The Pentagon released its latest batch of declassified UFO files on Friday — including audio of the Apollo 12 crew describing how they once saw mysterious “streaks of light” while trying to sleep in deep space.
The audio from a 1969 post-mission medical debrief captured the astronauts — Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean — detailing how they’d experienced the bizarre flashes despite having their eyes closed.
“The astronauts each reported that these experiences occurred in the dark as they tried to sleep,” a description on the site states.
NASA’s medical team later concluded that the phenomena reported by the Apollo 12 crew was caused by astronauts’ own vision rather than external light sources.
The 222 files released Friday were among the second batch of documents made public on the Department of War’s dedicated UFO website – weeks after President Trump ordered the release of government reports on unidentified flying objects.
One of the newly released files contains 116 pages of documentation tied to a series of alleged sightings and probes in a top secret facility in Sandia, New Mexico, from 1948 to 1950.
“This file contains 209 sightings of ‘green orbs’, ‘discs’, and ‘fireballs’ reported near the military base,” the Defense Department said.
The Pentagon has been working on declassifying documents related to UFOs for years.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the documents, photos and videos of what are officially known as “unidentified anomalous phenomena” had long fueled speculation.
“It’s time the American people see it for themselves,” he said in a statement.