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The [[Apollo program|Apollo]] 20 [[hoax]] is the story of a phony lunar mission whose purpose was to retrieve ancient alien artifacts from the moon. |
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The story is told in a series of elaborately produced, popular [[video]]s posted on [[YouTube]] by the hoax’s perpetrator, William Rutledge. At least two of the videos have drawn over 200,000 views depicting a pock-marked alien spacecraft resting in a crater. |
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Rutledge, who claims to have been one of the astronauts on the mission, says Apollo 20 was a top-secret mission launched in mid August of 1976 from [[Vandenberg Air Force Base]] in Santa Barbara, [[California]] and conducted jointly by the United States and the former Soviet Union. He says its mission was to recover artifacts from a 1.5 billion-year-old alien spacecraft near the ruins of an alien city. The purported lunar landing site of the mission was near Delporte crater on the far side of the moon.<ref>[http://www.angelismarriti.it/ANGELISMARRITI-ENG/REPORTS_ARTICLES/Apollo20-InterviewWithWilliamRutledge.htm Luca Scantamburlo's interview with William Rutledge]</ref> |
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==YouTube videos== |
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Rutledge, now living in Rwanda, began posting the videos on 1 April 2007 under the username "retiredafb" <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/user/retiredafb The site of Rutledge's YouTube account]</ref> in an apparent attempt to show the mission took place. Rutledge has since moved the videos to Revver.com under the same username. <ref>[http://www.revver.com/u/retiredafb Apollo 20 videos on Revver.com]</ref> Each continues to draw thousands of views. |
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The videos are short, each only lasting a couple of minutes. If viewed in their intended sequence, they tell a partial story of the mission, starting with astronauts boarding Apollo 20 and ending with the extraordinary "discoveries" on the moon, including: an alien space craft, dead aliens and the ruins of an alien city. Other images include film of flight plans and mission patches, a lunar EVA and film of the hibernating female alien and an astronaut aboard what seems to be the Apollo 20 [[Apollo lunar module|lunar module]] while on the moon. |
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==Story debunked by amatuers== |
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Despite the realistic appearance of the videos amatuers have easily debuked them |
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Rutledge claims the other mission members were Leona Snyder (an apparently fictitious woman) and former Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, the first human being to walk in space. |
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Rutledge bases his claims on [[Apollo 15]] photos that show a cigar-shaped figure resting inside a lunar crater.<ref>[http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS15-P-9625 Apollo 15 photos of Delporte area]</ref> The photos caused a small stir of interest among UFO enthusiasts after NASA released them to the public in the early 70s. However, NASA never claimed they were photos of an alien spacecraft. |
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No major news media organizations have commented on Rutledge’s claims. However, many sites on the Internet have posted his videos and Italian ufologist Luca Scantamburlo interviewed him <ref>[http://www.angelismarriti.it/ANGELISMARRITI-ENG/REPORTS_ARTICLES/Apollo20-InterviewWithWilliamRutledge.htm Luca Scantamburlo's interview with William Rutledge]</ref> on 25 May 2007. During the interview, Rutledge laid out the details of his story and attempted to refute the many amateurs who have easily debunked his videos that show the following in addition to the alien spacecraft and city. |
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*Apollo 20 flight plans and mission patches |
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*Astronauts boarding Apollo 20 prior to launch |
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*The launch of Apollo 20 |
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*William Rutledge conducting an lunar EVA |
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*The recovery of a female alien in a state of biological suspended animation |
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*Images of the female alien on board Apollo 20 |
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In truth, Apollo 20 was a mission that never got off the ground -- literally. It was one of three lunar missions NASA cancelled due to lack of funding along with Apollos 18 and 19. The last NASA lunar mission was Apollo 17, launched in 1972. The next Apollo mission was the joint Apollo-Soyuz project coordinated by the United States and the former Soviet Union. However, its mission was to remain in low earth orbit and to dock with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft, something it accomplished successfully. Some mistakenly refer to that mission as Apollo 18. |
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Some of the stages for the Saturn V rockets intended for NASA’s last three lunar missions had already been constructed at the time of cancellation. Rutledge claims these were all used on lunar missions for Apollos 18, 19 and 20. In reality NASA used some of these for the three Skylab missions of the mid 70s. The others are on display at the John F. Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. |
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