Browse entities
Location

Moon

8 of the 12 declassified cases list this as the incident's official location. 4 more cases only mention it in the document text, without it being the official record. Documented incidents span 1969 to 1972.

A single agency is involved: NASA. The case files here include documents, images, and audio recordings. None of the cases carry visible redactions.

Where these cases happened

Cases

File IDDateAgencyTypePages readOfficialExcerpt
NASA-UAP-D02812/21/72NASAAudioMentionedThis recording is segment 1 of 2 of the Apollo 17 crew's post-mission technical and medical debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, held shortly after splashdown. The three crew members work through a checklist covering lunar-o…
NASA-UAP-D02912/21/72NASAAudioMentionedThis is segment 2 of 2 of the Apollo 17 post-mission technical/medical debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. Unlike a multi-party discussion, this segment is largely a solo, structured debrief by Lunar Module Pilot Harrison '…
NASA-UAP-D0021972NASADocument16/16OfficialNASA Apollo 17 air-to-ground voice transcript (December 1972), covering translunar coast through lunar orbit. Early pages (Tape 5) describe the crew observing a debris field of bright, jagged, flake-like tumbling fragments after S-IVB separ…
NASA-UAP-VM0061972NASAImageOfficialApollo 17 photograph looking across a rolling lunar horizon of grey regolith under a teal-tinted black sky. A yellow callout box in the upper right magnifies a small cluster of faint blue-white points above the horizon.
NASA-UAP-D0011969NASADocument4/4OfficialThis is a NASA air-to-ground transcript excerpt from the Apollo 12 mission (November 1969), covering communications between the Command Module Pilot (CMP, Richard Gordon in Yankee Clipper), the Commander/LM Pilot in the Lunar Module Intrepi…
NASA-UAP-VM0011969NASAImageOfficialApollo 12 lunar surface photograph with a teal-tinted black sky above the grey regolith. The long shadow of an astronaut and equipment stretches across the foreground. A yellow callout box in the upper area magnifies a faint elongated blue-…
NASA-UAP-VM0021969NASAImageOfficialApollo 12 lunar surface image showing grey regolith and the long shadow of an astronaut. Two yellow callout boxes labelled Area 1 and Area 2 magnify faint specks located in the dark teal sky above the lunar horizon.
NASA-UAP-VM0031969NASAImageOfficialApollo 12 photograph of the lunar surface with a bright regolith field and a prominent astronaut shadow. A yellow callout box magnifies a single small white point of light in the dark sky above the horizon.
NASA-UAP-VM0041969NASAImageOfficialApollo 12 lunar surface photograph with long shadows cast across grey regolith and a glowing bright area near the horizon. A yellow callout box in the upper left magnifies a faint white point in the dark sky.
NASA-UAP-VM0051969NASAImageOfficialApollo 12 lunar image annotated with five yellow callout boxes labelled Area 1 through Area 5, each magnifying a faint mark in the dark sky. The largest inset shows an elongated fuzzy white blob. Below, the grey lunar surface shows rocks an…
NASA-UAP-D024No dateNASAAudioMentionedThis is a roughly 96-minute scientific debriefing shortly after Apollo 16 (April 1972), where principal investigators present preliminary experiment results to crew members John Young (CDR), Charlie Duke (LMP), and Ken Mattingly (CMP), part…
NASA-UAP-D025No dateNASAAudioMentionedThis recording is a NASA post-mission scientific debriefing following the Apollo 16 mission, in which mission scientists present preliminary results to program officials and the returning flight crew. Speakers cover orbital photography cove…

Related entities

Entities that appear together with this one in the same declassified cases.

Nearby locations

The closest other location hubs in the archive, by distance.