While humanity is only planning the landing of the first settlers on Mars, there are people who are confident that such an attempt was already made by the United States in the distant 70s. This project was named: "Red Sun".
According to a story that first emerged in 2011, there was a secret mission to set up a Mars base in the 1970s.
Following the Apollo 17 mission, the last manned mission to the moon, NASA began conducting secret space missions that were not reported to the public. One such mission was the Red Sun Project, an unprecedented joint venture between the United States and the Soviet Union to begin the colonization of Mars.
According to this story, the first group of cosmonauts and astronauts arrived on the Red Planet at the end of 1971 and were exploration. The second mission began in August 1973 with the launch of the Columbus ISV with two American astronauts (Commander Elliot See and pilot William Rutledge), as well as Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Ilyushin.
Soon after this story appeared on the Web, a video of an alleged NASA training flight of the Red Sun program appeared on YouTube. Of course, a dispute about the authenticity of the film immediately broke out. Most people agreed that this is a "duck", although, admittedly, very high quality.
This story was published by the Italian UFO hunter Luca Scantambulo, and his informant was Rutledge, the pilot of the Red Sun mission. Rutledge also talked about several other top-secret projects, including the one that found an alien base on the moon. Rutledge later made a short statement:
“I leaked the leak. What will NASA and USAF do now? An attempt to block its publication or to sue me will be direct proof of its truth. Now they can say whatever they want it to be a joke or a fake."
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