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Did Buzz Aldrin see a UFO on his way to the Moon?
Posted by: Alejandro Rojas June 11, 2010
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In an interview on the Science Channel in 2005, Apollo astronaut “Buzz” Aldrin
said that the crew of the famous Apollo 11 mission had seen a UFO on their
way to the moon. However, later Aldrin would say that his words were taken out
of context, even though his story was supported on the program by senior
Apollo 11 scientist, Dr. David Baker. Aldrin has also made other strange
statements that some believe allude to Aldrin knowing more about an
extraterrestrial presence in space than he would like to share.
In his 2005 interview Aldrin said, “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.”
Aldrin also said that they were careful as to how they reported it,”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?”
The S-IVB was the first stage of the rocket taking their capsule out into space; it had been jettisoned 2 days prior. Mission
control had responded that the S-IVB was 6000 nautical miles away. Aldrin said that because of the distance, they had
decided that the object they were looking at was not the S-IVB, but something closer. They continued to observe the object
until they fell asleep, but did not discuss it over the radio with mission command again until their debriefing when they got back
home.
Dr. Baker confirmed, “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.” He went on to say that others within NASA were also concerned
about UFOs, “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
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publicly talk about these things for fear of ridicule.”
Aldrin’s statements made some news after the documentary aired, enough
so that he was interviewed on several shows, including FOX news, where he
said, “We just about could have said, ‘Look, we see a UFO out the window
going along with us.’ You know what would have happened? The public
would have gone crazy. We were smart enough to say ‘where is the upper
stage rocket? We think we might be looking at that out the window.”
Dr. David Baker on the Science Channel
special (Credit: Science Channel).
In July of 2006 NASA’ Astrobiology site’s Ask an Astrobiologist section posted a response to the question of whether Aldrin
really did see a UFO. Senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI), David Morrison, wrote: “I just talked to Buzz
Aldrin on the phone, and he notes that the quotations were taken out of context and did not convey the intended meaning.
After the Apollo 11 crew verified that the object they were seeing was not the SIVB upper stage, which was about 6000 miles
away at that time, they concluded that they were probably seeing one of the panels from the separation of the spacecraft from
the upper stage. These panels were not tracked from Earth and were likely much closer to the Apollo spacecraft. They chose
not to discuss this on the open communications channel since they were concerned that their comments might be
misinterpreted (as they are being now). Apparently all of this discussion about the panels was cut from the broadcast
interview, thus giving the impression that they had seen a UFO.”
Aldrin appeared on Larry King in August of 2007 with ufologists and skeptics
to talk further about this sighting. After a long explanation about rocketry,
which he brought a model along to help demonstrate, King finally had to ask
him to get to the point. Aldrin then gave a similar explanation that he had
given Morrison. He said that he believes what they saw was probably one of
those panels. Among the guests on the Larry King show was documentary
maker James Fox. He has his own interesting story about his attempt to
interview Aldrin on this issue.
On a recent interview with Open Minds radio, Fox told us the story of how he
had found out about Aldrin’s UFO sighting, and his attempted interview with
Aldrin to get the details. Fox played as an extra on the set of Mickey
Rooney’s The Legend of O.B. Taggart. While talking with Mickey and Jan
Rooney, Fox’s interest in UFOs was brought up, he feared that they would
tease him but instead seemed very interested. They even told Fox that they
were friends with Buzz Aldrin and that he had something to share about a
sighting he had. Fortunately, Fox happened to also be friends with Aldrin’s
sister, Fay Ann Potter. So with the help of Potter and the Rooney’s, who all
sent Aldrin letters on Fox’s behalf, after a few years of making requests,
Aldrin finally granted an interview in 1999.
Apollo 11 launch (Credit: NASA)
Aldrin told Fox to meet him in Monte Carlo, so Fox borrowed some funds to
gather a crew and equipment to take to Monte Carlo. Unfortunately, after
Fox and his crew arrived, Aldrin kept putting off the interview. Finally on the fourth day, Fox contacted Aldrin on the phone and
explained that it was expensive to have this crew out there so he needed to get the interview done as soon as possible. Aldrin
agreed to meet him the next morning in the lobby, but asked Fox not to bring a camera. The next morning, instead of Aldrin
showing up in the lobby as planned, the concierge told Fox that he had a phone call. Over the phone Aldrin told Fox that he
couldn’t do the interview. Shocked, after the expense of flying out there and putting up a crew for several days, Fox asked why.
Aldrin told Fox that Paul Allen had just invested in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and he was labeled a
UFO nut. Aldrin explained that he could not jeopardize his initiative of getting funding for a rocket to send citizens into outer
space. He then asked what difference his story would make anyway. Fox told him that it takes people of his caliber to come
forward to take the phenomena out of the rut that it’s in. That didn’t sway Aldrin, he refused to do the interview. Fox was
obviously very disappointed.
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Buzz’s interesting comments have not ended; on July of 2009 he was
interviewed on CSPAN’s Washington Journal regarding the importance of
space exploration. When speaking about one of the moons of Mars
(presumably Phobos), he said “There is a monolith there. There is a very
unusually structure on this little potato shaped object that goes around Mars
once in seven hours. When people find out about that, they are going to say
‘Who put that there!? Who put that there!?’ Well, the universe put it there. If
you choose, God put it there.” His point was that there are amazing
discoveries to be made in space, but some speculate that he is implying
that some of these discoveries may have to do with advanced civilizations
from other worlds.
If Aldrin does know more than he is telling, just as he expressed to Fox in
1999, he doesn’t seem too keen on sharing any of it with the public. Other
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brave astronauts have come out with their stories of UFO sightings, and/or
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belief in extraterrestrial visitation, fellow Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, and
Stars (Credit: ABC).
Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper being two of the more famous. So it would
not be unprecedented were Aldrin to share his experience. One wonders
what stories he shared with the Rooney’s. Perhaps one day he will let the rest of us in on it.
Aldrin on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission (Credit: NASA).
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ABOUT ALEJANDRO ROJAS
Alejandro Rojas is a radio host for Open Minds Radio, editor and contributing writer for Open Minds magazine as
well as OpenMinds.tv. For several years Alejandro was the official spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network as the
Director of Public Education. As a UFO/Paranormal researcher and journalist, Alejandro has spent many hours in the
field investigating phenomena up close and personal. Alejandro has been interviewed by media organizations
around the world, including the largest cable and network news agencies with several appearances on Coast to
Coast AM.
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