Eerie audio of Apollo 12 crew describing mysterious ‘streaks of light’ revealed in new batch of declassified UFO files

Nypost · May 22, 2026 · 170 words · By Emily Crane

UFOs/UAPs Apollo 12 Mission Declassified Government Documents

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“The Pentagon released its latest batch of UFO files on Friday”

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Two independent news sources (France24 and Phys) explicitly report that the Pentagon released a first batch of secret UFO files on Friday.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of alleged UFO sightings in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — William Neil McCasland (born c. 1957) is an astronautical engineer, retired United States Air Force major general, and former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory. He is currently the direct…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_McCasland

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States UFO files, also referred to as the UFO files or the UAP files, are a collection of declassified United States government records concerning UFOs, also called unidentified anomalous p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_UFO_files

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“including audio of the Apollo 12 crew describing how they once saw mysterious “streaks of light” while trying to sleep in deep space”

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Multiple web search results confirm that declassified Pentagon files include reports from Apollo missions, specifically mentioning Apollo 12 astronauts describing mysterious lights.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Mod…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An unidentified flying object (UFO) is an object or phenomenon seen in the sky but not yet identified or explained. The term was coined when United States Air Force (USAF) investigations into flying s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object

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“The audio from a 1969 post-mission medical debrief captured the astronauts — Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean — describing how they’d experienced the bizarre flashes despite having their eyes closed”

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Wikipedia and web search results confirm the Apollo 12 crew consisted of Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean. Web search results regarding the declassified files confirm the presence of transcripts/reports from Apollo 12 describing flashes of light.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apollo 12 (November 14–24, 1969) was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, by NASA from the Kennedy Spac…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On July 21, 1969, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the Moon, he said "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind". Recordings of Armstrong's Apollo 11 tran…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_small_step

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robert Conrad (born Conrad Robert Falk; March 1, 1935 – February 8, 2020) was an American actor, singer, and stuntman. He is best known for his role in the 1965–1969 television series The Wild Wild We…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Conrad

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“NASA’s medical team later concluded that the phenomena reported by the Apollo 12 crew was caused by astronauts’ own vision rather than external light sources”

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While evidence confirms Apollo 12 crew reported lights, the provided search results do not explicitly state that NASA's medical team concluded the phenomena were caused by the astronauts' own vision (phosphenes) rather than external sources. One source mentions a 'skeptical position' but does not confirm an official NASA medical conclusion.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on Februar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Third-party evidence for the Apollo Moon landings is evidence or analysis of evidence about the Apollo Moon landings that does not come from the U.S. government (the first party) or from Moon landing …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apoll…

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“The clip was among a trove of freshly declassified files made public on the Department of War’s dedicated UFO website on Friday”

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Wikipedia and web search results explicitly mention an official website 'www.war.gov/ufo/' associated with the United States UAP/UFO files and the Department of War.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Pentagon UFO videos are selected visual recordings of forward-looking infrared (FLIR) targeting cameras from United States Navy fighter jets based aboard the aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and USS T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos

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Eerie audio of Apollo 12 crew describing mysterious ‘streaks of light’ revealed in new batch of declassified UFO files

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