An image snapped by NASA’s Apollo 17 astronauts has created controversy among Ufologists. According to claims, the image cataloged as AS17-135-20680HR shows what many believe is a Pyramid on the lunar surface.

But… Long story short?

No, they did not, but the image is evidence of how easily we can be tricked into seeing things that aren’t really there, or how our mind identified familiar patterns.

There are pyramids all over the planet. For a reason, we are yet to find out, ancient civilizations, spread across Earth, and isolated from one another, built massive pyramid structures thousands of years ago.

Some say these ancient monuments were built as tombs, others say they were erected to pay tribute to the gods. But the real reason why there are thousands of pyramids on Earth remains a mystery.

And while pyramids on Earth remain a hotly debated subject, finding pyramids on another planet or moon goes beyond reason, venturing out into what many call a massive conspiracy.

Thanks to the various space programs, we have explored our neighboring planets and moons like never before.

But it all started with NASA’s Apollo missions.

The Apollo Program was a manned space program developed by the United States in the 1960s in the framework of the space race with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The project began in July 1960, when the US space agency NASA announced it, as a continuation of the Mercury missions. Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first manned flight in 1968.

The Apollo 17 mission, which lasted from December 7-19 marked the end of manned lunar exploration. The mission was characterized by being the only Saturn V night launch. The crew landed in Taurus-Littrow, and it was the final manned Moon landing. Surface EVA time: 22:02 hours, after which astronauts returned 110.40 kg of samples back to Earth.

However, the Apollo 17 mission was also marked by another peculiar occurrence.

While digging through some of the images made available to the public, UFO hunters came across an image cataloged as AS17-135-20680HR.

This image at first glance might not draw your attention, but upon closer examination, you will notice a triangle shaped object hiding in the background, which has led UFOlogists and UFO hunters to ask, what exactly did the Apollo 17 mission photograph on the moon? Is this image the result of a camera malfunction, Parts of the Rover? Or is there perhaps, a structure on the moon?

We decided to investigate a bit more and examined the image further and as we played around with the contrast and brightness of the image we managed to get some pretty nice results that helped us see this object in a better way. And despite the fact that after cleaning the image up a bit we do get a ‘pyramid-shaped structure,’ the truth is that it’s not really a pyramid, and there a couple reasons as to why.

First of all, you can check out the sheer amount of images and videos from the Apollo 17 mission by checking out this link: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/images17.html#MagG. We are interested in the following material:

• Magazine 135/G (B&W) EVA-2, Frames 20533-20679
• Magazine 136/H (B&W) EVA-1, Frames 20680-20865

From there, you can check out the images and videos taken by the astronauts during their 22:02 hour EVA.

We need to jump to image AS17-135-20680 (OF300) ( 209k or 1402k ) found under Magazine 135/G (B&W) EVA-2, Frames 20533-20680.

The image in question: AS17-135-20680HR. The result? A blurry image with a strange shape in the middle. Pyramid you say? I beg to differ.

Let’s check out some other images taken before it.

Let’s begin with image AS17-135-20674 (OF300) (151k or 1343k). NASA describes the image: “LRV traverse from the SEP site to Station 2. This photo shows the trough that runs along the base of the South Massif. The Station 2 boulders are the two large ones at the right edge of the picture. The big crater mentioned in the dialog is at the left, farther up the slope.” Note: LRV stands for Lunar Roving Vehicle.

If we take a look at the images snapped later, we see the following:

We are looking at Station 2, LRV Floor. AS17-135-20678 (OF300) ( 95k or 1032k )

The next image, AS17-135-20679 (OF300) ( 100k or 1275k ) are described as Station 2, LRV Floor. Sunstruck, but the Astronaut who took the picture did not get the exposure right, which resulted in a blurry image.

Finally, we arrive at our image in question, AS17-135-20680 (OF300) ( 209k or 1402k) which NASA describes as LRV Floor? Sunstruck.

The next image, AS17-136-20681was blank.

Image AS17-136-20682 (OF300) (138k or 1041k) which is the next visible image shows parts of the LVR but also Sunstruck:

Verdict? The curious pyramid-like shape we see in the image is, in fact, the result of low-quality images snapped by astronauts. Position, light, and angle, all played an important role in obtaining a curious image that some have interpreted as a Pyramid on the moon when actually the only thing the astronauts snapped was the LVR under peculiar light conditions.

Note that Images labeled “OF300” are from the original film and are presented at the equivalent of 300 DPI on a 7.5-inch by 7.5-inch reproduction.

So, while there may certainly be peculiar things on the moon, structures that we may not be able to explain, these images snapped by Apollo 17 astronauts are not one of them.

Featured image credit: Artist’s illustration of a Pyramid on the Moon.

YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/6Rj_wif2BD0?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1

Whenever you put the words moon, alien, and base into one sentence you get the perfect recipe for a conspiracy theory.

The moon itself is a mysterious place, not only because we know very little about it, but because it has greatly influenced society throughout history.

In modern times, now that we have the means to travel there and explore it like never before, we have begun to unravel its mysteries which have fascinated explorers and scientists for hundreds of years.

But just how ridiculous is it to think there are ‘alien’ structures on the moon? For all we know, there aren’t any but then again, a large percentage of the population still lives in disbelief that NASA made it to the moon with the Apollo missions.

Curiously, in July of 1970, two Russian scientists, Mikhail Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov, published an article in the Soviet journal Sputnik called “Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?”

The theory proposed by the two experts offers arguments that would explain the countless enigmas surrounding the moon and its creation.

Shcherbakov and Vasin proposed that massive machines were used to melt rock and form long cavities within the Moon, spreading the molten refuse onto the lunar surface.

The advanced their theory by saying that the moon was preserved by a hull-like inner shell in addition to a reconstructed outer shell of metallic rocky junk, and eventually, this enormous craft was steered through the cosmos and finally put in orbit around our planet.

Now I’d say that’s a conspiracy theory, it’s just that the above theory was proposed by two scientists from the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Why on Earth would there be alien structures on the moon?

The big question a lot of people ask today is, “are governments around the world covering up information on Extraterrestrial life?”

Officially speaking no, after all, there are no such things as aliens, right?

However, due to a HUGE number of top-secret documents recently released to the public, some people would beg to differ.

There are certain images and videos taken by space agencies around the world which have fueled Conspiracy Theories throughout the years.

In this article, we take a peek at supposed images from NASA that ‘undoubtedly’ show what appear to be artificial structures on the lunar surface.

To understand what we are looking at, we need to remember NASA’s LCROSS mission, referred colloquially as the mission when NASA ‘nuked’ the moon.

The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA. The mission was conceived as a low-cost means of determining the nature of hydrogen detected in the polar regions of the moon.

The LCROSS mission was developed for scientists to study the moon like never before. The spacecraft was designed to collect and relay data from the impact and debris plume resulting from the launch vehicle’s spent Centaur upper stage–Centaur is a rocket stage designed for use as the upper stage of space launch vehicles and is currently used on the Atlas V– striking the crater Cabeus near the south pole of the Moon.

On October 9, 2009, at 11:31 UTC, Centaur successfully impacted the moon, and the Shepherding Spacecraft descended through Centaur’s ejected plume, collected and relayed data.

Some ufologists and conspiracy theorists call the LCROSS mission the day when NASA bombed the moon, and that their mission wasn’t scientific in nature.

The ‘Alien Base’ images

We’ve seen plenty of images that supposedly show ‘alien’ structures on the moon. Countless conspiracy theories have been born as a result of these images, but most of them are just the result of wild interpretations.

The photographs you will see here are from NASA employee’s, at the AMES research center.

The images supposedly slipped out during an interview by project scientists Anthony Colaprete and Dr. Kim Ennico while they reviewed early results from the Centaur impact.

In the images on the table, you can see what UFO hunters refer to as evidence of structures, clear geometric shapes that cannot be confused in any way as “natural formations” or “moon rocks”.

So, let us check out the evidence.

The above image, taken at NASA’s Ames Research Center shows two mission scientists going through data. The curious image, which allegedly shows alien structures on the moon is the one located just beneath the arm of the scientists to the left of the image.

Let’s take a closer look.

A Bit closer…

Now that looks a bit strange, doesn’t it? It looks like some sort of rectangular structure sitting there, on the surface of the moon.

The curious part is that, according to UFO hunters, this rectangular ‘moon building’ happens to be located inside the Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the Moon.

So, what do we have here? Is this a conspiracy theory that might just be onto something? Or is this, as many other images that are dubbed as ‘ultimate evidence of alien structures’ nothing more than the result of Pareidolia perhaps?

If you ask UFO Hunters, these images are evidence that there are countless structures on the lunar surface, and some of them may be the result of an ancient astronaut presence.

What do you make of the images? Are UFO hunters really onto something? Are there alien bases on the moon? Or is all of this just a huge conspiracy theory backed up with no evidence whatsoever?