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Is the moon hollow?
The Moon's anomalous seismic behavior, mass distribution, and origin remain genuinely contested at the edges of serious research. The 'ringing like a bell' event is real and documented; the mainstream explanation — dry, fractured rock with low damping — is plausible but does not fully account for every anomaly researchers have catalogued. The Spaceship Moon hypothesis, while extreme, was proposed by credentialed Soviet scientists, not fringe amateurs. The question of whether the Moon is a natural body remains open in dissident literature.
Evidence
- The foundational anomaly is documented: when Apollo 12 astronauts crashed their lunar module ascent stage in 1969, seismometers registered vibrations lasting an unusually long duration.
- Richard Dolan has flagged the Moon's moment of inertia factor as genuinely unusual: the Moon's density increases toward the surface rather than the core, the inverse of what gravitational differentiation predicts for a naturally formed rocky body.
- Michael Salla's research cites William Tompkins, a former Naval Intelligence operative and aerospace designer at Douglas Aircraft, who claimed in his book 'Selected by Extraterrestrials' that classified briefings in the 1950s included material suggesting the Moon was not what it appeared.
- The mainstream seismic and gravitational case is substantial and should not be dismissed.
- Maurice Ewing, a Columbia University geophysicist who analyzed the data, reportedly said he had no explanation for the phenomenon.