Did Buzz Aldrin see UFO's on Apollo 11?

Question

Ive been looking around on the net, and apparently Buzz Aldrin saw something on the moon.... does anybody know more?

Answer 1

Buzz Aldrin reported seeing an unidentified object during the trip out to the Moon. It was later identified as an SLA panel. The SLA is the conical shroud that protects the lunar module during liftoff. Once on the way to the Moon the panels are jettisoned so the lunar module can be extracted. Because this happens after the spacecraft is well on the way to the Moon the panels tend to roughly follow the spacecraft to the Moon, but gradually increasing in distance from the spacecraft. In this case on of them was spotted through a spacecraft window, but it was too far away to identify immediately by sight.

Note that it is important to understand that UFO means UNIDENTIFIED flying object, not alien spacecraft. In fact, Buzz specifically avoided the term UFO in the transmissions because he knew that some people would pick up on it and take it as meaning he saw aliens.

There is also a very bad fake radio transmission that supposedly has the astronauts seeing something on the lunar surface and saying 'they're watching us', but that's just rubbish.

Answer 2

it was identified as a panel from the covering between the lunar and command modules on the apollo spacecraft