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Husband insists moon landings were faked and 9/11 was a false flag secret operation the Americans did to themselves

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AmberTigerEyes · 15/04/2026 21:18

I am désolé
My husband, he tell me he really believe there has never been a moon landing and that the 9/11 attacks were faked too.
I was in New York on 9/11
He knows this
He keeps saying things that have been disproven as conspiracy theory myths.
I wonder if I should be calling for a mental crisis unit.

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Firefly1987 · 16/04/2026 00:46

kkloo · 16/04/2026 00:39

@Firefly1987
Go back to your favourite tattle where you say all the intelligent people hang out and tell them how a 'baby killer' fan is now saying she thinks the US let 9/11 happen. If you haven't already. I'm sure you ran there 😂

I also see you all over the reddit sub, people just sharing the latest news and maybe a brief discussion about them but you try to turn it into an argument with everyone, and now you're bringing it into unrelated threads on here.

It's really, really pathetic to want to argue with people to entertain yourself. Grow up.

'Me and my friends'. I don't even know those posters or what they believe about anything apart from that case, but it would be my absolute pleasure if you didn't waste your time arguing with me 😂Fuck if all I had to say was I believed in some conspiracy theories to make you stop then I would have shouted it from the roof tops 😂

Aww am just joking wiv ya you take things too seriously! We're old buds now.

OtterlyAstounding · 16/04/2026 00:54

Humans landed on the moon six times - a dozen astronauts walked on its surface, and I don't believe all of those could have been faked and the truth not come out. Besides, as pp have said, there's too much verifiable evidence for the presence of humans on the moon.

So, even if the initial moon landing was faked somehow in order to beat the USSR to it (very unlikely, imo - there was too much to fake, and too many people would've had to be in on it, as well as the USSR probably being dead keen to prove it a fake), humans have still been to the moon.

But 9/11...well, I actually do think that could easily have been a false flag.

It makes sense. The attack made it possible for the US government to do a lot of things they wanted to do - frightening US citizens, restricting their freedoms, extending the government's power on information gathering, and invading the Middle East. And the US isn't opposed to breaking a few eggs to make an omelette. If nothing else, I could imagine them knowing about the attack and allowing it to unfold so they could make use of it.

Mingou · 16/04/2026 01:00

OneNewEagle · 15/04/2026 22:57

Lighthearted reply.

I was really into sci fi and so on as a young person. I have a science degree. So as far as I’m concerned anything is possible im open minded to mostly everything unless proven otherwise.

Always hoped to see a ufo.

I think the moon landing is very very dubious. We’ve never even been ‘back’ since.

This is the kind of stupidity we're dealing with. You have an opinion but you don't know even the most basic facts!!

Haven't been back since? Since the first landing in 1969? I guess we imagined the other FIVE manned moon landings between then and 1972. Are they all faked too?

Russia, China, Japan and India (as well as US) have all landed on the moon remotely. Or do you not believe those either?

What about Skylab and Mir and the space shuttles and the ISS? Are they fake? Artemis?

But the biggest questions are WHY would the moon landings be faked? Where did the twenty billion dollars go if not on that? What were all those people doing at NASA? And how did the Russians not know?

Seriously, can someone please explain the conspiracy to me, with actual details instead of vague nonsense?

RedRock41 · 16/04/2026 01:00

OP you, I and everyone else knows not, let’s face it the truth of any of these things. Just what we’re told. Conspiracy theory as a term itself is a term to deride and dismiss but who really 💯 knows?

Your DH may be fully right, partly right or completely off the mark. Do like that he is challenging narratives though. There’s an old saying, whatever we think they’re up to, it’ll be far worse. Better to think independently than be a sheep.

Watching documentary atm on Spain’s Franco, jeez oh. Talk about black is white. Gaslit the starving population so need to mind too, even if he’s wrong on these two, he is right that often times powers that be don’t tell us the full truth and/or have our best interests at heart.

Hoardasurass · 16/04/2026 01:03

Strangecat · 15/04/2026 23:55

You sound like an absolute delight to be married to (not!). Your husband has critical thinking which gives him more intelligence than we can say about you. Why not fully research the subjects and come up with real facts rather than throwing your husband under the bus on mumsnet for your own entertainment! pathetic!

No her husband has zero critical thinking because if he had any he wouldn't believe in conspiracy theories about the moon landing.

Ponoka7 · 16/04/2026 01:06

Doggodoggo · 15/04/2026 21:59

Here is Chat GPT's take on the moon landing conspiracies if you're interested:

You said:
Is there any evidence that the moon landing wasnt real

ChatGPT said:
Short answer: there’s no credible evidence that the Moon landing was faked, and a very large amount of independent evidence that it really happened.
The first landing—Apollo 11 Moon Landing—is one of the most documented events in history. Here’s why the “it was faked” idea doesn’t hold up:
1. Too many independent witnesses (including rivals)
The mission was tracked not just by NASA, but also by observatories and even the Soviet Union, via its space program Soviet space program.
The USSR had every incentive to expose a fake—but never did.
2. Physical evidence still on the Moon
Astronauts left retroreflectors (mirrors) on the surface. Scientists today still bounce lasers off them to measure the Earth–Moon distance.
Multiple later missions confirmed the landing sites.
3. Modern images of the landing sites
The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed the actual landing areas, showing tracks, equipment, and descent stages.
4. Moon rocks
382 kg of lunar samples were brought back.
These rocks have unique chemical signatures distinct from Earth rocks and have been studied worldwide—not just in the US.
5. The sheer scale of the “cover-up” problem
Around 400,000 people worked on the Apollo program.
Keeping a conspiracy that large secret for over 50 years is essentially impossible.
Why do people still doubt it?
Some common points get raised, but they all have straightforward explanations:
Flag “waving” → looks like motion because of how it was planted and no air resistance.
No stars in photos → camera exposure set for bright lunar surface, so faint stars don’t show.
Shadows look odd → due to uneven terrain and wide-angle lenses.
If you want, I can go through the most common conspiracy claims one by one and explain them in plain terms—it’s actually quite interesting how they get debunked.

You said:
Ok

ChatGPT said:
Great—let’s go through the most common “it was faked” claims and what’s actually going on.

  1. “The flag is waving—there’s no wind on the Moon”
What you’re seeing isn’t wind. The flag used by NASA had a horizontal rod to keep it spread out. When astronauts twisted the pole into the ground, the fabric moved and kept moving briefly because there’s no air resistance to damp it. On Earth, air quickly stops that motion. On the Moon, it lingers a bit—so it looks like waving.
  1. “There are no stars in the photos”
This one sounds convincing at first, but it’s just camera settings. The surface of the Moon is extremely bright in sunlight. Cameras during the Apollo 11 Moon Landing were set to expose for that brightness—like taking a photo of snow in daylight. Stars are much dimmer, so they simply don’t show up at that exposure. (If you took a daytime photo on Earth, you wouldn’t see stars either.)
  1. “Shadows go in different directions”
People expect all shadows to be perfectly parallel, but: The Moon’s surface is uneven Wide-angle lenses distort perspective Light reflects off the ground and the lunar module This can make shadows look like they’re pointing different ways—even though they’re all coming from the Sun.
  1. “The photos look too perfect—like a film set”
This often gets linked to Stanley Kubrick conspiracy theories. But: Astronauts took thousands of photos—most are not “perfect” You’re usually seeing the best ones selected afterward Recreating Moon gravity, lighting, and dust behaviour convincingly in 1969 would have been far harder than just going there
  1. “Why hasn’t anyone gone back recently?”
They actually did go back—multiple times: Apollo missions 11 through 17 landed astronauts on the Moon It stopped mainly because of: Cost Political priorities shifting after the Cold War space race Now, programs like Artemis program are aiming to return humans again.
  1. “Wouldn’t someone have exposed it by now?”
This is the biggest issue with the conspiracy idea. Hundreds of thousands of people worked on Apollo. Plus: Independent tracking by other countries Decades of scientific analysis of Moon rocks Modern spacecraft imaging the landing sites A fake would require a global, decades-long, perfectly silent conspiracy across rival nations—including the Soviet Union—which just doesn’t hold up.

Then the Epstein files can't be real because they'd require a global, decades long silence. Just like Savile's crimes. Surely someone can't silence the amount of people that was needed, including our King. Liverpool was told to shut up about Hillsborough because it would have needed silence across the emergency serves, starting at the Prime Minister, for decades.

I can't help feeling that Elon would be on the moon, if it was possible.

sunshinestar1986 · 16/04/2026 01:08

Who even cares about the moon landing, useless missions, has it benefited us in anyway?
On a side note, I was traveling and climbing rocky mountain ranges in Asia nearly 20 years ago
And when we reached the summit of a mountain, I was like, wow it looks like the moon 🤣

Flomingho · 16/04/2026 01:13

I think it's reasonable to question anything that happens, there is so much in the way of lies and corruption, smoke and mirrors it would be foolish not to.

Hoardasurass · 16/04/2026 01:24

GarlicFind · 16/04/2026 00:16

I watched Pres Trump enthusing over the viability of drinking bleach to kill Covid infections 🙄 I then read hundreds of Amazon reviews by users buying the stuff for that purpose.

Also see bleach to kill 'worms', often thought to have been introduced into the drinking water by nefarious authorities. They post pictures, as proof, of the long, bloody strings they (and their children) vomit up after drinking the bleach. The strings are strips of gut lining that the bleach has ripped off.

Don't forget the idiots who think bleach enimas will cure autism 😪🤬

Mingou · 16/04/2026 01:27

Hoardasurass · 16/04/2026 01:24

Don't forget the idiots who think bleach enimas will cure autism 😪🤬

Apparently the latest trend for these nutjobs is aged urine therapy. Seriously, drinking it, splashing it everywhere, even injecting it.

I wish I was kidding

OonaStubbs · 16/04/2026 01:33

There was something dodgy about 9/11, I don't know what exactly. But I do not believe the moon landings were faked.

notatinydancer · 16/04/2026 01:33

roses2 · 15/04/2026 21:33

I also think the latter could be true. Did you watch the Michael Moore movie about this?

What’s the gist ?

Hoardasurass · 16/04/2026 01:36

Mingou · 16/04/2026 01:27

Apparently the latest trend for these nutjobs is aged urine therapy. Seriously, drinking it, splashing it everywhere, even injecting it.

I wish I was kidding

😱🤮

kkloo · 16/04/2026 01:42

sunshinestar1986 · 16/04/2026 01:08

Who even cares about the moon landing, useless missions, has it benefited us in anyway?
On a side note, I was traveling and climbing rocky mountain ranges in Asia nearly 20 years ago
And when we reached the summit of a mountain, I was like, wow it looks like the moon 🤣

I don't think many really care either way, whether they think it didn't happen or not.

There's this assumption that people who believe the moon landing was faked or things like that have lost touch with all sense of reality and are living like doomsday preppers or something when really most are just normal, regular people living normal regular lives. They read up on it, come to their conclusion and then that's it, the only affect on their life tends to just to be a bit skeptical or open-minded about other news stories, which isn't a bad thing.

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 16/04/2026 01:45

Hoardasurass · 16/04/2026 01:24

Don't forget the idiots who think bleach enimas will cure autism 😪🤬

Yeah, this is absolute nonsense.

Everybody knows it's Windolene enemas that cure autism.

GarlicFind · 16/04/2026 01:49

Ponoka7 · 16/04/2026 01:06

Then the Epstein files can't be real because they'd require a global, decades long silence. Just like Savile's crimes. Surely someone can't silence the amount of people that was needed, including our King. Liverpool was told to shut up about Hillsborough because it would have needed silence across the emergency serves, starting at the Prime Minister, for decades.

I can't help feeling that Elon would be on the moon, if it was possible.

Sex abuse scandals often thrive thanks to blackmail. This only really works if a fair number of those involved are powerful, both because they can blackmail other people and because they have a lot to lose. Your average backstreet sleazebag gets outed faster - the Rotherham and Rochdale traffickers weren't protected as such, their victims were disbelieved due to prejudice.

With Epstein and Savile, ordinary people did know and blew their whistles. They were similarly disbelieved, partly through prejudice and partly due to silencing by powerful people with skin in the game. Same again for many other sex abuse rings. Savile was so confident in his power, he wrote about his abuse of young girls in his autobiography: no cover-up there.

Liverpool did not shut up!

There simply isn't the same motivation for a deceit like the Apollo landing(s) being faked. Apart from the logistics, with hundreds of thousands of people having to lie and nobody saying anything, there's the obvious fact that Russia would've been on it straight away. I imagine they did try to show it was all pretend, but failed.

If there had been huge financial gains in it for a particular group of powerful individuals, and their motivations were so strongly personal that they'd kill or otherwise destroy anyone who tried to expose them, there might be a shred of truth in it. In reality, the scams and scandals associated with early space exploration were on the level of suppliers charging $3,000 per coffee machine and materials developers lying about their products' capabilities (they were all caught out eventually).

By saying it's all fake, you're really insulting people like Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, the many dedicated engineers and the famous 'Hidden Figures' mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson.

Mingou · 16/04/2026 01:50

kkloo · 16/04/2026 01:42

I don't think many really care either way, whether they think it didn't happen or not.

There's this assumption that people who believe the moon landing was faked or things like that have lost touch with all sense of reality and are living like doomsday preppers or something when really most are just normal, regular people living normal regular lives. They read up on it, come to their conclusion and then that's it, the only affect on their life tends to just to be a bit skeptical or open-minded about other news stories, which isn't a bad thing.

Yeah we know, they're going around living normal lives. But they're idiots.
They don't do actual research, they don't understand the basics, they don't know anything about it. .

They walk amongst us. No wonder Brexit happened and Trump got in twice. It's a sea of stupidity.

kkloo · 16/04/2026 02:06

Mingou · 16/04/2026 01:50

Yeah we know, they're going around living normal lives. But they're idiots.
They don't do actual research, they don't understand the basics, they don't know anything about it. .

They walk amongst us. No wonder Brexit happened and Trump got in twice. It's a sea of stupidity.

Most people who believe it happened haven't done actual research either, they just believe it because they were told and then act like they're intellectually superior.

GarlicFind · 16/04/2026 02:18

kkloo · 16/04/2026 02:06

Most people who believe it happened haven't done actual research either, they just believe it because they were told and then act like they're intellectually superior.

Yeah, I don't claim to be any kind of genius. But I do believe I'm intellectually superior to people who believe YouTube and TikTok fantasists know things that governments, institutions and scientists are keeping secret.

My mum was a massive nutrition geek. She was feeding us all health foods before most people had heard of them, you had to buy them from specialist delis. She was a bottomless source of knowledge on micro-nutrients; she was better informed than most dieticians. When she started talking about things "Doctors won't tell you!", I knew she was heading towards dementia.

acorncrush · 16/04/2026 02:32

Does he think Artemis 2 happened?

TheCobbleCreekMonster · 16/04/2026 02:53

AmberTigerEyes · 15/04/2026 21:34

He does. That was his proof the moon landing wasn’t real. He said there are no stars in the footage. I said it was black and white footage and they were filmed during the moons day time, you don’t see stars in the day time. He looked at me like I was stupid.

Now this I can get on board with : ) The stars are visible from the moon 24 hours a day.

There were no stars on the footage because the lights bled them out. That and the footage being so grainy.

Quite honestly, I think it is possible the whole thing was faked but I haven't given any of it much thought.

My nephew has put his brain cell in a box under the stairs and gone down that well trodden (by men mostly) rabbit hole of conspiracy theories etc. and his lovely intelligent wife is at her wits end with it. I can't see her lasting the year out with him now when they were so good together.

There's no way of proving anything one way or another so there can never be a conclusion, just a boring person banging on, parroting other peoples opinions ad infinitum. A measure of them as a person and it's eye opening and disappointing.

sashh · 16/04/2026 03:36

AmberTigerEyes · 15/04/2026 21:56

They built a little one in Las Vegas. .

And Blackpool.

lxn889121 · 16/04/2026 03:54

Personally, I wouldn't be too worried. I don't agree with either - but they are by far on the "tamer" side of conspiracy theories. I've known plenty of "normal" people who believe in both, and it wouldn't bother me that much...

But I would be keeping an eye out for these being a gateway into the propper out-their, wacky, and sometimes dangerous conspiracy theories that people end up getting into...

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