NASA-UAP-VM5, Apollo 12, 1969

NASA IMG Partial
Incident date
1969
Incident location
Moon
Released by DOW
5/8/26
Case ID
NASA-UAP-VM5
Source URL
war.gov original ↗

Our research summary

Archival Apollo 12 (1969) lunar surface photograph with a highlighted area-of-interest overlay above the horizon flagging an alleged UAP. Press coverage of the 2026-05-08 release notes one of the five Apollo 12 images includes up to five separately highlighted areas of interest; the overlay is the new editorial content.

Prior disclosure: Partial

Underlying photograph almost certainly already publicly available via NASA's Apollo Lunar Surface Journal and JSC/LPI archives (Apollo 12 surface magazines AS12-46 through AS12-49 are fully online). Specific frame number for VM5 not identified. The colored highlight rings flagging the alleged UAP regions are new in the 2026-05-08 DOW release.

What was disclosed earlier

Prior-disclosure links

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