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NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969
During a medical debriefing of the crew of the Apollo 12 mission, Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad, Command Module Pilot Richard “Dick” F. Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean describe their observations of instances of light flashes or “streaks of lights.” The astronauts each reported that these experiences occurred in the dark as they tried to sleep. The NASA medical team considered whether similar phenomena reported by Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin had been attributable to exposure of the retina by cosmic rays. NASA later determined that the phenomena reported by the Apollo 12 flight crew were internal to the astronauts’ vision rather than external light sources.
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NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969 transcript includes a particle or fragment reference at 3:36.160.
[3:32.759] cosmic ray strikes and heavy , heavy [3:36.160] particles , heavy nuclei that are that [3:38.327] go through . You know , we started at
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NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969 transcript includes a light-related observation at 3:04.838.
[3:02.838] just a flash out there or sometimes [3:04.838] it'd be a a streak . And I saw them in [3:08.279] both eyes , either eye , and , uh , I
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Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad, Command Module Pilot Richard “Dick” F. Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean described their observations of instances of light flashes or 'streaks of lights' during the Apollo 12 mission.
During a medical debriefing of the crew of the Apollo 12 mission, Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad, Command Module Pilot Richard “Dick” F. Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean describe their observations of instances of light flashes or “streaks of lights.”
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NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969 transcript includes a flash reference at 0:42.069.
[0:40.069] on flight , he's got airport seeing [0:42.069] flashes in a spacecraft at night with [0:44.180] their eyes closed or with their eyes
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NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969 transcript includes a particle or fragment reference at 1:37.519.
[1:34.550] see what kind it is . We had two kinds . [1:37.519] Gets the particle either strike the [1:39.519] eyeball perpendicular or or it
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NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969 transcript includes a flash reference at 1:44.199.
[1:41.879] discharges parallel and we'd get either [1:44.199] a a flash like that or we'd get a [1:47.360] streak . And uh and I'm the only people
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NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969 transcript includes a light-related observation at 1:47.360.
[1:44.199] a a flash like that or we'd get a [1:47.360] streak . And uh and I'm the only people [1:51.089] that I know is I got . I And I for
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NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969 transcript includes a light-related observation at 3:00.616.
[2:58.449] the exact phenomenon that all three of [3:00.616] us saw . You'd see a light , you know , [3:02.838] just a flash out there or sometimes
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NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969 transcript includes a flash reference at 3:02.838.
[3:00.616] us saw . You'd see a light , you know , [3:02.838] just a flash out there or sometimes [3:04.838] it'd be a a streak . And I saw them in
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The NASA medical team considered whether similar phenomena reported by Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin had been attributable to exposure of the retina by cosmic rays.
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NASA later determined that the phenomena reported by the Apollo 12 flight crew were internal to the astronauts’ vision rather than external light sources.
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read this paragraph in here about these
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quotes coronal discharges that you guys
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were seeing and , and that , that
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completely stops us . Tell , tell us
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what , how this came about and who ,
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who talked to you about it and what and
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what you saw . We reported it on uh
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somebody reported it on one of the
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earlier flights and uh . Some guy up ,
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I got the letter , the paperwork
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somewhere , and they shipped it down to
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