NASA-UAP-D001, Apollo 12 Air-to-Ground Transcript Excerpts, November 1969
- Date
- November 1969 (per index); mission elapsed times Day 05 19:14 to Day 06 00:23
- Location
- Lunar orbit (Apollo 12 lunar module Intrepid and command module Yankee Clipper)
- Agency
- NASA
- Release
- Release 01 (May 8, 2026)
- Type
- document
Summary
Four transcript pages from the Apollo 12 air-to-ground voice transcription. The lunar module pilot reports that looking out the AOT in the dark he sees "particles of light, flashes of light" that "just seem to come from... behind me" and "sailing off in space," adding, "I was thinking they're dropping from my water boiler, but it looks like some of those things are escaping the Moon." Later pages cover a pulsing "all 8's flash" on the AGS display that Houston says is "probably an EMI," and a tracking light the crew thinks has burned out.
Note
Contemporaneous crew remarks; the astronaut himself offers the water-boiler explanation as one possibility.