Apollo 8 · December 25, 1968 · USG-UAP-D001
There is a Santa Claus
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What Apollo 8 radioed on Christmas Day 1968, printed from the page of a released file that quotes it.
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From the file
On Christmas Day 1968, Apollo 8 fired its engine behind the Moon to start the trip home. When the spacecraft came back into radio contact, Jim Lovell told Mission Control: "Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus."
The paragraph on the shirt is from USG-UAP-D001, a set of 1998 letters between constituents, Congress and the White House about UFOs, released in June 2026. One letter quotes Lovell's line and says some people heard a hidden meaning in it. The file doesn't say more than that, and neither do we. It's a good line for Christmas either way.
