On the morning of July 16, 1969, a rocket carrying the Apollo 11 spacecraft rushed upward from launch site 39A of the Kennedy Space Flight Center in smoke and flames. After a few hours of flight to the Moon, astronauts N. Armstrong, M. Collins and E. Aldrin reported that their ship was being pursued by some "luminous balls" that repeat all Apollo maneuvers.
The center in Houston was seriously alarmed: from these Russians everything can be expected! Many versions are being put forward, one of which is torpedoes. Three days pass in painful anticipation, but the explosion did not follow. The thought that this is “just” a UFO does not make anyone better, especially since the nerves are already heated to the limit … Subsequently, Armstrong's assistant recalled: “At a distance of a quarter of the way from the Moon to Apollo, they approached a distance of three feet (1 meter) three unknown objects … When the module began to descend for landing, three UFOs with a diameter of 15-30 meters landed on the edge of the crater …"
After landing on the lunar surface on June 20, alarming information comes to Houston again. Almost the whole world, except for the USSR and China, is watching the reports of the crew live: "I see many small craters … They are 6 to 15 meters in diameter … At a distance of about half a mile from us, you can see traces that look like those left by a tank …" Suddenly millions of viewers hear strange sounds, reminiscent of both the whistle of a locomotive and the operation of an electric saw. A worried NASA operator asks, "Are you sure you were not contacted?" Astronauts check the transmitter, it becomes clear that the mysterious signal is coming from somewhere else. Armstrong switches to another frequency to communicate with Houston: “What is this? I would like to know the truth, what is it? " The operator also does not understand anything: “What's going on? Is there anything wrong? " Crew response:“There are large objects here, sir! Huge! Oh my God! They are on the other side of the crater! They are on the Moon and watch us!..”Ironically, the place where the astronauts were at that moment was called the Sea of Tranquility.
Only five hours later, when the nervous tension subsided somewhat, Armstrong and Aldrin decide to finally get out of the ship, but before that they warn Collins, who remained in orbit, so that he is ready for an emergency escape from the moon. Armstrong is unexpectedly stuck in the exit hatch, for several minutes only wheezing and the sounds of fuss are heard on the air: photographers seize the moment and make historical group portraits of graying in front of NASA workers and Armstrong's relatives with eyes wide with horror. Finally, the footsteps of the astronaut descending the stairs were heard. The whole world seemed to come out of its daze. Everyone expected that now the first man on the moon would utter words to the glory of America, but, as Armstrong later said, he suddenly clearly felt that he was the representative of the whole Earth. The first words of a man on the moon were: “This is a small step for a man,but a huge leap for humanity!"
"Traces remain on the moon dust!" - those sitting in the MCC are childishly surprised at any phrase they hear. Armstrong leaves a silicone capsule on the surface with recordings of greetings in 74 languages and an excerpt from the United States Air and Space Navigation Code. After passing about 100 meters on the lunar surface, the astronauts return to the spacecraft in two and a half hours, take off and dock with the orbital module. On July 24, alarmed American sailors meet their heroes, fellow countrymen and … put them in an isolation ward. Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately), it turned out that there is no life and microbes on the moon. During the lunar program, mysterious objects were seen not only from Apollo 11, but from unofficial sources, for example, it became known that twice some discs with speeds of 2,000 kilometers per hour approached Apollo 8,at which at these moments the instruments and radio equipment failed. And the astronauts Stafford and Cernan from Apollo 10 over the surface of the Smith Sea filmed the flight of an unknown white object.
On November 14, 1969, two unknown luminous objects are again attached to the Apollo-12 flying to the Moon, repeating all its maneuvers, and accompanying it for 150 thousand miles. Nevertheless, the flight goes smoothly, the astronauts land in the Ocean of Storms region without shipwreck. Commander Charles Konrad joyfully exclaims: “We're in luck! It turns out that they treat us well! " The Apollo 13 crew, which were also pursued by mysterious lights, were less fortunate: on April 13, 1970, an oxygen cylinder suddenly exploded aboard the ship, and the astronauts barely have enough air to return immediately after refusing to land near Fra Mauro The earth. Of course, a legend arose that this explosion was the work of an old acquaintance of a UFO that did not allow Apollo to bring an atomic bomb to the Moon for seismic research. The mysterious crater Fra Mauro, nine months later, again did not allow Earth explorers to approach. Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell from Apollo 14 just … got lost on its slopes! They squeezed into the narrow hatch of the ship only after the MCC decided that the supply of oxygen in their spacesuits had already dried up … Returning from the moon (and "from the next world"), the astronauts immediately resigned, without telling the world that how they managed to escape. Many years later, Mitchell admitted that he saw a vision of … a gray-bearded old man / in appearance very reminiscent of the famous Porfiry Ivanov. But astronauts not only saw strange phenomena on the moon, they were able to capture a lot on film. The most famous images: the huge letter S, captured on the surface by the crew of Apollo 14, and a large cylindrical object with pointed ends above the crater.
In November 1970, the Apollo 15 lander landed in the foothills of Appelin, astronauts Scott and Irwin were the first to enjoy riding through the lunar dust on horseback. At the same time, their companion Warden fixes other lunar "reckless drivers" - on low-level flight over the Moon some huge body flashed. In April 1972, it was the turn of the Apollo 16 crew to saddle the all-terrain vehicle in the area of Descartes crater. On the slopes of the mountains, they suddenly noticed moving objects, immediately reported it to Houston and pointed cameras at them. Both astronauts also observed the flight of a large UFO near the surface of the moon. A third member of the crew, Mattingly, confirmed from orbit that this was not a hallucination. Commander Joe Young then brought to Earth not only memories and videos, he found in the moon dust … a glass prism, the age of which is estimated at billions of years!
The last of the 12 people to visit the moon was geologist Harrison Schmitt, who, together with commander Eugene Cernan, picked up a strange orange piece of glass of completely obscure origin on the outskirts of the Sea of Clarity. They both then saw several moving orange objects on the side of the mountain. On December 15, 1972, the Apollo 17 lunar module left the hospitable satellite of the Earth. The excitement of pioneering gave way to the usual pragmatism, more and more people in the United States began to remember that each such module costs 15 times more than the same one, but made of gold; that the soil brought from the Moon cost the American treasury more than the one that was delivered to Russia with two machine guns; that ordinary moon dust was 35 times more expensive than diamonds of the same mass; that finallyeach family paid $ 472 for the lunar pleasure … President Nixon, stuck in the Vietnam War, gives instructions to stop the moon race. Many scientists were disappointed by this, believing that there was still much unknown on the moon; others decided that the program was curtailed precisely because they learned too much about our satellite.
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In the fall of 1973, NASA lifted the secrecy a bit and confirmed that a total of 25 astronauts had observed the UFO. The head of the entire American lunar program, Wernher von Braun, expressed the same unequivocal expression in the Esotera magazine: “There are extraterrestrial forces that are much stronger than we expected. I have no right to say anything about this anymore …”After on August 19, 1976, our Luna-24 took off from the Sea of Crises with a soil sample, not a single earthly apparatus was bothered by the million-year-old lunar dust. There was a break in human flights to the moon of several decades, which will most likely last until 2015: it is then that it is planned to build an inhabited base on our natural satellite.
In the meantime, as before, since 1869 (exactly one century before Armstrong!) And to the present, only astronomers observe UFOs over the lunar surface. If in the 60s they more than 300 times recorded anomalous objects against the background of the visible part of the night star (luminous points, triangles, crosses, gas emissions, slowly growing furrows, etc.), then in our time, due to a decrease in interest to the Moon, the number of observations has clearly begun to decline (what is happening on the invisible side of the satellite, as before, one can only guess). But even now, sometimes Japanese astronomers still manage to videotape unknown objects sweeping over the Moon, up to several tens of kilometers in size. The moon continues to keep its secrets.
XX century. Chronicle of the inexplicable. Opening after opening. Nikolai Nepomniachtchi