Somebody Else Is On The Moon

by George H. Leonard

Incredible proof of an alien race on the Moon! The evidence: Immense mechanical rigs, strange geometric ground markings and symbols, construction, lights, flares, vehicle tracks, towers, pipes, and conduits. The conclusion: somebody is doing something on our Moon! Illustrated with official NASA photographs.

Genres: Nonfiction, Audiobook, Aliens, History, Pseudoscience, Conspiracy Theories

Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Snakes · Rating 1 out of 5]

Hands down the most moronic book I've ever read. The author's hypothesis is that the moon is inhabited by an alien race. Therein he puts forth all sorts of "evidence" to support his idea. 99.9% percent of this evidence involves photographs of the moon taken by NASA during orbiting probes in the 70s when standard definition was the Gold Standard. The book is rife with crazy predictions that haven't come true within the time frame the author lays out.

The whole thing works well as a comedy piece, but the sad truth is the author is writing with abject seriousness. He includes illustrations of "rigs" and "machinery" on the moon surface. Then references a photo as proof. Inevitably I'd flip to the grainy, low-contrast photo included in the book and would see a rock. Back and forth. Uh...that's a rock. That's a shadow cast by a rock. That's another rock. Uh...light striking a rock. I don’t know if the author is being disingenuous or if he harbors a vision problem, but he's referencing photos of rocks and claiming they're "machines" and "rigs". This book was just so stupid.

However for knuckle-biting entertainment I'd give it a half star. He does offer a smidgen of a quasi-detective story that alleges people at NASA and other actual scientists staring at him in flabbergasted, stunned silence. He deduces that these looks of stunned awe are a sign that these people are hiding something when it's patently obvious it's a reaction of shock to the supreme levels of stupidity the author is proposing. I can't even convey the brainless chatter that boiled out of this paperback (print on demand because it is oddly out of print). Did I mention how stupid this book was? Repetitive. Stupid. Repetitive. Stupid. I much prefer actual scientific mysteries, like the testing which initially pointed to the moon being hollow, which are then explained through research and testing, to unproven, and frankly moronic, theories stemming from anecdotal and eyewitness testimony.

[Benjamin Stahl · Rating 2 out of 5]

In reading, responding to, and reviewing books of this nature, I try (sometimes without success) not to base my judgement too much on whether I actually believe the gist of the writer's claims or not. Even if you don't at all agree with one's conclusions, or even consider them to be conspiracies at best bordering on insane, you can still have a perfectly good time - even, dare I say, kind of wish deep down you could believe them. Here, I am looking at The Hollow Earth by Raymond Bernard and The Flat-Earth Conspiracy by Eric Dubay. Both of these books, while positing pretty crazy ideas, are effectively intriguing enough that they get you thinking: Well, what if, you know?

This book, however, was not very good on that count either. More in line with something like Mars and Its Canals and the highly-collectible ufologist classic, Ringmakers of Saturn, it was so hard to take in any way seriously that I just lost interest altogether. Despite the tantalising idea that the moon is home to an advanced alien civilisation, it somehow manages to be boring because you know there is absolutely no way it isn't really just the speculative fictions of a man riled up by funny things he's seen in grainy lunar pictures.

By this point, having rated low a reasonable number of books of this sort, I could ask myself why I still bother reading them in the first place. The reason is the same for why I always feel partly disingenuous playing the sceptic - something I usually don't do, as anyone who read a good deal of my reviews would soon learn that I am both a devout (which is not exactly to say good) Christian, and also a firm believer in ghosts. Hell, if pressed, I would even say I lean towards saying there are probably extraterrestrial lifeforms out there in some distant corner of the universe. And yes, could be they are even intelligent. I think the only logical position is an agnostic one on the question of aliens. We have no solid basis upon which to reject their possibility, only to reject at least the vast amount of so-called evidence presented so far.

There was a time, back in 2016 or '17, that I discovered a YouTube channel called Secureteam10. The guy who runs it is a bit of a nutter, and he literally went off the grid and was arrested at some point. But, while I have not properly watched or been impressed by any of his videos in recent years, I still recall the thrill of first watching some of his earlier ones where he analysed odd Martian formations picked up via satellite imagery, seeming artificial openings in the midst of Antartica, large craft-like objects on the seafloor, crashed debris on desert islands that looked remarkably close to flying saucers. For a little while, he had me - along with many another (most likely) male viewer - up way later than I should have been, thinking, Oh my God, this shit is actually REAL. This is INSANE. That odd concoction of awe, excitement and fear takes one right back to their childhood, when the world was a much less comprehensible, and therefore more magical, place.

That is why I continue to return to these whacky titles. A part of me still wants to believe, not just that we really are not alone in this universe, but even that we are closer than we ever thought to finding our interstellar neighbours. But it's barely more than a mild passion for me really, and one that ultimately doesn't matter much because, aliens or not, I do not believe we are really alone anyway. At least, not beyond the bounds of this mysterious but still temporal universe.

[Martti · Rating 1 out of 5]

Leonard is either a bad scientist with no understanding how to present his findings properly or a moderate fiction writer with a great imagination.

This guy looked at some low-rez black and white images from early NASA orbiters and saw robots, buildings, screws, and aliens on the Moon.

Really? Of all the possibilities this guy saw alien activities all around the Moon. The images from my copy of the book were really low-rez, could make nothing out what he was talking about. Maybe he had like the most crystal clear images ever?

Basically all this might be possible that he's writing, I guess. But I find the lack of evidence disturbing, to say the least. Besides I thought we had Nazis on the dark side of the Moon?

Still, it's one of the big pseudoscience books that is actually quite logically written. And in that sense it's quite easy to read and it kind of jogs the mind, because he's really leaping to quite ridiculous conclusions really fast.

It would be quite interesting to read a contra paper about the images Leonard bases his wild hypothesis. I mean nowdays we should have a much better quality images from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and other probes.

Just look at that amount of missions to the Moon - http://www.planetary.org/explore/spac...

A selection of LRO and Apollo mission images - http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010...

Images of Tycho crater - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO...

Well, just take a look at that beautiful gallery of Moon images, maybe you can spot some robots and other anomalies?
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO...

[Gareth Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

so bad its good

[Mike Lisanke · Rating 3 out of 5]

This wasn't a great book. It was matter of fact about the truth of the title subject. Much of what was presented as easy to see isn't apparent without a lot of looking and subjectivity. But there are details of the moon that are hard to explain. And it's at least plausible that we (the public) know little about what NASA and US Government and other world governments know.
I would have much rather read much more detailed explanation of the hollow moon theory and the technical details of soil and rock chemical and isotopic analysis. Instead much of the book talks about how school kids and the author can interpret grainy images of the moon.
One of the reasons I've made no ardent commitment of time to aliens visiting Earth or living at bases on the moon is All the evidence most see (including me) is anecdotal or bad photography. In 2023 there's truly no excuse for out-of-focus grainy pictures. Streaks of light can be made by a bad photographer by just moving the camera. I suspect there won't be many stories beyond psychic remote viewing with even an entertaining story line.... except maybe alien bases on Earth experimenting on humans, of course!

[Ryan Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this to be a really enjoyable read. The author is snarky and very open with views and experiences. This review is not on the validity of the research and evidence. It is only a review on the enjoyment of reading this book. I laughed out loud several times at the authors passive aggressive digs at government bureaucracy or public figures. For example, the author mentions getting on 270 at one point to go to NIST but uses that opportunity to slam Eisenhower by saying POTUS had that highway built so he could more easily get to his farm in Gettysburg. The author also describes one anthropologist as someone who makes your nervous system vibrate. This type of snarky commentary kept me reading just to see what would come up next. I did find myself skipping a lot of the evidence sections and moving on to his next narrative because that was the part of the book I enjoyed. There is a lot of referenced material and an extensive bibliography. I cannot say if the cited sources are reliable but they are there.

[Dan Zarfati · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a historical book on a very important subject, the author engaged in very interesting research on the first high-resolution images of the moon, the text is really interesting, a lot of his insights are fascinating, still the book is problematic for me, I cannot recognize most of the things he is pointing out in the book, he does try in helping to make lots of drawings in trying to make things easier for us, but to me, it makes no difference, still he has one single frame that I can say did impress me, some boulders that seem to be going upward in a mound, so they seem to have been moved in a straight line, people did try to debunk it but still it appears to be artificial things involved.
Nowadays we have the work of Alan Sturm with ULOs and Mike Bara with Ancient Aliens on the Moon, it is more compelling in my opinion, still this book helped to set up the mood, if this research is your thing, then buy this one, because it is a classic.

[Kakha · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love astronomy and everything connected with it. I love the moon in all its forms. I am utterly interested in everything related to the moon and I read this book simply with great interest. I would be very glad if in the future they will give us a look at even better pictures in very high resolution, to clearly see everything with our own eyes and once and for all make sure whether there are all these artificial structures on the moon or not.

[Antonio Umani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Is somebody else on the moon? I believe so, George Leonard believes so. Nasa is an organisation specifically build to explore the space but haven't sent astronauts to the Moon in 50 years since the last Apollo mission. Why? There are valuable minerals on the moon to be mined, there could be a potential tourism industry valued in billions. We could have permanent bases there and advance our space faring capabilities many times over. So why Nasa? Why indeed.

[Sebastian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting thoughts and I enjoyed the book.
But this (too expensive) (Amazon-) reprint was too cheaply made, so that none of the pictures were of any help to see what the author might have seen. Even my home printer would have made better copies of those pictures.

[Valiant Thor · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting book on moon anomalies written by a Harvard grad during the Apollo years. Not everything in the book has aged well, but much of it has.

[Quinton · Rating 1 out of 5]

Conjecture. If there is any science or objective observation in here, it is lost in the author's conjecture. He did himself no favours.

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

He's got some interesting theories, but I can't tell diddly-squat In the pictures.

[Mihkel Riik · Rating 1 out of 5]

Absolute drivel and probable schizophrenic fantasy ;-;

[Pete Aldin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hilarious. The author’s earnestness in “proving” his firm belief in aliens using the moon as a base (or it being an ancient spacecraft, it’s gotta be one or the other ... or both ...) AND the incredibly aweful evidence he provides were more entertaining than his claims.

This edition was filled with fabulous b&w photos of moonscapes as seen from above, with arrows pointing at nothing and outrageous claims that we are seeing “rigs” and giant “gears”. Also sketches of shapes that look like ... shapes.

If you want a non-fiction equivalent of Sharknado, so bad it’s good, this might just be it.

[Joe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating reading.

[RRex · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very similar to Hoagland's DARK MISSION.