Apollo 12 LMP observes luminous particles escaping the Moon — lunar orbit

Apollo 12 Lunar Module Pilot, observing through the AOT in the dark quadrant, reported seeing flashes and particles of light appearing to originate from behind the spacecraft and streaming away into space. The LMP speculated they might be droplets from the water boiler but noted that some appeared to be 'escaping the Moon,' moving rapidly away. No definitive explanation was provided in the transcript.

“"When you look out the AOT in the dark quadrant? You can see these lights - particles of light. flashes of light just seem to come from - in this case, I'm looking in quadrant 1 which is the left one... some of those things are escaping the Moon. They really haul out of here and just press off at the stars."”

Moderate OCR noise (typos, dashes). The LMP himself suggested water-boiler droplets as one explanation, making this ambiguous rather than clearly anomalous. Mission elapsed time was approximately 05:19:27. Single observer. Transcript covers only excerpted pages, so full context may be missing.