@ woody
1. The soviets claim to have being busy tracking their own lunar landing at the time, the only observatory with capabilities produced a very small piece of felt tip on graph paper in 2009 and hams were not tracking anything in lunar orbit (could you do this in 2016 ?)
2. The soviets claim to also have placed retroreflectors on the lunar surface. Lasers were being bounced and received off the lunar surface in the early 60s.
3. Can I see the Chinese and Japanese "pictures of landing sites" ?
4. The images and film shot by the players have many inconsistencies and anomalies.
1. Do you really think the Soviets did not track the Apollo missions and if they did not make it would bring it up? Look how both countries were behaving during the Cold War.
2. There is a difference between hitting the reflectors or not. You will get a stronger return and measurements will be more accurate.
3. Google Selene and Chang'e 2 Apollo
4. Funny how NASA hiding such a huge secrete can not create films and photos the same quality as Hollywood. Seems they would be more careful. Similar to how NASA now releases photos and videos with visible air bubbles. For some reason Hollywood does not use pools to make it look like actors are in space and do a better job.
Observatories:
Pic du Midi Observatory, the Catalina Station of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory University of Arizona, Corralitos Observatory(Broadcast live images of one of the Apollo missions), Northwestern University, McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas, and Lick Observatory of the University of California, Bochum Observatory, Jodrell Bank Observatory,Jewett Observatory all made observations.
Larry Baysinger, a technician for WHAS radio in Louisville, Kentucky, independently detected and recorded transmissions between the Apollo 11 astronauts on the lunar surface and the Lunar Module.[19] Recordings made by Baysinger share certain characteristics with recordings made at Bochum Observatory by Kaminski, in that both Kaminski's and Baysinger's recordings do not include the Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) in Houston, Texas, and the associated Quindar tones heard in NASA audio and seen on NASA Apollo 11 transcripts. Kaminski and Baysinger could only hear the transmissions from the Moon, and not transmissions to the Moon from the Earth
Rachel, Chabot Observatory's 20-inch refracting telescope, helped bring Apollo 13 and its crew home. One last burn of the lunar lander engines was needed before the crippled spacecraft's re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. In order to compute that last burn, NASA needed a precise position of the spacecraft, obtainable only by telescopic observation. All the observatories that could have done this were clouded over, except Oakland's Chabot Observatory, where members of the Eastbay Astronomical Society had been tracking the Moon flights. EAS members received an urgent call from NASA Ames Research Station, which had ties with Chabot's educational program since the 60's, and they put the Observatory's historic 20-inch refractor to work. They were able to send the needed data to Ames, and the Apollo crew was able to make the needed correction and to return safely to Earth on this date in 1970
Bochum Observatory tracked the astronauts and intercepted the television signals from Apollo 16. The image was re-recorded in black and white in the 625 lines, 25 frames/s television standard onto 2-inch videotape using their sole quad machine. The transmissions are only of the astronauts and do not contain any voice from Houston, as the signal received came from the Moon only. The videotapes are held in storage at the observatory
The Madrid Apollo Station near Madrid, Spain, tracked Apollo 11. A large majority of the people working at this station were not employees of NASA, but of Spain's Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial
Another option is just to get a telescope find out when the ISS or some satellite will be visible near where you live. Then determine if they exist and are orbiting the planet if man could have landed on the moon.