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NASA-UAP-D024, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing”

This debriefing includes presentations from principal investigators of various Apollo experiments. The principal investigators describe preliminary results of their work to educate the Apollo crews about what they’ve obtained from Apollo 16 to help prepare for Apollo 17. They also describe anomalies, such as a “flash” that was observed that had not yet been reported. The flash is mentioned beginning at 25:15.

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The principal investigators describe preliminary results of their work to educate the Apollo crews about what they’ve obtained from Apollo 16 to help prepare for Apollo 17.

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NASA-UAP-D024, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing” official metadata flags a flash reference at 25:15.

[25:15] The flash is mentioned beginning at 25:15.

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The principal investigators describe anomalies, such as a 'flash' that was observed that had not yet been reported.

They also describe anomalies, such as a 'flash' that was observed that had not yet been reported.

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NASA-UAP-D024, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing” transcript includes a light-related observation at 26:56.020.

[26:53.218] showing up from solar corona or [26:56.020] zodiacal light , whatever you want to [26:58.131] call it in that region . It was very

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NASA-UAP-D024, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing” transcript includes a flash reference at 25:47.364.

[25:45.253] we if we recorded that . I would like [25:47.364] to ask , was this a colored flash or a [25:49.650] white flash . Uh , what

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NASA-UAP-D024, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing” transcript includes a flash reference at 25:49.650.

[25:47.364] to ask , was this a colored flash or a [25:49.650] white flash . Uh , what [25:53.530] was your , how does it differ from the

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NASA-UAP-D024, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing” transcript includes a flash reference at 26:44.957.

[26:42.790] Yeah , how about its persistence ? Did [26:44.957] it It was just a flash and [26:48.829] and the way I happened to notice it , I

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NASA-UAP-D024, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing” transcript includes a particle or fragment reference at 10:47.390.

[10:44.469] places . It should channel the charged [10:47.390] particles and . Either [10:51.450] at different locations uh

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NASA-UAP-D024, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing” transcript includes an official-explanation reference at 18:16.839.

[18:14.470] of this yet , nor myself really , but [18:16.839] the possibility of a reflection from a [18:19.640] very deep interface , perhaps

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NASA-UAP-D024, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing” transcript includes a particle or fragment reference at 20:49.099.

[20:45.982] that TV picture degrade on Lem ascent , [20:49.099] it's obvious that a lot of debris is [20:51.155] being thrown around and you just can't

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NASA-UAP-D024, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing” transcript includes a flash reference at 25:20.651.

[25:18.540] that has interested us a great deal , [25:20.651] and that was the flash that was [25:24.030] reported . I haven't seen , I

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What do we need a mic ? You hear me ?

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Oh , OK . First of all , let me say

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thank you from , from SNAD for the

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scientific help on Apollo 16 . I

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personally think that you all did a , a

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very credible job in helping the

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science support room and pre-flighting

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to get all the experiments ready to

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prepare the crew and the flight for

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Apollo 16 . I think that looking back

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on it now we can say we had a very

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successful mission that we obtained a

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PublishedJun 12, 2026, 12:00 AM

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