Bartholomew Winfield Sibrel is a Nashville, Tennessee-based amateur filmmaker who claims that the six Apollo moon landings between 1969 and 1972 were hoaxes. He has filmed two documentaries on the subject: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon and Astronauts Gone Wild. Nickname: Music City Location in Davidson County and the state of Tennessee Coordinates: Country United States State Tennessee Counties Davidson County Founded: 1779 Incorporated: 1806  - Mayor Bill Purcell (D) Area    - City 1362. ... Description Role: Earth and Lunar Orbit Crew: 3; CDR, CM pilot, LM pilot Dimensions Height: 36. ... Year 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon is a 2001 documentary written, produced, and directed by Nashville, Tennessee-based filmmaker and investigative journalist Bart Winfield Sibrel, a critic of the United States space program and proponent of the theory that the six Apollo lunar landing missions between...

Most astronauts have refused to grant him interviews due to his questionable tactics used in attempts to obtain footage of them confessing to being conspirators in a hoax. The most infamous incident involved Apollo 11 crew member Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon. According to Aldrin, he was lured to a Beverly Hills hotel under the pretext of an interview on space for a Japanese children's television show. When he arrived, Aldrin claims Sibrel was there demanding that he swear on a Bible that he had walked on the moon. For other uses, see Astronaut (disambiguation). ... Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images which represent scenes in motion. ... Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. ... Colonel Buzz Eugene Aldrin, Sc. ... For other uses, see: Beverly Hills (disambiguation). ... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library of Congress. ...

When Aldrin refused, Sibrel called him a coward, a liar, and a thief. [1] An exasperated Aldrin punched Sibrel in the jaw, which was recorded. Sibrel's reaction was to ask, "Did you get that on camera?" Sibrel later attempted to use the tape to convince police and prosecutors that he was the victim of an assault. However, it was decided that Aldrin had been provoked, and (based on Sibrel's unfazed, nearly instant reaction to his camera man) did not actually injure Sibrel, and no charges were filed. Many talk show hosts aired the clip, making Sibrel the butt of jokes.

Bart Sibrel also participated in the controversial Fox Television Network special, Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? In it, Sibrel stated that, "I'd bet my life that we never went to the moon." Interestingly, while Sibrel is interviewed for the Fox special, he does not appear in his own film; British stage actress Anne Tonelson narrates the documentary. The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ...

Criticism

Sibrel's claims of a lunar landing hoax have been widely dismissed by the scientific and space science communities.

Jim McDade, writing in the Birmingham News, characterized A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon as "full of falsehoods, innuendo, strident accusations, half-truths, flawed logic and premature conclusions." According to McDade, the "only thing new and weird" in the 47-minute film is that the claim that video views of Earth was actually filmed through a small hole to give the impression that Apollo 11 was not in low earth orbit. "Bart has misinterpreted things that are immediately obvious to anyone who has extensively read Apollo history and documentation or anyone who has ever been inside an Apollo Command Module or accurate mockup," says McDade. The Birmingham News is a the daily newspaper for Birmingham, Alabama, and the largest newspaper in Alabama. ... A minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... Adjectives: Terrestrial, Terran, Telluric, Tellurian, Earthly Atmosphere Surface pressure: 101. ... Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. ... The Command/Service Module (CSM) was a spacecraft built for NASA by North American Aviation. ...

Aldrin's attorney, Robert O'Brien, says that Sibrel has a history of stalking other former astronauts, including Neil Armstrong, Alan Bean, and Al Worden. Buzz Aldrin's wife, Lois summed up her feelings about Bart Sibrel: "He said things I can't repeat. He was not a nice man, and it really upset Buzz a lot." For other uses, see Stalking (disambiguation). ... add This article is about the former American astronaut. ... Alan LaVern Bean (born March 15, 1932 in Wheeler, Texas) is a former NASA Astronaut. ... Alfred Merrill Worden (born February 7, American astronaut who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 15 moon mission in July_August 1971. ...

Moon Hoax documentary films

• What Happened on the Moon?, David Percy/Aulis.com, 2000; Run time: 222 minutes.
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon, January 18, 2001; Run time: 47 minutes
• Astronauts Gone Wild, June 14, 2004; Run time: 53 minutes
• Apollo 11 Monkey Business, December 9, 2004; Run time: 108 minutes
• Apollo 11 Post-Flight Press Conference, December 9, 2004; Run time: 83 minutes

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon is a 2001 documentary written, produced, and directed by Nashville, Tennessee-based filmmaker and investigative journalist Bart Winfield Sibrel, a critic of the United States space program and proponent of the theory that the six Apollo lunar landing missions between...

See also

• Apollo moon landing hoax accusations

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External links

• Bart Sibrel's website
• Pro hoax website
• Badastronomy.com's coverage of the Fox special
• Clavius.org, a hoax debunking site
• KAYSING PRIZE a Prize for the “hoaxbusters”
• Men From Earth, authors of 'I Faked The Moon Landing'
• Video of Buzz Aldrin punching Bart Sibrel
• A critique of Sibrel
• Crank Dot Net's Apollo hoax section