NASA-UAP-D027, Apollo 14 Debriefing (Continued), 1971
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NASA-UAP-D027 — Apollo 14 Debriefing (Continued), 1971
The dossier examines Apollo 14's post-mission debriefing on 'light flash phenomena', a biological effect observed by astronauts in space. The material is significant for space biology research, highlighting how cosmic radiation affects human vision, which is crucial for long-term space missions and astronaut safety.
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- Feb 18, 1971
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The dossier examines Apollo 14's post-mission debriefing on 'light flash phenomena', a biological effect observed by astronauts in space.
Key takeaways
- The Apollo 14 crew discussed experiencing 'light flash phenomena' during their mission, which was a topic of interest in their debriefing.
- The phenomena involve high-energy cosmic rays interacting with the retina, causing astronauts to perceive light streaks or flashes.
- This biological effect is significant in understanding the human body's response to space environments, particularly cosmic radiation exposure.
Why it matters
The material is significant for space biology research, highlighting how cosmic radiation affects human vision, which is crucial for long-term space missions and astronaut safety.
Corroboration
The claims are based on observed phenomena discussed in the Apollo 14 debriefing, but the dossier lacks additional independent sources or documents to further corroborate these observations.
Open questions
- • What further studies have been conducted on the 'light flash phenomena' since Apollo 14?
- • How do these phenomena impact astronaut performance during missions?
- • Are there any protective measures developed to mitigate these effects?
- • Have similar phenomena been reported in subsequent Apollo missions or other spaceflights?
- • What are the long-term effects of cosmic ray exposure on astronaut health?
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This file contains segment 2 of 2 of the Apollo 14 post-mission crew debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center), Houston, Texas. In this continued segment, crew members and debriefers further discuss the “light flash phenomena,” a then novel, now well-documented biological effect where high-energy cosmic rays pass through the eye and strike the retina, causing the perception of light streaks or flashes.
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Apollo 14 crew placed the flashes within the eye
When asked whether the light flashes might have been in the cabin or within the eye, a crew member answered that they were definitely within the eye.
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Apollo 14 Debriefing
Apollo 14 post-mission crew debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center.
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The Apollo 14 crew and debriefers discussed the 'light flash phenomena' during the post-mission debriefing.
In this continued segment, crew members and debriefers further discuss the 'light flash phenomena,' a then novel, now well-documented biological effect...
The 'light flash phenomena' is a biological effect where high-energy cosmic rays pass through the eye and strike the retina, causing the perception of light streaks or flashes.
a then novel, now well-documented biological effect where high-energy cosmic rays pass through the eye and strike the retina, causing the perception of light streaks or flashes.
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Most of my streaks appeared to be on
the periphery , and , uh , for the
first several days , I got the
impression that this , this direction
was predominant . Later on , it
appeared that I don't think I could get
that , that good a pattern , but that
was my first impression for the first
couple of days . The uh next question
is , uh , was there any apparent
direction of propagation and could you
tell it was coming from one side to the
other or was it just a . A flash .
Several times you did say from the left
to the right or something like that .
Tried to correlate it , but in my case
I couldn't really correlate a pattern
out of it . Yeah , I would think that
the time period in which we tried to
report them streak by streak , flash by
flash was representative . And , uh ,
it was my feeling that it was generally
random during that time period and , uh ,
Therefore , generally random throughout
the time that we were noticing them .
No , I meant , could you detect that it
was moving from one side to the other .
It was , it was moving in a specific ,
a specific , a specific flash . Yes ,
yes , but you could see it as it
traveled from one side to the other .
Yes , you really think we tried to
did report it . That's the way puzzling
report it that way , didn't you ? You
is because it happens , it has to be
very fast , you know . Isn't that
question kind of redundant then ? I
don't believe you . I .
Was there some character to these
flashes that had some , some aspect of
direction ? I mean , were they all the
same rod shaped or were they , did they
have a tail on them ? Well , what I saw ,
what I reported as a streak was simply
that . Uh , now , maybe the way we
determined the direction subconsciously
was that it was a ball of light moving
in a direction leaving a tail , but I
don't , I can't say that for sure . All
I reported was a streak , and I had the
impression of it moving from one
direction to the other , and I reported
that direction , and I , I can't
clarify it much more than that . Maybe ,
maybe while you're asking a question ,
we just tell the lights . I think they
just the idea is to try to see whether
can see this in the darkened room , but
this is what you saw or similar to it .
I think you need to light up . Well ,
can you see anything ? Yeah , except
that's what it looked like , except it
was traveling . In other words , uh ,
it started out and it definitely
progressed across the field of view
direction of motion per individual . We
did that right , yeah , except you're
not traveling . It was traveling . You
saw it . I never did see two
simultaneously either . Neither do I .
You have two streaks in that . I never
saw that . The , uh ,
at one time you said you saw a
semicolon-shaped thing . So what a
semicolon shaped object . This was in
the 1st , 1st report . Before the
I never did . I don't if I reported it ,
that's what I saw , but I don't
remember it . Did you see anything that
looked like this ? All I can say is
whatever was reported is what I saw .
No , I , you know , we , we discussed
the various shapes prior to flight ,
and I concentrated pretty hard on
trying to , trying to see the shapes ,
and I think as I reported , no , it was
either a streak and just a rather
simple streak or it was a , a flash and
rather a simple flash , nothing too
exotic about it , and on .
A more rare one would be maybe just
a pinpoint of light for an instant
rather than get the idea of a of a
flash . There would just be a pinpoint
for a second and it would be gone , but
that was , that was more rare than the
other two . By by a flash you mean a
meant , you know , like watching an
distributed sort of thing . Yeah , I
explosion , you know , just a ball
versus just a , just a steady dot , yes .
Was it , was it like this at all ? Can
you see that ? No . Likely this
one this . I
see . Can't say it .
We're not getting any lighting . I
don't think it's lighting . Oh , there ,
there was something just as you turned
it there . OK , I can see
that . You mean multiple , uh , well ,
This one . OK , that , that to me would
be the pinpoint that , that I'm
describing . The , uh , the , the
eruption or the , the nova as we call
them , would be more of an explosion .
Yeah . How about this ? Yeah , yeah .
Were there more dots than that ? Well ,
you've got a very , very bright center
and a diffused edge . I would say that ,
uh , the impression I had was you would
have a , an area like that indicating a
blow up , but the center wasn't
predominantly that bright . But
that's getting closer to what we would
call what I would refer to as a nova or
a or a flash . It's not as bright as
what I call a nova . Yeah . Ed , was
your Nova , an explosion like this or a
discrete flag flash ? No , it was , uh ,
what I call a nova was , was more of a ,
a blob that seemed to start with that
and kind of expand , more diffused ,
yeah , and more diffused as , as the
time went on . But brighter than that ,
brighter than that , yes , that's what
I about what I'd call a flash or a star .
Uh , here , here again , you've got too
much contrast between the center and
the , uh , diffused area there though .
That's also your time frame that you're
flashing , that's too long . It was
faster than that . But am I right , Ed ,
from what you just said that that when
you said flash you really meant a star
and not a , not a , not what you just
described ? I think I almost tended to
use flash and star interchangeably .
That's not true for you . No , uh ,
when I flash , Nova to me were
essentially the same thing . The only
distinction I make is the , the
pinpoint versus an explosion . Uh-huh .
OK , I think what Stu was calling a , a
pinpoint was about what I'd call a star
or a flash , and a Nova to me was a
much bigger , brighter thing . OK , I
got a couple of quick ones . First of
all , the cabin lighting , uh , exactly
was it completely dark or were there
some instrument lights still on ?
Absolutely . Absolutely . OK . Wait a
minute . Well , there is , you're
talking about the time period that we
ran this , uh , quantitative report ,
right ? Right , right . So completely
dark . OK . And , uh , did you have
your eyes closed most of the time or
were they open in the dark cabin ? Mine
we had gold . I had gold even though we
had the window shades on when we'd roll
around so the sun would hit some of the
windows , there'd be some light seepage
of time . So that during that time
around and we were aware of that ahead
period we , at least I made an attempt
to keep my eyes closed , open otherwise ,
and of course we closed our eyes when
they flipped his flashlight on . But
generally speaking , eyes were open .
No , mine , mine was , uh , almost
closed all the time . I was floating
down the corner of the LED , but I , I
kept my eyes closed because , uh , I
didn't know when we might roll into the
sun and I didn't want to pick up any
light at all . OK , the next question
on the flashlight was , uh , when you
shined it in your eyes , what was the
approximate duration in each eye ?
About how many seconds ? Well , I just
kind of moved it across for 5 seconds
or so , 5 or 6 seconds . It hurt . It
was very frightening . And uh next
question on uh still your orientation
in the LAB uh you said you were looking
toward plus X is , uh , will you ?
Across . I was , uh , generally , you
know , how you , you have the three
couches , and , uh , plus X is , uh , I
was oriented this way with my head
looking face up , uh , down in this
corner . So your head was in the same
direction as it would be if you were on
the couch , just rotated . Yes , that's
it . OK . And uh the next question is ,
uh , in almost every case you did
report that it was in one eye or the
other . I believe there was one
incident where you had , uh , both eyes .
And my question is , uh , uh , it may
be somewhat redundant , but , uh , are
you absolutely certain that you could
distinguish that it was one eye as
opposed to , uh . Yeah , I felt I was
getting more on the left than the right
for some reason . Well , in fact , in
fact , you're all heavily biased
towards the right on the , on the one
on your reports , really , very heavily ,
like , like 3 or 4 to 1 . I would have
sworn that I was biased to the left .
You have 1212 right and 6 . Left and
you had 10 right and 4 left and uh of
the ones you reported , you had 6 right
and 2 left and the rest were no reports
of both eyes . It was all very heavily
by the right eye . That's very
surprising . No , well , you know ,
while we're talking about that , I , it
seems to me that uh . I would get a
flash or a streak or whatever the
phenomenon or whatever the shape was
simultaneous with somebody else
reporting . That's the next question .
We , uh , uh , there were 3 from
listening to the tapes , 3 events and
it occurred in , in cases where , uh ,
different pairs were involved , uh ,
which were coincidences where I think
in one case , uh , uh . Ed ,
you said , uh , flash , and then Al ,
you said simultaneous with him . I had
a flash in the whole right eye . Now my
question would be , uh , when you ,
when it was simultaneous , was it after
he began speaking , or was it in fact ,
uh , was his words good enough for you
to , to have been a mark on your flash ?
Well , certainly within a fraction of a
second , I think it was simultaneous .
Yeah , the couple of times it happened
to me , it was his mark or whoever's
mark it was was good enough . Yeah , OK ,
same here . And , uh , then the next
question is , uh , earlier before the
session and when you were describing
some of the subjective observations you
mentioned the , uh , halos that you'd
seen that you'd see a flash followed by ,
uh , and we finally got to take his
halo off and put it away .
The uh excuse me , I'm sorry . Now ,
the , uh , uh , the after effects ,
were they , were they present most of
the time ? Did you see , did you have ,
uh , cognizance of , of a spike and
then a sort of a glow afterwards ? Only
on what I call the nova or the
supernova . Is
that true for you to do ? I didn't
really noticed a halo effect myself . I ,
I guess I'm not sure what , what we're
calling the , the , the halo effect .
You mean a , a diffused , uh ,
brightness , more , more like an
afterglow than halo . Did , did I call
any of those ? I sure don't remember it .
No , I think it described it . Yeah , I ,
I don't think I saw any of those . OK .
And uh oh the other question we had was
uh uh do you remember making any
observations in lunar orbit ? Uh , it's
not , I know there were no formal
periods , but , uh , you know , I
thought about that on the way back ,
and , uh , I was , I was so tired that
night that I , I really don't remember
seeing any flashes , but I , I didn't
look for any either . So I , I guess
the question would be , I , I
consciously did not see any , but . I
sure , that's , I , I , I wouldn't take
that as a data point . OK , that's fine .
Yeah . And then , uh , the final
question that I have is , uh , after
our formal session , uh , that was on ,
what was it about 191 GET , uh , you
then had a sleep period later on . Do
you remember whether you saw any during
that period closer in ? It's
significant whether you're inside the
magneto pole or not . I don't
consciously recall , but I don't really
recall that there was any night except
on the lunar surface that I didn't . At
some time or another see some . You ,
you definitely , you didn't see any on
the lunar surface ? I just , no , I
don't remember about the lunar surface .
There was precious little sleep that
night anyhow , so . OK , well that's
set all the questions on here . We
douse the lights for a minute , get ,
uh , while , while you're dousing a lot ,
I have one additional question . Did
you get the impression that light
flashes could have been within the
cabin or definitely within your eye ?
Definitely within the eye . OK . The ,
uh , I wanna get some idea about
orientation and , uh , and length of
the streets . Did you ever see anything
that No , I never did .
The , uh , you , you use the uh
terminology of uh 6 o'clock or hours of
the clock . Does that mean to you , uh ,
when you say 6 o'clock to the center ,
about how long the streak is that ?
That's a hard question to answer . Uh ,
if you are visualizing uh something
about um . Oh , about the arm's
length away from you . How long would
you say your longest streak was ? That
long ? Can you see my fingers ? I'll
show them . Let me describe it a
different way . Give you , it appeared
to me that the things . Uh , I would
say we're 3 or 4 inches away from my ,
my plane , whatever that means , and
we're a couple of inches long . Tell us
what it means a couple inches long and
3 or 4 inches in front of you and it ,
uh , it looked like this . Too
long for me .
See that one up above ? The one up
above looks better . How about this ?
Uh , probably fairly close . Yeah , I'd
say that's probably about as close as
the longest one . Let's see , I'm not
sure what our , what our scale is here .
I , I'd rather say that if I , if I'd
consider whatever it may be , but the
field of view of , say , my right eye
and take a radius of that , that I'd
put a streak at , uh , of about , uh ,
a half the radius would be the average
streak . Half or a little longer .
Um , OK , uh , you think , is there any
way that you can , you can associate
this length of straight to what you
said too ? The monitor is charging or
can yous . Well , it would depend on
how big a circle I want to draw from my
field of view . I , I , yeah , I saw
streaks , uh , that long because uh .
Because with my eyes closed , I , I
imagine a rather big field of view here
in my eye . So , uh , yeah , I'd , I'd
see , I'd see streaks that long . And
one time you said you saw streaks
oriented in a certain direction . Do
you remember that ? The way you had it ,
bring it on up that way . And Ed , what
about you ? Well , I think I had them
from several directions and I reported
them as moving from one direction to
the other at that time . There were
several of them though . How about , uh ,
any particular direction up and down ,
left and right ? I didn't notice any ,
any preferred orientation . And here
again , I think I try to express the ,
the , uh , the length of the arc of the
flash in terms of the , of the
peripheral field and if you're talking
about a . A horizontal peripheral field
as being somewhere in the vicinity of
150 to 160 degrees , then in some , in
some cases the light flashes would go
across as much as 50 or 60 degrees of
that . Yeah , that's interesting . Were
the light flashes broken in the center ?
In some cases they were . In some cases
I had the feeling it was two dots , one
immediately following the other ,
giving the impression of right to left
or top to bottom or bottom to top or .
The point is , you see that the retina
is so curved that if you draw a
straight line , you can't get too long ,
long , you shouldn't be able to get too
long a streak without breaking out of
plane of the retina because it's shaped
the retina again , you know , in the
like that , but it has some depth ,
does it not ? Had it been any longer
than that , uh , it just is , is on the
retina . Can't hear that through a
couple of portions . Can't hear you .
It should not have been in any longer
than what I showed you if you just went
through the retina as one track , but
if it went through a couple of eyes ,
long streak . That's why we're
then you'd have the impression of a
interested in the character . I have
one more about the cloud that you saw .
This is a new phenomenon which we
hadn't expected . Can you describe this
lightning behind the cloud ? Then I
think it occurred . I reported it a
couple of times , and it appeared , as
I recall , to be down low on one eye or
the other , and it was just a , a
diffuse lighting . Any color ?
White , silver . If you were out in the
country and looking at the horizon and
there was lightning behind a cloud ,
was it like that ? Except generally if
you do that you can see a streak behind
the cloud . This , there was no streak .
It was just a diffuse lighting
simulators when they get out . We , we
have a little gizmo that'll simulate
you get , get , when you get out of the ,
that sort of phosphene when you , when
out of , out of quarantine , maybe have
a look at it . I have one last attempt
to try to do the cloud here . You douse
the lights a minute . Good job .
Oh yeah , they still we . Was it
anything like that ? I didn't see it .
It's pretty cloudy , right ? They have
not darkened that , but I still don't
see it . Um , I haven't seen anything
on it yet . OK . I'll get it . OK . But
what you're trying to describe is just
what we used to call heat lightning as
a . Yeah . As a kid . Uh yeah , it's a
general , uh , diffused light . Yeah .
You didn't see the relief of the cloud ,
did you ? Uh , no , not necessarily ,
no . It's just a , just a blob of light .
The um one final question we
did voice up to your question about um
whether you you noticed any other uh
sensations besides flashes , which was
the reason for asking that was that if
it was uh you know did you feel any
tingling or or find yourself twitching
or or hear anything . And the reason
for that is that if it is an
interaction back in the brain , then
then your other senses are just about
maybe you should feel something , but
as sensitive as your visual sense and
you never noticed that it didn't notice
it . Didn't notice any sensation , but
there's there's two things to think
about . Did you notice your , your
thumb itching or your lips twitching ?
In particular , in particular . No ,
never looked for it either . Well ,
it's , you know , these are suggestive
questions and the fact that you say no
is , uh , significant . You can press
on with different parts of the anatomy
and you might get a yes , but .
Anything to do with . Well , those are .
sections for . I , I , I , you know ,
Those are the two biggest cross
if there's something significant about
your thumbs or your lips , uh , you
ought , maybe you should warn , uh ,
people to look for that , uh , because ,
uh , I don't know , unless it's going
to be so obvious that , that , if you
would . Are you seeing itch all over ?
Well , sometimes you might think you
should be , feel very comfortable . OK ,
we , we're in . Thanks very
much . So I think um I think I said to
Ed yesterday that you really did
provide a an enormously improved
metadata on this phenomenon that we've
had in any previous flights , that's
great . Well , I would , I would add
this to that , I think that's the way
you really have to go is to take a
definite period , set it aside and do
it because otherwise it's so random and
uh so many other things going through
your mind that uh . It's the only way
you gaining quantitative , however ,
you , you did a remarkable job of
concentrating on it for that length of
time . Uh , do you , do you , uh , feel
that that was being unreasonable to ask
you to do that without you going to
it's a pretty boring thing to do ,
sleep or something like that ? No ,
you're sitting there lying watching
them . You think we , you know , we
should be , uh , that we're that in
planning for , for doing this sort of
be , uh , we shouldn't try and do much
thing on future missions that we should
more than we try to , to , to get you
to do because it's just too much just
to sit there lying there trying to
Well , if you can find a time period
concentrate for that length of time .
during the flight when , uh , when they
have , when the kids don't have
anything else to do , I think it's
reasonable to suggest that , yeah .
Uh-huh . I don't think I would do it ,
uh , before a sleep period or when
they're tired or they'll go to sleep on
you . Yeah , you know , I think along
if you , you know , talk a little bit
that line , Phil , by the time you've ,
pre-flight like we did , then , uh ,
and then you know the phenomena is
there because , you know , your first
sleep period or the first time you get
the spacecraft dark and close your eyes ,
you're going to see flashes and , uh ,
so then that , you know , sort of
sparks your curiosity a little more and
and , and count them , well , I think
then when they say let's settle down
you're agreeable to it . Um . You OK ?
One other comment on that , and I'm not
even sure that it's related , but
I really think that this is just a
general impression that if I would look
at look at the glove or the wristwatch
or something like that and then close
my eyes again , I'd almost always see a
flash , and I tried then to correlate
looking at say a crack through the .
Through the window shade or looking at
my watch or something and then closing
my eyes and I really came to the
impression that the 2 may have been
correlated , but I never really looked
at it enough to To say that for sure ,
but I think there was a correlation
between seeing a light or something
like this and then closing your eyes ,
and pretty soon you'd pick up that
flash . That's , that's an important
observation . If the action is directly
in the bipore or the retina cells , the
outer segment , you might expect it to
behave the way electrical phosphenes do
rather than than just from light ,
which takes dark adaption . What do you
think about that , Ed ? I'm not quite
sure what your point is . I was going
to make the comment that , uh , with
respect to the flashes . Putting the
flashlight in my eyes did not seem to
destroy my dark adaptation . Uh , now
what that means I don't know . Did you
do like that ? Yeah , that slow or that
fast ? Yeah , for some time . You
certainly wiped out some of the nerves .
I wiped out something . I wiped it all
out . I'm not sure that's true , Chuck .
How , how long did you do it ? You
should wipe it all out . Uh , oh , a
couple of minutes , 1 minute , 1 minute
back and forth like this , about 5
seconds per track something like that .
Yeah , hey , hey , you know , I , I
know what you're saying though is that
the reason you think you didn't knock
it all out is because you can still see
saying ? Well , the cockpit looked
the flashes . Is that what you're
different . Remember , I was doing this
eyes open and , uh , it seemed like .
With just what I consider dark
adaptation that I was more dark
adapted . Uh , that I dark adapted much
sooner after doing that than I did when
we started the experiment . Yeah , you
would , I , yeah , yeah , sure , yeah ,
that you would do because you wipe out
the cubs less with that just with the
flashing you do with the tungsten light
like to make sure on this dark
or something else . Hey , I'd , I'd
adaptation now I know during the , uh ,
during the formal , uh , 1 hour or 40
minutes , whatever it was that Ed was
was shining the light , but I don't
know whether you picked it up on air to
ground or not , but I had done that
periods and there's there's just , you
prior to that during one of the sleep
do not have to be dark adapted to see
these beau . I think that's a
conclusion from what Ed's . That's a
very significant data point because it
almost certainly proves that it's not a
real light in your eye generated in
Yeah , but why did it take us so long
your eye . It's actually an interaction .
when we started the experiment before
we saw anything ? It was quite a while .
And yet when I wiped the light across
my eyes within 30 or 40 seconds , there
they were again . 17 minutes . Pardon ,
17 minutes . Yeah , but when I did it
with the flashlight within 30 or 40
seconds they were right there again .
You said that they were fainter . They
previous previous times that you'd
seemed fainter than they had on
observed them , and there definitely is
a threshold effect of some sort because
you saw twice as many during that
period as the other two did . And I
think maybe it's just my guess was when
I , when you didn't see them and then
you started to see them regularly , was
that it was just that they are fainter ,
they seem fainter than you expected ,
and so it took you a while to sort of
get your attention down to to to to
fainter ones than what you were looking
for . Well , that may be that may be
the case , except they did indeed
appear fainter in the beginning . And
it wasn't a matter of of looking for
fainter objects . They were brighter
after , after a while . And for you ,
Al , and they didn't diminish in
brightness when I did the flashlight
across my eyes . They were still just
as bright 30 seconds later as they had
been before I used the flashlight . And
that's why I'm questioning the dark
adaptation bit . I . Either I didn't
wipe the dark adaptation out , or there
is something related to dark adaptation
that influences the phenomenon .
I don't understand it . It doesn't make
sense . That doggone time period that
we did it and and the few flashes we
saw was very surprising to me , and ,
and we talked about this and we
commented on it at the time . Boy , it
seemed like , you know , you'd wake up
during a sleep period . And they were
all over the place . Now here again ,
maybe I'd lose track of time , you know ,
you're laying there in the dark cabin
and maybe it was longer than what I
thought , but it just seemed like that ,
you know , there's abundance of flashes ,
and I was amazed when it took 17
minutes to see a flash . I thought any
you were going to and concentrate on it ,
time that you wanted to close your eyes
you were going to , you were going to
see these things . That's why I suggest
that you really ought to set a time
period aside because it is such a
random function as far as I'm concerned
that . To try to do it , uh , on a
non-quantitative basis is off the top .
plus the fact that I think that , uh ,
That each individual is going to report
at different , uh , levels of activity
too . I had a feeling there was maybe
some little faint things that I would
sort of see that I didn't want to talk
about because I couldn't define them as
a flash . Yeah , I had those too . So ,
good idea to do it this way because
uh I , I think , I think also it's a
you're subjective , Your impression is
not necessarily right . Like you felt
that you were , you saw more of them in
that wasn't true . It was wrong . So we
your left eye than your right , and
need to get the data real time . When
you go to sleep at night , do you see
any of these things ? Most people do
see something as they're going to sleep
in a darkened room . They can't get to
sleep right away down here . Uh , I
think everybody does . I don't know .
Yeah , you , you , you got lights
blinking around , you know , in your
eyes if you get in a real dark room
occasionally , but , uh , and , and
maybe it's because we've never really
particular type of phenomenon . These
concentrated on looking for this
phenomena that you saw were different
from the ones that you , you see once
in a while . Oh , definitely . It's a
lot more frequent . Yeah . No question
about that . How about in brightness ?
About what ? Right . It's hard to say .
Yeah , I guess we'll , I'll , I'll make
a note to , to , to see if I see any of
those , you know , uh , from here on ,
uh , but I certainly haven't since
we've been back , uh , but here
again , and , and Ed mentioned this ,
and I , and I agree with him , but it's
flashes you see when you wake up in the
another subjective thing that the
middle of the night as a whole appear
to be brighter than the flashes as a
whole during that experiment that we
did . During the during the day . And ,
and I'm like , I , I was a little
reluctant to call anything except a
very positive flash during that during
that time frame . You know , I wanted
to make really sure that that was
indeed . A mark at the time that I
called it , but those that you saw
during the middle of the night appeared
to be brighter and like I say ,
appeared to be more of them . But here
again , you know , you may lay there
for an hour and you think it's 55 , 10
minutes or something . I don't know .
Maybe , maybe you lose track of the
time , but It's a subjective thing . It
saw one blue flash . Did anyone else
see color ? No . Uh , wait a minute .
No , that wasn't blue . It was a , a
silver . A blue white sort of like a
blue diamond , you say like a blue
diamond was that the brightest that you
saw ? I don't recall it was the
brightest , no . Ha , has , has anybody
been hit in the head and seen stars you
were these anything like that ? Yeah ,
I think I'm more concentrating on the
pain . When
you , when you go to bed tonight , if
you in a dark room , if you just
knuckle your eyeballs , you should see
flashes , and it might be worth trying
that to see whether they look like the
same sort of , we cry a lot in here .
OK , no , I'll say , you know , if you
can get the next cruises interested ,
uh , Phil , you know it makes a great
topic of conversation , and , you know ,
during the flight you've got nothing
else to talk about . You can talk about
light flashes , so you know I think if
you get the get the crew's curiosity
aroused , boy , it's a good deal . Well ,
I think the , the pressure on the
subject which has built up is such that
there will be some formal experiment on
the way to go . OK .
Thanks very much . Thank you . Thank
you . We're all good . Now we'll ,
we'll keep back in touch with you and
let you know what we're gonna do with
do , how things are coming time wise
this other thing and what we're gonna
for the . for the for the tolling ,
you know , you know what the , the date
is , you know what the time is now ? 0
7:31 on Saturday the . Oh .
Is it a release time you mean ? Yeah .
Work on springing this early , Chuck .
Somebody said that , uh , 21 days ended
up on Saturday morning , yeah . Yeah .
I would've been led to believe
otherwise , Chuck . In the
debriefing plan , it says 0800 the 26th
on Friday . Deke says we get out , uh ,
uh , Friday morning . Yeah , he , he
called yesterday . Yeah , he called me
last night . He says , How the hell did
we ever get this number in here ? I
number , but well , the radiation
said , I don't know where you got that
people are here . We're talking about
release and all that kind of business .
to get total body counts ?
Can we get a hack on when they're going
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