Buzz Aldrin "First on the Moon: The Untold Story", Aldrin told an interviewer that they saw an unidentified flying object. He told David Morrison, a NASA Astrobiology Institute senior scientist, in 2006 that the documentary makers omitted the crew's conclusion that they probably saw one of the four detached spacecraft adapter panels. Their S-IVB upper stage was away, but the four panels had been jettisoned before the separation maneuver so they would closely follow the Apollo 11 spacecraft until the first mid-course correction. When Aldrin appeared on "The Howard Stern Show" on August 15, 2007, Stern asked him about the supposed UFO
Buzz Aldrin Sabres equipped with nuclear weapons as a flight commander in the 22nd Fighter Squadron, 36th Fighter Wing, stationed at Bitburg Air Base in West Germany. Among his squadron colleagues was Ed White, who had been a year behind him at West Point. After White left Germany to study for a master's degree at the University of Michigan in aeronautical engineering, he wrote to Aldrin encouraging him to do the same. Through the Air Force Institute of Technology, Aldrin enrolled as a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959, intending to earn a master's degree. He enjoyed the