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              ALLEGED ANOMALY IN AS-11-41-6155 / Far Side Section 120, Explained


20130710, updated 20190122

The reported or alleged anomaly in NASA Apollo image AS11-41-6155 noted by Ananda Sirisena, a member of our imaging team has been explained.  The NASA Apollo report labels this image as "Daedalus S cut off in foreground". Here is the image and a link to the hires version.
LPI page
11S / 174E
West of Daedalus
2.4 megabyte

The Lunascan Project database shows that Daedalus is in Ridge Section 120 on the lunar Far Side which we completed on April 5th, 2013. Because of this new report, and the fact that the Ridge Section 120 format was due for an upgrade, I re-made this section and have uploaded it to the site at:

 I also created a stepped set of enlargements from Ananda's email:
Besides placing this claim in the appropriate directory I thought it was interesting that this site is also VERY close to the proposed location of a 2001 Space Odyssey-type lunar base where no radio signals from Earth can contaminate signals from outer space.

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Update
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 20:15:47 -0400
From: Ned Haskin <feanor17@covad.net>
To: fran ridge <nicap@insightbb.com>
Subject: Re: LUNASCAN: No anomaly on NASA original
Don't take my answer as definitive proof one way or the other Fran. When I say "just my two cents" that's not saying, I have done extensive research on it.

I have now looked at the alleged objects in gimp and didn't find that they pixcelated at different zoom levels than the background. It looked like they did using a cheap image viewer. Which is why I wrote what I did.

Now I have taken the time to look and I have found the anomaly you did plus lots of others. Including the one referenced on the exopolitics page. It is a little left of center. You need to zoom in at least 50% to see it. Their image is inverted and darkened.

s/daedalus_haskin.pdf

I probably just like Mike White says defects or even dust on the original negatives.
If you zoom in to 100% and slowly scroll up the image. You find little white hairs or wire like structures all over.

Now I have researched it some,
Ned

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Dated, 20130711
Another Lunascan member, Mike White responded:
I'm certain there are touched up images of the moon, but quite honestly this looks like a defect on the original negative. I do not claim to be any kind of expert, but having many years of darkroom experience, this is something that looks very familiar.  No matter how careful one is with film developing, it is a chemical process prone to errors.  There are far more intriguing images of the surface than this one.
Here is Ananda's email and the text from the website source she quoted from:

From: anandals@aol.com
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 16:29:00 -0400 (EDT)
To: LUNASCAN LIST

Does anyone on this list have any opinions about the anomaly quite evident in this
Apollo frame and the claims made below:

Apollo 11 photo reveals base on far side of moon

[7/7/13 - ExoNews.org/Examiner.com/Exopolitics.org] A photo from the online archive of the Apollo 11 mission reveals what appears to be a base on the far side of the moon. The object appears to be on the moon’s surface and is well illuminated. It is symmetrical with a long shaft separated at each end by a small sphere with another in the center. The spheres appear to be living quarters with connecting corridors. The object was recently discovered by an observer and announced today on UFO Sightings Daily. The photo, AS11-41-6155, is significant since whistleblowers have claimed that NASA regularly scrubs or destroys photos with any evidence of alien life or artificial structures. The Apollo 11 photo does not appear to have been digitally altered in any way, and may be stunning visual evidence of alien life on the far side of the moon.

Also published in ExoNews.org and Examiner.com

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Dated 20130710
The alleged anomaly or defect does not appear in the original NASA image.

Ned Haskin:

Fran, I looked up the original
And I don't even see anything similar. Also if you look a the image referred to, on the hill just to the right is a face like a skull. Just my two cents, but I think it has been photoshopped.
http://exopolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/moon-base.jpg

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So, for-the-record, if anyone Googles up this anomaly we have it onsite what we have found. Our thanks to Ananda, Mike and Ned. We're satisfied that this particular item has been explained, although other images within Daedalus are being analyzed and Daedalus for other reasons is the subject of LRO scans.

Francis Ridge
The Lunascan Project