NASA-UAP-D1, Apollo 12 Transcript, 1969
Summary
This report is an excerpt from the Apollo 12 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription from November 1969, produced by NASA. It details two instances during the mission, one lasting an hour on the fifth day and another lasting two minutes on the sixth day, where astronauts reported observing unidentified phenomena while on the Moon.
Key highlights
Astronauts reported seeing flashes of light in space during the mission.p.2
“you can see these lights - particles of light.”
There were discussions about battery management during the mission's operations.p.2
“figure on terminating the battery charge at LOS?”
The astronauts noted issues with their tracking light, which they believed had burned out.p.4
“it looks like our tracking light's burned out.”
The transcript includes routine communications about spacecraft operations and updates from mission control.p.1
“If you will give us PO0 and ACCEPI', we'll give you a CSM state vector.”
The astronauts expressed a sense of camaraderie and humor during their communications.p.1
“Well, pretty good. I hope you would like to have some company for a change.”
Outliers
An astronaut mentioned unusual phenomena that could be related to electromagnetic interference.p.3
“it's probably an EMI.”
Source
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