Narrator: The moon --
For decades, we've dreamt of sending people to its surface,
Wondering what secrets we may discover.
Now, more than 40 years after we touched down,
Evidence shows we may not know the whole truth
About what or who nasa found on the moon.
Birnes: Something strange is happening on the moon,
And we believe it's not human.
Narrator: Doctored photos, u.F.O. Sightings by astronauts,
And allegations of a massive cover-up
Plague nasa's five-decade history.
What did astronauts find on the moon?
And what did they bring back with them?
Tonight, we expose the secret side of space missions
The world has never seen.
Join us as the hidden truth
Behind nasa and aliens on the moon
Is unsealed.
Secret files hidden from the public for decades
Detailing every ufo account are now available to the public.
We are about to uncover the truth
Behind these classified documents.
Find out what the government doesn't want you to know.
Exposing the biggest secrets on planet earth.
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Beginning in 1968,
Nasa's apollo space program
Sent nine manned missions to the moon.
The astronauts on board are the only humans
To have ever set foot on an alien world.
Collins: I kind of have two moons in my head.
I look at the moon just like everybody else
Who's never been there, and, you know, there it is,
And I've always thought it was interesting.
But every once in a while, I do think of a second moon,
You know, the one that I recall from up close.
Narrator: Alien theorists have long believed nasa has known of,
And perhaps even made contact with, alien life.
But the history of putting a man on the moon
Did not begin with a liftoff.
It began with a crash.
July 8, 1947.
Roswell, new mexico.
Reports of a downed u.F.O. Send shock waves across america.
The u.S. Air force responds immediately.
What they discover changes the world forever.
A u.F.O. Crashed in roswell in 1947.
We recovered technology. We recovered alien bodies.
We recovered a live alien --
A living extraterrestrial entity.
What do we do with this?
Greenewald: During the cold war,
The soviet union and the United States
Were competing on multiple fronts,
Not necessarily fighting a war with bullets,
But a war with technology.
Martell: And, of course, anything extraterrestrial
Would also mean very exotic technology,
And would be of extreme importance to the u.S. Army.
Narrator: The next 10 years see inventions decades ahead of their time --
The hydrogen bomb...
Solar power...
Microchips...
Lasers...
And the u.S.'s crowning achievement,
Nasa's powered spacecraft.
Kennedy: Now it is time to take longer strides.
I believe that this nation should commit itself
To achieving the goal, before this decade is out,
Of landing a man on the moon
And returning him safely to the earth.
Greenewald: When kennedy put forth the national goal
For america to put a man on the moon,
The facade was it was to beat the russians,
But it was about a lot more than that.
The scientific breakthroughs that we were going to accomplish
Getting a man to the moon
Was something that far surpassed any politics.
In 1964, the ranger 7 was the first spacecraft
That as able to beam back images of the moon's surface.
Narrator: The ranger 7 returned 4,308 photos of an alien world
We had never seen up close -- the moon.
Martell: Now, what's not talked about
Is some of the actual photographs
That weren't shown publicly.
Salla: A case can be made that, in fact,
They were able to transmit images back to earth,
And that they did show
Artificial structures on the moon.
And so, people in the United States,
At the very least, were aware
That there were very likely alien bases on the moon.
Narrator: As humans get closer to setting foot on the moon,
Strange and unusual events begin to unfold.
June 1965.
Nasa transcripts between astronaut james mcdivitt
Of the gemini spacecraft
May reveal a report of the first u.F.O. Sighting in space.
According to the transcript of the gemini mission,
Astronaut mcdivitt says...
"it had big arms sticking out of it, it looked like.
I only had it for just a minute."
After many of the gemini astronauts
Started to see things in space,
They came up with code words
Like "fire," "bogey," even "santa claus"
To describe craft that they were seeing
Flying outside of the spaceship.
Narrator: On December 24, 1968, the apollo 8 spacecraft makes
The first successful orbit around the moon.
Salla: This is something that many people could easily dismiss
As just being a reference to the upcoming christmas day,
But many others have said, "well, 'santa claus' was,
"in fact, one of the code words used,
"and this was his way of communicating to cape canaveral
That, in fact, that they were seeing a u.F.O."
Narrator: Coming up --
Man first walks on the moon
And finds out what's there waiting for him.
Narrator: If u.F.O. Historians are correct,
America's dominance in the cold war with the u.S.S.R.
Depended on one primary objective --
Land a man on the moon
And make contact with an alien presence
Before the soviets could do it first.
Martell: If there was extraterrestrial, exotic technology on the moon,
That would definitely fuel our need
To get their first and the fastest
So that we could reverse engineer this technology
And use it for our own military purposes.
Narrator: If these theories are true,
The fate of america, and perhaps mankind,
Was in the hands of neil armstrong,
Buzz aldrin, and michael collins --
The crew of apollo 11.
Unsealed case file -- dark side of the moon landing.
July 16, 1969.
Apollo 11 was launched.
The entire world was watching.
The mission -- be the first humans to land on the moon,
And, as u.F.O. Experts believe,
Be the first to make contact with alien life --
A terrifying prospect.
Collins: The moon's surface seems very inhospitable,
Forbidding almost --
A hostile place, a scary place.
Narrator: What could be hidden in the conversations
Between apollo 11 astronauts and capcom,
The mission control center in houston, texas?
Armstrong: Tranquility base here. The eagle has landed.
Duke: Roger, tranquility. We copy you on the ground.
According to u.F.O. Theorists,
The most significant moment came when the transmission
From buzz aldrin and neil armstrong
Suddenly cut off for two minutes.
Birnes: Supposedly, in that audio transmission,
There's a missing two minutes.
What could've been in those missing two minutes?
Salla: Now, there had been some unofficial radio communications
That had been circulated,
Saying that, basically, armstrong and buzz aldrin
Saw u.F.O.S on the moon.
Man: No. No, this is not an optical illusion.
No one's gonna believe this.
[ beep ]
Man: Repeat. Repeat.
I'd say that there were other spaceships
That lined up on the other side of the crater.
There they are, and they're watching us.
This was something that had been intercepted
Through ham -- amateur ham radio --
And basically released through unofficial sources.
There were a number of nasa officials
That claimed that this, in fact,
Was a genuine transmission from neil armstrong.
Martell: Any time we look at the communication
Taking place between capcom and astronauts in space,
There are are two channels in use.
There's the public channel relaying information.
There's also the secret channel,
Or the department of defense line,
Where they can cut off public feed
And communicate securely between the astronauts and capcom.
Narrator: Nasa has never confirmed that the conversation took place,
But even buzz aldrin himself has come forward
Stating that an unknown object was spotted outside apollo 11.
Could neil armstrong and buzz aldrin
Be our first human ambassadors to space
And have met aliens on the moon?
It seems very possible that nasa already knew from the inception,
Sending people to the moon,
That they had planned on doing some type of communication
With other advanced beings.
Narrator: When buzz aldrin and neil armstrong
First walked on the moon, they planted an american flag
And a plaque commemorating the mission.
But they also, reportedly,
Left behind two items with a message.
One was a gold olive branch of peace.
The other was a silicon disc.
On it were recorded statements of good will
From 73 world leaders
And the names of key u.S. Congress members and nasa.
But if nasa never anticipated making contact with alien life,
Why did they prepare these greetings of peace
Before they went to the moon?
Birnes: What it means to anybody
Approaching this with an open mind is, "a,"
We were aware of an e.T. Presence,
And we were making a peace offering to e.T.S.
Narrator: Did apollo 11, with their messages of peace,
Forge a bond with an alien race that continues to this day?
Or did something happen out there
That keeps mankind from returning?
In my personal opinion, there are alien bases on the moon.
And they understood that there were a lot of political factors
As to why the apollo missions had to go ahead,
But there have been a number of people
Who have worked with nasa saying that the aliens up there
Basically said, "well, this is our turf.
You don't belong here, and don't come back."
Narrator: Coming up --
Future missions expose the truth
Behind astronauts and u.F.O. Contact.
And nasa insiders reveal the secret
Behind photos we weren't meant to see.
You won't believe your eyes.
Narrator: The national aeronautics and space administration
Landed a man on the moon in 1969,
An event that may also have been
Our first contact with alien life.
But is evidence of what nasa found on the moon
Hiding behind the biggest alleged cover-up
In the history of space exploration?
Unsealed case file -- nasa's alien secret.
Nasa shuttle mission sts-73.
October 21, 1995.
Astronaut catherine g. Coleman is working
In the spacelab module of nasa's u.S. Microgravity lab
When she declares something to capcom.
Birnes: It's fascinating how astronaut coleman
Was not panicked by this.
Why wasn't she panicked by this?
Well, very simply, as we reach out into space,
As the space shuttle became commonplace at nasa,
What was also commonplace were appearances of alien craft
That were shadowing the shuttle.
Coleman: We have an unidentified flying object.
Narrator: The recording is investigated by a u.S. Congressman.
Nasa responds that the comment was simply an innocuous remark.
They also claim a sighting was impossible,
As the spacelab had no windows,
But this diagram from the nasa website
Shows otherwise.
Birnes: Catherine coleman from sts-73 said,
"we have an unidentified flying object."
If you're looking for confirmation, there it is.
I think the last few decades have proven
That nasa's definitely covering up something
When it comes to the connection
Between u.F.O.S and our astronauts,
But what is it?
Narrator: This image appears to be a simple photo
Of the moon's tycho crater taken on June 10, 2011,
But look closer.
By simply adjusting the exposure of actual nasa photographs,
An apparent cover-up becomes crystal clear.
Greenewald: What's very interesting about this photograph
Is that everything seems to be somewhat normal,
But then you come to a little spot on the photograph
Of something that --
The only way to describe it is being blacked out.
It's actually omitted.
They cut something out of the photograph
That they didn't want you and I to see.
Narrator: Behind this photo editing may lie
What alien theorists have suspected all along --
Proof of structures or alien craft
Hidden on the moon.
Salla: Well, this object that was blacked out on the tycho crater
Is the size of a football field, and it could be anything --
A base of some kind --
That basically is being currently occupied by aliens
Or some entity that nasa doesn't want the public to know.
Martell: If we look at some of the reports
That actually have taken place where --
When we've gone to the moon and sent our astronauts there --
They report seeing a full-on extraterrestrial base.
It's possible that what we photographed
On the moon in entirety
Was never shown to the general public.
Narrator: Apollo 16. April 21, 1972.
This image shows astronaut john young
Saluting the american flag by the lunar roving vehicle,
But what it doesn't show
Becomes more clear by adjusting the exposure.
Birnes: It's a very famous photograph.
Astronaut john young -- and he's saluting.
Over his shoulder, all the way in the distance,
There's a hanging light.
Is it a u.F.O.? Is it an orb?
Is it actual proof of an extraterrestrial presence?
On the right of john young, right of the photo,
There are razor marks.
The razor marks are the telltale results
Of somebody trying to scratch out
Something from the photo.
In this particular case,
Some nasa photo processor
Was trying to doctor the photo with a razor
To scratch out evidence of an alien presence on the moon.
Narrator: Dr. Farouk el-baz was head of astronaut training
In the apollo program for six years.
While in mission control,
He witnessed some of these unusual sightings firsthand.
El-baz: The one most peculiar sighting
Of something that we never found out what it was,
And we thought it should be easy to,
Was the sighting of flashes on the surface of the moon
By ken mattingly during the apollo 16 mission.
One of the objectives of that apollo 16 mission
Was to see how much can we see and photograph
In the part of the moon that is not lit by the sun.
The first time ken mattingly began to do this,
He said, "I just saw a flash."
Greenewald: If el-baz is saying that the apollo astronauts
Saw more than we understand and that we are led to believe,
That there really were u.F.O.S out there, flashes of light,
I think somebody in his position would know more than anybody,
And I think we have to pay attention to that.
Narrator: But the deepest secrets of an alien cover-up
May not come from nasa insiders.
Recently, one man allegedly broke into
The computer files of nasa to uncover what could be
The most shocking discoveries yet.
His name is gary mckinnon.
Birnes: Gary mckinnon was u.F.O. Invested.
What he found in the nasa classified files
Was evidence that nasa knew about u.F.O.S.
Narrator: The files he allegedly uncovered
Are enough for the u.S. Government
To attempt extradition from his native England.
He currently could face charges leading up to 70 years in prison
And $2 million in fines.
Greenewald: If mckinnon could really prove his story,
It would be huge for the u.F.O. Community,
Because, finally, that proof and evidence would be there
That nasa is part of that cover-up.
Narrator: Coming up next, we reveal the document
That could prove that alien life not only exists on the moon,
But that aliens are among us now,
Right here on planet earth.
This is "unsealed: Alien files."
Narrator: Welcome back to "unsealed: Alien files."
Alleged computer hacker gary mckinnon claims
He has seen proof that may expose
The biggest cover-up in nasa's history --
A simple list of military officers
With an incredible story.
Greenewald: When mckinnon came public about what he found,
He talked about a document that he saw on nasa computers
Called "non-terrestrial officers."
Narrator: If true, this document may not only be evidence
Of alien life on the moon,
But of extraterrestrials working within nasa itself.
[ radio chatter ]
Birnes: No matter which way it went,
It meant that nasa
Not only knew about an e.T. Presence,
But that is dealing with
An e.T. Presence on a regular basis.
Narrator: If nasa has hidden the existence of aliens on the lunar surface,
Only those who have seen their secret files
Know the truth.
But the next time you look up at the moon,
Ask yourself --
Could someone or something be looking back down at you?
This is...
Exposing the biggest secret on planet earth.