There is a version that in fact, people have been colonizing not only the Moon, but also Mars for several decades. The governments of the superpowers are doing this in secret from their own peoples. This version is one of the varieties of conspiracy theory. We are talking about the so-called "Alternative-3".
The history of "Alternative-3" began on April 1, 1977. On this day, one of the British television channels planned to show a documentary film as part of the Science Report series.
Everything about it, from start to finish, was the invention of David Ambrose and Christopher Miles, the producers and scriptwriters. And participation in the drawing of professional actors once again confirmed this. If the film came out as planned, on April Fools' Day, there would be no unnecessary questions. However, for some reason, its demonstration was postponed until June, and in the future, many copies were broken about this hour-long video.
Summary
This masterpiece looked really exciting. It began by examining the problem of the "brain drain", which was as urgent in Britain in the 1970s as in Russia in the 1990s. Then many British scientists and engineers left the country to take more lucrative and promising positions in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. But at the same time, a number of cases were noted when scientists disappeared without a trace, and their relatives and friends could not contact them.
The film examined three such precedents. Moreover, one of the missing scientists allegedly called from a telephone box located somewhere in a remote rural area to his journalist friend, to whom he had previously sent a computer punched tape by mail.
Soon after the call, the scientist died in a mysterious car accident, but the punched tape reached the addressee. When journalists from the "England Television" company deciphered its contents, then, to their great surprise, there was a video recording of the landing on Mars of a joint Soviet-American expedition in 1962. The video allegedly captured the laying of a furrow on the surface of the Red Planet against the backdrop of jubilant Russians and Americans.
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So the journalists, based on the plot of the film by Ambrose and Miles, learned about the existence of a top-secret space program carried out by the United States and the USSR. This video, among other things, was supposed to convince the best and most talented scientists to take part in the gradual and secret colonization of Mars and the Moon.
Third option
What, according to the filmmakers, was the purpose of this colonization? Representatives of the world political elite allegedly came to the conclusion that the process of overpopulation of our planet has become irreversible, moreover, it is doomed to death due to environmental pollution. According to the film, three options were discussed for getting out of this situation. The first looked frankly delusional: to detonate nuclear warheads in the atmosphere so that all pollutants would be pulled into space through the resulting hole.
Second: to create an extensive network of underground bunkers in which humanity could survive while the Earth's surface is uninhabitable. The third, which was named "Alternative 3", involved the search for a new home on the Moon and Mars. For this version of Noah's Ark, the most heinous crimes were allegedly committed. On this the "documentary" itself, in fact, ended.
The facts are true, the rest is lies
But the story did not end there. The TV company was bombarded with telephone calls. People said they believed in this fantastic scenario, and sometimes even told their own stories about the "secret owners of the project." Soon, hot on the heels of the film was followed by a book about "Alternative 3". When asked by a Canadian journalist about the veracity of the “documentary,” Christopher Miles then replied: “The idea for the film and then the book came to David and me at lunch in London.
I got tired of documentary dramas and decided to see how easy it would be to lead viewers! I'm sorry you were one of them, but when you watch the movie and read the book, it's not hard to notice the endless hints of falsification. Of course, there is some truth in this plot, but on the whole it is a hoax, and if you analyze it yourself, you will understand it. " And he added a very cryptic remark: "The facts stated in the film and the book are true, and the lies there are not true."
Too close
A certain Leslie Watkins helped Miles and Ambrose write the book on Alternative 3. When asked by one researcher, he once replied that their work "is based on facts, but these facts are used as a springboard for flying into the world of fiction." A little later, in one of his letters, Watkins reported something very unexpected: “After the first publication of Alternative 3, I had every reason to believe that my home phone was being tapped, and my acquaintances, who were versed in such matters, were convinced that some special services thought that like I know too much. The book is fiction based on facts. But now I feel that I have accidentally come very close to the secret truth."
The death toll
Some time passed, and Jim Keith, the author of books on conspiracy theory, took up the pen. This time his work was titled "Mind Control and UFOs: the magazine" Alternatives 3 ". He began this entertaining work, as they say, for the repose: "In general, the TV show" Alternative 3 "is completely devoid of any factual justification, and the book is written in the spirit of a sensational article in" The Weekly World News "entitled" Two-headed space alien gave Elvis a child love."
When Keith moved on to analysis, the situation looked different. This ufologist and conspiracy theorist noted that among European scientists who were somehow involved in the development of the Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), there was an unusually high percentage of suicides and "deaths under mysterious circumstances."
Keith's list included computer specialists John Brittan and Keith Bowden, adviser to the German Defense Minister Gerold von Braunmul, SDI technical expert Aytar Singh-Guida, weapons inspector Karl Frederik Algermon from Sweden, director of research at the German company Siemens Karl-Heinz Beckurts, executive officers of Marconi Defense Systems Roger Hill and Askhad Sharif, and so on. The dead and disappeared without a trace physicists and engineers, according to Keith, were too many. There is no time for simple coincidences!
It would seem, who in all these deaths should the Western researcher blame? Well, of course, the Soviet KGB, striving to prevent the successful development of SDI! However, Keith thought differently: he went out … on the Nazi trail.
Secret Elite
It is known that at the end of World War II, a large number of German designers and engineers became "trophies" of the Americans, Russians and British. A considerable number of Nazi intelligence officers also deserted to the Americans, whom they willingly employed in the fight against the "Soviet threat."
So in his book, Keith undertook to assert that secret German technologies (missiles, "flying saucers", an atomic bomb) did not completely become the property of the nation. The Nazis and their sympathizers retained control over them. Something similar, he believes, could have happened in the USSR.
In this case, a powerful pro-Nazi secret organization crept into the political arena, which, according to Keith, was interested in the implementation of two space programs simultaneously: one - official, for public use, and the second - secret, aimed at ensuring the interests of the pro-Nazi elite …
Of course, it all looks extremely fantastic. As, indeed, any sample of conspiracy theory. But that is precisely why Alternative 3 does not seem so absurd …
Pavel BUKIN