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Originally posted by WingedBull
Originally posted by ellieN
The thing is ..in 1969 there were no VCR's yet to record this event. But I remember it well. I also remember Buzz Aldrin squawking his head off at something in a crater and ZIP....off the picture goes and on comes Walter Cronkite giggling and saying..can you believe he got that excited over some moon rocks in the crater?
I would be very excited. Anyone would be. You are one of the first people on an alien world. Everything is worth getting excited about.
Originally posted by ellieN
reply to post by JimOberg
There were 3 of us in the living room that day. my husband, myself and my daughter, but my daughter was too young to remember it. She just has vague memories of it.
We were pretty certain that is what he said. When he started yelling and then the transmission goes off..on comes Walter Cronkite talking about him getting excited over moon rocks. Maybe we read too much into it, but it looked suspicious to us. AND...my uncle thought he heard the same thing, while he was watching at his home, but then my uncle thinks the aliens are going to save us from the destruction of Elenin.
But all these years, we were sure of what we heard,,,,but you say no one at the University heard anything???
Originally posted by JimOberg
Originally posted by ellieN
reply to post by JimOberg
There were 3 of us in the living room that day. my husband, myself and my daughter, but my daughter was too young to remember it. She just has vague memories of it.
We were pretty certain that is what he said. When he started yelling and then the transmission goes off..on comes Walter Cronkite talking about him getting excited over moon rocks. Maybe we read too much into it, but it looked suspicious to us. AND...my uncle thought he heard the same thing, while he was watching at his home, but then my uncle thinks the aliens are going to save us from the destruction of Elenin.
But all these years, we were sure of what we heard,,,,but you say no one at the University heard anything???
We heard plenty, just not what you remember hearing. Also, the full transcripts and videos are easily findable on the Internet.
What you described was what I traced back to a hoax in a tabloid newspaper. Is it possible you got the memories mixed up? It happens to all of us 65+ geezers.
Thanks,
Well..its not easy to have to stick your tail between your legs and go off beaten! Especially, when all this time I thought I really knew something, kind of like finding out there's no tooth fairy or Santa Claus. I called my husband....(ex husband) to get verification of what was said that day. Well..He was No -Help- at- all!! He said he didn't care what was said that day and don't remember any of it and besides it doesn't matter because no one ever went to the Moon anyway and that was my thing and not his. That's what his Dad used to say when he was alive. Like Father, like son. No moon landings.
I do have some old Nasa tapes of the landing on the Moon bought years ago. Nasa..25 years and Nasa collection choice.. 8 tapes in all and different missions. Nothing on them either, I just thought they deleted it.
Originally posted by Jonas86
So pretty much this sums up the claims of the astronauts:
(snip)
Originally posted by JimOberg
Originally posted by Jonas86
So pretty much this sums up the claims of the astronauts:
(snip)
Not on this planet. What you are summarizing are the claims of UFO writers and TV shows,
of what THEY want you to believe astronauts claim.
It has been argued, with verifiable sources, that such UFO promoter claims are bogus whenever checked.
A deduction from this claim is that those who believe the claims without checking the refutations of them, are imprudent.
Originally posted by Jonas86
Ok, so they're hoaxes, and nobody minds telling us, we're just lead to believe what they say is true? This is a dangerous field I tell you... So are those quotes taken out of context? When we're lead to believe they talk about alines by "they", they actually mean something else like bananas?
From:
Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 6:37 AM
Jim,
Thanks for offering me a forum. In the past, I've not bothered to refute these and other outrageous reports of my belief in, or sightings of, UFOs (Flying Saucers). They are too preposterous to favor with credibility or honor with reply. You however, raise a different and more important issue, that of the young kids who are not yet familiar with the power of logical thinking, who are unsuspectingly led astray by the glamour of the UFO idea, and who tend to believe the nonsense these twisted minds dream up and posit as fact on the Internet. They claim that those who disagree, lie, and challenge us to prove that UFOs don't exist. That's their leg up...proving non-existence is impossible.
So, Mr. Oberg, in order to help set these naive people free of the crazy beliefs they are asked to adopt, feel free to quote me as follows, (and use any adjectives you choose which are roughly synonymous with poppycock): The quote (below) is absolute hogwash and a blatant lie. I never thought it, never said it, and it never happened
NASA's Scott Carpenter "At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs."
I hope the two of us can help set at least some people straight
. Really enjoyed perusing your web page.
All best, and Merry Christmas
Scott
From: To:
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 1:06 PM
Jim. Good for you and your follow up. I wish more folks like you would challenge these guys. At least that might get some of the trash off the street.
Happy New Year.
Scott
The following is an excerpt from an article "Flying the Gusmobile" about the Gemini missions. Published at "Air and Space" magazine July 14, 1998. www.airspacemag.com:80...
(snipped)
At almost twice the length of Gemini 5, Commander Frank Borman's Gemini 7 mission may have been even more trying, but it grabbed the attention of at least one Hollywood producer.
"Right after we got into orbit we were supposed to 'station keep' or fly formation with the booster," Borman says. "We were flying formation and taking photographs and infrared measurements and I started calling it a 'bogey,' which is an old fighter pilot term. Well, a lot of the UFO freaks on the ground picked this up and said we had seen a UFO because we had referred to our booster as a bogey.
"Just this past year I got a call from a producer at 'Unsolved Mysteries' and they said, 'We read your account about your seeing a UFO on Gemini 7 and would you come on the program?' I told them: 'I'd love to come on your program because I'd love to straighten that out.'
"I explained what it was I saw, and I said, 'I don't think there were UFOs,' and the producer said, 'Well, I'm not sure we want you on the program.' "
Interview with CBC News space reporter Bill Harwood:
HARWOOD : Were there any other things from your Gemini mission that—and they specifically want you to tell, maybe things that weren’t in your book Countdown? Any stories that you’ve—?
BORMAN : No. I—the interesting thing—one of the interesting things was flying formation with the second stage that put us into orbit and using an infrared sensor to track that. We referred to it as a “bogey” all the time, which was natural, normal parlance for it. And when we got back, True magazine wrote a big story about how we’d been tracking a UFO and all that nonsense. So I’ve been plagued with that ever since. People say, “Well,”—if you run into UFO circles today, they’ll still tell you, well, we saw a UFO. Which is just foolish
From: "Jack Lousma" To: "'James Oberg'"
Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009 2:57 PM
Good Afternoon, Jim!
Running way behind on my mail.
WRT the Skylab 3 "Non-UFO", I think the 'red blob' is no more than photography magnified beyond its resolution capabilities both in the camera lens and the projection/magnification equipment.
I recall seeing the red dot either just before sunrise or just after sunset. It appeared to be roughly paralleling our course at about the same altitude. It was impossible to estimate its distance from us. Its velocity seemed constant, that is, it did not appear to be maneuvering in any direction. It never appeared to be anything but a red dot oscillating in illumination from brighter to dimmer on approximately a 10-second cycle. Total time of observation was not more than a few minutes.
Our assessment at the time, and the one that remains with me today, is that it was a slowly rotating satellite or other space junk reflecting red light caused by water vapor in a very thick atmosphere (like sunset/sunrise under humid atmospheric conditions) through which the sun was shining edge-on. We lost sight of it when the edge-on lighting conditions no longer existed and never saw it again.
The red blob is merely wishful thinking by the UFO crowd. Glad we could provide some excitement, but it should be short-lived for rational observers.
Have a great weekend! Regards to family.
Jack
Originally posted by Jonas86
So pretty much this sums up the claims of the astronauts
Originally posted by Jonas86
Ok, so they're hoaxes, and nobody minds telling us, we're just lead to believe what they say is true? This is a dangerous field I tell you... So are those quotes taken out of context? When we're lead to believe they talk about alines by "they", they actually mean something else like bananas?
Originally posted by fordizzl3
Of course they are on the moon, always have been. Buzz Aldrin has confirmed this umpteen times in all the interviews he has done.
Originally posted by Jonas86
Yup... the more I study the more I become convinced the alien conspiracy is nothing but a very complicated and clever hoax orchestrated by money-greedy people.