July 18, 1969
Summary: Buzz Aldrin: "There was something out there that, uh, was close enough to be observed and what could
it be? Mike (Collins) decided he thought he could see it in the telescope and he was able to do that and when it was in
one position, that had a series of ellipses, but when you made it real sharp it was sort of L shaped. That didn't tell us
very much."
Type of Case/Report: StandardCase
Hynek Classification:
Number of Witnesses: Multiple
Special Features/Characteristics: Astronaut/Space, Famous Person, Witness Photo
Full Report / Article
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Source: The Science Channel / Dave Stone / Credit: UFO Updates - 9/30/2005
Original Source
A few days ago on the Science Channel, a program called "First on the Moon: The Untold Story" was aired. About
14:30 min/sec into the program, there was a 3.5 minute segment that described a UFO encounter that Apollo 11
experienced during its flight to the moon.
To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that Buzz Aldrin, an Apollo 11 astronaut, had ever publicly
recounted any UFO experience associated with the Apollo 11 moon mission. Also of interest, I wonder how the UFO
footage that was supposedly taken from a later Apollo mission obtained?
Below is my transcription of the 3.5 minute UFO segment:
START:
Narrator: But three days and 200,000 miles into the flight, Mission Control did miss the significance of a cryptic
message from Apollo 11.
Apollo 11: 'Do you have any idea where the S-IVB is with respect to us?
Mission Control: 'Stand-by'
Narrator: The Crew required information on the current position of the S-IVB, the final stage of the rocket which had
been jettisoned away 2 days earlier. This short message hid an extraordinary turn of events: Apollo 11 wasn't alone
in space.
Buzz Aldrin: There was something out there that, uh, was close enough to be observed and what could it be?
Narrator: Traveling along side of Apollo 11 was a mysterious object like this one (a ringed object at close range is
shown), filmed on a later mission. If it wasn't part of their own rocket, it could only be one thing, a UFO.
Aldrin: Mike (Collins) decided he thought he could see it in the telescope and he was able to do that and when it was
in one position, that had a series of ellipses, but when you made it real sharp it was sort of L shaped. That didn't tell
us very much.
Dr. David Baker (Apollo 11 Senior Scientist): NASA knew very little about, um, the object reported by the Apollo
11 crew. It was obviously an unidentified flying object, but such objects were not uncommon and the history of even
earth orbit space flights going back over the previous years indicated that several crews saw objects.
Narrator: Despite having a clear view of the UFO, the crew were wary of reporting it to Mission Control.
Aldrin: Now, obviously, the three of us were not going to blurt out, 'Hey Houston we got something moving along
side of us and we don't know what it is, you know, can you tell us what it is?'. We weren't about to do that, cause we
know that those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and who knows what somebody would have
demanded that we turn back because of Aliens or whatever the reason is, so we didn't do that but we did decide we'd
just cautiously ask Houston where, how far away was the S-IVB?
Narrator: Unaware of the drama unfolding in space, Mission Control radioed the position back to Apollo 11.
Mission Control: 'Apollo 11, Houston. The S-IVB is about 6,000 nautical miles from you now, over.'
Aldrin: And a few moments later, why they came back and said something like it was 6,000 miles away because of
the maneuver, so we really didn't think we were looking at something that far away, so we decided that after a while
of watching it, it was time to go to sleep and not to talk about it anymore until we came back and (went through)
debriefing.
Narrator: To this day, whatever it was that the crew saw has never been positively identified or officially
acknowledged.
Dr. David Baker: There were a lot of people within the program who went off later and became convinced that UFOs
existed and that lead to some concern on NASA's part where they got the agreement of the crew never to publicly
talk about these things for fear of ridicule.
Case ID: 592
Summary: Buzz Aldrin: "There was something out there that, uh, was close enough to be observed and what could
it be? Mike (Collins) decided he thought he could see it in the telescope and he was able to do that and when it was in
one position, that had a series of ellipses, but when you made it real sharp it was sort of L shaped. That didn't tell us
very much."
Type of Case/Report: StandardCase
Hynek Classification:
Number of Witnesses: Multiple
Special Features/Characteristics: Astronaut/Space, Famous Person, Witness Photo
Full Report / Article
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source: The Science Channel / Dave Stone / Credit: UFO Updates - 9/30/2005
Original Source
A few days ago on the Science Channel, a program called "First on the Moon: The Untold Story" was aired. About
14:30 min/sec into the program, there was a 3.5 minute segment that described a UFO encounter that Apollo 11
experienced during its flight to the moon.
To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that Buzz Aldrin, an Apollo 11 astronaut, had ever publicly
recounted any UFO experience associated with the Apollo 11 moon mission. Also of interest, I wonder how the UFO
footage that was supposedly taken from a later Apollo mission obtained?
Below is my transcription of the 3.5 minute UFO segment:
START:
Narrator: But three days and 200,000 miles into the flight, Mission Control did miss the significance of a cryptic
message from Apollo 11.
Apollo 11: 'Do you have any idea where the S-IVB is with respect to us?
Mission Control: 'Stand-by'
Narrator: The Crew required information on the current position of the S-IVB, the final stage of the rocket which had
been jettisoned away 2 days earlier. This short message hid an extraordinary turn of events: Apollo 11 wasn't alone
in space.
Buzz Aldrin: There was something out there that, uh, was close enough to be observed and what could it be?
Narrator: Traveling along side of Apollo 11 was a mysterious object like this one (a ringed object at close range is
shown), filmed on a later mission. If it wasn't part of their own rocket, it could only be one thing, a UFO.
Aldrin: Mike (Collins) decided he thought he could see it in the telescope and he was able to do that and when it was
in one position, that had a series of ellipses, but when you made it real sharp it was sort of L shaped. That didn't tell
us very much.
Dr. David Baker (Apollo 11 Senior Scientist): NASA knew very little about, um, the object reported by the Apollo
11 crew. It was obviously an unidentified flying object, but such objects were not uncommon and the history of even
earth orbit space flights going back over the previous years indicated that several crews saw objects.
Narrator: Despite having a clear view of the UFO, the crew were wary of reporting it to Mission Control.
Aldrin: Now, obviously, the three of us were not going to blurt out, 'Hey Houston we got something moving along
side of us and we don't know what it is, you know, can you tell us what it is?'. We weren't about to do that, cause we
know that those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and who knows what somebody would have
demanded that we turn back because of Aliens or whatever the reason is, so we didn't do that but we did decide we'd
just cautiously ask Houston where, how far away was the S-IVB?
Narrator: Unaware of the drama unfolding in space, Mission Control radioed the position back to Apollo 11.
Mission Control: 'Apollo 11, Houston. The S-IVB is about 6,000 nautical miles from you now, over.'
Aldrin: And a few moments later, why they came back and said something like it was 6,000 miles away because of
the maneuver, so we really didn't think we were looking at something that far away, so we decided that after a while
of watching it, it was time to go to sleep and not to talk about it anymore until we came back and (went through)
debriefing.
Narrator: To this day, whatever it was that the crew saw has never been positively identified or officially
acknowledged.
Dr. David Baker: There were a lot of people within the program who went off later and became convinced that UFOs
existed and that lead to some concern on NASA's part where they got the agreement of the crew never to publicly
talk about these things for fear of ridicule.
Case ID: 592
ASTRONAUT BUZZ ALDRIN RECOUNTS APOLLO 11 UFO ENCOUNTER
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Editor's Note: Astronaut Edwin "Buzz Aldrin recently gave an interview on CSPAN in which he mentions a monolith
appropriate to note that this is not the only revelation from Buzz Aldrin.
appropriate to note that this is not the only revelation from Buzz Aldrin.
