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NASA Related Whistleblowers
Ken Johnston – Johnston was a former NASA contractor and test astronaut who worked as a photo archivist during the Apollo missions. He has claimed that NASA doctored or withheld photos taken on the Moon, specifically removing images of unusual structures or artifacts. Johnston has also stated that he was instructed to dispose of certain Apollo mission photos but secretly kept some of them. He has spoken publicly on these issues, but NASA dismissed his claims, suggesting he was never an official whistleblower.
Donna Hare – Hare is a former NASA contractor who worked for Philco Ford, a company contracted by NASA during the Apollo era. She claims that while she was working at NASA, she was informed by coworkers that UFOs and other unexplained objects seen in space images were often airbrushed out before the images were released to the public. Hare has been involved in UFO disclosure movements and has testified about her experiences, though there’s no formal verification of her claims by NASA.
Karl Wolfe. He was a former U.S. Air Force technician who worked as a contractor at NASA's Langley Research Center in the 1960s. Wolfe claimed he was shown photographs of structures on the dark side of the Moon while working on equipment related to lunar reconnaissance missions. Wolfe reported that he saw images from NASA’s Lunar Orbiter program depicting what he described as large, artificial structures on the far side of the Moon. He alleged that these structures looked like buildings or bases and that NASA had airbrushed or hidden such photos from the public.
Wolfe died in 2018 after being struck by a tractor-trailer while cycling in Lansing, New York. His death, reported as an accident, has been discussed in conspiracy circles due to the unusual nature of his claims. However, there’s no verified evidence connecting his death to his whistleblower assertions.
Norman Bergrun – An aerospace engineer who worked at NASA's Ames Research Center, Bergrun made controversial claims about the presence of large, artificial structures in space, specifically near Saturn's moons. He published a book in 1986, The Ringmakers of Saturn, in which he suggested that the rings around Saturn were created by massive, unknown entities. Although Bergrun’s position at NASA gives some credibility to his background, his claims are regarded by mainstream science as speculative.
Maurice Chatelain – A former NASA engineer who worked on the Apollo program, Chatelain made statements in the 1970s suggesting that NASA had encountered UFOs during the Apollo missions and that the agency had been withholding information about extraterrestrial presence on the Moon. He claimed that the astronauts had been warned not to discuss these encounters publicly. Chatelain’s statements were controversial and have never been verified.