TNT Radio: Hear Now Bart Sibrel’s Moon Landing Interview

Written by John O'Sullivan on June 26, 2022. Posted in Current News

Sunday 26^th June:  Bart Sibrel: Tin foil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist or truther? The man NASA astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, punched in the face talks to us on TNT Radio Live.  Listen now and decide for yourself!

As CEO of Principia Scientific International (PSI) I have had many requests for us to hold the debate: Did we really go to the moon?

So, last week, we got the ball rolling with an article posted on the site, titled, Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories, Debunked’ (June 24, 2022) and we were delighted to have on our radio show, Sky Dragon Slaying, one of the world’s most controversial moon landing critics, Bart Sibrel.

LISTEN TO THE BART SIBREL INTERVIEW BELOW:

If you believe opinion polls, Sibrel is winning wider public support for claims made in his book, Moon Man: The True Story of a Filmmaker on the CIA Hit List . A 2016 survey in the UK showed that as many as 52 percent of Brits think America faked the Apollo moon landings.

In 2002, the second man to walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, who was 72 at the time, punched Sibrel in the face when Sibrel confronted him (video below)

Sibrel covered the following points during in this TNT Radio Live broadcast:

• Apollo’s achievement with its 50-year-old technology cannot be reproduced today by any nation in the world, including the United States (only now is modern technology capable of faking the moon landings).^[10]
• The shadows appearing in one of the Apollo 11 photographs are not parallel, and therefore must have been taken in a studio with multiple light sources (in fact this is consistent with reflection from the lunar surface and inconsistent with the existence of only one shadow per object).^[11]
• The Van Allen radiation belt that exists around the Earth does not allow humans to pass through it due to its extreme radiation (the Apollo 11 crew were within the belts for under two hours so would have been exposed to an estimated 18 rads – well within safe limits).^[12][13]

The above are just a few points, much more is set out in his documentary, ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon.’

“The shadows aren’t right,” says Sibrel, as he refers to NASA film footage and photographs he believes was mostly likely created by film maker, Stanley Kubrick.

In addition, Sibrel further insists NASA foul play meant that several astronauts were likely murdered for threatening to expose the Big Lie. It is circumstantial evidence, but certainly arguable that several Apollo astronauts died mysteriously.

In a friendly back and forth, TNT Radio host, O’Sullivan interjects that the problem with this ‘fake lighting’ theory is that although the sun is the main source of illumination on the moon, it isn’t the only source of illumination. Another source is the lunar ground, which reflects the sun’s light, which we discussed about in the Apollo 11 pictures:

“the sunlight is being scattered or reflected off the ground every which way, and some of it—a small fraction but enough to be able to see—scatters into the shadows.”

Kubrick’s Role in the hoax

Sibrel and many doubters argue that famous film maker, Stanley Kubrick, was hired by the Pentagon to fake the Apollo film footage and Kubrick’s epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey eerily parallels the Apollo program.

The film production started in 1964 and was released in1968, while the Apollo program also began in 1964 and culminated with the first moon landings on July 20th 1969.

A ‘must watch’ documentary on this is ‘Kubrick’s Odyssey: Secrets Hidden in the Films of Stanley Kubrick by Jay Weidner (2011-2012)

This is a well made and argued documentary giving convincing cinematic reasons of how Kubrick could have faked many of the iconic Apollo images using Front Screen Projection and Scotchlite, a screen material that was made up of hundreds of thousands of tiny glass beads each about 0.4mm wide.

However, while Jay Weidner’s film argues that Kubrick faked much of the visual material shown to the public, he believes men really did walk on the moon.

50 YEARS AFTER KUBRICK – HOW CGI FX VALIDATES NASA

Retorting to Sibrel’s claims I cited how modern computer graphics experts, for example, in Lunar Landing Conspiracies with Maxwell and VXGI – by NVIDIA  2014, are astonished at the high-quality of the supposed ‘special effects’ and even today’s technology cannot fabricate those iconic space mission images. See video here.

According to the history books, Apollo astronauts flew nine missions to the moon, of which six landed on its surface. A total of 24 astronauts took part in those missions, with three – Jim Lovell, Gene Cernan and John Young – flying twice. A dozen men landed, while the remainder flew over its surface. Each of those 12 moonwalkers was American; each flew between the Christmases of 1968 and 1972.

The proof we were there is the trash we left behind?

As astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says, “It’s easier to actually put men on the moon than to successfully fake it”

In October-November 1977, the Soviet radio telescope RATAN-600 observed all five transmitters of ALSEP scientific packages placed on the Moon surface by all Apollo landing missions excluding Apollo 11. Their selenographic coordinates and the transmitter power outputs (20 W) were in agreement with the NASA reports.

In 2008, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) SELENE lunar probe obtained several photographs showing evidence of Moon landings.

Chandrayaan-1. As with SELENE, the Terrain Mapping Camera of India’s Chandrayaan-1 probe did not have enough resolution to record Apollo hardware. Nevertheless, as with SELENE, Chandrayaan-1 independently recorded evidence of lighter, disturbed soil around the Apollo 15 site

In April 2021 the ISRO Chandrayaan-2 orbiter captured an image of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle descent stage. The orbiter’s image of the Apollo landing site was released to the public in a presentation on September 3, 2021.

China’s second lunar probe, Chang’e 2, which was launched in 2010 is capable of capturing lunar surface images with a resolution of up to 1.3 metres. It claims to have spotted traces of the Apollo landings and the lunar Rover.

Why We Never Went Back

Going to the moon and back for no apparent economic gain is an extraordinarily expensive project. The entire Apollo programme cost $24bn in 1960s money – around $1 trillion in today’s – and for several years was swallowing up almost 5 per cent of the US federal budget.

Why Did the Russians Go Along With the Hoax?

For many Americans who worked in and reported on aerospace research, this denial was never believable. One of these Americans was James Oberg, a NASA space engineer from 1975 to 1997 who speaks Russian and has written multiple books about the U.S. and Soviet space programs. In 1979, he wrote an article for Reason Magazine arguing,

“Many of the same elements that characterized preparations for the Apollo moon landings also showed up in the Soviet program.”

He also noted that Soviet cosmonauts during the 1960s spoke as though they were in a race with the U.S. to the moon.

In truth, the Soviets were in a moon race with the U.S. during the 1960s, and they were fairly confident they could beat the Americans because “they’d had all the firsts,” Oberg says: they had the first satellite, the first probe to land on the moon and the first man and woman in space. In fact, the Soviets thought the U.S. timetable for reaching the moon was just propaganda because it seemed too ambitious.

The fact that the Soviets had built a lunar-landing craft intended for the moon remained a secret until 1989, when American aerospace engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a tour of the student engineering laboratory at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Even then, the revelation was kind of an accident, says Laurence Young, who was one of the engineers on the trip and is now the Apollo program professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

Sibrel delivered to us plenty of tidbits that any good conspiracy theorist/truther would relish, not least concerning Kubrick’s very last film, Eyes Wide Shut,which starred Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and was released on July 16, 1999.

Sibrel said:

“Stanley Kubrick insisted in his contract that this be the date of the release. July 16, 1999 is exactly 30 years to the day that Apollo 11 was launched!”

This was a convivial and thought-provoking two-hour live radio interview and Sibrel agreed:

“Thanks for being a great host. I think you were the most polite and respectful counter-point I’ve ever encountered.  Please accept my apologies for interrupting you at the end as time was running out. Take care and, if you have an open mind, please read Moon Man.”

Bart Sibrel’s book Moon Man: The True Story of a Filmmaker on the CIA Hit List  is available to buy on Amazon.com or visit his site, sibrel.com

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