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ULOs
Unidentified Lunar Objects Revealed In NASA Photography
by Allan Sturm
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Lunar Sightings 7
A Change of Focus 8
Human Structures 14
Apollo 08 16
Apollo 10 46
Apollo 11 52
Apollo 12 58
Apollo 15 70
Apollo 17 82
INTRODUCTION
LUNAR SIGHTINGS
Having been a Web designer for many years, over craters that ended with a cross, and
I naturally started my image search on the strange rocks in close-up photos of rubble
Internet for sources of high resolution, print that looked more manufactured than
worthy photos of the Apollo missions. natural.
I soon found that there are literally tens of A few lunar geology books and searching
thousands of photos taken of the Moon by the Internet didn’t shed any scientific light
NASA and the vast majority were not readily on these strange objects. No one but the
available in high resolution. conspiracy theorists had described anything
like what I was seeing.
My criteria for inclusion in the book
required as wide a selection as possible, Was I really seeing evidence of artificial
so I established contact with some of the structures and objects on the Moon?
official NASA photo archives and other
private collections such as Keith Laney My curiosity led me to search
(www.KeithLaney.net). The Lunar and
Planetary Institute (LPI) is just one of the the Internet for more examples
official archives and I began digging through of what others claimed they had
their huge database of photos looking for found.
appealing and rarely seen images.
Among the array of lunar anomaly websites,
Astronauts saluting the flag I surfed onto Glenn Steckling’s site
were out. Stain-damaged and (www.gafintl-adamski.com) promoting his
revised edition of his father’s book titled,
poorly exposed images of “We Discovered Alien Bases On The
amazing landscapes were in. Moon “, first published in 1981.
With 16 years experience in graphic design Amazing! In 1981 I was in my second year of
and photography, I planned to bring these high school selling computers part-time and
rarely seen images back to life. here was Fred, Glenn’s father, pub-lishing
a lengthy and in-depth analysis claiming
Zoomed in and cruising around in high that, if one would take the time to look, they
resolution, I started to see things that didn’t too would see artificial structures and other
make sense. Near perfect white hexagons signs of intelligent activities on the Moon!
on or near crater edges, linear white lines
A CHANGE OF FOCUS
I contacted Glenn in hopes that he would advertising art school, I surmised that if
speak to a live audience at my virtual island a coverup was indeed true, it wouldn’t be
in Second Life, but our conversation quickly smart to look through the Lunar Orbiter
turned as I shared with him the odd things I mission photos.
had been finding.
These photos were taken looking nearly
Up to this point, I had only seen odd shapes straight down to the surface and if someone
and probably some tricks of shadows, but wanted to, they could easily paint over
Glenn was patient with my excitement anything odd - and who would know the
and encouraged me to do more research. difference? You can’t see these objects from
Glenn was convinced and he wasn’t alone. Earth with even the biggest telescope.
His book was an excellent resource and
encouraged me to dig deeper. Luckily, a large number of the medium
format and 35mm images were taken at
A couple more stimulating conversations with oblique angles often showing the horizon.
Glenn and a dozen more geometric shapes It would be exponentially harder to fake an
and clusters later, I decided to shift the focus area’s appearance especially if there were
of the book from coffee table eye candy to a couple photos of the same area from
the lunar anomalies I was discovering. different angles.
I needed an angle that would I started to see more objects than before and
when there were multiple angles available,
give me a better chance of I could better determine if the objects
finding something that possibly were illusions (the result of my naturally
went unnoticed for three constructive mind tricking me with shadows
and highlights) or if they really were three
decades, so I decided to focus
dimensional objects.
on the Hasselblad medium
format and 35mm Nikon images. At one point, I sat back and
As I had watched on YouTube.com (search
gazed at these amazing
for the Disclosure Project) there is a claim high resolution photos and
by some that anything “alien” looking had remembered that the Moon
been airbrushed out of Apollo photos. doesn’t have an atmosphere
Having learned airbrushing back in
like we have here on Earth.
On Earth, objects farther away tend to loose
their color and detail as a result of light being
scattered through moisture and particulates
in the air - an effect known as atmospheric
haze. With no atmosphere on the Moon and
therefore no haze, the only issue the oblique
angle photos should
have (besides lens flares, camera shake,
incorrect exposure, and coherent back-
scattering) is that the details of features
seen out on the horizon would be ob-scured
by the grain of the film. An example of this
obscuration effect can be easily reproduced
with a digital camera.
A CHANGE OF FOCUS
Again, no atmospheric haze, good lenses I became frustrated with many of the “print I personally found these photos to be some
and high quality film should equal spectacular resolution” versions of the earlier Apollo of the more provocative. The Moon takes
detail except for objects obscured by the film missions that I downloaded from the online on a whole different appearance on the far
grain that are too small and far away. archive at LPI. side and I wish that someone would take the
time to re-scan the original Hasselblad film
But wait! I’m not standing in the darkroom They suffered from over-compression or instead of redistributing copies of copies of
making prints. I’m looking at these images missing image data. What had me scratching copies...
on my computer. my head the most was why so many of
them showed signs of being compressed, Most people examining these
The digital versions of these photos came in resized, converted to high resolution and
two forms: compressed and un-compressed. then compressed again! photographs are lunar and
Compression schemes like JPEG are fine planetary scientists, not alien
for emailing your smiley pictures to friends It would be easy to jump to conspiratorial structure hunters.
and family, but aren’t good for details in conclusions, but LPI’s sole purpose is not
photography. to provide the masses with museum quality Scientist and other researchers use these
digital images of the Moon. In the meantime, photos for all kinds of purposes to include
Basically, JPEG’ing clumps up neighboring I would have to account for digital artifacts counting and measuring craters and
pixel colors that are similar, creating larger and poor quality scans in hopes of better attempting to determine the age of the
and larger blocks until you are either satisfied versions in the future. Moon - they aren’t looking for alien bases,
with the new file size or you can still identify Nazi outposts, or secret pre-1970’s Russian
the details - whichever is more important. The good news is that LPI facilities.
has recently begun making
Given a quality photo and scan, The resolution (and effects of compression)
new scans available. Arizona in these digital versions are adequate for
the detail from a medium format
State University is also busy most scientific research, so I continued
positive should be jumping out examining what was available and singling
scanning, but the digital
like Ansel Adams himself had out suspicious artificial looking geometric
versions of the Hasselblad shapes.
taken the photograph.
photos won’t be available for a
This whole process is further complicated couple years. Then I saw it...
by the quality of the scanning device, it’s
software, and operator skill. For the most With that said, the conspiracy theorists will
part, the digital images I was receiving from be happy to know (if they didn’t already)
LPI and others were of reasonable high that the Apollo 8 photographic mission was
quality and some were not. altered while in orbit. Instead of focusing
on the near side of the Moon, they ended
up taking more photos of the far side than
originally scheduled.
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THE NEEDLE IN THE HAYSTACK
It was two o’clock in the morning. I sat there my archive of... of... just what can I call
with my jaw on the keyboard, staring at these things? They certainly look artificial
something that I couldn’t imagine having been to me, but I can’t go up there and poke
formed by 30,000 mph meteor impacts in a them with my finger.
low gravity environment. I stepped outside
to get some air and wondered if the Men in I decided to call them “objects of interest”
Black were going to pull up. Thankfully they which, as it turned out, made it a lot easier
didn’t, so I went back inside and stared some for friends and family to openly discuss
more at my “needle in the haystack”. what they just might be. I also began
posting some of these objects online in a
A few enhancements later revealed even dedicated blog and on other social media
more detail. A series of spherical and websites. People from all over the world
concentric circular objects in the foreground found my research through search engines
and a collection of odd structural looking and some contacted me personally to
geometry behind them. discuss my findings. The widespread
I was shocked. interest further motivated me to continue
my research.
When my wife awoke that morning, I
rushed her over to see what I had found. Fast forward a few months
I excitedly pointed out how artificial and
purposefully constructed it appeared against and a couple hundred of these
the surrounding rubble. In stark contrast to “objects of interest” later and I
her previous lack of enthusiasm and dutiful decided to call them ULOs.
patience, she too dropped
her jaw. I define ULOs as anomalous shapes that
appear artificial to the Moon’s landscape
Once my eyes had tuned into the and resist identification as known lunar
structural design of the “needle geological features.
in the haystack”, I could then It would be irresponsible to describe these
see a whole new set of “alien” objects as alien bases, crashed starships
architecture in other Apollo or giant Tupperware containers because
we can’t resolve that level of detail in these
photos. photos and we certainly can’t take a casual
stroll on the surface of the Moon to see for
I didn’t want to be chasing a ghost, so I ourselves.
began politely requesting better versions and
custom scans while continuing to build
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UNIDENTIFIED LUNAR OBJECTS
I have found literally hundreds of ULOs With this scale in mind, you can better
with some appearing as towers or spires, visualize what it would be like if you were
domes near terraced vertical walls, stacked on the lunar surface, walking around and
geometry with spheres sitting on top, experiencing the ULOs in their setting.
pathways leading to and from objects,
clusters of objects resembling industrial What are these odd, dusty
operations, highlights forming geometric
patterns, pipes and pipe grids intertwined
looking objects that appear
or wrapping over each other, wheel-shaped geometric and artificial?
objects with support arms, and ziggurat
looking structures with annexes Well, I’m not claiming that without a doubt,
just to name a few. lunar mining operations or alien base camps
exist on the Moon. If you see a collection
The main photos presented here are in of stacked squares in the middle of a valley
chronological order by Apollo mission. Not with a sphere on top and small paths leading
every mission made the cut for this publi- away to other geometric shapes, what
cation. Within each main photo’s section are appears to be a complex of built structures
various contrast-enhanced enlarge-ments to you and I could very well be the result
of a single or group of ULOs with both a of lunar geological forces or meteor impacts
colored and uncolored version. The colored yet to be scientifically explained.
versions will assist you in seeing some of
the ULOs that I have found. In the future, the Lunomaly Research
Group will work with other professionals,
researchers and scientists from around the
In most of these enlargements,
world to analyze these ULOs in greater detail.
the bottom of the image is Taking an objective view on the whole topic,
nearer to you than the top, just we’ll attempt to categorize each ULO by
like a landscape photo taken describing in architectural and engineering
terms its structural design and scale.
here on Earth.
We’ll also take into account the latest
If the ULO or group of ULOs being enlarged information available on lunar geology to
is near the horizon on the main photo, then determine, as best we can, if a particular
the resolution is very low and moving your ULO remains an anomaly or can be ex-
eye around within the image is like traveling plained as a natural occurrence.
quickly over a very large distance.
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INTRODUCTION
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HUMAN STRUCTURES - ANCIENT
Ancient Ziggurat, Iraq Pyramid of the Moon, Mexico Chico Canyon, USA
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HUMAN STRUCTURES - MODERN
Kimberlite Diamond Mine, Namibia Open pit mining, USA Kennedy Space Center, USA
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Michael Light (ISBN 0-375-41494-0) Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials
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The Epic Journey To The Moon We Discovered Alien Bases on the Moon II
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Infrastructure
The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape ACKNOWLEGMENTS
Brian Hayes (ISBN 0-393-32959-3)
I would like to thank the following people and organizations that
Architecture
helped make this publication possible:
Form, Space, and Order
Francis D.K. Ching (ISBN 0-471-28616-8)
Everyone past and present at NASA and affiliated organizations.
Especially the Apollo astronauts who risked it all to bring us
A to Z GIS
these amazing photos. The Lunar and Planetary Institute and
An Illustrative Dictionary of Geographic Information Systems
other affiliated archives for their precious time and technical
Tasha Wade and Shelly Sommer (ISBN 1-58948-140-2)
guidance. Glenn Steckling for enlightening me with years of
invaluable insight and grounded perspective. Keith Laney for
Buckminster Fuller
permission to use his Apollo orbital digital image archive. My
Designing for Mobility
family and friends for their genuine interest, encouragement,
Michael John Gorman (ISBN 8-876-24265-1)
and hours upon hours of conversation.
If you are interested in collaborating with Lunomaly Research Group or for more
information and research, visit us online at www.Lunomaly.com
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