Person
Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 11 lunar module pilot. Described an object that kept pace with Apollo 11 (L-shaped through the monocular) and the crew's choice to ask only where the S-IVB was; later called it 'one of the four panels'. In 2009 he told C-SPAN there is a monolith on Phobos ('Who put that there?'). He sat beside Arthur C. Clarke in 2001 when Clarke said life had been found on Mars.
What Buzz Aldrin said (1 claims)
“Aldrin's account: L-shaped object, later 'one of the panels'. Aldrin described an L-shaped object pacing Apollo 11 and the crew's choice to ask only where the S-IVB was (Houston: ~6,000 nautical miles). In a 2005 interview it was unidentified; later, including on Larry King Live, he said it was 'one”firsthandOn the recordApollo 11