astronaut buzz aldrin sent a tweet claiming that humanity was in danger, and that a mysterious "it" was "evil itself."
astronaut buzz aldrin sent a tweet claiming that humanity was in danger, and that a mysterious "it" was "evil itself."
buzz aldrin tweeted ‘we are all in danger, it is evil itself’?
on 7 december 2016, conspiracy web site superstation95 published a post reporting that 86-year-old astronaut buzz aldrin (who had just been evacuated from the south pole due to health concerns) had mysteriously and alarmingly tweeted a photograph of a mountain along with a chilling comment:


































his words: “we are all in danger. it is evil itself.” and showed a photograph of a pyramid located at the south pole as show here.


































mr. aldrin seems to be referring to this object, as seen in an serial photo from google earth … as has been reported by worldwide media, us secretary of state john kerry recently traveled to the south pole, allegedly to become better informed about “climate change.” kerry was the highest ranking us government official ever to visit the south pole, and his visit struck many as unusual. few saw any purpose whatsoever to sending america’s top diplomat to the farthest reaches of the earth to see … ice.


































now, with buzz aldrin’s tweet, and its strange deletion, folks are wondering if sending america’s top diplomat to no-man’s land, perhaps had something to do with diplomacy after all. is there some entity there with which we need diplomatic contact? … if so, why did buzz aldrin warn that we are all in danger? why did he call it “evil itself?”


































the blog post, which was a pparently inspired by a 6 december 2016 thread on the conspiracy forum  before it’s news, cited two tweets as a first and second source for the photograph. one included an embedded video which referenced the superstation95 post as its source, making it useless as supporting confirmation:


































what did buzz aldrin mean and why did he delete this tweet?


































“we are all in danger. it is evil itself.” pic.twitter.com/tyb9ifcfzk


































— slone (@slone) december 7, 2016


































buzz aldrin warns “it is evil itself”https://t.co/i0mqohnh5y


































— christopher horn (@nighthorn) december 9, 2016





































































images of the purported tweet circulated widely after 7 december 2016, but there were a number of visual cues the graphic was altered:





































































for contrast, here’s a screenshot taken of a then-recent tweet sent via aldrin’s @therealbuzz account:





































































the first tweet did not have a date, share count, number of replies, number of favorites, or number of retweets; all could be used to determine whether twitter’s archive backed the claims made by the sites. additional irregularities existed in the background display of aldrin’s account: the suspect tweet didn’t display in the same manner it did in our screenshot. aldrin’s account data was oddly arranged, and his blue verification checkmark was missing.


































superstation95 did not provide a date, time, or sturdy source for the screenshot of the tweet. using twitter’s “advanced search” tool, we were able to determine that no retweets or “modified tweets” (a form of copying and pasting a retweet) existed anywhere on twitter. the first verbal mention of the purported tweet appeared on 8 december 2016, one day after the blog post linked above.


































it wasn’t just skeptics questioning the authenticity of the claim. youtube’s secureteam (the  self-described “number one source for breaking news and exposure of the alien phenomenon”) examined the claim, quickly dismissing it as a forgery:





































































superstation95‘s opportunistic leveraging of tragedy has never borne out as the real thing, despite the innumerable grandiose claims made since the site’s inception. however, despite them, no one has yet gone to fema camp, the global economy has not melted down, the magnetosphere caused no space-based catastrophes, and no hikers were reported injured or dead as a result of roving muslim shooters.


































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a conspiracy site claimed that the astronaut tweeted — then deleted — a dire warning that humanity was in "danger" from "evil itself" in antarctica.
buzz aldrin tweeted a photograph of a mountain along with a chilling comment: “we are all in danger. it is evil itself.” images of the purported tweet circulated widely after 7 december 2016, but there were a number of visual cues the graphic was altered. youtube’s secureteam examined the claim, quickly dismissing it as a forgery: superstation95‘s opportunistic leveraging of tragedy has never borne out as the real thing, despite the innumerable grandiose claims.