NASA-UAP-D1: Apollo 12 Mission Transcript (1969)
Date
November 1969
Document Type
Gov. Report
Authentication
Official PublicationRedaction Status
✓ Fully ReleasedIssuing Authority
NASA / Manned Spacecraft Center
Summary
The Apollo 12 mission transcript from November 1969, released as NASA-UAP-D1 via PURSUE Release 1 on May 8, 2026. The transcript documents mission communications between the Apollo 12 crew — Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean — and Mission Control during the second lunar landing mission. The PURSUE release confirms that NASA formally assessed the Apollo 12 transcript as containing content relevant to the UAP record. The transcript covers the November 14-24, 1969 mission, during which the crew photographed an unidentified luminous object in lunar orbit documented in the Apollo 12 lunar UAP case.
Significance
NASA-UAP-D1 is the primary transcript record for the Apollo 12 mission anomalous observation — an unidentified luminous object photographed in lunar orbit. Its inclusion in PURSUE Release 1 as a formal UAP record represents NASA's institutional acknowledgment that the Apollo 12 crew observed something anomalous. The document provides the real-time crew communications context surrounding the photographic evidence.