Did anybody see it last night. I thought it was a pretty good tv movie minus the fact that it didn't really talk much about the conspiracy side of it except the strange blinking light they supposedly saw by the moon, with that and what they said about it before contacting mission control made me think though.
What are everybody else's thoughts on it?

Originally posted by Lichter daraus
except the strange blinking light they supposedly saw by the moon, with that and what they said about it before contacting mission control made me think though.
What are everybody else's thoughts on it?

I think that was disclosure for those of us who caught it

This is still officially unexplained, but there is a reasonable explanation for what they saw.

It still hasn't been 100% proven (and probably never will be), but most people think what they saw was probably the "Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter" (SLA) panels that came off of the S-IVB (or S4B) -- which was the 3rd stage of the Saturn V.

The SLA panels were four metal pieces that acted as a kind of "reducer" that tapers down from the diameter of the S-IVB to the diameter of the spacecraft above it. They also acted as a shroud for the Lunar Module.

In "Moonshot" last night, they even mentioned those panels. They HAD seen those panels come loose from the S-IVB and they said perhaps that's what they saw (although they left it rather ambiguous and ominous). The S-IVB could be tracked, but not the SLA panels. They knew the panels had come loose, so that's what they could have seen.

Apollo 13 also saw the SLA panels in the distance as flashes of light, and that sighting of the SLA panels was confirmed, so it's not like it would have been impossible for Apollo 11 to have seen the same thing.

It made for good drama to leave it as a big mystery in that movie, but to most people involved, the "SLA" panels is a reasonable explanation.


[edit on 10/15/2009 by Soylent Green Is People]