News · · written up November 14, 2026 · 1968 on the timeline
Apollo 8 radios "there is a Santa Claus" on Christmas Day 1968
On Christmas Day 1968, Apollo 8 fired its main engine on the far side of the Moon, out of radio contact, to leave lunar orbit and head home. When the spacecraft came back around, command module pilot Jim Lovell radioed: "Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus."
The line turns up in USG-UAP-D001, a set of 1998 letters between constituents, members of Congress and the White House about UFOs, released by the Pentagon in June 2026. One letter quotes Lovell and says that, even though it was Christmas Day, many people sensed a hidden meaning in his words.
The file repeats that idea without backing it up, and nothing else in the released records speaks to it. Most people took it as what it sounds like: a Christmas joke from three men a quarter of a million miles from home.
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