Buzz Aldrin eventually had enough of conspiracy theorists hounding him and gave one (Bart Sibre)l what he deserved. 72-year-old Buzz Aldrin punches a moon landing conspiracy theorist in the face Extracts “You’re the one who said you walked on the moon when you didn’t,” Bart Sibrel told Aldrin as he walked by his filming crew outside the Luxe Hotel. “Calling a kettle black …” “Will you get away from me?” an irate Aldrin warned the man in the incident. Sibrel responded, “You’re a coward and a liar and a … ” Aldrin, then 72, socked Sibrel in the jaw, right when he finished the sentence with “thief.”
During the widely reported incident, Sibrel—who has badgered Apollo astronauts more than once—even shoved a Bible in Aldrin’s face and asked him to swear on it that the moon landing was real and that Aldrin actually walked on the lunar landscape. Aldrin was lured to the hotel on the pretext of an interview for a children’s television show, and then Sibrel accosted him.
Sibrel tried to press assault charges against Aldrin, but the court threw out the case and called Sibrel the instigator.
