Moon Landing A Hoax? Here’s 10 Reasons Why

The Moon Landing A Hoax?

For decades, people have debated whether or not the moon landing was real or fake – and it is still to this day a hotly debated subject.  Moon landing a hoax?  Moon landing not a hoax?  If so, what would the reasons even be?

Scholars brush it off as mere conspiracy theory, but there are some interesting facts to back up the possibility that the moon landing was done on a soundstage.  A great article recently published on Listverse called “10 Reasons the Moon Landings Could Be a Hoax” [1] by Josh Fox lays out ten reasons the landing may have been a fake.

Fox says: The theory that the moon landings were hoaxed by the US government to assert their victory in the space race over Russia, is something which has grown in popularity over time.Recent polls indicate that approximately 20% of Americans believe that the U.S. has never landed on the moon.

After the Apollo missions ended in the seventies, why haven’t we ever been back? Only during the term of Richard Nixon did humanity ever land on the moon, and after Watergate most people wouldn’t put it past Tricky Dick to fake them to put America in good standing in the Cold War.In this list I have presented some of the proposed evidence to suggest that the moon landings were hoaxes. I tried to include NASA’s explanations to each entry to provide an objective perspective. 

So, without further ado… “the list”….

The Waving Flag

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The obvious problem here is that there’s no air in the moon’s atmosphere, and therefore no wind to cause the flag to blow.Countless explanations have been put forward to disprove this phenomenon as anything unusual: NASA claimed that the flag was stored in a thin tube and the rippled effect was caused by it being unfurled before being planted. Other explanations involve the ripples caused by the reaction force of the astronauts touching the aluminum pole, which is shown to shake in the video footage.

Lack of Impact Crater

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Multiple Light Sources

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The Van Allen Radiation Belt

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The Unexplained Object

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Slow-Motion Walking and Hidden Cables

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Lack of Stars

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The “C” Rock

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The Layered Cross-hairs

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The Duplicate Backdrop 

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The Stanley Kubrick Theory

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This loose extension of the popular conspiracy theory states that acclaimed film director Stanley Kubrick was approached by the US government to hoax the first three moon landings. There are two main branches of this somewhat implausible theory: one group of believers maintain that Kubrick was approached after he released 2001: A Space Odyssey (released in 1968, one year before the first moon landing), after NASA came to appreciate the stunning realism of the film’s outer-space scenes at that time; another group contends that Kubrick was groomed by the government to film the moon landing long before this, and that 2001: A Space Odyssey was a staged practice run for him.So what evidence might support such claims? Well: apparently, if you watch The Shining (another Kubrick picture), you can pick up on some alleged messages hidden by Kubrick to subtly inform the world of his part in the conspiracy. The most obvious is the child’s Apollo 11 shirt worn in only one scene. Another supposed gem is the line written on Jack Nicholson’s character’s typewriter: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”, in which the word “all” can be interpreted as A11, or Apollo 11.If you aren’t convinced yet, Kubrick made the mysterious hotel room in the film number 237. Guess how many miles it is from here to the moon: 238,000. So divide that by a thousand and minus one, and you’ve got one airtight theory right there.




Royce Christyn
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  • Martin Visser

    The eagel is landed .Very doubtfull.Not a proffesional movie

    • Marilynne Cathy Ousley

      Not a professional user of the English language either, I see.

      • FaithDefender

        Grammar Nazi, much?

  • yada dabba don’t

    Capricorn One

  • RuudVanDrijver

    There are no stars? No shit Sherlock, since when does anyone see stars in daylight? Apart from when being hit on the head when not wearing a tin foil helmet?

  • microe

    in the first picture, no shadow of the waving flag. how come?

  • Chaos

    I had my doubts until Flicker published the raw files of all the photos Astronauts took. (Over 12,000!) There’s no way these are faked.

  • TheInternetSherpa

    Perhaps Royce Christyn could visit an observatory with laser-based optical correction for a demonstration of the mirrors left on the surface of the moon. Or, better yet, purchase a telescope and look for yourself instead of regurgitating youtube videos into shit articles like this one. The $10k-plus for a telescope power enough to resolve is likely out of your budget on your “Actor, Documentarian, Writer, Producer, Director, Author” for your fringe conspiracy employer “Your News Wire”.

    Moon hoaxers are in it for the ad revenue, plain and simple.

    • FaithDefender

      Good point, but…..with such telescopes, why aren’t people publishing photos?

  • FaithDefender

    No blast crater? Okay, but there would have been one hell of a dust cloud. Oh, and then there’s that ‘layered cross-hairs thing’. Like it or not, those photos were faked/doctored. If you have so many great photos, why fake some?