3. Mission to Ground Transmissions
An odd confirmation
of this has been the strange radio signals coming from the Moon and
its vicinity. In fact, the radio transmissions were not the only
strange things man encountered in the beginning years of space
exploration. It is well known that Project Mercury astronaut Gordon
Cooper never made it a secret that he had spotted a UFO during his
Faith 7 Mercury mission. The object was also seen by over 200
people at Muchea tracking station near Perth, Australia.
Additionally, Cooper maintained that he heard radio voice
transmissions in an “unintelligible foreign language.” According to
Don Wilson of Our Mysterious Spaceship
Moon once again, the tapes of these signals were replayed by
NASA and analyzed, but no known human language could ever be
identified as the language on the transmissions.593
Even earlier, in
1956, the University of Ohio and other Moon-watching institutions
reported that there was strange “codelike radio chatter” coming
from the Moon. And in October of 1958, American, British, and
Russian astronomers all reported observing something speeding
toward the Moon at 25,000 miles an hour, emitting radio signals
that, once again, no one could interpret.594
Once mankind
did reach the Moon with the Apollo
landings, the radio chatter — this time man’s own radio chatter -
became even more suggestive. Consider the following transcript from
Apollo 17, between its Ground Control (GC) on the lunar surface,
and the Command Module Pilot (CMP) orbiting above.
CMP: What are you learning?GP: Hot spots on the Moon, Jack.CMP: Where are your big anomalies? Can you summarize quickly?GC: Jack, we’ll get that for you on the next pass.CMP: Hey, I can see a bright spot down there on the landing site where they might have blown off some of that halo stuff.GC: Roger. Interesting. Very go to KILO KILO.CMP: Hey, it’s gray now and the number one extends...GC: Roger. We got it. And we copy that it’s all the way down there. Go to KILO KILO on that.CMP: Mode is going to HM. Recorder is off. Lose a little communication there, huh? Okay, there’s Bravo Bravo, select OMNI. Hey, you know, you’ll never believe it. I’m right over the edge of Orientale. I just looked down and saw the lights flash again.GC: Roger. Understand.CMP: Right at the end of the rille.GC: Any chance of...?CMP: That’s on the EAST of Orientale.GC: You don’t suppose it could be Vostok?595CMP: I’ll be damned. I’ve got to mark that spot on the map!596
Many in the UFOlogy
community have pointed to this transcript as an indication that the
Apollo 17 astronauts on the lunar surface saw a UFO, and maintain
that the reference to seeing the old Russian Vostok probe was
simply a last minute attempt to cover-up something that had already
gone out on the airwaves in the clear.
But this is not what
interests us here. What interests us is the clear reference by the
astronauts to switch to what are apparently secure frequencies for
their communications. This clearly would imply that they saw
something that did not belong there,
although it need not be a UFO. Whatever they saw, it does not make
much sense that they would have gone to secure frequencies merely
to continue a conversation about the Russian Vostok
probe.
Exactly what they
might have seen may be indicated by the transcripts of a
conversation held between mission Ground Control (designated CAPCOM
here) and astronauts Duke and Young on the Moon’s surface:
DUKE: These devices are unbelievable. I’m not taking a GNOMON up there.YOUNG: O.K., but man, that’s going to be a steep bridge (sic)597 to climb.DUKE: You got YOWEE! Man John, I tell you this is some sight up here. Tony, the blocks in Buster are covered, the bottom is covered with blocks, five meters across. Besides, the blocks seem to be in a preferred orientation, northeast to southwest. They go all the way up the wall on those two sides and on the other side you can barely see the outcropping at about 5%. 90% of the bottom is covered with blocks that are 50cm and larger.
Blocks!?!? Wall!?!?
As if this is not enough, the conversation becomes even stranger,
if not even somewhat surreal:
YOUNG: Mark. It’s open.DUKE: I can’t believe it!YOUNG: And I put that beauty in dry!CAPCOM: Dover. Dover. We’ll start EVA-2598 immediately.DUKE: You’d better send a couple more guys up here. They’ll have to try (garbled)...CAPCOM: Sounds familiar.599
As if a “wall” and
“blocks” were not enough, during Apollo 17 there was this short
exchange between astronaut Schmitt and Mission Control:
SCHMITT: I see tracks running right up the wall of the crater.MISSION CONTROL: Your photo-path runs directly between Pierce and Pease. Pierce Brava, go Bravo, Whiskey, Whiskey, Romeo.600
Wilson’s commentary
on these codes — Bravo Bravo, Kilo Kilo, and so on — is highly
illuminating:
Mission control from time to time gave orders to the astronauts in some unusual terms, seemingly whenever an unusual sighting was taking place, directing them to Go to Whiskey Whiskey or Barbara Barbara or Bravo Bravo or Kilo Kilo. Interestingly, there is an ICBM base in Montana by the name of Kilo Kilo. Could NASA have used this base’s radio equipment to filter out through this prearranged private channel anything NASA did not want the public to know? Shockingly, WHISKEY WHISKEY, BARBARA BARBARA, and BRAVO BRAVO are also bases in the West.601
In my previous book
The SS Brotherhood of the Bell I
speculated on the possibility that there are in fact two space
programs, an overt one, and a covert one wrapped up inside the
public one.602 If Wilson’s
statements here are correct, then it is one more indicator that the
two space programs hypothesis is true, and it is a solemn reminder
that mankind’s presence on the Moon in the form of the Apollo
missions may have had another agenda altogether, one well-hidden
from the public. We will return to this theme of two space programs
and a hidden agenda in a subsequent chapter.