Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed Artemis-program mission — a lunar-flyby flight that includes imaging of the dark side of the Moon as part of its mission profile.
Per avi-loeb’s May 11, 2026 The Hill’s Rising interview (src-loeb-two-ufo-interpretations-2026-05), the thousands of dark-side-of-the-Moon images captured by Artemis II in the weeks before the interview (April–May 2026) showed no anomalous orbital lights. Loeb uses this null result to argue that Apollo-era lunar-light claims (lunar-uap-historical-claims) are most plausibly asteroid impacts or optical artifacts, not anomalous craft.