NASA-UAP-D6, APOLLO 17 TECHNICAL CREW DEBRIEFING, 1973

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NASA-UAP-D6, APOLLO 17 TECHNICAL CREW DEBRIEFING, 1973 is a declassified record from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, dated , classification DECLASSIFIED. It is part of PURSUE Release 01 — the Pentagon's first public unsealing of UAP records under the Presidential Unsealing & Reporting System for UAP Encounters program, published on 2026-05-08 at war.gov/UFO/. UAP.WATCH has indexed the full text locally so the document can be read, searched, and cited without leaving the site.

Linked incidents

• Lunar Sky, north of Grimaldi crater — 11 DEC 1972 (PURSUE-003)

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2641
PNMDENIAL
MSC-07631
NASA
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

APOLLO 17
TECHNICAL
CREW DEBRIEFING
(U)

JANUARY 4, 1973
PREPARED BY
TRAINING OFFICE
CREW TRAINING AND SIMULATION DIVISION
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CONFIDENTI
EVANS (CONT'D) after the brightness of the fireball decreased, I could look back up through the rendezvous window and see what to me was kind of like a tunnel with a bright spot in the middle of the tunnel. Way down the tunnel, way back behind, I could see the fireball.
CERNAN The only unusual sighting I can recall during landing or recovery is when the CMP looked out the window and saw the superstructure of an aircraft carrier and said, "Oh, we've got a tin can with us."
EVANS: Well, it was kind of foggy on the windows.
SCHMITT Transearth we had only a small crescent of an Earth and it was not feasible to do any extensive weather observations. We had light flashes just about continuously during the whole flight when we were dark adapted. I had one which I thought was a flash on the lunar surface. That one period of time when we had the blindfolds on for the ALF MED experiment there were just no visible flashes, although that evening, that night, before I went to sleep I noticed that I was seeing the light flashes again. So, it just seemed to be that one interval either side of it where the light flash was not visible to myself or to the other two crewmen.
ONFID RADENTIAL