Apollo 17 Crew Medical Debriefing (Continued), 1972
NASA-UAP-D029 · Release 04 (7/10)
Agency
NASA
Document type
Audio
Location
Texas (United States)
Incident date
12/21/72
Release
Release 04 (7/10)
Evidence tier
Tier 1 · Primary sensor/visual record
What the document says
This file contains segment 2 of 2 of the Apollo 17 post-mission medical debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center), Houston, Texas. In this continued segment, crew members and debriefers further 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.
Context
This is one of 40 NASA records in the declassified archive, reported in the United States region. It was published in Release 04 (7/10).
Evidence tiers describe the type of record (sensor capture vs. written report vs.
administrative file) · not a claim about its conclusions. UFO Papers reports only what the documents state.