Bart Winfield Sibrel

Bart Sibrel

Bart Winfield Sibrel is a documentary film-maker from Nashville, Tennessee. He has filmed "A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Moon" (2001, narrated by Anne Tonelson) and the follow-up "Astronauts Gone Wild". In these films Bart claims that the footage that was shown world-wide on national TV was fake and that none of the six Apollo moon landings ever took place, something also referred to as the moon landing hoax.

Bart Sibrel appeared in the TV special "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" aired on the FOX network in 2001. He had persistently made claims making his point that the moon landings were part of a government conspiracy, providing his theories, observations and many pieces of mostly visual evidence he could gather. One of the examples is that, on some of the lunar photographs (according to Sibrel himself, that were taken in a studio) of the moon's surface, the shadows of the two astronauts and rocks, seemingly do not consistently point in the same direction, implying multiple sources of light. Thus theoretically proving the possibility of artificial environment. One of the other numerous claims Bart makes is that if one speeds up the videos of astronauts walking and jumping on the moon, exactly by half (this is the key point), one would see motion reminiscent of that on Earth. Given the state of camera technology at the time (1969), this observation may (or may not) imply that the footage has been shot here on Earth, and slowed down to appear as it took place on the Moon, because reducing the frame-rate by exactly half was a relatively easy "trick".

An excerpt from moonmovie.com, about "A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Moon": Millions do not yet know that the Apollo 11 crew has been caught red-handed by the accidental release of incriminating footage. The now infamous tape shows Aldrin, Armstrong and Collins completely faking their trip to the moon, two days before they were supposed to be there. And when NASA found out that the 1969 tape had been mislabeled and sent out to filmmaker Bart Sibrel, they quickly introduced the cover-up story. The crew was simply "practicing". Others have attempted to claim this film had already been released, but this is simply not the case. The accompanying shots were also released on Apollo 11 Monkey Business: False Photography Unedited, with film dated July 11, 1969. The content of the shots alone prove that the entire Apollo 11 lunar encounter was staged from start to finish."

A known fact, documented by a video you can possibly find on the Internet is that Buzz Aldrin punched the conspiracy theorist Bart Sibrel in the face when he claimed that Aldrin didn't go to the moon and calling Buzz "a coward, a liar and a thief." This took place in Beverly Hills, California. Buzz now lives with his wife in Los Angeles. The story of Buzz punching Bart Sibrel made nation-wide headlines in the news in September 2002. Sibrel has been confronting the Apollo mission astronauts including Aldrin to be used in his documentary films. According to a Wikipedia article, Sibrel later wrote an apology-letter to the astronaut.

clavius.org - a web-site dedicated to debunking Sibrel's claims.