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			by Peter Tremblay 
			July 09, 2007 
			from
			
			TheCanadian Website 
			  
			  
			Rumors have persisted for years that the astronauts - nearly all of 
			whom are military officers susceptible to being silenced under 
			orders - may have seen something more on the Moon than rocks and 
			dust.
 
 According to transcripts of the technical debriefing following the 
			Apollo 11 mission,
 
				
				"astronauts Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" 
				Aldrin and Michael Collins told of an encounter with a large 
				cylindrical UFO even before reaching the Moon," U.S. 
				investigative journalist and researcher Jim Marrs documents.
				 
			Mr. Aldrin further officially presented 
			his encounters with apparent Extraterrestrials on CNN's Larry 
			King Show.
 Jim Marrs further presents that Mr. Aldrin said,
 
				
				"The first unusual thing that we saw 
				I guess was one day out or pretty close to the Moon. It had a 
				sizable dimension to it".  
			Aldrin said the Apollo crew at first 
			thought the object was the Saturn 4 booster rocket (S-IVB); but, he 
			added,  
				
				"We called the ground and were told 
				the S-IVB was 6,000 miles away." 
			Mr. Aldrin described the UFO as a 
			cylinder, while Armstrong said it was "really two rings. Two 
			connected rings". Collins also said it appeared to be a hollow, 
			tumbling cylinder.  
			  
			He added,  
				
				"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." 
			Even more strange was the experience of 
			Mr. Aldrin and Mr. Armstrong, after they reached the 
			Moon.
 According to an Associated Press story of July 20, 1969 published in 
			the San Bernardino Sun-Telegram, the astronauts sighted eerie 
			lights inside a crater near the point on the Moon where their lunar 
			lander was due to touch down the next day.
 
 On their first sweep around the Moon, Armstrong described a 
			mysterious bright light on the inner wall of the crater 
			Aristarchus, located north of their flight path.
 
				
				"It seems to have a slight amount of 
				florescence to it. The area in the crater is quite bright," he 
				reported.
 "That area is definitely brighter than anything else I can see. 
				There doesn't appear to be any color involved in it. It looks 
				like an eerie sight," confirmed Aldrin.
 
			Two astronauts who appear to have broken 
			ranks are Dr. Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper.  
			  
			On The Oprah Winfrey Show on 19 
			July 1991, Mitchell hinted that all information regarding UFOs has 
			not been released, saying,  
				
				"I do believe that there is a lot 
				more known about extraterrestrial investigation than is 
				available to the public right now [and] has been for a long 
				time... It's a long, long story. It goes back to World War II 
				when all of that happened, and is highly classified stuff." 
			On Dateline NBC in 1996, Mitchell 
			was even more candid.  
				
				"I have no firsthand experience, but 
				I have had the opportunity to meet with people from three 
				countries who in the course of their official duties claim to 
				have had personal firsthand encounter experiences... with 
				Extraterrestrials," he said.  
			Jim Marrs says that,  
				
				"Mitchell flatly stated that some 
				advanced military craft use
				
				technology derived from alien spacecraft 
				that have been collected by the U.S. Government." 
			Cooper, in a letter read during a 1978 
			meeting at the United Nations to discuss UFOs, stated,  
				
				"...I believe that these 
				extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this 
				planet form other planets, which are obviously a little more 
				advanced than we are here on Earth." 
			Also that year, Mr. Cooper wrote a 
			letter to the ambassador of the Mission of Grenada to the United 
			Nations supporting a UN initiative to study UFOs.  
			  
			In his letter, Cooper stated that 
			astronauts,  
				
				"are very reluctant even to discuss 
				UFOs due to the great numbers of people who have 
				indiscriminately sold fake stories and forged documents, abusing 
				their names and reputations without hesitation. Those few 
				astronauts who have continued to participate in the UFO field 
				have had to do so very cautiously. There are several of us who 
				do believe in UFOs and who have had occasion to see a UFO on the 
				ground, or from an airplane." 
			Cooper's mention of a "UFO on the 
			ground" apparently was a reference to his own experience at Edwards 
			Air Force Base on May 2, 1957. 
			  
			In 1993, Cooper gave this account of the 
			incident:  
				
				"I had a crew that was filming an 
				installation of a precision landing system we were installing 
				out on the dry lake bed, and they were there with stills and 
				movies, and filmed the whole installation and they came running 
				in to tell me that this UFO, a little saucer, had come down 
				right over them, put down three gear, and landed about 50 yards 
				from them, and as they proceeded to go on over to get a closer 
				shot of it, it lifted up, put the gear in, and disappeared in a 
				rapid rate of speed.
 "And so I had to follow my directions as a military... I had to 
				look up the regulations on who I was to call to report this, 
				which I did, and they ordered me to immediately have the film 
				developed, put it in a pouch, and send them by the commanding 
				general's plane to Washington, which I did.
 
				  
				And that was the 
				last I've ever heard of the film." 
			It is interesting to note indicates Mr. 
			Marrs that,  
				
				"despite the continued protests that 
				there is no government secrecy regarding UFOs, there is no 
				public report on this incident. Although the event was listed in 
				the
				
				Project Blue Book index, a full 
				report and clear photos are suspiciously absent." 
			Yet Mr. Cooper, who reported the UFO 
			landing, was selected as a Mercury astronaut only two years later. 
			In a 1996 interview, Mr. Cooper said he discounts any conventional 
			explanation for his experience.  
			  
			Asked his thoughts on UFOs, the 
			astronaut said,  
				
				"Well, I figured it was somebody 
				coming from some distant place to visit us." 
			Steve Omar, another investigative 
			journalist and researcher, indicates that J. Allen Hynek (who 
			investigated UFOs for the U.S. Air Force), Major Donald Keyhoe,
			Timothy Good (in his book Above Top Secret) suggest secrecy 
			about UFOs and Extraterrestrials.  
			  
			One unquestionably absolute expert we 
			may want to consult is Christopher Kraft, who was Director 
			of the NASA tracking base in Houston during the Apollo Moon 
			missions, when he revealed the following conversation "after" he 
			left his work at NASA: 
				
				- ASTRONAUTS NElL ARMSTRONG and BUZZ 
				ALDRIN speaking from the Moon: "Those are giant things. No, no, 
				no .... this is not an optical illusion. No one is going to 
				believe this!"
 
				
				- MISSION CONTROL (HOUSTON CENTER): "What... what... what? What 
				the hell is happening? What’s wrong with you?"
 
 - ASTRONAUTS: "They’re here under the surface."
 
 
				
				- MISSION CONTROL: "What’s there?" Emission interrupted... 
				interference... "control calling Apollo II."
 
 - ASTRONAUTS: "We saw some visitors. They were there for awhile, 
				observing the instruments."
 
 
				
				- MISSION CONTROL: "Repeat your last information."
 
 - ASTRONAUTS: "I say that there were other spaceships. They’re 
				lined up on the other side of the crater."
 
 
				
				- MISSION CONTROL: "Repeat... repeat!"
 
 - ASTRONAUTS: "Let us sound this orbita... In 625 to 5... 
				automatic relay connected... My hands are shaking so badly I 
				can’t do anything. Film it? God, if these damned cameras have 
				picked up anything... what then?"
 
 
				
				- MISSION CONTROL: "Have you picked up anything?"
 
 - ASTRONAUTS: "I didn’t have any film at hand. Three shots of 
				the saucers or whatever they were that were ruining the film."
 
 
				
				- MISSION CONTROL: "Control, control here. Are you on your way? 
				Is the uproar with the UFOs over?
 
 - ASTRONAUTS: "They’ve landed there. There they are and they are 
				watching us."
 
 
				
				- MISSION CONTROL: "The mirrors, the mirrors... have you set 
				them up?"
 
 
				- ASTRONAUTS: "Yes, they’re in the 
				right place. But whoever made those space ships surely can come 
				tomorrow and remove them. Over and out." 
			There is an unconfirmed report, also 
			documented by Steve Omar, that when Buzz Aldrin opened the 
			door after landing on the Moon, he immediately saw a transparent 
			etherical being staring at him outside.  
			  
			Welcome to the Moon??  
			  
			Allegedly, NASA Director Kraft added 
			that there was a public and a secret private A.S.A. radio frequency 
			between Moon and Mission Control and that the conversation above 
			took place during a mysterious two minute interruption in public 
			transmissions.  
			  
			To prove it is the truth, hundreds of 
			independent CIVILIAN radio operators with powerful VHF equipment 
			separately reported hearing the AME spaceship report from the Apollo 
			moon-walkers! 
				
				"Soviet radio operators also picked 
				it up and published it in Moscow. Another mysterious radio 
				message from the Moon was broadcast on French public television 
				only one time before it was censored AFTER it leaked out. 
				   
				That transmission appeared to be a 
				mysterious clearly spoken ALIEN LANGUAGE," further reports Steve 
				Omar. 
			The famous French historian and author
			Robbert Charroux published the transmission which has been 
			suppressed in the U.S. It came from U.S. astronaut Worden who 
			transmitted it to NASA, and expert linguists have been unable to 
			translate the message.  
			  
			  
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