronauts are in a state close to panic. There's no time for posing in front of cameras. Here is a recording of these negotiations.
1969, July 21 - Moon. Sea of Tranquility.
CPP: “Repeat your last message!”
Astronauts: “I say there are other spaceships here. They stand in a straight line on the other side of the crater.”CPP: “Repeat... repeat!”
Astronauts: “Allow us to probe this sphere... The automatic relay has connected... My hands are shaking so much that I can’t do anything. Should I take it off? My God, if those damn cameras catch something, what then?”CPP: “Can you film anything?”
Astronauts: “I don’t have any more film on hand. Three shots from the saucer, or whatever that thing is called, ruined the film.”CPP: “Regain control! Are they in front of you? Are you hearing any noises from the UFO?”
Astronauts: “They landed here! They are here and they are watching us!
According to the astronaut, this audio recording is only a copy that he managed to make secretly from NASA employees. The original, he said, was destroyed. During all these years, fearing for its safety, Aldrin kept the film in a safe deposit box and did not make it public only because he signed a non-disclosure agreement for 30 years.
In addition, Edwin Aldrin captured amazing footage in lunar orbit. These photos, according to Aldrin, are not copies, but originals.
An unidentified luminous object is clearly visible in the image. It was this object that monitored the astronauts until they went back to Earth. According to Edwin, hundreds more of the same images are stored in NASA archives. But... all of them are still classified as “top secret”.
Hero of the Soviet Union Marina Popovich is one of the few who saw these strange photos. Here's what she says:
“One object that alerted me - 2 km long, as they explained to me - was long, long, like a cigar. They say that it wasn’t just them who filmed it, it was also filmed by a Japanese guy, an amateur. Do you know what this long object looks like? To the blast furnace! Here was one such object, round, and with holes for pipes, like knobs..."
I was unable to find out the fate of these photographs from Edwin Aldrin himself. After his scandalous statements, he lives as a hermit and avoids communicating with reporters. But I managed to find a person who worked in a NASA photo laboratory in those years. This is Sergeant Karl Wolf. This is what he told me in a conversation:
“Once my boss came to me. I was working at the time in an image processing laboratory as a technical specialist. He asked me to go to a secret compartment and said that photographs taken by astronauts on the Moon were brought there. But the equipment for developing photographs has broken down and needs to be urgently repaired. I then took my tools and went there.”
It was July 24th. Just on the day when the astronauts returned to Earth. The same films taken on the lunar surface were brought to a secret darkroom. Wolf argued: these photographs were taken by Edwin Aldrin. And these were still originals, not photomontages. He can confirm this even today. After all, he personally processed these photographs.
Wolf also claimed that while the photographs were being developed, high military officials were holding a meeting behind closed doors. And when it ended, Wolf had such a strange conversation with one of the military men. Karl Wolf recounted it to me almost verbatim:
“He tells me: “We discovered a base on the far side of the moon.” And I said to him: “Whose?” And then he takes out one of the developed photographs and shows me this base. There, you can’t imagine, there is something incredible in this photograph. Gigantic object. At that moment I was very scared. I understood that if someone else had been present, we wouldn’t get out alive... He’s showing me this, top-secret stuff..."
The photos Karl Wolf is talking about will most likely never be published. Meanwhile, Wolf claims: in the pictures that he processed, there were not only UFOs, bases, but also residential buildings and, possibly, even some creatures. These pictures, he said, when asked whether there is life on the Moon, prove that life probably exists on the Moon. There are traces of some unknown civilization, which in terms of development is much superior to the earthly one.
Karl Wolf testifies:
“I had the opportunity to process a large number of photographs. And in many of them one could see objects that were clearly not made by human hands. And there is a lot of such evidence. And I want to repeat once again that all these photographs were immediately classified, and, as you yourself understand, it was impossible to make copies of these negatives.”
Karl Wolf might be suspected of having a rich imagination. If not for one “but”. Also in 1969, another NASA employee from the parallel 8th Directorate was also processing and analyzing some photographs taken by astronauts on the Moon.
Aerospace agency veteran Donna Heer assures that these pictures almost cost her her life. Here's what Donna Heer told me:
“And then the military came to my office and, threatening me with their service weapons, forced me to burn all the copies of the photographs that I managed to take!”
1972 - Apollo 17 landed on the moon. This was the sixth and last expedition. By the end of 1972, 12 astronauts had walked on the Moon. They spent more than 80 hours there, traveled about 100 km on the surface and delivered 400 kg of lunar samples to earth. Apollo flights numbered 18, 19 and 20 were planned. And suddenly NASA announced the termination of the lunar program. The official reason is lack of funding.
It would seem that the explanation is clear. Americans didn't really have enough money at that time.
Historian Anton Pervushin says:
“Firstly, the war was going on in Vietnam, and it was just approaching the phase when, in general, it became clear that America would have to withdraw its troops from Vietnam in disgrace. Secondly, they had the famous oil economic crisis, when the dollar was devalued, almost 2.5 times devalued, when it ceased to be associated with gold for the first time in American history.”
Each new Apollo mission cost $2.5 billion—not a record cost these days. But if you recalculate at that rate plus take into account inflation, in today’s money it’s $10 billion.
However, historian Alexei Penzensky does not consider such expenses exorbitant:
“As for the high cost of the project, there is no need to tell us much about it. Because the project was able to pay off, and very quickly. What did flying to the Moon give us? Flights to the Moon gave us digital technology and mobile communications. “Everything we are doing now is actually eating away the technologies of that time.”
Another explanation for the sudden end of the lunar program is scientific. NASA said: The Moon has been studied and is no longer of interest for research. And this despite the fact that the US government allocated $25 billion from the country’s budget for the lunar program. In terms of the current dollar exchange rate, this is an astronomical amount - 135 billion! What is the reason for this inconsistency? Why did Americans suddenly lose interest in lunar exploration? There is still no answer to this question.
And yet the fact remains a fact. No one has gone to the moon for decades. Why? Is the project expensive? The futility of lunar exploration? Unlikely. There is another version that worries researchers most. The famous creator of the V-rocket, taken from Nazi Germany by the Americans, the head of the American lunar program, Wernher von Braun, once said:
“There are extraterrestrial forces that are much stronger than we can imagine. I have no right to say anything more about this.”
And this reason seems to many to be the main one. America was simply scared. They were afraid of something that they were not able to explain at that time.
At least, all the mysteries of the lunar program cannot be explained by the “lunar conspiracy” theory alone.
Candidate of Technical Sciences Gennady Zadneprovsky says:
“Why should the United States organize 7 expeditions to the Moon, just to mislead humanity? It would seem that one or two expeditions are enough. After all, a launch in those days cost about $25 million, if my memory serves me correctly, or about $120 million today, and for the sake of a hoax to do 7 launches? When it would be enough to make a couple, or three.”
It is known that these fabulous sums that were allocated for lunar exploration were not even fully spent. After all, it was assumed that the lunar program was designed for at least 15 years. And it only lasted three years! But if there was enough money to explore the Moon, then why was all research suddenly closed?
According to experts, the answer is very simple: this happened precisely because the astronauts encountered on the Moon not only something inexplicable, mysterious, but also probably even unsafe. Something that top officials are afraid to talk about to this day.
10 years before the flights to the Moon, NASA began to study mysterious lunar phenomena. Astronomer Jess Wilson took an amazing photo during this research. A chain of 34 objects stretches from the Moon to the Earth. All this is called short-term lunar phenomena.
Historian Alexey Penzensky commented on this photo:
“This can be a pulsation, a change in brightness, the appearance of lights of various colors: bluish, reddish, violet, white, dazzling white. The change in brightness is also a very interesting phenomenon. Albedo, as it is called, is when, over a fairly short period of time, even recorded by a person’s internal clock, it is possible to observe the darkening or, conversely, brightening of individual sections of the lunar surface. A separate story is moving lunar anomalies, when something crawls on the lunar surface or moves above its surface.”
Igor Prokopenko
