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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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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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  1. Apollo 14 Debriefing

    Apollo 14 post-mission crew debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center.

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Source reportedObserved

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...

Source reportedObserved

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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Apollo 14 Debriefing Audio

NASA-UAP-D027, Apollo 14 Debriefing (Continued), 1971

Transcript

00:02

Most of my streaks appeared to be on

00:05

the periphery , and , uh , for the

00:08

first several days , I got the

00:10

impression that this , this direction

00:13

was predominant . Later on , it

00:15

appeared that I don't think I could get

00:17

that , that good a pattern , but that

00:19

was my first impression for the first

00:21

couple of days . The uh next question

00:24

is , uh , was there any apparent

00:26

direction of propagation and could you

00:28

tell it was coming from one side to the

00:30

other or was it just a . A flash .

00:33

Several times you did say from the left

00:35

to the right or something like that .

00:38

Tried to correlate it , but in my case

00:40

I couldn't really correlate a pattern

00:42

out of it . Yeah , I would think that

00:44

the time period in which we tried to

00:47

report them streak by streak , flash by

00:49

flash was representative . And , uh ,

00:52

it was my feeling that it was generally

00:54

random during that time period and , uh ,

00:57

Therefore , generally random throughout

00:59

the time that we were noticing them .

01:02

No , I meant , could you detect that it

01:04

was moving from one side to the other .

01:06

It was , it was moving in a specific ,

01:08

a specific , a specific flash . Yes ,

01:10

yes , but you could see it as it

01:12

traveled from one side to the other .

01:14

Yes , you really think we tried to

01:16

did report it . That's the way puzzling

01:16

report it that way , didn't you ? You

01:18

is because it happens , it has to be

01:20

very fast , you know . Isn't that

01:22

question kind of redundant then ? I

01:24

don't believe you . I .

01:29

Was there some character to these

01:31

flashes that had some , some aspect of

01:33

direction ? I mean , were they all the

01:36

same rod shaped or were they , did they

01:38

have a tail on them ? Well , what I saw ,

01:42

what I reported as a streak was simply

01:44

that . Uh , now , maybe the way we

01:48

determined the direction subconsciously

01:51

was that it was a ball of light moving

01:54

in a direction leaving a tail , but I

01:57

don't , I can't say that for sure . All

01:59

I reported was a streak , and I had the

02:02

impression of it moving from one

02:03

direction to the other , and I reported

02:06

that direction , and I , I can't

02:08

clarify it much more than that . Maybe ,

02:11

maybe while you're asking a question ,

02:13

we just tell the lights . I think they

02:15

just the idea is to try to see whether

02:15

can see this in the darkened room , but

02:19

this is what you saw or similar to it .

02:21

I think you need to light up . Well ,

02:24

can you see anything ? Yeah , except

02:26

that's what it looked like , except it

02:29

was traveling . In other words , uh ,

02:31

it started out and it definitely

02:33

progressed across the field of view

02:35

direction of motion per individual . We

02:37

did that right , yeah , except you're

02:40

not traveling . It was traveling . You

02:43

saw it . I never did see two

02:46

simultaneously either . Neither do I .

02:49

You have two streaks in that . I never

02:52

saw that . The , uh ,

02:55

at one time you said you saw a

02:57

semicolon-shaped thing . So what a

03:00

semicolon shaped object . This was in

03:03

the 1st , 1st report . Before the

03:07

I never did . I don't if I reported it ,

03:10

that's what I saw , but I don't

03:11

remember it . Did you see anything that

03:14

looked like this ? All I can say is

03:17

whatever was reported is what I saw .

03:21

No , I , you know , we , we discussed

03:23

the various shapes prior to flight ,

03:25

and I concentrated pretty hard on

03:28

trying to , trying to see the shapes ,

03:30

and I think as I reported , no , it was

03:32

either a streak and just a rather

03:34

simple streak or it was a , a flash and

03:38

rather a simple flash , nothing too

03:41

exotic about it , and on .

03:44

A more rare one would be maybe just

03:49

a pinpoint of light for an instant

03:51

rather than get the idea of a of a

03:54

flash . There would just be a pinpoint

03:57

for a second and it would be gone , but

03:59

that was , that was more rare than the

04:01

other two . By by a flash you mean a

04:03

meant , you know , like watching an

04:03

distributed sort of thing . Yeah , I

04:05

explosion , you know , just a ball

04:09

versus just a , just a steady dot , yes .

04:14

Was it , was it like this at all ? Can

04:17

you see that ? No . Likely this

04:21

one this . I

04:24

see . Can't say it .

04:29

We're not getting any lighting . I

04:31

don't think it's lighting . Oh , there ,

04:33

there was something just as you turned

04:35

it there . OK , I can see

04:39

that . You mean multiple , uh , well ,

04:42

This one . OK , that , that to me would

04:46

be the pinpoint that , that I'm

04:48

describing . The , uh , the , the

04:51

eruption or the , the nova as we call

04:54

them , would be more of an explosion .

04:56

Yeah . How about this ? Yeah , yeah .

04:58

Were there more dots than that ? Well ,

05:01

you've got a very , very bright center

05:03

and a diffused edge . I would say that ,

05:06

uh , the impression I had was you would

05:08

have a , an area like that indicating a

05:10

blow up , but the center wasn't

05:12

predominantly that bright . But

05:16

that's getting closer to what we would

05:18

call what I would refer to as a nova or

05:21

a or a flash . It's not as bright as

05:23

what I call a nova . Yeah . Ed , was

05:26

your Nova , an explosion like this or a

05:30

discrete flag flash ? No , it was , uh ,

05:33

what I call a nova was , was more of a ,

05:37

a blob that seemed to start with that

05:39

and kind of expand , more diffused ,

05:41

yeah , and more diffused as , as the

05:43

time went on . But brighter than that ,

05:46

brighter than that , yes , that's what

05:49

I about what I'd call a flash or a star .

05:52

Uh , here , here again , you've got too

05:54

much contrast between the center and

05:56

the , uh , diffused area there though .

05:59

That's also your time frame that you're

06:02

flashing , that's too long . It was

06:04

faster than that . But am I right , Ed ,

06:06

from what you just said that that when

06:09

you said flash you really meant a star

06:11

and not a , not a , not what you just

06:13

described ? I think I almost tended to

06:15

use flash and star interchangeably .

06:17

That's not true for you . No , uh ,

06:20

when I flash , Nova to me were

06:23

essentially the same thing . The only

06:26

distinction I make is the , the

06:27

pinpoint versus an explosion . Uh-huh .

06:30

OK , I think what Stu was calling a , a

06:32

pinpoint was about what I'd call a star

06:34

or a flash , and a Nova to me was a

06:38

much bigger , brighter thing . OK , I

06:42

got a couple of quick ones . First of

06:44

all , the cabin lighting , uh , exactly

06:46

was it completely dark or were there

06:48

some instrument lights still on ?

06:50

Absolutely . Absolutely . OK . Wait a

06:52

minute . Well , there is , you're

06:54

talking about the time period that we

06:56

ran this , uh , quantitative report ,

06:58

right ? Right , right . So completely

07:00

dark . OK . And , uh , did you have

07:02

your eyes closed most of the time or

07:05

were they open in the dark cabin ? Mine

07:07

we had gold . I had gold even though we

07:09

had the window shades on when we'd roll

07:11

around so the sun would hit some of the

07:14

windows , there'd be some light seepage

07:15

of time . So that during that time

07:16

around and we were aware of that ahead

07:18

period we , at least I made an attempt

07:20

to keep my eyes closed , open otherwise ,

07:22

and of course we closed our eyes when

07:24

they flipped his flashlight on . But

07:26

generally speaking , eyes were open .

07:28

No , mine , mine was , uh , almost

07:31

closed all the time . I was floating

07:33

down the corner of the LED , but I , I

07:35

kept my eyes closed because , uh , I

07:37

didn't know when we might roll into the

07:40

sun and I didn't want to pick up any

07:42

light at all . OK , the next question

07:44

on the flashlight was , uh , when you

07:46

shined it in your eyes , what was the

07:48

approximate duration in each eye ?

07:50

About how many seconds ? Well , I just

07:52

kind of moved it across for 5 seconds

07:54

or so , 5 or 6 seconds . It hurt . It

07:56

was very frightening . And uh next

08:00

question on uh still your orientation

08:02

in the LAB uh you said you were looking

08:04

toward plus X is , uh , will you ?

08:08

Across . I was , uh , generally , you

08:11

know , how you , you have the three

08:13

couches , and , uh , plus X is , uh , I

08:16

was oriented this way with my head

08:18

looking face up , uh , down in this

08:20

corner . So your head was in the same

08:23

direction as it would be if you were on

08:25

the couch , just rotated . Yes , that's

08:27

it . OK . And uh the next question is ,

08:29

uh , in almost every case you did

08:31

report that it was in one eye or the

08:33

other . I believe there was one

08:35

incident where you had , uh , both eyes .

08:37

And my question is , uh , uh , it may

08:39

be somewhat redundant , but , uh , are

08:42

you absolutely certain that you could

08:44

distinguish that it was one eye as

08:46

opposed to , uh . Yeah , I felt I was

08:48

getting more on the left than the right

08:50

for some reason . Well , in fact , in

08:52

fact , you're all heavily biased

08:54

towards the right on the , on the one

08:56

on your reports , really , very heavily ,

08:59

like , like 3 or 4 to 1 . I would have

09:01

sworn that I was biased to the left .

09:03

You have 1212 right and 6 . Left and

09:06

you had 10 right and 4 left and uh of

09:09

the ones you reported , you had 6 right

09:11

and 2 left and the rest were no reports

09:14

of both eyes . It was all very heavily

09:17

by the right eye . That's very

09:19

surprising . No , well , you know ,

09:22

while we're talking about that , I , it

09:24

seems to me that uh . I would get a

09:27

flash or a streak or whatever the

09:29

phenomenon or whatever the shape was

09:31

simultaneous with somebody else

09:33

reporting . That's the next question .

09:36

We , uh , uh , there were 3 from

09:38

listening to the tapes , 3 events and

09:40

it occurred in , in cases where , uh ,

09:43

different pairs were involved , uh ,

09:46

which were coincidences where I think

09:48

in one case , uh , uh . Ed ,

09:52

you said , uh , flash , and then Al ,

09:54

you said simultaneous with him . I had

09:56

a flash in the whole right eye . Now my

09:58

question would be , uh , when you ,

10:00

when it was simultaneous , was it after

10:02

he began speaking , or was it in fact ,

10:05

uh , was his words good enough for you

10:07

to , to have been a mark on your flash ?

10:09

Well , certainly within a fraction of a

10:11

second , I think it was simultaneous .

10:14

Yeah , the couple of times it happened

10:16

to me , it was his mark or whoever's

10:18

mark it was was good enough . Yeah , OK ,

10:21

same here . And , uh , then the next

10:23

question is , uh , earlier before the

10:26

session and when you were describing

10:28

some of the subjective observations you

10:30

mentioned the , uh , halos that you'd

10:32

seen that you'd see a flash followed by ,

10:34

uh , and we finally got to take his

10:36

halo off and put it away .

10:41

The uh excuse me , I'm sorry . Now ,

10:46

the , uh , uh , the after effects ,

10:49

were they , were they present most of

10:51

the time ? Did you see , did you have ,

10:53

uh , cognizance of , of a spike and

10:55

then a sort of a glow afterwards ? Only

10:57

on what I call the nova or the

10:59

supernova . Is

11:03

that true for you to do ? I didn't

11:06

really noticed a halo effect myself . I ,

11:09

I guess I'm not sure what , what we're

11:11

calling the , the , the halo effect .

11:13

You mean a , a diffused , uh ,

11:15

brightness , more , more like an

11:17

afterglow than halo . Did , did I call

11:20

any of those ? I sure don't remember it .

11:22

No , I think it described it . Yeah , I ,

11:24

I don't think I saw any of those . OK .

11:27

And uh oh the other question we had was

11:29

uh uh do you remember making any

11:31

observations in lunar orbit ? Uh , it's

11:34

not , I know there were no formal

11:36

periods , but , uh , you know , I

11:38

thought about that on the way back ,

11:40

and , uh , I was , I was so tired that

11:43

night that I , I really don't remember

11:46

seeing any flashes , but I , I didn't

11:48

look for any either . So I , I guess

11:50

the question would be , I , I

11:52

consciously did not see any , but . I

11:55

sure , that's , I , I , I wouldn't take

11:57

that as a data point . OK , that's fine .

12:00

Yeah . And then , uh , the final

12:01

question that I have is , uh , after

12:03

our formal session , uh , that was on ,

12:06

what was it about 191 GET , uh , you

12:08

then had a sleep period later on . Do

12:10

you remember whether you saw any during

12:13

that period closer in ? It's

12:14

significant whether you're inside the

12:16

magneto pole or not . I don't

12:19

consciously recall , but I don't really

12:21

recall that there was any night except

12:23

on the lunar surface that I didn't . At

12:27

some time or another see some . You ,

12:29

you definitely , you didn't see any on

12:31

the lunar surface ? I just , no , I

12:33

don't remember about the lunar surface .

12:35

There was precious little sleep that

12:37

night anyhow , so . OK , well that's

12:39

set all the questions on here . We

12:41

douse the lights for a minute , get ,

12:43

uh , while , while you're dousing a lot ,

12:46

I have one additional question . Did

12:48

you get the impression that light

12:50

flashes could have been within the

12:52

cabin or definitely within your eye ?

12:54

Definitely within the eye . OK . The ,

12:57

uh , I wanna get some idea about

13:00

orientation and , uh , and length of

13:02

the streets . Did you ever see anything

13:04

that No , I never did .

13:08

The , uh , you , you use the uh

13:11

terminology of uh 6 o'clock or hours of

13:14

the clock . Does that mean to you , uh ,

13:17

when you say 6 o'clock to the center ,

13:19

about how long the streak is that ?

13:21

That's a hard question to answer . Uh ,

13:23

if you are visualizing uh something

13:26

about um . Oh , about the arm's

13:29

length away from you . How long would

13:32

you say your longest streak was ? That

13:35

long ? Can you see my fingers ? I'll

13:38

show them . Let me describe it a

13:39

different way . Give you , it appeared

13:42

to me that the things . Uh , I would

13:45

say we're 3 or 4 inches away from my ,

13:49

my plane , whatever that means , and

13:53

we're a couple of inches long . Tell us

13:55

what it means a couple inches long and

13:58

3 or 4 inches in front of you and it ,

14:01

uh , it looked like this . Too

14:05

long for me .

14:10

See that one up above ? The one up

14:12

above looks better . How about this ?

14:18

Uh , probably fairly close . Yeah , I'd

14:21

say that's probably about as close as

14:23

the longest one . Let's see , I'm not

14:25

sure what our , what our scale is here .

14:27

I , I'd rather say that if I , if I'd

14:29

consider whatever it may be , but the

14:31

field of view of , say , my right eye

14:33

and take a radius of that , that I'd

14:36

put a streak at , uh , of about , uh ,

14:38

a half the radius would be the average

14:41

streak . Half or a little longer .

14:44

Um , OK , uh , you think , is there any

14:47

way that you can , you can associate

14:50

this length of straight to what you

14:52

said too ? The monitor is charging or

14:54

can yous . Well , it would depend on

14:57

how big a circle I want to draw from my

14:59

field of view . I , I , yeah , I saw

15:03

streaks , uh , that long because uh .

15:08

Because with my eyes closed , I , I

15:10

imagine a rather big field of view here

15:12

in my eye . So , uh , yeah , I'd , I'd

15:14

see , I'd see streaks that long . And

15:16

one time you said you saw streaks

15:18

oriented in a certain direction . Do

15:20

you remember that ? The way you had it ,

15:23

bring it on up that way . And Ed , what

15:26

about you ? Well , I think I had them

15:29

from several directions and I reported

15:32

them as moving from one direction to

15:34

the other at that time . There were

15:36

several of them though . How about , uh ,

15:39

any particular direction up and down ,

15:42

left and right ? I didn't notice any ,

15:44

any preferred orientation . And here

15:46

again , I think I try to express the ,

15:49

the , uh , the length of the arc of the

15:52

flash in terms of the , of the

15:54

peripheral field and if you're talking

15:56

about a . A horizontal peripheral field

15:58

as being somewhere in the vicinity of

16:00

150 to 160 degrees , then in some , in

16:04

some cases the light flashes would go

16:06

across as much as 50 or 60 degrees of

16:09

that . Yeah , that's interesting . Were

16:12

the light flashes broken in the center ?

16:15

In some cases they were . In some cases

16:17

I had the feeling it was two dots , one

16:19

immediately following the other ,

16:21

giving the impression of right to left

16:23

or top to bottom or bottom to top or .

16:25

The point is , you see that the retina

16:27

is so curved that if you draw a

16:29

straight line , you can't get too long ,

16:31

long , you shouldn't be able to get too

16:34

long a streak without breaking out of

16:36

plane of the retina because it's shaped

16:36

the retina again , you know , in the

16:38

like that , but it has some depth ,

16:40

does it not ? Had it been any longer

16:42

than that , uh , it just is , is on the

16:44

retina . Can't hear that through a

16:46

couple of portions . Can't hear you .

16:48

It should not have been in any longer

16:50

than what I showed you if you just went

16:52

through the retina as one track , but

16:55

if it went through a couple of eyes ,

16:56

long streak . That's why we're

16:57

then you'd have the impression of a

16:58

interested in the character . I have

17:00

one more about the cloud that you saw .

17:03

This is a new phenomenon which we

17:05

hadn't expected . Can you describe this

17:07

lightning behind the cloud ? Then I

17:11

think it occurred . I reported it a

17:13

couple of times , and it appeared , as

17:15

I recall , to be down low on one eye or

17:19

the other , and it was just a , a

17:21

diffuse lighting . Any color ?

17:25

White , silver . If you were out in the

17:27

country and looking at the horizon and

17:29

there was lightning behind a cloud ,

17:31

was it like that ? Except generally if

17:34

you do that you can see a streak behind

17:36

the cloud . This , there was no streak .

17:38

It was just a diffuse lighting

17:40

simulators when they get out . We , we

17:42

have a little gizmo that'll simulate

17:44

you get , get , when you get out of the ,

17:44

that sort of phosphene when you , when

17:47

out of , out of quarantine , maybe have

17:49

a look at it . I have one last attempt

17:51

to try to do the cloud here . You douse

17:53

the lights a minute . Good job .

17:58

Oh yeah , they still we . Was it

18:01

anything like that ? I didn't see it .

18:05

It's pretty cloudy , right ? They have

18:08

not darkened that , but I still don't

18:10

see it . Um , I haven't seen anything

18:12

on it yet . OK . I'll get it . OK . But

18:16

what you're trying to describe is just

18:18

what we used to call heat lightning as

18:20

a . Yeah . As a kid . Uh yeah , it's a

18:22

general , uh , diffused light . Yeah .

18:24

You didn't see the relief of the cloud ,

18:26

did you ? Uh , no , not necessarily ,

18:29

no . It's just a , just a blob of light .

18:32

The um one final question we

18:36

did voice up to your question about um

18:38

whether you you noticed any other uh

18:42

sensations besides flashes , which was

18:44

the reason for asking that was that if

18:47

it was uh you know did you feel any

18:49

tingling or or find yourself twitching

18:51

or or hear anything . And the reason

18:53

for that is that if it is an

18:54

interaction back in the brain , then

18:57

then your other senses are just about

18:58

maybe you should feel something , but

18:59

as sensitive as your visual sense and

19:00

you never noticed that it didn't notice

19:03

it . Didn't notice any sensation , but

19:05

there's there's two things to think

19:07

about . Did you notice your , your

19:09

thumb itching or your lips twitching ?

19:11

In particular , in particular . No ,

19:15

never looked for it either . Well ,

19:19

it's , you know , these are suggestive

19:21

questions and the fact that you say no

19:23

is , uh , significant . You can press

19:26

on with different parts of the anatomy

19:28

and you might get a yes , but .

19:30

Anything to do with . Well , those are .

19:32

sections for . I , I , I , you know ,

19:32

Those are the two biggest cross

19:34

if there's something significant about

19:36

your thumbs or your lips , uh , you

19:38

ought , maybe you should warn , uh ,

19:40

people to look for that , uh , because ,

19:43

uh , I don't know , unless it's going

19:45

to be so obvious that , that , if you

19:47

would . Are you seeing itch all over ?

19:49

Well , sometimes you might think you

19:51

should be , feel very comfortable . OK ,

19:55

we , we're in . Thanks very

19:58

much . So I think um I think I said to

20:02

Ed yesterday that you really did

20:03

provide a an enormously improved

20:05

metadata on this phenomenon that we've

20:07

had in any previous flights , that's

20:09

great . Well , I would , I would add

20:11

this to that , I think that's the way

20:14

you really have to go is to take a

20:16

definite period , set it aside and do

20:18

it because otherwise it's so random and

20:20

uh so many other things going through

20:22

your mind that uh . It's the only way

20:24

you gaining quantitative , however ,

20:26

you , you did a remarkable job of

20:28

concentrating on it for that length of

20:30

time . Uh , do you , do you , uh , feel

20:33

that that was being unreasonable to ask

20:35

you to do that without you going to

20:37

it's a pretty boring thing to do ,

20:37

sleep or something like that ? No ,

20:39

you're sitting there lying watching

20:41

them . You think we , you know , we

20:43

should be , uh , that we're that in

20:45

planning for , for doing this sort of

20:47

be , uh , we shouldn't try and do much

20:47

thing on future missions that we should

20:50

more than we try to , to , to get you

20:52

to do because it's just too much just

20:54

to sit there lying there trying to

20:55

Well , if you can find a time period

20:56

concentrate for that length of time .

20:58

during the flight when , uh , when they

21:00

have , when the kids don't have

21:02

anything else to do , I think it's

21:03

reasonable to suggest that , yeah .

21:05

Uh-huh . I don't think I would do it ,

21:08

uh , before a sleep period or when

21:10

they're tired or they'll go to sleep on

21:12

you . Yeah , you know , I think along

21:14

if you , you know , talk a little bit

21:14

that line , Phil , by the time you've ,

21:16

pre-flight like we did , then , uh ,

21:18

and then you know the phenomena is

21:21

there because , you know , your first

21:23

sleep period or the first time you get

21:25

the spacecraft dark and close your eyes ,

21:27

you're going to see flashes and , uh ,

21:29

so then that , you know , sort of

21:31

sparks your curiosity a little more and

21:33

and , and count them , well , I think

21:34

then when they say let's settle down

21:35

you're agreeable to it . Um . You OK ?

21:42

One other comment on that , and I'm not

21:44

even sure that it's related , but

21:48

I really think that this is just a

21:52

general impression that if I would look

21:54

at look at the glove or the wristwatch

21:57

or something like that and then close

22:00

my eyes again , I'd almost always see a

22:03

flash , and I tried then to correlate

22:06

looking at say a crack through the .

22:11

Through the window shade or looking at

22:14

my watch or something and then closing

22:16

my eyes and I really came to the

22:18

impression that the 2 may have been

22:21

correlated , but I never really looked

22:23

at it enough to To say that for sure ,

22:26

but I think there was a correlation

22:28

between seeing a light or something

22:30

like this and then closing your eyes ,

22:32

and pretty soon you'd pick up that

22:34

flash . That's , that's an important

22:36

observation . If the action is directly

22:39

in the bipore or the retina cells , the

22:41

outer segment , you might expect it to

22:43

behave the way electrical phosphenes do

22:45

rather than than just from light ,

22:47

which takes dark adaption . What do you

22:50

think about that , Ed ? I'm not quite

22:52

sure what your point is . I was going

22:54

to make the comment that , uh , with

22:58

respect to the flashes . Putting the

23:00

flashlight in my eyes did not seem to

23:02

destroy my dark adaptation . Uh , now

23:06

what that means I don't know . Did you

23:08

do like that ? Yeah , that slow or that

23:11

fast ? Yeah , for some time . You

23:14

certainly wiped out some of the nerves .

23:16

I wiped out something . I wiped it all

23:18

out . I'm not sure that's true , Chuck .

23:20

How , how long did you do it ? You

23:22

should wipe it all out . Uh , oh , a

23:24

couple of minutes , 1 minute , 1 minute

23:27

back and forth like this , about 5

23:29

seconds per track something like that .

23:32

Yeah , hey , hey , you know , I , I

23:34

know what you're saying though is that

23:36

the reason you think you didn't knock

23:38

it all out is because you can still see

23:40

saying ? Well , the cockpit looked

23:40

the flashes . Is that what you're

23:43

different . Remember , I was doing this

23:45

eyes open and , uh , it seemed like .

23:50

With just what I consider dark

23:52

adaptation that I was more dark

23:55

adapted . Uh , that I dark adapted much

23:59

sooner after doing that than I did when

24:01

we started the experiment . Yeah , you

24:03

would , I , yeah , yeah , sure , yeah ,

24:06

that you would do because you wipe out

24:08

the cubs less with that just with the

24:10

flashing you do with the tungsten light

24:12

like to make sure on this dark

24:12

or something else . Hey , I'd , I'd

24:14

adaptation now I know during the , uh ,

24:16

during the formal , uh , 1 hour or 40

24:18

minutes , whatever it was that Ed was

24:20

was shining the light , but I don't

24:22

know whether you picked it up on air to

24:25

ground or not , but I had done that

24:27

periods and there's there's just , you

24:27

prior to that during one of the sleep

24:29

do not have to be dark adapted to see

24:31

these beau . I think that's a

24:32

conclusion from what Ed's . That's a

24:35

very significant data point because it

24:37

almost certainly proves that it's not a

24:39

real light in your eye generated in

24:41

Yeah , but why did it take us so long

24:41

your eye . It's actually an interaction .

24:43

when we started the experiment before

24:45

we saw anything ? It was quite a while .

24:47

And yet when I wiped the light across

24:49

my eyes within 30 or 40 seconds , there

24:52

they were again . 17 minutes . Pardon ,

24:54

17 minutes . Yeah , but when I did it

24:57

with the flashlight within 30 or 40

24:59

seconds they were right there again .

25:01

You said that they were fainter . They

25:04

previous previous times that you'd

25:04

seemed fainter than they had on

25:06

observed them , and there definitely is

25:09

a threshold effect of some sort because

25:11

you saw twice as many during that

25:13

period as the other two did . And I

25:15

think maybe it's just my guess was when

25:18

I , when you didn't see them and then

25:20

you started to see them regularly , was

25:22

that it was just that they are fainter ,

25:24

they seem fainter than you expected ,

25:26

and so it took you a while to sort of

25:29

get your attention down to to to to

25:31

fainter ones than what you were looking

25:33

for . Well , that may be that may be

25:35

the case , except they did indeed

25:37

appear fainter in the beginning . And

25:39

it wasn't a matter of of looking for

25:41

fainter objects . They were brighter

25:43

after , after a while . And for you ,

25:45

Al , and they didn't diminish in

25:48

brightness when I did the flashlight

25:50

across my eyes . They were still just

25:52

as bright 30 seconds later as they had

25:54

been before I used the flashlight . And

25:56

that's why I'm questioning the dark

25:58

adaptation bit . I . Either I didn't

26:00

wipe the dark adaptation out , or there

26:04

is something related to dark adaptation

26:06

that influences the phenomenon .

26:11

I don't understand it . It doesn't make

26:14

sense . That doggone time period that

26:16

we did it and and the few flashes we

26:19

saw was very surprising to me , and ,

26:21

and we talked about this and we

26:23

commented on it at the time . Boy , it

26:25

seemed like , you know , you'd wake up

26:27

during a sleep period . And they were

26:29

all over the place . Now here again ,

26:32

maybe I'd lose track of time , you know ,

26:34

you're laying there in the dark cabin

26:36

and maybe it was longer than what I

26:38

thought , but it just seemed like that ,

26:40

you know , there's abundance of flashes ,

26:43

and I was amazed when it took 17

26:44

minutes to see a flash . I thought any

26:46

you were going to and concentrate on it ,

26:47

time that you wanted to close your eyes

26:49

you were going to , you were going to

26:51

see these things . That's why I suggest

26:53

that you really ought to set a time

26:55

period aside because it is such a

26:57

random function as far as I'm concerned

26:59

that . To try to do it , uh , on a

27:01

non-quantitative basis is off the top .

27:04

plus the fact that I think that , uh ,

27:06

That each individual is going to report

27:09

at different , uh , levels of activity

27:11

too . I had a feeling there was maybe

27:13

some little faint things that I would

27:15

sort of see that I didn't want to talk

27:18

about because I couldn't define them as

27:20

a flash . Yeah , I had those too . So ,

27:22

good idea to do it this way because

27:22

uh I , I think , I think also it's a

27:24

you're subjective , Your impression is

27:26

not necessarily right . Like you felt

27:28

that you were , you saw more of them in

27:30

that wasn't true . It was wrong . So we

27:30

your left eye than your right , and

27:32

need to get the data real time . When

27:34

you go to sleep at night , do you see

27:36

any of these things ? Most people do

27:39

see something as they're going to sleep

27:41

in a darkened room . They can't get to

27:43

sleep right away down here . Uh , I

27:47

think everybody does . I don't know .

27:50

Yeah , you , you , you got lights

27:52

blinking around , you know , in your

27:54

eyes if you get in a real dark room

27:56

occasionally , but , uh , and , and

27:58

maybe it's because we've never really

28:00

particular type of phenomenon . These

28:00

concentrated on looking for this

28:03

phenomena that you saw were different

28:05

from the ones that you , you see once

28:09

in a while . Oh , definitely . It's a

28:11

lot more frequent . Yeah . No question

28:13

about that . How about in brightness ?

28:16

About what ? Right . It's hard to say .

28:19

Yeah , I guess we'll , I'll , I'll make

28:22

a note to , to , to see if I see any of

28:25

those , you know , uh , from here on ,

28:27

uh , but I certainly haven't since

28:29

we've been back , uh , but here

28:33

again , and , and Ed mentioned this ,

28:35

and I , and I agree with him , but it's

28:37

flashes you see when you wake up in the

28:37

another subjective thing that the

28:39

middle of the night as a whole appear

28:41

to be brighter than the flashes as a

28:44

whole during that experiment that we

28:47

did . During the during the day . And ,

28:50

and I'm like , I , I was a little

28:52

reluctant to call anything except a

28:55

very positive flash during that during

28:58

that time frame . You know , I wanted

29:00

to make really sure that that was

29:02

indeed . A mark at the time that I

29:05

called it , but those that you saw

29:07

during the middle of the night appeared

29:09

to be brighter and like I say ,

29:12

appeared to be more of them . But here

29:14

again , you know , you may lay there

29:16

for an hour and you think it's 55 , 10

29:18

minutes or something . I don't know .

29:18

Maybe , maybe you lose track of the

29:20

time , but It's a subjective thing . It

29:24

saw one blue flash . Did anyone else

29:26

see color ? No . Uh , wait a minute .

29:28

No , that wasn't blue . It was a , a

29:30

silver . A blue white sort of like a

29:34

blue diamond , you say like a blue

29:36

diamond was that the brightest that you

29:38

saw ? I don't recall it was the

29:40

brightest , no . Ha , has , has anybody

29:42

been hit in the head and seen stars you

29:46

were these anything like that ? Yeah ,

29:49

I think I'm more concentrating on the

29:51

pain . When

29:55

you , when you go to bed tonight , if

29:57

you in a dark room , if you just

30:00

knuckle your eyeballs , you should see

30:02

flashes , and it might be worth trying

30:04

that to see whether they look like the

30:06

same sort of , we cry a lot in here .

30:09

OK , no , I'll say , you know , if you

30:12

can get the next cruises interested ,

30:15

uh , Phil , you know it makes a great

30:17

topic of conversation , and , you know ,

30:19

during the flight you've got nothing

30:22

else to talk about . You can talk about

30:24

light flashes , so you know I think if

30:26

you get the get the crew's curiosity

30:28

aroused , boy , it's a good deal . Well ,

30:30

I think the , the pressure on the

30:32

subject which has built up is such that

30:35

there will be some formal experiment on

30:37

the way to go . OK .

30:41

Thanks very much . Thank you . Thank

30:43

you . We're all good . Now we'll ,

30:45

we'll keep back in touch with you and

30:47

let you know what we're gonna do with

30:49

do , how things are coming time wise

30:49

this other thing and what we're gonna

30:51

for the . for the for the tolling ,

30:55

you know , you know what the , the date

30:58

is , you know what the time is now ? 0

31:00

7:31 on Saturday the . Oh .

31:04

Is it a release time you mean ? Yeah .

31:07

Work on springing this early , Chuck .

31:09

Somebody said that , uh , 21 days ended

31:11

up on Saturday morning , yeah . Yeah .

31:14

I would've been led to believe

31:17

otherwise , Chuck . In the

31:20

debriefing plan , it says 0800 the 26th

31:23

on Friday . Deke says we get out , uh ,

31:25

uh , Friday morning . Yeah , he , he

31:27

called yesterday . Yeah , he called me

31:31

last night . He says , How the hell did

31:33

we ever get this number in here ? I

31:35

number , but well , the radiation

31:35

said , I don't know where you got that

31:37

people are here . We're talking about

31:39

release and all that kind of business .

31:41

to get total body counts ?

31:41

Can we get a hack on when they're going

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