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NASA-UAP-D1, Apollo 12 Transcript, 1969

NASA · 1969-01-01 · Moon · release 1

Apollo 12 was the fourth crewed U.S. mission to the Moon and the second to land astronauts on the lunar surface. This document is an excerpt from the Apollo 12 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription, November 1969, highlighting two periods in which astronauts reported observing unidentified phenomenon: a one hour period on the fifth day, and a two minute period on the sixth day. These transcripts contain contemporaneous observations by the flight crew reacting to unidentified phenomenon. • Day 05, Hour 19, Minute 14, Second 58 through Day 05, Hour 20, Minute 12, Second 14: o At 05:19:27:25, the pilot of the Lunar Module (LMP-LM), Astronaut Alan L. Bean, described observing particles and flashes of light “sailing off in space” via the onboard Alignment Optical Telescope (AOT). He characterized these phenomenon as “escaping the Moon.” • Day 06, Hour 00, Minute 21, Second 42 through Day 06, Hour 00, Minute 23, Second 33: o Mission Commander, Charles “Pete” Conrad, described observing floating debris outside the lunar module, which had been illuminated by the module’s onboard tracking light. At 06:00:21:51, Conrad assessed that the tracking light had burnt out because he could no longer see the debris from the module.

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Tape 90/3 Page 742 05 19 14 58 05 19 16 31 cc CC That's affirmative. We're ready for the E-MOD. Intrepid, Houston. 05 19 16 35 CDR-I.M Go. 05 19 16 37 CC If you will give us PO0 and ACCEPI', we'll give you a CSM state vector and RLS update. 05 19 16 45 CDR-I.M You have POO and ACCEPT. 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 CMP cc CMP cc CMP cc CMP cc CMP CC Hello, Houston; Yankee Clipper. Yankee Clipper, Houston. Loud and clear. Well, hello there, stranger. How are you? Morning, Dick. We are fine. How are you? Well, pretty good. some company for a change. I hope you would like to have Roger. Go~ the house clean? I As a matter of fact, I Just finished that. sure do; got everything in order; ready to go towards the IM and bring back . . . That's quite a chore; keeping this thing clean. Roger. You got a matter of fact, I Just finished that. sure do; got everything in order; ready to go towards the IM and bring back . . . That's quite a chore; keeping this thing clean. Roger. You got a couple of coal miners coming up to see you. That's okay. I'll be glad to see them. Intrepid, Houston. The computer is yours. Break. Yankee Clipper, if you will go P00 and ACCEPI', we have an uplink. 05 19 21 20 CMP All yours . 05 19 23 14 05 19 23 20 05 19 23 39 CDR-I.M Houston, you got the lift-off time for me? CC cc Stand by. Intrepid, Houston. Your lift-off time is 142:03:47, 05 19 23 52 CDR-LM I copy 142:03:47.00. 05 19 23 57 05 19 24 05 C~ cc Affirmative. Clipper, Houston. Computer's yours. ) Tape 90/4 Page 743 05 19 24 11 CMP 05 19 24 23 05 19 24 43 cc cc 05 19 24 52 CMP 05 19 25 33 05 19 25 40 05 19 25 41 cc CMP cc Okay. And Jerry, will you find out what they want to do about this battery charge, be~~use . I'm 19 25 33 05 19 25 40 05 19 25 41 cc CMP cc Okay. And Jerry, will you find out what they want to do about this battery charge, be~~use . I'm using the bus tics during the rendezvous? Roger. Yankee Clipper, Houston. Why don't you figure on terminating the battery charge at LOS? All right; I could let it go until I before lift-off. That way it might take it all the way up. just Clipper, Houston. We prefer that you terminate at LOS on this pass. Roger. Roger. That would be one less thing for us to keep track of prior to lift-off. 05 19 25 48 CMP Okey. 05 19 27 17 CDR-IM Say, Houston, Intrepid. 05 19 27 20 cc Intrepid, Houston. Go. 05 19 27 25 IMP-LM in this case, I'm looking in quadrant 1 Roger. When you look out the AOT in the dark quadrant? You can see these lights - particles of light. flash~s of light just seem to come from - which is the left one. It's coming :from behind me, the left, and they're just sailing off in space. water boiler. but it looks like some of those things are escaping the Moon. They really haul out of here and just one. It's coming :from behind me, the left, and they're just sailing off in space. water boiler. but it looks like some of those things are escaping the Moon. They really haul out of here and just press off at the stars. I was thinking they're dropping from my 05 19 27 56 05 19 28 25 05 19 28 42 05 19 28 44 cc cc CMP cc Roger. Yankee Clipper~ Houston with a P22 tracking PAD. Go ahead. Roger. Your target is LM; T1 is 139: 57:39; is 140:02:38; ~outh 05; latitude is T 2 minus 3 05 19 29 10 CMP Hoger. T 112 - Tape 90/9 Page 748 05 20 08 23 cc Clipper, Houston. We'll give that data a good evaluation before we do anything with it. 05 20 09 25 LMP-IM Houston, Intrepid. 05 20 09 30 cc Intrepid, Houston. GO. 05 20 09 34 IMP-1..M I didn't notice earlier, but it may Got sort of an interesting thing going on AGS right now. just be because the lights i:,.re brighter now. 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 AGS right now. just be because the lights i:,.re brighter now. 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. And a - It's pulsing every second. _) 05 20 10 00 CC Roger, Al. 05 20 10 06 LMP-IM If I turn dmm the illumination level just a little bit, it's not noticeable. 05 20 10 52 LMP-LM Hello, Houston ; Intrepid. You ready for my RCS hot fire? 05 20 10 59 CC Intrepid, Houston. Roger. Fire aw~. ) 05 20 11 03 CDR-LM Okay. 05 20 11 32 CC Intrepid, Houston. 05 20 11 37 LMP-LM Go. 05 20 11 39 cc Roger, Al. Fredo is here. He and I have both seen that phenomena on your DEDA during t estin :', of most a.11 the spacecrafts up at Bethpage, and it's probably an EMI. 05 20 11 56 CDR-LM That's what ve' ve been talking about, but we thought we'd just tcucb in on it. 05 20 11 59 IMP-IM When you go to your roll rate, roll lef't, pitch up - - 05 20 12 01 cc Roger. problem. I we'd just tcucb in on it. 05 20 11 59 IMP-IM When you go to your roll rate, roll lef't, pitch up - - 05 20 12 01 cc Roger. problem. I think TRW's got a v0rkup on this 05 20 12 08 CDR-IM Okay? 05 20 12 11 CDR-IM Here yo~ go, Houston, with roll, pit ch, and yav. 05 20 12 14 cc Roger, Pete. ) -~---·- ··•···•- · -------- ---- ---.--·- -- -···----- -·- -··---·- - .. ( 06 00 21 42 CMP 06 co 21 51 CDR-IM Tape 93/8 Page 778 But I don't have you in the sextant, That's okay. Your blinking light's Just not blinking, that's all. Hey, Houston. It looks like our tracking llght's burned out. Dick hasn't been able to find us in this sextant. And on the first nightside pass we had little bits and pieces floating along vith us and we could tell that the tracking light va.; flashing on them. And we still have, I've presumed to think, bits and pieces floating along and nothing' s flashing on them, so I'm pretty sure it burned out. 06 00 22 11 CC Roger, Pete. 06 00 22 22 LMP I've presumed to think, bits and pieces floating along and nothing' s flashing on them, so I'm pretty sure it burned out. 06 00 22 11 CC Roger, Pete. 06 00 22 22 LMP-LM Yes, sir. Okay. 06 00 22 26 CC Hi, Intrepid. 06 00 22 27 LMP-LM Okay. 06 00 22 28 cc This is Houston. How'd your sweepdown fore and aft go? 06 00 22 33 CDR-LM It's getting much cleaner in here running this way; and, also, Yankee Clipper informs me he bas the television all set up. When we come around the hor~1, ·we' 11 come around with the television on in VOX. 06 00 22 47 CC Roger . . 06 00 22 53 CDR-IM Who knows, you may get to see the first wbiffer<l.ill. 06 00 22 59 CC Roger, Pete. Our electrical watchers say that the current indicates that your tracking light is on. 06 00 23 11 CDR-IM Okay. Now ve just turned it off. How does the current show that? 06 00 23 19 06 00 23 26 cc CMP It - It sure does, Pete. they're - You're flying thr0ugh the You're - air b~ckward3, then, Pete, because I don't that? 06 00 23 19 06 00 23 26 cc CMP It - It sure does, Pete. they're - You're flying thr0ugh the You're - air b~ckward3, then, Pete, because I don't see it. ) 06 00 23 33 CDR-LM Well, my ball tells me I'm pointed at you, Dick, and so does my radar. •

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