NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969

Listen, we read this paragraph in here about these quotes coronal discharges that you guys were seeing and that completely stops us. Tell us how this came about and who talked to you about it and what you saw. Somebody reported on one of the earlier plates that some guy up, I got the letter, this paperwork somewhere, and he shipped it down to me as a case of two things where the VHF radio devices, which could be discharges from someplace in space, and the other one where, I thought it was on Neil's flight, he said, they noticed that when they were awake at night the spacecraft was guarded. They thought they were in the spacecraft. But whoever this guy was to know, that's a personally known phenomena. You get discharges across your eye from gamma rays or something. They had a bunch of things where we would close our eyes and face the moon when we were orbiting it because we'd get less discharges facing the moon than away from it. You don't have to be anywhere near the moon or anywhere. It's an early night out thing. If you keep your eyes closed and you're awake down there and it's dark and you think about it, when it happens you can spin down and it's one eye. It's not a discharge you see in both eyes. You really see it in one eye or the other eye and you can see what kind it is. We had two kinds. I guess the part of it will either strike the eyeball perpendicular or a discharge is parallel and we'd get either a flag like that or we'd get a streak. I feel that I know the way to get a flag or a streak. For some reason I got more with my left eye than my right eye. I could tell which eye it was when I was concentrating on it. I'm trying to tell you the reason you get it is because it's where each left is always on the left side of the spacecraft. They should have…