First men on moon claimed UFO 'followed them' – but were scared to raise alarm – Daily Star
Legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong died 11 years ago today (August 25) having been the first to put boots on the moon alongside Buzz Aldrin. Their encounter of a UFO is truly creepy
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The first men on the moon claimed they were followed by a UFO, and future astronauts went on to report similar sightings of "space guests".
Today (August 25) marks 11 years since legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong died at the age of 82.
One of the most Earth-shattering stories from his trip to the moon with Buzz Aldrin, is that they spotted a UFO while wandering the surface of the moon.
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Aldrin, recalling the experience back in 2006, said: "Now, obviously, the three of us were not going to blurt out, ‘Hey Houston we got something moving alongside of us and we don’t know what it is, you know, can you tell us what it is?’.
"We weren’t about to do that, cause we know that those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people and who knows what somebody would have demanded that we turn back because of aliens or whatever the reason is, so we didn’t do that but we did decide we’d just cautiously ask Houston where, how far away was the S-IVB?"
Now the dust has settled, a senior Apollo 11 scientist has admitted the object was "obviously an unidentified flying object".
Dr David Baker agreed the crew had seen something unexpected during their trip to the moon.
He said: "It was obviously an unidentified flying object, but such objects were not uncommon and the history of even earth orbit space flights going back over the previous years indicated that several crews saw objects".
The sightings made by Armstrong however could be a mere collection of debris from their own jettisoned spacecraft.
UFO sightings and even "space guests" were spotted as recently as 2020, with a collection of astronauts continually alleging they encountered something non-human and indescribable.
Most recently was the interaction between Cosmonaut Ivan Vagner and a strange "space guest" he found in a time lapse video he took of the Aurora Australis.
Snapping some footage of the Northern Lights saw the Russian Cosmonaut spark a wave of UFO claims as the "mysterious video" captured a series of objects flying alongside the lights.
Those watching the footage back in 2020 were teased by Vagner, who said there was "something else, not only the aurora" in his video, CTV reported.
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