Apollo 17 Mission Transcript — UAP and Anomalous Lights, 1972

The page is from Tape 5/2. Its timestamps start around 00 03 25 (about 3 hours 25 minutes after launch), and Houston and the crew are coordinating a spacecraft maneuver with a start time of 03:33:27.

The yellow highlighting appears to have been added for the release rather than being part of the original typescript. It begins where the command module pilot reports a few very bright particles or fragments drifting by as the spacecraft maneuvers.

The lunar module pilot adds that there is a whole bunch of big bright ones at his window and that it looks like the Fourth of July out of the command module pilot's window. The command module pilot says some can be seen in shape, as very jagged, angular fragments that are tumbling.

By the crew's own description these are fragments seen while the spacecraft maneuvers. Read plainly, that describes debris near the spacecraft rather than a distant unidentified craft, although the transcript itself offers no explanation.

The page ends mid-exchange, so what the crew or Houston concluded next is not visible in this record.