Apollo 12: "Particles escaping the Moon"

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While in lunar orbit, LMP Alan Bean used the Alignment Optical Telescope to observe the dark Quadrant 1 and reported multiple flashing particles streaming away from the Moon. Mission Control simultaneously logged anomalous "all-81s" flashing patterns on the AGS display. The Apollo 12 crew captured at least four photographs featuring annotated zoom-boxes around UAPs.

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1. NASA Apollo 12 Mission Transcript (1969)p.1

   05 19 14 58 05 19 16 31 05 19 16 35 05 19 16 37 05 19 16 45 05 19 20 05 05 19 20 09 05 19 20 14 05 19 20 22 05 19 20 27 05 19 21.J 31 05 19 20 36 05 19 20 53 05 19 20 59 05 19 21 10 05 19 21 20 05 19 23 14 05 19 23 20 05 19 23 39 05 19 23 52 05 19 23 57 05 19 24 05 ) cc CC CDR-I.M CC CDR-I.M CMP cc CMP cc CMP cc CMP…

2. NASA Apollo 12 Mission Transcript (1969)p.2

   You can see these lights - particles of light. flash~s of light just seem to come from - in this case, I'm looking in quadrant 1 which is the left one

3. NASA Apollo 12 Mission Transcript (1969)p.3

   I'm getting an all 81 s flash on both the address and the information registers at about one- fifth the brilliance of the normal numbers

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Apollo 12 lunar surface: flashing particle in Quadrant 1 (with annotated zoom)

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Apollo 12: Two annotated faint signals (Area 1 / Area 2)

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Apollo 12: A bright point of light above the lunar horizon (annotated)

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NASA Apollo 12 Mission Transcript (1969) — img-001

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NASA Apollo 12 Mission Transcript (1969) — img-002

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NASA Apollo 12 Mission Transcript (1969) — img-003

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NASA Apollo 12 Mission Transcript (1969) — img-004

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NASA Apollo 12 Mission Transcript (1969) — p.1

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NASA Apollo 12 Mission Transcript (1969) — p.2

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NASA Apollo 12 Mission Transcript (1969) — p.3

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NASA Apollo 12 Mission Transcript (1969) — p.4

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• NASA Apollo 12 Mission Transcript (1969)

  nasa-uap-d1-apollo-12-transcript-1969.pdf

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