...I don’t know how many of you watched the special yesterday about the "lost" Apollo 11 moon tapes that were recently found and aired. During this special they interviewed a few of the "Houston" guys as well as a new interview with Buzz Aldrin.
I'm about 40 minutes into watching a repeat of the program on the Science Channel that is evidently being referred to in this post ("First on the Moon: The Untold Story").
It's essentially sensationalist hogwash. There are egregious factual errors, errors of inference, and deliberate attempts to amplify the sensation of danger and uncertainty.
For example, during the discussion of the 1202 program alarm, a loud klaxon sound effect has been added to the soundtrack of the controllers diagnosing the problem, apparently to exaggerate the sense of danger. The narrator wrongly claims the computer had "crashed," and the program wrongly attributes the LM's off-target landing to the effects of this computer anomaly.
The claims that NASA never resolved the Apollo 11 UFO sighting and swore the astronauts to secrecy comes from NASA scientist Dr. David Baker. It's simply factually incorrect. It's ironic that such a statement should have been edited together with Buzz Aldrin talking freely about the sighting and explaining specifically that they didn't talk much about it over the radio at the time precisely to avoid misinterpretation by UFO woo-woos.
It's TV, not history.
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