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COMPELLING LUNAR ANOMALIES
These images represent but a few of the many anomalous images
available from NASA archives. The noted features in the images below suggest
a far more interesting picture of the moon than is typically painted by
mainstream astronomy, which characterizes our satellite as a stark, bland,
lifeless rock. So far no adequate explanation has been presented, by either
the space agency or the astronomical community, for the curiosities contained
within these official NASA photographs. The hypothesis that features such
as the "double craters" and "square crater," which appear
on Lunar Orbiter III frame 85HI and Apollo 10's AS10-32-4822, respectively,
are the work of intelligence, is as valid as any standard theory.
Below are several enlargements of what I consider to be some
of the most compelling anomalies in available lunar imagery. The first image
shows a strange triangular "crater," Ukert, the unusual shape
of which was first noted by Richard Hoagland of The Enterprise Mission in
a Lick Observatory photograph (below left). The Pentagon's recent rush mission
to the moon, dubbed Clementine,
returned images of Ukert which confirmed its angular internal structure
and three bright spots spaced approximately 120 degrees apart (below right).
Lick Observatory Image |
Image from Clementine spacecraft image database |
The following image presents quite a puzzle. Peppered throughout
the lunar landscape are dozens and dozens of "double craters,"
the likes of which can never be expected to be seen in any standard model
of the moon. Further confounding is the fact that the "doublets"
are almost always divided at their midpoint, and are similarly aligned.
The doubling is clearly not an imaging error effect, as not all of the features
in the image are duplicated. [4/19/00 revision - See
"'Double craters'
likely to be imaging artifacts" for opposing
view] Note, also, that the two similarly sized large craters in the
center of the image appear to have a hexagonal shape. Obviously, something
is amiss in this photo. It has been suggested that the doublets are not
craters at all, but rather two-pronged "braces" supporting much
larger structures suspended above the lunar surface.
Frame LOIII-85HI, courtesy of the Lunar & Planetary Institute.
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Following is one of at least 12 known versions of Apollo 10
frame AS10-32-4822. (Exactly why there are a dozen or more versions of this
frame is outside the scope of this brief overview, though that fact begs
some explanation by the space agency.) Though it is inexplicably blacked
out in the official NASA image catalogue, frame "4822" can still
be ordered from the space agency. The image shows a number of striking anomalies,
not the least of which is a vast region of rectilinear structure looking
for all the world like an extremely dilapidated city (hence its nickname
"L.A. on the moon"). Other strange features include a peculiar
square "crater" scored by razor straight notches and surrounded
by honeycomb like "mountains."
More examples will be added in the near future.
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