Apollo 12 LM lights and particles observation
Source: NASA-UAP-D1, Apollo 12 Transcript, 1969
Lunar module pilot observed flashing particles of light visible through the AOT (abort optical tracker) in the dark quadrant, appearing to escape from the lunar surface and moving rapidly away.
“When you look out the AOT in the dark quadrant? You can see these lights - particles of light, flashes of light just seem to come from - in this case, I'm looking in quadrant 1 which is the left one. It's coming from behind me, the left, and they're just sailing off in space. I was thinking they're dropping from my water boiler, but it looks like some of those things are escaping the Moon.”
Verbatim from NASA-UAP-D1, Apollo 12 Transcript, 1969 · View original on war.gov
Case details
- Date
- 1969-05-19
- Precision
- day
- Location
- Moon, lunar orbit
- Branch
- NASA
- Unit
- Apollo 12 Lunar Module (Intrepid)
- Sensors
- eyewitness
- Shape
- flashes of light, particles of light
Resolution
Likely water droplets or debris from the lunar module's water boiler, though some appeared to move away from the moon rapidly
Source document
Agency: NASA
File: NASA-UAP-D1, Apollo 12 Transcript, 1969
Case ID: 1969-NASA-E575D5
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