The sensational photo is kept in the official NASA catalog. The famous American researcher Joseph P. Skipper (Investigator) has found another sensation. Well, at least I was very puzzled by publishing a snapshot from the official NASA catalog on its website.
The photo (carefully large size) shows some kind of contraption, the presence of which does not fit at all with the shooting location. Namely - with the Moon. Not far from the lander is either someone's head, or a balloon with eyes painted on it, or a transparent shield. The picture was taken during the Apollo 11 expedition to the Sea of Tranquility, where Neil Armstrong and Edwin landed Aldrin (Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin). The shadow from the lander and a panorama of the surroundings - a surface with small stones, fell into the frame. And on the surface it is. Like some kind of caricature.
A strange contraption that looks translucent was noticed by Skipper's colleague - Sean Stewart - the same virtual explorer, busy looking for the unusual in the photo from the Moon and other planets. I asked to determine what it is. But Skipper didn’t identify either. And who can do that?
There are, of course, several hypotheses. The gizmo could have been left by aliens. Then guessing what she is is pointless. Because we cannot understand the purpose of their contraptions. Skipper zoomed in. But it didn't become clearer. The subject began to look even more like some kind of poster with a caricatured physiognomy - either human, or alien. It would be naive to think that Armstrong and Aldrin had brought the poster with them to signal to the aliens. And the aliens would hardly have dared to use such methods of communication.
Skipper made sure that "physiognomy" is not a defect in the shooting. But he is not sure that she was really present on the moon at the time of shooting. The subject casts a subtle shadow. She lies to the left of him. And the stones in the picture (if you enlarge it from the site and view the whole picture) cast shadows to the right.
The researcher believes (and this is the only reasonable hypothesis): "physiognomy" could have arisen during scanning - in the process of converting the original photographs taken on film into digital form. But what was the source of the anomaly? None of Skipper's colleagues and other numerous enthusiasts recognized anything familiar about the contraption.