52 Percent of British Believe NASA Faked Moon Landings

Written by Kevin Barrett on July 17, 2019. Posted in Current News

So this is it: the 50^th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. In 2016, a survey showed that 52 percent of the British public thought that Apollo missions were faked. Skepticism is highest among those who were too young to see it live on TV: 73 percent of aged 25-34 believe we didn’t land on the moon, compared to 38 percent of those aged 55 or more. These numbers seem to be rising every year.

British unbelievers were only 25 percent ten years ago. It is not known how may they are today, but a 2018 poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center revealed that 57 percent Russians believe that there has never been a manned lunar landing. The percentage rises to 69 percent among people with higher education: in other words, the more educated people are, and the more capable of rational reasoning, the less they believe in the moon landings.

For Americans, a 1999 Gallup poll gave just 6 percent of skeptics, and a 2013 Pew Research poll showed the number to have risen to a mere 7 percent. That is suspiciously low. A 2005-2006 poll “found that more than a quarter of Americans 18 to 25 expressed some doubt that humans set foot on the moon,” which is closer to the British data and more credible.

It is interesting to note that in a poll made by Knight Newspapers one year after the first moon landing, more than 30 percent of respondents were suspicious of NASA’s trips to the moon. Many of those early skeptics may have converted over the years, or simply lost the energy to dissent.

But the moon hoax theory gained new momentum with the spread of Internet, and the development of YouTube,which allowed close inspection of the Apollo footage by anyone interested. Before that, individuals who had serious doubts had little means to share them and make their case convincing.

One pioneer was Bill Kaysing, who broke the subject in 1976 with his self-published book We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle. He may be called a whistleblower, since he had been working for Rocketdyne, the company that designed and built the Apollo rockets.

Then came physicist Ralph René with his NASA Mooned America: How We Never Went to the Moon and Why,which introduced the issue of the Van Allen radiation belts.

Research gained depth and scope, and disbelief became epidemic around the 30^thanniversary of Apollo 11, thanks in great part to British cinematographer David Percy, who co-authored the book Dark Moon with Mary Bennett, and directed the 3-hour documentary What Happened on the Moon? An Investigation into Apollo (2000), presented by Ronnie Stronge. It remains to this day invaluable for anyone willing to develop an informed opinion.

Then there was the much shorter A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon (2001), directed by Bart Sibrel, which offers insight into the historical context.

Sibrel also went around challenging NASA astronauts to swear on the Bible, in front of the camera, that they did walk on the moon, and he compiled these sequences in Astronauts Gone Wild, together with more useful footage of embarrassingly awkward statements made by NASA astronauts who are supposed to have walked on the moon but sound hardly competent and consistent; Alan Bean from Apollo 12 learning from Sibrel that he went through the Van Allen radiation belt is a must-see (also here).

Then, using materials from those films and other sources, came the groundbreaking TV documentary Did We Land on the Moon? (2001), directed by John Moffet for Fox TV. It is a great introduction to the controversy, although it contains some errors in the interpretation of the lunar photographs.You can watch it here from its 2013 rebroadcast on Channel 5:

Did We Land on the Moon?

Very recently, Italian photographer and filmmaker Massimo Mazzucco, who had previously authored a great documentary on 9/11, released American Moon (2018), the best film on the Apollo controversy so far. It is remarkable for the precision of its argumentation and the relevance of its documentation. Mazzucco has the great merit of answering in detail each of the debunkers’ counter-arguments.

As a filmmaker and professional photographer, his major contribution—though not the only one—is in the field of photo analysis (he corrects some of the common errors found for example in Did We Land On The Moon?).

Mazzucco has solicited contributions from several other internationally renowned photographers, whose analyses are devastating for the credibility of NASA’s lunar photos.

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