NASA-UAP-D009, Apollo 17 Audio Excerpt, December 7, 1972

DVIDS 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. DVIDS title: DVIDS - Video - NASA-UAP-D009, Apollo 17 Audio Excerpt, December 7, 1972 Have you, uh, very bright particle of their brightness? There's something that, uh, gold 50 by as it is in over. I don't understand. There's a whole bunch of big ones up. I wasn't that. It's just bright. Looks like before the July outruns were no. Yeah, nice. These somehow men shaped their very, uh, jagged, angular, uh, bright, that's what they're talking about. That's, it looks like fluidism, third. Not to me, it looks like pieces of something. For us here. For very bright. Jack, we like Omni Charlie. For the most part, these fragments are not, uh, who are coming at a very slow rate. I tried a couple pictures of them, uh, different settings. You may get an idea of what, uh, at least the patterns look like. I got you. We're all ears on these fragments. If you think they can figure out what they might be. Well, you know, I don't know, there were a number of possibilities. Uh, if you had some kind of, uh, I got the impression maybe they were curved a little bit as if they might be, uh, off the side of the S4B and at the wild gas. They are just a bunch of good, I think, um, possibly or maybe they're staying coming off of it. Right, I noticed on one chip up the elevator last week, one of the flags. I thought it was an S2 and it might be an S4 look like with stealing. Maybe that's what you got. And the S4B maneuver is complete. Okay, it was a two o'clock. And the, uh, with the maneuver complete, the fragment field is, uh, since we static except for very slight template within the fragment. Uh, there's a cup of that. Every once in a while, a fragment of considerably higher velocity than the others goes across my window, but that's very rare. Right there. Okay, that's it. If you have a view, I saw my, what's that? You see it now? Yeah. If I, uh, at least there, there's no apparent relative motion between fragments. I didn't hear it. I'll take two pictures about a minute apart if I can. And it'll be frame 70. Okay, frame 70. , but that's very rare. Right there. Okay, that's it. If you have a view, I saw my, what's that? You see it now? Yeah. If I, uh, at least there, there's no apparent relative motion between fragments. I didn't hear it. I'll take two pictures about a minute apart if I can. And it'll be frame 70. Okay, frame 70. And Bob, uh, Stino Mya question is that they are, uh, flat, flake-like particles. Um, uh, maybe six inches across. And, uh, all others, don't roll with that motion between it to, uh, most of them seem to be, uh, twinkling. And I think for the most part, they're all moving away from us.