| After the Apollo 11 mission had returned to Earth. | | | | they agreed to send a cryptic message to mission |
| Astronauts on board the ship and officials at NASA | | | | control. |
| mutually agreed to keep a secret that has only | | | | NASA knew very little about the object reported by |
| recently been revealed by a former astronaut on this | | | | the Apollo 11 crew, it was obviously an unidentified |
| mission- Apollo 11, the day before its historic moon | | | | flying object (UFO). |
| landing, was being "followed" by a mysterious UFO. | | | | (Dr David Baker, a senior Apollo 11 scientist, in a recent |
| Three days and over 300.000 kilometers into this | | | | interview on the incident.) |
| historic space flight, Mission control received a cryptic | | | | The crew waited for NASA's reply, continuing the flight |
| message from the crew. | | | | and keeping an eye on the object flying near them. |
| Apollo 11: Do you have any idea where the S-IVB is | | | | Mission control replied, a few moments later, unaware |
| with respect to us? | | | | of what was going on in space above them. |
| Mission Control: 'Standby' | | | | Mission Control: "Apollo 11, Houston. The S-IVB is about |
| Requiring information on the S-IVB, the final rocket | | | | 6.000 nautical miles from you now, over" |
| which had been released into space over 48 hours | | | | The astronauts response? |
| earlier- this itself may sound routine, but why were the | | | | We really did not think we were looking at an object |
| astronauts so concerned with the position of a spent | | | | that far away, so the crew decided after a few hours |
| rocket- once attached to the spaceship? | | | | of watching it, we would go to sleep and not talk about |
| Over Thirty- five years later, in a televised interview, | | | | it anymore until we came back to debriefing. |
| Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin gave his answer. Apollo | | | | (Buzz Aldrin- The second man on the Moon) |
| 11 that day was not alone in space. In fact something | | | | When the spacemen did return to Earth, they |
| seemed to be travelling close to the ship. | | | | discussed in the incident behind closed doors in |
| There was something out there that was close | | | | debriefing. NASA officials afraid that if this news was |
| enough to be observed, and what could it be? | | | | made public- it could result in the ridicule of the |
| A Unidentified flying object had been traveling | | | | astronauts who witnessed the unidentified flying object, |
| alongside Apollo 11 for several hours, as the vessel | | | | agreed it should remain a secret. A secret until, four |
| continued on the journey to the moon. An object that | | | | decades after the historic Moon landing took place. |
| remained close enough to be observed by all the | | | | What was the strange object that followed the Apollo |
| astronauts, and they needed to confirm what it was. | | | | 11? A question that still haunts the memories of the |
| The brightly lit, metallic bell shaped object puzzled the | | | | crew aboard the ship, and the NASA officials who |
| astronauts- who did not want to publicly announce | | | | heard the news- once the astronauts returned to |
| whilst on the mission- a UFO was alongside them. So | | | | Earth. |