Sighting in Cislunar Space, December 7, 1972
Item released by the US government (PURSUE, NASA): an audio recording, "Apollo 17 Audio Excerpt, December 7". Incident: 12/7/72, Cislunar Space. According to the government, no definitive determination could be made.
What happened
During the eleventh and final crewed mission in the Apollo program, Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, and Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans report seeing small lights outside the Apollo spacecraft during transit to the moon. The crew describe bright “particles” or “fragments” as being “jagged,” “angular,” and drifting near the Apollo spacecraft and the separated Saturn S-IVB stage. The Apollo 17 crew speculate that paint chips or ice chips are likely the source of these lights and note that they “twinkle” and move away from the Saturn S-IVB stage.
Summary written by AARO, the Pentagon's UAP office, and released by the US government (public domain).
- Date
- December 7, 1972
- Location
- Cislunar Space · country only
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
Sources
- See the original document
PURSUE (gouvernement des États-Unis)
n° NASA-UAP-D009
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.