All UAP Data Released While Ross Coulthart Details the Unreleased 'Blue Dots' Film, NASA Chief Says

NASA's claim that it has released all of its data on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) has been challenged by investigative journalist Ross Coulthart, who says crucial Apollo-era records – including the original Apollo 17 'blue dots' film – remain unseen and under review by the Pentagon and the space agency.

The agency's disclosures form part of President Donald Trump's PURSUE effort concerning unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP. The disagreement centres on whether those releases are complete, with Apollo 17's original film still under Pentagon and NASA review, according to the programme's account.

Blue Dots Complicate UAP Data Disclosure

'We have disclosed all of our materials as part of President Trump's PURSUE effort,' Isaacman told interviewer Nancy Loo. 'We are going through the files and putting what we have out for the interested public.'

Isaacman acknowledged that some released images remain unexplained. Apollo 17 photographs depict three blue lights, which he suggested might result from radiation affecting the camera. Investigators have not reached a final explanation.

Coulthart accepted radiation exposure or a camera malfunction as possibilities. He argued that the original film and additional photographs require examination before investigators can reach conclusions about the marks.

'We won't know that until that film has been properly examined and until we see a report released by the Department of War and NASA, which states categorically whether the marks exist on the original film,' he stated.

Apollo Gaps Behind UAP Data Challenge

Coulthart discussed the archive releases with Meagan Medick on Reality Check. His criticism extended across Apollo, Gemini and Skylab, with demands for fuller mission transcripts and the images mentioned in astronauts' accounts.

'NASA may have released all of the historical records that it has so far identified and selected for PURSUE. But that is vastly materially different from saying that all NASA records relevant to UAP have been found and disclosed,' Coulthart stated.

He cited Apollo 12, stating that only four pages of a transcript had been released. Those pages record astronaut Alan Bean describing unusual particles of light moving away from the moon. The crew considered whether they were water droplets.

Coulthart requested the entire transcript. He also questioned the whereabouts of photographs mentioned by Apollo 17 astronaut Ron Evans, who reported bright fragments and described taking pictures during the mission.

'The astronauts explicitly say that photographs were being taken of the observed objects and a genuinely complete evidential release should either produce those images or explain why they can't be identified,' Coulthart stated.

For Gemini 7 and Skylab, he maintained that releases were also incomplete. Further audio recordings, photographs and tracking data could assist investigators in assessing whether the objects were debris, natural events or something else, he argued.

Earlier Archive Dispute Informs UAP Data Demands

Coulthart cited journalist Leslie Kean's 2003 request for NASA records concerning a reported 1965 UFO incident in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. A federal court subsequently concluded that NASA had not demonstrated the adequacy of its search, according to his account.

He presented that case as grounds to question whether the agency had fully searched its archives, while stopping short of accusing Isaacman of deliberately misleading the public.

'I'm not calling Jared Isaacman a liar,' Coulthart stated. 'I just don't think he understands what we're talking about when we're talking about UAP data.'

His request extends beyond Apollo to shuttle mission records. Coulthart argued that public funding of those programmes entitled the public to examine all the data.