"Is the government hiding the truth about extraterrestrial life?"
Many people believe in aliens, and many do not. I, myself, am a non-believer, but I am not closed to the idea of believing, it would just take A LOT of proof to convince me! However, in saying all of that, I have a few questions to pose to all of you. I recently watched the movie Apollo 18. (For those of you who have not seen it, it is a sci-fi that apparently contains a portion of actual footage (not sure which parts, thoug I believe it might be the to Earth and back audio). It is about the crew of the Apollo 18 mission going to the moon, discovering an empty russian ship there, dead russians, and aggressive alien lifeforms. Overall it was a pretty average movie, and if you are looking to waste a few hours of your life I can recommend it, otherwise, probably give it a miss.) The movie itself was pretty rubbish, but the conversation and ideas afterwards was the interesting part. I could not really see any credability in this movie, but it got me thinking, so I researched 'Apollo 18 mission' on the internet, and guess what I found... nothing. More than nothing even, which helped give the concept credability. (Though many people say that Apollo 18 was actually the Apollo-Soyuz test project (ASTP), which was supposed to be a diplomatic space mission to demonstrate the two countries co-operation.) I did find a fair bit of evidence however on apollo 19 and 20, which were also supposed to be cancelled. Apparently there is a gentleman by the name of William Rutledge, who was the captain of both the Apollo 19 and 20 missions. These missions were collaberations between the USA and the USSR. The story goes that on Apollo 15 they discovered a 5km long object on the dark side of the moon, and missions 19 & 20 were to further investigate the Delporte-lzsak region, close to the well-known Tsiolkovsky crater, where the object was found.
From what I have discovered, the Apollo 19 mission was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California in July of 1975. Apparently there was a significant launch acknowledged by NASA at this time, giving this credability. This flight apparently nearly met with disaster, something to do with technical failure during a TLI maneuvre. (???)
The Apollo 20 mission, however, took place in August of 1976 and also launched from California’s Vanderberg Air Force Base, with the main purpose of landing on the far side of the moon and investigating the crashed ship. (supposedly)
So here is where my opinion lays. With the cold war happening, America HATED the Russians. Why did they all of a sudden team with them for the Apollo-Soyuz project, and supposedly team together for the other two secret missions? It seems to me that the Russians infact discovered the ship (if there even is a ship), so the Americans had to swallow their pride to be a part of it. (Apparently the Russians DID have a rover exploring the far side of the moon, and its beacon supposedly guided the Apollo 20 mission to the correct location.)
Now, if you were to search on 'youtube' for footage of the ship, you will find oodles, but you will also find information on something called 'mona lisa', which is supposedly a recovered alien body from the ship on the moon. I, personally, still remain unconvinced, but I do enjoy hearing people's opinions on this contravertial topic, because the sad truth is, we cannot trust the government to tell us the truth, we must find it for ourselves!
Let me know if you are a believer or not.
-T.J.
