Bryson DeChambeau might need to renounce his nickname of “The Scientist” if NASA hears what he thinks about the moon landing.
No, the pro golfer doesn’t doubt that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin actually touched down on the lunar surface in 1969. But the grainy video we’ve all seen? He’s unsure about that.
“I don’t think the footage is real,” DeChambeau, 32, said on the Tuesday, May 19 episode of the “Katie Miller Podcast.” ”But I think we did go to the moon. I don’t know about the footage. It’s quite, it’s quite wild.”
The two-time U.S. Open champion said that he trusts Elon Musk’s assertion that the landing itself actually happened.
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“He’s the man that knows quite a bit about all that,” DeChambeau said. “Artemis just went around the moon. So I do believe if we spent a lot of our resources like they say we did, I think we did.”
And while he doesn’t believe in the video showing one small step for man, he’s willing to take one giant leap into the cosmos.
“I do think that there are interdimensional beings out there, for sure. I do believe in UAPs,” DeChambeau said. “UAPs [unidentified aerial phenomenon], UFOs, I think they’re more than just aliens from another world. Maybe aliens from another world. But I think there’s more. There’s a lot more to that story.”
DeChambeau isn’t the only professional athlete who has expressed doubt about what’s going on up there. Boston Celtics star Derrick White questioned the moon landing in a March 2026 episode of his “White Noise” podcast when he recalled a conversation he had with his head coach, Joe Mazzulla.
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“He’s on the treadmill and I’m lifting, and he just turned around and he’s like, ‘Do you believe we landed on the moon?’” White, 31, said. “I don’t think we did. I’m a non-moon landing guy.”
White walked his comment back almost immediately but still left room for doubt.
“We probably did, but I don’t think we did,” he continued. “I don’t know. I don’t really know. But I don’t think we did.”
“I’m not going to call myself a conspiracy theorist. I don’t think I’m that extreme,” White said, seemingly aware of how the public would take his comments. “But I do think they are very interesting. And you know I like to argue, so it kind of makes sense that I’m into stuff like this.”
In 2025, former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick revealed she loves asking people about the moon landing.
“This is def one of the conspiracy’s [sic] I believe,” she wrote via Instagram. “I don’t care if you think I’m crazy. I already know I am.”
