Aliens on the Moon: The Truth Exposed (2014)

[bunniefuu]

[astronaut]
Three, two, one, zero.

60 seconds.

[Buzz Aldrin]
I saw this illumination

that was moving
with respect to the stars.

We were smart enough to not say,

"Houston, there's a light out
there that's following us."

So, technically, it becomes
an unidentified flying object.

[Ken Johnston] While Neil and
Buzz were on the lunar surface,

Neil switched to
the medical channel

and spoke directly with the
chief medical officer, saying,

"They're here. They're parked
on the side of the crater.

They're watching us."

[Allan Sturm]
I spotted a lot of stuff

that seemed to not
belong on the moon.

[bleeping]

And it has very distinct
features of a satellite dish.

It's got the dish itself,
the crater shape.

It's got a long spike

that appears to come
out of the middle,

all sorts of stuff that
looks exactly like

a satellite dish on Earth looks.

There's an interesting
picture on the moon

that does appear
to show something

that could be a bridge,
maybe a pipe,

could be an inching worm.

[Edgar Mitchell]
I have no doubt that

extra-terrestrials could
very well have populated

or made structures on
the far side of the moon.

The reaction of numerous

space defence officials
was fear and astonishment.

[Nick Redfern] It would make
sense that governments

and military agencies

might well be quaking
in their boots

wondering who's built
these structures.

Where are they from?
What do they want?

[Ron Collins] There is one
object that reminds people of

a cooling tower from a
nuclear power plant.

Any species that could
travel through the stars,

enough to put a base
on the moon,

wouldn't have to blink before
they could take care of us.

The other thing that is
inside this lunar module

looks like a woman,

and this is the alien that
they recovered from the ship.

There was a study done
by the Brookings Institute

in the early 1960s,
so before NASA went to the moon.

There was, sort of,
this idea that

if we were to have
any kind of interaction

with alien life-form or
intelligence

that maybe we
shouldn't tell the public

because the publicmight
not be able to handle it.

[narrator]
As the 45th anniversary

of the Apollo 11 mission
to the moon dawns,

there are many
mysteries about man's

first lunar landing
that remain unsolved.

What did the astronauts
actually encounter there?

What made NASA stop going back
to the moon after Apollo 17?

Is there evidence of an alien
presence on the moon

and perhaps all around us?

[camera shutter clicking]

These startling photographs

recently discovered in
NASA's official archive

were taken by the Apollo
astronauts themselves.

The gigantic artificial-looking
structures they document,

which have never been
shown on television before,

seem to defy simple
scientific explanation.

Could this be a nuclear power
plant of some kind?

A massive satellite dish
trained on Earth?

Even an alien fortress?

We took the pictures

to some of the brightest
people of our world,

and nobody can say for sure
what these structures represent.

Military experts tell us

that if there is an
alien base on the moon,

it poses a serious
threat to humanity.

Tonight, we'll examine all the evidence.

We'll attempt to determine if
such an alien menace exists,

and we'll investigate the
baffling case of Apollo 20.

Could this really
be a female alien

recovered during a
secret mission to the moon

just a few years after the Apollo
program supposedly ended?

You decide for yourself,
as we investigate

"Aliens on the Moon:
The Truth Exposed."

[narrator] Look at the skies
around the world.

[man gasping]

[man] It's descending

at an extremely alarming
rate of speed.

[narrator] Over the United States, Russia,

and China, UFOs are being
reported in record numbers.

[woman speaking
in foreign language]

[narrator] You are looking
at what might be

actual alien beings
caught on camera.

This extraordinary video,

shot by an American
researcher in Turkey,

purportedly shows a hovering
extra-terrestrial spaceship

piloted by E.T.s
known as the "greys."

Look closely at the footage.

The two aliens

appear to be moving around

in what might
be the craft's c*ck.

When the craft came back to
the same area two days later,

its appearance changed.

Then two nights later,

it hovered again,
apparently under one alien pilot's control,

lit by the moonlight.

And what can explain this
enormous disc shaped craft

navigating over our moon

and this gigantic cube
positioned on the lunar surface?

Both were caught on video

by a British videographer
named John Lenard Walson

using a specially designed
telescope he assembled.

No matter what the answers are,

current mass interest
in extra-terrestrials

clearly is at an all-time high.

The sheer number of websites,
blogs, YouTube channels,

social-media accounts, pages,

everything dedicated
to UFOs and aliens,

I think really speaks to how
much we are fastened with

and want to believe
in alien life and UFOs.

[narrator] And there are also
signs an alien

presence could be
solar system-wide.

Take a look at this
incredible event

captured by the Solar Dynamics
Observatory satellite

on March 11, 2012.

What is happening to our sun?

There appears to
be an Earth-size disc

in the corona extracting plasma

from the sun's surface.

Then, hours later,
the dark orb seems to pull away,

releasing the
plasma filament bands.

Many experts are puzzled.

I can't explain what that is,

but I can definitely see why

aliens may be interested
in taking plasma.

A lot of these UFOs seem to be
encircled by plasma-type energy.

So plasma could be a fuel
for these aliens.

It would make perfect sense
if some of these crafts are

fuelled by plasma
that they would go to the sun

and actually draw plasma
from it to charge their craft.

[narrator] And what is
happening on the moon?

Earlier this year,

millions of people began poring

over this image
captured by Google Moon

that many major news outlets

suggested could
be an alien base.

Writer Lee Speigel covered
the story for the popular

Huffington Post.

Recently, something
came to my attention

that someone had used
the Google Moon application

and this person

zoomed in closer and closer and
came up with an image.

It's triangular,

two lines with seven lights

perfectly spaced
between each other

and that those
lights are sitting

what looks like a black surface,

and then immediately
below the black surface

is a very bright white light.

And so the questions
started coming up,

is this an
extra-terrestrial colony?

What is this on the moon?

[narrator] Though some
researchers have called this

a digital artefact,

others still feel it could be
an actual lunar construction.

Is it an installation?

We really don't know
other than the fact

that it has these angles,

it has these bright lights,

and it really does appear to be

handmade in some form,
I believe.

[narrator] Perhaps concern
over unexplained images

like these is prompting
governments to investigate.

October 1, 2010.

China launches its Chang'e
2 lunar orbiter.

Soon, Web surfers everywhere

are mesmerised
by this stunning image.

[Redfern] This particular piece of footage

seems to show what looks
like an installation,

a facility, a factory maybe,
on the surface of the moon.

It kind of looks
like an aerial photograph

of something along the
lines of a North Pole

installation or outpost.

Clear angles, right angles,

seeming to show

something like an
intelligently built structure.

The big question is,
what is it? What's it being used for?

[narrator] The vivid picture
sparked heated debate

among believers
and sceptics alike.

[Redfern] It was all over the place,
all around the world.

Not just UFO researcherswere
reading it and watching it,

but actually membersof the general public,
as well,

in their millions.

[narrator] But top lunar
researchers soon discovered

that the image comes
not from the Chinese orbiter,

but from the archives of NASA.

It turns out that it's actuallya
Lunar Orbiter photograph,

so it's actually something
NASA took a picture of.

The problem is,
while it looks really authentic

and it's certainly impressive
and there's no question

that if it's a legitimate
photo that it's artificial,

the reality is that there's
noframe number associated with it,

so nobody really knows
what to go back and check.

[narrator] Despite the image's
original misidentification

as coming from the
Chinese space program,

China's recent landing
of a rover on the moon

might have sparked
renewed interest in the rovers

NASA is currently
operating on Mars.

April 8, 2014.

TV news outlets
throughout America

began reporting how
this puzzling bright light

was captured on or beneath

the planet Mars by
NASA's Curiosity rover.

Though some scientists

suspect it could be caused
by the sun's reflection

or cosmic rays,

no one knows for sure
what the origin is.

Then, earlier this year,

people pored over
this perplexing image

that UFO sites
suggested was an alien face.

It wasn't the first time
a "face" on Mars

captured the
public's imagination.

In 1976,

these pictures,
taken by NASA's Viking orbiter

of a sphinx-like mesa
located near huge pyramids

in an area called Cydonia,

inspired millions

to think aliens might
have built these things

and perhaps the
Egyptian monuments, too,

due to the obvious
geometric similarities.

But some scientists

who were initially excited
about the cosmic implications

say more recent NASA pictures

might help explain the
faces' human appearance.

When I grew up in the '70s,

of course the Viking
images showed that...

That unusual face in
the Cydonia region.

But when we got the
Mars Global Surveyor out

and started to take
different camera angles,

different lighting angles,

it became quite obvious
that it was just a large mesa

with very interesting
lighting angles

that made it look like a face.

[narrator] Nevertheless, signs an E.T. race

might have built an
outpost closer to Earth

came the same year

the Viking orbiter image made
headlines with the publication

of the book
Somebody Else Is on the Moon.

Its author pointed to very
unusual NASA photos,

including one of a lunar
region called Mare Crisium,

where years earlier,

newspapers reported a bridge
had mysteriously appeared.

But the Mare Crisium image

taken by the
Apollo 16 astronauts

seems to contain
structures much more startling

and potentially ominous.

So you have an object
like the castle wall.

It looks like a castle wall.

It looks like it's got
three little arrow slits,

maybe some
embattlements at the top.

Off to the side you
see something

that looks more like a platform,

and extruding from the centre
of it is this tower-type object.

It definitely extrudes up.

It's got a shadow
out to the side.

The thing it's sitting on
is very interesting

because it's very circular,
very round.

And also it seems to have
some shadow underneath it.

Some people see what you
might term as a cooling tower

from a nuclear power plant.

[narrator]
Other researchers contend

the so-called castle
wall at Mare Crisium

actually resembles a fortress

with a turret, or pipe of some
kind, extending out of it,

casting a dark
shadow underneath.

Could this be an enormous weapon

defending an entire
nuclear complex?

Not only was this spar

jutting out at, apparently,
a 45-degree angle

with a ball-appearing object
on the very end of it,

there have been estimates
that this structure

may be as much as a mile.
In diameter and width.

Well, there certainly
is something artificial.

[narrator] An equally
perplexing NASA photo.

Included in the book
Somebody Else Is on the Moon,

seemed to show unknown objects

carving long, deep tracks
into the lunar terrain.

And at least one
of these objects

apparently had the ability
to move in mystifying ways.

If you follow these back
to their point of origin,

the one in the foreground
rolled up and out of a crater.

To me, this photograph was,
in my mind, beyond any doubt,

the smoking g*n
of activity on the moon.

Inexplicable activity
on the moon.

[narrator]
Indications that NASA,

and possibly the US
Central Intelligence Agency,

were determined to keep
such baffling lunar activity

a secret can be seen

in the harrowing story of
petroleum engineer

Vito Saccheri.

With a copy ofSomebody
Else Is on the Moon in hand,

he and a friend stormed
the gates

of NASA's Houston
Spaceflight Centre

shortly after the Apollo
missions ended,

demanding to see sharp versions

of the pictures the
book contained.

But he was stonewalled
from the start.

There were endless meetings,

endless numbers
of forms we had to fill out,

but it was clear they
were trying to discourage us.

They didn't want us
to go any further.

So we got back on the phone

and we go call them back
and said, "You know what?

We got this book. We're gonna
duplicate a thousand copies,

and I don't care if we got
to drop them in there

by helicopter.

We're spreading this
information around.

We got a call back and said,
"All right,

we'll make arrangements

for you to have access
to these photographs."

[narrator] The images he was
permitted to view,

in a high-security archive,

revealed things
literally out of this world.

Saccheri was overwhelmed.

We were escorted into the...
Into this room,

and it's like five or six
of these full-length tables.

Turned out to be
more than a thousand pictures.

But the resolution was very
high, and at that moment,

the whole occasion...

...turned.

It became almost...

...solemn.

'Cause we knew what
we were looking at.

And we knew what it meant.

There are structures there.
There were pipelines.

The bridges were
clear as a bell.

There was machinery.

There were tank tracks,
what appeared to be tank tracks.

When I looked at
those clear images,

we knew that we were
looking at an existing,

or at least an ancient,
technology.

These things didn't grow.
These things were manufactured.

These things were built,
and they were built on a huge scale.

[narrator] A massive scale
that suggests a race of beings

we might not be able
to successfully confront

should we have to.

If hostile extra-terrestrials
are on the surface of the moon

and are planning some sort
of as*ault on the earth,

if we're dealing with creatures,

with entities that are
far in advance of us,

I often wonder,
would we even stand a chance?

[narrator] As we've just seen,

there is growing evidence of
an alien presence in our skies,

in the solar system...
and, most shockingly,

on the surface of the moon.

Investigators point
to this NASA photo

taken by the
Apollo 16 astronauts

and can identify what
appears to be a huge fortress

consisting of a towering
cylindrical structure

positioned next to
what might be a g*n turret

extending out for more than a
mile in the Mare Crisium region.

Is this proof from NASA's
own archive of an alien base

existing on the side of the
moon that always faces Earth?

And might this base

even include a
massive satellite dish?

Experts see the dish and its
location as a cause for alarm.

[Redfern]
If we, the general public,

can see this imagery
on the surface of the moon,

then it's clear that military

military and government
agencies can, as well.

They might well be, sort of,

quaking in their
boots wondering,

who's built these structures?

Where are they from?
What do they want?

[narrator] If what researchers
say is right,

that this is potentially

an armed atomic
facility of some kind,

then the advanced
extra-terrestrial race

of beings who built it managed
to include something nearby

that Earth-based
telecommunications companies

can only be in awe of.

[Danielle Y. Wyrick] People
will look at Asada crater

and see something that
looks like a satellite dish,

maybe even with
a base underneath.

[Bara] It has very, very clear,

very distinct features of
a satellite dish.

It's got the dish itself,
the crater shape.

It's got a long spike
that appears to come out
of the middle,

and then down below you can see
structural members, crossbeams,

all sorts of stuff that
looks exactly like

a satellite dish on Earth looks.

[narrator]
Top researchers are convinced

what we are
looking at is nothing

less than an engineered
technological wonder,

miles in diameter.

Its intricacies
are hard to ignore.

Look at what might be
a parabolic reflector dish,

a sub reflector mounted
on a mast over the dish,

and an underlying substructure

of girders and supports
that not only hold up the dish,

they also house the mechanism

that rotates and aims the dish
in a specific direction.

When, you know,
you make a visual comparison

where it matches up exactly

with something terrestrial
that's artificial,

my conclusion is,
well, that's what it is.

It's not a funny-looking crater.

It really is a satellite dish.

[narrator] Remember,

this is very close to the
possible nuclear installation

and its protective armament.

Might it be a listening
device to the stars?

Our Earth?
Or an alien home planet?

There appeared to be
radar installations,

the kind of radio
telescope dishes

that are used by
the SETI organisation

in their search for
extra-terrestrial intelligence.

When they're sending signals
from Earth into outer space,

they use these dishes.

We've all seen them. We
all know what they look like.

And there are several
of these dishes on the moon.

[Redfern]
Are they monitoring us?

Are they watching us?

Are they preparing
for an attack?

We just really don't know.

[narrator] This gargantuan one,
measuring miles in diameter,

looks big enough to hear
an interplanetary whisper.

If we could build stuff
that big and make it useful

and find ways to put it to
good use, we would do so.

We just can't build them
that big ourselves.

But a very advanced
ancient civilization

with higher technology
almost certainly could.

[narrator]
But there are scientists

who have suggested
this is the remnants

of a naturally occurring
crater called Asada,

formed from being
decimated by meteors

striking the lunar surface
nearby over eons of time.

So, a hundred, a million yearslater,
ten million years later,

another impact blast
happens somewhere close,

and it blows all of the
loose regolith material away,

so what we're left
with is effectively the shell

of that original impact crater,
left almost looking freestanding

now by itself on
the lunar surface.

[narrator]
Despite such prosaic attempts

to explain away something

so visually compelling,
Edgar Mitchell,

the sixth Apollo astronaut
to walk on the moon,

is not so dismissive.

I suspect they're looking at us.

They're busy,
have been busy studying us.

That's true.

I have no doubt
that extra-terrestrials

could very well have populated,

or made structures
on the far side of the moon.

[narrator] Though he hasn't
seen the structures himself,

Mitchell has a good idea
of what he'd find.

[Mitchell] First of all,
they've got to have habitat.

I suspect E.T.s have to
sleep and eat like we do.

They maybe have different
bodies and so forth,

but they still
have nourishment problems.

They'd have to have structures
that support those necessities.

[Amy Shira Teitel]
I think it's interesting

that Apollo 14 astronaut

Ed Mitchell walked on the moon,

is also such a firm believer
in aliens.

It strikes me
as very interesting

that somebody who devoted
their life to science and who actually

went to the moon and was there

for science and
with technological backing

has this interesting
connection with alien belief.

[narrator] Mitchell's belief
in aliens existing on the moon

has been recently validated
by the book

ULOs: Unidentified Lunar
ObjectsRevealed in NASA Photography.

But its author did
not initially set out to find

what some experts now
regard as definitive evidence

of alien
constructions on the moon.

Originally I was just going
to make a coffee-table book

of the best picture I could
takewith my eight-inch telescope

and then on the other page,

a photo from the Apollo
missions of the same area.

I started to see a lot
of strange things

on the surface of the moon.

[narrator] Beginning with
official NASA images

taken by the
Apollo 8 astronauts,

Sturm soon pin pointed
complex geometric structures

that clearly looked unnatural.

Startled and confused about his discovery,
he sought answers.

[Sturm] I did further
research on the topic

and started to see what
otherpeople had been talking about...

...that there may be structures
on the surface of the moon

from some
kind of alien presence.

[narrator] A presence even
sceptically minded experts

are hard-pressed to explain.

[Sturm] I visited with an
archaeologist

at one of
the colleges in Tucson,

and she happened to be
a doctorate in archaeology,

and I started showing her
some of these images.

She was, kind of,
stunned by them.

And then I exposed to her that
these were actually on the moon.

And she said to me,

"Had you not told me
those were on the moon,

I would have told you
those were man-made."

[narrator] Could this be
yet another

gigantic E.T. satellite station

large enough to
be seen from orbit?

Filmed by the
Apollo 8 astronauts,

it's located close to
the far side of the moon.

It suggests an alien presence

extends to the lunar side

perpetually hidden
from human eyes.

There's so many
examples of these things

that it's undeniable.

Someone needs to sit down
and look at this stuff

and really, really check it out.

That's what has to happen.

[narrator] Perhaps that was
a primary directive

of the Apollo 8 mission itself.

To not only focus its cameras
on the far side of the moon,

but to actually spy on aliens

occupying a place the
United States government

wanted to control as a military
staging area of last resort

in case of a nuclear w*r
with the former Soviet Union.

[Redfern]
It's kind of ironic that at
the dawning of the 1960s,

the US Army had
a significant project

in place called Project Horizon.

And this was essentially a
program to build a manned base

on the surface of the moon.

And the idea was
that in the event

that the Soviets launched
a sneak attack

on the United States,

if in a worst-case scenario,
a lot of the US military bases

got taken out,
at leastwe could launch a counterattack

with missiles situated
on the surface of the moon.

But the big irony is we
chose not to build a base,

but, very possibly,

somebody else from somewhere
else has done exactly that.

[narrator] According to experts

now studying
provocative NASA pictures

that show mysterious artificial
structures existing on the moon,

there's clear
evidence an alien race

might have built fortifications
and possible weapons systems

for either offensive
or defensive purposes.

[Redfern] When we see
things like facilities,

installations, factories,
in some cases,

what even look like radar dishes

and possibly even
nuclear installations

on the surface of the moon,

I think it would pay us
to be wary, as well.

[narrator] Many of these
official NASA photographs

were taken by Apollo 8,

the US mission that
beat the Russians

in putting men into lunar orbit.

Its cameras
focused on the far side,

capturing
inexplicable structures

highly indicative
of intelligent design.

But NASA and the United States
government were possibly already

aware of alien structures
on the far side of the moon,

thanks to their
Russian space rivals.

Two years before and four years to the day

of the historic Apollo 11
moon landing,

an unmanned Soviet
spacecraft, Zond 3,

took two pictures of
mysterious objects

that have baffled
experts for decades.

[Bara] One of them showed

an absolutely crystal-clear

tower sticking up out of
the surface of the moon.

You could not see through it.

It appeared to
be a solid object.

And there's no way that anything

sticking straight up outof
the lunar surface like that,

22 miles high it would have been,
could possibly be natural.

It has to be artificial.

Another image a little bit
later in the orbit,

it took a picture of
what appeared to be

a sort of shattered
dome-type structure,

again sticking five, ten miles
above the lunar surface.

It had holes punched
in the roof of it

and absolutely clearly cannot,
should not be there.

There's no natural model
under which either one
of these objects

can be on these photographs,
yet there they are.

And they've been on
these official Russian
photographs now for...

for over 40 years.

[narrator] Enhancements of the damaged dome

suggest there
has been a significant
amount of deterioration,

most likely from long-term
bombardment of meteors.

Yet the dome still
looks very geometric.

Could this be remnants
of an alien habitat?

Whether the Apollo 8 astronauts

were aware
of the Soviet Zond 3 photos

remains unclear.

But they did manage to film
their own inexplicable tower

that has mystified experts.

Could this be a lunar skyscraper
with a broadcasting antenna?

And how could this
perplexing Apollo 8 image
of enormous structures

so clearly artificial-looking

be anything but the work
of intelligent beings?

There's an interesting
picture on the moon

that does appear to show
something

that could be a bridge,

maybe a pipe,
could be an inching worm.

But the reality is,

is that image is taken off of
the edge of an impact crater

right in the ejecta blanket,

so right in the middle
of the blast zone.

[narrator]
Scientists are hard-pressed

to explain it naturally.

[Wyrick]
So it's theoretically possible

that some of this
material may have

formed bridges of some sort.

But it's probably most likely

that this was just a
jumble of material

and that's how it
ended up landing.

[narrator] Take a good look
at the arching bridge

and the obvious shadow it casts.

On Earth,
it would dwarf any raised

roadway mankind
has ever erected.

And what does
the worm-like piping

positioned on top of the
adjacent structure represent?

Using technology
similar to what NASA uses

for creating 3-D virtual views

of 2-dimensional
features on planets,

we can see what it would be
like to fly under, around,

and over the structures.

It's easy to appreciate the
alarming scale involved here.

Whatever the structures are,

they appear to be
architectural marvels

constructed long before humans

touched down on
the lunar surface.

Might the builders have
been monitoring NASA missions,

anticipating our arrival?

I saw this illumination

that was moving
with respect to the stars.

We were smart enough to not say,

"Houston, there's a light out
there that's following us."

So technically it becomes
an unidentified flying object.

[narrator] Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin,

the second man to
walk on the moon,

admits a UFO seemingly
tracked the spacecraft

from a relatively
close distance.

Although he persistently
denies allegations that he

and fellow astronaut
Neil Armstrong

encountered aliens on the moon,

other former members
of NASA say otherwise.

[Johnston] There have been a lot of
rumours about what actually took place

during the lunar mission while

Neil and Buzz were
on the lunar surface

back at the Johnson Space Centre

during a couple of minutes
of broken communication.

Neil switched over
to the medical channel

to speak directly with the chief
medical officer of the mission,

and at that, the comment was,
he says, "They're here.

They're parked around the
rim of the crater,

and they're watching us."

[narrator] Interestingly,
the late Neil Armstrong

made cryptic comments
at the White House in 1994

for the 25th anniversary
of the Apollo 11 mission

that have made many
people wonder

if a cover-up might be involved.

We leave you
much that is undone.

There are great ideas
undiscovered,

breakthroughs available to

those who can remove one
of truth's protective layers.

There are places
to go beyond belief.

I've always wondered why
Neil Armstrong

mentioned something
about pulling back a veil

of secrecy in science and
truth in that press conference

on the 25th anniversary
of the Apollo 11 landing.

I mean, I have no idea
what he was referencing,

and I don't
think we'll ever know.

[narrator]
Yet another NASA mission,

the one E.T. believer
Edgar Mitchell was on,

might have filmed the definitive
evidence of aliens on the moon.

[Johnston] The Apollo 14
mission was a really pivotal mission.

Most people don't realisethat
only two of the astronauts

were actually walked
on the surface of the moon.

The other one stayed on board
in the command module

and continued to circle
around and around the moon

and taking film strips
and photographs

so we were completely coveringall
of the backside of the moon.

[narrator] Back on Earth,

the footage was shown to one
of NASA's top astronomers.

During the viewing,

an extraordinary
sequence came on-screen.

[Johnston] The command module's
coming around the backside of the moon

with the cameras rolling.

There's, like, a cluster of five

little domes with
lights shining inside,

and there was one of them that
there looked like a column of

steam or something
projected up from the top.

So there was
something really there.

I guarantee you,
there was certainly something

that was not a natural
occurrence on the moon.

[narrator] But when the footage
was played again the next day

for NASA engineers,

the key section with
the mysterious domes

had somehow disappeared.

I took the film out,
and there was no splices.

There was no cuts
and all the holes lined up.

That means within 24 hours,

they had to have taken the
film out, cut the portion out,

made a copy, airbrushed it out,
spliced it back in,

and then made a duplicate
of itand had it available to him.

[narrator]
Such accusations that NASA
has routinely airbrushed out

evidence of alien activity
acquired during space missions

has swirled for decades.

But sceptics are not
so easily convinced.

If a NASA photo manager
told me that he had screened
Apollo 14 footage

for astronomers that had shown

some sort of glowing
lights on the moon

that then that section
of the film was spliced out,

I would wonder whether
the film was damaged.

I would wonder if there
was a reason

that the film had
to be tampered with.

I wouldn't necessarily say
it's covering up aliens.

[narrator] But NASA might
have had motivation

to cover up E.T.
artefacts on the moon.

Prior to the Apollo missions,
a Brookings Institute report

warned NASA officials that such
a discovery of an E.T. presence

would result in nothing short

of the disintegration of
society as we know it.

[Bara] There definitely appears to be,

between all of the different
things that I've looked at,

there definitely
appears to be an agenda

to keep hidden from
the general public

what's actually on the moon.

There's no question that there's

artificial structures
and bases there,

and that's just something
that NASA does not
want people to realise.

The governmental belief

is that if enough people
actually came to the conclusion

that there was some sort of forward base,
an advanced base,

on the moon that
we would go crazy,

we would stop going to work,
we would stop being productive,

our society would
stop moving forward,

everything would
grind to a halt,

and we'd be thrown
back into the Stone Age.

[narrator] Maybe that's one
reason why Buzz Aldrin,

when asked to view photos

containing potential
alien structures,

refused to do so,

suggesting that others at
NASA had that responsibility.

No, wait a minute.

Don't you think the people who
designed the camera,

sent it out as an experiment
when the pictures came back,

they looked at them to see
if there was anything unusual?

And they didn't find anything.

If they had,
either we got some people

who were scared to talk about
itor they're withholding evidence.

And that's not
what science is about.

Science is about
informing people

what evidence has been found.

And those are experts.

[narrator]
But how can any expert explain
away this startling photo

shot by the Apollo 11 astronauts
showing what appears to be

a gigantic flying saucer
parked on the lunar surface?

It looks distinctly artificial,

with some sort of machine ridges

or indentions
running all the way

around the top that are almost
decorative in appearance.

Overall, it resembles a
classic alien ship.

Yet Aldrin still would not
look at the baffling picture

despite the fact he was
likely involved in sh**ting it.

I don't want to
even get involved in it.

Is Aldrin hiding something
about this saucer that was caught

in official NASA photography
sitting on the surface
of the moon?

To confirm the saucer photo
isn't doctored,

we decided to take it
to a top imaging analyst.

Coming up later,

his exclusive investigation
and astonishing conclusions.

[narrator] Though Apollo 11
astronaut Buzz Aldrin

would not comment
on official NASA photos

containing possible evidence
of aliens on the moon,

one astonishing picture taken
during his historic mission

shows what looks
like a huge saucer

or intricately
designed building.

[Redfern]
We see the clear angles,

which seem to suggest
intelligent construction.

The big question is, who by?

Is it some sort of
secret space program?

Is it aliens?
We just don't know.

But I think the onus is on us
to try and find out further.

[narrator] Look at this
perplexing NASA photo

of the moon's Kepler crater...

...taken by the Lunar
Orbiter 3 in 1967.

It is causing heated debate
on the Internet

and within the
UFO research community.

The entire crater
looks like a strip mine.

Part of the top rim has
been completely sheared off,

and a large piece of the wall

that was somehow cut away
lies beneath inside.

There's a massive pile of rubble
or possibly destroyed buildings

in the centre, perhaps a
mile and a half down.

And an enormous
white rectangular slab

could be hiding
something very large

where the left side
of the crater rim had been.

The area in front
suggests some form

of a concrete piping
grid is sticking out.

And the oval openings
of these pipes or tubes

embedded there could be
designed to vent some gas or vapour.

Not surprisingly,

a suspicious sign NASA might
be concerned about this photo

showing potential alien
activity on the moon

can be found in this picture

NASA released several years
later of the same crater.

It looks completely different,
almost pristine.

The crater rim is now
completely intact,

the wall appearing untouched
by excavation.

Maybe it's not the crater
that has changed,

but rather the
photographic details.

And a former NASA employee says,

"Doctoring a photo like
this is all part of the job."

Donna Hare
remembers the first time

she witnessed a NASA colleague

altering a similarly
provocative image.

One showing a
hovering flying saucer.

I looked at him,
and I said, "Is it a UFO?"

And he's smiling at me,

and he crosses his arms
and he says,

"I can't tell you that."

And I said,

"What are you going to dowith
this piece of information?"

He says, "We have
to airbrush these out."

After I realised that,
I started asking different people

that worked out there,
and what I found was

some people knew about it
and other people didn't.

But the people that told me
that there was a cover-up

would tell me off-site.

They wouldn't talk about it.

They'd tell me, "Don't ever
sayl said it or I'll say I didn't."

[narrator] Hare reveals that retouching
out possible evidence of aliens

in our skies and on the lunar
surface is par for the course.

And NASA has strict guidelines

for deciding what
images to alter.

[Hare] What was censored in
the photographs was

technology that's
not related to us,

really,
that is really high-tech.

The craft that I saw being
takenout was right over the trees.

I don't know of anything
that can hover like that.

One time I went into the slide
lab where they airbrush,

and the woman that
was airbrushing out negatives,

she was trying to cover up
something on the moon.

[narrator]
But this eye-opening footage,

shot by Apollo 8
as the astronauts

circled the moon,
has never been suppressed

nor explained, for that matter.

Is it evidence of possible
industrial-like

technology existing there?

In 1968, as Apollo 8 flew
over the lunar surface,

one of their cameras
captured an anomaly.

It looks similar to a smokestack

jutting from the
surface of the moon.

And just as the
camera passes by,

it appears to release some kind of a jet,
like a little cloud

that drifts to the right.

[narrator]
According to researchers,

what makes the film sequence
so extraordinary
is how it's shot.

One thing that makes
this footage special

is that you can see motion
within the span of stills.

I mean, as the camera is
moving over the lunar surface,

you actually see this smokestack
like anomaly change perspective

as it gets closer and
closer to the camera.

[astronaut] Russians saw they
saw smoke rising from Kepler,

but in the medium,
there's no smoke evidence.

[narrator]
Apollo 8 was flying 70 miles
above the lunar surface

when it shot this footage.

Viewable in both black
and white and colour,

the smokestack has
been estimated

to be more
than a thousand feet tall.

Is this gigantic structure

somehow connected to the
same vast mining operation

seemingly documented

in NASA's Lunar
Orbiter 3-162 photo

of Kepler crater?

Also, what exactly is
being mined here

and throughout the moon?

Scientists have discovered

the moon's surface
is rich with helium 3,

a fuel that can, in theory,

run highly efficient nuclear
fusion reactors.

Helium 3 could well be
the solution

to the world's
growing energy needs.

Its existence on the moon
was confirmed

during the Apollo 17 mission.

There are altogether 15 tons
of helium 3 on Earth,

while the moon holds
more than five million tons

trapped in the surface
material called regolith.

[Joshua P. Warren]
This helium 3 on the moon
could be used not only by us,

but by aliens.

And what we are seeing is
part of the mining operation.

[narrator] Could this also
explain the apparent equipment

carving deep tracks in the
lunar surface like a circular saw?

Or pipelines crossing
over the lunar terrain?

Spigots and valves?

And huge pipes crossing
over entire craters,

such as what this extraordinary photo,
researchers

discovered at NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

a few years ago, seems to show.

[Don Ecker] So, the photograph
was so incredible.

It had a pipe running
through a crater

going from one
wall to the other wall,

proceeding underground
where you could follow it on top,

the surface,
to what appeared to be a cliff,

and this pipe extended
right through the cliff

out into the open,
and it had a very unusual

what appeared to be extension
on the end of the pipe.

It can only be artificial.

[narrator] The extension looks
remarkably like

a funnel-shaped pipe fitting

positioned on top of a vertical
pole pointing up into space.

Perhaps the funnel regulates
the venting of vapour,

like what's seen in the
Apollo 8 smokestack footage.

Whether we are seeing the
mining for nuclear fusion materials

or some sort of
thermal venting on the moon,

most experts say
one thing is clear.

The photo evidence is authentic,

and the puzzling
lunar structures

must have some
connection to each other.

Take, for example,
this inexplicable structure

that plainly should
not exist on the moon

in a location NASA
had scrutinised heavily

prior to putting
men on the surface.

There's an area on the
moon called Sinus Medii,

which basically means
"the sea in the middle,"

and it's one of the areas

that's been the most
photographed

because, initially,
it was thought

it might be a good landing site

for the first Apollo
lunar landing.

Now, there is one particular
photograph of this area,

and in one of the frames,
you see this thing,

this tower sticking up
out of the ground,

which has this wire assembly
at the very top of it,

which looks like two
ends of a paper clip

wrapped around a pencil

or a post or something like
thatsticking a mile or two miles

out of the lunar surface.

[narrator] While the base of
the structure is partly in shadow,

the metallic top is quite
unique,

not only because
of its unusual shape,

but because of how it reflects
the light in two directions.

It's an amazing structure.
There's no way to explain it.

And it's unquestionably
authentic because it came
off of images,

data, negatives that
we got right out

NASA's own archives.

[narrator]
Could this bizarre array
be a beacon of some sort

more sensitive than anything
we have on earth?

Or a warning device

designed to
alert the inhabitants

of unwelcome visitors?

NASA might be asking
the very same questions,

considering how many
of Earth's space probes

have mysteriously vanished
around nearby planets

and, most notably, Mars.

[narrator] An extraordinary
photo snapped by Apollo 11

seems to document a mysterious
saucer was parked on the moon

as Buzz Aldrin and flight
commander Neil Armstrong

made their way down to
their meeting with destiny.

Aldrin won't discuss the
shocking saucer image

or other NASA photos

researchers have uncovered

showing potential
alien artefacts.

But we've asked a top imaging
expert his opinion about the picture.

And tonight,
he'll reveal whether or not
this is hard proof

Apollo 11 was not alone
that historic day 45 years ago.

Yet Aldrin is
encouraging the world,

and our space program,
to focus on another moon

that might have an
alien artefact on it.

Though he isn't sure

if this rectangular object
embedded in the Martian moon

Phobos is of
intelligent origin or not,

Aldrin considers Phobos
an ideal launching point

for a mission to the Red Planet,
no matter what the structure is.

[Aldrin]
I can't conceive of it being
other than a naturally formed

rock formation.

How? I don't know.

That's not my business.

I look to other people
who are into the mechanics

of what would form
a moon like that.

Is it an asteroid?

Is it the sum of things
that came together

like the asteroid belt?

Did it get chipped
off somewhere?

I have no idea.

[narrator]
It was while researching
landing sites on Phobos

that Aldrin learned
of the monolith,

a huge stone slab
almost 300 feet across

that is similar to
the alien structure

in the classic sci-fi film
2001: A Space Odyssey.

Aldrin finds it interesting

that a scientist has come
forward supporting the notion

this could be artificial.

It surprised me that an
extremely credible person,

a professor, who is part of

professional societies
in the subject

of settlements and colonization,

he's aware of this and he says
absolutely, without a doubt,

it is not a natural formation.

He didn't know
anything other than that,

but he just says it...
It's just not.

[narrator] And Aldrin recognises

that such academic support
in the alien origin hypothesis

for the Phobos monolith

could help get people excited

about exploring
Mars and its moons.

I am interested in the public

supporting what we're doing
for varieties of reasons.

And if some kooky part of the
public over here thinks that...

That this monolith has been
put there by aliens, fine.

They're gonna
create a lot of enthusiasm,

and it's gonna get
people wondering,

and they're not
gonna be satisfied

until it's proven
one way or the other,

and even then...

[narrator] Phobos has always
been a source of controversy.

In the early 1960s,

several prominent physicists
claimed that the moon

was actually an
artificial satellite

pulled into Martian
orbit by aliens.

The theory has its
supporters even today.

But there's a bigger mystery
about Phobos,

unsolved for almost 30 years,

one which investigators
are still trying to explain.

The Soviet Union in July of 1988

launched two probes to Mars,
Phobos 1 and Phobos 2.

Now, approximately a month
or so after launch,

Phobos 1 disappeared.

The Russians lost it.

Now, they attributed this loss

to a combination of
computer and human error.

[narrator] But the story that
subsequently emerged is far more chilling.

Russian researchers went public

claiming a shadowy
unidentified craft

may have destroyed Phobos 1

before going on to
eliminate Phobos 2

in a startling sequence
of events captured on film.

Just before vanishing forever,

Phobos 2 photographed
what might be

a gigantic alien spaceship

with bad intentions.

Broadcast on Russian television
and described as a thin ellipse,

the image resembles a needle

or dagger aimed
at the Martian moon.

Whatever its true shape,

it is estimated to be
larger than any craft

mankind has conceived of.

I'm talking about 25
kilometres in length

and a kilometre
and a half in diameter.

Now, according to Glavkosmos,
the Russian agency at that time,

this object or something
turned toward their spacecraft

and rammed it,
knocked it out of orbit.

The American
defence establishment

curiously remains silent
about the incident,

perhaps because American probes

have reportedly been
destroyed near Mars, as well.

We do know for certain
that several

unmanned missions,
spacecraft missions,

to Mars that had been
launched by NASA,

that we lost several.

And these were
expensive missions

that as they got closer to Mars,

suddenly they just
stopped operating.

It didn't have a response.
It happened at least two times

where we lost billion-dollarspacecraft
for unknown reasons,

and NASA still
has never come forward

with what they know
really happened.

[narrator] Is NASA withholding information
about a dangerous alien presence

operating around Mars?

Recent photographs taken
by the Mars Curiosity rover

suggest a UFO similar to what
seemingly destroyed Russian,

and perhaps US space probes,

might still be patrolling
the Martian skies.

Earlier this year,
the rover's cameras

captured an almost identical
cylindrical-shaped UFO

as the one Phobos 2
photographed back in 1989

right before it was obliterated.

This time,
the cylinder appears to be

rocketing over the planet,

remaining in view for roughly
ten minutes before disappearing.

Researchers first believed
the moving image

resulted from the camera
shutter staying open,

producing a time-lapse effect.

But upon examination,
the shutter speed was normal.

Alarmingly,
some military insiders

say the US government
is keenly aware

there's a real E.T. threat
facing us.

We were aware
there was a possibility

of an unknown presence

possibly alien,
extra-terrestrial,
near the Earth.

[narrator] John Brandenburg
is the former deputy manager

of the Clementine mission,

a classified operation
designed to map

and investigate all corners
of the moon.

It was a photo reconnaissance
mission basically to check out

if someone was building bases
on the moon

that we didn't know about.

Were they expanding them?

[narrator]
Brandenburg says Clementine's
lunar photos were analysed

by an elite
Defence Department team

with the highest security
clearance.

They basically kept to
themselves

and just did their work,

and we were told
not to interfere with them

unless we had a special reason.

So only the higher-ups

from the Naval Research
Lab went up there.

[narrator] But Brandenburg
recalls a previous screening

he did have
with top military brass

who were studying
riveting footage

showing UFOs navigating
away from a laser-like weapon

being fired upon them.

There I am sitting in this room

full of retired Army
and Air Force generals

and a few admirals, and

we're watching what looks
like a firefight in space.

The most senior general there,
an Army general,

turned to me and said, "Where
do you think they're from?"

And I said, "I don't know, sir.

I've heard they're from
40 light-years from here."

And his comment was,
"Long supply lines."

When an Army general says,
"Long supply lines"

he's already thinking of,

"How do I deal with
these people from far away?

How do I make them go back
to where they came from?"

The reaction of numerous
space defence officials

who I watched these movies
with was fear and astonishment.

[narrator]
It's NASA footage like this
showing UFOs flying so close

to our planet and the veil of
secrecy he witnessed

during Clementine's mapping
of the lunar surface

that prompted
Brandenburg to begin

searching for proof-positive
photos of aliens on the moon.

Once he saw the main structure
depicted on the cover ofULOs:

Unidentified Objects Revealed
in NASA Photography,

he knew he had hit pay dirt.

[Brandenberg]
Of all the pictures
I've seen from the moon

that show possible structures,

the most impressive is
a pictureof a miles-wide

rectilinear structure.

This looks
unmistakably artificial,

and it shouldn't be there.

As somebody in the defence,
space defence community,

I look on any such structure
on the moon with great concern

because it isn't ours.

There's no way we
could have built such a thing.

It means someone
else is up there.

[narrator]
In this striking photo
taken by Apollo 15,

you can clearly see
the structure from orbit

looking like a sprawling
complex or prison,

as some have described it,

stretching out across
the lunar terrain.

What could it
possibly represent?

Here in this digital simulation

of what it might be
like to fly in from space

and circle the structure,

we can see what it might look
like up close either today

or in the moon's distant past.

Finding this Apollo 15 image

was just the beginning of
Brandenburg's discovery process.

Photo after photo presented
in the book and also available

in NASA's official archive

added to his conviction
that the US government

knows of an alien
presence on the moon.

And he embarked on a mission

to help bring the best images
into the public spotlight

and alert our citizens of the
considerable stakes involved.

[narrator]
US Defense Department concerns

about apparent alien activity
in space and on the moon

have been confirmed
by a top military expert.

And the photographic evidence
in NASA's own archives

suggesting there might actually be E.T.
lunar bases with potential nuclear capability

is frightening,

especially when compared to one

of the most dangerous
confrontations in history

which could have
ended human civilization.

Having seen the pictures
that triggered

the Cuban m*ssile Crisis,

I look on these images
as even more provocative,

even more suggestive that

somebody is building structures
where they shouldn't be.

On our moon.

Now, if we, kind of,
draw a parallel

with what's going on
on the moon,

maybe we're actuallyseeing
some sort of staging post

that in the same way Cuba
was a threat

to the United States in '62,
the moon

is, subtly and slowly,

being turned into a threat
to the people of Earth.

[narrator]
What worries researchers
and presumably military brass

are what the
aliens might be planning.

If hostile extra-terrestrials
are on the surface of the moon

and are planning some sort
of as*ault on the Earth,

then I would hope and think that

governments
and military agencies

are preparing something as a,
as a counter force.

Now, whether they would
actually have the ability to,

that's the big question.

If we're dealing with creatures,

with entities
that are far in advance of us,

I often wonder,
would we even stand a chance,

or would it be game over
before it even barely began?

[narrator]
With such potentially dire
stakes for mankind involved,

Marc D'Antonio,

a photo and video analyst

with more than 30 years
of experience,

is attempting to determine

if the most compelling
photographic evidence

proves an alien threat is real.

So far, his investigation
has determined

we have real reasons
for concern.

Well, there is a lot
of very compelling video
and photo evidence

that indicates that something
is happening out there.

There are some structures
I have seen in images

that I've received of the moon

that I have not
been able to explain.

[narrator] Images like
this one that mystify

both D'Antonio and Defence
Department expert Brandenburg.

There's an interesting
structure on the moon

that I've seen that looks like
several wagon wheels in a row

either embedded
into the lunar surface

or just sitting there kind
of their... on an angle.

It seems to show a large,
flat structure

and then below it some either
wheel or dome-like structures.

And this is clearly provocative.

This does not looklike a
natural geologic feature.

[narrator]
Could these massive wheels,

half-buried beneath
the lunar surface,

be designed for mining,
excavation,

or possibly traversing
the rocky lunar landscape
in a vehicle

otherworldly in scale?

Anyone who analyses this
knows it's of enormous size.

These things are miles across.

If someone built this, they're
very busy, very vigorous.

These things are taller
than the Sears Tower.

[narrator]
Some researchers are convinced

these are energy-creating
machines

supporting an alien complex

right out of an
epic sci-fi movie.

To me, it looks like... it
lookslike the power generators for

the rebel base on one
of theStar Wars movies.

They're these incredible
half-buried round, sort of

look like turbine generators,
and they're all sort of lined up

and packed together
around this other block

as if they were
the power generators

or some sort of factory
or something

that was operating there
on the lunar surface.

It's absolutely an
incredible image.

[narrator]
Another huge structure
that has analysts stumped

is the massive-size bridge

and puzzling pipe seen
sitting high above nearby.

[D'Antonio]
I am familiar with the bridge

and the worm-like object
on the moon,

the worm-like pipe from
the Apollo 8 film reels, yes.

My reaction to the
bridge is that...

...the lunar
surface is undulating.

Now, could it really be
a bridge? Sure, maybe.

[narrator]
Imaging expert D'Antonio

sees much more that he feels

should not be standing
on the moon.

Well, it's interesting that
oneof the photos actually shows

what looks like a
tower sticking up.

In fact,
it looks like not just one,

but there's two little ones
next to it.

And I have to say that that
onel found to be perplexing

because I couldn't
figure out what it was.

[narrator]
Many experts feel the same way

about this baffling
Apollo 17 image

of what looks
like an interplanetary vehicle

sitting out in the
open on the moon.

Viewable from orbit,
the ornate structure

seems to have an
artificially crafted pointy top

and row of evenly spaced
portholes

or windows encircling it.

Roughly a half-mile in diameter,
the window in front

may actually be a portal
for another craft.

I know some people
have looked at these features

and they see a space capsule
or some other alien structure,

but in reality,
it could besomething completely different.

When I looked at the capsule
image, it is rather intriguing

because it looks like a
3-Dobject sticking up off the moon.

At least at first glance.

Now, there's a rectangular
looking window in the front

that some people
might have called a hangar,

where ships can go in and out,
if that's what this is.

A large vessel of some kind.
It's hard to tell.

[narrator] In this NASA-like
virtual fly-in from space,

it's easy to appreciate why
even the most sceptical experts

marvel at this image.

The capsule-looking structure

appears to be completely
foreign to the surrounding terrain.

And its position

suggests it might have even
crashed there or was marooned,

unable to take off
from where it was perched.

But the one NASA picture
that stands out even more
to imaging analyst D'Antonio

as a potential alien spaceship
on the moon might change the way

we look at our place in
the universe.

The historic Apollo 11 mission,

and the second astronaut
who landed there.

Well, this interesting
picture turned up

where you actually see
what looks like

a giant saucer
sitting on the moon.

And if that's what it is,
it's massive.

It's huge. It's a mother ship.

And it's sitting on the lunar
surface and even has a...

Looks like it has a sloped top
and a little thing on top.

At once you'd look at that
and you're startled and say,

"Wow, that's very interesting."

[narrator] While D'Antonio is quite curious

why Buzz Aldrin disavows
any knowledge of this saucer,

he is intrigued
by how intricately

constructed it appears to be.

And it has these intervals
of evenly spaced

compartments, if you will,
moving around the outside.

I find that compelling
because those don't look

like naturally
occurring objects to me.

[narrator]
The veteran photo analyst

believes this official
Apollo 11 picture

is not the result
of a trick of lighting

or any other optical illusion.

He contends it is real,

and his findings could lead
many researchers

to deem it the smoking g*n

that UFO and alien
believers have longed for,

despite Aldrin's refusal
to address it.

[D'Antonio]
Whether this was actually
the famous Apollo 11 UFO

seen during transit to the
moonby the Apollo 11 crew,

that remains to be discovered
somewhere else down the line.

[narrator]
If Aldrin and NASA
are hiding knowledge

of this gigantic saucer
on the moon,

they could be following a script

laid down many years ago
by the US government

when contact with aliens
was considered a major concern

to be carefully guarded

and not officially revealed

due to mass panic
that might ensue.

Before NASA went to the moon
in the early 1960s

and among the findings

there was sort of this idea that

if we were to find
any alien structures

or have any, kind of,
interaction

with alien life-form
or intelligence

that maybe we
shouldn't tell the public

because the publicmight
not be able to handle it.

[D'Antonio]
A structure on the
moon created by

another entity other than anyone

from the planet Earth
implies that

somebody else is here
or was here.

And we want to,
obviously, protect ourselves.

We want to make sure
that we know who they are

and what they're doing there.

[narrator] How will the world react to this

potentially earth-shattering
news

that a leading
photographic authority

has confirmed we might
now have the ultimate proof

that Apollo 11 encountered

a mysterious alien race
on the moon

that our astronauts
and the US government

are still covering up?

What is truly at stake here?

Well, the concern is someone
has built a base, apparently,

on the moon. It's not us.

What are they doing there?
What are their intentions?

Is this base occupied?
Is it being expanded?

Has it been
expanded since Apollo days?

Is somebody doing their job
down at the Pentagon

and watching this
base continually?

The moon is strategic.

In the space defence community,

everyone understands
whoever owns the moon

will own the Earth eventually.

It's either gonna be the
human race or somebody else.

[narrator] According to the
official record,

NASA exploration of the moon
by sending astronauts there

ended with Apollo 17.

But this long-accepted notion

has come into question
the last few years

primarily due
to shocking allegations

and never-before-seen videos

that could change the way
we view ourselves,

the space program,

and alien life forever.

Well, officially, the last
Apollo mission was Apollo 17

in 1972.

They had planned to do Apollo
18, 19, and 20,

but those were supposedly
cancelled due to some problems

with technical and
financing issues.

However, around 2007,

a man surfaced on the Internet

calling himself William
Rutledge saying that there was,

in fact, an Apollo 20 in 1976

and that he was
one of the astronauts

and that they actually travelled
to the far side of the moon,

landed,
and explored an alien base.

And footage from this excursion

began to slowly
leak out onto the Internet

showing not only
these exotic structures,

but, most shockingly,

a body that appears to be
a mummified alien woman,

maybe even a
hibernating female woman.

[narrator]
As seemingly documented
in these video clips

Rutledge released from
an undisclosed location,

the former civilian test pilot

and his fellow crew members,
pilot Leona Snyder

and a Russian cosmonaut
named Alexei Leonov,

trained in private before
secretly launching into space

from Vandenberg Air Force
Base in California.

Rutledge claimed
the mission's origins

stemmed from an
extraordinary NASA photo,

one which had
previously convinced

many researchers for years

that evidence of aliens

had been found on
the lunar surface.

[Speigel]
Another one of my favourite
moon shots, as it were,

was taken by
Apollo 15 astronauts

showing, lying on the
surface of the moon,

what appears to be,

and if you could measure it,

a miles-long fuselage
or spaceship.

It's as if you would take,
just a regular jet airliner

and don't give it any wings
or a tail section,

just like a cigar shape.

It's just a huge
thing sitting there,

and it looks totally artificial.

[narrator]
Another video sequence
Rutledge released

shows what appears to be the
Apollo 20 spacecraft in flight

on the way to the moon
with another craft

either following it
or trying to rendezvous.

It's unclear what
precisely is going on,

and Rutledge has not clarified
these peculiarly shot images.

But researchers say footage
recorded later in the mission

looks very authentic.

So, there's another scene
inside the lunar module,

and it looks like the inside
of a lunar module.

There's a mission
patch up on the wall,

so it looks like a, you know,
legitimate NASA mission.

All the things that you'd
expect to see are there.

[narrator]
An emblem of the Russian
and American flag apparently

commemorates the purported
joint US-USSR mission

which Rutledge claimed it was.

When the sequence

documenting the trip down
to the lunar surface begins,

the focus of the mission
soon comes clearly into view.

[Teitel]
William Rutledge's
Apollo 20 footage

looks like any other
Apollo mission landing

a lunar module
descending to the surface.

And we also see this
structure on the moon
that looks a little bit

like what we saw in
that picture from Apollo 15.

[narrator]
Take a look at how the
fuselage-shaped structure

captured in the
official NASA photo

compares with the alien-looking spaceship

the Apollo 20 astronauts

appear to be hovering over

before coming to a rest
on the surface.

The similarities
and the overall connections

Rutledge makes between the two
make the case more convincing,

according to researchers.

[Teitel] The idea that
this Apollo 20 mission

was going to recover something

that had been seen in another
NASA image from Apollo 15,

I think,
gives the idea credibility

and, sort of,
gives it that morsel of truth

that you really want to latch
onto and make it something

that you can really believe in.

[narrator] But can we
believe in the incredible

and, sometimes disturbing,
video sequences that come next,

which over 75 million
Web viewers

have been poring over
the past few years?

After the lunar module
seemingly has touched down,

revealing footage
shows the lunar terrain
outside the vehicle,

where another lander,
perhaps a Russian one,
stands tall.

Then the cameraman,
perhaps Rutledge himself,

pans the camera around the craft

and catches something
unexpected.

[Teitel]
The other thing that is inside
this lunar module

looks like a woman.

There's a shot
of a woman's face,

and there's sort of wax
over her features,

and this is meant to be,
I believe,

the alien that they
recovered from the ship

that was seen in
the Apollo 15 imagery.

[narrator]
Close-ups of the alien woman

suggest her skin is either
mummified in some way

or covered with a strange glaze.

Her expression seems sublime,

and she was affectionately
named "Mona Lisa"

by the purported Apollo 20 crew.

She is not wearing any clothing,

and her exposed breasts
look strikingly human.

There has been much debate
around the world

whether a very different
sequence shows the same alien

or a second one entirely.

There do seem to be
enough physical differences

to suggest two separate beings
were discovered on the moon.

What does the medical-looking
procedure represent?

Did the tubing and
other implements
keep this creature alive?

Eerily, some information
Rutledge released

suggests this alien
was not found intact,

rather, just part of her body,

severed from the rest.

Well, there's a video
that shows, purportedly,

the head of this woman

with her eyes being propped
open by some kind of wires.

[narrator] Whether it shows a
whole being or not,

this footage,

including the
strange writing depicted,

has sparked much speculation
about the condition

she was found in

and her possible ties
to Earth culture mythology.

The female alien seemed to
havesome apparatus on her face

connecting her mouth to her eyes

to a point on her forehead where
the third eye might be located.

Now, I must tell you,

it's interesting that this
alien has a third eye,

because, obviously,
this is a sign

that there may be some
influence on some of the cultures.

For example, the Hindus,
that actually believe higher beings,

more enlightened beings
literally have a third eye.

[narrator]
While the possibility
that this alleged alien race

had contact with humanity
intrigues researchers,

the case is
considered suspicious

for its unproven provenance

and a variety of other reasons.

Most see its authenticity,

basically,
as a black-and-white issue.

But either way,

its existence seems
significant to investigators.

It just seems almost impossible

that footage this sensational
could leak out this way.

But if it is fake,

it's possible it could be part
of a misinformation campaign

released by NASA
or other government agencies

in order to further
confuse the true footage,

the authentic footage out there

showing these bases
and structures on the moon

they want to remain secret.

[narrator] Tonight we've seen
this huge saucer

that Apollo 11 captured on film,

as well as three
other potential craft

and an extraordinary
ornate-looking capsule

that was possibly abandoned
by aliens after crash-landing.

Some researchers suggest E.T.s
occupying the moon

could have interacted
with ancient human cultures,

moving back and forth,

leaving tell-tale signs
of their influence on mankind.

When we're looking for clues
tothe nature of the UFO phenomenon

it's always intriguing
when we find similarities

in totally different places.

For example, on the surface
of the moon, on Mars,

and in Egypt on the Earth,
we find pyramid-type structures.

[narrator] Amazingly,
the recent discovery of what appears to be

an enormous artificial pyramid
on the lunar surface

by author Mike Bara indicates
such exquisite designs on Earth

could have an
alien starting point.

[Bara] There is on the backside
of the moon near a crater

called Daedalus a structure
that I call the Daedalus Ziggurat.

It looks like an ancient
Mesopotamian pyramid
between this object,

this sort of wedge-shaped front to it,
a square interior,

a square central temple
structure with a dome on
top of it, an entrance.

It had all these features

that typical Mesopotamian
ziggurats actually have.

[narrator] When Bara publicised
its similarity to pyramids on Earth,

he was rebuffed
by the scientific community.

I was roundly attacked
by different NASA-backed
scientists about it.

They claimed that
I fabricated the image.

[narrator] Bara contends NASA
even altered the details of the structure

in the official
lunar photo archive.

Take a look at the
pyramid Bara discovered.

Now look closely at how NASA,

or the US government
photo technicians,

may have altered it.

It's completely whitewashed.

It doesn't look like anything
except this series of craters.

[narrator]
But such an attempt
to censor this lunar pyramid

does not daunt
informed researchers.

The fascinating thing is that
if you ignore the ziggurat,

even if you say it's not there,
which it is,

you look around and there's
all kinds of incredible stuff

that's clearly artificial.

[narrator] Many experts
believe the ziggurat

supports the popular
ancient astronaut theory

that humans and aliens
met in Earth's past

and this association
might have included

aliens helping the
human race survive.

The idea that aliens
have come to Earth and
interacted with ancient man

and helped us
build the pyramids,

gave us technology
that got us off the Earth

to avoid some catastrophes,

sounds like there's
enough sort of

roots of science to
make it believable.

Maybe because we
do have this technology
and we do have pyramids.

[narrator]
Though no human ever entered

the ziggurat pyramid
on the moon,

Mike Bara believes
Apollo 17 astronauts

may have entered a structure
containing alien artefacts.

There was a hexagonal mountain

that they drove right
up to on the second day,

spent a bunch of time looking
in a V-shaped depression,

which is called Nansen,
and there are many pictures

from Apollo 17 itself
on the lunar surface

where you can see objects
that at first might look like rocks,

but as you closely examine them,

they look more like
mechanical devices.

[narrator]
Precisely what the
Apollo 17 astronauts

found lying out on the lunar
surface remains a mystery.

But among the
machine-like objects,

which some researchers contend

actually are part
of a crashed debris field,

sits an eerie, human-like skull.

Do these shocking photos
prove NASA knew Apollo 17

would find proof-positive
evidence of alien beings,

perhaps humanoid E.T.s
tied to ancient Earth history?

Until mankind returns
to the lunar surface

and goes to all the
specific locations

where evidence
of aliens on the moon exists,

you'll have to
decide for yourself.