APOLLO 8 STRANGENESS Report #220 May 12, 2012 Joseph P. Skipper

[Debby ♥Many Nations♥]

This evidence is a side walk on the wild side where things get a little strange. It is visual evidence found in the official record obtained by the astronauts on the 1968 Apollo 8 mission to the Moon using Hasselblad 70mm cameras focused toward Earth from the Command Module and the mission was the occasion of many firsts.

This Apollo 8 mission was under urgency pressure to meet President Kennedy's stated desire in the space race to land men on the Moon and bring them home again before the end of the 1960s. This mission was going to accomplish that. However, problems with the Lunar Module that would land on the Moon and delays over that knocked it out of this mission shortening it. The mission was readapted to use and test only the Command Module using the original three man crew consisting of mission commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders.

On 12/21/1968 the mission was successfully launched via Saturn V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida later to be named the John F. Kennedy Space Center. The Command Module orbited the Moon ten times and returned home to Earth without the crew attempting to land on the Moon. It is unknown to this researcher whether the images of Earth shown here were taken while on the way to the Moon, while orbiting the Moon, or while returning home from the Moon to Earth.

Keep in mind that the cameras here are using film and not digital media. Remember as well that this was during the intensity of the space race and Cold War with the then USSR and had very heavy political overtones. Later the Apollo 8 film images were scanned and converted to digital media for display on the Internet in a process known to be careless producing many artifacts in the digital images.

You should know that the images seen here are obtained from the scanned digital images and not from the film originals. You should also know that these are discoveries by a number of others long ago and are not original to me. I'm bringing them to your attention now because a lot of people follow this work and I think the evidence is worthy of taking another look by a wider audience. You must make up your own mind as to where you think the truth lies in this material.

http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/photo13-e.htm(scroll down to bottom)
http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/photos/13-e/med/as08-13-2382.jpg

In the above 1st image from image #AS08-13-2382, as you can see the evidence details are very dark and dim. The 2nd image with some graphics work in it by me brings out quite a bit of detail and, as you can see, it looks very strange. I think that there is little question as to whether it represents organic life or not but then the big question is whether it represents alien life in space or some scanned in Earth microbic life due to carelessness in keeping the scanning plate sufficiently clean and free of debris here on Earth?

If this were the only visual evidence like this and it was being considered alone, I would be more inclined to guess that it is a Earth based vegetation microbial seed of some kind that is trying to sprout and finding no soil media to sprout into is producing many different sprouts (tendrils) searching for that media around it and therefore nothing particularly strange at all. However, take a look at the following somewhat similar evidence.

http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/photos/13-e/hr/as08-13-2380hr.jpg
http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/photo13-e.htm
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS08-13-2380

The above 3rd, 4th and 5th evidence images are of a similar nature but also more extensive than the evidence in the #1 and #2 images. This is partly illusion due to this #AS08-13-2380 image being a high resolution (HR) image while the previously shown AS08-13-2382 image is not available in HR (that I could find in a quick look) and is only of regular dimensions.

However, note how 3-dimensional this AS08-13-2380 object looks and note that it does not give the appearance of having been squashed down and flattened by the weight of a scanner plate that would be the case if this were soft organic vegetative material. How then is this suppose to be Earth based organic vegetation debris pulled up and out of growth media and torn open in the process?

Also note the many tiny bright specks, many of which are either on top of the object's parts or behind it and shinning through this object's parts. Are some of these specks actually stars in the background or the tiniest debris on the scanning plate? One clue it that these tiny bright specks are also present in that part of the Earth in deep dark shadow in this imaging. That would tend to rule them out as stars in the background and support any contention that they are tiny debris reflecting the scanner's light source.

An alternative consideration is that the brighter specks are stars seen closer and brighter in the background and in a number of places being seen through the evidence object's material could suggest that the object is semi-transparent. In such a scenario, the object may actually consist of a gel like substance and thereby be organic life similar to what we see in the deepest and darkest parts of our Earth oceans.

The natural reaction, once mentioned, especially for the mainstream that doesn't want to know any differently, is that all of this strange evidence is just debris carelessly left on the scanner plate. Some even want to say that it might be ice or mold forming on the Command Module window the astronauts are filming through. However, if so and especially with the image numbers being so close together at 2380 and 2382 and being taken so close together, it would still be there in subsequent camera shots of the same scene out the same window at the same distance from Earth and it just isn't there.

Some even want to suggest that because of its looks it is the Crystalline entity out of the Star Trek TV series which is pretty hard to take seriously. On the other hand, could such visuals encountered at the beginnings of our space exploration be real and inspired the concept of the Crystalline entity? 

As for me, I think that we need to keep an open mind more. For example, I strongly suspect that it is possible for organic life to exist in space as evidenced by the links below.

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2012/215/enceladus-water-life-1.htm
http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/170/enceladus-offworld.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As-wYmFYb3I&feature=related

For me, the likely choices boil down to organic debris on the scanner plate, which do I lean toward, or some kind of strange life in space. One thing is for sure, the issue just really isn't resolvable trying to use this compromised scanned digital visual evidence alone. It just isn't trustworthy enough. What we need is the original 70mm Hasselblad film for these two images to see if these objects are there in that film. If the objects are not there and IF the film does not show signs of having been manipulated, we can probably safely presume that they are likely debris introduced in the subsequent scanning process.

On the other hand, if the objects are present in the original film, then we may have some Earth shaking evidence of some very strange space life and we'll just have to grow up a bit to deal with it. In any case, although some of you may have seen this before, I think that it is better if more of you at least get exposed to this. Maybe it will be incentive to try and think outside the box with evidence like this and use patience and caution rather than automatically dismiss it just because it looks a little too strange and disturbing without conventional explanation.

Joseph P. Skipper, Investigator

 

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2012/220/apollo...

check this pic out