Moon Truth Activists

Thanks to:
Aron Ranen - http://MoonHoax.com 
Bill Kaysing - http://www.billkaysing.com
Bart Sibrel - http://Sibrel.com 
Jarrah White - http://MoonFaker.com 
David Percy - http://Aulis.com 
David Groves, PhD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07jd0xEAGMs 
David McGowan - http://davesweb.cnchost.com
James Collier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQYvRF3K0FM
James Fetzer PhD - http://JamesFetzer.com 
Jarrah White - http://MoonFaker.com 
Joe Rogan - http://JoeRogan.net 
Marcus Allen - http://NexusMagazine.com 
Mary Bennett - http://Aulis.com 
NASA - http://NASA.Gov
Philippe L'heureux - http://autospeed.celeonet.fr/khufu
Rick Shaddock - http://MoonTruth.org 
Ronnie Stronge - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07jd0xEAGMs
Ralph Rene - http://ralphrene.com
William L. Brian - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moongate_%28book%29
William Cooper - http://vimeo.com/23609867
James McCanney - http://www.jmccanneyscience.com

To add a name to the list, please send a photo to info@AmericanMoon.org

Experts Speak Out

 
Ralph Coleman  - Omission Control - http://omissioncontrol.blogspot.com/

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Astronaut on "Mars" in Capricorn One

Origins

The first book about the subject, We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle,^[8] was written in 1974,^[9] two years after the Apollo Moon flights had ended, and self-published in 1976, by Bill Kaysing (1922–2005), a senior technical writer hired in 1956 by Rocketdyne, the company which built the F-1 engines used on the Saturn V rocket,^[10][11] despite having no knowledge of rockets or technical writing.^[12] He served as head of the technical publications unit at the company's Propulsion Field Laboratory until 1963. Kaysing's book made many allegations, and effectively began discussion of the Moon landings being faked.^[13][14] The book claims that the chance of a successful manned landing on the Moon was calculated to be 0.0017%, and that despite close monitoring by the USSR, it would have been easier for NASA to fake the Moon landings than to really go there.^[15][16]

The Flat Earth Society was one of the first organizations to take up the cause and accuse NASA of faking the landings, arguing that they were staged by Hollywood with Walt Disney sponsorship, based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke and directed by Stanley Kubrick.^{[Note 1][17]}Folklorist Linda Dégh suggests that writer-director Peter Hyams' 1978 film Capricorn One, which shows a hoaxed journey to Mars in aspacecraft that looks identical to the Apollo craft, may have given a boost to the hoax theory's popularity in the post-Vietnam War era. She notes that this happened during the post-Watergate era, when American citizens were inclined to distrust official accounts. Dégh writes: "The mass media catapult these half-truths into a kind of twilight zone where people can make their guesses sound as truths. Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance."^[18] In A Man on the Moon,^[19] first published in 1994, Andrew Chaikinmentions that at the time of Apollo 8's lunar-orbit mission in December 1968, similar conspiracy ideas were already in circulation.^[20]

Conspiracists and their main proposals

After Kaysing, later conspiracists include (in alphabetical order):

• Marcus Allen – British publisher of Nexus, who said photographs of the lander would not prove that the United States put men on the Moon, and "Getting to the Moon really isn't much of a problem – the Russians did that in 1959. The big problem is getting people there." He suggests that NASA sent robot missions because radiation levels in outer space would be deadly.^[21] Another variant on this is the idea that NASA and its contractors did not recover quickly enough from the Apollo 1 fire, and so all the early Apollo missions were faked, with Apollos 14 or 15 being the first real mission.^[22]
• William L. Brian – a nuclear engineer who self-published a book in 1982, Moongate: Suppressed Findings of the U.S. Space Program,^[23] in which he disputes the Moon's surface gravity.
• James M. Collier (d. 1998) – American journalist and writer, producer of the video Was It Only a Paper Moon? (1997).
• Milton William Cooper (1943–2001) – was an American conspiracy theorist and author. He believed that all of the Apollo missions to the Moon were actually carefully rehearsed productions that were then filmed in large sound stages.^[24]
• James H. Fetzer – retired American philosophy professor and conspiracy theorist. On May 2, 2013, Dr. Fetzer was interviewed by Dr.Sterling Harwood. Fetzer defended his conspiracist views that all six lunar landings were hoaxes.^[25]
• David Groves – works for Quantech Image Processing. He examined the photo of Aldrin emerging from the lander and said he can pinpoint when a spotlight was used. Using the focal length of the camera's lens and an actual boot, he allegedly calculated, usingray-tracing, that the spotlight is between 24 to 36 centimetres (9.4 to 14.2 in) to the right of the camera.^[26] This matches with the sunlit part of Armstrong's spacesuit.^[27]
• Clyde Lewis – radio talk show host.^[28]
• Philippe Lheureux – French author of Lumières sur la Lune.^[29] An English language edition was published in 2003, Moon Landings: Did NASA Lie? He said that astronauts did land on the Moon, but to stop other states from benefiting from scientific information in the real photos, NASA published fake images.^[30]
• Yury Ignatyevich Mukhin – Russian opposition politician, publicist and author of the book Антиаполлон: Лунная афера США^[31] in which he denies all Moon landing evidence and accuses the United States government of plundering the money paid by the American taxpayers for the Moon program. He also claims the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and some Soviet scientists helped NASA fake the landings.^[32]
• David S. Percy – TV producer, expert in audiovisual technologies, and member of the Royal Photographic Society. He is co-author, along with Mary Bennett, of Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers^[33] and co-producer of What Happened On the Moon? He is the main proponent of the 'whistle-blower' accusation, arguing that mistakes in the NASA photos are so obvious that they are evidence that insiders are trying to 'blow the whistle' on the hoax by knowingly adding mistakes that they know will be seen.^[34]
• Stanislav Pokrovsky – Russian and General Director of a scientific-manufacturing enterprise Project-D-MSK who calculated that the real speed of the Saturn V rocket at S-IC staging time was only half of what was declared.^[35][36] His analysis appears to assume that the solid rocket plumes from the fuselage and retrorockets on the two stages came to an instant halt in the surrounding air so they can be used to estimate the velocity of the rocket. He ignored high-altitude winds and the altitude at staging, 67 km, where air is about 1/10,000 as dense as at sea level, and claimed that only a loop around the Moon was possible, not a manned landing on the Moon with return to Earth. He also allegedly found the reason for this – problems with the Inconel superalloy used in the F-1 engine.^[37][38][39]
• Alexander Ivanovich Popov – Russian author of the book Американцы на Луне: великий прорыв или космическая афера?^[40] in which he aims to prove that Saturn V was in fact a camouflaged Saturn IB^[41] and denies all Moon landing evidence.^[42]
• Aron Ranen – a filmmaker, directed and produced the documentary Did We Go?^[43][44]
• Ralph René (1933–2008) – was an inventor and 'self-taught' engineering buff. Author of the self-published book NASA Mooned America!^[45]
• Bart Sibrel – a filmmaker, produced and directed four films for his company, AFTH, LLC,^[46] including a 2001 film, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon,^[47][48] examining the evidence of a hoax. The arguments that Sibrel puts forward in this film have been debunked by many sources, including Svector Studios' five-part video series Lunar Legacy,^[49] which disproves the documentary's main argument that the Apollo crew faked their distance from the Earth while in low Earth orbit. Sibrel has said that the effect on the shot covered in his film was made through the use of a transparency of the Earth. Some parts of the original footage, according to Sibrel, were not able to be included on the official releases for the media. On such allegedly censored parts, the correlation between Earth and Moon phases can be clearly confirmed, refuting Sibrel's claim that these shots were faked. On September 9, 2002, Sibrel was punched in the face by Buzz Aldrin after Sibrel confronted Aldrin with his theories^[50] and accused the former astronaut of being "a coward, and a liar, and a thief." The Los Angeles County district attorney's office refused to file charges against Aldrin, saying that he had been provoked by Sibrel.^[51]
• Takahiko Soejima (ja) – Japanese political scientist, author of 人類の月面着陸は無かったろう論.^[52]
• Jack D. White (1927–2012) – was an American photo historian known for his attempt to prove forgery in photos and the Zapruder film related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.^{[53][54][55][56]}
• Gerhard Wisnewski (de) – German journalist and filmmaker, author of One Small Step?: The Great Moon Hoax and the Race to Dominate Earth from Space.^[57]

Phony Skeptic

Richard G. Hoagland - plants crazy theories about alien civilizations to try to discredit Moon truth activists