Moonufo

According to 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:

A11: 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...?

A11: They're here, under the surface...

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

A11: 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...

A11: 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...

A11: 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 up here...

M.C.: Did you fellows get anything?

A11: 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.

A11: 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?

A11: 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."

NASA claims that all photos, all voice transcripts, all debriefings are in the public domain and are available to the news media.... Who has taken the trouble to check out this material? Well, this author has, for example.
Alan Sandler did. Dr Hynek visited the Houston space center in
July 1976 and was shown the material in question. NASA's
original story, surprising, has been confirmed: all the material is available.

...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 "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.

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