Pentagon declassifies Apollo 12 audio of astronauts describing unexplained 'streaks of light' in space

The Pentagon’s latest batch of declassified UFO files includes audio from a 1969 Apollo 12 post-mission aesculapian debrief successful which astronauts described seeing "streaks of light" portion trying to slumber successful heavy space.

The audio, released arsenic portion of the Department of War’s 2nd tranche of records nether its Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, oregon PURSUE, captures Apollo 12 unit members discussing flashes and streaks of airy they saw successful the darkened spacecraft.

"The streaks I saw were 1 that I saw connected the horizontal," 1 unit subordinate said, according to the transcript. "The horizontal streaks were ever a small spot supra the center."

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The ongoing merchandise of declassified files is portion of Trump’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) program. (Getty Images Creatives)

The Department of War said the merchandise is simply a government-wide effort to identify, review, declassify and publically merchandise unresolved UAP-related records and humanities documents. The archetypal merchandise was connected May 8.

The Apollo 12 crew, which included Charles "Pete" Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean, launched successful November 1969 connected NASA’s 2nd crewed satellite landing mission.

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The recently released debrief audio offers an relationship of unexplained ocular flashes seen by the astronauts.

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In the transcript, the astronauts picture watching for the flashes portion lying awake successful the spacecraft. One said the streaks appeared to beryllium "roughly successful the aforesaid place," portion different said helium saw them astatine astir "30 degrees to horizontal."

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This archival photograph shows the lunar aboveground from the Apollo 12 landing tract successful 1969, featuring a highlighted country supra the skyline with unidentified phenomena. (Department of War)

The unit and aesculapian unit besides discussed whether the flashes were random oregon directional, and whether they appeared successful 1 oculus oregon both. One astronaut said helium could usually archer which oculus had registered the flash aft waiting agelong capable to observe it.

The improvement was discussed successful the debrief arsenic perchance tied to cosmic rays oregon dense particles passing done the eye.

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The Apollo 12 audio is 1 of respective records included successful the latest release.

Other files successful the tranche see Cold War-era records connected "green fireballs" adjacent delicate subject and atomic installations, Pantex imagery of an unidentified object, and a elder U.S. quality serviceman describing orangish orbs during a chopper mission.

The Department of War says the PURSUE archive contains unresolved cases, meaning the authorities has not made a definitive determination astir the quality of the observed phenomena.

In February, President Trump said helium would nonstop War Secretary Pete Hegseth and different applicable departments and agencies to statesman identifying and declassifying records. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

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The section said the materials are being released connected a rolling ground arsenic records are found, reviewed and declassified.

"The Department of War is successful lockstep with President Trump to bring unprecedented transparency regarding our government’s knowing of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. These files, hidden down classifications, person agelong fueled justified speculation — and it’s clip the American radical spot it for themselves," Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said. "This merchandise of declassified documents demonstrates the Trump Administration’s earnest committedness to unprecedented transparency."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Pentagon for comment.