Buzz Aldrin Says They Saw UFO On Trip To Moon
Astronauts' Close Encounter
By Mike Swain
7-24-6
The first men to walk on the Moon reported seeing a UFO, a new TV
documentary reveals.
 
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon's surface
after Neil Armstrong, says space agency bosses covered up their
sighting.
 
And the Apollo 11 astronauts were also careful not to talk about it
openly.
 
He said: "There was something out there, close enough to be observed,
and what could it be?
 
"Now, obviously the three of us weren't going to blurt out, 'Hey,
Houston, we've got something moving alongside of us and we don't know
what it is, you know?
 
"Can you tell us what it is?'
 
"We weren't about to do that, because we knew that that those
transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and somebody might
have demanded we turn back because of aliens or whatever the reason is."
 
The documentary, tonight on Five, also reveals that the astronauts had
to repair the lunar module with a ballpoint pen after the historic
landing in July 1969.
 
In the cramped conditions, someone's bulky spacesuit had snapped off a
circuit breaker essential for starting up the engine.
 
To this day, Aldrin treasures the everyday object that saved their
lives.
 
He said: "I used a pen, one of several that we had on board that didn't
have metal on the end, and we used that to push the circuit breaker in."
 
The programme also draws on classified documents made public for the
first time.