From: Don Ledger <dledger.nul>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:02:13 -0300
Fwd Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 07:00:19 -0400
Subject: Re: Ancient Craft Left On Moon? - Ledger


>From: Martin Shough <parcellular.nul>
>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 18:35:30 +0100
>Subject: Re: Ancient Craft Left On Moon?

>>From: Terry Groff <terrygroff.nul>
>>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>>Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 13:25:26 -0500
>>Subject: Re: Ancient Craft Left On Moon?

>>>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99.nul>
>>>To: ufoupdates.nul
>>>Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 18:22:11 +0000
>>>Subject: Re: Ancient Craft Left On Moon?

>>>Just amazing what people's wild imaginations can read into
>>>rocks.

>>With all due respect, whether this is real or fabricated, I
>>find way too much symmetry for this to be a rock formation.

>I had real trouble with this supposed Apollo 20 film, given that
>there never was an Apollo 20. It was cancelled a few years
>before its scheduled launch date of 1974, along with Apollos 18
>& 19.

>Then I looked again at the captioning on YouTube (can't get the
>audio to play properly) and I think this is just a
>misunderstanding because the crew communicator repeatedly uses
>the comms code "twenty" when replying. (Strangely there is a
>fleeting title shot at the beginning of the clip mentioning
>Apollo 11 but probably this is just because some clips have been
>edited together at some point). So it could still be genuine
>film from some earlier Apollo mission that the uploader has got
>confused about. Terry is right. The close-ups later in the clip
>leave no doubt at all that if it's genuine and unadulterated
>there really is a large artefact lying on the lunar surface.

>Is it real? Well, there definitely is an "object" there on the
>moon. The location given on the YouTube clip is 17.3 deg S,
>117.62 deg E. Go to the image atlas of the Lunar and Planetary
>Institute, a NASA research subsidiary in Houston

>http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS15-P-9625

>http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS15-P-9630

>This is a stereo pair taken on Apollo Mission 15, revolution 38,
>centred on 19 deg S and 117.5 deg E, in the region southwest of
>DELPORTE, and north of IZSAK (presumably crater names). This
>panorama includes the coordinates given on the alleged film. And
>there it is. You can't miss it.
>>Just to add that I've made a stereo pair of an enlarged detail
>of the object from these NASA images, and I have to admit that
>it really does look like a long shark-shaped object resting in
>the crater with its nose elevated. I don't really know what to
>make of this. If anyone's interested in having a look I can send
>the stereo pair privately - just let your eyes cross to
>superimpose the two shots (a beer might help) and the relief
>stands out. I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas. If this is
>what it appears to be - and not just a freak of shadow
>perspectives - then at the least it seems to be an extraordinary
>bit of geology or planetology. Has anyone heard about this
>apparent object or formation before?


Hi Martin,

These don't seem to be at the resolution of the video. I can't
get near the detail exhibited there from the above URLs. Is
there a higher rez download somewhere?


Don Ledger



Listen to 'Strange Days... Indeed' - The PodCast

See:

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/sdi/program/