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O.K.,everybody should agree that this is a strange-looking picture. The sun is definitely coming from Pete Conrad's far right side (yes, it's Apollo 12 again... ain't that funny?) but there is a huge cigar- or saucer-shaped light source hovering behind him. Part of Apollo 12's mission was to find and recover the camera from the Surveyor 3 satellite. This photo is from the Surveyor 3 crater. To put it in perspective, I took a look at the series of photos that this one is a part of (AS12-49-7318 to AS12-49-7324) and included the series below. With a little imagination, a person can picture Al Bean being terrified by the hovering object and wildly snapping photos of the blinding event. The film magazine ends there, and NASA says Bean was just using up the film by taking a pan of the area. But why would he turn around to take images into the sun if he knew he might not get all the way around? By the way, NASA explains the very obviously man-made object to the right side of the last image as being part of Surveyor 3. To see full-sized versions, please go to the NASA link I provided on the "Conspiracies" page. Use the numbers I gave above. Go back to Conspiracies. |
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But moments later a huge object can be seen in the lunar "sky". |
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Just hangin' out on the moon. No photographic anomalies here. |
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Al has (nervously?) moved closer to Pete and snaps this beautiful shot of his boot. |
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Al decides to wheel around and start a pan directly into the sun, knowing that he only has a few shots left. |
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As Al turns more towards the sun, it is not as bright (huh?). Tricky exposure on those space cameras. |
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Now brighter again... er, uh, I mean overexposed. Eckerds would go bankrupt on this guy with their "bad photo" guarantee. |
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What's that thing coming into the frame?? Oh, it must just be Surveyor. I'll get some shots to confirm that. Oops, out of film. |
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