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Document summary
An Apollo 17 air-to-ground voice transcript from 1972, included in the NASA UAP document release. The UAP-relevant passage is the crew observing a field of bright particles or fragments drifting past the spacecraft during a maneuver; they photograph them and discuss possible explanations.
Official page text
- During a maneuver the crew saw many bright, jagged, slowly tumbling fragments — "like the Fourth of July" — drifting past the windows.
- Commander Cernan described them as flat, flake-like particles, some perhaps six inches across, twinkling and moving away from the spacecraft.
- The crew speculated they were debris off the S-IVB stage, ice chunks, or peeling paint, and took photographs for analysis.
Official note
- The transcript records crew observations and guesses, not an investigation or conclusion.
- This summary is AI-generated from the document text for navigation purposes only and is not an official analysis or conclusion.
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