What are they doing up there?
Or, to repeat myself from a few years ago, ‘What the F**k is Happening on the Moon?’
The Artemis II mission to the moon has been surrounded by significant hype and excitement: justifiably perhaps. I watched live countdown and launch coverage on the BBC news channel last Wednesday, and it really was presented as a major milestone event: described as the first manned lunar mission in half a century.
Last Wednesday was… wait, April 1st? Really? April fool’s day? Alright, let’s just put that down to bad timing.
But yes, I watched the live launch coverage. And there’s something genuinely engaging about it. One of my earliest media memories is in fact watching live TV coverage of the Challenger launch (and subsequent tragedy) with my Mum in the late eighties.
I’m aware of the conspiracy theories surrounding the Challenger: but let’s put those aside for now.
And while there’s always something admirable about seeing human endeavour on a significant scale and seeing international cooperation to help advance civilisational progress (people from some one hundred countries have been involved to varying degrees in this Artemis mission), this whole operation raises so many questions.
These are ongoing questions. As I said at the start, I previously explored some of that in a post a few years ago literally titled ‘What the F**k is Happening on the Moon?’ But that was perhaps a bit more light-hearted and satirical.
I’m not going to bother here with questions about whether there are already secret bases on the Moon. Or whether there are aliens there on the Dark Side of the lunar surface.
Nor even with the age-old hornet’s nest of whether the original moon landings were fake or real. After years of contemplating that subject and taking in conflicting arguments and evidence, I still could basically be swayed either way in that argument, depending on what day of the week it is.
For the sake of this article, let’s assume the Apollo landings were real: and likewise that these Artemis missions are more or less what they’ve been presented as.
I’m also aware there’s a growing trend of conspiracy minded people who think pretty much everything about space is fake: I’m not one of those people.
But, even approaching this subject from the most basic, credulous perspective, questions remain.
So what’s this really about?
What it seems to be principally about, just as with the original Apollo missions, is competition. Just as the US had to beat the Soviets to the moon in the sixties, they’re now worried about China.
That’s why there was no manned lunar activity (officially at least) for decades… until China landed its rovers on the far side of the moon.
Then suddenly the US started talking about needing to go back there. There’s a new space race.
China is in fact openly planning to develop a base on the moon in the 2030s and to involve landing astronauts.
So, naturally, the talk in the US has been of the Artemis missions ultimately aiming to establish lunar installations and permanent US infrastructure. $20 billion has been dedicated to establishing a lunar base by 2030.
2030 is also the exact same year specified by China for establishing its lunar base. Coincidence?
What’s the idea then? Are there going to be rival lunar bases, belonging to the US and China respectively?
Can we look forward to a Moon War some day in the future? Actually, I’d like to see that.
Or will the moon become more like Antarctica, with different countries having their own piece and running their research operations independently from each other?
It’s interesting that China has issued multiple warnings to the US to not put weapons in space.
Conversely, the head of NASA has made claims abut China bolstering its space capabilities by using civilian programs to mask military objectives.
This threat of the weaponisation of space has been a recurring point of contention. In fact, there’s a whole argument that the entire current UAP ‘disclosure’ programme in the US (along, perhaps, with the recent drone ‘mysteries’) is geared towards eventually greenlighting the acceleration of American space weapons.
The laws regarding space, not just regarding weapons but territory and ownership in general, are very ambiguous: definitive legal frameworks arguably haven’t been established yet.
But the whole presentation of this Artemis mission, with all of its celebratory fanfare and cinematic flare, has generally whitewashed the real motivations and agendas behind the big push. Again, 2030 is looking like a very significant year in this respect.
More broadly, I’m honestly having trouble really understanding what’s going on with the moon, and with space in general.
There’s also another glaring problem with all of this. And it’s this: how does any of this relate to the so-called ‘Space Force’?
Artemis is a NASA programme. NASA is still apparently a distinct entity from the Space Force. What is the Space Force doing? Are we meant to believe that nothing has been going on on the Moon for fifty years?
And should we not cast our minds back to the Pentagon files hacked by Gary McKinnon way back in the early 2000s?
McKinnon seemingly exposed the existence of a secret space programme in 2002 when he hacked into top-secret US government data and discovered references to “non-terrestrial officers” and “fleet-to-fleet transfers”. What McKinnon claimed to have discovered was something called ‘Solar Warden’ – a code name for the secret space fleet that has apparently been in operation since 1980. McKinnon says he discovered an excel spreadsheet with, among other things, a list of names of people working in this secret space programme.
The English hacker, who lives quite nearby to me, was the subject of a major extradition battle with the US over his hacking into top secret files: in the end, it was only on account of his mental health issues and the fear of danger to his life that he was able to stay in the UK.
McKinnon’s findings can be retroactively understood to almost certainly refer to this ‘Space Force’ – which became entirely an official entity during Trump’s first presidency, having previously been a somewhat ambiguous matter.
The Google results say that the Space Force was ‘established on December 20, 2019’: at the time of Trump’s announcement. Trump tried to make it seem like he was initiating the Space Force himself: like it was a big announcement of a new entity.
But that was clearly not the case.
Either way, even after that bumbling announcement, the nature, activities or history of the Space Force remained strangely ambiguous: and even the media strangely failed to ask questions or pursue information.
I examined this more here, in this much bigger article examining the history of the UFO subject.
But if this Space Force – or some earlier incarnation of it – was active two decades ago (and presumably longer), can we really believe that nothing has been going on on the moon all these years?
Or that this Artemis mission is really as monumental a moment as has been depicted?
The only way it makes sense is if this Space Force is so separate from NASA that NASA basically has access to none of its technology, information or operations.
Which is perhaps possible: if we accept that NASA is – officially at least – a civilian agency and the Space Force is a military entity. But, even then, NASA and other organisations would have to be at least aware of the more unofficial activities that may have been going on in space.
That also takes us into the realm of the ‘Breakaway Civilisation’: which I discussed here previously in this broad examination of the UFO phenomenon.
But if there is a breakaway civilisation with super advanced technologies and space-travel capabilities, then why are we messing around with high profile public stunts about circling the moon with astronauts, like it’s the nineteen sixties again?
Is it just a show for public consumption?
Is NASA having to play along with a false narrative in order to maintain an official timeline, all the while helping to obscure years of covert operations in space?
Let’s not forget the indisputable fact that NASA has been doctoring its images of the lunar surface for years: even blatantly blurring out certain areas or objects.
Also, if there is a breakaway civilisation, wouldn’t China be aware of it? If so, why are they bothering with their own moon programme if there’s already human activity way out in the Solar System?
Or are the Chinese and Americans really cooperating up there, and the whole thing – including the Chinese lunar operations – is just theater to distract us from other things going on out there? Again, it seems strange that both China and the US have stated 2030 as the year they want to build their respective lunar bases.
I don’t have an answer. But so many questions.
And again, that’s just approaching the matter from the most basic level: without speculating about things like preexisting alien bases or even an entirely faked space programme.
If there’s a civilisational need to colonise the Moon, the Artemis missions are an important step in that inevitable direction.
But if there’s one central point to this article it’s that there’s a conflicting narrative and timeline that remains unresolved. Something has been – and is being – covered up. And, as things continue to progress forward, it’s going to be interesting to see how those problems are reconciled.
But I want to finish here with something else.
Specifically, with footage from an amateur lunar observer. And it’s just to highlight the possibility that there are things going on on the moon that we’ve never been told about.
I’ve actually been meaning to promote this guy’s videos for a while, because he has captured some compelling moon anomalies using just his telescope set-up and recording equipment.
And this is something we have now that we didn’t have decades ago: amateur astronomers or sky watchers with good equipment capable of recording high quality images or video and freely sharing it online.
Bruce unfortunately passed away not long ago, but his channel is still up: I recommend examining some of his visual content. It’s some of the most compelling recorded footage I’ve come across. I’ve selected two particular videos here, featuring his recordings of the lunar surface, with his own commentary.
By the way, I don’t always agree with his personal commentary: but his videos are compelling nevertheless. And his channel is well worth looking at.
So, the question we started with: what’s happening on the Moon? I have no idea.
But over the next several years we’re evidently going to be hearing more and more about it. Whether what we’re told is actually entirely true or just a carefully scripted version of the reality… well, that’s the real question.
