Jesse Michels
American Alchemy
independentDeep ingestJul 20

Probed ingest of: Proof That NASA Censored Moon Photos (and The Astronauts Knew!)

American Alchemy’s Jesse Michels interviews physicist Maaneli “Max” Derakhshani about alleged anomalies in Apollo imagery, Clementine’s military origins, astronaut reports, shuttle footage, archival inconsistencies, lunar geology, and classified surveillance terms. The episode builds a cumulative case for past nonhuman activity while weighing conventional explanations, disputed testimony, parapsychology research, spacetime metric engineering, and tests that could separate artifacts and geology from technology.

Structured source analysis of a public American Alchemy episode.

PROBED ASSESSMENT

Jesse Michels and Maaneli Derakhshani assemble Apollo photographs, astronaut accounts, military terminology, planetary anomalies, parapsychology, and warp-drive theory into a cumulative argument for past nonhuman activity and continuing automated surveillance.

Key Takeaways
  1. 1.Apollo 17 frame AS17-147-22470 is authentic and unresolved in the cited government collection, but its pre-EVA window context and limited data do not identify a craft.
  2. 2.Clementine, military space programs, classified fastwalker records, and NASA’s security obligations are documented; the proposed link from those records to hidden lunar reconnaissance remains inferential.
  3. 3.Compton–Belkovich heat, Aristarchus radon, Phobos boulders, and lunar cavities are genuine research targets with developed geological explanations that the episode treats as possible technology.
  4. 4.The strongest research proposal is methodological: release raw scans and provenance, compare archival versions, publish sensor metadata, preserve negative results, and inspect specific anomalies at higher resolution.
  5. 5.Ganzfeld statistics and the Alcubierre metric show why consciousness and spacetime engineering enter the discussion, but neither supplies an operational mechanism for reported craft.
Why It Matters

The episode usefully converts diffuse space-UFO lore into falsifiable archival and mission targets, even where its cumulative reasoning risks making independent ambiguities appear mutually corroborating.

Evidence Assessment

Official mission histories, statutes, images, and peer-reviewed studies verify several underlying records and anomalies. Claims of image censorship, astronaut coercion, ancient structures, and a legacy reverse-engineering program remain anecdotal, disputed, or unsupported by chain-of-custody evidence; AARO reports no verifiable extraterrestrial technology.

Open Questions
  1. 1.Will NASA release calibrated raw scans and provenance for the disputed Apollo frames?
  2. 2.Can shuttle-object motions be reconstructed quantitatively from complete mission telemetry?
  3. 3.Which lunar candidates remain anomalous after blinded geological review and targeted imaging?

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Source Claims

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  • InferenceUnverified

    The episode argues that Apollo imagery, lunar and Martian anomalies, astronaut stories, archival discrepancies, and classified surveillance terminology cumulatively favor a past nonhuman presence and possibly continuing automated probes.

    may together indicate a past nonhuman presence in the Solar System and perhaps continuing automated surveillance

  • Source reportedContested

    The episode presents the 1994 Clementine mission as a genuine defense technology demonstration and lunar survey, while Maaneli Derakhshani treats John Brandenburg’s alleged reconnaissance-for-lunar-bases account as circumstantial and unverified.

    the official history does not establish that purpose

  • Source reportedConfirmed

    The episode invokes the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to argue that national-security discoveries can be withheld, but the cited statute establishes NASA as a civilian agency rather than an arm of the Defense Department.

    The statute establishes NASA as a civilian agency

  • InterpretationUnverified

    Maaneli Derakhshani interprets three blue lights in Apollo 17 frame AS17-147-22470 as possibly attached to one physical object; the public record confirms the frame and its pre-EVA window context, but not a spacecraft.

    the physical-object interpretation remains unproven

  • InterpretationUnverified

    The episode treats Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 light report and secondhand stories about Eugene Cernan, Neil Armstrong, and Edgar Mitchell as possible signs of secrecy, while acknowledging that the accounts are behavioral, anonymous, contradictory, or apocryphal.

    Their evidence here is behavioral

Structure Across Time

How the key people and organizations in this source are involved as events unfold. Built from the extracted timeline — co-appearance here reflects the source’s narrative, not verified coordination.

2026-07-20

American Alchemy publishes the Derakhshani interview

Jesse Michels and Maaneli Derakhshani present a cumulative case built from space imagery, testimony, classified terminology, planetary anomalies, consciousness research, and propulsion theory.

2025-10-20

POSS-I transient correlation paper is published

Stephen Bruehl and Beatriz Villarroel report statistical associations between pre-Sputnik transients, nuclear-test timing, and UAP reports, while leaving causal interpretation unresolved.

2024-03-06

AARO publishes historical UAP review

AARO reports no verifiable evidence that the U.S. government or private industry possessed extraterrestrial technology or ran a hidden reverse-engineering program.

2023-07-05

Compton–Belkovich batholith study is published

Nature reports a roughly 50-kilometer granitic system with peak heat flux about twenty times the lunar-highlands average beneath Compton–Belkovich.

2003-09-17

JPL publishes high-resolution Phobos boulder image

JPL describes an approximately 85-meter Phobos feature as one of several large boulders, probably impact ejecta from Stickney crater.

1996

STS-80 records another disputed luminous-object sequence

Maaneli Derakhshani treats STS-80 imagery as a strong anomaly, while critics cite ice, debris, perspective, and shuttle operations.

1995

CIA-sponsored remote-viewing review reaches divided assessments

The episode notes Jessica Utts’s favorable statistical assessment and Ray Hyman’s skeptical assessment; the broader review did not establish dependable operational intelligence value.

1994-01-25

Clementine launches as a defense and lunar-science mission

The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and NASA launched Clementine to test lightweight spacecraft systems and map the Moon before a malfunction ended its planned asteroid phase.

1994

Alcubierre publishes a warp-drive metric

Miguel Alcubierre proposed a general-relativistic metric that contracts space ahead and expands it behind a region, while known realizations require unachievable exotic stress-energy.

1991

STS-48 records disputed luminous-object footage

The episode treats STS-48 footage as a strong maneuvering-object case, while conventional analysis favors ice, debris, camera geometry, and thruster effects.

1976

Tehran encounter becomes a proposed surveillance-data comparison

The episode calls for historical Defense Support Program data to be released and compared with the 1976 Tehran UFO incident.

1973-02-23

Apollo 15 radon result at Aristarchus is published

A Science paper reported detection of radon emanation from Aristarchus using the Apollo 15 alpha-particle spectrometer, supporting geological interest in the region.

1972-12-11

Apollo 17 frame AS17-147-22470 is taken before EVA

The publicly available frame shows three small blue lights above the lunar horizon and was photographed through Harrison Schmitt’s lunar-module window before EVA.

1971

Apollo 14 archive versions become an alteration lead

Maaneli Derakhshani compares versions of an Apollo 14 image of Edgar Mitchell and treats a blue-orb discrepancy as a possible editing lead without an audited chain of custody.

1969

Apollo 11 crew observes an accompanying light

The episode revisits Buzz Aldrin’s account of a light seen en route to the Moon and disputes his later spacecraft-adapter-panel explanation.

1965-12-05

Gemini 7 crew reports an actual sighting

The episode plays Gemini 7 audio in which mission control distinguishes the booster from what the crew calls an actual sighting.

1960

Brookings report considers discovery of extraterrestrial artifacts

A NASA-commissioned Brookings study considered possible social reactions to finding extraterrestrial artifacts and whether information should be presented or withheld, without issuing a standing concealment order.

1958

National Aeronautics and Space Act establishes NASA

The episode invokes the 1958 statute in its secrecy argument; the law establishes a civilian space agency while preserving defense coordination and classified-information exceptions.

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