Astronauts & space
What astronauts, spacecraft cameras and station feeds have seen.
Case files (18)
- 2023Marshall Space Flight Center ISS feed, May 2023
- 2019Beatriz Villarroel, VASCO and the pre-Sputnik Palomar transients
- 2017'Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1): the first known interstellar object
- 2003Brian Binnie's Backyard Orbs
- 1996STS-80's unidentified object
- 1993Lights in the Shuttle footage
- 1991STS-48: the object that turns
- 1973Skylab's red object
- 1972Apollo 17 crew medical debriefing: light flashes in lunar orbit and on the surface (1972)
- 1971Apollo 14 crew debriefing: the "light flash phenomena" (1971)
- 1969Apollo 11's unknown companion
- 1969The Apollo 10 'moon pigeon'
- 1966Gemini 9 science debrief: a whitish-green meteor, sunrise "luminous particles", and no sparkles from the ATDA (June 1966)
- 1965Astronauts see company
- 1965Gemini 5 debrief: "snow" and glittering debris, and one sighting Cooper "never could identify" (August 1965)
- 1962The Mercury astronauts' 'fireflies'
- 1958NASA, secrecy and the archive anomalies
- 1951Gordon Cooper and Deke Slayton: two future astronauts' 1951 sightings
People, organizations and fields (1)
Articles (9)
What the PURSUE files add
war.gov/ufo turned rumors into file numbers. The military clips are the bulk: infrared tracks from CENTCOM, INDOPACOM and NORTHCOM, several with nothing to name the object. The written reports are sharper. An AFSOC crew logged six small spheres "able to change directions quickly and…
One Apollo 17 frame, from a podcast to Congress to the Pentagon
Max showed the Apollo 17 "trio of blue lights" on Reality Check. Per Max, Mike Gold then showed it to Reps. Burchett, Luna and Burlison at a congressional UAP briefing. In May 2026 war.gov released the same frame as NASA-UAP-VM006, saying it is "potentially the result of a physical object in the…
Blue lights across four Apollo missions
Apollo 11: AS11-40-5938, a trio of lights (Max; being pulled). Apollo 12: five war.gov frames. On 6846 to 6847 one light holds its place in the camera view while the landscape moves about 1000 px, and it brightens. Apollo 14: AS14-66-9301, a blue light with a double core, on the same camera model…
Gene Cernan is on three of these threads
Cernan flew Apollo 10, whose film caught the moon pigeon. As Apollo 17 commander he sketched the horizon glow and reported a distant rotating “flasher”: “It's something physical in the distance.” The same mission produced VM006.
Aristarchus keeps coming up
Houston asked the Apollo 11 crew to look at Aristarchus after German astronomers reported a glow, and Armstrong saw it "considerably more illuminated". The two leading TLP researchers were pushed out of the field in the early 1970s, per Peter Schultz. Apollo 18 was reportedly to land nearby. The…
Puthoff, Swann, Clarke and Aldrin: Moon, Mars and Phobos
Hal Puthoff ran SRI's remote viewing with Ingo Swann, whose Penetration describes towers and lights on the Moon, and the Army's 1984 Mars session described pyramids. Puthoff also asked Bernard Haisch about the Mars glass worm. Arthur C. Clarke said the glass worm meant life on Mars, with Buzz…
The secrecy chain
The Space Act lets NASA withhold classified material and the Brookings report raised withholding ET finds. Clementine was a DoD mission, and Brandenburg says it looked for bases. Its maps show blurred areas. Mitchell called speaking out “treason”. The UAP study team was kept away from the archives.…
STS-48 and North West Cape
The STS-48 object was filmed near the west coast of Australia in September 1991. That was the last year of full US control of the Harold E. Holt station at North West Cape, where Coulthart's witnesses describe a bulldozed site and triangle sightings.
Swann's Moon, the lights record and Apollo 18
Swann said that in 1975 he remote-viewed the Moon for 'Mr. Axelrod' and saw lights on towers over a hundred feet tall on a crater rim, with tread marks below. That is the same order of size as the Plaskett U shadows, and the tread marks echo the tracks Max points to at Schröteri. His wider case…