Bill Kaysing

The original prince of all things hoaxular!  Bill Kaysing used to work as a writer/librarian for Rocketdyne, a company that was involved in the construction of the Apollo lunar landers.  But he left in 1963, well before the majority of Apollo work.   He's rather shy of explaining his somewhat unscientific job and tenuous link with NASA and doesn't mind representing himself as some kind of expert in a field he has absolutely no qualifications or experience in.

Anyway, here's a quick run through some of things Bill is totally convinced are fact.

• The shadows theory. Bill doesn't understand uneven surfaces.
• The size of the earth in lunar photos is wrong and the shadows aren't parallel.  Despite the help of lots of unnamed photographic experts Bill still doesn't under the principles of camera focal distances or vanish points.
• The moon rocks were made on Earth. Bill had an (unnamed) expert Geologist examine the rocks. He was convinced they were made on Earth. Just quite he managed this without the smallest sample of said rocks is anyone's guess. Maybe his expert doesn't bother with such details?
• NASA killed astronaut Jim Irwin. Apparently he was going to tell Bill everything when he had a mysterious heart attack. Evidence? Well, none of course.
• NASA killed the entire crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger Crew because the civilian Christa McAuliffe aboard was going to tell everyone that you really can see the stars in space. Evidence? Well, none of course. Obviously the idea just to ground the unfortunate Ms McAuliffe and take someone else didn't occur to NASA. Hell, let's just spectacularly, embarrassingly and expensively kill them all in front of the whole world! Besides, Bill still doesn't understand that you can see stars in space, it's just an issue of camera exposure times.
• The USSR knew NASA was faking, but they were in on the secret because they were faking too. A totally unprecedented amount of co-operation between the two powers at the height of the cold war. Nice of the Ruskies to let America win too. Why didn't they get in with their faked landing before NASA's ?
• Bill has been published in the extremely accurate newspaper The Weekly World News. Well, need I add anything to this statement?
• Astronauts who claim to have been on the moon hang up on him and refuse to talk to him. This proves they have something to hide.

  *Ring Ring* Hello, this is Neil Armstrong. I will be remembered centuries from now as one of the most famous persons in the history of mankind, ever. Who's calling, please?

  Hi, I'm Bill Kaysing. I'm a total nobody who has made a short-term name for himself by calling you a fraud and a liar. Could you make me seem important by giving me five minutes of your time? I hope that the tiniest fraction of your fame might rub off on me.

  *Click. Brrrrrr*

  Gee, I wonder why he hung up? What's he hiding?

• The US & British government bribed the Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbour in order to drag American into WW2. Ok, nothing to do with the Moon, but a fair indication of which planet Bill's on.

An newspaper article about Kaysing's law suit against astronaut James Lovell. Lovell called him 'wacky', so Kaysing sued. Apparently the fact Kaysing called Lovell a liar and a fraud was ok though.

Have a giggle at Kaysing's planned line of questioning during the case against Lovell. Particularly good is the bit about Kaysing's letter to his Japanese landlady. (We couldn't make this up!) Sadly for all concerned, the Courts decided that although it'd been fun and a bit of a laugh and all, they had some grown-up important legal stuff to do instead. The case was thrown out before getting any further.

An article about Kaysing in general.