Pentagon declassifies second batch of UFO documents. What was observed during the second landing, of the Apollo 12 mission
The United States Department of War announced on Friday the publication of a second set of government documents documenting encounters with unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP in English) and which had been classified as secret documents, informs EFE, taken over by Agerpres.
The new series, which consists of seven text, video and audio files, was preceded by the publication, on May 8, of 162 documents focused on UFO sightings and possible encounters with extraterrestrial life.
“Light streaks” observed on the Moon
Among the materials declassified on Friday is a medical interview with the three astronauts – Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean – who participated in November 1969 in the Apollo 12 mission, the second to reach the moon.
The three observed “flashes of light” or “light streaks,” experiences that “happened in the dark while they were trying to sleep.”
However, NASA concluded that the reported phenomena were related to the astronauts' vision, possibly affected by exposure to cosmic rays.
A CIA intelligence-gathering report in the former USSR was also published on Friday, which recounts an incident in the summer of 1973, when an operative observed “an unidentified, bright, bright green aerial object”.
“The source described the formation of concentric circles around the phenomenon for several minutes before it dissipated,” the text explains.
Strange phenomena observed at a military base
The lot also includes a 116-page file related to the special weapons program of the Army — the successor to the Manhattan Project — and the Air Force, detailing observations and investigations conducted between 1948 and 1950 at Sandia, New Mexico, the main U.S. nuclear weapons development facility from the end of World War II until 1971.
The document includes 209 sightings of “green spheres, discs and fireballs reported near the military base”.
According to the Pentagon, “witnesses reported seeing unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) maneuvering, disappearing, disappearing or exploding.”
The War Department claims that the website war.gov/ufo, where the materials declassified on May 8 are cataloged, has already had over a billion views.
According to the explanations of the Pentagon spokesman, Sean Parnell, in an attached statement, these data emphasize “unprecedented levels of interest both in this topic and in the historic transparency effort of the Trump administration.”
Many voices have been critical of this initiative, considering that it makes public materials that do not shed new light on the possible existence of extraterrestrial life and creates a distraction at a troubled time for the White House, marked by the war with Iran or the negative polls for Republicans in view of the legislative elections in November.
