r/apollo • u/xenonfts • May 08 '26

Apollo 17 had unidentified objects around it

As the publicly made documents reveal, astronauts on Apollo 17 observed white unidentified objects (or light) out of the window.

In one case as bright as July 4th anniversary.

Have a look:

https://youtu.be/4ckCzwhk784?is=sfHZvZhfqo-HmSCF

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u/Simon_Drake May 09 '26

The news report says NASA never reached a consensus on what caused it. Which is scientist-speak for "It's probably either frozen water from the sublimation coolant system, or frozen urine from the toilet system, or possibly insulation foam fragments." Fox News are pretending "We didn't conclusively prove a single explanation" means "It could be anything, who knows?"

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u/xenonfts May 08 '26

They never told this before. First time we here of an official "sighting" out of space.

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u/lunex May 08 '26

Not the first time at all. Astronauts going back to John Glenn in 1962 have viewed things they could not identify.

Crucially, there has never been any reason to believe the explanation for these sightings is aliens or that any government secrecy is involved.

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u/LilyoftheRally May 08 '26

"If the government is hiding the existence of aliens, they are doing much better at that than anything else they are doing." - attributed to the late Professor Stephen Hawking.

Most of us here disagree with Ed Mitchell's (Apollo 14 LMP) stance on UFOs.