A, perhaps surprisingly, large number of people in the world think the NASA moon landings in the late 1960s and 1970s were faked. It is definitely one of the more popular, longest-running, and most-debunked conspiracy theories out there.
Heck, when people like Kim Kardashian are taking TikTok videos promoting the moon landing conspiracy theory as gospel, it’s pretty hard to get people to believe it isn’t true, regardless of what NASA or one of the men who actually went to the moon says.
Regardless, it is always entertaining when someone famous decides to admit that they might be a moon landing truther.
Drake Maye admits he isn’t sure that the moon landing is real
Such was the case this week when New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye was asked if there were any “wild” conspiracy theories he “kind of secretly believed in” during a segment called “Ask Maye Anything” on WEEI.
“Wow. How about that?” Maye replied, then paused a moment to think about how to respond. “Let me try not to get too controversial. Let me think.
“I don’t know about the moon,” Maye continued. “I can see back in the day of why we would put on the mask if we went there, but I’m not really sure 200% if we went there or not. I wouldn’t say I’m leaning one way or the other. I just know I’m a little bit skeptical.”
One of the show’s hosts then went on to say he believes another longstanding theory that acclaimed movie director Stanley Kubrick filmed the moon landing on a sound stage.
“Well, I’m not 100% sure,” Drake Maye responded, “but you know, I took a couple con I took a conspiracy class in college, actually, which was pretty cool.”
Among the conspiracy theories Maye said he studied at North Carolina were about Hitler still being alive and birds not being real (which is totally true, by the way).
Drake Maye is not the only athlete to admit being skeptical about the moon landing
Earlier this year, PGA Tour star Bryson DeChambeau proposed a perplexing conspiracy theory on America’s ability to land on the moon. While he thinks the footage was faked, he also believes we did go to the moon.
Another skeptic is former racing star Danica Patrick. In 2024, after sharing clip of moon landing conspiracy theorist Bart Sibrel on The Joe Rogan Experience, Patrick wrote, “This is def one of the conspiracy’s [sic] I believe. I don’t care if you think I’m crazy. I already know I am.”
Then there is tennis star Nick Kyrgios, who in 2023, was on Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast and said about the moon landings, “Americans weren’t apparently even close to having anything successfully going up there.”
Kyrgios, who called himself “a massive conspiracy guy,” also told Paul, “I don’t think the pyramids are man-made. The doors are pretty big, and we as humans don’t need doors as big as those ones.”
So there you go.