Hoagland focused his research on the 16mm NASA film Pinpoint for Science, released just after Apollo 12
“Hoagland decided to focus first on the 16mm film that NASA had released just after Apollo 12, called *Pinpoint for Science*.”
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NASA sought to refine landing procedures after Apollo 11's location uncertainty dragged on for weeks
“Because this official "landing uncertainty" had dragged on for several weeks, well after the crew had returned and been debriefed, NASA was determined to refine the lunar landing procedures for the next Mission, Apollo 12.”
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Apollo 12 was targeted to land within walking distance of Surveyor 3, requiring real-time pinpoint navigation
“since the second landing was being optimistically targeted within walking distance of the two-year-old unmanned Surveyor 3 ... NASA had to come up with a fool-proof means for real-time "pinpoint navigation"”
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Pinpoint for Science was named for Conrad and Bean's successful pinpoint landing
“Ergo the name of that official mission film, after Pete Conrad and Alan Bean's incredibly successful "pinpoint" lunar landing.”
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Hoagland examined Oxberry Animation Stand animations built from original Hasselblad stills taken by Conrad and Bean
“He was focusing on original Oxberry Animation Stand (another Hollywood device, used to animate still photographs in movies) animations that NASA's "contract producers" had incorporated in the film—pans and zooms of "stills" from the original Apollo 12 Hasselblad shots taken on the Moon by the Apollo 12 crew, Pete Conrad and Alan Bean.”
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Hoagland reasoned that intense studio lighting used to create the pans and zooms might make invisible detail in the lunar sky recoverable by computer
“Hoagland reasoned that if the *Pinpoint for Lunar Landing* producers had taken rush 8x10 hardcopy prints from the original Hasselblad Moon shots, placed them under the intense lights on a professional Oxberry Animation Stand ... then on those frames of the 16mm release print, even after several generations of copying, some vital, invisible detail in the otherwise pitch black lunar skies over the Apollo 12 landing site might remain—still detectable by the computer.”
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Enhanced frames from the print reportedly showed reflective, glass-like ruins and massive inclined buttresses beyond the horizon
“The enhanced 16mm frames (captured by John Stevens' machine from NASA's official *Pinpoint for Science* print) unquestionably revealed more "reflective, glass-like ruins" over the horizon from the Apollo 12 landing site, and the *same* massive inclined buttresses, slanting down beyond the lunar horizon in the distance.”
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Hoagland regards the buttresses as independent confirmation of his ancient lunar dome hypothesis
“but it was the striking, unmistakable appearance of those slanted buttresses, seen on a much bigger scale from the Apollo 12 landing site, which gave Hoagland independent but vital confirmation for his entire model of the "ancient lunar domes."”
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Hoagland became more convinced given that Apollo 14 and Apollo 12 had photographed similar geometry in roughly the same area
“Given that two Apollo missions—14 and now 12—had photographed the same crystalline geometry, and apparently in generally the same location ... Hoagland was more convinced than ever that his lunar dome theory was correct.”
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The Apollo 14 and Apollo 12 landing sites are approximately 196 kilometres apart
“only 122 miles apart”
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Conrad, frustrated at describing the experience, gave the same stock answer each time he was asked
“The Apollo 12 commander, the late Pete Conrad, got so frustrated with his inadequacy at answering the same question that he resorted to giving the same, banal answer each time: “‘Super! Really enjoyed it!””
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Most prints in Ken Johnston's collection came from the Apollo 12 and Apollo 14 missions
“Most of the prints in Ken's priceless collection at his home... turned out to be from earlier Missions—Apollo 12 and Apollo 14.”
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The Apollo 12 and Apollo 14 sites, in Oceanus Procellarum, were the closest together of any Apollo landings
“The 12 and 14 landing sites were unique in the entire Apollo Program—in that they were closer together than any other landings... Only 122 miles separated the two Apollo touchdowns in Oceanus Procellarum (the 'Sea of Storms').”
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Surveyor 3 touched down a few hundred metres from where Apollo 12 would land thirty-one months later
“the unmanned Surveyor 3 spacecraft had touched down in Oceanus Procellarum, just a few hundred feet from where Apollo 12 would land thirty-one months later”
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Hoagland describes the landing site as aligned with Orion as Kennedy called for a Moon mission in May 1961
“With the discovery that this Apollo 12/Surveyor 3 site was, somehow, seen as “sacred” long *before* any spacecraft actually touched down—as gauged by the stunningly exact alignment of Orion on its lunar horizon, precisely as President Kennedy called for “sending a man to the Moon” in May of 1961”
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Hoagland's team included the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 sites, Giza, Viking 1's site, Mars Pathfinder's site and Cydonia in a proposed set of ritual locations
“After considerable discussion, we agreed on our own “reconstruction” of the following “ritual temple” locations: The Giza Plateau on Earth (for obvious reasons); the Apollo 11 (because it was the location of the first manned landing) and Apollo 12 (because of the landing on Hitler’s birthday and “the Kennedy Connection”) lunar landing sites; Viking 1 (because it was the first NASA landing on the planet Mars); the Pathfinder landing sites (because of the 19.5 x 33º location); and, of course, Cydonia (because of the Face and City Complex).”
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Bean inspected Surveyor 3, which Hoagland notes had soft-landed there more than two years earlier, on Hitler's birthday
“Fig. 5-7 - Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean inspects the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, which had soft landed in virtually the same location as Apollo 12 (note Lunar Module on Surveyor crater rim), but more than two years earlier - on *Adolf Hitler’s birthday* (NASA).”
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Hoagland reads the sky pattern over the site at the moment of Apollo 11 touchdown as an alignment significant in ancient Egyptian religion
“Fig. 5-8 - Apollo 12 landing site sky pattern at Apollo 11 touchdown, ~850 miles due east. Orion’s belt on the eastern horizon is an extremely significant alignment in the ancient Egyptian stellar religion - unmistakably signifying “resurrection.” But … of *what*? (Hoagland)”
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Hoagland interprets Orion's Belt standing 19.5 degrees above the horizon at touchdown on 1969-11-19 as coding for dimensional transition
“Fig. 5-11 - Apollo 12 landing site sky pattern at Apollo 12 touchdown, November 19, 1969. Orion’s Belt stands 19.5 degrees above the Western lunar horizon - a mathematical coding for “dimensional transition.” (Hoagland)”
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Hoagland sees the timing of Kennedy's announcement relative to Orion's rising at both the Surveyor 3 and Apollo 12 sites as symbolic
“The announcement is timed as Orion’s (Osiris’) Belt stars rise precisely on the eastern lunar horizon, both at the future Surveyor 3 landing site (April 20, 1967 - Hitler’s birthday) and the *future* site of Apollo 12’s revisit (November 19, 1969). Disturbingly -- in a Space Agency filled with newly-imported Nazi scientists and engineers, the symbolism is again one of “resurrection.” Foreshadowing... what? (Hoagland)”
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NASA had already marked the future Apollo 12 site by landing Surveyor 3 there before Apollo 11 flew
“At the time of the Apollo 11 landing and Aldrin's "Osiris/Isis ceremony" back at Tranquility Base, NASA had already ritually marked the site by landing the unmanned Surveyor 3 probe there.”
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The Lunar Module Intrepid landed on 1969-11-24
“the Apollo 12 landing site—at the precise date and time of the Lunar Module Intrepid's landing, November 24, 1969.”
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Hoagland calculated that Mintaka hovered at 19.5 degrees above Oceanus Procellarum at the time of landing
“Once again, he found a *major* alignment above the landing site: Orion's belt star "Mintaka," hovering right at 19.5° … over Oceanus Procellarum [Fig. 5-11].”
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Hoagland found Mintaka rising precisely on the eastern horizon of the site at the moment of Kennedy's announcement
“with Mintaka, the same star in the belt of Orion which would stand 19.5º over the landing site when Apollo 12 actually made it eight *years* in the future … rising *precisely,* now, dead on the eastern horizon of the *future* Surveyor 3/Apollo 12 landing site [Fig. 5-13].”
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Hoagland considers the Apollo 12/Surveyor 3 site, rather than Apollo 11's, the anchor point of his proposed lunar ritual network
“strongly implied that *this* was the "anchor point" of the entire "lunar ritual network" … *not* the Apollo 11 landing site.”
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Photograph AS12-46-6807 shows Bean wearing a gold visor and carrying the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP)
“Color Fig. 7 - Apollo 12 frame AS12-46-6807 shows astronaut Alan Bean, wearing specially tuned gold visor, carrying ALSEP experiment package.”
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The hexagonal halo around Bean in the same photograph is internal lens flare from the Hasselblad camera
“Hexagonal halo around Bean is Hasselblad camera internal lens flare.”
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The Westinghouse Field Sequential Color Camera flew as the primary camera without a Slow Scan TeleVision backup
“Interestingly, the color camera *was* carried on Apollo 12 as the primary camera, without the SSTV as a back-up.”
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Minutes after deployment, Bean pointed the colour camera at the sun, damaging its receiver and rendering it useless
“A few minutes after deployment of the camera, Alan Bean managed to violate his training and point it directly into the sun, which badly damaged the receiver. This rendered the camera useless.”
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Conrad's sleeping position on the left side of the spacecraft was suggested as the reason for more flashes in his left eye
“I'm trying to tell him the reason he did is because his, where he slept, was always on the left side of the spacecraft.”
NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969
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Conrad and other crew were specifically asked to experiment with observing the light-flash phenomenon
“we were asked to specifically experiment with this.”
NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969
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Astronauts on earlier flights had reported seeing light flashes at night with their eyes closed
“some guy up, I got the letters, paperwork somewhere... he said, airport is seeing flashes in a spacecraft. At night with their eyes closed.”
NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969
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