200,000 year old statue found on the moon...

[Tecnos]

From Source (pinch of salt needed? you decide)

WASHINGTON, DC - A noted scientist has just produced proof that the lunar surface was inhabited by intelligent life: a 10-inch angel sculpture embedded in a moon rock.
200,000 Year Old Statue Found On Moon
Geologist Dr. Morris Charles revealed last week that NASA lab workers chipped the angel from one of the rocks brought to Earth by Apollo 11 astronauts 40 years ago, in 1969. Dr. Charles was a NASA scientist himself for 23 years but left the agency in 1987. He still maintains close ties to many of his former colleagues.

“The implications of this figurine are absolutely mind-boggling,” Dr. Charles told reporters. “It means that at one time the moon had an atmosphere conducive to life. And what’s more, it was once home to a sophisticated race of people with a highly refined sense of beauty.”

The angel - a humanoid female with wing-like appendages on her back and long flowing hair - is made of an iron compound found exclusively in the highlands of the moon.

This rules out the possibility that it was dropped by a race of aliens from another planet. It’s been hand polished to a silvery metallic sheen. Based on chemical analysis of the metal, geologists estimate the sculpture to be 200,000 years old which means it was made 170,000 years before the human species appeared on Earth.

It’s been examined by art experts who concur with Dr. Charles’ appraisal of the culture that produced it. “Clearly these beings had a sense of religion that parallels our Christianity. Perhaps they had a Jesus of their own, proving that the important spiritual principles are, in a very literal sense, universal,” said a Washington anthropologist.

Others are not so sure of its religious significance. Dr. Miles Fredericks of New York University countered, “This is just more Christian propaganda. The Sumerians told stories of the Annunaki, winged deities, as far back as 18th century BC. Maybe the Sumerians were visited by these moon beings, who merely modeled the statue after their own image.”

While many ponder the significance of the figure, others are curious about why it has remained a secret for so long. “The artifact has been common knowledge among NASA insiders for years,” said Dr. Charles. “But space agency higher-ups have kept the information highly classified, fearing world-wide panic. It was smuggled out to me by persons who must, for obvious reasons, remain anonymous.”

NASA officially denies Dr. Charles’ allegations. The statue was displayed to photographers and newsmen but is now being held for further study at an undisclosed location.

Astronauts of Antiquity - Zecharia Sitchin has already shown in The Twelfth Planet that the statues of gods and goddesses from Sumer present special helmets with protuberances on both sides (the Middle Ages’s illiteracy turned them into”devil horns”), which perfectly look like the pilots’ headphones; the statues were provided with the SHU.GAR.RA - a term that literally means”that which makes you go far into the Universe”.

Another image discovered in North Israel, dating back to the ninth millennium B.C., represents the sculpted head of a god with a helmet and safety glasses. Also a picture of the goddess Ishtar from her temple in Sumer…
Relief
All this suggests to us that the attire …was that of an aeronaut or an astronaut”…

Sumer

Many drawings on the Sumerian plates show the gods with wings, which were not belonging to the body, but they were accessories of the flight suit, therfore the gods looked like eagles…
This drawing on a Sumerian plate suggests that an Anunnaki / Elohim spaceship is connected to the base on Earth.”The central object … it is more mechanical, more manufactured than natural.Its (( wings )) looks almost exactly like the solar panels which American spacecraft are provided to convert the Sun’s energy to electricity. The two antennas cannot be mistaken. The circular craft … is located between Mars (the six - pointed star) and Earth and its Moon”(Z. Sitchin, The Twelfth Planet)…

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[kidflash2008]

There is a difference between the moon being inhabited by life and a visitation of the moon. The atmosphere has always been thin there, and the craters prove that.

Zecharia Sitchin is mentioned in the article a lot, so he must have another book coming out. They are interesting to read, but he lacks credit in the history department.

[kidflash2008]

UPDATE: This story is from the Weekly World News:

http://weeklyworldnews.com/alien-ale...found-on-moon/

It is definitely a hoax.

[Tecnos]

Originally Posted by kidflash2008

It is definitely a hoax.

Agreed!

But it seems to be the hot topic on ATS at the minute!

[SmokingMan]

Sounds like a hoax to me for sure. I just don't understand why geologists and astronomers even question such a thing. According to the most accepted running hypothesis concerning the formation of the moon, a Mars-sized body struck the Earth during it's proto-Earth period blasting large amounts of debris into orbit around Earth, which eventually became consolidated by accretion to form Luna. The thing is, when the moon first formed, it was largely molten with a high degree of volcanic activity. During this time, the mares and lunar highlands where created. When it cooled and solidified, large areas contracted forming wrinkle-ridges. Rilles also formed when, for example, lava tubes collapsed. My point is that these geological features on the moon are still visible today. The surface of the Earth is much different from when it formed, because geological features are constantly being weathered. Plate tectonics are constantly subducting and destroying older crust and new crust is being formed at divergent faults. Volcanoes are creating new continental boundaries, and earthquakes are also changing the landscape. But the moon has no atmosphere, no weathering, no active volcanism, no plate tectonics. That's why it doesn't change. If there was ever intelligent life or civilization, or if there was ever an intelligent visit to the Moon besides us humans, it's not like the evidence of such an event would be gone and lost forever. We should be able to find much more evidence indicative of intelligent life at the surface of the moon than a crusty angel statue. It would be pretty safe to say, "You can't find just an angel statue on the moon, you can only find an angel statue with plenty of other signs of intelligence there." On a planet like Earth, it's theoretically possible for some such indication of early intelligent life to go unnoticed, but on the Moon, evidence doesn't just dissappear, even with all of the meteor impacts.

[kidflash2008]

There are some at ATS who are very upset at the "debunkers" who spoiled it be finding out the true source. They are about denying ignorance, and that includes wild theories that have no basis in fact.

Most of the sources for tales such as this one come from other countries' versions of the Weekly Midnight Globe type rags. Pravda is now considered such a newspaper, as they have had to find a niche in order to survive the post Communist era.