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NASA-UAP-D7: Skylab Technical Crew Debriefing 1973

U.S. Department of War (PURSUE release 1) · 2026-05-08 · 11 pages · text from the file's own layer

This U.S. Department of War PURSUE release, dated 2026-05-08, compiles excerpts from NASA Johnson Space Center technical crew debriefings for Skylab missions, dated June 30, 1973, October 4, 1973 and February 22, 1974. Crews describe light flashes seen with eyes closed and believed to be cosmic particles. The second crew describes tracking a bright reddish rotating object near their orbit for about 10 minutes and asks for it to be identified. The third crew reports flashing lights they presumed were Skylab pieces or other satellites.

  • p. 6 …We never saw it again. You'd think we would have seen it the next night…
  • p. 8 …We never saw it on any - earlier or succeeding orbits and we'd be quite interested…
  • p. 11 …I was never fully convinced that I had done the vacumming job properly; therefore, I fabricated…
CONRAD Sometimes I'd be lying there with my eyes half closed, and I'd
see a fire sensor wink.
KERWIN And you'd have to be careful that you weren't confusing that
with the fire flash. Once you've seen a few of each, there is
question of which is which. They're not an hallucination.
KERWIN We didn't feel it was operationally necessary for anybody to
know about it right now.
WEITZ I had a couple that I thought were cosmic particles.
an entrance streak and an exit streak.
I saw
CONRAD Yes, I did too.
WEITZ Where, bing-bing, it seemed like it was
and then the other side.
one side of the eyeball,
CONRAD One night I remember that there was a long shot then it was
blank then there was a long shot in rapid succession, of
course, but very definitely in and out - or across the eye.
KERWIN Medical Kits and IMSS. As far as adequate quantity of medica
tion and supplies, I would guess we used about 0.01 percent
of the available medication. I think this is something for
me to sit down with the doctors and talk about. There is
plenty of medicine up there for the Skylab missons. There is
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