Former NASA Engineer Says 5 Structured Domes
in Moon Crater Photo Blacked Out

© 2016 by Linda Moulton Howe

“We’re approaching Crater Tsiolkovskiy and the sun angle was such
that about half of the crater was in shadow. And in the shadow portion of
the crater, there are five illuminated domes.”

- Ken Johnston, D. Th., former Marine and NASA aerospace human test
engineer, NASA Manned Space Center, 1966 - 1972, Clear Lake, TX

July 1, 2016 Albuquerque, New Mexico - On June 7, 2016, the Albuquerque Journal in New Mexico reported that “former National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, consultant pilot Ken Johnston today says photos and films from Apollo missions were doctored” to paint out evidence of extraterrestrial structures and activities on the moon. To date, NASA has always denied manipulating images to hide E. T.s/UFOs.

The article also said The Roswell Daily Record has announced that Dr. Ken Johnston, who has a 1980 theology doctorate from the Reformed Baptist Seminary in Denver, Colorado, has given digital copies of his three large binders of original NASA photographs to the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell.

Fifty years ago — after four years in the Marines — in 1966, Ken Johnston began working as a human test engineer for Apollo mission efforts by the Grumman Aerospace Corporation in Clear Lake, Texas, near Houston, a region that would evolve to the NASA Johnson Space Center. It was during the Apollo 14 flight that launched on January 31, 1971, and returned to Earth on February 6, 1971, that Ken Johnston had a rude awakening from his NASA boss at the time, Thornton Page, Ph.D., astronomer and member of the Robertson Panel in January 1953 that was organized by the Central Intelligence Agency to investigate UFOs and their implications for national security.

Astronomer and astrophysicist Thornton Page, Ph.D., later stated that the panel members met informally together with “no outsiders” before the formal 4-day session. Today it is assumed that the Robertson Panel was deliberately organized for a phony conclusion that UFOs did not present a direct threat to national security and the panel did not find "any evidence that related the objects sighted to space travelers." The CIA goal was to deflect public and media attention away from the UFO phenomenon that our government has been deeply involved in monitoring since World War II, but doesn't want anyone to know the truth. Just like painting out UFOs and technology on the lunar surface.

[ Editor's Note: The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft. Founded on December 6, 1929, by Leroy Grumman and partners, its independent existence ended in 1994 when it was acquired by Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman.

Grumman was the chief contractor on the Apollo Lunar Module that landed men on the moon. The firm received the contract on November 7, 1962, and built 13 lunar modules headquartered in Clear Lake, Texas, near Houston.

In 1969 the company changed its name to Grumman Aerospace Corporation, and in 1978 it sold the Grumman-American Division to Gulfstream Aerospace. As the Apollo program neared its end, Grumman was one of the main competitors for the contract to design and build the Space Shuttle, but lost to Rockwell International. The company ended up involved in the shuttle program nonetheless, as a subcontractor to Rockwell, providing the wings and vertical stabilizer sections. ]

 

Ken Johnston lives in Belen a little south of Albuquerque. So I contacted him and on June 13th, I drove to his home and office to see his photographs and to learn more about his allegation that NASA doctored film and images during Apollo missions.

Interview:

After serving in the Marine Corps from 1962-1966,
R. Ken Johnston, Sr. and D. Th, was hired in
1966 by the Grumman Aerospace Corp. in Clear
Lake, Texas, near Houston, to work as a human test
engineer of all things related to astronaut training.
He spent some 3,000 hours manning the controls
of the Grumman-produced lunar modules and worked
directly on images and film with NASA astronomer
Thornton Page during the Apollo 14 mission,
January 31 to February 6, 1971.

R. Ken Johnston, Sr., D. Th., former Marine 1962-1966 and NASA aerospace human test engineer from 1966 to 1972, with 3,000 hours manning the controls of the Grumman Aerospace Corp.-produced lunar modules used in NASA astronaut training at NASA's Manned Space Center, Clear Lake, Texas, near Houston: “Shortly after the Apollo 14 flight, Dr. Thornton Page, who was the director of the lunar geologists and scientists, contacted me and said, ‘Ken would you go to the Photo Lab and check out reel number such and such.

I picked up the reel and I made arrangements for a gun sequence camera projector. Now, for those people who don’t know what a gun sequence camera is — if you’ve ever seen any movies where a jet airplane is chasing another and it looks like the shells are going off — that’s a camera that takes a picture every time there’s a shot.

So, I was to get the film and then get a gun sequence camera projector and set it up so I could show it to Dr. Page and six or seven of the other scientists that he had over next to Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center.

I did exactly what he said. I set the program up for him and we were viewing the view from the spacecraft as it’s going around the Command Module as it’s going around the moon on the back side of the moon approaching Crater Tsiolkovskiy. [tsyawl-kawf-skee] The Russians named most of the craters on the back side of the moon, at least all of the big ones, because they got there first as far as the robotic photographs were.

So, we’re approaching Crater Tsiolkovskiy and the sun angle was such that about half of the crater was in shadow. And in the shadow portion of the crater, there are five illuminated domes.

And I describe it: if you’ll take your hand and turn it palm up and bring all your fingers together, you see five little bubbles there. Well, that’s exactly what it looked like — in the crater was 5 bubbles! And they were illuminated from the inside!

WERE ILLUMINATED FROM THE INSIDE?

Correct. That’s where the light was coming from.

BECAUSE THEY ARE IN SHADOW, THERE IS NO SUNLIGHT ON THEM. SO ANYTHING (GLOW) HAS TO BE COMING FROM INSIDE.

Correct. And then one of them, it appeared there was like a column of steam that projected straight up. And Dr. Page had me freeze, he had me back up, he had me approach at one frame at a time, and then sometimes two or three frames at a time. That’s the same we would do in analyzing a gun sequence camera projection.

So, he stopped and said, ‘OK, freeze.’

He turned to the other guys and said, ‘Well, boys, what do you think of that?’

And they all laughed as though it was an inside joke. He had to know which film, which reel, and exactly which one to ask for me to show, to have me go and get it.

NASA Apollo 14 Frame Number: AS14-75-10301. White arrow points at the faint glow at the
far end of the Tsiolkovskiy Crater away from the 10,498-feet-high mountain. This Hasselblad
photograph was taken as Apollo 14 lifted off the moon headed back to Earth on February 6, 1971.
The glow is where Ken Johnston said he and Thornton Page, Ph.D., could see five
dome-like structures “glowing from the inside.” Ken Johnston, who was helping Dr. Page
with photographs and films, thought Dr. Page was going to use the very clear, high resolution
image the two men were discussing to announce the presence of extraterrestrial structures
on the moon at a NASA meeting. Instead, Ken was shocked when the original had
been replaced by a black “painted” shadow over the glowing objects.

Bret Shepherd, who works with Ken Johnston on analyzing Ken's large archive of original
Apollo mission photographs, enlarged and increased contrast of the NASA AS14-75-10301 image's "glow" feature. The 10,498-foot-high mountain is in the lower left corner of this cropped image.

Thornton Page, Ph.D., Astronomer, Radar and Electronics Expert and Member of the January 1953 Robertson Panel Organized by CIA About UFOs

DR. THORNTON PAGE, WHOSE POSITION WAS?

He was the director of the lunar science department in the OGM Mansion outside of the Johnson Space Center — that's where the astronomers and all the scientists were there — Dr. Page was the director of that department of NASA in Houston. And I didn’t find out until probably twenty years later that Dr. Thornton Page was an adviser to the FBI (and/or CIA). He was a dollar a year man and I just didn’t know that at the time.

Astronomer Thornton Page, Ph.D., in January 1953, (left of Einstein) was a member of this
Robertson Panel on UFOs convened by the Central Intelligence Agency. Dr. Page at that time
was Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Operations Research Office and an expert on radar
and electronics. By 1966, he was working for the NASA Manned Space Center in Clear Lake,
Texas, near Houston, on the Apollo Mission to the moon. Physicist Albert Einstein is at the middle
of this photograph standing next to Robert Oppenheimer, Ph.D., the physicist who produced
the atomic bombs dropped on Japan that ended World War II.

TAB F, SECRET Security Information, SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL ON UNIDENTIFIED
FLYING OBJECTS (aka Robertson Panel), January 14 - 17, 1953.  Dr. Thornton Page
is one of five panel members in top of list, an astronomer and astrophysicist from
the Office of Research Operations, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Thornton Page, Ph.D., physicist and astrophysicist, who wore a right
eye patch after a 1961 accident damaged his face and body.

FOR OUR DISCUSSION TODAY IN JUNE OF 2016, AND THE EMERGING REALITY OF ALL KINDS OF AIRBRUSHING, NOT JUST ON THE MOON, BUT ON MARS, AND A MANIPULATION OF PUBLIC AND MEDIA PERCEPTIONS ABOUT WHAT ORBITS OUR EARTH, THE MOON, WHAT THAT RED PLANET OUT THERE IS AND HAS BEEN — THE IMPLICATION FROM THORNTON PAGE — THE LAUGHTER WHEN HE SAID …

“What do you think of that, boys?’

HE KNEW THESE FIVE MODULES WERE THERE. HE KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING — WE’LL CALL IT A NON-HUMAN PRESENCE ON THE MOON.

OK, now, Dr. Page told me, ‘OK, go ahead and finish showing. So, I finished the showing. It was about a 15-minute reel of 16mm film and I’m packing it up and they are all over there laughing and talking and I’m trying to listen.

And Dr. Page says, ‘Go ahead take it back to the Photo Lab and turn it back in.’

When I got back to the Johnson Space Center’s main photo lab. The front is a front desk and you can order a particular picture and it will come to you. Or you can go in to do research in the inner sanctum room. We do things in there with light tables. Or you can have a TOP SECRET clearance, which I had, and go in the back.

And as I walked in, there was a light table about 3 foot by 4 foot with an opaque top with lights illuminating from the bottom for making sketches or whatever. And there were two men and a woman there. I’m looking and they have 8 x 10 — it looks like negatives — and they are painting on them. And I asked them, ‘What are you guys doing?’

And one of the guys said, ‘Oh, we’re professional strippers.’

And the young lady says, ‘Well, no, what we’re actually doing is we’re stripping out, we’re painting out, along the horizon the stars and things that might be confusing to other people.’

That seemed a little strange. I had to go ahead and check that in (Tsiolkovskiy crater footage).

Then the next day, I was to check out the same reel, take it to the Main Auditorium and show it to the rank and file. This was all pre-planned. And I was so excited because I was thinking, ‘God, we have discovered the existence of aliens on the moon — the backside — and this is the film that is going to show everybody.

And I’m in the auditorium to set it up. And I have my brother, Dr. A. R. Johnston, who was one of the chief engineers at NASA there sitting beside me in the projection booth. I said, ‘Watch it!’ What we found on Tsiolkovskiy.

And as we were approaching the crater, there’s the dark side there in the same area. And it’s totally black. There is no illumination. No light.

I stopped the camera. I told the audience, ‘Excuse me, we’re having technical difficulties.’ I took the film out of the camera and I ran it through my gloves looking. All the little tracks lined up and there was no evidence that they had cut or spliced it.

So within 24  hours what they had to have done is taken that out, made an enlargement, fixed it (painted out 5 glows), reduced it back inside, made a copy of the original now. So I was showing one that had already been doctored!

I finished the showing to the rest of the people and they were excited because, ‘Oh, wow! They got to see the back side of the moon!’ And to them, that was all exciting.

And I was devastated because I thought, ‘My god, we’re hiding this!’

Now, I have to take the film back to the Photo Lab and check it back in and I did that. And as I walked out over to the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, I ran into Dr. Page. He actually wore a patch over one eye.

I said, ‘Dr. Page, what happened to the lights and the domes we saw on the back side of the moon?’

He looked at me and gave me a long wink and he says, ‘There was never anything there.’

Moon's Tsiolkovskiy Crater with
10,498-Foot-High Mountain

Tsiolkovskiy [tsyawl-kawf-skee] Crater has a 10,498-foot-high mountain that rises
from the dark, flat crater floor beyond a large, seemingly “empty” section of the crater.
However, it is at the far end of that emptiness near the bottom of a steep crater wall, that
a glow in the shadows can be detected in NASA Apollo 14 Frame Number AS14-75-10301
taken by a high resolution Hasselblad camera as the astronauts
headed back to Earth. NASA Apollo 15 image.

Linda:  “AND YOU THINK THAT WHAT WE’RE LOOKING AT HERE  — THAT THIS WOULD BE AN ALIEN BASE OF THESE DOMES?
Ken:   “There’s a reason why and that’s because this is 1971 and we were just barely getting to the moon and landing and being able to get back without blowing ourselves up.

LET ALONE CONSTRUCTING WHAT APPEARS TO BE GLOWING OBJECTS.

Right. It had to be some extraterrestrial or non-Earth!

HAS ANYBODY SAID TO YOU  — SINCE YOU HAVE BEGUN PUTTING THIS OUT IN THE DVD — FROM NASA OR FROM ANY AGENCY:  ‘DON’T DO THIS.’?

No, it’s too late!

DID YOU EVER SIGN A NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT?

Only back in 1966 when I first went to work at NASA, we signed a non-disclosure, the same as the military, but I was never told, ‘Well, this is secret. You can’t talk about it.’

It turns out that anything we did during the Apollo Mission, because Apollo was supposed to be a publicly funded, open to the press operation so we can do it publicly,  whereas the Russians were trying to do it with their military. And we showed that we were better than the best!

It would appear that there would be more intelligent species on the moon capable of building bases like we discovered in the photographs that I had in my archive. You would say, ‘Who is in charge of the moon?’

YES, WHO IS IN CHARGE?

Those that have the highest technology and not us!

SO, EVEN THE ASTRONAUTS WHO KNEW THEY WERE TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF TECHNOLOGY, THEY WERE  DENIED INSIDE INFORMATION.

The debriefing that takes place during Gemini and Apollo was a good seven days of constant debriefings from professionals. There was a woman psychiatrist in charge of debriefing them. And in talking to other psychologists, she said there is evidence that they (astronauts) have been de-programmed to not be able to talk about things that they saw.

Buzz Aldrin Speaks Out About
UFO During Apollo 11

“I saw this illumination that was moving in respect to the stars.
We were smart enough to not say, 'Houston, there's a light out there that's
following us.' So technically, it becomes an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO).”

- Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, video interview with
SyFy's Aliens On the Moon, July 20, 2014

I think it’s fascinating that Buzz Aldrin now — and I’m going to say that he has come out of the closet. He’s talked about the light, the craft that followed them in trans-lunar insertion, half way to the moon, they were being followed.  He and Neil talked about, ‘Well, we can’t go to Mission Control and say, ‘Is there a flying saucer out there?’ Or an ‘unidentified flying object,’ as he called it?

Apollo 11 astronauts were L-R: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin,
for launch to the moon on July 16, 1969, and back to Earth on July 24, 1969, after
Armstrong's historic first Homo sapiens sapiens step on the lunar surface on July 21 at
02:56 UTC. Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter
hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar
material for return to Earth. The third member of the mission, Michael Collins, piloted
the command spacecraft alone in lunar orbit, until Armstrong and Aldrin returned
to it just under a day later for the trip back to Earth. Image and logo by NASA.

So, Buzz says we’ll go and ask what happened to the 1-SB — that was the final launch vehicle that pushed them out of Earth orbit into the lunar coast. And when they did, there was silence for awhile from Mission Control. And they came back and said, ‘Well, it’s so many thousand miles of this particular angle from you and everything else.’ And then of course, Buzz said, ‘Well, we thanked them. But it was their way of saying there was something out there that had been following them.’

Now, he’s come forward and said it was a light that got close enough. It had size and shape to it and followed them all the way to the moon! It was some kind of craft or something like that.

And I’ve seen numerous pictures of the film around the moon as they would be filming like the Command Module and there would be  whhhooooosssssshhhh moving real fast along the surface of the moon.

Now, the other ones I have in my archive, they are tracks coming down the side of the mountain and over along the bottom side of where it’s smooth and then branch going off the other way that look very much like caterpillar-type tracks or vehicles there moving along the lunar surface.”

Also see:

• 09/25/2015 — Part 1: Remote Viewer Lyn Buchanan Encounters “E.T.s” At Rendlesham Forest Incident

• 09/24/2012 — Updated: Why Is NASA Faking Gale Crater Images On Mars?

If anyone has more information about painting out, airbrushing and other manipulations of original NASA images of the moon, Mars, Ceres, any solar system body, please contact [email protected]. All requests for confidentiality are honored.

More Information:

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• 10/29/2015 — Updated with mp3 audio on October 29, 2015 Part 2: Binary Code Translation of C.J.'s Telepathic Download in Georgia
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• 03/18/2015 — Persistent Dust Cloud and December 2014 Aurora On Mars Still Mysteries
• 03/10/2015 — Real X-File Enigmas
• 09/29/2014 — High Tech Revelations About Stonehenge and Other Nearby Buried “Monuments”
• 09/26/2014 — Part 2: Large Aerial Triangle Reports from 1800s to Present
• 09/12/2014 — Part 4: Dulce, LEONID and “Alien Weapon Determinant”
• 08/29/2014 — Part 1: USAF Whistleblower Says There Really Is An Underground ET Cloning and Hybridization Lab Near Dulce, New Mexico
• 08/19/2014 — Part 2: Lunar “Humanoid Shadows” Probably Processing Errors, But Lead to More Mysterious Sites
• 08/15/2014 — Part 1: “Humanoid Shadow” in Google Moon
• 05/04/2014 — Part 1: New 2014 Revelations About Dragonfly Drone Extraterrestrial Technology
• 01/21/2014 — UPDATE What Is 96-Degree Angle On Back Side of Moon? Optical processing errors? Or seven evenly spaced objects? What Exactly Is the Mars Surprise “Rock”?
• 12/22/2011 — Updated: Asteroid YU55 “Puzzling Structures”: Equatorial Ridge and Tall, “Pointy” Hill? With mp3 interview.
• 08/04/2011 — Part 2: New Zealand Abductee Talks About Vesta Asteroid, “Fifth Planet” and Our “Time Slip?” Moon
• 06/28/2011 — ASCII Code in Italian Crop Formation
• 04/29/2011 — Part 1: Facts Behind March 22, 1950, FBI Memo
• 08/26/2010 — Where Did Our Moon Come From?

Websites:

Apollo 14: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_14

Thornton Page, Ph.D.: https://aas.org/obituaries/thornton-l-page-1913-1996

The Robertson Panel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Panel

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_
robertsonpanel01.htm

Grumman Aerospace Corp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman

SyFy Channel's "Aliens On the Moon," July 20, 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNkmhY_ju8o