Mental gymnastics in the extreme...
Had a TBM family friend argue the reason Artemis, and Apollo before it, failed to find Quakers on the moon, was not because they aren't there, but because the missions were both fake.
The proof, Joseph Fielding Smith's statement at the May 1961 Honolulu Stake Conference - The month after Yuri Gagarin's first journey.
"We will never get a man into space. This earth is man's sphere and it was never intended that he should get away from it. The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen."