What Did Apollo Astronauts Really See on the Moon? | Reality Check with Ross Coulthart

“he acknowledged to me that the terms of reference for NASA's study team limited them very much to aerial or terrestrial UAPs.”

“The whole idea, the whole area of NASA's imagery from from the moon and from shuttle missions, seems to have been quite deftly excluded from the study team's purview.”

“pleased to see that they surprised us by including a number of files from NASA.”

“I noticed that a number of them, a number of anomalies along the same lines of what they published were left out.”

“one of the Apollo images they showed from Apollo 17 of this triangular arrangement of blue lights, They showed the scanned version from, I believe, the US National Archives.”

“NASA has an archive of more recent scans of the Apollo films. It's managed by Arizona State University and the Johnson Space Center. It's called the March to the Moon Archive.”

“there you can download a 1.3 gigabyte TIF file of that particular image, and you can get a much higher resolution version of the trio of blue lights in the black lunar sky. And you can see more visibly the detailed structure in the lights.”

“there are multiple scans of that particular frame in different NASA and US military and US government archives. which show this trio of blue lights in exactly the same configuration in exactly the same place, which rules out scanning artifacts.”

“they said that they acquired the original film and they're going to do further analyses, both NASA and, I guess, the Department of War, and then they'll let us know what they find.”

“there are a couple of very interesting videos from the two space shuttle missions, STS-48 in 1991 and STS-80 in 1996, which show a lot of what we might call bogeys and some of which seem to exhibit propulsive capabilities that are vastly beyond what is capable of any known form of human propulsion technology.”

“So it popped out from there... It's moving along what appears to be the horizon of the Earth. at virtually a constant speed, it would seem. And now at the bottom left, as you said, there is a flash of light. And then it just suddenly shoots off, passes through the air glow, and goes into space.”

“The main UAP, as we can see, that's moving along at a constant speed, it actually stops for half a second, as determined by Dr. Jack Kasher, before it darts off.”

“The objects seen are orbiter-generated debris illuminated by the sun.”

“The flicker of light is the result of firing of the attituded thrusters on the orbiter, and the abrupt motions of the particles result from the impact of gas jets from the thruster.”

“Once you understand what the solar illumination conditions are, it's easy to conclude that the video shows normal ice small ice and debris particles drifting aimlessly away from the orbiter, with some pieces becoming sunlit as they move out of the shuttle's shadow.”

“on further analysis, I think, for example, Carlotto's analysis shows clearly that it doesn't fit that explanation at all.”

“Dr. Carlotto has analyzed this footage in this paper from 2005, I believe it was published. And he actually calculates that this object is moving at, he calls it F1, and he has a time lapse sequence photographs for this object of interest.”

“500 miles a second”

“we can now confirm for sure were seen by astronauts on the surface of the moon in the 1960s and the 1970s”

“there are a number of images of anomalies in NASA's archives, which are simply left there, unexplained, unaddressed, undiscussed.”

“I'd love to see Congress asking these individual astronauts the hard questions.”

“It would be a dream of mine to see some of these astronauts that have stuck their necks out and been involved in some of these incidents actually being asked on the record under oath and seeing whether they're prepared to reveal anything to a congressional oversight committee in the proper context.”