Mid 65! The first mission of the Lunar orbiter that transmitted pictures began in mid 66, followed by 5 missions in the next year. They also listed some problems with the photographs, which include double imaging repeating terrain in the finished product, other problems listed. As of mid 65, only 3 Ranger missions had gaven photographs back were successful. That program was a JPL based program, not Langley. I have no doubt these programs were all overlapping each other in some fashion, but this is a very huge claim to make, which just happened to come from a low level equipment maintinance person??? And someone would have shown him this, if true would have been guarded like the Atomic Bomb???
Yes, I am very skeptical of these kind of claims. His reference to after "30 years" dates this to the 90's, which was a time of big conspiracy theories. What ever these so called picutres were that got plunked down in front of him, at that time, only for first US pictures of moon pictures were from Ranger. If even the lunar orbiter pictures had some inherent problems, the first Ranger pictures presumably would have been less perfected, at that time. Certainly, to have spotted some colony on the back side of the moon would have been earth shattering. Doubtful the resolution would have revieled much more than rough terrain, and not building sized things. If it was close to true, you actually think anyone under the highest ranks of the Government would come close to seeing that? That some electrican 2nd class airman, would have seen this?











