Apollo 20: The Secret Mission to the Moon to Salvage an Ancient Alien Spacecraft

[Music]. the Apollo space flight program lasted. from 1961 to 1972. Apollo 11 was Neil. Armstrong's famous First Step Apollo 17. was the last manned mission to the Moon. in all 20 Apollo flights were planned. but Apollo 18 19 and 20 were canceled. but in 2007 a retired astronaut blew the. whistle and claimed Apollo 18 19-20 did. happen but they were highly classified. he knows this because he was the. commander of Apollo 20. he said the.

reason these missions were kept secret. is because of what they found on the. moon well not just what they found also. who they found. foreign. the primary goal of the Apollo space. flight program was to land the first man. on the moon this was achieved on July. 20th 1969 when Neil Armstrong famously. said it's one small step for man.

Chester that was Apollo 11. Apollo 12. also landed on the moon successfully. Apollo 13 had to abort after Tom Hanks. famously said Houston we have a problem. but Apollo 14 15 16 and Apollo 17 all. made it to the Moon. but here's where things get weird the. Apollo missions made all kinds of. scientific discoveries that experts. still studied today but despite the. success of these missions Apollo 18. 19-20 were canceled due to budget cuts. and lack of public interest but ever.

since then there's been a story floating. around that those flights actually. happened but they did so as part of a. top secret black budget program. eventually we would get confirmation of. this in 2007 a YouTube user with the. handle retired AFB posted a video that. set the internet on fire it was a short. clip that showed the interior of an. Apollo spacecraft first we see an orange. porthole looking out into space. Skeptics were quick to jump on this film.

as a hoax but if we compare it to actual. known photographs of apollocraft it's a. match the next shot is of a control. panel and this too matches other Apollo. missions what stands out is the flag and. the mission patch these are hard to make. out in the early videos but we'll see. them in detail later on the flag is a. combination of the American and Soviet. Flags the patch shows Apollo 20 the name. of the mission at the bottom of the. patch are the names of the astronauts. Snyder lanoff and Rutledge soon after.

releasing the video retired AFB admitted. he was William Rutledge of the United. States Air Force and Mission commander. of Apollo 20 which flew in 1976 the. middle of the patch shows two spacecraft. with ropes or cables around it a. submarine no a staging no a submarine. you said that already yeah well I. couldn't come up with a third one and. comedy comes in threes oh you think this. is comedy yeah Bite Me Anyway the. submarine is actually the purpose of the. mission Apollo 15 went to the moon in.

1971 and it had taken a lot of pictures. and what was of particular interest. officially titled Apollo image. as15p9630 it shows a swath of lunar. landscape on The Far Side of the Moon. but if we zoom into this area we have a. hill right that's the image that's. currently available to the public but. originally it was this. but NASA also has this. that is Apollo 20's Mission identify and.

if possible breach the two mile long. spaceship that crashed on the moon 1.5. billion years ago. [Music]. over time Commander Rutledge released. more photos and videos online he also. released excerpts from his journal and. gave more background on the mission to. the Moon in 1971 the Soviet Academy of. Sciences contacted American president. Richard Nixon with a proposal the. Russians had images of the ship taken.

from the surface they also had images of. what looked like a city but they didn't. have the technology to visit the site. but the Americans did after the success. of the Apollo soyuz which was the first. U.S USSR joint space mission the Soviets. proposed another mission Cosmonaut. Alexei leonov commander of the soyuz. would accompany two American astronauts. to the alien crash site you say that. again what alien crash night yeah it's. liking music sweet sweet music so leonov.

and Rutledge were joined by Leona Snyder. who would serve as the pilot then on. August 16 1976 in the dead of night a. Saturn V rocket took to the sky and. embarked on the most important and most. secret space mission in history. 10 9 ignition sequence size. six five four three two one at the end. of the countdown just after Ground.

Control calls zero there's a moment that. seems to go on for hours at that moment. years Flash before your eyes and play. like a movie in Reverse your thoughts. turn to friends to family to hope the. capsule shaking like crazy and you're. aware of the rocket engines swelling. like a tidal wave but there is absolute. peace the mind quiets there is no fear. fear would come soon enough.

foreign. [Music]. liftoff is called and the rocket begins. to float people think you shoot off the. pan like a bullet but in truth you hover. just for a second not even a heartbeat. you float but the next second the next. second begins a physical ordeal that. will last eight and a half minutes.

foreign. of a building pushes against your chest. making every inhale a battle of life and. death it's not uncommon for someone to.

pass out during these eight and a half. minutes though when that happens we'd. never tell. after the crushing journey through the. atmosphere you go from three G's to. weightless in an instant it's like it's. like a tether suddenly snaps and then. you float it's not uncommon for someone. to vomit at this point but again we. never tell I look down at the Earth and. white clouds swirl over blue oceans I. look at the land 125 miles down and get. the sense that someone somewhere is.

looking up I take a moment to catch my. breath and smile those eight and a half. minutes roaring through the Earth's. atmosphere that was the easy part. three days later on August 19th at about. 10 30 in the morning the Apollo 20 crew. entered lunar orbit then the crew was. informed of a secondary objective for. this Mission track down and find out. what happened to Apollo 19. whoa what. well the Russians had much better. information about the alien crash site. which is why the Americans agreed to a.

joint Mission the United States sent. Apollo 19 to explore the wreckage a few. months earlier but the mission failed. only the Apollo 19 crew and the most. senior people at Nasa knew about this. Mission the launch and transit to the. Moon went fine but Ground Control lost. radio contact when Apollo 19 got to The. Far Side of the Moon they hadn't been. heard from since Rutledge and his crew. were instructed to check a specific. storage compartment in the landing. module this compartment typically held. tools and containers for bringing back. moon rocks and soil samples oh but not.

this time but not this time this time. the storage compartment had guns. foreign. my name is Carl wolf and I was a. Precision Electronics photographic. repairman with a top secret crypto. clearance. in the United States Air Force I was. stationed at Langley Air Force Base in. Virginia. in 1965. um in mid-1965 I was loaned to the lunar.

orbiter project at Nasa on Langley field. they had problems with a piece of. electronic equipment that was. bottlenecking their production of. photographs. I went to the facility and when I walked. into the facility there were scientists. from all over the world I was stunned. actually to see people at a NASA project. from all over the world it didn't make. any sense to me initially. I was taken into the laboratory where.

the equipment was malfunctioning a. Airman second class was in the dark room. at that time I was also an Airman second. class I was interested how the Hope. process functioned how the data got from. the lunar orbiter to the laboratory. asked the young man if he described the. process to me he did about 30 minutes. into the process he said to me. in a very distressed way. by the way we've discovered a base on.

the back side of the moon. and then he proceeded to put photographs. down in front of me and clearly in these. photographs were structures. mushroom-shaped buildings spherical. buildings and Towers. I worked there for three more days and I. remember going home and naively thinking. I can't wait to hear about this on the. evening news. and here it is more than 30 years later. and I hope we hear about it tonight and. I will testify under oath before. Congress that what I'm saying is the.

truth. Rutledge and layanov sat in silence as. the moon rover closed the distance. between the landing site and the alien. ship Rutledge felt that the silence was. inspired by part wonder and part fear. the hull of the ship first appeared over. the moon Horizon looking like another. Hill but as they drove closer the men's. chin slowly raised higher and higher. when they were finally in the shadow of. the craft it was hard to tell how big it. really was unsure of the ground.

underneath they decided to park the. Rover about 800 feet from the craft and. travel the rest of the way on foot. religion laying off chatted amiably on. the walk but the closer they got to the. ship the quieter they got it was massive. and awe-inspiring the ship was over 300. feet high the length of the football. field and as high as a 30-story building. and just as wide the length of the ship. seemed to go on forever they knew the. ship was two miles long but that's just. a number until you're right on top of it.

the first thing we noticed was how old. the ship was having been on the moon for. over a billion years it almost looked. like part of the landscape the hull of. the vessel was coated in Moon dust the. powder that turned everything here gray. another indication of the ship's age was. that it was pockmarked with ancient. meteor impacts. Salient ship has been here since before. the Pyramid of Giza was built before the. Sumerian civilization emerged but I. started to become dizzy realizing the.

ship has been here since before the. first dinosaurs walked the Earth. everything about this Mission stretched. the limits of the human mind it was too. big to comprehend too old to comprehend. here I was walking on the surface of the. Moon having traveled here in a rocket. the Pinnacle of human technological. achievement and yet in the shadow of. this ancient Relic that somehow made its. way here from a distant star a thousand. Millennia ago I felt like little more.

than a caveman compared to this. technology our species was still rubbing. six together to make fire at that moment. I felt very very small they had no. trouble entering the ship it looked like. the area was cleared by heavy equipment. though there were no machines in sight. the exterior of the ship was covered. with impacts strange shapes and markings. but the anterior walls were perfectly. smooth before going further Rutledge and. layanov took a quick minute to confirm. they still had radio contact to Leona in. orbit and to ground control on Earth.

they did over many centuries lunar soil. filled the floor of the ship they. weren't stepping on metal about 60 feet. in patterns in the lunar dust indicated. that some type of fluid had flowed there. at one time maybe a hydraulic leak they. couldn't be sure over the radio they. were instructed to grab samples but all. they can get was a little dirt from the. ground NASA wanted pieces of the ship's. wall or equipment for analysis but their. Hammers and chisels couldn't even. scratch it much less chip off a piece. but the walls did have a strange.

property gravity a gravitational field. could be felt coming from the walls and. now that they focused on it gravity on. the ground felt slightly stronger on the. inside of the ship Rutledge speculated. that this would make Interstellar travel. much easier we take gravity for granted. on Earth but it is very much a key to. our survival when you human bodies. without gravity experiences. physiological stress almost instantly. without gravity bone and muscle mass. quickly wither so daily vigorous.

exercise is needed when the human heart. doesn't have to contend with gravity. blood pressure goes out of balance. sustaining injuries without gravity is. dangerous because blood doesn't flow it. pools its face any type of internal. injury is almost certainly fatal our. balance depends on gravity the fluid in. our ears that tells us which way is up. Suddenly has no concept above digestion. is more difficult without gravity. helping food move through the body the. problems are endless Engineers on Earth. had many proposals on how to solve the.

gravity problem space stations could one. day be built like Wagon Wheels like in. the movie 2001 but there was no. structure like that here Gravity was. coming from the ship itself somehow. Rutledge and leonoff followed a path. that led them to an upper floor down a. wide Hall and into a large chamber they. finally saw something that even though. they expected it still surprised them. Signs of Life. in the darkness the walls seemed to move.

in the larger part of the ship the walls. were perfectly smooth but here Moonlight. was being scattered in all directions by. a rough surface when Rutledge and. landoff got closer they saw what. appeared to be plants and vegetation. dried purple Vines a hundred feet tall. line the walls even though there was no. sound in space rutledge's mind couldn't. help but fill the Silence with the. rustling of a breeze through trees on a. calm day beneath the plants were trays. that were collecting a thick yellow.

liquid upon closer inspection it was. gold and phosphorescent finally. something could be recovered from the. alien ship the men took about two liters. what they called Golden Tears Golden. Tears huh that sounds ominous for a. minute Rutledge had forgotten that they. were broadcasting from lunar orbit Leona. broke in. we've got Houston on the line. imagine too early.

seen the move too the room continues for. a long way I think I see light up ahead. we could probably reach it in an hour. we want you to protect. lamb and get those. [Applause]. Roger that control returning to Len. Rutledge and laying off retrace their. steps out of the ship and headed back to. the lunar rover about halfway through. their walk Lay It Off grabbed Rutledge. by the arm and pointed to the ground. about 50 feet from the path will.

oil do you see this what where. two lines side by side how do you say. the same distance apart parallel yes do. you see. I do what is that when they got close. enough they realized what the lines were. tracks in the dust recent tracks made by. Aluna Rover but not their lunar rover. uh Rover team to Orbiter you there Leona. I'm here well what's up.

you better get Houston back on the horn. why what is it. tell them. till then we found Apollo 19. [Music]. after a few hours of sleep the Apollo 20. crew debated with ground control over. whether to explore the Apollo 19 module. Rutledge Snyder and leonov wanted to. check for survivors or at least find out. what happened Ground Control was against. it they argued that whatever happened to. Apollo 19 could easily happen to Apollo.

20. don't think it's a good idea to follow. the same path that led Apollo 19 to. failure we don't know if this is an. equipment issue or if there's something. dangerous at the land inside. understood control but their families. deserve to know what happened. their families don't know they're here. as far as they know their loved ones. died in a training accident. control could Apollo 19 have any. material to help us complete our mission. negative Apollo 19 has no additional.

resource. control is there a chance even a small. chance that we find living astronauts. we're all sure there's no chance of. finding anyone alive one final question. control. does control agree that we leave no. astronaut behind. Ground Control agrees. we're going. Roger that Apollo 20 perceived with.

caution good luck will control out. the black silhouette of Apollo 19's. lunar module loomed on the horizon it. was still connected to its first stage. booster a sign that the astronauts. hadn't left Rutledge had a glimmer of. hope that the crew of Apollo 19 could be. alive somewhere in the alien ship but. the truth is he expected to find three. corpses the Apollo 19 land was probably. now a high-tech tomb with final messages. for families taped to the control panel. which is what he would have done they. parked the Rover and Rutledge felt a.

wave of adrenaline wash over him the. hatched the module was slightly open. this means it wasn't pressurized if the. astronauts were here they weren't alive. Rutledge and leonov walked cautiously. around the module and inspected it for. damage it looked like it had landed hard. the nozzle skirt was partially buried. and folded then Rutledge kicked. something in the lunar dust he bent down. and brushed the gray soil away it was a. white glove with red fingertips Apollo. 20s colors were white and black the.

glove belonged to someone from Apollo. 19. brother was trying not to panic he. looked around for laying off but he. didn't see him laying off was already up. the ladder an opening match. [Applause]. there is something yes but. what our body. it is a body but uh well. it is not a human. [Music].

Rutledge and leonov stood in silence for. at least two minutes taking in what they. saw unsure of how to proceed inside the. Apollo 19 lunar module buckled tightly. to a folding metal table was an alien. body. that it appeared to be a humanoid female. she was naked but her body was covered. in a waxy substance Rutledge thought it. could be a highly Advanced type of. pressure suit the alien female was about. five and a half feet tall she had two. arms and two legs like a human but she. had six fingers on each hand on her. forehead was a tattoo or design that.

resembled markings that they saw inside. the ship her face was decorated with a. device that consisted of stalks fixed to. her eyelids cheeks and mouth. near the table was an overturned. container that had a little bit of the. golden tear substance dripping out of it. Rutledge closed the hatch and started to. pressurize the module if they were going. to examine the body they needed to. remove their helmets. hold on remove the helmets are they. crazy well they needed to see and. specifically hear what they were doing.

this is a terrible idea what if she. implants an alien egg in them or. something yeah I don't think oh what if. the alien gets some of the astronauts. DNA and then and it comes to Earth it. makes an astronaut clone which replaces. the real astronaut but the astronaut's a. hero so the Clone the Clone becomes a. senator and then and then after a few. years the alien clone becomes president. of the United States. then we get an alien clone in the White.

House. actually how much worse can I get well. once the cabin was pressurized Rutledge. and laying off gingerly removed their. helmets Rutledge expected the air to. smell like Decay but there was a. distinct Aroma of almonds yeah I don't. know why but that makes it even scarier. I agree Leona was a biochemist before. becoming an astronaut so she would be. helpful but she was an orbit on the. other side of the moon so Rutledge and. leonov had to do the best they could. until she came back into range Rutledge. felt for a pulse but he couldn't detect. one he put a stethoscope on her chest it.

couldn't hear a heartbeat but he heard. what he thought sounded like a whooshing. sound some kind of liquid moving through. her body they determined the alien was. neither alive nor dead she was in some. kind of suspended animation They removed. the stalks from her face and Rutledge. thought she had a slight smile from then. on they called her Mona Lisa Rutledge. gently examined the alien while laying. off filmed and took photographs. [Music].

foreign. [Music]. [Music]. ER was back in range she radioed down. but this time on a private channel uh.

Snyder to over will you okay. oh we're okay Leona we we found. something unexpected in the Apollo 19. lamb no crew but uh. we know Houston is back online we can. see everything. you want to patch me through. not yet well. um. what is it. Ground Control nose. they know they know what. about what you found in Apollo 19 slim.

they already know. no. but we also found a bloody glove and I'm. pretty sure it belongs to Jim Reynolds. we need to do they know about that too. they know all of it. I don't understand how they would Well. Control wants you to bring the alien. woman back to your module what why. they uh. Leona what what is it.

they want us to bring her home. [Music]. the Apollo 20 urban legend has become. one of my favorites and the more I learn. about it the more I like it when YouTube. user retired AFB AKA Commander William. Rutledge posted his Apollo 20 videos the. internet exploded the videos look so. good but is it real absolutely no damn. it there are a few articles out there. that debunk the videos practically frame. by frame but there's no reason to go.

through the trouble someone openly. admitted to creating them the videos. were created by French artists Thierry. speth as part of a science fiction film. Project he was working on he used a. combination of practical effects and 3D. to create videos the two videos that got. the most attention were the ones of the. control panel and of the alien woman. because they look really good but he has. a lot of other videos connected to this. project and they don't look as amazing. now even though aspath freely admitted. to creating the legend somehow it took.

nine years for anyone to bother talking. to him about it credit goes to Chad. Baxter for finally interviewing speth in. 2016 and I'm I'll link to that interview. below the story you heard today is. basically a mashup of a few versions of. the Apollo 20 urban legend floating. around the internet mixed in with the. novel speth wrote that tells the entire. story I'll link this Beth's novel below. but before you spend money on it be. warned despite writing the book in. English speth doesn't speak it very well. so as far as stories go it's clunky but. still it's entertaining it's Beth's.

version of the story the alien woman. wakes up during the procedure and knocks. Rutledge unconscious and those Golden. Tears they collected the yellow goo yeah. in the story it has medicinal properties. lanov has cancer with only a few months. to live he drinks the goo and it cures. him by the way Alexi lanoff is one of. the most famous cosmonauts in history so. speth changed his name in the novel also. Rutledge and Snyder they end up having. an affair in space then they get married. and they also drink the yellow goo which.

makes them age more slowly what about. the bloody glove right remember the. plants inside the ship yeah well they. ate the Apollo 19 crew the glove was all. that was left. wow wow yeah there's a lot going on in. that novel as I said it's clunky despite. speth admitting to creating this you'll. find interviews with the quote unquote. real William Rutledge and those. interviews have expanded the lore but. you know. a French. well a lot of people thought that and. that's why it's so weird that nobody.

bothered to talk to him but about. halfway through the interview with Chad. Baxter speth holds up a mask of the. alien woman and it's the same alien for. sure 100 go back and freeze frame it's. absolutely the same alien if you want to. see exactly how speth made the video. look so good I'll link to an article. called Apollo 20 deconstructed so how is. a story like this believed by so many. people for so many years I think the. answer is easy it's the American. government's fault yeah it's always the.

government's fault you don't even know. what I'm gonna say it doesn't matter. it's still the government sport there. really were three more Apollo missions. planned and they really were canceled. due to lack of funding and lack of. public interest that is one of the. biggest tragedies in human history. Apollo 17 was extremely successful space. exploration should have been a top. priority for the United States and the. Soviet Union instead they made their top. priority war in Vietnam in today's money. that war would cost a trillion dollars.

in 2022 NASA's budget was 22 billion. dollars that's a budget reduction of 90. percent since the 1970s yet the United. States Department of Defense budget was. 722 billion dollars not including black. budget right so let's call it a trillion. that's really why the Apollo program. ended America beat Russia to the Moon. that was the mission not exploration not. research not science not the betterment. of all mankind it was petty competition. that's why I'm rooting for the Chinese.

to keep launching missions to the Moon I. hope they find more helium-3 and other. valuable resources because that's the. only way my country gets back to. focusing on Space if you can't count on. American Ingenuity at least you can. count on good old American Greed and the. United States better not wait too long. because if China has only a fraction of. the success of the Apollo program it. won't be long before all speaking. Mandarin. [Music]. thanks so much for hanging out with me. today my name is AJ that's hecklefish.

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