Apollo program
The Apollo program was NASA's human lunar landing program (1961–1972) — and in exopolitics and secret space program research, the publicly acknowledged portion of a larger classified effort in which astronauts encountered and received instructions to maintain silence about NHI craft and installations observed during lunar operations, with multiple accounts describing the Apollo missions as occurring under persistent UAP observation and in the context of classified lunar base activity that preceded the public missions. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are alleged to have reported NHI craft at Tranquility Base during radio contact in a channel separate from the public feed — an account circulated through amateur radio intercepts and NASA source leaks, though never officially confirmed.
NHI presence during Apollo
Multiple accounts from NASA insiders and researchers describe craft visible during Apollo lunar approach and surface operations:
- Gordon Cooper stated in his memoir that he was aware of classified UAP encounter reports from astronauts that were never released
- Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14) conducted unauthorized ESP experiments during the mission and later stated publicly that he was "90% sure" that many of the UFO reports are genuine and that the information is kept from the public
Michael Salla's 2015 synthesis documents a pattern of Apollo-era UFO encounters systematically suppressed by NASA. Maurice Chatelain, who helped develop the communications systems used in the Apollo missions, stated in 1979: "All Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin — flying saucers, or UFOs, if you want to call them by that name. Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who then ordered absolute silence." Neil Armstrong reportedly transmitted during the Apollo 11 landing: "These babies are huge, sir … enormous…. Oh, God, you wouldn't believe it! I'm telling you there are other space craft out there… lined up on the far side of the crater edge… they're on the moon watching us." Salla presents Corey Goode and Randy Cramer's interpretation of the subsequent abrupt end to the Apollo program as the result of the lunar diplomatic zone being violated: "If the Apollo landings chose to land in some of these diplomatic zones (which is just about every square inch of the moon) they more than likely landed on territory of a group that did not appreciate it. They were most likely given a stern request to leave and not return."
Suppressed findings and information management
Tom DeLonge, drawing on briefings from senior government and aerospace officials, argued that the Moon landing narrative was deliberately bifurcated: the public was offered two contradictory framings — confirmation and denial — specifically to prevent attention from focusing on what was actually found there, characterizing this as a standard information-management technique.
Pre-existing lunar structures
Dan Burisch, describing classified materials he encountered during his work for covert programs, referred to "ruins that are present on the moon and on Mars" and framed them as evidence of prior civilizations — information he indicated was well-known within classified programs but withheld from public scientific discourse.
Dr. Steven Greer described receiving a direct admission from a JPL/NASA scientist that evidence of ancient structures on Mars — including "obelisks and pyramids" estimated to be millions of years old — was deliberately kept from public release to avoid destabilizing orthodox religious belief systems, a rationale he held applied equally to lunar anomalies.
Far-side monitoring
Michael P. Masters, a biological anthropologist, noted that the far side of the Moon would have been an ideal location for a monitoring base: "You set up a base on the far side of the moon where up until the sixties, seventies, we wouldn't know they were there." This framing aligns with SSP accounts placing Lunar Operations Command and Dark Fleet installations specifically on the lunar far side.
Masonic connections
Freemason Buzz Aldrin performed a Masonic ceremony on the lunar surface during Apollo 11 — the first Masonic rite performed on another celestial body — planting a Masonic flag and performing a rite authorized by the Grand Lodge of Texas. In exopolitics frameworks this is interpreted as part of a longer tradition of Masonic-stellar connection and as a claiming ritual consistent with the Masonic-Sirius cosmology described by multiple researchers.
Van Allen Belt and radiation questions
Moon landing skeptic and filmmaker Bart Sibrel (JRE #2141) argues that Apollo astronauts could not have survived passage through the Van Allen radiation belts at the levels documented by subsequent scientific measurement. The episode prompted discussion of Operation Starfish Prime — a 1962 U.S. operation that detonated a 1.4 megaton nuclear device in the radiation belts — as a possible precedent for classified efforts to modify or navigate the belt environment. The radiation belt question remains one of the most technically contested aspects of the Apollo program in both mainstream and exopolitics discussion.
Alex Collier account
Alex Collier, Andromedan contactee, states that his sources showed him imagery of structures on the Moon and Mars "that did not originate on this Earth" — including built infrastructure that was present before the Apollo program landed — and that the Apollo program's classified component involved the discovery and initial assessment of these pre-existing non-human installations.