‘Buzz Aldrin punched me for calling Moon landing fake – I think demons fly UFOs’

A notorious conspiracy theorist who was once punched in the face by an Apollo astronaut now claims UFOs are operated by “demonic entities”.

Bart Sibrel, who has made four low-budget “documentaries” about the Moon landings, told podcaster Joe Rogan that he had been told about the supernatural nature of UFOs by “experts” in the field. “The top two UFO researchers said UFOs are real, number one. Number two, they’re not from outer space, and number three they’re demonic,” he explained.

Sibrel reckons that the mysterious entities behind the growing number of UAP sightings have been with us for a long time and were even mentioned in the Bible. He explained: “It talks about Fallen Angels inter-breeding with humans, as talked about in Genesis Chapter six, and creating a race called Nephilim who were men of renown. World leaders.”

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He claims that the “interdimensional” entities disguise themselves as aliens and have a sinister agenda to control humanity.

Despite a mass of evidence to the contrary, Sibrel also still maintains that the Moon landings were faked. He says that his films, which use official NASA footage to support his claims, are supported by many within the space exploration community.

His first film, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon, was supposedly “financed by a board member of an aerospace company who builds rockets for NASA”.

One of his numerous stunts was to present NASA astronauts with a Bible and demand that they placed their hand on it and swear that they had been to the Moon. When he tried to confront Buzz Aldrin, the Lunar Module pilot for the first moon landing, he was seen to “aggressively poke” the astronaut with the holy book.

When Aldrin tried to walk away, Sibrel followed him, shouting: “You’re the one who said you walked on the Moon when you didn’t.” After enduring a few minutes of Sibrel calling him a ‘thief, liar and coward’,” Aldrin – who was 72 at the time – turned and punched the conspiracy theorist squarely on the jaw.

Sibrel later admitted that the pioneering astronaut “has a good punch. It was quick, too. I didn’t see it coming.” He tried to bring charges against Aldrin, using his film footage as evidence but police declined to prosecute, saying that since “witnesses testified that Sibrel had provoked him, assault charges against the former astronaut were dropped”.

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