“Mysteries and Secrets Abound”: A Review of The Moon’s Galactic History: A Look at the Moon’s Extraterrestrial Past and Its Connection to Earth by Constance Victoria Briggs

 

 (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2022). ISBN: 978-1-948803-50-2

A few months ago, I had the opportunity to review Constance Victoria Briggs’s Encyclopedia of Moon Mysteries: Secrets, Conspiracy Theories, Anomalies, Extraterrestrials and More and to have her as a guest on my weekly podcast. The author of several other encyclopedias, Briggs specializes in the mysteries of the Moon, as well as angels and the survival of consciousness after death. Her research is exhaustive and, even when dealing with controversial and fringe subjects and theories, her reporting is largely impartial, especially in her encyclopedias.

During this time of the UAP Disclosure debate and launching of the Artemis 1 mission by NASA, which recently took video of the Moon and broke the record for most miles traveled (at least officially) by a human ship, more researchers than ever are considering the origins, composition of, and presence of possible structures on this anomalous satellite orbiting Earth. Considering that each launch carries a price tag of $4.1 billion and the total Artemis mission will cost $93 billion dollars by the 2025 return of astronauts to the Moon’s surface, it seems clear that humankind’s fascination with the Moon is as strong as ever. 

An indispensable companion to her recently published encyclopedia, The Moon’s Galactic History is both a survey of popular theories on a number of hot-button topics; a thorough catalog of encounters, sightings, and other evidence of anomalous events; and an opportunity for the author to state her position on many of the theories she reports. Through it all, Briggs is ever the skeptical researcher and never the True Believer. This gives the book the gravitas it needs for scientists and other researchers to take it seriously as a valuable contribution to scholarship concerning the Moon.

The first chapter, “The Moon’s Mysterious Ascension,” considers its origins. Drawing from myths, antiquity, and the work of scientists and astronomers from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first, Briggs shares several theories explaining how the Moon came to be in Planet Earth’s orbit. Chapter two considers the evidence from numerous theories that endeavor to explain why the Moon “rang like a bell” during the Apollo 12 mission and why its composition is not what scientists would expect it to be. Is the Moon a traveling city or an escape ship? There is certainly much to consider.

Perhaps the most pressing question concerning the Moon is whether or not it was previously or perhaps currently occupied. Connected to this question is the possibility that perhaps our Star People ancestors inhabited the Moon prior to the Earth. Chapter 3, “An Inhabited Alien World,” takes the discussion back to Anaxagoras in approximately 490 BC. Briggs presents nine distinct theories, culminating in the question, “Who owns the Moon?”

Chapters that follow consider the Ancient Alien theory, catalog in impressive detail the record of strange happenings associated with the Moon, and the possibility of not just structures but a possible metropolis! Numerous photographs in support of their theories accompany these chapters. You can spend hours examining these photographs, making your own determinations as to what might be contained within the frame. The battles between cynics, skeptics, and true believers have been volatile for decades. Is it all shadows, dust on the lens, and light refractions, or is there something there?

The second half of the book takes us through what I believe to be the most compelling testimony available—that from the astronauts themselves. Briggs, as she did in the encyclopedia, includes actual transcripts. The Apollo missions are examined in great detail, as are the more anomalous experiences of twelve of the Apollo astronauts who have the distinction of walking on the Moon. 

Along the way, Briggs shares a recently declassified letter thought to be written by Robert J. Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein concerning extraterrestrials and UFOs. She also includes the Brookings report, “Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs,” submitted to NASA’s Committee on Long-Range Studies in December 1960—one of many reports warning of the danger to society should the truth of ET contact be made public. There is also the complete text of John F. Kennedy’s famous Rice Stadium Moon Speech, which includes the quote, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…” For UFOlogists, I believe that there are potential coded phrases throughout the speech that may relate to US government contact and cooperation with extraterrestrials going back to the start of World War II.

It is in the final twenty pages that Briggs allows herself the opportunity to share her opinions and considerable enthusiasm for the subject matter and the promise of the future for First Contact and humans as interstellar travelers and colonists of the Moon and other planets. She also makes some informed, considered predictions about what the future may hold when it comes to the mysteries of the Moon, as well as Venus, Mars, and Saturn. It is within these pages that Briggs shares some of the most provocative photos of structures on the Moon—from a pyramid to entire cities.   

Carl Sagan, Thomas Jefferson, and others have stated throughout the centuries that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Briggs has clearly made every attempt to rise to this challenge, providing dozens of photographs and, in many instances, the file number for the NASA photos to which she refers. This is important, as many of the images found on the Internet have been scrubbed of their most controversial and provocative elements. The bibliography runs at an impressive 24 pages, with abundant links to references on the Internet you can readily check yourself.

In parallel with the current Disclosure debate, if the compelling evidence concerning numerous anomalies associated with the Moon is to have any chance of being taken seriously by scientists and in the court of public opinion, competent, trustworthy researchers must deliver it. Briggs has more than proven with her Moon encyclopedia and The Moon’s Galactic History: A Look at the Moon’s Extraterrestrial Past and Its Connection to Earth that she is competent, trustworthy, and more. Along with Richard Hoagland and Michael Bara, Constance Victoria Briggs is at the forefront of this important research, and we are lucky to have her leading the way.