Leonard served as a Public Information Officer for the United States Civil Service and, crucially, worked for the (now NOAA). More importantly for this story, he was a technical writer and consultant involved with the Apollo program’s photo analysis . He claimed to have had top-secret security clearances and access to high-level NASA photographic archives.
According to his own account, while reviewing thousands of high-resolution orbital and surface photographs from the Apollo missions (specifically Apollo 10, 14, 15, and 16), he began to notice anomalies that the official NASA captions ignored. While NASA saw rocks and craters, Leonard saw struts, girders, domes, and massive machinery. Somebody Else Is On The Moon George H Leonard Pdf
His professional background gave him credibility. He was a man trained to interpret technical data. When he screamed that the Emperor had no clothes (or rather, that the Moon had a city), people at least paused to listen. The central thesis of Somebody Else Is On The Moon is startlingly direct: The Moon is not a dead, barren rock. It is an occupied—or at least utilized—celestial body. Leonard served as a Public Information Officer for
However, Leonard was a pioneer. He was one of the first people to publicly scrutinize raw NASA data and say, “Wait a minute.” He paved the way for modern "Citizen Science" lunar sleuths on YouTube who zoom into LRO images looking for "glass domes" or "towers." According to his own account, while reviewing thousands
