More than 1,600 pages of US government reports, contracts, or meetings have come to light under the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Among them, it has been discovered that the United States intended to create a tunnel to the very center of the Moon based on nuclear weapons in search of light metals. What seems like another script for a science fiction movie was a real plan within the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which operated in complete secrecy from 2007 to 2012.
Declassification of documents
The documents now available to The Vice, which requested them a few years ago, revealed that, apart from wanting to bomb the Moon, the program also discussed the feasibility of other no less striking projects.
When AATIP program director Luis Elizondo resigned from the Pentagon in 2017, he made several public videos of unidentified aircraft moving in unconventional ways, and AATIP became synonymous with the study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). But, as we see, the recently published documents show that the scope of the program went much further.
advanced technologies
The documents revealed that the AATIP received a $10 million grant in its first year to ponder a broad spectrum of “advanced technologies” that seem straight out of science fiction.
Probably, of the bulk of new documents from the United States, the ones that attract the most attention are those that analyze the viability of wormholes or stargates to travel through space, communication by gravitational waves or the warp drive, antigravity devices , dark energy, invisibility cloaks, and the manipulation of dimensions, which are frequent themes of science fiction past and present.
And the tunnel on the Moon based on nuclear weapons?
They claim that the reason for drilling holes in our satellite was to search for metals “100,000 times lighter than steel, but still have the strength of steel,” according to more than 1,500 pages of reports. The proposal to tunnel through the Moon is found on page 36 of the report on Negative Mass Propulsion titled precisely “Tunneling Through the Moon.” According to him, the energy released from a nuclear explosion would more or less tunnel the perfect hole through the Moon’s crust for this purpose, and then mining tunnels would be built to locate and extract any potential lunar metal.
The report says: “It will take 50 megatons to excavate the tunnel shaft, the number of thermonuclear explosive devices using the detonation wave lens technique could, for this reason, be quite reasonable, and certainly much less than the number of required fission explosives”.
The authors, whose names have previously been blacked out from the reports, recommended the use of thermonuclear explosives to get the job done, a suggestion that has thankfully stayed on paper.
NASA’s upcoming Artemis missions plan to return humans to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, with the ultimate goal of establishing a sustainable human presence on the satellite. Bombarding the Moon with nuclear blasts would go quite against this mission, among other things.
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Reference: AATIP/TheVice Declassified Documents
