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  * The moon’s crust is much harder than presumed. Remember the extreme difficulty the astronauts encountered when they tried to drill into the maria? Surprised! The maria is composed primarily of ilmenite, a mineral which contains a large amount of titanium, the same metal used to fabricate the hulls of deep-diving submarines and the skin of the SR-71 "Blackbird". Uranium 236 and neptunium 237 (elements not found in nature on Earth) were discovered in lunar rocks, as were rustproof iron particles. While some argue that these are the result of volcanic activity, ‘hollow-mooners’ say that this is proof that the interior of the moon was hollowed out by artificial means.

  * The moon’s mean density is 3.34 gm/cm3 whereas the Earth’s mean density is 5.5 gm/cm3. What does this mean? Nobel chemist Dr. Harold Urey suggested that the moon’s reduced density could arise from large cavities inside the moon.

  * MIT’s Dr. Sean C. Solomon wrote, "the Lunar Orbiter experiments vastly improved our knowledge of the moon’s gravitational field… indicating the frightening possibility that the moon might be hollow."

  * Ours is the only moon in the solar system with a near-perfect circular orbit of equal orbital and spin speeds. "Something" put the moon in orbit with its precise altitude, course, and speed.

  * As outrageous as the Moon-Is-a-Spaceship theory is, all of the above items are resolved if one assumes that the moon is a gigantic extraterrestrial craft, brought here eons ago by intelligent beings. This is the only theory that is supported by all of the data, and there are no data that contradict this theory.

  * NASA, one year before the first lunar landing, reported 570+ lights and flashes on the moon from 1940 to 1967. Operation Moon Blink: NASA’s Operation Moon Blink detected 28 lunar events in a relatively short period of time.

  * Lunar Bridge: On July 29, 1953, John J. O’Neill observed a 12-mile-long bridge straddling the crater Mare Crisium. In August, British astronomer Dr. H.P. Wilkens verified its presence, "It looks artificial. It’s almost incredible that such a thing could have been formed in the first instance, or if it was formed, could have lasted during the ages in which the moon has been in existence

  * The Shard: The Shard, an obelisk-shaped object that towers 1½ miles from the Ukert area of the moon’s surface, was discovered by Orbiter 3 in 1968. Dr. Bruce Cornet, who studied the amazing photographs, stated, "No known natural process can explain such a structure."

  * The Obelisks: Lunar Orbiter II took several photographs in November 1966 that showed several obelisks, one of which was more than 150 feet tall. "The spires were arranged in precisely the same way as the apices of the three great pyramids."

  * The Tower: One of the most curious features ever photographed on the Lunar surface is an amazing spire that rises more than 5 miles from the Sinus Medii region of the lunar surface.