Moon Plot: Project Horizon, JFK, and the Shadow Base | 481
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The episode explores the U.S. Army's 1959 plan for a nuclear-powered military base on the Moon and its implications.
In 1959, the U.S. Army drafted a serious plan to build a nuclear-powered military base on the Moon. Serious... They really did. With reactors. And personnel. On purpose. It was called Project Horizon. Then JFK pivoted to Apollo, astronauts planted flags, and history books closed the case… Or did they? This week, we break down the documented Cold War Moon plans, JFK’s race to beat the Soviets, MJ-12 whispers, and hacker Gary McKinnon’s claim that he stumbled onto evidence of a secret space fleet and the possibility this was never really mothballed. Was Horizon just a very ambitious binder? Or was Apollo the public show while something quieter happened in the background? Join us as we separate the record from the rumors, run a thought experiment on how a hidden lunar base could work, and ask the big question: Did we just visit the Moon… or did we move in? All that and more this week on Hysteria 51! Special thanks to this week’s research sources: Project Horizon (1959 U.S. Army Lunar Base Study) U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency. Project Horizon: A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Military Outpost (1959). Declassified study outlining a proposed military lunar base…
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