I want to tell you how this actually happened, because it didn't start with a hypothesis. It started with a pattern.
I've always looked at imagery from Mars and the Moon and noticed patterns but it was just for fun and I would always put it to the side.
I was once again looking at Apollo 11 surface photography, close up images taken by a camera that was basically dragged across the ground by the astronauts, capturing the regolith at millimetre scale. And I noticed something different this time, that I was seeing repeating patterns at different scales. I saw the same shapes I was seeing at mm scale again in LRO orbital imagery at kilometre scale, on the other side of the Moon, taken by a completely different instrument in 2025.
That repetition across six orders of magnitude is what stopped me. I couldn't explain it away.
That is not what you expect from random impact debris.
At the time I called the patterns crystallisation. I thought the glass globules, the pearlescent spherical features I kept finding at the centres of the ovate forms, were nucleation points for some kind of dendritic growth. I thought this because I could see patterns radiating out from these points.
To check if it was crystallisation, I ran the statistics. The spatial organisation of surface features was not crystallisation but non-random in every image I tested, with Clark-Evans R values between 1.21 and 1.41 and Z-scores well above the p less than 0.001 threshold. The features are clustered in a way that is statistically significant and consistent across two completely different instruments and two completely different scales.
I initially described the patterns as hyperuniform, which is a specific physical state where density fluctuations are suppressed at large scales. I have since done structure factor analysis and the data does not show hyperuniformity. So I updated the paper. The visual observations and morphological documentation are unchanged.
The closer I looked at the mm scale close up photography, the more I could see the patterns were layering in thin crusts on top of each other, not only that, but it appeared as though a thread was weaving through the grains.
The dark filamentous forms at the crevice boundaries started bothering me. They are always at the edge between shelter and exposure. Always at crevice mouths, never in open regolith. They have a purple to black colouration that is not consistent with shadow and not consistent with any common opaque lunar mineral. I did a manual spectral analysis on one image, 16 pixel positions recorded by hand, with a grid overlay so anyone can check my work using the same NASA source image. Shadow gives you a G-R value close to zero. These features consistently returned between -3 and -6. They are not shadow. They are real surface material with their own optical properties.
And then there is the green material. A light green, cohesive, non-granular surface film covering areas of the regolith. In two forms, filamentous and web-like, and mucous-like. Inconsistent with loose mineral particles. Olivine is angular and crystalline and does not form films like this.
I said it plainly in the title. I believe the Moon may be inhabited.
Specifically I've been thinking that the morphological features I am documenting are collectively consistent with an endolithic cyanobacterial biological soil crust community, the same kind of organisms that survive on the edge of survival in the most extreme environments on Earth, Antarctic rock, hyperarid desert, volcanic craters. They produce UV-protective pigments, they form filamentous networks, they glide across substrates leaving mineralised trails, they build colonies around water sources.
The glass globules on the lunar surface are documented water sources. They release solar-wind derived water at mild temperatures. I found sixteen examples in a single Apollo 11 frame of globules with green thread like material at their base or entering their surface directly. Sixteen. That is not random.
But I'm also seeing other morphologies that don't fit abiotic explanations that are not consistent with cyanobacteria.
The most recent work goes into the rock. I searched NASA's Virtual Microscope archive for thin sections of Apollo samples and in Apollo 15 regolith breccia 15498 I found recurring thread-like features, consistently dark green in plane polarised light, isotropic in cross-polarised light, and almost invisible in reflected light. More than a dozen examples in a single section, threading through pore spaces, passing behind grains, curving around grain margins, and several terminating in closed loops anchored against mineral grains, a shape I kept seeing. Mineral veining doesn't do that. Mounting resin doesn't do that. I looked at those explanations carefully and I wasn't satisfied.
I can't run chemical analysis on these samples myself. What I can do is document what I see.
I am in the middle of my second BSc, a combined STEM degree focusing on biology and planetary science. I don't have access to a laboratory. What I can do is document what I see as carefully as possible, make my methods transparent enough that anyone with the same source images can check my work, and keep looking.
I don't mind being wrong. I have been wrong before in this investigation. I initially called those same ovate colony forms dendritic crystallisation, and I updated my interpretation when the evidence pointed somewhere else.
What I do think is that the morphological evidence is now substantial enough to warrant a serious look. I'm going to keep observing, learning and asking questions.