The NASA Conspiracies: The Truth Behind the Moon Landings, Censored Photos & the Face on Mars

by Nick Redfern

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration--NASA--was established on July 29, 1958. Ever since that day, NASA has been at the forefront of efforts to explore outerspace, resulting in the Apollo missions to the moon, the Skylab space-station, and today's space shuttle.

But behind the open face of NASA, there is a much more mysterious world. NASA has been linked to a wealth of high-level cover-ups,

Genres: Nonfiction, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Aliens, History, Audiobook, Mystery

240 pages, Paperback

First published December 20, 2010

About the author

Nick Redfern is a British best-selling author, Ufologist and Cryptozoologist who has been an active advocate of official disclosure, and has worked to uncover thousands of pages of previously-classified Royal Air Force, Air Ministry and Ministry of Defence files on UFOs dating from the Second World War from the Public Record Office.

He has has appeared on a variety of television programmes in the UK and works on the lecture circuit, both in the UK and overseas, and has appeared in internationally syndicated shows discussing the UFO phenomenon. He is also a regular on the History Channel programs Monster Quest and UFO Hunters as well as National Geographic Channels's Paranormal and the SyFY channel's Proof Positive.

Redfern now lives in Texas and is currently working as a full-time author and journalist specializing in a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, UFO sightings, government conspiracies, alien abductions and paranormal phenomena, and also works as a feature writer and contributing editor for Phenomena magazine and writes regularly for other magazines and websites.

In 2007 Universal Studios bought the rights to Redfern's book: "Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monster, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs and Ape-Men" in the hopes of making a movie from it.

Reviews

[Matthew Kresal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Paranormal researcher and author Nick Redfern turned his gaze and eye for intriguing (if not always entirely plausible) stories and theories toward NASA with this 2010 book. Exploring everything from allegations of faked Apollo moon landings to the agency's alleged role in not only investigating UFOs but various cryptozoological creatures, this slim volume is very much a packed one. One whose connections to NASA itself sometimes feel tangential at best (something I've come to expect from reading his work, especially his much more recent book The Martians) and in other places feels like a regurgitation of decades worth of previous theories.

That said, Redfern's level-headed approach here suits him and the book well, allowing him to skeptically inquire about various claims, dismissing some while finding a basis for others. The results may feel a tad off-topic at times, but Redfern knows how to spin a good yarn. The question, as is so often the case, is how much is fact and how much is fiction.

[Mr S Jarvis · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting book that may prove to be correct in time. I wouldn’t put anything past our government of today.

[Judith · Rating 1 out of 5]

In my opinion this book is an unimpressive argument that NASA is involved in high-level cover-ups (are there low-level cover-ups?) of evidence (e.g. "face on Mars"; UFO's; abductions) that there is highly intelligent life in outer space that has been contacting average people with messages or in gathering more information on us (though not, from the accounts in the book, with any perceptible rhyme or reason that we can perceive). The book does not answer some basic questions such as :why contact average people? By now the outer space beings must realize that these people are generally perceived as unbelievable and that the governments of the world and their military and quasi-military agencies are covering up, so that any message of peace, global destruction, whatever is not being disseminated in any way that would cause us to change our ways. The main problem of books such as this is that there is no way NASA (or whatever government agency is involved) can "prove" that there is no cover-up: any statement that all information has been provided and the fact that the information does not clearly indicate that intelligent space life has contacted us is proof that the cover-up continues.

[Mark Davis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Chupacabras at NASA and other odd goings on.

[Eileanór Bláth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Redfern mi sembra razionale e poco incline a lasciarsi andare al complottismo becero, cosa che rende valido questo libro. Purtroppo gli editori italiani hanno la mania di inventarsi i titoli così, tanto per gusto, alla membro di segugio, e quindi "The NASA Conspiracies" diventa inspiegabilmente "Bufale Spaziali", quando non si parla certo di "bufale", e il sottotitolo è "Tutta la verità su..." varie cose, quando l'autore in realtà parla di teorie ed è ben lungi dal pensare di avere la verità in tasca. Ecco, è un buon libro, messo insieme con molto lavoro e si vede... ma poi tradotto con i piedi.

[Benjamin Manglos · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'll just barely recommend it. There are parts that are poorly written, as if the book was composed too fast and there was no editor involved. But as a paranormal researcher I have a lot of affinity for Redfern. He presents the panoply of the paranormal without making value judgments or skewing facts into a specific theory, more in the tradition of a classical Fortean paranormal writer. While not something I'd recommend to everyone, it's a useful, quick summation of the various NASA conspiracies without a lot of theoretical fluff.

[Karen Ford · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author of about one article a day for the Mysterious Universe website, Nick Redfern delves into the secrets of the United States' space agency NASA. There is a multitude of subjects explored, including the moon landing controversy, UFOs, the space shuttle disasters and the agency's connection to a certain incident in Roswell, NM.

The author does a fair and balanced take on those subjects and more, and the book is very recommended for anyone exploring the paranormal.

[Phil Cotnoir · Rating 4 out of 5]

These conspiracy books are a bit of a guilty pleasure. (Don't judge me!)

Redfern does a good job putting together the research and keeping things flowing. Aside from conjecture and unverifiable personal testimony, the declassified official documentation alone is enough to firmly establish the fact that NASA has been far more interested and involved with UFOs and other weird phenomena than it has tried to portray publicly. Make of that what you will.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was fearful this would be crazy rambling but it is mainly a summary of disclosed info from NASA FOI requests. Admittidly this of course raises lots of mysteries but can provide very few answers short of unverifiable accounts. Wish there was a bit more flow to the different stories as they seem to bounce all over the place

[M · Rating 2 out of 5]

Seems to be mostly gossip and hearsay.

[Joseph · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had to read it to see if there was an argument that might sway me away from calling bulls#!t on these conspiracies. There isn't, not in this book at least.

[Jason Joy · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75 stars

[Wim]

STill busy. Doom thinking and I like it

[Lia Silva · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love a good conspiracy theory but just as some of the chapters on the book were interesting and informative others were outright boring and farfetched

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting book. Dispels some conspiracies while lending credence to others.