Apollo 14

“since there were only *two* Apollo 14 astronauts who landed on the Moon—Shepard and Mitchell—and just two Hasselblad cameras (one for each of them)”

“He had a secret and then-innovative inner ear surgical procedure, which allowed him to ultimately command Apollo 14 to the Moon in 1971.”

“It was Ed Mitchell who piloted the lunar module on 5 February 1971, becoming the sixth man to walk on the Moon, one of the legends of space exploration.”

“It was during the last EVA of Apollo 14, you might remember, that Alan Shepard surprised NASA and the Nation on live television—and achieved a unique claim to history as well—with his famous "… first golf shot on the Moon."”

“boasted that the ball "went miles and miles."”

“The only other camera which could have taken this particular image was the color television camera, erected by Mitchell at their landing site soon after first emerging from the lunar module "Antares" two days earlier. In fact, this camera did send back to Earth a running sequence of television images of this event, in parallel with Shepard's live radio transmission as he took his swing”

“this (see Color Fig. 5) is a *real* Apollo 14 photograph, taken by Alan Shepard of his fellow astronaut, Ed Mitchell—as Mitchell was setting up the TV camera at the beginning of their first lunar EVA.”

“What Rigney did not know was that The Spaceman, who wishes to remain anonymous, was a very close friend of the legendary Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell.”

“However, The Spaceman says that privately Edgar Mitchell confided he did see anomalous objects during his Apollo 14 mission that he could not explain.”

“During the NASA mission, Mitchell confided to The Spaceman, he saw anomalous well-defined blue lights that appeared to have a structure behind them.”

“One was captured in a photograph taken outside the lunar module on the Moon's surface, which shows Mitchell posing in the foreground and a blue light hovering in the distant blackness of space behind him.”

“'They'll say it's a lens artefact or a flare but it's not,' The Spaceman said the astronaut told him. 'He told me he saw it with his own eyes.'”

“But he dismissed the possibility that what he saw were lens flares, reflections from inside the lunar module or camera glitches, because he saw the blue lights with his own eyes and went back later to check they were there on film.”

“Another even more intriguing cluster of blue lights reported by Mitchell to his friend appears on the high-resolution NASA lunar module film of the return journey from the Moon, as the Apollo 14 lunar module waited for the command module to rotate to allow docking. There to the left of the command module, clearly defined, is a trio of blue lights grouped in what looks like a dark triangular shape against the pitch black of outer space.”

“Anticipating claims the blue lights would be dismissed as some kind of lens flare or reflection, Mitchell told The Spaceman that the same supposed glitch appeared on two separate films from two separate cameras.”

“The camera that took the shot of Mitchell on the lunar surface, with the mysterious blue light behind him, is still on the Moon;”

“the camera that took the shot from the lunar module looking towards the command module, came back to Earth with Mitchell.”

“Moreover, there were no blue lights that could have reflected from inside the lunar module; all the lights were white.”

“One of the objects (blue light, upper left) seen by Edgar Mitchell from Apollo 14's Lunar Module just before docking with the Command Module (centre).”

“Mitchell always denied he saw a UFO but he told 'The Spaceman' he saw strange objects throughout his lunar mission in 1971.”

“this was Apollo 14—after we had received the film, right after the astronauts had returned to the Earth, it had been processed in the NASA photo lab. It was my responsibility to put together a private viewing for the chief astronomer—that was Dr. Thornton Page and his associates and contributing scientists.”

“I took the film over and set it up into what is called a ‘sequence [projector]’; it’s kind of like one of the gun cameras they use in the military [but in reverse—a projector]—where you can stop, freeze frame, go forward, back up and zoom in.”

“we were viewing the Apollo 14 footage, coming around the backside of the Moon as we were approaching a large crater. … in the shadows in the craters, covering about half the crater, this particularly large crater showed a cluster of about *five or six lights down inside the rim.*”

“Now, due to the sun angle on the front side [of the Moon] that you would be looking at (you’d probably be looking at more of a crescent at that point on the backside) in the shadows in the craters, covering about half the crater, this particularly large crater showed a cluster of about *five or six lights down inside the rim.*”

“Most of the prints in Ken's priceless collection at his home... turned out to be from earlier Missions—Apollo 12 and Apollo 14.”

“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').”

“in scanning Ken's priceless Apollo 14 C-prints, he'd discovered that the computer could "see" what the human eye could not—incredible geometric detail in the pitch black areas, like the lunar sky.”

“Hoagland was then able to discover two untouched panoramas of the Apollo 14 landing site—each a mosaic composed of individual Hasselblad images, printed on two 8x10 glossies.”

“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.”

“during the 1996 “Hoagland-Mitchell debate” with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell on *Coast to Coast AM,* Hoagland went out of his way to consider that the distant ruins might have been very faint, and might have even been further filtered by the gold visors that the astronauts wore on the surface”