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The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that the Beverly Hills police are investigating a complaint that Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin struck a man Monday after the alleged victim asked Aldrin to swear on a Bible that he had been to the moon.
Detectives told the newspaper that they responded to a disturbance Monday at the Luxe Hotel on Rodeo Drive and took a report from one Bart Sibrel, 37.
Aldrin was unavailable for comment, but his wife, Lois Aldrin told SPACE.com that Sibrel has approached the retired astronaut several times before Monday's incident. "He has approached many of the Apollo astronauts in the past and this was just another example of him pestering the astronauts again," Aldrin said.
Sibrel, who doesn't believe Aldrin, or anyone else for that matter, walked on the moon, said he was hit in the face by the 72-year-old astronaut. Aldrin, who took part in the 1969 lunar mission, left the scene before police arrived, Beverly Hills Police Lt. Joe Lombardi told the Times.
Sibrel is the writer, producer and director of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon", a documentary that alleges that the Apollo 11 moon mission was faked by NASA.
Source: Space.com
I think this is all a hoax. There's no real evidence that Buzz Aldrin actually hit Sibrel.