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372 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
dreds of engineers, technicians, and secretaries directly involved in the
missions and the communication links.
Yet the rumours persist. NASA may well be a civilian agency, but many
of its programmes are funded by the defence budget, as I have pointed out,
and most of the astronauts are subject to military security regulations.
Apart from the fact that the National Security Agency screens all films
(and probably radio communications as well), we have the statements by
Otto Binder, Dr. Garry Henderson and Maurice Chatelain that the astronauts
were under strict orders not to discuss their sightings. And Gordon
Cooper has testified to a UN committee that one of the astronauts actually
witnessed a UFO on the ground. If there is no secrecy, why has this
sighting not been made public
Not all communications between the astronauts and ground control
are public, as NASA itself admits. John McLeaish, Chief of Public
Information at the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Lyndon B. Johnson
Space Center) in Houston, explained to me in 1970 that although there is
no separate radio frequency used by the astronauts for private conversations
with mission control, private conversations, "usually to discuss medical
problems," are re-routed: "When the astronauts request a private conversation,
or when a private conversation is deemed necessary by officials
on the ground, it is transmitted on the same S-band radio frequencies as
are normally used but it is routed through different audio circuits on the
ground; and unlike other air-to-ground conversations with the spacecraft,
it is not released to the general public."
But is there any truth to the Apollo 11 story A friend of mine who formerly
served in a branch of British military intelligence has provided me
with unexpected corroboration. I am not permitted to reveal the name of
my source, nor the location and date of the following conversation that
was overheard and subsequently confirmed by my friend, which will
inevitably lay me open to charges of fabricating the story or being the victim
of a hoax. Yet the story must be told, however apocryphal.
A certain professor (whose name is known to me) was engaged in an
earnest discussion with Neil Armstrong during a NASA symposium, and
according to my friend's recollection, part of the conversation went as follows:
PROFESSOR: What really happened out there with Apollo 11
ARMSTRONG:
It was incredible ... of course, we had always known
there was a possibility ... the fact is, we were
warned off. There was never any question then of a
space station or a moon city.