DISCLOSURE / FILE
Apollo 17 Bright Angular Particles Near S-IVB 1972
A NASA Apollo 17 audio excerpt from December 7, 1972 in which the crew report and describe small drifting lights seen outside the spacecraft during transit to the moon.
DISCLOSURE / FILE
A NASA Apollo 17 audio excerpt from December 7, 1972 in which the crew report and describe small drifting lights seen outside the spacecraft during transit to the moon.
NASA-UAP-D009, Apollo 17 Audio Excerpt, December 7, 1972
A NASA Apollo 17 audio excerpt from December 7, 1972 in which the crew report and describe small drifting lights seen outside the spacecraft during transit to the moon.
This is an image-or-audio-only NASA file (no extracted page text) covering Apollo 17, the final crewed Apollo mission, on December 7, 1972. Commander Gene Cernan, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, and Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans report seeing small bright lights, described as jagged, angular particles or fragments, drifting near the spacecraft and the separated Saturn S-IVB stage in cislunar space. The crew themselves speculate the lights are likely paint chips or ice chips, noting they twinkle and move away from the S-IVB stage. The documents do not assert an anomalous origin; the crew's own working explanation is mundane debris.