Building 30, Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; claimed image concerned Hadley Rille on the Moon, United States
A NASA Fire Technician on the Apollo 15 Hadley Rille Object
In 2005 an anonymous former NASA contract fire-and-safety worker described watching a round object on a Mission Control display during a lunar EVA, with his patrol partner Jim Baker. The publisher suggested Apollo 15 and the witness agreed; no contemporary report, footage, named first-person witness
Why This Case Matters
A useful control case for the map because the Apollo 15 setting is verifiable while the extraordinary claim is not, demonstrating how to distinguish accurate background detail from evidence for the event itself.
Chronology
- Apollo 15 lunar operations 30 Jul–2 Aug 1971
- alleged observation in Building 30 during an EVA, exact date not independently fixed
- witness says he wrote a signed report that night
- claim first published in 2005
- 13 Mar 2005 addendum says witness 'looked it up' and identified Apollo 15
The Witnesses
Evidence
The following evidence types are documented for this case:
Conventional explanations: Imaging/display artifact, reflection, flare, bloom or later memory reconstruction are sufficient live alternatives. The claim contains a significant anachronism—placing James Oberg's office in Building 30 in 1971 although he joined NASA in 1975—and the mission identification itself was supplied decades later.
What Remains Unresolved
- Witness identity and employment record
- alleged signed 1971 report
- any Jim Baker copy
- exact EVA/date/time
- any contemporaneous security/fire log
- claimed raw television sequence
- independent testimony from named personnel.
Key Takeaways
- The Apollo 15 mission and Hadley Rille geography are documented
- that does not corroborate the UFO. The core claim is a single anonymous 2005 recollection with lost documents, no surviving media and internal signs of reconstructed memory.
Sources
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