Overview
- DeChambeau, in a Wednesday appearance on The Katie Miller Podcast, said he thinks the Apollo videos are not real even as he believes astronauts reached the moon, citing the Alan Shepard moon golf clip.
- He said he tends to trust Elon Musk on whether humans went to the moon and pointed to recent Artemis flybys as support for the missions themselves.
- He also said he believes in UAPs, or unidentified anomalous phenomena, and described possible 'interdimensional beings.'
- The remarks prompted quick criticism on social media, with Reddit users mocking his reliance on Musk and rejecting his claim about the footage.
- Coverage underscored the record that verifies Apollo, including NASA orbiter photos of landing sites, laser measurements off retroreflectors left on the surface, and scientific analysis of returned moon rocks.