QUOTE (747400 @ May 11 2008, 07:36 AM)

I'm mildly confused here, although, mind you, this is nothing unusual. There is a very, seemingly, popular, conspiracy theory that says that "we never went to the moon", as numerous very lengthy threads seem to indicate. However, when it comes to proof that they are covering up evidence of alien civilisations, then, suddenly, we did go to the moon, and them (the governement, NASA, the usual suspects) are covering it all up.
I think the idea is that we are SUPPOSED to be confused.....
The following quote is from the transcript of interview 2 with Richard Hoagland......
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Hoagland: In my mind there is zero probability - and I rarely use the words ‘zero probability' - that the lunar landings were faked. Given all the politics, given the Nazi back story of what they were looking for, given von Braun, given the Kennedy-Khrushchev thing. Why would we go if there wasn't something there to go for?
But the actual proof that this is not done in a studio and is actually for real, comes from an anecdotal story of my own eye-witness testimony. Meaning, I was at JPL when we made the transition from Downey up to JPL to cover the Mariner 6 and Mariner 7 missions. I was there as someone in the auditorium was being squired around by the head of NASA Public Affairs for JPL, named Frank Bristo, who was walking this guy around who was putting some little pamphlet on every reporter's seat in the auditorium.
And then he was led outside to hand personally a copy of this memo or whatever it was, to every reporter who was in the press room waiting for one of the press conferences to begin. So I got one and I read it and I was flabbergasted. Because here was a guy, being officially sponsored by a NASA official, handing out a document that said: “The entire Apollo 11 mission was just completed in a studio, a sound stage in Nevada, and the whole thing is a fake."
And I wish I had kept that document! We're now looking for some reporter who at the time, as a sidebar, like “isn't it cute what happens around these missions” actually published the story based on that two page mimeo handout. Because somebody had to have done it. Possibly at the Pasadena Star News, which is one place we're looking. Possibly even in the New York Times.
I haven't looked. I haven't had time to look. The point is that there were other reporters, both well-known and no-one-will-ever-hear-of-them reporters... a thousand people covering those missions in those days. Somebody had to have kept, just as an historical anachronism, a copy of that memo.
Now what that means, as I say in Dark Mission, is politically NASA itself was starting the rumor before Neil and Buzz and Mike Collins even got home, that Apollo was a fake. Why would NASA, in their wildest dreams, be starting a rumor that would mature 30 years down the road? The answer is: inoculation.
The answer is that if it ever came out that there was real stuff there that they were hiding, they could divert the conspiracy crowd to the fake conspiracy that we never went to the moon, by planting the seeds - by planting the meme in the culture - generations before. Which would then bear fruit, which it did on Fox Television. (Gosh, Fox television. That's interesting.) And it would divert those people from asking the real question, which of course, is: what did they find on the moon, and when did they find it, and when did they decide to lie about it for all these years?
(I added the 'bold')
In the interviews (and 'stills' of his data in the transcripts)....Hoagland puts forward some very interesting stuff.
About ancient structures on the moon.
And this is why the YouTube video....of supposed footage of Armstrong filming 'ancient structures' on the moon in 1969...
might, just might, not be so 'wacky'....as it seems at first.
But as I said in a few posts back....there may be more than one layer to consider.....about it all.
As far as I'm concerned.......the jury is still out.......as to whether it's a complete hoax, the real thing....or maybe a
reconstruction of some kind....