He Department of Defense American published last Friday a new collection of documents, videos and images related to UFO sightingsalthough now the name that the authorities prefer is that of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon, FANI either UAPaccording to its English acronym. With much less burden on the collective imagination, but more attached to reality. Among the new material, the images taken by the astronauts of the mission stand out Apollo 12 from the surface of the Moon in which several of these unexplained phenomena are seen.
On November 19, 1969, the mission commander, Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad Jr.and the lunar module pilot, Alan L. Beandescended to the lunar surface in a lander called Intrepidjust four months after the astronauts of the Apollo 11 They were the first to step on it. Richard F. Gordonthe third member of the crew, spent the next 31 hours piloting the command module in lunar orbit and awaiting the return of his companions.
Bean was looking through the lander’s optical alignment telescope when he saw something that baffled him. ‘You can see these lights, particles of light, flashes of light… just by sailing through space’Bean told mission control, according to the mission transcript.
The pilot initially thought the particles were coming from a leak in the lander’s kettle, but soon added that ‘It looks like some of those things are escaping from the Moon. They shoot out of here and head straight towards the stars.’. In the images, unidentified lights are seen moving in the sky, according to Bean’s testimony, seen from the Apollo 12 landing site.
The lights, which appear bluish in some images, are seen alone or in small groups. One of the photographs shows five of these phenomena simultaneously, in five different parts of the lunar horizon.
Both the transcript and the images had been available for years, but the Department of Defense has included them in the new edited batch. FANI can now be seen highlighted and expandedwhich indicates that the POT studied the sighting. The space agency has not reached any conclusions about the origin or nature of these lights.
Later in the transcript, mission control asks the astronauts if those strange flashes could be due to electromagnetic interference. That is, unforeseen signals but emitted by human technology or by cosmic radiation sources, such as solar flares. The astronauts affirm that it is possible and leave the research there.
NASA maintains that unidentified anomalous phenomena They are real, but they have nothing to do with aliens. The space agency has been searching for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence for decades with some of the most advanced telescopes and technology and, so far, has found nothing. According to a 2022 Department of Defense investigation, Debris in the air, photographic defects such as reflections and optical illusions are common causes of FANIs, ancient UFOs.