Source: Real UFO

NASA: "Beginning their return from the moon to an April 27, 1972, splashdown, Astronauts John Young, Thomas Mattingly and Charles Duke captured about four seconds of video footage of an object that seemed to look a lot like Hollywood's version of a spacecraft from another world."

I studied the footage from the mission and it would appear that in it they notice something appear in the top right/left (Different footage has the images flipped) frame of the picture, the camera suddenly starts shifting about, almost frantically, a bright flash that actually lights up the entire Moon followed by about 25 seconds of blackness, as though the camera was pointing at the window frame, and silence, then it's a bit of commotion, a cut, and we can see the moon again, then another cut, the moon is a lot closer this time and the object can be seen clearly in the image for a couple of seconds, the camera pans across to the other side of the moon, then back to the object which appears to fade away.

Another cut to the moon and after a short pause something can be seen to 'whiz' by the command module, travelling extremely fast, blink and you might miss it, then they talk about turning the function off. Two bright flashes can been seen coming from the moon, the Astronaut then switches the camera off and in the process of doing so, the brightness seems to increase dramatically and a white dot can be seen where the object was pictured.

Reading NASA's explanation, I was a little confused by the reasoning behind the investigation. The reference to Hollywood as a source of humour, serves only to subdue the reader into thinking 'fake'!

The outcome of the official NASA investigation states that an enhanced Apollo 16 image can be compared with features of the EVA floodlight/boom from the perspective of a Command/Service Module window. They claim the UFO is actually a picture of the floodlight boom.


NASA provides the following picture of the Command Module as viewed from the Lunar Module, highlighting the Floodlight/boom and the Window in question.


This second Image shows a close-up of the floodlight/boom(s), highlighting distinctly different shapes and features.

On closer inspection of the floodlight boom from the NASA web site you notice some rather 'in your face' discrepancies such as the shape of the area that is purported to contain the bulb and the bolts that appear in the images from NASA, are nowhere to be found!

No matter how hard I look at this picture I cannot see how the camera footage could see the floodlight/boom in the way NASA claims. To illustrate my point I created a simple 3D Model of the Command Module based on the information in this picture, see below. Note that the above picture is of the Command Module from Apollo 17. But for illustrative purposes, 100% accuracy is not required, instead, the real anomaly is in the simple geometry of the objects and positions between the floodlight/boom and the window.

I created this from standard primitives; A cone object for the Command Module, sphere for the Moon with a Moon texture and some cylinders for the floodlight/boom. The dimensions are loosely based on pictures from NASA's Apollo 17 command module and other web sources;NASA Wikipedia.

The area of interest is between the window and the floodlight boom where NASA claims the camera was positioned, Image on the top shows a close-up of the Area of Interest of the Apollo 17, NASA image, showing the window and the floodlight boom and on the bottom is a picture of my model showing the window and the floodlight boom.




By positioning a Camera, in the virtual world, in the Command Module window, as NASA claims, I was able to produce an Image of what the floodlight/boom would have looked like, from the perspective of the Command Module window.



Notice the angle of the floodlight boom, it's facing the wrong way so we can't see the bulb part, no matter how I position the camera, even upside down, the Astronauts cameras would not have captured the 'claimed' feature from this window, or from any other window in the command module, so I positioned the virtual camera appropriately to visualize the floodlight/boom from the angle postulated by NASA.

To obtain an image of the floodlight boom the camera would be outside the command module.


The Astronauts' camera would not have seen the floodlight boom in this way.


This would mean that the position of the Camera was outside the Command Module, however, they were not conducting space walks at the time the footage was captured. If they were travelling home for the splash down, as nasa claims.

Illustrating where the Camera would be positioned to capture the floodlight boom.


Illustrates where the Camera would have to be from the perspective of the Command Module Window.

Apollo 16 debriefing: section 22.6 to 22.7

Manning complains about the camera equipment.

"Camera Equipment, I thought that the camera equipment operated beautifully. I still have some very strong comments about the idea of using a camera like the Hasselblad and having to use a ring sight on the side of it. I have several pictures where I had the target in the ring sight and unfortunately the lens was looking at part of the window frame."

I think that this might explain the 25 seconds of what appeared to be the window frame in the UFO footage!

Section 24.0 of the Apollo 16 Debriefing: Astronauts talk about a bright flash below the horizon of the Lunar surface.

I grabbed an image from the Apollo 16 footage, possibly, showing the flash the Astronauts talked about. Other Apollo Astronauts from further missions have also confirmed bright flashes of light coming from the Moon.

Apollo 16 debriefing: section 24.0

MATTINGLY: "The other one was that little flash I saw, Maybe somebody saw it on one of the seismometers, on one of the early revs. It's on the D6E because I remember commenting out loud about it. I was sitting there waiting for a solar corona. There was this bright flash, and it was below the horizon. I looked out the window every dark pass after that looking for another one. I never saw any more. I don't know whether I saw a meteorite hit, or what, but it was a bright flash. It was brighter than any star or planet that was above the horizon. It was definitely below the horizon. Maybe somebody in one of their seismic things might have seen something about that time. I don't know what good it would do us if they did, but it was there."

As the camera is switched off, a white dot can be seen in, roughly, the same position the object was seen, it might be nothing, it might be something...