by Mike Bara
23 years later, this same anonymous source handed Hoagland the version of AS16-121-19438 which contains the Spire and numerous other anomalies. It is truly a sad state of affairs when a member of the American public is forced to get the true story of what is on the Moon by swiping a picture off the NASA administrators’ desk as opposed to simply having NASA reveal the truth themselves. But, such is the post Brookings world we live in.
Lunacognita enhancement of the NASA version of AS16-121-19438.
That said, there is still quite a bit to be learned from the “official,” sanitized version of the photograph. Some other intrepid anomaly hunters have been doing just that.
Although the official version of AS16-121-19438 is quite a bit blurrier and seems to have a significant amount of digital noise introduced into it, it is still useful for some research. A group calling itself Lunacognita has done some excellent enhancements of the photo and what it shows is not only revealing, but it is consistent with what we have already observed on the “Hoagland” version of the frame.
In all three of their enhancements, the obscuring medium in the lower part of the image is very clear, and it is obvious that there is something between the camera and the lunar landscape below, just as we see in the Hoagland and official versions. This all but confirms that the blurriness in both images is caused by something physical and is not a camera anomaly. In another enhancement, we can see the shattered remnants of this massive glass scaffolding high above the Crisium plane in the sky beyond. This indicates that the actual photo is shot down through a hole in the overall structure of the scaffolding, possibly punched there by thousands and thousands of impacts over the millennia.
(Lunacognita)
What these independent images show is that there is ample evidence for the theorized glass towers over Mare Crisium. We have several TLP observations over a couple of centuries at least, Earth based telescopic observations which show the multi-colored lunar surface as rays of light are bent, refracted and combined by the many panes of this glass structure. We have a NASA original photo—taken from the desk of the NASA administrator back in the 1960s—which shows an obscuring medium between the camera in orbit and the lunar surface below. We have a crystal clear image of a structural “Spire” supported by “guy wires” at 90-degree angles to it. We have a pie shaped portion of a former dome over the crater Picard. We have an oblique view of Picard that shows the dark, bent over supports of the dome that once encased the crater. And we have at least two craters which have underlying support structures and look more like satellite dishes than impact craters. We have an independent confirmation of a gauzy, haze-like blanket that one of the Apollo astronauts testified that he was looking down through to the Crisium basin below, which is entirely consistent with our model of a transparent superstructure over the Crisium basin. We have independent confirmation of the towering glass structures over Mare Crisium against a sky that should be absolute black. Structures, by the way, that are completely consistent with what we’ve already confirmed are over Sinus Medii. Did I miss anything?
Oh yeah, I did. We’ve also got a building on a mountain on the north shore of Mare Crisium and a couple of fully intact glass domes over craters there.
The North Shore of Mare Crisium
I first met Steve Troy in July of 1998 at a lecture given by Richard Hoagland in Phoenix. Given that I was computer savvy and Steve at the time was not, Hoagland suggested that we start working together to find and confirm evidence of lunar anomalies that might be consistent with what we had already uncovered. Steve had been quietly working to confirm Hoagland’s artificial lunar dome hypothesis for almost 2 years and I had already put up my old Lunar Anomalies web site, so it seemed like a natural fit. Steve’s approach was entirely analog, sifting through the reams of data and catalogs provided by a variety of NASA archives. Steve had been studying lunar anomalies this way since 1994, with an astronomical and geologic interest in the Moon for several years prior to that. He found numerous oddities and discrepancies in his studies, both with regard to the unnatural “geology” and the also with the photo’s themselves. I provided image enhancement and confirmation of Steve’s findings using standard digital techniques, and he likewise examined photographic negatives by eye of strange objects I had found.
One of the first frames that came up was the now familiar AS10-30-4421, the oblique image of Picard that had already been examined in some detail by Lan Fleming on the VGL website.
Fleming had focused primarily on the craters Pierce and Picard in Mare Crisium, and more specifically on the set of “arches” apparently over Picard on that image. While Steve and I had noted the arches, we were focused on another part of 4421.
The most noticeable thing right away is the very bright reflection in the upper right portion of the photo, right along the “shore” of the Sea of Crises. It is the brightest thing in the image by several orders of magnitude. That this bright reflection also caught the astronaut’s eyes is very obvious. In fact, it appears that the astronaut who was holding the 70mm Hasselblad camera took this photo to specifically to capture the bright flash on film.
AS10-30-4421 is part of a power winder sequence taken by one of the Apollo 10 astronauts as they passed just south of Mare Crisium at orbital velocity (about 3,500 Miles per Hour) with a clear view across the dark plane. Frames 4414 through 4420 were taken through one of the optically perfect windows on the spacecraft and in putting them together, you can track the progress of spacecraft as it passed by just to the south of Crisium. Essentially, the astronaut holding the camera didn’t move at all, he just kept clicking frame after frame. You can see this plainly by the changing position of Picard in each image. By frame 4419, Picard has disappeared from view off-camera right. Then on frame 4421, the astronaut suddenly turns the camera back along the path that he’d already photographed and snaps another photo. The obvious question is why, and the obvious answer is the sudden flare of light appearing along the mountain range to the right.
Anomalously bright reflection from AS10-30-4421 NASA frames AS10-30-4420 and 4421.
Obviously curious as to what had caught the astronauts’ attention to the degree that he felt compelled to turn back and get a shot of the flare, Steve made several sectional enlargements of the area and sent them to me for enhancement.
NASA frames AS10-30-4420 and 4421.
AS10-30-4421 footprint map (NASA).
The first issue was to determine where exactly the flare had come from. According to Steve (and the NASA footprint map) Apollo 10 was flying almost due west and looking almost due north across Crisium, and the edge of the photo was just west of the craters Cleomedes F and Cleomedes Fa. If this was correct, it seemed we were looking at a flare of some kind up on the mountains themselves. Even as bright as it was, it might not be anything but a very flat, reflective face of a very non-descript mountainside. Then I got my hands on the sectional.
What I saw, unmistakably to my eye at least, was a stunning edge-on photo of a clear glass dome. You can see the mountain range behind the dome and follow its contours. There also appeared to be something geometric actually inside the dome. It also seemed to have 2 distinct “corners” or edges, rather than blending in with the mountains behind.
Close-up of glass domes over Cleomedes F and Cleomedes Fa.
This meant that the dome itself stands apart from the mountain chain, which implies that the dome is sitting on the Mare Crisium plane in front of the mountain range beyond. The other thing I immediately noticed was that the brightest area was on the right side of the dome, where there seemed to be a second dome visible behind and through the first (and larger) one.
This second dome is more opaque from the perspective of 4421 than is the main dome, and the area where it overlaps the main dome is the area of brightest albedo. This would be explained by the light sources of the two domes adding their brightness as they reflected the sunlight into the camera.
Under enhancement, the less distinct left edge of the M
ain Dome became more clearly defined, and this helped to confirm its location in front of the mountain chain along the North shore. There were also a series of interesting details that emerged as I got deeper into the data.
The geometric area that appeared to be inside the dome has some very interesting features, to say the least. The first was an odd bowling pin like appendage that seemed to be protruding from within the dome itself. And on the hillside above (and beyond) the dome was a tube-like, geometric formation I called the Phoenix.
Annotated image of glass domes from AS10-30-1421.
Contrast enhanced.
It is constructed of 2 cylindrical objects interlocking with the vertical cylinder bending over to the left, giving the impression of a bird with wings outstretched in flight. I have no idea what this object might be but it stands out dramatically from the drab mountain chain it rests on and bears no resemblance to any explainable lunar geology. Its reflectivity suggests a metallic or crystalline construction. This is reinforced by the fact that such a rounded surface would not reflect this much light if were made of typical highland material.
The “Bowling Pin” is a dark bulbous object just to the right of the “Phoenix” which actually seems to protrude through the main glass dome. This appears to be an antenna of watchtower of some kind, and its middle portion is definitely obscured by the glass like material of the “Dome” itself. Note how the upper tip of the Bowling Pin is encased in the same glass like material and blots out the upper rim of the dome behind it. Again, a spike like object such as this has no place in standard lunar geology, and I am at a complete loss to explain it as anything but artificial.
Obviously, I wanted to follow this up and see if I could find another image of the area where the twin domes might be located. But looking at a number of images of Crisium yielded no results. But then it occurred to me; what if I was simply looking in the wrong place?
The “bowling pin.”
Corrected footprint map for AS10-30-4421.
In reviewing the NASA footprint map and comparing it to the AS10-30-4414 to 4421 series, I realized that the footprint map couldn’t be right. If it was, and the spacecraft was travelling due west along the south side of Crisium, then the crater Picard had to get smaller and smaller in each of the successive photos, because it would be getting farther and farther away. But it didn’t. Picard, if anything, got bigger in each successive photo.
Lunar domes, imagined and real.
What this meant was that the original image map was in error (or deliberately altered) and Apollo 10 had actually been traversing the edge of Mare Crisium on a northwest trajectory. It also meant that two features which were supposedly outside the photographic parameters of 4421 were actually in full view of it—and they fit all the requirements to be the source of the bright flare and the watch crystal like domes which caused it. So this solved the mystery of why we couldn’t find what might have caused the reflections off of the mountains. The reflections were off of two domes on floor of Mare Crisium itself, covering the craters Cleomedes F and Cleomedes Fa.
So here we had the first photographic evidence of at least one (and possibly two) intact, watch crystal type glass domes over a pair of craters in the Mare Crisium region. I have to emphasize how lucky we are to even have this confirming image of the glass domes over the Cleomedes craters. If it weren’t for the quick reaction the astronaut holding the camera to turn back and shoot the picture under ideal (and rare) circumstances, we might never have had a clear, edge on shot of the domes. And we might never have had a clue about what is waiting for us on the floor of Mare Crisium if we ever successfully land there.
These types of domes would have represented the last line of defense against meteor bombardment for an ancient alien settlement there. With the eroded, structural lattice type structures overhead, providing the upper layers of protection, the lower domes would have enabled a pressurized, livable environment on the lunar surface. What might still be preserved underneath those structures is a matter of conjecture because we don’t know if they are still sealed and pressurized, or if they are long since abandoned. Sadly, there are precious few photos of the inside of Cleomedes F and Cleomedes Fa, and they are of rather poor quality, so a full analysis of the contents of these lunar “arcologies” (architectural ecologies) will have to wait for further data from later missions. But I have to wonder if we get the data if we’ll even be allowed to see it.
“Malibu” from NASA frame AS11-42-6223.
As part of our study of the mountains around the north shore of Mare Crisium, Steve came across a number of oddly geometric formations along the mountain tops. One was especially intriguing and very close to the locations of the two glass domes. Spotted on NASA frame AS11-42-6223, one hilltop showed what appeared to be a structure built right into the mountainside.
Nicknamed “Malibu” by Steve because of its location on a hillside, this building conformed to the contour of the hillside, had straight square walls at 90-degree angles to each other, and also had internal walls (again at 90 degrees) dividing the structure into numerous subsections or rooms. There was also a central spine visible and what might have even been doorways and entrances in several spots.
Now, on the negatives ordered by Steve in the mid 1990s, Malibu stands out like a sore thumb on the image. But today, if you download AS11-42-6223 from the online NASA archives, all you will see is a faint blur on the hillside where the structure appears. Again, it appears that Brookings is still alive and well, and NASA is still whitewashing images to hide the “real” Moon.
No manned landings were ever attempted on Mare Crisium, although one unmanned mission, the Soviet Luna 24, did land there successfully far from any of the structures we’ve talked about in this chapter and return a soil sample to Earth. Still, there have been enough solved and unsolved mysteries uncovered in the area to conclude that it is a major source of Ancient Alien ruins, if not active archeological sites. But there is one issue with Crisium that is still outstanding; why is it so dark?
Al Worden’s “gauzy haze” over Mare Crisium.
As I said earlier, the traditional model of the formation of the maria, the dark areas on the front face of the Moon, is that they contain dark basaltic lavas. But samples returned from Crisium and other mare show very little of the volcanic rock that could account for this. As we have seen from Apollo 15 Command Module pilot Al Worden’s own comments, there seems to be a gauzy haze over large parts of Mare Crisium, and this haze can be confirmed in numerous photos of the area.
The working theory is that this gauzy haze is caused by looking down through an intervening medium, a transparent (or semi-transparent) lattice-work of glass structures that were erected in the long distant past as a meteor shield to protect the surface installations much like our own atmosphere protects us here on Earth. When the sunlight hits this just right, you get a bright flare, like in the image above. But in general, when looking at the Moon from a distance, the maria like Crisium tend to be very dark. There’s a reason for this, and it all but confirms the existence of massive glass domes.
Earthrise.
When we look at the Earth from space, we see white clouds, light colored land masses and very deep blue oceans. The reason for this is that the clouds are the highest in the atmosphere, meaning that they are reflecting more light back to the camera, and at a faster rate. Since they are returning more light, the clouds are the lightest. The surface areas meanwhile are darker, because they are a bit farther away from the camera than the clouds and therefore the light has to travel farther before it is reflected back. The deep blue oceans are therefore the darkest, because the light has to travel all the way to the ocean floor before it is reflected back to the camera’s “eye.”
The same idea, but slightly inverted, applies to the Moon.
The lighter areas are the areas where these glass structures most likely do not exist or are at least less densely packed. Therefore they reflect the light back more directly. The much darker ma
ria are the areas where the glass scaffolding acts like an atmosphere, scattering the light into the blue range of spectrum and making it pass through multiple layers (and multiple prism’s) before it finally reaches the surface and is reflected back in the multi-colored spectrum we see in today’s color enhanced images of the Moon.
The Moon. Darker areas may represent locations of highest density of glass ruins.
What this all adds up to is that the Moon is a very different place than the long-dead, rock strewn desolate landscape we’ve been led to believe by NASA and the Brookings crowd. What you are about to find out is just how different.
But first…
1 W.R.Corliss’s Mysterious Universe, page 237 (Jackson, J.G.; English Mechanic, 35:326, 1882)
2 W.R.Corliss’s Mysterious Universe, page 236 (Hardy, Jas. D.; British Astronomical Association, Journal, 7:139-141, 1897)
3 W.R.Corliss’s Mysterious Universe, page 227 (Anonymous, Strolling Astronomer, 10:20, 1956)
4 http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/O’Neill’s+Bridge
5 BBC radio interview (Patrick Moore’s Armchair Astronomy, Patrick Moore, 1984, Patrick Stephens Ltd., U.K
6 Transcript by Isabel L. Davis, of Civilian Saucer Intelligence, N.Y.C. “The Flying Saucer Conspiracy,” Maj.(ret) Donald E. Keyhoe, Henry Holt & Co., First Edition 1955
7 http://www.vgl.org/webfiles/lan/picard.htm
CHAPTER 6
WHO MOURNS FOR APOLLO?
In the last decade, I have become increasingly alarmed as a particularly silly and damaging urban myth has begun to take hold. Promoted by a few well known authors such as David Percy, Bill Kaysing, Ralph Rene’ and the late James Collier, this latest twist on the current conspiracy nation fad is based on a simple, if unbelievably naive and absurd notion—that the Apollo missions and subsequent Moon landings were faked. Even after Percy’s late 1990’s Fortean Times article was pretty much taken apart by readers, references to the “fake” landings began to creep into popular culture, springing up in such diverse places as Jay Leno’s Tonight Show monologue and commercials featuring ESPN’s Chris Berman. I think it is very important, especially for young readers who may not have studied this in great depth, to understand the difference between a good conspiracy theory and a bad one. And the idea that the Moon landings were faked is definitely a bad one.