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Three anomalies about the Moon sit uneasily alongside the standard impact origin hypothesis - the idea that a Mars-sized body struck the early Earth and ejected the material that became the Moon. The first is density. The Moon is significantly less dense than Earth, which is difficult to reconcile...

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Mario Nawfal

193,614 views • 1 year ago

🚨BREAKING🚨: NASA is deliberately erasing UFOs and other anomalies from the photo record of the Apollo Moon Program. On the far side of the moon, something that looks like a buried nuclear reactor is radiating at twenty times the normal heat with concentrations of thorium and uranium NASA can't explain. And on the surface sit formations that resemble ancient ruins, too geometrically precise to have formed naturally, above caverns far more vast than the entirety of Manhattan. Theoretical physicist Maaneli Derakhshani (Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani) , a Utrecht PhD working on lunar anomalies, discovered that NASA holds two versions of the same Apollo 14 photograph: in one, a blue orb hangs in the sky above astronaut Ed Mitchell, and in the other it has been redacted out. He has found the same across other Apollo missions, and Ken Johnston Sr., a former NASA consultant and pilot who worked with the astronauts, says he was ordered to destroy early negatives showing things that weren't supposed to be there. The Department of War is now investigating an Apollo 17 frame Derakhshani had flagged a year earlier, in which three lights above the lunar surface appear to be a single physical object. NASA was built to keep this all quiet. Its founding charter placed it under the Pentagon and gave it legal cover to hide anything touching national security from Congress and the public, and a report it commissioned soon after spelled out the plan directly: if artifacts ever turned up on the Moon, bury the discovery. Trump has now gone further and designated NASA an intelligence agency outright. The men who walked there have hinted at what they saw, objects trailing their craft, lights that weren't debris, even a telepathic warning to stay away that came just before the missions stopped for good. In 1994 NASA and the Pentagon ran a joint mission to the Moon called Clementine, sold to the public as a survey of lunar minerals. Its own deputy manager says on the record it was a reconnaissance operation, sent to photograph the far side and find out who was building bases up there. The moon is not what we think it is. Full conversation live now.
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🚨BREAKING🚨: NASA is deliberately erasing UFOs and other anomalies from the photo record of the Apollo Moon Program. On the far side of the moon, something that looks like a buried nuclear reactor is radiating at twenty times the normal heat with concentrations of thorium and uranium NASA can't explain. And on the surface sit formations that resemble ancient ruins, too geometrically precise to have formed naturally, above caverns far more vast than the entirety of Manhattan. Theoretical physicist Maaneli Derakhshani (Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani) , a Utrecht PhD working on lunar anomalies, discovered that NASA holds two versions of the same Apollo 14 photograph: in one, a blue orb hangs in the sky above astronaut Ed Mitchell, and in the other it has been redacted out. He has found the same across other Apollo missions, and Ken Johnston Sr., a former NASA consultant and pilot who worked with the astronauts, says he was ordered to destroy early negatives showing things that weren't supposed to be there. The Department of War is now investigating an Apollo 17 frame Derakhshani had flagged a year earlier, in which three lights above the lunar surface appear to be a single physical object. NASA was built to keep this all quiet. Its founding charter placed it under the Pentagon and gave it legal cover to hide anything touching national security from Congress and the public, and a report it commissioned soon after spelled out the plan directly: if artifacts ever turned up on the Moon, bury the discovery. Trump has now gone further and designated NASA an intelligence agency outright. The men who walked there have hinted at what they saw, objects trailing their craft, lights that weren't debris, even a telepathic warning to stay away that came just before the missions stopped for good. In 1994 NASA and the Pentagon ran a joint mission to the Moon called Clementine, sold to the public as a survey of lunar minerals. Its own deputy manager says on the record it was a reconnaissance operation, sent to photograph the far side and find out who was building bases up there. The moon is not what we think it is. Full conversation live now.

Jesse Michels

178,245 views • 1 month ago

At the peak of the last ice age, North America was covered by not one but two separate and massive ice sheets - distinct from the Greenland ice sheet which was an entity unto itself. The Laurentide was the larger of the two - roughly equivalent in size to the ice sheet that currently covers Antarctica. Its center was positioned over Hudson Bay and it extended all the way to the flanks of the Rocky Mountains in western Canada. The second ice sheet - the Cordilleran - stretched from northern Idaho and Washington State all the way up through British Columbia to Alaska, reaching a scale comparable to the modern Greenland ice sheet. The combined weight, volume, and geographic coverage of these two ice sheets is almost impossible to fully visualize from the landscape that exists today. Randall is building toward the question that the existence of these ice sheets inevitably raises - how long were they there, and what happened when they were gone. The answer to that second question is the foundation of everything Randall has been documenting throughout his research into catastrophic floods, sea level rise, isostatic rebound, and the civilizations that existed beneath and beside them before the ice collapsed. RANDALL AT QUEST FOR ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS Get your exclusive ticket in the Randall Carlson dedicated seating section at Quest for Ancient Civilizations in Sedona, May 1-3, 2026:
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At the peak of the last ice age, North America was covered by not one but two separate and massive ice sheets - distinct from the Greenland ice sheet which was an entity unto itself. The Laurentide was the larger of the two - roughly equivalent in size to the ice sheet that currently covers Antarctica. Its center was positioned over Hudson Bay and it extended all the way to the flanks of the Rocky Mountains in western Canada. The second ice sheet - the Cordilleran - stretched from northern Idaho and Washington State all the way up through British Columbia to Alaska, reaching a scale comparable to the modern Greenland ice sheet. The combined weight, volume, and geographic coverage of these two ice sheets is almost impossible to fully visualize from the landscape that exists today. Randall is building toward the question that the existence of these ice sheets inevitably raises - how long were they there, and what happened when they were gone. The answer to that second question is the foundation of everything Randall has been documenting throughout his research into catastrophic floods, sea level rise, isostatic rebound, and the civilizations that existed beneath and beside them before the ice collapsed. RANDALL AT QUEST FOR ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS Get your exclusive ticket in the Randall Carlson dedicated seating section at Quest for Ancient Civilizations in Sedona, May 1-3, 2026:

Randall Carlson

18,072 views • 4 months ago