Moon Hoax Theory is Itself a Hoax

It's interesting to note that toward the end of the twentieth century the two primary camps of conflicting Lunar conspiracy theories were on about the same level. They each had roughly the same number of believers, which at that time was about on par with those few who still embraced the flat Earth theory. But since that time the Moon Hoax Theory adherents have grown in number, while those who believe we continued to secretly send missions to the Moon, have diminished considerably.

Even recent attempts to revive a form of this theory on YouTube have been met with considerable skepticism among those interested in such topics.

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This skepticism may have good reason, for these YouTube videos don't look especially convincing.

The alleged close-up shots in these videos, supposedly showing an ancient alien vessel on the edge of a Lunar crater, look more like clay models than anything really on the far side of the Moon. However, it is interesting to note that these close-ups are very consistent with the more distant orbital panoramas actually shot from Apollo 15, images AS15-P-9625, and AS15-P-9630.

The somewhat blurry "rocket like" object seen on the edge of a crater in these panoramas certainly does have a similar appearance to the artifact seen in the YouTube films. Of course, if the films are fakes, the makers of these films simply could have based their creations on the Apollo 15 images, in order to make them consistent. I'm not necessarily saying, I think that's what happened.

I'm just saying that, in the absence of further evidence, they could be that kind of fake, or they could be real. At this point, it remains difficult to discern. Is it possible that presenting unremarkable and probably faked versions of these films might be a ploy of further misdirection?

Could such a ploy be aimed at reducing the number of those few who persist in embracing the Continued Secret Mission theory? At this point, answers to these questions are inconclusive. More data must be gathered, before anything definitive can be gleaned.

Why have these conspiracy theories had such different turns of fate?

Before we attempt to answer that question, let's take a deeper look at contrasting these theories and consider a logic equation, which emerges from that contrast. For brevity's sake let's give each theory an abbreviation. We'll call the "Moon Hoax Theory", MHT, while the "Continued Secret Missions" camp, we'll call CSM.

Here are the Basic Tenants of each theory…

MHT - The basic idea of the Moon Hoax Theory is that we never really went to the Moon, and all of the Apollo missions were faked with studio and/or desert scenes actually filmed on Earth. Further, MHT adherents believe that various forms of what they call photo analysis, reveals the nature of this hoax. The adherents of MHT also contend that radiation levels in space were too high to be shielded with the level of technology in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

CSM - The premise of the Continued Secret Missions camp is that the Apollo missions were real, and while Nixon cut the public budget of NASA, and canceled any further missions after Apollo 17, in reality he established a new secret space branch, which used the Apollo 18 and 19 landing modules, already built. This secret space agency went on to also build the Apollo 20 rocket.

They landed these secret missions on the far side of the moon, and explored ancient alien ruins found there. With back-engineered technology derived from such alien sources they continued to develop, in secret, even more advanced methods to get people and equipment into space and with these resources built a secret base on the far side of the Moon.

Over the years this base has grown in size, digging deep into the sub-lunar surface to better shield against cosmic rays. By this time, it has become an almost completely self-sufficient Moon colonial base and is essentially Alternative 2 of the Survival Alternatives Theory. {Topic for a future article}

Neither, Either, but Not Both

Now the logic equation that emerges from the contrast of these theories, says that MHT and CSM are mutually exclusive. In other words, they can't both be true. Either only one is true, or neither true, but both true is simply not an option. If neither of them is true, then it's no big deal, and all of this speculation is merely engaging in intellectual play. But, if one of them is true, then an interesting concept comes to the fore.

It would be in the best interest of those running the show from the shadows, to suppress the true conspiracy while encouraging, even proliferating the false one, as a distraction.