Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969
- Date
- 1969
- Place
- Texas, United States
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Per the government's blurb, a medical debriefing audio recording in which Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad, CMP Dick Gordon, and LMP Alan Bean describe light flashes/'streaks of light' seen while trying to sleep in the dark. NASA's medical team considered whether this matched Aldrin's Apollo 11 cosmic-ray hypothesis, and the blurb states NASA later determined the Apollo 12 crew's phenomena were internal to the astronauts' vision rather than external light sources.
What officials concluded
Resolved
NASA later determined the phenomena were internal to the astronauts' vision, not external light sources.
- Agency
- NASA
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- Yes: Visual
- No: Infrared
- No: Radar
- No: Video
- No: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- No: Civilian
- No: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- Yes: Other
- Yes: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- No: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Why this rating Blurb-only file (no audio transcript provided here); a subjective, physiological-seeming phenomenon already given a conventional explanation by NASA per the blurb itself.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon, Alan Bean (per blurb)
- Sensors
- Visual (subjective/physiological)
- Lights and colour
- Streaks of light
- Duration
- While trying to sleep, in the dark
- Effects
- Internal visual phenomenon (retinal), per NASA's later determination
Pentagon files
Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969
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What the file claims
- Unverified
The Apollo 12 crew described light flashes or streaks of light while trying to sleep in the dark, prompting comparison to Aldrin's Apollo 11 report and a cosmic-ray hypothesis.
On the map
31.50° N, 99.00° W, plotted at the centre of the region named in the record
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