- Human beings have been fascinated
by the vastness of space since the beginning of time
but space is an inherently bizarre place
full of mystery, wonder, and even sometimes fear.
What else is out there?
Have human beings really accomplished
all of the things that our governments tell us,
and are we being lied to with cover ups?
- [Computer Voice] That's one small step for man.
- Here are the 10 most freaky space conspiracy theories.
Number 10 are Apollo aliens.
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The Apollo space program ran from 1960
until December 19th, 1972
when the final mission, Apollo 17, ended.
After that, manned missions to the moon ceased.
The official reasons for this
is that America had essentially won
the Space Race against the Soviet Union
and that it was inordinately expensive
and that the American public
would no longer be interested in going to the moon.
However, some believe that the reason Apollo 17
was the final time that man stepped foot on the moon
was because we encountered something else out there,
something that warned us to never go back.
Various theories have been given
as to why this happened
but the creepiest are that it could have been aliens
or even cosmic intelligence which warned us
to leave them alone.
Number nine are ancient Mars civilizations.
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Most of the theories surrounding Mars
suggests that there was once
an intelligent civilization on the planet
and for some reason it was wiped out.
Richard Hoagland is the most famous proponent of this theory
and believes that there are telltale signs
on the Martian surface suggesting
that an alien species once lived there.
These include photographs from both Mars landers
and orbiting satellites.
Hoagland and others claim that tantalizing images
of Martian pyramids, monoliths,
and even statues have been found.
They even suggest that the existence
of a Martian civilization is being kept
from the public for an unknown reason.
Did an ancient civilization once exist?
And if they did disappear,
what could that mean for life on Earth?
Number eight is Stanley Kubrick and the moon landings.
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One of the strangest space conspiracy theories
is that film director Stanley Kubrick
faked the moon landings.
Allegedly, Kubrick impressed NASA with his 1968 film,
2001: A Space Odyssey.
NASA then asked Kubrick
to stage similar realistic looking space photography
to persuade the American public
that the Apollo astronauts had indeed reached the moon.
While this may seem outlandish,
there are some strange images
that are included in Kubrick's 1980 film, The Shining,
which some believe was a confession of sorts.
The character, Danny, for example,
wears a sweater displaying the Apollo rocket
and the infamous room 237 is said to represent
the moon's distance from Earth, 237,000 miles.
Could these conspiracy theories be true?
Did we, in fact, land on the moon
or were we lied to for some unknown reason?
Number seven is the hollow Earth alien theory.
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The theory that the Earth is hollow
has been around for thousands of years.
But while the ancient peoples of the world
populated this theoretical subterranean world
with supernatural entities and even Hell itself,
a recent theory proposes
that an advanced civilization lives
inside that hollow cavity.
It was in 1818 that the American army officer,
John Cleves Symmes Jr., proposed that the Earth was hollow
and that, at the North Pole, there is a large opening
allowing investigation of this unexplored frontier.
Since then, believers argue that there is evidence
for UFOs moving into this opening.
These allegedly advanced spacecraft
are seen by many as proof
that there's an advanced alien species
living directly beneath our feet.
Number six are dead cosmonauts.
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The dead cosmonauts refers to a conspiracy theory
about who was the first person in space.
The history books record this as Yuri Gagarin in 1961
but some allege that other cosmonauts were sent
by the Soviet Union into space before Gagarin.
This was allegedly covered up
because those cosmonauts died
before they could make it home.
In fact, there is some evidence to suggest
that this conspiracy theory may be true.
Documents were leaked in December of 1959
by an alleged high ranking Czech communist
claiming four cosmonauts had already died
in an attempt to reach space.
Other sources do exist
but the most chilling account
comes from the Judica-Cordiglia brothers,
two Italian amateur radio operators
who claim to have recorded secret radio transmissions
from an unknown cosmonaut in space
as he slowly suffocated.
Number five is the secret moon base.
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Some conspiracy theorists believe
that there is a secret moon base
on the dark side of the moon.
The moon is tidally locked which means
that we only ever see one side of it
from the earth's surface
so the theory goes that if you visited
the other side of the moon,
you'd find a huge secret base somewhere hidden out of view.
The owners of that base change
depending on which conspiracy theorist you talk to.
Some say that it's an alien base.
Some believe that the Russians live there.
Or the most bizarre of all, that it's a Nazi hideout.
As bizarre as that last one may seem,
some believe it because Nazis developed
advanced rocket technology
in their V-1 and V-2 flying bomb programs
and that they flew off in a giant rocket,
escaped Berlin in 1945,
and built a base on the far side of the moon.
Number four is Satellite USA 193.
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The Satellite USA 193 conspiracy theory
has a lot to back it up.
USA 193 was launched into orbit in 2006
from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
The satellite was owned
by the National Reconnaissance Office
and its purpose was listed as classified.
Rumors persisted that it was a spy satellite
which in itself isn't that unusual,
however what is strange is that the Air Force
used a modified SM-3 missile
to obliterate the satellite while in orbit.
The official story is that the satellite malfunctioned
and had to be destroyed due to hazardous materials onboard.
However, conspiracy theorists believe
that the satellite was destroyed
to either stop sensitive information
from literally falling into the wrong hands,
while others believe that the events were staged
to allow the United States to carry out tests
on a secret program designed
to shoot down nuclear missiles while in orbit.
Number three is Majestic 12.
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Majestic 12 or MJ-12 for short
is allegedly the code name for a group of scientists
and military experts whose job it was
to recover and research recovered alien spacecraft.
This group of experts were supposedly assigned this task
by President Harry S. Truman himself in 1947
following the rumored Roswell flying saucer crash.
Many conspiracy theorists cite the Majestic 12
as evidence that the United States government
not only knows about aliens but has proof that they exist.
The first mention of MJ-12 was in a series
of alleged government documents discovered in 1984.
While skeptics and the FBI claim that they're fake,
Ufology experts such as Stanton Friedman,
a retired nuclear scientist, believe that they may be real
and, perhaps most disturbing of all,
if they are real, who knows what sort of alien technology
the government has recovered.
Number two is a solar powered UFO.
In March of 2012, a conspiracy theory started
that NASA and other space agencies
were hiding UFO evidence from the public.
This started when a series of images
recorded by the Solar Dynamics observatory
showed a strange object next to the sun.
In the images, the object appears to be draining material
from the sun and then moves off quickly.
While some allege that this is an alien spacecraft
siphoning off solar material for fuel,
NASA scientists claim that the images
are a result of a common phenomenon
called a solar prominence.
The sun sheds some of its material
and then moves towards a cold spot
known as a filament channel.
It's thought that this is due to fluctuations
in the magnetic field on the sun's surface.
However, conspiracy theorists
have a much simpler explanation.
Aliens.
And number on is SpaceX isn't real.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX firm
has reinvigorated the space industry
but it's also reinvigorated conspiracy theorists.
SpaceX reached new heights by testing
its Falcon Heavy rocket in 2018
and sent Elon Musk's old red Tesla Roadster
towards the asteroid belt.
However, some conspiracy theorists believe
that the entire flight was faked
and amounted to nothing more than a car advertisement.
During the Falcon Heavy flight,
a live video feed was sent from Musk's car
as it hurled away from the Earth.
Some believe that the lack of stars
and the way that the light resembles
an unnatural light source shows
that the footage is fake.
Some even believe that it could be CGI.
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