F. Apollo 12 and 13 and Other Moon Miscellanies
This excursion into
lunar anomalies would not be complete without mention of the Apollo
12 and 13 missions, and their very near disastrous outcomes. Apollo
12 was only the second of man’s flights to land on the Moon,
lifting off from Earth in November of 1969. However, less than a
minute after lift-off the craft was struck by lightning when it was
barely a mile and a half above Earth. All its electrical systems
were shut down. The astronauts — Charles Conrad, Dick Gordon, and
Allan Bean — worked calmly and restored all the craft’s electrical
power and systems.622 The origin of the
lightning bolt was a mystery, since the nearest weather reports of
lightning were some twenty miles distant.623
Then, while on the
way to the Moon, observatories from around the world reported
seeing flashing lights both leading and trailing the spaceship. The
day after lift off, November 15, 1969, the three astronauts radioed
Mission Control that they also had spotted the “bogeys,” i.e., the
UFOs. 624
The Apollo 12
lightning-UFO episode has led some UFOlogists and others to
speculate that someone was trying halt manned missions to the Moon
and, having failed to do so, traveled along with it to keep a close
eye on things. While possible, another explanation would be that
the Soviet Union might have been using some of its own Tesla
weaponry to stop the missions.
An even more chilling
rumor was related by NASA insider and engineer Maurice Chatelain
regarding the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. Chatelain
maintained
While the idea of a “secret nuclear payload” seems highly unlikely,
it is interesting that elements inside of NASA would even be
speculating along such lines, much less along the lines of a
deliberate sabotage of the mission by an “extraterrestrial
power.”
That there was a lot of talk and speculation within the space agency about the unsuccessful mission. It seems that Apollo 13 was carrying a secret payload - a nuclear device that was to be detonated on the Moon’s surface. The nuclear test would be measured by the seismographic packages left on the surface at the two previous Apollo sites, in order to determine the infrastructure properties of the Moon. A predominant opinion circulating at the space agency was that a UFO trailing Apollo 13 deliberately caused the mysterious explosion of an oxygen tank in the service module, in order to prevent the planned nuclear detonation.625
What emerges from all
this is that there is a substantial case for the idea that, at the
minimum, the Moon is covered is anomalous formations highly
suggestive of an artificial origin. And at the maximum, all the
strange features of the Moon’s gravitational pull, its almost
impossible-to-account-for celestial mechanics in its orbit around
the Earth, its oddly shallow craters, the apparent presence miles
beneath its surface of a hard metallic “inner crust”, and its
ability to “ring like a bell,” may point to the whole planet being
a gigantic artificial structure.
Something else has
emerged from all this as well, and that is the persistent presence
within the space program - from the first days of organized
observation of the lunar surface by the Pentagon and the various
intelligence agencies in 1953, to the heavy presence within the
astronaut corps itself - of the military. It has been suggested in
this chapter that one possible reason for this heavy military
presence in the initial days of space exploration, was to suppress
any data that indicated former or current habitation of our nearby
celestial neighbors. A reason for this was also suggested, and that
is that the “hidden” space programs of the United States and the
Soviet Union may have been not only to suppress evidences of an
ancient war, but also to possibly recover the technology that made
that war possible.
This last possibility
- that of covering up evidence of an ancient war while
simultaneously seeking to recover some of the lost technology of
that war - will loom as an even larger possibility in the next
chapter.