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Quoted (wo-p) from _TRUE Magazine Presents...Flying Saucer and UFO
Quarterly_. Spring 1979. (C) 1979 Histrionic Publishing Co. Inc.
21 West 26th St. New York, NY.10010, pp. 7-30.


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By James Oberg


The headline on the cover of _National Bulletin_ magazine (distributed
in Canada but printed in New York City) for September 29, 1969, cries
out that..

"Phony Transmission Failure Hides Apollo 11 Discovery...

MOON IS A UFO BASE!"

Author Sam Pepper (otherwise unidentified and he has since vanished)
gave this version of "the top secret tape transcript" from "a leak close
to the top", as follows:

A-11: What was it, what the hell was it? That's all I want to know...
These ... (garbled) ... babies were huge, sir, they were
enormous...

No, no, that's just field distortion...

Oh God, you wouldn't believe it...

M.C.: What... what... what the hell's going on? Whatsa matter with
you guys...?

A-11: They're here, under the surface...

M.C.: What's there...malfunction...Mission Control calling Apollo 11...

A-11: Roger, we're here, all three of us, but we've found some
visitors...

yeah, they've been here for quite a while judging by the
installations...

M.C.: Mission Control, repeat last message...

A-11: I'm telling you, there are other spacecraft out there.
They're lined up in ranks on the far side of the crater edge...

M.C.: Repeat, repeat...

A-11: Let's get that orbit scanned and head home...

In 625 to the fifth, auto-relays set ... my hands are shaking
so bad ...

Film ... yes, the damned cameras were clicking away from
from up here...

M.C.: Did you fellows get anything?

A-11: Had no film left by the time ... (garbled) ... three shots of
the saucer or whatever they were ... may have fogged the film.

M.C.: Mission Control, this is Mission Control ... are you under
way, repeat, are you under way? What's this uproar about
UFOs? Over.

A-11: They're set up down there ... they're on the moon ... watching
us ...

M.C.: The mirrors, the mirrors ... you set them up, didn't you?

A-11: Yes, the mirrors are all in place. But whatever built
those spacecraft will probably come over and pull 'em all
out by the roots tomorrow...


When the "Pepper Transcripts" first became public, UFO buffs wrote to
their congressmen demanding that NASA officially confess to the coverup.
NASA replied that "the incidents ... did not take place. Conversations
between the Apollo 11 crew and Mission Control were released live during
the entire Apollo 11 mission. There were between 1000 and 1500
representatives of the news media and T.V. present at the Houston News
Center listening and observing, and not one has suggested that NASA
withheld any news or conversations of this nature." (Letter from
Assistant Administrator for Legislative Affairs to several congressmen,
January 1970.)

In 1976, chief of the astronaut office Deke Slayton claimed that "I
don't recall any of our astronauts ever reporting UFOs."

...From internal evidence alone, it looks more and more like a crude
hoax. This can be deduced from the vocabulary itself.

_"Mission Control, this is Mission Control_..." this was NEVER a
phrase
used by NASA, which instead always referred to "Houston".

Technical-sounding gibberish such a "field-distortion", "orbit
scanned", "625 to the fifth", "auto-relays", etc. were never found in
real transcripts.

"Repeat, repeat..." is never used on the radio; instead astronauts
and
Mission Control use the phrase "Say Again".

"We're here, all _three_ of us"... actually, only two men were
on the lunar surface.

In addition, interviews with the handful of amateur radio listeners
who are known to have tuned in to the S-Band (2270 megahertz) moon
signals produced testimony that they heard the same conversations which
were released by NASA. Since listening to the moon required the use of
ten-foot diameter radio dishes, few people actually could do it, and
they
were known to each other, having done similar space eavesdropping for
years.

...The unavoidable conclusion is that the "Pepper Transcript" was
either fabricated or that Pepper used very poor judgement in allowing
himself to be victimized by somebody else's fake.

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