The moon is the Rosetta stone of the planets." —Robert Jastrow,
First Chairman, NASA Lunar Exploration Committee
After hundreds of years of detailed observation and study, our closest
companion in the vast universe, Earth’s moon, remains an enigma.
Six moon landings and hundreds of experiments have resulted in more questions
being asked than answered. Among them:
1. Moon’s Age: The moon is far older than previously expected.
Maybe even older than the Earth or the Sun. The oldest age for the
Earth is estimated to be 4.6 billion years old; moon rocks were dated at
5.3 billion years old, and the dust upon which they were resting was at
least another billion years older.
2. Rock’s Origin: The chemical composition of the dust
upon which the rocks sat differed remarkably from the rocks themselves,
contrary to accepted theories that the dust resulted from weathering and
breakup of the rocks themselves. The rocks had to have come from
somewhere else.
3. Heavier Elements on Surface: Normal planetary composition
results in heavier elements in the core and lighter materials at the surface;
not so with the moon. According to Wilson, "The abundance of refractory
elements like titanium in the surface areas is so pronounced that several
geologists proposed the refractory compounds were brought to the moon’s
surface in great quantity in some unknown way. They don’t know how,
but that it was done cannot be questioned." (Emphasis added).
4. Water Vapor: On March 7, 1971, lunar instruments placed
by the astronauts recorded a vapor cloud of water passing across the surface
of the moon. The cloud lasted 14 hours and covered an area of about
100 square miles.
5. Magnetic Rocks: Moon rocks were magnetized. This
is odd because there is no magnetic field on the moon itself. This
could not have originated from a "close call" with Earth—such an encounter
would have ripped the moon apart.
6. No Volcanoes: Some of the moon’s craters originated
internally, yet there is no indication that the moon was ever hot enough
to produce volcanic eruptions.
7. Moon Mascons: Mascons, which are large, dense,
circular masses lying twenty to forty miles beneath the centers of the
moon’s maria, "are broad, disk-shaped objects that could be possibly some
kind of artificial construction. For huge circular disks are not
likely to be beneath each huge maria, centered like bull’s-eyes in the
middle of each, by coincidence or accident." (Emphasis added).
8. Seismic Activity: Hundreds of "moonquakes" are recorded
each year that cannot be attributed to meteor strikes. In November,
1958, Soviet astronomer Nikolay A. Kozyrev of the Crimean Astrophysical
Observatory photographed a gaseous eruption of the moon near the
crater Alphonsus. He also detected a reddish glow that lasted for
about an hour. In 1963, astronomers at the Lowell Observatory also
saw reddish glows on the crests of ridges in the Aristarchus region.
These observations have proved to be precisely identical and periodical,
repeating themselves as the moon moves closer to the Earth. These
are probably not natural phenomena.
9. Hollow Moon: The moon’s mean density is 3.34 gm/cm3
(3.34 times an equal volume of water) whereas the Earth’s is 5.5.
What does this mean? In 1962, NASA scientist Dr. Gordon MacDonald
stated, "If the astronomical data are reduced, it is found that the data
require that the interior of the moon is more like a hollow than a homogeneous
sphere." Nobel chemist Dr. Harold Urey suggested the moon’s
reduced density is because of large areas inside the moon where is "simply
a cavity." MIT’s Dr. Sean C. Solomon wrote, "the Lunar Orbiter experiments
vastly improved our knowledge of the moon’s gravitational field . . . indicating
the frightening possibility that the moon might be hollow."
In Carl Sagan’s treatise, Intelligent Life in the Universe, the famous
astronomer stated, "A natural satellite cannot be a hollow object."
10. Moon Echoes: On November 20, 1969, the Apollo 12 crew
jettisoned the lunar module ascent stage causing it to crash onto the moon.
The LM’s impact (about 40 miles from the Apollo 12 landing site) created
an artificial moonquake with startling characteristics—the moon reverberated
like a bell for more than an hour. This phenomenon was repeated with
Apollo 13 (intentionally commanding the third stage to impact the moon),
with even more startling results. Seismic instruments recorded that
the reverberations lasted for three hours and twenty minutes and traveled
to a depth of twenty-five miles, leading to the conclusion that the moon
has an unusually light—or even no—core.
11. Unusual Metals: The moon’s crust is much harder than
presumed. Remember the extreme difficulty the astronauts encountered
when they tried to drill into the maria? Surprise! The maria
is composed primarily illeminite, a mineral containing large amounts of
titanium, the same metal used to fabricate the hulls of deep-diving submarines
and the skin of the SR-71 "Blackbird". Uranium 236 and neptunium
237 (elements not found in nature on Earth) were discovered in lunar rocks,
as were rustproof iron particles.
12. Moon’s Origin: Before the astronauts’ moon rocks conclusively
disproved the theory, the moon was believed to have originated when a chunk
of Earth broke off eons ago (who knows from where?). Another theory
was that the moon was created from leftover "space dust" remaining after
the Earth was created. Analysis of the composition of moon rocks
disproved this theory also. Another popular theory is that the moon
was somehow "captured" by the Earth’s gravitational attraction. But
no evidence exists to support this theory. Isaac Asimov, stated,
"It’s too big to have been captured by the Earth. The chances of
such a capture having been effected and the moon then having taken up nearly
circular orbit around our Earth are too small to make such an eventuality
credible."
13. Weird Orbit: Our moon is the only moon in the solar
system that has a stationary, near-perfect circular orbit. Stranger
still, the moon’s center of mass is about 6000 feet closer to the Earth
than its geometric center (which should cause wobbling), but the moon’s
bulge is on the far side of the moon, away from the Earth. "Something"
had to put the moon in orbit with its precise altitude, course, and speed.
14. Moon Diameter: How does one explain the "coincidence"
that the moon is just the right distance, coupled with just the right diameter,
to completely cover the sun during an eclipse? Again, Isaac Asimov
responds, "There is no astronomical reason why the moon and the sun should
fit so well. It is the sheerest of coincidences, and only the Earth
among all the planets is blessed in this fashion."
15. Spaceship Moon: As outrageous as the Moon-Is-a-Spaceship
Theory is, all of the above items are resolved if one assumes that the
moon is a gigantic extraterrestrial craft, brought here eons ago by intelligent
beings. This is the only theory that is supported by all of the data,
and there are no data that contradict this theory.
