The sudden delay of NASA’s first moon mission in five decades has set off a wave of conspiracy theories, including one about astronauts discovering life on the lunar surface in 1969.
AJ Gentile, host of the podcast The Why Files, said that a long-lost radio transmission from the Apollo 11 landing allegedly mentioned the discovery of aliens watching the crew arrive.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin reportedly switched to a private medical channel during a radio blackout while approaching the moon.
In this brief window, during which NASA records exist, Armstrong and Aldrin allegedly told mission control on Earth that they saw a group of beings ‘parked’ in a crater.
‘The story is they switch over to the medical channel and said, “They’re here. They’re on the crater, and they can see us,”‘ Gentile explained on The Tucker Carlson Show on Monday.
Despite the story being widely told over the last 57 years, there is no evidence that the Apollo 11 crew ever used the backup radio channel.
Officially, the US government and the Pentagon have declared that there has never been any physical evidence recovered that proves UFOs or extraterrestrial beings exist.
However, Gentile noted that former CIA psychics and other respected astronauts have also claimed there is something on the lunar surface that NASA officials have been keeping hidden since moon missions ended in 1972.
Conspiracy theorists have claimed that a secret recording was made during the first moon landing, which spotted alien life in a lunar crater in 1969
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that the moon mission of Artemis II will be pushed back to March after a fuel leak was discovered during tests on Monday
In the 1970s and 1980s, the CIA conducted experiments with individuals who claimed they could perceive information about distant objects, events, or people, a process known as ‘remote viewing.’
Gentile recounted the story of famed remote viewer Ingo Swann, who allegedly saw towers, buildings, and human-like aliens working at a secret complex on the dark side of the moon during one of his psychic episodes in 1975.
Swann, who died in 2013, made the claims in his book Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy, released in 1998.
Just as some believe Armstrong and Aldrin allegedly claimed, Swann chillingly said the beings on the moon were aware of his presence and knew he was psychically viewing them from Earth.
‘Two of them pointed in my direction,’ Swann explained. ‘How could they do that… unless… they have some kind of high psychic perceptions, too?’
Gentile added that Apollo 14 Edgar Mitchell also publicly stated his belief that UFOs were real, that extraterrestrials had visited Earth, and governments worldwide were lying about what they knew.
‘Every astronaut has seen strange things in space. Edgar Mitchell is on record as saying UFOs are real. This is the sixth man to walk on the moon. This is not a kook. This is an American hero. So something’s clearly going on up there,’ Gentile declared during the podcast interview.
Asked if he believed the original moon landing was faked, Gentile said he believed it was real but noted how uncomfortable the question made him because of the volume of records that have suspiciously been lost since that historic event.
AJ Gentile, host of The Why Files, revealed a 57-year-old claim that a secret transmission was made during the Apollo 11 landing
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin unfurl the US flag on the moon in 1969
Others on social media were more skeptical that humans have ever traveled to the moon and believed NASA’s delay was more proof that the space agency is not really planning to reach the lunar surface with the Artemis missions.
One commenter on X said: ‘Dude, SpaceX launches 20 rockets a year and y’all launch 1 every 3 years? Pathetic. Liars. We never went to the moon.’
‘So was the green screen and wire harnesses not working or what? I doubt it takes a month to fix something stage techs can fix in a couple of hours max. Or is it the hairspray?’ another skeptic claimed.
Originally, NASA had planned to launch four astronauts on a ten-day mission to circle the moon and return to Earth by February 6 at the earliest.
Due to the extreme cold temperatures brought by recent winter storms, that launch date had been pushed back to February 8 before Monday’s fuel leak during testing.
In a statement, NASA said: ‘Engineers conducted a first run at terminal countdown operations during the test; however, the countdown stopped at five minutes left due to a spike in the liquid hydrogen leak rate.’
The fuel-loading test was part of what the space agency calls the ‘wet dress rehearsal,’ where they load the Artemis II rocket with over 700,000 gallons of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen, which act as the propellants that ignite and blast the craft into space.
According to NASA’s current launch window schedule, Artemis II will now attempt to blast off on either March 6, 7, 8, 9, or 11.
Another set of dates has been reserved for the first week of April in case of further delays.
