War.gov PURSUE
NASA
NASA-UAP-VM006, Apollo 17, 1972
As part of the review of historical UAP materials under PURSUE, DOW has opened a case to investigate the accompanying NASA photograph from the Apollo 17 mission, taken December 1972. The image contains three “dots” in a triangular formation in the lower right quadrant of the lunar sky that is clearly visible upon magnification of the image. While this photo has been previously released and discussed by keen observers, there is no consensus about the nature of the anomaly. New preliminary US government analysis suggests the image feature is potentially the result of a physical object in the scene. Additionally, as part of this investigation, the government has obtained the original film from the Apollo 17 mission and the results of the full NASA and DOW analysis will be released when completed.
Witnesses
Unknown
Duration
Unknown
Source material
4
Timeline
3
Source provenance
War.gov PURSUE
Live sighting record 10f2950f-9900-418d-a9d8-30c502428fdf.
Using the selected case's real source, media, and context throughout the workspace.
Correlations
Field Intelligence
Lunar surface / vicinity
Terrestrial weather, solar-window, airport, and nearby-infrastructure correlations are suppressed for this record.
- Occurred
- 1972
- Location
- Moon
Context notes
- •Lunar surface / vicinity is outside the terrestrial weather, sunlight-window, airport, and nearby-infrastructure models used for ground sightings.
- •Use mission timing, orbital/lunar context, source media, and official metadata for comparison instead.
Extracted details
Observed facts
Occurred
1972
Location
Moon
Deep extraction
Source claims
DOW has opened a case to investigate a NASA photograph from the Apollo 17 mission.
DOW has opened a case to investigate the accompanying NASA photograph from the Apollo 17 mission.
The image contains three 'dots' in a triangular formation in the lower right quadrant of the lunar sky.
There is no consensus about the nature of the anomaly in the Apollo 17 photograph.
While this photo has been previously released and discussed by keen observers, there is no consensus about the nature of the anomaly.
New preliminary US government analysis suggests the image feature is potentially the result of a physical object in the scene.
The government has obtained the original film from the Apollo 17 mission for investigation.
Additionally, as part of this investigation, the government has obtained the original film from the Apollo 17 mission.
The results of the full NASA and DOW analysis will be released when completed.
Case progression
Timeline
Witnesses place the encounter near Moon.
War.gov PURSUE carried the report into the source network.
Grouped into the Apollo 17 incident dossier.
Ledger
Source material
media
Primary image
Official image asset carried with the original source record.
document
Supporting source material
Reporter-linked supporting asset preserved for follow-up review.
source
Original report
Direct source material from War.gov PURSUE.
telemetry
Environmental pass
Historical atmosphere, astronomy, and nearby infrastructure were resolved for this case.