Official records state that between 1961 and 1975, NASA launched 17 Apollo missions, with 11 being manned (Apollo 7–17) and six achieving lunar landings. The Apollo 18, 19, and 20 missions were reportedly canceled due to high costs and limited new scientific value. However, a 2007 interview by Italian journalist Luca Scantamburlo with William Rutledge, a supposed Apollo 20 astronaut, sparked intrigue. Rutledge, claiming ties to Bell Laboratories and the U.S. Air Force, alleged a covert Apollo 20 mission and shared alleged photos and videos of a massive lunar spacecraft online.
Rutledge’s claims center on a discovery during Apollo 15, where an unidentified man-made object was photographed on the Moon’s surface. Further images and orbital reconnaissance followed in Apollo 16 and 17. The objectives of Apollo 18 and 19 remain unclear, with Rutledge noting issues that led to lost data, though plans reportedly involved landing near the mysterious craft for rover-based exploration.
In 1976, Rutledge says Apollo 20—crewed by himself, Aleksei Leonov, and Leona Snyder—landed near the craft, entered it, and explored its interior. The ship, measuring 3,370 x 510 meters and estimated to be 1.5 million years old, contained signs of biological life: vegetation remnants in the engine area, triangular stones leaking a medicinal yellow liquid, and tiny 10 cm bodies within a network of “glass” tubes. They also found a 1.65-meter humanoid female with six fingers, connected to a control device via her fingers and eyes. Her body, preserved by a transparent layer, appeared neither fully alive nor dead, with bio-fluids frozen in her mouth, nose, and eyes. The craft’s interior featured inscriptions and hollow hexagonal tubes.
Speculation ties the ship to the Anunnaki, a mythical extraterrestrial race, though discrepancies arise: the humanoid’s six-fingered hands conflict with depictions of five-fingered Anunnaki in ancient texts. Some suggest the Anunnaki operated a parallel mission, with part of their group on Earth and others on a lunar mothership, possibly leaving this craft behind.
Adding to the mystery, the Apollo program was led by Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi scientist who developed V-2 rockets for the Third Reich. Recruited to the U.S. via Operation Paperclip in 1945, von Braun’s team allegedly drew on occult knowledge from Nazi groups like Ahnenerbe and Vril, which claimed to channel ancient divine entities. Rutledge even claimed von Braun attended the Apollo 20 launch. This timeline—occult societies to U.S. space program to alien discovery—fuels speculation about extraterrestrial connections.
