Sadly, the man who didn't want to be an icon died today at the age of 82.
Everyone and their dog will be writing a huge obituary for Neil Armstrong about moon walking, NASA, the one step thing and his heart by-pass surgery. But I reckon if you're reading my blog, you're looking for something different.
Ok, Neil Armstrong is way more famous for the small step/giant leap statement that he came out with in 1969 when he went to the moon with some other guys.
I realise that sounds very flippant and unemotional but I wasn't there to experience it. There are many huge world events that I can recall with emotion, wonderment and awe, like the Berlin Wall coming down, Nelson Mandela being released from prison and the wedding of Charles and Diana, (well I was very young and impressionable).
So, without further ado.....
"We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that ... other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places." yeah, this comes from the one and only Neil Armstrong.
But why is this quote from 1999 so important?
Quite simply because it's not the only time that anyone from NASA has hinted at coverups regarding aliens. I cannot promise that I won't use any 'X Files' quotes, but I will try not to go all Fox Mulder on you.
The Internet is FULL of conspiracy theories regarding aliens and everything to do with them. There are books, tv series, films and blogs about what has been seen, found, crashed and abducted.
Perhaps the most interesting (that I've found) is from a book by Jon King called 'Cosmic Top Secret'
"Through the crackle and pop of what many believe was a deliberately contrived poor-quality broadcast, Armstrong was heard to say he could see a ‘light’ on the rim of a nearby crater. Mission Control responded with a request for more information, following which the transmission went dead.
For a full two minutes nothing was heard…
Or was it? According to former NASA employee, Otto Binder, who worked on the Apollo program, US radio hams picked up the following conversation, which was alleged to have taken place during the transmission black-out.
Neil Armstrong: ‘What was it? What the hell was it? That’s all I want to know…’
Mission Control: ‘What’s there? … [garbled transmission] … Mission Control calling Apollo Eleven…’
Neil Armstrong: ‘These babies are huge, sir … enormous. Oh, God … you wouldn’t believe it! I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out there, lined up on the far side of the crater edge. They’re on the moon watching us…’
Though NASA has always denied the authenticity of the transmission, former NASA technician, Maurice Chatelain, revealed otherwise.
‘The encounter was common knowledge in NASA,’ he said in 1979. ‘But nobody has talked about it until now.’
Chatelain also confirmed radio communications were interrupted several times during the Apollo 11 mission ‘in order to keep the truth from the public’."
Is it important to point out the author's name is Jon King and not Jo King, and he has written books about a Princess Diana conspiracy theory too?
Maybe not, but you know how I like to share as much information as possible with you.
Seems like Mike Collins may have been the lucky one after all eh? Never mind guys......I'm sure the truth is out there!
http://www.thetruthbehindthescenes.org/aliens-living-among-us/
http://nagfa.blogspot.co.uk/2006/08/hi-welcome-to-ambigrams-by-nagfa-to.html
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