Pentagon releases UFO files that go back to the Apollo moon missions
The 161-file release includes Apollo mission images and military infrared footage, but officials say it offers no direct evidence of extraterrestrial life.
- President Donald Trump and the Department of War launched a new website last week publishing unsealed photos and videos, with 161 files released including images from NASA's Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- Claiming previous Administrations failed to be transparent on extraterrestrial life and unidentified aerial phenomena, Trump wrote on Truth Social that he directed his Administration to identify and provide these Government files.
- During the 1969 Apollo 12 mission, Commander Charles Pete Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean spent 30 hours on the Moon observing unusual objects; Apollo 17 astronauts also reported unidentified anomalous phenomena.
- NASA explains that unidentified anomalous phenomena are challenging to understand, citing potential causes including Film damage, Flare on camera lenses, Light reflecting off debris, and Moisture freezing into ice above the lunar surface.
- There is nothing "unexpected" in the new release, though the data dump has brought unidentified flying objects back into public limelight; experts tell Scientific American the files are not strictly new.
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The "Apollo" astronauts report in recently released documents about strange things that they have seen in space. What is behind it?
Pentagon releases UFO files that go back to the Apollo moon missions
The Department of Defense has released a fresh batch of images and transcripts relating to reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, formerly known as UFOs, including pictures and descriptions from NASA's Apollo missions to the moon.
No, Those 'New' Apollo UAP Photos Don't Show Evidence of Aliens
Last week, President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of War launched a new website to publish unsealed photos and videos related to unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Of the 161 files released so far, the most attention-grabbing ones are from NASA's Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The US Department of Defense announced on Friday that it had released a first batch of documents, previously kept secret, on unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, a topic that fascinates
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