Now for something completely different.
I had not read this before–and although names are named, this is of course amenable to reasonable criticism–but Neil Armstrong did, according to some reports, in fact see UFO’s on the moon.
NASA: Whats there?
Mission Control calling Apollo 11…
Apollo11: These “Babies” are huge, Sir! Enormous!
OH MY GOD! You wouldn’t believe it!
I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out there,
Lined up on the far side of the crater edge!
They’re on the Moon watching us!
A certain professor, who wished to remain anonymous, was engaged in a discussion with Neil Armstrong during a NASA symposium.
Professor: What REALLY happened out there with Apollo 11?
Armstrong: It was incredible, of course we had always known
there was a possibility, the fact is, we were
warned off! (by the Aliens). There was never any
question then of a space station or a moon city.
Professor: How do you mean “warned off”?
Armstrong: I can’t go into details, except to say that their
ships were far superior to ours both in size and
technology – Boy, were they big! and menacing!
No, there is no question of a space station.
Professor: But NASA had other missions after Apollo 11?
Armstrong: Naturally – NASA was committed at that time, and
couldn’t risk panic on Earth. But it really was a
quick scoop and back again.
According to a Dr. Vladimir Azhazha: “Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large, mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. But this message was never heard by the public – because NASA censored it.”
According to a Dr. Aleksandr Kasantsev, Buzz Aldrin took color movie film of the UFOs from inside the module, and continued filming them after he and Armstrong went outside. Armstrong confirmed that the story was true but refused to go into further detail, beyond admitting that the CIA was behind the cover-up.
I think I have mentioned this, but “conspiracy” thinking is what I call paradigm thinking. In my view, the quickest pathway to rapid scientific advancement is trying to find ways to new paradigms. New paradigms cause us to look for new things in new places. For example, before Einstein there would have been no point trying to see if light curved around the sun.
All a conspiracy theory does is say that certain fundamental elements in our consensual reality are false. Self evidently, when you are dealing with circumstantial, anecdotal “unnamed” professors, you have to be careful. Yet, I think all good minds have to remain open. You can look at things like this and just say “that would be interesting”, and then move back on to your thesis on economic conditions in Imperial Japan, or some recondite experiment in genetics. It need not alter your worldview.
To the point, you need not label it in any way other than “different”, and “potentially interesting”.
Once you grasp things like how the Fed works, or the sheer lunacy of not being able to get a legally valid document from our President that is required for all first time drivers and all passport applications, then it becomes obvious that large, important things can and often do sit in the open, and that pointing out the proverbial elephants in the room–or their footprints, or even the possibility they may be there–is symptomatic of nothing but mental and emotional health. The sick ones are those who lie to themselves to fit it.
Be that as it may, I spend no time worrying about these things. I will many months without thinking about them. I ponder things I can ponder productively; the rest I let go.