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Our American Alchemist this week is Maaneli "Max" Derakhshani. Check out Max's work here researchgate.net/profile/Maaneli-Derakhshani
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Theoretical physicist Maaneli Derakhshani, a Utrecht PhD working on lunar anomalies, discovered that NASA holds two versions of the same Apollo 14 photograph: in one, a blue orb hangs in the sky above astronaut Ed Mitchell, and in the other it has been redacted out. He has found the same across other Apollo missions, and Ken Johnston Sr., a former NASA consultant and pilot who worked with the astronauts, says he was ordered to destroy early negatives showing things that weren't supposed to be there.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:28 - Maaneli's Background
3:54 - Stony Brook, Renaissance, and Brookhaven
10:45 - Clementine and the Space Act
15:03 - Does NASA Know More?
18:52 - Apollo 17 Blue Lights
21:22 - Sponsors (DOSE)
22:51 - Apollo 17 Metallic Object
25:50 - Cosmic Rays and Lens Flare
28:58 - Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 Sighting
35:45 - Cernan and Mitchell's Experiences
39:32 - Enforced Secrecy and Dean Radin
41:11 - Freemasonry Inside NASA
43:26 - NASA Insiders and Gary McKinnon
46:03 - Ken Johnston and Archive Inconsistencies
51:59 - Shuttle Footage and Code Words
57:24 - Wishbone Structure and Lunar Erosion
1:00:37 - Withholding and the Brookings Report
1:02:42 - Brandenburg, Mars, and Carl Sagan
1:05:00 - Sagan's Two Sides and the Face on Mars
1:10:53 - Menzel and Narrative Management
1:11:37 - Villarroel and the Palomar Transients
1:16:23 - Fast Walkers and DSP Satellites
1:20:12 - Armstrong's Ecuador Expedition
1:21:45 - The Phobos Monolith and Arthur C. Clarke
1:26:51 - Mars Anomalies and NASA's Silence
1:29:50 - Blue Book, Condon, and AARO
1:32:27 - Sponsors (ZBiotics)
1:33:44 - Sponsors (The Perfect Jean)
1:35:02 - Compton-Belkovich Heat Anomaly
1:38:58 - Nuclear Sites and UFO Correlation
1:40:49 - Aristarchus Crater
1:44:06 - Lunex and the Secret Space Program
1:48:23 - Is the Moon Hollow?
1:51:21 - Moon Formation Anomalies
1:55:08 - Directed Panspermia and Mars Origins
1:57:53 - The Moon Landing Question
2:01:37 - Jim Keller's Hoax Case
2:03:15 - Getting Into Parapsychology
2:07:32 - The Ganzfeld Protocol and Psi Statistics
2:13:37 - Spacetime Metric Engineering
2:19:02 - Joining the Legacy Program
2:21:01 - Why No Theoretical Physicists?
2:26:17 - Teller, Lazar, and Townsend Brown
2:27:54 - The Galileo iPhone Analogy
2:29:40 - The Cumulative Case for ET
2:33:26 - Closing
Our American Alchemist this week is Maaneli "Max" Derakhshani. Check out Max's work here researchgate.net/profile/Maaneli-Derakhshani
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Theoretical physicist Maaneli Derakhshani, a Utrecht PhD working on lunar anomalies, discovered that NASA holds two versions of the same Apollo 14 photograph: in one, a blue orb hangs in the sky above astronaut Ed Mitchell, and in the other it has been redacted out. He has found the same across other Apollo missions, and Ken Johnston Sr., a former NASA consultant and pilot who worked with the astronauts, says he was ordered to destroy early negatives showing things that weren't supposed to be there.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:28 - Maaneli's Background
3:54 - Stony Brook, Renaissance, and Brookhaven
10:45 - Clementine and the Space Act
15:03 - Does NASA Know More?
18:52 - Apollo 17 Blue Lights
21:22 - Sponsors (DOSE)
22:51 - Apollo 17 Metallic Object
25:50 - Cosmic Rays and Lens Flare
28:58 - Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 Sighting
35:45 - Cernan and Mitchell's Experiences
39:32 - Enforced Secrecy and Dean Radin
41:11 - Freemasonry Inside NASA
43:26 - NASA Insiders and Gary McKinnon
46:03 - Ken Johnston and Archive Inconsistencies
51:59 - Shuttle Footage and Code Words
57:24 - Wishbone Structure and Lunar Erosion
1:00:37 - Withholding and the Brookings Report
1:02:42 - Brandenburg, Mars, and Carl Sagan
1:05:00 - Sagan's Two Sides and the Face on Mars
1:10:53 - Menzel and Narrative Management
1:11:37 - Villarroel and the Palomar Transients
1:16:23 - Fast Walkers and DSP Satellites
1:20:12 - Armstrong's Ecuador Expedition
1:21:45 - The Phobos Monolith and Arthur C. Clarke
1:26:51 - Mars Anomalies and NASA's Silence
1:29:50 - Blue Book, Condon, and AARO
1:32:27 - Sponsors (ZBiotics)
1:33:44 - Sponsors (The Perfect Jean)
1:35:02 - Compton-Belkovich Heat Anomaly
1:38:58 - Nuclear Sites and UFO Correlation
1:40:49 - Aristarchus Crater
1:44:06 - Lunex and the Secret Space Program
1:48:23 - Is the Moon Hollow?
1:51:21 - Moon Formation Anomalies
1:55:08 - Directed Panspermia and Mars Origins
1:57:53 - The Moon Landing Question
2:01:37 - Jim Keller's Hoax Case
2:03:15 - Getting Into Parapsychology
2:07:32 - The Ganzfeld Protocol and Psi Statistics
2:13:37 - Spacetime Metric Engineering
2:19:02 - Joining the Legacy Program
2:21:01 - Why No Theoretical Physicists?
2:26:17 - Teller, Lazar, and Townsend Brown
2:27:54 - The Galileo iPhone Analogy
2:29:40 - The Cumulative Case for ET
2:33:26 - Closing
