'Dark Moon' Reviews and Testimonials
Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers – paperback and Kindle reviews
Along with Slaughter of the Innocent by Hans Ruesch, Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers is my favourite book.
Phillip D, UK, July 2020
I found your website by a link through McGowen's book, Wagging the Moondoggie, and love reading your site. I picked up a copy of Dark Moon and am on Chapter 4 now. The book is outstanding so far!
Thank you so much for 25 years of what you've done (even if I only discovered you in 2019). I hope you guys continue work on this site for another 25 years – or at least until NASA confesses to the obvious hoax they've purported.
M M February 2019
The most careful analysis is to be found in Dark Moon published by the English writers Mary Bennett and David S Percy in 1999. They take the Moon landing apart factually and conscientiously with huge attention to detail.
Gerhard Wisnewski
Author and documentary filmmaker – topics are science, technology, history and politics
Mary Bennett and David S. Percy make a very strong case, based on scientific evidence, that the NASA Moon landings were a hoax. That is not to say that the Americans didn't go to the moon, only that if they did go, it was not with our present state of technology, which the authors themselves articulate quite well.
There are many reasons to support the Moon landings as a hoax, but the most convincing evidence is the van Allen belts, named after Dr. James van Allen who discovered the radiation belts around the Earth in 1958. To travel through the belts on the way to the Moon, would take approximately 2 hours, and of course 2 hours to travel through them on the way back.
The authors present plenty of evidence of the lethal dose of radiation the astronauts would receive if they were to even attempt travelling through these radiation belts. But as I read elsewhere, it is Dr. Van Allen himself that is most convincing, and not based on his work alone. It is his condescending comments in response to questions about the van Allen belts during the Apollo missions when he said, "Well it must be safe. We went to the Moon and back." Statements like this encourage people like myself to seek out the truth.
Randy Walsh, USA
The book Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers and Aulis.com are excellent sources of information on the doubtful authenticity of the historical records presented to the public of the Apollo Moon missions. I first read this book about ten years ago. My father worked for NASA for 25 years, and after that I worked for them for 25 years.
I read this book and also watched the video by the same authors titled What Happened on the Moon? – An Investigation Into Apollo. I watched Bart Sibrel’s videos, all four of them. I read Bill Kaysing’s work and anything else I could find on the internet. I concluded that most if not all of what was presented to the public documenting the Moon landings had been faked. Whether this means man has never set foot on the moon I do not know. I would like to think that we have been there, but I doubt it.
Aulis.com has some recent articles that explain the tremendous problems NASA has been facing moving human space exploration forward, which suggests that man has likely never been beyond low-Earth orbit. One such recent article posted there is The Apollo Myth: A Hindrance to Human Space Exploration by Phil Kouts PhD. Also, on Aulis.com for many years now is a quote from Dr. James Fetzer saying, “Jack White's studies of anomalies in the Apollo space program raise the disturbing question, if man went to the Moon, then why was it necessary to fake so many photos? This parallels his earlier work on JFK, which raised a similar question about alleged assassin Lee Oswald, namely, if he really shot JFK, then why was it necessary to fake evidence to frame a guilty man?”
T Mark Hightower, USA
In Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers authors David Percy and Mary Bennett manage the impressive feat of uniting crop circles, the Face on Mars, ancient Egypt, and the mystery of Stonehenge.
Michael Hanlon, Science Editor, Daily Mail UK
Review by Marcus Allen, UK Publisher Nexus magazine
Thirty years ago man landed on the Moon. Given public focus by the then US President John F Kennedy in May 1961, he challenged his nation to "...achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth ". The race was on.
A great nation mobilised its industry, its talent and its energies to fulfil their, by then, dead President's dream. Not just once, but six times men landed on, walked and drove across, photographed, measured and returned with bits of the Moon.
The greatest scientific achievement of this, or maybe any other century, had been accomplished; and the astronauts had 'gone in peace for all mankind.' The whole world acknowledged and applauded the bravery of those men, the scale of their project and the thrill of being included in each step of their mission. Because we saw the photographs, watched the films and videos, listened to the interviews, read the books, we knew it happened just the way we had been told.
No! It probably did not happen that way at all.
When we were young we were taught to tell the truth. We should not tell lies because we will eventually get found out. Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers, is about being found out. It is a brave, timely and inevitable book. It is the book some will dread reading but one which many more will welcome: it exposes a monumental deception perpetrated on us all.
We have been systematically lied to, deceived and misled by those who by their position and knowledge, we expect to trust – scientists. Where are the astronomers, astrophysicists, biologists, chemists, cosmologists, designers, engineers, photographers, physicists and the editors and reporters who failed to speak out? If they really were all blind we are in deep trouble.
That it took the determined and meticulous research of David Percy, and the eloquent and lucid writing of Mary Bennett to produce this magnificent book is testimony to their integrity. From the small boy who points out that 'The Emperor isn't wearing any clothes,' to the disintegration of the Empire is but a small step. So it is with the Apollo landings. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi: "An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one ever hears about it."
Dark Moon tells of the truth discovered in a journey which began by looking at one of the most famous photographs ever taken: man on the Moon, allegedly shot by Neil Armstrong showing Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface. Knowing the equipment used and the extreme conditions of temperature and radiation present on the Moon, scientific analysis is used to demonstrate conclusively that this picture was taken on Earth with controlled, artificial lighting. Once you know what to look for, all the Apollo pictures are suspect.
With over 400 pictures in Dark Moon the numerous flaws and inconsistencies soon become obvious. And you start to become angry, initially with the authors-this is understandable, they are the people who have darkened the dream-then with yourself for having been hoodwinked for so long. Eventually this too passes and your energy is redirected to ensuring that never again will you allow such a travesty to occur.
In our modern world of visual communications we have a right not to be misled. Those who go out to record our world and its activities have a responsibility to ensure that we will see what they saw. When we are asked to look at a photograph or a film taken on the Moon, then that is where we must assume it was taken. Anything else is propaganda.
Dark Moon, with over 500 pages, is in three parts. First is Foreground Action the 'how' of the Apollo records; interviews with Hasselblad and Kodak, whose products were used on the Apollo project, unwittingly revealing the inadequacies of their equipment to operate on the Moon as billed; details, clearly explained, about the 'show stopper' of man's exploration of space – radiation.
Earth is protected, space is not, so a man on the Moon, as unprotected as the astronauts were, are highly vulnerable; and the extremes of temperature: as hot as an oven (+250°F) in sunlight and colder than anywhere on Earth (-250°F) in the shade. With no atmosphere in space to retain heat, the switch from hot to cold is immediate.
The account of who was really behind the great rockets of both the American and Soviet space programmes is as surprising as it is comprehensive. In mid 1945 the Allies divided the spoils of war. Personnel, many originating from Peenemünde (birthplace of the German V-1 and V-2 rockets used against England during WW2), together with their research papers and equipment were transferred to the USA and the USSR. That these men were Nazis did not matter, they were needed for their knowledge. So began the German rocket scientists influence on both sides of the iron curtain.
There never was a real 'space race'. How could there have been when everything was carefully planned in advance? Part two of Dark Moon 'Middle Distance' looks at this planning, such as Project Horizon and the establishment of NASA, officially a civilian agency but financed by the US Government and acting as the public face of the Department of Defense's own extensive but secret space programme. Is it any wonder that it often lives up to its reputation of giving 'Never A Straight Answer'?
As the authors found during their research, there was a great deal more going on behind the scenes than had previously been thought likely: "If it is of any consolation to the reader, we too, at first, could not believe what we were uncovering as our investigation proceeded. Yet as each new stone was turned over, it revealed a conspiracy of labyrinthine proportions".
Dark Moon is not a conspiracy theory book. When the evidence is presented so clinically, with every fact double checked and confirmed, in some cases by initially skeptical specialists, then it is fact on which we can now base our decisions. Not propaganda. Yet we may choose to ignore such facts because they may lead us to a conclusion with which we are still uncomfortable. It is natural to want mankind to reach for the stars and to explore beyond each new frontier. So if we accept the evidence of Dark Moon, do those dreams die too?
No. Quite the reverse.
The first two sections of Dark Moon and their evidence stand in their own right. It is the third section Background Exploration which carries the story into the future, where, in the words of the authors "We come to other related subjects which some will find even harder to accept!" At this point one should recall the involvement of Mary Bennett in editing the second edition of The Only Planet of Choice and of David Percy in co-writing the book Two-Thirds and his work with Richard Hoagland in explaining the significance of the Cydonia Complex on Mars and its counterpart on Earth.
That Crop Circles are part of this story should not be a surprise. The authors take us on a journey of possibilities, one where the view is unfamiliar and many may feel it safer to remain behind. But persevere and you will be involved in a voyage of discovery to which our future may well be leading us anyway.
It is far from the brute force of rockets and politics and winner-takes-all. It is the new world of consciousness and our place in the far greater universe in which energy is abundant, ready to be harnessed and powerful, and in which our potential as individuals and as a race can be fulfilled. That is the strength of Dark Moon, despite it being in effect two books in one: a detailed and sober account of a dream turned nightmare is balanced and complemented by a vision of the future as exciting as it is unexpected. Moreover, these two books have to exist together-they are two sides of the same coin.
If you have ever wondered about the Apollo landings and whether the stories about them being somehow faked or hoaxed may be true, then Dark Moon has the answers. This book is an essential reference for anyone who has ever wondered how a conspiracy is created and how the 'knowledge' filter works to keep it in place. Now we can move on.
The future will not only be more exciting than we can imagine, but far, far more dramatic. For showing us a part of that future, we should thank the two authors of Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers.
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