Apollo 17 Multiple Flashing Objects
Source: NASA-UAP-D2, Apollo 17 Transcript, 1972
The Commander reported observing two distinct bright flashing objects separated widely in the spacecraft's field of view, with similar intensity patterns of bright and dim flashes, possibly identified as SLA panels or other spacecraft debris.
“CDR Hey, Bob. We got two of those flashers out there. They could be SLA panels. I don't know. They're alike in intensity and pretty regular in the - in the intensity, bright and dim flashes they come out with, and they're widely separated. One is about the position we called at the first time; the other one is - oh, as I'm looking at the Earth, far to the left.”
Verbatim from NASA-UAP-D2, Apollo 17 Transcript, 1972 · View original on war.gov
Case details
- Date
- 1972-12-10
- Precision
- day
- Location
- Earth orbit, viewed from Apollo 17
- Branch
- NASA
- Unit
- Apollo 17 Commander
- Sensors
- eyewitness
- Shape
- Bright flashing objects with regular bright and dim flash patterns
Resolution
Tentatively identified as SLA panels, but identification uncertain
Source document
Agency: NASA
File: NASA-UAP-D2, Apollo 17 Transcript, 1972
Case ID: 1972-NASA-485B71
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