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Post by papageno on Feb 7, 2006 19:29:17 GMT -4
The show Top Secret on the Italian channel Rete 4 mentioned (about twenty minutes ago) something that allegedly happened during Apollo 11.
They said that the TV broadcast was abruptly interrupted for five minutes.
However, Russian radio-amateurs intercepted the comunications between the astronauts and ground control.
According to this recording, the astronauts sighted aliens on the Moon, and ground control was not even surprised.
Besides having many hallmarks of an HB-CT legend, the show pointed out that the episode was not confirmed.
Has anyone here ever heard of this?
(A quick search on the board did not give any results. If it has been discussed already, please point me to the thread.)
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Post by JayUtah on Feb 7, 2006 20:06:32 GMT -4
Yes, the "interrupted broadcast" story is an old one, although the alleged recipients of the "alien sighting" transmissions vary with each retelling. There are a number of variants on this story with different conversations. Otto Binder's story in Timothy Good's book Above Top Secret is the most widely quoted, and some UFO enthusiasts a number of years ago made a fake audio recording complete with Quindar tones alleging it to be a recording of this Apollo 11 transmission.
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Post by papageno on Feb 7, 2006 20:10:33 GMT -4
...and some UFO enthusiasts a number of years ago made a fake audio recording complete with Quindar tones alleging it to be a recording of this Apollo 11 transmission. Ah yes, that's the one! I remember the tones. Thanks. |
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Post by rustylander on Feb 7, 2006 21:36:46 GMT -4
Ah! The perfect cover story, that conveniently leaked rumour. Have everyone so obsessed with the idea that the astronauts saw aliens that it never occurs to them the landing might be faked!
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Post by sts60 on Feb 7, 2006 22:54:43 GMT -4
But the rumor wasn't "leaked". Someone just made it up as a prank, or as part of their own crackpot belief system.
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Post by Obviousman on Feb 8, 2006 2:56:20 GMT -4
Alternative 3 raises its ugly head again.
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Post by jovianmoon on Feb 8, 2006 3:49:52 GMT -4
Ah! The perfect cover story, that conveniently leaked rumour. Have everyone so obsessed with the idea that the astronauts saw aliens that it never occurs to them the landing might be faked! Aah... more excellent reasoning from the Rusty Thinker. "Have everyone so obsessed..."? I don't think I've ever met a single person so kooky that they actually think the astronauts saw aliens. Such people form an obscure fringe on the edge of fruit-loopiness. Surely, if NASA wanted to come up with a diversion from a lunar landing hoax, they would provide one with a little more credibility - one that ordinary people could actually believe. But I expect such basic logic to be beyond the rational scope of your common garden HB. Cheers anyway. edit - grammar |
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Post by gwiz on Feb 8, 2006 4:00:19 GMT -4
I watched the Apollo 11 TV broadcast live, I don't remember any interruption.
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Post by lenbrazil on Feb 8, 2006 6:03:50 GMT -4
I watched the Apollo 11 TV broadcast live, I don't remember any interruption. You are obviously the victim if mind control. I highly recommend the use of some sort of metal helmet to block the waves. |
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Post by gwiz on Feb 8, 2006 6:08:55 GMT -4
I watched the Apollo 11 TV broadcast live, I don't remember any interruption. You are obviously the victim if mind control. I highly recommend the use of some sort of metal helmet to block the waves. I wore my colander, but I forgot to block the holes. |
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Post by sts60 on Feb 8, 2006 9:27:13 GMT -4
Yeah, colanders are only good for stopping lower-frequency mind-control waves. And mind-control pasta.
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Post by Retrograde on Feb 8, 2006 10:01:38 GMT -4
Ah! The perfect cover story, that conveniently leaked rumour. Have everyone so obsessed with the idea that the astronauts saw aliens that it never occurs to them the landing might be faked! Or rumors of a hoax were started to keep the public so obsessed that it would never occur to them that the astronauts sighted aliens. And it works; you bought it hook, line, and sinker... N |
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Post by Count Zero on Feb 8, 2006 17:36:29 GMT -4
So the astronauts could express awe and excitement at lunar landscapes, House Rock, orange soil and anorthosite,  but remained unflapable about glittering alien spacecraft...  I knew they were exceptional men, but I had no idea!  |
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Post by Retrograde on Feb 9, 2006 1:20:27 GMT -4
So the astronauts could express awe and excitement at lunar landscapes, House Rock, orange soil and anorthosite, but remained unflapable about glittering alien spacecraft... I knew they were exceptional men, but I had no idea! The talk quite a bit about the aliens they saw, the alien city near the landing site, and the fact that the Coca-Cola and McDonalds corporations had already discovered the alien city and were doing a tidy business there. Pete Conrad even said, "Holy $#&*, look at all the aliens - why do they wear plaid and stripes at the same time?" But nobody ever notices these things, because they are too distracted by the hoax rumor NASA started... N |
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Post by nomuse on Feb 9, 2006 16:30:30 GMT -4
So the astronauts could express awe and excitement at lunar landscapes, House Rock, orange soil and anorthosite, but remained unflapable about glittering alien spacecraft... I knew they were exceptional men, but I had no idea! Well. Obviously they were ALL geologists. |
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but remained unflapable about glittering alien spacecraft... 
