Unauthorized use is prohibited.Īs the commander of the flight, Neil was going to be the one who first stepped onto the moon and said something historic, which he did. The famous phrase you used to describe the moon was “magnificent desolation.” Can you talk about that? But that doesn't stop the story from spreading among people who are looking for anything that they can call a cover-up or a UFO. The UFO people back in the United States became very angry with me-for not telling them first! We knew it wasn't a UFO. We assumed it was public knowledge and during an interview with the BBC I went through the whole story. Neil explained it was because we saw a light, which was obviously the panels going out. Neil said, Guys, you were probably wondering why we asked you how far away the third stage rocket is. Then, when we were in quarantine after returning to Earth, the higher management came in to talk to us from behind a window. From my rendezvous experience I knew that there were four objects out there, which were the panels that sprung outward away from the rocket to expose the lander. But we wanted to make an observation, so we innocently asked, Ground control, how far away is the upper stage rocket? They came back and said it's about 6,000 miles away. We didn't want to discuss anything that would make people think, Oh, Houston, there's a light following us to the moon! That would shake up a lot of people back on Earth. I looked out and saw a light moving in relation to the stars.
I'm surprised you're saying we saw a UFO and then covered it up. What is your view today about the UFO you thought you might have seen? On the way to the moon, a strange incident occurred that was kept secret by NASA for many years. The sky was black as could be, and the horizon was so well defined as it curved many miles away from us into space. We are a very small part of the solar system and the whole universe. Once we were on the surface of the moon we could look back and see the Earth, a little blue dot in the sky. It certainly didn't make me feel lonely, except to realize that we were as far away as people had ever been.
There’s an amazing moment in your book when you look back at Earth from the moon and realize that of all the billions of people on Earth-living and dead-you, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins are the only three not there. Speaking from Philadelphia during a stop on his book tour, he explains why being called “the second man to walk on the moon” bothers him, how stories about him seeing a UFO on the way to the moon are groundless, and why he is convinced that the United States will land a man on Mars within two decades. ( Find out about high achievers with troubled minds.) But today, at the ripe old age of 86, he is still dreaming big. He himself battled depression and alcoholism. But as he reveals in No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon, published by National Geographic, his life has had its challenges and tragedy. Everywhere he goes, people adore and admire him. He’s even appeared on 30 Rock, The Simpsons, and in a Norwegian music video. The Apollo 11 astronaut walked on the moon and took the first selfie in space.
Buzz Aldrin is a living legend: a bona fide American hero and tireless public servant.
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