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The site where I found this photo about 20 years ago is no longer online.  But I'm providing a Wayback Machine link to a capture of the page, so you can see this came off of an official NASA website.  It wasn't from some rando's personal geocities page.  This thing is legit, right off of NASA's own websites.  
https://web.archive.org/web/20010227160619/https://grin.hq.nasa.gov/abstracts/gpn-2000-001211.html
>At the bottom of the page, click the, "large." resolution link for the biggest version.  You can download and save it and compare if you want.
I spent about 8 years from 2002 to around 2010 studying the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.  Over the course of that time I became somewhat of an expert on the subject.  Somewhat respected among Apollo historians for my knowledge on the subject.  Back then, when I found things like this, I largely kept them to myself.  Bring up something like this, and you're immediately branded a moon hoaxer, a kook, etc. and your credibility is shot.    I never showed this to too many people except on one small, short lived Sci-fi chat forum about 2005.  Probably 10 people saw it.  

The photo is AS11-40-5873.  That is Apollo program mission 11, film magazine number 40, frame number 5873.  All Apollo era photos were given similar photo designations.  It was a photo of Buzz Aldrin taken by Neil Armstrong, early in the EVA portion of the mission, just after Aldrin erected the Solar Wind Experiment.  In the first picrel is web address of the page I originally found it on and a highlighted and blown up segment of a portion of the photo. You can see one of the places it was retouched.  It's quite obvious.  It was probably done in a photo laboratory using double exposures to clone an area.  Similar to what you might do in photoshop today, but done the old fashioned way, before photoshop ever existed.  That's just one spot in this photo that was retouched.  There are more.  In the second picrel, which is the full frame, or nearly so.  A little bit of the top and bottom of the photo are missing.   I've circled in red more of them.  There are probably even more than what I've circled, but these are the obvious ones.  In addition to that, there's overlay work and airbrushing also present, but you have to have good vision and a trained eye to spot them.  I'm not going to argue all day with some idiot over it.  So I'll just give you the obvious ones.  It's enough that you should be able to recognize this photo has been tampered with.  It's my belief that probably all of the photos from magazine 40, and other magazines, were retouched in similar fashions.  I don't believe there is a single genuine unretouched Apollo 11 magazine 40 photo in existence, outside of the secret stash of originals, probably only a handful of people have ever seen.  The third picrel, that should appear on the right, is the copy I downloaded 20 years ago with no alterations of any kind made to it.  Though after kicking around for 20 years it might be at a slightly lower resolution from the many times it was moved, possibly resaved in other formats, etc.  

Now, if you go elsewhere and find another copy of this photo on another NASA website, and compare it to this one, none of the other copies will look like this.  You will not see those retouches.  I think I can explain why.  I'll tell you about it some other time.  The post is already long enough.
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Why this photo exists...   

When the Apollo 11 mission returned to earth NASA was under pressure to get at least some photos out quickly.   Life Magazine bought the rights to a first exclusive.  They had a special edition ready and wanted the pictures fast so they could get it out.  NASA sent them some photos 3 days after the arrival, and the issue hit the newsstands the next week.   NASA didn't have time to do a really good job of covering up whatever it was they wanted retouched out.  So they did quick, shitty jobs of it to meet press demand for the photos.  Mostly they just cropped the photos down, cutting out anything suspect.  

Also at NASA they had researchers, like geologists, who wanted desperately to see the photos, so they could get working on whatever it was they were planning to do.  One of the tasks in particular, was to try to find the rocks Neil Armstron picked up and returned in the sample return containers.   They wanted to hopefully find them in the photos, so they could see which way they were originally laying on the ground.  It mattered to them.  The surface facing up was obviously exposed to the sun and micrometeorites more than the sides in contact with the soil. So they banged out more photos, poorly done, because they didn't have the time to do a good retouch job on them.   Later on, in the months and years to follow, they worked them over again, until they were perfectly done by guys who had the time and took the time to do the retouch job right.  The result was multiple generations of Apollo 11 photos.  
>Generation 1 - he originals, with everything in them. 
>Generation 2 - cropped press photos with problem areas simply cut off with a pair of scissors.  Cut in half, bottom cut off, top cut off, left side cut down etc.  
>Generation 3 - very quick and sloppy retouch jobs so they could get the photos out to people not in the exclusive loop, but who needed them
>Generation 4 - very good retouch work, you'd probably never find the spots, even if you knew enough to look for them
>Generation 5 - Later cleaned up further with computers.  This was done in the early 2000's.  Which allowed the photos to be released in very high resolution, very clear, and in perfect contrast.  
>The blurry, grainy, overly contrasted versions of the 1970's were released that way on purpose.   The poor quality of the prints helped to hide all the alterations and make them less visible. 
Generation 4 was probably ongoing through the entire decade of the 1970's.  That's why there were almost no entire sets anywhere.  Between the generations, when NASA would have a new one ready.  They would collect the old sets and single photos and destroy them.  Replacing them with the newer sets.  Some of the photos, like this one, somehow escaped the burn bucket.  They were misfiled in the wrong filing cabinet, or they lost track of where it went.  It was in a desk in somebody's office.  Most people at NASA had no idea what they had.  They weren't in the loop.  So some of these lost and misfiled copies continued to exit.  They escaped the memory hole.  

Along comes the age of the internet in the late 90's and early 2000's.  NASA has no websites, but they want them.  So they came up with some early web pages.  They hauled out some old photos they had laying around that they found in some old filing cabinet, scanned them and put them on the net.  And they had no idea what they were doing.  There was nobody left at NASA by that point who even knew the photos were retouched.  And that's my best educated guess as to how we got this.
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>>2672
Wow, Cool job OP.
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What they're covering up...

Very early, maybe a year after I started studying the A-11 mission, I found a report.  It was a pdf copy of an old NASA document dealing with Apollo photography.  It was short, only 5 or 6 pages.  It dealt with the quality of the photos mostly.  How well composed they were considering Armstron and Aldrin wee not professional photographers.  Most were in very good focus, the f- stop settings were chosen mostly correctly, things of that nature from a pure quality of photography point of view.  None of it had much to do with what was in the photos, except for a short note on the very last page.  It was about a paragraph long.  Whoever wrote the report noted that he had seen in the photos, "shallow trenches,"  many of them, in many of the photos.  Most ran north to south, but some also ran east to west.  Often they ran the entire length of the photograph.  He finished by saying it was not yet known what had created them.  

By that time I already had a pretty significant collection of Apollo 11 photos.  I'd gone over them many times.  I looked at everything.  I had not ever seen anything resembling a, "shallow trench," in any of the photos I had.  I wondered what he was talking about.  I'd never noticed those.  Yet he seemed to be giving the impression there were lots of them, and you couldn't possibly miss them.  Obviously this guy had seen the Generation 1 photos, and at least some of the things they retouched out, were the shallow trenches he saw in the photos.  Like all of them, in every Apollo 11 surface photo from magazine 40.  Obviously these shallow trenches were something very significant.  And NASA had to have known what made them.  And what made them was also significant.  Significant enough that they obliterated the shallow trenches so that nobody would ever ask, "What do you think made those?"  That's a question they didn't want to have to answer.  They didn't even want anybody asking about it.
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>>2673
There's a couple more I have like this.  But they're on an old hard drive out of a computer that failed 15 years ago.  It's a sata drive so I need to buy an adaptor to get them off of it.  I might do that one day.
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>>2674
UFOs? The Moon as a Death Star? What do you think they were?

>>2675
Please do so soon, hard drives will fail.
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>>2676
There's single celled life on the moon.  That much I know.  Is there also multicell creatures capable of scurrying around on the surface?  I don't have any proof of it.  But something up there is making those little rabbit trails, and they don't even want us to know they exist.  Best guess I can make, there's a small creature scurrying around up there.   

As for Ufo's, I think there was at least one, maybe more.  They were scrubbed out of the photos but not altogether.  I'll make a post about it sometime.
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>>2677
Pretty cool. Waiting for confirmation about life on other planets besides small bacteria is annoying, yet there probably is no matter how much evolved. By this point in comparison to our planet, there has to be at least some early small multicell creatures on another planet no moon necessarily.

>>2675
Yeah dont wait on this, i had my PC shut down for like a month and then my external hard drive almost died when i booted it up again. Go check on that old shit ASAP
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Multicell I don't have any concrete proof of, but single cell is pretty much a fact.  Even though NASA has never acknowledged it, and done everything they possibly could to hide it.  Yet, a lot of the facts that prove it exists are in their own documents, in bits and pieces.  The little bits and pieces don't mean much by themselves, but when you put them all together, it spells L,I,F,E.

I'm going to ramble for awhile, maybe a long while, about the bits and pieces.  I'll try to keep speculation out of it, and stay just on verifiable facts.  

NASA bullshit line #214:
>Nothing can survive on the moon, the moon is a place you would send something to sterilize it.  
That's not true, and NASA knows it for a fact.  
In 1967 NASA sent the 7 Lunar Surveyor missions to the moon.  They were robotic landers equipped with a TV camera, a robotically operated scoop shovel and a penetrometer.  For the first phase, the Lunar Surveyors stayed in orbit and sent back photos of the surface for a few weeks.  Then they soft landed and surveyed the surface conditions at proposed Apollo landing sites.  They took video of the area, poked and prodded the soil to try to determine composition, load bearing capacity, things of that nature.  Principally what they wanted to know was whether the ground would hold up an Apollo lander without it sinking or sliding around in the soil, whatever. 

A Live Bacteria Is Brought Back From The Moon

 Apollo 12 landed about 500 feet away from Lunar Surveyor III.  During the EVA the astronauts walked over to it, photographed it, and examined it.   In addition they removed several parts from it for return to earth so they could be studied.  Scientists wanted to know things like how did the paint hold up, did the plastic degrade, things like that.   Back on earth, they took the camera apart and looked inside  at the internal parts.  Inside was a foam washer.  They put the foam washer, along with other parts in broth and tried to culture any microorganisms that might be present.  On the foam ring, they did get a successful culture.  It was Streptococcus mitis, a common bacteria found in the human respiratory tract.  Somebody probably coughed into the camera during assembly and deposited it there.  It survived about 2 years on the moon and came back to earth still alive.   Yes, it was heavily shielded inside that camera, but it did live there through the heat and cold, in a vacuum, for 2 years.  So, can life survive on the moon?  The answer is yes, for a fact.  

An Exciting Discovery Buried

The Lunar Surveyor program made an absolutely mind blowing discovery on the moon during operations.  The geologists watching the video streaming back noticed that on the surface was a very thin, cohesive crust.  Similar to what you might find in a plowed clay field after it rains and the soil dries.  If you grew up on a farm you'll know what I'm talking about.  That was a huge earth shattering discovery.  Soil crusts are formed in one of 3 ways:
>1) Impact by rain drops.  We know it doesn't rain on the moon.
>2) Chemical.  Salts cement the soil together, when the top layer dries it forms a crust layer.  The lunar surveyors found the soil to be dry, with no traces of water present.  No water was expected to be there either.  
>3) Biological. Organisms like Cyanobacteria and algae on the top of the soil bind it together to form a crust.
With options one and two ruled out, there was only one other possibility left, Biological.  They kept that very quiet, almost an internal secret that was virtually never discussed outside of the small group of Lunar Surveyor/Apollo geologists working on the programs.  

There was an article in the Feb 1969 edition of National Geographic.  It was a story about the lunar geologists.  The author asked Eugene Shoemaker, often called, "the father of Astrogeology,"  whether he thought they might find life on the moon.  Shoemaker told a joke, that lead him to believe the answer was no.  But Shoemaker never actually said no.    Shoemaker knew the answer was, yes there is a great chance we'll find life on the moon, but he couldn't tell anybody that.  He knew the crust was there, and he knew exactly what it meant.  NASA knew there was life on the moon 2 years before the Apollo astronauts arrived there.  

In the picrel is the famous Buzz Aldrin bootprint photo.  Chances are you've seen it at least once.  I've marked the place where the soil crust fractured, shifted a bit, but remained largely intact.  They continued to keep that a secret outside of the geologists.  They certainly never told the press about it.  

Allergic Reactions

There was a biological organism in the soil.  One that highly likely no human had ever come into contact with before.  During the EVA, both Armstrong and Aldrin got the soil, and the microorganisms in it, all over their boots and their space suits.  They brought it back into the Eagle lander with them when the EVA was over.  When they repressurized the lander and tool their helmets off, Armstrong had an allergic reaction to the soil and dust, now floating in the air around them.  Not really the soil itself.  We don't get allergic reactions to inorganic chips of rock.  We get them from biological material in the soil.  Like bacteria, mold, pollen, spores, etc.  If you listen to the radio traffic after the EVA, Armstrong sounds like the has a clothes pin on his nose.  It's all stuffed up.  Aldrin didn't appear to have a reaction, but that's not out of the ordinary.  Some people suffer from Hay Fever, some don't.  Aldrin was breathing the same dirty air, but it just didn't affect him.  Later on during Apollo 17, both Gene Cernan and Jack Schmidt had allergic reactions to the soil in the same way.  Schmidt much worse than Cernan.  In that instance, they actually talked about it with the controllers in Houston over the radio.   In one exchange Schmidt said that the should have been allowed to go to the sample room and sniff the samples brought back from previous missions to test for it.  The controller's reply was something like, God knows we tried.  They knew it was there. For Apollo 17, they conducted 3 EVAs.  Schmidt said his symptoms got less severe with each exposure.  He was getting acclimatized to it over time.    Not all Apollo astronauts were allergic to what was in the soil on the moon, but some were.  If no biological material had been present, none of them would have had a reaction to it.   

The Scum Layer on Lunar Surveyor III

I read the preliminary report that was written after the early examinations were made of the Lunar Surveyor III parts were looked at.  When the camera and other parts from Lunar Surveyor III were brought back to earth, researchers quickly noticed that everything was discolored.  The once sparking white paint on the camera had turned brown.  They found that it was a thin layer that could be scraped off.  Initially they thought that maybe the sun had burnt the paint brown.  That was until they found that the same brown scum layer was also on the glass lens of the camera, which theoretically couldn't be burnt or chemically altered.   They also removed and examined grains of soil that were adhering to the camera.   Some of them were freakish.  They looked like soil particles under the microscope, but they had hair like filaments growing out of them.  The researchers didn't know what they were, and they didn't know what the brown scum layer was.  They said in the report they would keep working on it.  I was never able to get my hands on later reports, if any exist, or are available to the public.  I suspect if they do exist, but nobody will ever see them.  I've included another picrel of a cliff stained with desert varnish.  Deposited likely by Cyanobacteria, a single celled photosynthetic bacteria from earth.  It is known to cause both desert varnish and soil crusting in even the driest deserts on earth.  My guess is what's on the moon is something very similar to that.  Cyanobacteria is probably among the most ancient living creatures on the earth.   It can live in the harshest climates, virtually anywhere on earth.  

The Plant And Animal Tests

There is a misconception regarding the Plant and Animal tests that were conducted with lunar soul after the samples were returned to earth.  NASA often says they used the tests to search for life, but never found any.  That's not true.  The tests were not intended or designed to search for life.  Their only purpose, was to determine whether lunar soil or anything in it was harmful to plant or animal life.  Did it have the capacity kill or sicken plants or animals?   That was all they wanted to know.  It could have had live organisms in it, but if the weren't harmful, NASA didn't care.  In some of the plant tests, they found that ancient plant species like ferns and lichens actually germinated faster, and put on early stage growth faster in moon soil than in earth soil, and a simulated moon soil made from components found on earth.  Cyanobacteria and similar photosynthetic bacteria are known for excreting plant growth hormones into the soil around them.  Other plants can absorb these growth hormones, helping them to germinate and grow, in a symbiotic relationship sort of thing.  That's a known effect on earth.  This very same thing appeared to happen with the lunar soil.  The moon soil  probably had gibberellic acid in it, a plant growth hormone that promotes germination and early stage growth.  Excreted by whatever microorganism is living in the soil.   NASA I'm sure did much further testing.  Way more than just those early tests, but that was all done in secret.  They never told us the results of those ones.  Or the microscopic scans and chemical tests that revealed the bug culprit behind it.    The microorganisms on the top of the soil were not harmful, other than a few astronauts had allergic reactions to it.  But there was something deeper down in the soil that was very toxic.    

The Apollo 11 Core Sample.  

Very late in the EVA Buzz Aldrin hammered a core sampling tube into the lunar surface.  It only went down about 8 inches down before hitting something hard, and wouldn't go any further.  Aldrin pulled the tube out and turned it over and looked into to to see if it had soil in it.  It did.  Aldrin remarked over the radio that, "it almost looks wet."  It probably was wet.  It has been speculated by some reputable astronomers over the years that about a foot down in the soil on the moon, there might be water, probably frozen.   Val Firsoff was one of them.  The soul from the core sample tube was tested on plant species similar to all the other samples from off the top.  All 40 of the plant species brought into contact with it, were killed, dead.  The experiment was repeated again 6 months later.  After 6 months of storage, whatever killed the plants was gone.  They all lived.  The toxin either chemically broke down, died, or in some other way was neutralized.  The toxin never was identified.  It probably was identified, they just never told us what it was.  It was not radiation.  Nothing brought back from the moon was very radioactive.  And inorganic chips of rock do not kill plants.  

There is not one thing that tells you that the microorganism is there.  It is the sum of a whole bunch of tiny pieces of evidence that all point in the same direction.  I'm sure there is a secret room at the Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston, filed with filing cabinets, full of reports on all this and much more.  All the secret work that was done.  But nobody is ever allowed to see them.   I'm sure the, "lost," pristine copy of the Apollo 11 video is in there too.   It's not lost, it's in a secret collection that nobody is allowed to see.
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Going to show you guys another instance where NASA screwed with the photos.  Around 2004 or 5 NASA supposedly pulled out the original roll of film and made a brand new set of clearer, sharper Apollo prints.  Supposedly better than anything else they had yet made.  In a lot of ways they are better.  They're less grainy, better contrast, but also more blurry in a of
lot of cases than the copies they printed in the 70's.   Blurry to cover the alterations of types I already showed you, and you now know exist.  When this much ballyhooed set came out, I was of course eager to see them.  Brand new, right off the original Generation 1 rolls.  Of course they weren't, and I knew it immediately within 2 seconds of looking at them.

The 70mm Hasselblad camera had a special lens on it marked with the crosses you see in the photos.  But it also had a black blotch in the lower right corner.  I imagine so if the camera got turned sideways or upside down, they would know it happened.  They always know where the bottom of the frame  is.  You can see the blotch in picrel one, on the left, from the Lunar and Planetary Institute website.  This is probably a generation 4 copy.  It's low resolution.  I never looked at these very much.  They're not much good for anything.  
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS11-40-5848

The new and improved version supposedly scanned from the original rolls is in the middle.  Notice it does not have the black splotch. 
https://apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html

On the right is a blow up I made of the lower right corner of the supposed copy off the original rolls.  You can see where they took a small portion of the photo and overlayed it over the blotch.  I have no idea why this was ever done.  Probably just for visual improvement.  To take the ugly blotch out and make it more presentable.  Anyway, it proves these new and improved Generation 5 versions from the mid-2000's were not scanned from the original Generation 1 film rolls as claimed.  They were scanned from probably a 4th generation roll, that was cleaned up in the lab to remove these blotches, I would guess around 1978 or so.   This was not the original roll.  The original roll nobody gets to see.  But it is another example of somebody at NASA overlaying photos for one reason or another.  Every magazine 40 frame, in the new and improved set, is like this.

When these came out, I sent an email to the Project Apollo people asking why that was done.  They told me somebody probably cleaned them up to make them look nice.   I don't think they knew anything.   Nobody but just a very small few at NASA, or anywhere else does.
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I hope I can get those photos off my old hard drive.  There are two in particular I'm thinking of.  Two very high resolution prints of frames from the 16mm Data Acquisition Camera.  They left it running, set on 1 frame per second, shooting out the Lunar Module window.  I think it ran out of film in about 45 minutes of the EVA.  An example of a frame from it is in the picrel.  Whenever you find these, they are extremely blurry, crappy, low resolution.  If you ever find a copy of the full film and watch it, usually they're even worse.  Those two frames I have on that hard drive, are orders of magnitude clearer than the picrel.  And they are just loaded with overlays, just like I showed you in the original post at the top.  Double craters, double rocks, all over the place.  It's also a bit wider, the film has been chopped down on both sides when you see it presented today.  I don't know why that was.  Maybe something happened just on the very edges of the film, and they just decided to chop the edges off rather than have to fix them.  Which would have been a huge time consuming project, doctoring 1000 frames or whatever it was.
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Some people may not believe that NASA keeps secrets from the public.  That's a conspiracy theory, they'll tell you.  NASA is a civilian agency that always tells us everything.  The picrel is a scan of an Apollo 11 document that was kept secret for about 7 years.  It is marked, "confidential," at the top of every page.  
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/a11/AS11_CM.PDF
It was eventually downgraded to unclassified in 1976.  A stamp on the top left tells us it was downgraded, apparently by an Executive Order, May 11, 1976. Read the note at the bottom, which is probably a sticker on the front cover.  The sticker tells us that NASA has a policy directive, 1382.2, that directs them to ignore freedom of information act requests, and to keep documents out of the hands of anyone outside of the US government.  

That NASA keeps secrets, is not a conspiracy theory.
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