Apollo 12 Crew Claims Seeing ‘Streaks Of Lights’ In Eyes, New UFO File Dump Says

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Apollo 12 Crew Claims Seeing ‘Streaks Of Lights’ In Eyes, New UFO File Dump Says

The crew of Apollo 12 claimed they saw “streaks of lights”while far from Earth and trying to fall asleep, though scientists later ruled the flashes were from within their eyes.

A medical debrief captured Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad, Command Module Pilot Richard “Dick” F. Gordon and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean recounting flashes of light during the 1969 flight, according to a file posted by the War Department (DOW). Each man said the visions appeared while they attempted to sleep in the dark.

“What Pete described was the exact phenomenon that all three of us saw,” a speaker said in a video released in the file. You’d see a light, you know, just a flash out there or sometimes it’d be a streak. And I saw them in both eyes, either eye, and I can’t remember if there was one that was more predominant than the other. But I agree with Pete, it’s not a phenomenon that you’re seeing with both eyes. It’s not something external. It’s something that’s inside or coming across you.”

The audio arrived in a second wave of declassified material that the Pentagon released Friday. The drop carried more than 60 items, ranging from documents to military video to transcribed accounts, Fox 5 DC reported. It stemmed from a directive by President Donald Trump to open up government records on what officials term Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). The DOW has led the effort with help from the Director of National Intelligence. (RELATED: War Department Drops First ‘Tranche’ of Declassified UFO Documents)

Apollo 12 was not the only case. Buzz Aldrin, after the Apollo 11 mission, also told investigators he glimpsed “little flashes inside the cabin, space a couple of minutes apart,” while attempting to get some sleep, NBC News reported. Mission doctors weighed whether cosmic rays striking the retina might explain what Aldrin had seen, according to the DOW. The agency eventually decided the Apollo 12 flashes came from within the astronauts’ own eyesight, not from any outside glow.

That verdict tracks with later findings. The flashes and streaks have long been tied to high-energy cosmic particles slipping through the eye, though scientists still debate the exact trigger, Science News reported. Roughly 80 percent of NASA and European Space Agency astronauts described the effect in a 2006 count, and researchers keep studying it as NASA considers trips to Mars and the Moon.