PURSUE archive · catalogue card
NASA-UAP-D009
Apollo 17 Audio Excerpt, December 7, 1972
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- Agency
- NASA
- Incident date
- Dec 7, 1972As the catalogue writes it: “12/7/72”
- Place
- Off the globe: Cislunar spaceAs the catalogue writes it: “Cislunar Space”
- Published in PURSUE
- May 22, 2026
- Records
- 1 record · Audio
01 Official description
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.
02 Catalogue records · 1
NASA-UAP-D009 · Audio · NASA · May 22, 2026
Apollo 17 Audio Excerpt, December 7, 1972
12/7/72 · Cislunar Space
DVIDS · broken link in the catalogue (checked Oct 5, 2026)
03 Related cases
Other catalogue cards from the same area or the same decade.
04 Sources
- [1]
Record · U.S. Department of War
Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE)
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