Declassified UFO files include Apollo 12 audio of unexplained light flashes
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The Pentagon’s latest batch of declassified UFO files includes audio from a 1969 Apollo 12 post-mission medical debriefing in which astronauts described seeing “trails of light” while trying to sleep in deep space.
The audio, released as part of the War Department’s second tranche of recordings under its Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE, captures members of the Apollo 12 crew discussing the flashes and streaks of light they saw in the dark spacecraft.
“The streaks I saw were the ones I had seen horizontally,” a crew member said, according to the transcript. “The horizontal streaks were always a little above the center.”
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The ongoing release of declassified files is part of Trump’s PURSUE (Presidential Desealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters) program. (Getty Images Creations)
The War Department said the release was a government-wide effort to identify, review, declassify and publicly release unresolved historical files and documents related to the UAP. The first release took place on May 8.
The Apollo 12 crew, which included Charles “Pete” Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean, launched NASA’s second crewed moon landing mission in November 1969.
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The newly released audio account accounts for the unexplained visual flashes seen by the astronauts.
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In the transcript, the astronauts describe observing the flashes while awake in the spacecraft. One said the streaks appeared to be “in about the same place,” while another said he saw them about “30 degrees from horizontal.”
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This archival photograph shows the lunar surface from the Apollo 12 landing site in 1969, with a highlighted area above the horizon with unidentified phenomena. (War Department)
The crew and medical staff also discussed whether the flashes were random or directional, and whether they appeared in one or both eyes. One astronaut said he could usually tell which eye recorded the flash after waiting long enough to observe it.
The phenomenon was discussed during the debriefing as possibly related to cosmic rays or heavy particles passing through the eye.
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The Apollo 12 audio is one of several recordings included in the latest release.
Other files in the tranche include Cold War recordings of “green fireballs” near sensitive military and nuclear installations, Pantex images of an unidentified object, and a senior U.S. intelligence officer describing orange orbs during a helicopter mission.
The War Department says the PURSUE archives contain unresolved cases, meaning the government has not made a final decision on the nature of the observed phenomena.
In February, President Trump said he would direct Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and other relevant departments and agencies to begin identifying and declassifying the documents. (Saül Loeb/AFP)
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The ministry said the documents are released as files are found, reviewed and declassified.
“The War Department stands with President Trump in providing unprecedented transparency regarding our government’s understanding of unidentified anomalous phenomena. These records, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation – and it is time for the American people to see it for themselves,” said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. “This release of declassified documents demonstrates the Trump administration’s serious commitment to unprecedented transparency.”
Fox News Digital has contacted the Pentagon for comment.
