At this one-time event, a journalist, Patrick FMoore (a well-known British astronomer) asked the astronauts if they saw any stars from the lunar surface. Even though these three men were supposed to be the only ones in existence who had such a unique one-of-a-kind experience, they were nevertheless aided in describing their mission by a teleprompter, hidden in their desk, which directed them what to say about the event.
When Moore asked whether or not they saw the beautiful stars of the universe from the surface of the Moon, Neil Armstrong replied, “We were never able to see stars from the lunar surface or on the daylight side of the Moon by eye without looking through the optics. I don’t recall during the period of time that we were photographing the solar corona what stars we could see.” Really? He was on the Moon for the very first time in mankind’s existence looking out into the vastness of space and “didn’t recall” if he saw the beautiful stars of the universe, more clearly than ever before, in the vast expanse of the pitch black atmosphere-free sky?
To this noticeably awkward moment, Aldrin reacted with a flinch, uneasy by Armstrong’s odd reply. Fellow crewmember Michael Collins then tried to help out by reminding them of their rehearsed answer to this question, should it be asked, by replying, “I don’t remember seeing any.”
The problem with Collins’ answer is that in attempting to correct Armstrong’s fumble, Collins created one of his own. He was supposed to have been orbiting the Moon while the other two were allegedly walking on the surface, thusly he was not in a position to even see stars from the lunar surface. Lightning then struck twice in the very same place, because if you get a written transcript of the press conference (as this was the only public record of it at the time, with no internet, and no videos), NASA later corrected Collins’ mistake and attributed his reply of “I don’t remember seeing any” to Aldrin instead, who was supposed to be on the lunar surface, not Collins.
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On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the notorious first lunar hoax event, about twenty-five years ago and ten years before this encounter of mine with Armstrong, while Armstrong was speaking for just thirty seconds in the White House, Neil Armstrong held back tears as he strongly hinted at the Moon landing deception, when he said that there are “Breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truth’s protective layers.”
At the time of this very odd statement of Armstrong’s, I could see tear-filled compassion in his eyes. Years after this cryptic revealing statement, on two or three separate occasions (some off the record) when I met with Armstrong, that glint of humanity in his eyes was completely gone, succumbed to a seared conscious from decades of lying, after an extended period of time of which, his eyes had turned into soulless ones, just like those of the CIA agents who had followed me from church that faithful day.
-- Bart Sibrel, Moon Man