THE ALIEN AGENDA
a book by Jim Marrs
"This is a concise history of the CIA's and US Air Force's costly and omnipresent media campaign to discredit anyone who publicly mentions aliens or anti-gravity craft....The reason I think this book is a helpful discernment tool is that we're beginning to identify the same tactics being directed against this unorganized effort, too. Marrs leaves a lot of questions open, which is understandable since he had very little direct experience with the subject matter. Marrs had or has a slight crush on Drunvalo Melchizedek but in spite of that he still leaves the subject matter open, so as a piece of research journalism it's quite valuable. "--Don Croft
Excerpt:
Chapter OneOne particularly bright, circular object has been
observed moving through Earth's skies since the beginning of human history.
Every person on the planet has seen this object. We call it the moon.
Although this object is identified-at least we have a name for it and we know
it's there-the moon cannot be hastily disqualified as a UFO. Despite six visits
by U.S. astronauts between 1969 and 1972, the moon remains a riddle to
scientists in many regards. The solutions to these riddles could indicate an
alien aspect of our familiar moon.Before the Apollo missions, lunar scientists
longed for the time when humans could walk on the moon's surface. By studying
the makeup of our satellite, they hoped to resolve some of the mysteries of how
our planet and solar system came into existence. Well-known space expert and the
first chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA)
Lunar Exploration Committee Dr. Robert Jastrow has stated, "The moon is the
Rosetta stone of the planets."
Six moon landings later, the public perception was that we had learned all
we needed to about the moon.
However, those same lunar scientists were no closer to agreement on how to
answer even the most basic questions-such as how the moon was created. Despite
the return of some 842 pounds of rocks and soil samples, photos and videotape,
and the placement of five nuclear-powered scientific stations on the lunar
surface, there are still no clear-cut solutions to the moon's mysteries.
Quite the reverse: what we have learned about the moon in the wake of the Apollo
missions has only raised more questions. Science writer Earl Ubell declared,
"The lunar Rosetta stone remains a mystery. The moon is more complicated than
anyone expected; it is not simply a kind of billiard ball frozen in space and
time, as many scientists had believed. Few of the fundamental questions have
been answered, but the Apollo rocks and recordings have spawned a score of
mysteries, a few truly breath-stopping. "Consider some of these
"breath-stopping" mysteries, or anomalies, as scientists prefer to call them.
The moon is far older than previously imagined, perhaps even much older than the
earth and sun. By examining tracks burned into moon rocks by cosmic rays,
scientists have dated them as billions of years old. Some have been dated back
4.5 billion years, far older than the earth and "nearly as old as the solar
system," according to Jastrow. The oldest rocks ever found on Earth only date
back 3.5 billion years. It is accepted by scientists today that the earth is
about 4.6 billion years old. Harvard's respected astronomy journal, Sky and
Telescope, reported that at the Lunar Conference of 1973, it was revealed that
one moon rock was dated at 5.3 billion years old, which would make it almost a
billion years older than our planet. This puzzle was compounded by the fact that
the lunar dust in which the rocks were found proved to be a billion years older
than the rocks themselves. Chemical analysis showed that the moon rocks were of
a completely different composition from the soil around them. Since dusty soil
is usually produced by the weathering and breakup of surrounding rocks, the
lunar rocks must have come from someplace other than where they were found. But
where?
The moon has at least three distinct layers of rocks. Contrary to the idea that
heavier objects sink, the heavier rocks are found on the surface. Stated Don
Wilson, "The abundance of refractory elements like titanium in the surface areas
is so pronounced that several geo-chemists proposed that refractory compounds
were brought to the moon's surface in great quantity in some unknown way. They
don't know how, but that it was done cannot be questioned. These rich materials
that are usually concentrated in the interior of a world are now on the
outside." Ubell, a former science editor for CBS television, acknowledged this
mystery, saying, "The first [layer], 20 miles deep, consists of lavalike
material similar to lava flows on Earth. The second, extending down to 50 miles,
is made up of somewhat denser rock. The third, continuing to a depth of at least
80 miles and probably below, appears to be of a heavy material similar to the
Earth's mantle. . . ." Ubell asked, "If the Earth and moon were created at the
same time, near each other, why has one body got all the iron and the other [the
moon] not much? The differences suggest that Earth and moon came into being far
from each other, an idea that stumbles over the inability of astrophysicists to
explain how exactly the moon became a satellite of the Earth."
The moon is extremely dry and does not appear to have ever had water in any
substantial amounts. None of the moon rocks, regardless of location found,
contained free water or even water molecules bound into the minerals. Yet
instruments left behind by Apollo missions sent a signal to Earth on March 7,
1971, indicating a "wind" of water had crossed the moon's surface. Since any
water on the airless moon surface vaporizes and behaves like the wind on Earth,
the question became, where did this water originate? The vapor cloud eruptions
lasted fourteen hours and covered an area of some one hundred square miles,
prompting Rice University physicists Dr. John Freeman Jr. and Dr. H. Ken Hills
to pronounce the event one of "the most exciting discoveries yet" indicating
water within the moon. The two physicists claimed the water vapor came from deep
inside the moon, apparently released during a moonquake. NASA officials offered
a more mundane, and questionable, explanation. They speculated that two tanks on
Apollo descent stages containing between sixty and one hundred pounds of water
became stressed and ruptured, releasing their contents. Freeman and Hills
declined to accept this explanation, pointing out that the two tanks-from Apollo
12 and 14-were some 180 kilometers apart, yet the water vapor was detected with
the same flux at both sites, although the instruments faced in opposite
directions. Skeptics also have understandably questioned the odds of two
separate tanks breaking simultaneously and how such a small quantity of water
could produce a hundred square miles of vapor. Additionally, Apollo 16
astronauts found moon rocks that contained bits of rusted iron. Since oxidation
requires oxygen and free hydrogen, this rust indicates there must be water
somewhere on the moon.