Apollo 11 UFO Sighting

I remember a similar sighting on one of the later Apollo missions.

What occurs to me about all these types of things, ufo siteings, and other weird stuff, like,say, the Loch Ness monster, is that there used to be suppossed sightings and fuzzy photographs or videos all the time when I was growing up (70's & 80's).

However now that pretty much everyone has a decent quality camera with zoom lens or a video camera, these suppossed sightings have dried up. If there were such things then surely by now somebody somewhere would have taken a clear, high quality, irrefutable shot of such a thing. The fact that no such photos seem to have been taken tells me it's all hocum.
 
unclepuncle said:
I remember a similar sighting on one of the later Apollo missions.

What occurs to me about all these types of things, ufo siteings, and other weird stuff, like,say, the Loch Ness monster, is that there used to be suppossed sightings and fuzzy photographs or videos all the time when I was growing up (70's & 80's).

However now that pretty much everyone has a decent quality camera with zoom lens or a video camera, these suppossed sightings have dried up. If there were such things then surely by now somebody somewhere would have taken a clear, high quality, irrefutable shot of such a thing. The fact that no such photos seem to have been taken tells me it's all hocum.
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yeah, I read a short while back that with the loch ness monster - this was due to a travelling circus that let their elephant go for a swim in the loch around the 1920s / 30s... :D
 
This is quite good too:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2886227591617986924
Last Thursday I met one of the physicists who ran some of the experiments on Apollo 11 (and subsequent missions) and the company I work for is currently holding a bundle of old original Nasa tapes containing some of the experimental data for the mission (Not the original video image tapes I hasten to add, which really have been lost..... shame because what was recorded was much better resolution than what was broadcast at the time - what was broadcast was filmed off a screen back on planet Earth from what I understand). Anyway, I was looking through some of the original scientific reports etc. No question they were there IMHO.
 
I believe what Buzz said, if he says he saw a UFO (and one that appeared to look like a spacecraft) then he saw a UFO as far as I am concerned. The recent destruction of a shuttle during re-entry was blamed on foam breaking off the main fuel tank and hitting the leading edge of the wing. This was later attributed (by a BBC documentary) to a new type of lightning that had been discovered a little time before this mission. The objective of that shuttle was, among other things, to study this new lightning which is capable of destroying aircraft in flight. A man filming the re-entry from a skyscraper on the east coast had footage of the shuttle coming into the atmosphere and being struck by lightning and disintegrating. The data taken during this flight (of the new lightning, which extends out into space but has a positive charge to earth if I remember correctly) was retrieved from Israel some time after the incident. Spaceflight Films are really good (DVD boxed sets).
 
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Of course all of this presumes that Buzz Aldrin and Apollo 11 actually went into space - there are those who believe it was all filmed on planet earth:D
 
And what on earth (no pun intended:) ) is that picture suppossed to prove. And isn't Hubble controlled by NASA the same people behind the alleged Apollo missions:confused:

PS: I am just being awkward and difficult for the sake of it - and because it's fun:D

Have you read Andrew Chaikin - 'A Man on The Moon - The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts' - one of the best historical books ever written IMHO.
 
And I thought that the earth was flat too! Next year I must venture out from Lerwick harbour on my sailing boat. I am terribly disappointed in Aliens. I have spent most of my life in really remote parts of the globe - from the deserts of Central Australia to the west Highlands and now on Shetland and never once have I seen one, never mind their space craft and Ive yet to meet anyone who has been abducted and had hideous probes inserted!!

Aaaaah faith - thats all you need - I guess.

If anyone has seen an alien etc - good for them but more people are still living in hope!
 
Apparently 1 in 3 Americans believe they have been abducted, since the earliest record of this claim it would mean a full time occupation for very many spacecraft taking many hundreds of Americans each week.

Bless them, anyone knows Aliens mess with crops not people.
 
ben556473 said:
So are we agreed that aliens do exist?
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I would probably agree that somewhere in the cosmos it is likely, but by no means certain, that some other forms of life exist - but i do not believe they have visited us here on planet earth in flying saucers for the very same reasons that we, the human race, haven't ventured all that far past our own planet.

All this sci-fi rubbish with warp drives, hyper space etc is just a load of hold hocum.
 
unclepuncle said:
Have you read Andrew Chaikin - 'A Man on The Moon - The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts' - one of the best historical books ever written IMHO.
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Great read.

I recall that Neil Armstrong comes off as being a bit of a prat though. I guess the first person on the moon is allowed a huge ego though!!

The books description of tha actual first landing is excellent. They nearly ran out of fuel...um, that could have been really embarrassing for NASA. :eek:
 
I have the dvd set for Apollo 11 and he has to shut down the computer (same as zx spectrum) and land it by 'manual control' amazing to watch and listen to radio coms. I actually find the Apollo 8 dvd's better as this was the first flight to leave Earths orbit and when they are re-entering Earths atmosphere you can hear this loud bang and one guy says 'what was that!?' and the guy flying the tin can says very forcefully 'NOTHING'. Brilliant, real seat-of-your-pants stuff.
 
The one thing I learnt reading the Andrew Chalkin book was how little the astronauts were paid.

They were just on a regular salary that didn't change if they "flew" or not.

I am sure the guys that went to the moon had to fill in expenses claims or something when they came back - can't recall exact details but it was a real eye-opener..:eek:
 
It was mankinds best achievement in my view. Even when the world was so split by opposing views on life they did it for all peacefull men.
 
andyoz said:
The one thing I learnt reading the Andrew Chalkin book was how little the astronauts were paid:
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Yeah - I guess just the actual honour of doing it, and the career fulfillment thing was enough for them - how things have changed:(

Plus of course they had the opportunity to seek out new worlds and new civilisations and boldly go where no man had gone before:)
 
You would be surprised at how much cooperation went on, even during the cold war. A 'people' might appear to dislike each other but when you get down to the individuals they both have the same goals in this instance. The Russian probes that were sent to the moon were designed knowing that the only reciever big enough to hear there transmissions was at Jodral Bank, but they still sent them. We did give them there data, and published it in our national press.
 

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