Sighting in Texas, December 21, 1972
United States
Item released by the US government (PURSUE, NASA): an audio recording, "Apollo 17 Crew Medical Debriefing". Incident: 12/21/72, Texas. According to the government, no definitive determination could be made.
What happened
This file contains segment 1 of 2 of the Apollo 17 post-mission medical debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center), Houston, Texas. In the recording, crew members discuss the “light flash phenomena,” a then novel, now well-documented biological effect where high-energy cosmic rays pass through the eye and strike the retina, causing the perception of light streaks or flashes. Two of the three crew members reported observing these flashes at various points during the mission, including in lunar orbit and while on the lunar surface. The debriefing continues in the next file (NASA-UAP-D029).
Summary written by AARO, the Pentagon's UAP office, and released by the US government (public domain).
- Date
- December 21, 1972
- Location
- Texas · region only
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
Sources
- See the original document
PURSUE (gouvernement des États-Unis)
n° NASA-UAP-D028
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.