Page 218 - Lunacy and the Age of Deception

One of the main pieces of evidence people cite in defense of the official government narrative of the
Apollo Moon landings are the lunar rocks returned from the surface of the Moon. In 1969,
immediately following the Apollo 11 Mission, the U.S. government presented Moon rocks to the
heads of state of 135 nations and states. These were distributed as souvenirs, and were not intended
for scientific research. Rendering these Moon rocks unusable for scientific testing, they were each
encased in Lucite, a clear plastic substance.

Moon Rock from Apollo 16

A brick sized Moon rock was again broken up and sent to heads of state around the world after the
final Moon mission, Apollo 17. In all 270 Goodwill Moon Rocks were distributed. The whereabouts
of these Moon rocks has only recently begun to be tracked. In 1998, a sting operation initiated and
led by NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) began, ostensibly to catch individuals who were
scamming people, mainly the elderly, by selling them bogus Moon rocks. I guess NASA doesn’t like
competition. This sting operation was dubbed Operation Lunar Eclipse. The man heading up
Operation Lunar Eclipse for NASA was Joseph Gutheinz. The sting operation caught many bogus
sellers of Moon rocks, while reportedly recovering one of the authentic Moon rocks gifted to heads
of state. This was the Goodwill Moon Rock presented to Honduras. Some individuals were seeking
to sell it for $5 million dollars which was deemed to be fair market value.

In 2002, Joseph Gutheinz, who was then serving as a professor of criminal justice at the University
of Phoenix in Arizona, challenged his graduate students to locate all of the Goodwill Moon Rocks
from Apollo 11 and 17. Since then hundreds of graduate students have participated in the Moon
Rock Project. One of the first discoveries by Gutheinz’s students occurred in 2002 when they
reported that Cyprus’ two Moon rocks were missing. The students have not yet ascertained the
location and ownership of all 270 Goodwill Moon Rocks, but what they have found so far is not
favorable. They have determined that 180 of the Goodwill Moon Rocks are missing. That is a full
2/3rds of the Moon rocks gifted to the public. One might expect a handful of Moon rocks to be lost
over time, but to discover that the vast majority of them are missing is extraordinary.

The image below shows how the Goodwill Moon Rock presentations appeared. As you can see, it
would be a difficult item to simply misplace. The displays included the flag of the nation, or state,
with a Lucite ball containing the Moon rock fragments mounted to the surface.