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The Moon

Also: Compton–Belkovich; Aristarchus crater

anomaly well-supported 1969–2026 status · verified entity

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The Moon, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mosaic
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The Moon, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mosaic

Lunar near-side mosaic from two weeks of LRO observations, December 2010. Not evidence of structures.

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Jesse Michels · 0:04:39

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Max Derakhshani · 0:11:31

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Joe Rogan · 1:45:22

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Guests discuss claimed lunar structures and anomalies at sites such as Compton–Belkovich and Aristarchus, and Apollo-era remarks by astronauts. The Moon is not pinned on the Earth map; the claimed structures have no accepted scientific support.

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Lunar surface

What is claimed

  • Apollo seismic experiments (intentional booster impacts plus emplaced seismometers) produced long reverberation trains on the Moon - 'rang like a bell' - explained by the Moon's dry, fractured, scattering regolith rather than by hollowness.

    FACT well-supported Jesse Michels journalist 2025

    • 0:04:39 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) · Jesse Michels
      when the lunar lander hit it both in Apollo 12 and and in Apollo 13 you had ringing and when meteoroids strike it, same thing. While those those Apollo imp place seismometers were on the moon. Yes.
  • The 1994 Clementine mission was a joint DoD-NASA lunar orbiter that returned the first evidence of water ice at the lunar poles.

    FACT well-supported max derakhshani scientist 2026

    • 0:11:31 NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) · Max Derakhshani
      it did apparently discover um water ice at the poles of the moon as like a first discovery. But um that was at least publicly the only stated objective of the mission is just to do scientific analysis and maybe to test out certain new sensors in space.
  • Apollo 11 landed humans on the Moon; the physical return (samples, retroreflectors still ranged by lasers, independent tracking) and the later photographic record (LRO images of the sites) establish it.

    FACT well-supported max derakhshani scientist 2026

    • 1:58:35 NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) · Max Derakhshani
      I think we definitely went to the moon um at least as early as Apollo 11. I think that many of the
  • The Sun is about 400 times larger than the Moon and about 400 times farther away, producing near-perfect total eclipses - one of Jesse's 'weird coincidences' about the Moon.

    FACT contested Randall Carlson researcher 2025

    • 0:32:44 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) · Randall Carlson
      the distance between you have a proportional relationship between diameters and distance. The sun is 400 times larger than the moon and 400 times farther away. Okay. So, what's up with that? There we go. I mean, what is up with I don't know.
  • Aristarchus crater accounts for a disproportionate share of catalogued transient lunar phenomena, and Apollo 11's crew was asked to observe it from orbit after Earth-based astronomers reported unusual brightness - they confirmed it looked unusually bright, almost fluorescent.

    FACT contested max derakhshani scientist 2026

    • 1:40:50 NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) · Max Derakhshani
      some astronomers in Germany saw this crater as unusually bright. Mhm. >> Um, and mission control told Apollo 11 about this while they were in orbit before they landed. And they were asked
  • Bart Sibrel presented a clip from a Moscow AI conference in which a vision model judged Apollo photographs to be synthetic - footage shown to Putin, who found it unsurprising.

    FACT contested Joe Rogan journalist 2025

    • 1:45:22 Joe Rogan: The Truth About Aliens (He Finally Says It) · Joe Rogan
      at the video and he's like not surprised that that checks out is fake. >> My friend who was from Russia said that in high school they were teaching that the moon landing was a hoax. >> No way. >> Yes. Now, I don't know if that was just one cool teacher that was like, "Bro, I
  • The Apollo presentation was manicured and some released imagery was managed or recreated - while the missions themselves were real (the Metzger/Fox/guest middle position).

    INFERENCE contested kurt metzger civilian 2025

    • 1:38:40 Jeffrey Epstein & Aliens: The Global Satanic Cabal (ft. Jay Anderson & Kurt… · Kurt Metzger
      Do you think Do you think the footage that we saw might have been faked, but not the actual mission itself? >> That's my belief. >> That's kind of where I am. I wonder because some people say like, you know,
  • GRAIL found massive caves and caverns extending potentially kilometres below the lunar surface, including a lava tube ~9 km tall that could fit Manhattan and the boroughs inside.

    INFERENCE thin max derakhshani scientist 2026

    • 1:49:40 NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) · Max Derakhshani
      there are clearly major gaps um and cave like structures below the lunar surface. So that probably that has to also uh contribute to the explanation. Now, beyond that, I is it hollow if you

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  • The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) 16 May 2025

    • 0:04:39 Jesse Michels
      when the lunar lander hit it both in Apollo 12 and and in Apollo 13 you had ringing and when meteoroids strike it, same thing. While those those Apollo imp place seismometers were on the moon. Yes.
    • 0:32:44 Randall Carlson The Sun is about 400 times larger than the Moon and about 400 times farther away…
      the distance between you have a proportional relationship between diameters and distance. The sun is 400 times larger than the moon and 400 times farther away. Okay. So, what's up with that? There we go. I mean, what is up with I don't know.
  • NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) 20 July 2026

    • 0:11:31 Max Derakhshani
      it did apparently discover um water ice at the poles of the moon as like a first discovery. But um that was at least publicly the only stated objective of the mission is just to do scientific analysis and maybe to test out certain new sensors in space.
    • 1:40:50 Max Derakhshani Aristarchus crater accounts for a disproportionate share of catalogued transient lunar…
      some astronomers in Germany saw this crater as unusually bright. Mhm. >> Um, and mission control told Apollo 11 about this while they were in orbit before they landed. And they were asked
    • 1:49:40 Max Derakhshani GRAIL found massive caves and caverns extending potentially kilometres below the lunar…
      there are clearly major gaps um and cave like structures below the lunar surface. So that probably that has to also uh contribute to the explanation. Now, beyond that, I is it hollow if you
    • 1:58:35 Max Derakhshani Apollo 11 landed humans on the Moon; the physical return (samples, retroreflectors still…
      I think we definitely went to the moon um at least as early as Apollo 11. I think that many of the
  • Joe Rogan: The Truth About Aliens (He Finally Says It) 30 November 2025

    • 1:45:22 Joe Rogan Bart Sibrel presented a clip from a Moscow AI conference in which a vision model judged…
      at the video and he's like not surprised that that checks out is fake. >> My friend who was from Russia said that in high school they were teaching that the moon landing was a hoax. >> No way. >> Yes. Now, I don't know if that was just one cool teacher that was like, "Bro, I
  • Jeffrey Epstein & Aliens: The Global Satanic Cabal (ft. Jay Anderson & Kurt Metzger) 17 July 2025

    • 1:38:40 Kurt Metzger The Apollo presentation was manicured and some released imagery was managed or recreated…
      Do you think Do you think the footage that we saw might have been faked, but not the actual mission itself? >> That's my belief. >> That's kind of where I am. I wonder because some people say like, you know,

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Sources on this record

  • The Moon — Wikipedia Wikipedia
  • 0:04:39 The Moon Is An Alien Spaceship (Ft. Randall Carlson) · Jesse Michels
    when the lunar lander hit it both in Apollo 12 and and in Apollo 13 you had ringing and when meteoroids strike it, same thing. While those those Apollo imp place seismometers were on the moon. Yes.
  • 0:11:31 NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) · Max Derakhshani
    it did apparently discover um water ice at the poles of the moon as like a first discovery. But um that was at least publicly the only stated objective of the mission is just to do scientific analysis and maybe to test out certain new sensors in space.

Built from graph nodes N-ANCIENT-0011, N-ANCIENT-0012, N-ANCIENT-0013.

Research update · 6 September 2026

A new lunar-image source to examine

The 2026 manuscript, its figures, processing claims and the original sequences still needed for independent checking.

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