Since the advent of space missions to the Moon, many rumors about the existence of ruins of ancient lunar cities have traveled around the world. From believers to scientists to even retired astronauts, a lot of information about the Moon has been leaked to the public in recent years, but what is the truth behind it all?

On July 19, 1969, the main module of the Apollo XI mission entered orbit around the Moon and final preparations were underway to allow the Eagle module to land on the surface of our satellite two days later.

Routine technical preparations were interrupted by a call from the mission center in Houston, Texas, which alerted the astronauts to something unusual they should try to check:

Apparently, several amateur astronomers had telephoned NASA to report that they were seeing a Transient Lunar Phenomenon (PLT) near the Aristarchus crater, very close to the orbit of the American spacecraft.

As soon as he received the order, Neil Armstrong, without thinking for a second, went to one of the module’s windows and observed, near what he thought was the Aristarchus crater in question, “an area considerably brighter than the surrounding area.

It seems to have some fluorescence.” Surprisingly, after the mission ended, Houston never commented on the nature of this and other sightings of strange lights during this spaceflight, although subsequent measurements of the Aristarchus crater revealed levels inexplicable signs of radioactivity in the area.

Many years have passed between then and now. In those epic days of man’s landing on the Moon, many astronomers naively believed that the astronauts of the Apollo missions would shed light on the unknowns born out of their nocturnal observations.

But few hopes have proven as unfounded as this one. In the end, they ended up with a geologically “dead” satellite.

On the other hand, the almost a third of a ton of soil and lunar rocks that they brought back with them to Earth, as well as their films and ground measurements, after being thoroughly analyzed in the laboratories of the American NASA , not only confirmed the astronauts’ impressions of the sterility of this world, but also helped introduce new, even more uncomfortable puzzles.

For example, the Apollo missions highlighted the existence of an irregular magnetic field around the Moon, which is found even in the materials “exported” from the satellite.

It is not known how such magnetism could have arisen on this small astronomical body, unable to contain a hot or molten metallic core.

But also – NASA’s own engineers have pointed out – the Moon doesn’t spin fast enough to create a dynamo effect on lunar minerals.

In June 1985, American researcher William Corliss compiled these and other “irregularities” unresolved by NASA during its LUNAR, ORBITER and APOLLO projects, listing in his book “The moon and the planet: A catalog on astronomical anomalies” more than 60 different categories of strange phenomena related to the Moon.

Among the most spectacular are those that refer to its irregular orbit and that are claimed to be explained by gravitational disturbances of unidentified origin.

The most serious of these disturbances is the exceptional drift of our satellite away from Earth, which highlights the fragility of the Earth-Moon gravitational system and validates the theory that the Moon was captured by our planet there. is many thousands of years old and therefore at serious risk of escaping again at any time…or worse, of ending up in a collapsed orbit.

One day, Corliss points out in his article, we could lose the Moon and it could end up becoming a planet in its own right.

Needless to say, in recent years, this kind of speculation has paved the way considerably for writers whose plots fall somewhere between science and more wacky science fiction.

One of them, without doubt one of the most remarkable, is the American Don Wilson, who, only three years after the cancellation of the Apollo project, in 1975 published his book “The Moon a Mysterious Spaceship”. , in which, in addition to accusing NASA of hiding the information obtained during its missions to the Moon, he concluded that our satellite was in fact a kind of gigantic spherical spaceship at the heart of which was a colossal extraterrestrial base.

Authors such as George H. Leonard, who in his book “Some one else in on our Moon” (1976) convincingly showed some NASA photographs of our visit to the Moon in which – according to him – he there were clear signs of extraterrestrial technology.

His arguments are based on images where we see wheel tracks on the lunar dust, supposedly gigantic excavators or entrances to underground bases… What do you think?