NASAs Apollo space mission were for the exploration of the moon. In 1969 Apollo 11 manned by Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, was the first one that allowed a moon walk. These two men were the very first astronauts to ever set foot on the surface of the Moon. In 1972 NASA launched their final Apollo mission; Apollo 17. There were altogether 20 missions scheduled for the Apollo mission. Apollo 18, Apollo 19 and Apollo 20 were coordinated, but were scrapped due to budgeting limitations.

Although there can be found on the internet plenty of erroneous reports of an Apollo 20 mission, Apollo 20 was cancelled on January 4th, 1970. The reason for its cancellation at that time was Skylab’s need for Apollo 20’s Saturn V rocket. Because of budget restrictions the Saturn V had a limited production; only the original 15 that were created.

One such erroneous report of Apollo 20 is linked to William Rutledge who had made claims that as a former scientist for Bell Laboratories and was working for the United States Air Force he had knowledge of a secret Apollo mission which was a joint project of the Soviets and Americans. It was also purported that Apollo 20 had discovered an alien craft on the surface of the Moon.

This conspiracy theory states that Apollo 20 made its moon visit on the 16th of August, 1976. This was just about 4 years later following the final Apollo mission. An impact crater on the Moons dark side, Delporte was the intended landing site. Along with Rutledge, Crew Members of this Apollo 20 mission were said to have included Leona Snyder and Alexei Leonov. They were sent to investigate an Alien craft that was apparently detected earlier by the crew of the Apollo 15 mission crew (James Irwin, David Scott and Alfred Worden) in 1971.

Alexei Leonov was indeed an astronaut; he was the first man to walk in space on the 18th of March, 1965. Leonov commanded the Apollo-Soyuz mission, which was the first space mission involving both the USA and the Soviets, on the Soviet side. In the book 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke, Alexei Leonov the Cosmonaut was named for him. But Leonov never admitted to being a part of the Apollo 20 top-secret mission.

The astronauts visited an ancient city and an alien space craft on the Moon’s surface, if you believe Rutledge's story. The astronauts had also been able to collect some nifty alien gadgets and they even brought back one of the two deceased alien pilots to their Lunar landing module.

From analysis of the density of meteor impacts revealed the ship and ancient city were there for 1½ billion years. And the ship seemed to have been explored previously, perhaps by a different alien race.

This story probably had some inspiration from a similar story about some pictures taken while on the Apollo 15 mission. The images are genuine and can be found at the Universities Space Research Association webpage. You can see in the NASA images that there is an object that looks quite strange.

It is probably no more than optical illusion, but it’s quite interesting-looking. It’s a cigar-shaped object inside of a crater. A strange aspect is that it seems to have a shadow.

James Lovell reported this UFO sighting from Apollo 8. He was on the command module, and after coming around the near side of the moon, he made this statement, “Please be informed that we are seeing a Santa Claus. Many people rubbished this statement because it occurred on the day of Christmas in the year 1968, but many of those who are wary of NASA, read much more into his statement.

Though NASA is officially, a civilian institute but much of its monetary support comes from the defense budget, and thus astronauts are required to follow military regulations. All audio, and probably video transmissions, are screened by the National Security Agency. There is also a rumored discussion between a professor and Neil Armstrong about the astronauts and UFOs.
According to many astronauts of NASA, extraterrestrial powers do exist. In late 1973, NASA loosened their lips a bit, when they confirmed that at least 25 astronauts had seen UFOs during lunar missions. Werner Von Braun, who is a famous German rocket scientist and head of the lunar exploration program, told a magazine, “extraterrestrial powers do exist, and they are more powerful than previously thought.”

Even the most discrete space station would have some sign of its existence, like a beacon from incoming ships. If aliens were visiting Earth, and wanted to remain secretive, it is very possible that they would choose the far side of the moon as a location for its station because of it being a short distance from our planet, and yet hidden from photographic or telescopic view. The only time that these structures would be visible is when earthlings visited the far side.
The last humans to touch the lunar surface were Russians aboard the probe Luna 24. President George W.Bush has urged NASA to resume exploration of the Moon, and tentative plans point to the year 2015 as the date that man once again may visit the surface of our moon. The question however remains that what will they find there?
There are former NASA employees stepping forward under the “Disclosure Project” which was headed by Dr. Steven Greer and his 400 something government employee witnesses, who are in unison saying that they are covering up the most important story in human history. A former NASA employee was shown classified photos before they were doctored for declassification, she was told this was a regular thing with NASA
There is another big statement by Scott Carpenter who worked with NASA, he says “At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.”

Major Gordan Cooper is one of the original Mercury Astronauts and the last American to fly in space alone. On May 15, 1963, he shot into space in a Mercury capsule for an orbit journey around the world and reported one of the first Astronaut UFO Sightings.

During the final orbit, Major Gordon Cooper told the tracking
station located in Muchea, Australia that he could see a
glowing, greenish object ahead of him quickly approaching his
capsule. The UFO was solid and real, because it was picked up by
Muchea's tracking radar. The National Broadcasting Company, which was assigned the covering of the Gordan’s flight also reported the sighting; but when Gordan landed, reporters were told that they would not be allowed to question him about the UFO sighting. He experienced a similar incident some ten years earlier; in 1951 where he had sighted a UFO while piloting an F-86 over Western Germany. According to Gordan, he saw metallic, saucer-shaped discs at considerable altitude that could out-maneuver all American fighter planes.

Major Cooper even testified before the United Nations and told that he strongly believe that the UFO’s and aliens are visiting this planet from other planets. He concluded that there are quantity of documents and thousands of witness reports to prove this but the government does not want these reports to be public.

According to the NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong, aliens have a base on the Moon and they told us clearly to stay off from the Moon. According to un-confirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin saw UFO’s shortly after that historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969. According to a former NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed radio hams with their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA's broadcasting outlets picked up the following exchange:

NASA: What’s there?
Mission Control Apollo11: These are huge, Sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You would not believe it! I am telling you there are other spacecraft out there, Lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They are on the Moon watching us!

Neil Armstrong relayed the message to mission control that three large, mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. However, the public never heard this message because it was alleged that NASA censored it. According to a NASA employee who was a part of mission control, Aldrin even took color movie film of the UFO’s from
inside the module, and continued filming them after he and
Armstrong went outside. Armstrong confirmed that the story was
true but he refused to go into further detail, beyond admitting that
the CIA was behind the cover-up.