QUOTE (bee @ May 16 2008, 02:07 PM)

BUZZ ALDRIN TALKS ABOUT UFO DURING APOLLO 11 (3.52 mins)
You are right that he seems to be saying 2 different things....or putting 2 different slants on it....
in the 2 videos...
I've no idea why he would do that.....
Buzz is saying just about exactly the same thing in both clips. It's just that in your first clip, his comments are split up and surrounded by a bunch of sensationalistic tripe. By the way, the clip is from "Apollo 11: The Untold Story." Tabloid television at it's finest ...
Here are Buzz's quotes from that segment:
There was something out there that was close enough to be observed and, uh, what could it be?
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Mike decided he thought he could see it in the telescope and he was able to do that and when it was in one position it had a series of ellipses. But when you made it real sharp it was sort of L-shaped. That didn't tell us very much.
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Now obviously the three of us were not gonna blurt out, "Hey Houston, we got something moving along side of us and we don't know what it is, you know, can you tell us what it is?" We weren't about to do that, 'cause we know that the ... those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and, uh, who knows what somebody would've demanded -- that we turn back because of aliens or whatever the reason is. So, we didn't do that, but we did decide ... we just cautiously asked Houston where ... how far away was the S-IVB?
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And a few moments later, why the came back and said something like it was 6000 miles away, because of the maneuver. So we really didn't think we were looking at something that far away. So we decided that after a while of watching it, it was time to go to sleep and not to talk about it anymore until we came back and debriefing.
Other than not getting a chance to explain that the object was likely a discarded SLA panel, Buzz's comments here are just the same as the ones he made on Larry King. He never says they saw anything exotic. Just an object drifting along that they couldn't identify. They were cautious about saying anything on the radio because they knew that certain members of the public would blow things completely out of proportion -- just like they're doing now by perpetuating this non-event as some great mystery. This incident wasn't covered up by NASA. It was written up very clearly in the crew technical debriefing, which was released to the public at the end of 1971. Heck, I remember reading about it in UFO books back in the mid-70s. This is not at all a recent revelation. As MID mentioned, Neil Armstrong's biography states that the trajectory guys at Mission Control figured out the object was most likely one of the four adapter panels that connected the Apollo spacecraft to the Saturn V booster. These panels also enclosed the lunar module and were ejected shortly after leaving earth orbit to allow the Command/Service Module to dock with and extract the LM. The panels were large and would have been drifting along toward the moon on roughly the same trajectory as the Apollo spacecraft.
If you want to read the crew debriefing yourself, you can find a copy here:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11tecdbrf.html You'll want to see Volume 1, Section 6.40 -- Rest Periods.
And while we're on this topic, you had posted earlier:
QUOTE (bee @ May 15 2008, 01:49 PM)

The actual footage of the UFO in the Buzz Aldrin short video clip.....at the top....was said to be from
a later mission....but that it was similar to the one seen by Apollo 11 astronauts.
Did that one from the later mission.....mean absolutely nothing, too?
Why don't you call up the producers of the show (
Channel 5) and ask them where they got the footage. I think you'll find it's not at all a UFO, but ordinary NASA stock footage. I'm pretty sure it's 16mm film of Apollo 13's discarded service module. Take a look at this comparison:

On the left is a frame grab of the "UFO" from the TV show. On the right is a crop from Apollo 13 Hasselblad photo AS13-58-8478.